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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1930
Page
10
Rev Vernon W Couillard will speak at 745 p m at the Second Moravian Episcopal church on A Good Word for Jesus and make an important church life announcement. He returns after a weeks absence and follows an 11 a m service at the First Moravian church.
Horace Liveright plans a Hollywood move to advise on screen adaptations for B P Schulberg. Barry Norton signs with Paramour. Edmund Breese hired as general in The Little Gate starring Maurice Chevalier. The Little Cafe enters production in Hollywood. Edward Coxen joins The Spoilers with Gary Cooper under Edwin Carewe. Sven Greta Garbo’s brother debuts in Europe and now in Hollywood for Paramount.
George Marion Jr. urges training of humor like exercise to toughen readers sense of humor. He says observation helps spot humor everywhere and avoid hard knocks while writers must craft lines subtly so actors seem naturally funny. Marion and Percy Heath authored two Paramount productions including Lets Go Native and Safety in Numbers.
Sunny starring Marilyn Miller begins production at First National and Vitaphone in Burbank with a cast led by Lawrence Gray Joe Donahue Inez Courtney O Heggie Clyde Cook and Judith Vasselli William A Seiter directs the musical based on Martyn Miller stage success One song from the original Sunny is kept Jerome Kern writes three new songs for the screen Harbach handles the book and McCarty Pearson write the screen continuity and dialogue Sunny follows Miller first starring film Sally
The article notes Jeanette Loff, seen with Paul Whiteman in King of Jazz, has recovered from appendicitis and will play a lead in The Boudoir Diplomat.
Nina Olivette famed dancer in Paramounts Queen High says she eats about fifteen candy bars daily to fuel her strenuous routines. She buys wholesale and consumes one bar per hour, claiming instant energy after tumbling on stage and citing a doctors reassurance based on soldiers in trenches. Natalie Moorhead will feature in A Gay Caballero with Fay Wray and Victor Varconi in leading roles and a heavy supporting cast.
Frank Mandel proves the Broadway musical Queen High can be filmed in one hour fifteen minutes by preserving all lines and comedy. Scene shifts and intermissions are removed while action and dialogue stay brisk. Fred Newmeyer directs a Paramount production with an all star cast led by Stanley Smith Ginger Rogers Charles Ruggles and Frank Morgan.
Marion Talley runs a Kansas ranch and has recorded for Vitaphone Varieties. A duet with Beniamino Gigli and a quartet from Rigoletto with Gigli De Luca Gordon Barry and Whitledge join the cast of Girl Crazy in rehearsal. Harry Holman sails for a three months vaudeville tour in England and features in The Big Deal. Hope Hampton scores as Manon in Vichy and appears in the opera on Vitaphone Varieties.
The first Vitaphone Varie short to be filmed in both English and Spanish is complete. English title Where There’s a Will features George Hassell Mabel Granger Joe Bonomo Martin Berkeley and C S Creest. Spanish lead Eduardo Arozemena with Roy Mack directing both versions and Henry Dagand assisting on the Spanish cut.
William Demarest leads the two reel mystery farce Seeing Things directed by Harold Beaudine on the Vitaphone varieties program. Florence Auer Bernard Randall Edward Fielding and Audrey Berry also appear in the cast. In New Role Cissie Loftus appears in the Broadway comedy Lost Sheep and in a Vitaphone Varieties attraction performing impersonations.
Moran and Mack comic duo propose expulsion as the severest remedy to settle world affairs in their Paramount film Anybody's War. Mack recalls a Tacoma childhood misdeed and recalls how pity allowed reintegration, framing League of Nations logic with humor.
The comedy directed by Harold Beaudine stars Helen Broderick and Lester Crawford with Helen Eby Rock Jimmy Barry and Philip Lord also in the cast. The duo will soon head to the west coast for Warner Brothers screen version of Fifty Million French men.
The National Student Federation of America plans to show All Quiet on the Western Front in about 25 university centers on Armistice Day 1932. Proceeds will fund the federation's permanent foundation with a goal to revive the film every generation to keep memories of World War I alive for students.
Poland plans to shield civilians from gas threats with four corps trained to clean gas drenched areas. Gas masks will be provided and civilians taught to use them. Civilians will assist antigas experts, and peaceful wartime gas uses are being explored, especially in agriculture.
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