Show r Responsibility R for fOI Film Dirt Dit Laid in Y OUI Personal Lap ap Iy CANDID KAY KAY KAY- All AIl rIght Mr and Mrs Movie Move Going Public cnn can you OU take it Be- Be f cauze h here re Is this indecency in current flIms thing dumped squarely and 0 sincerely in your lap And that certain dumping is done by none other f than a gentleman who's ra rather her well up on the Ins and outs of the thing None other than M. M H. H f. f Mike Newman in person western director of I publicity and exploitation for tor Columbia PIctures bats when ii 11 Mike who comes to showmanship is in Salt Sail Lake brIefly In connection with so some c theater business ot general interest to all or of you Its It's the western premiere pre pre- ot of No IINo Greater Glor Glory Well I be that as it may h re is what Mister Newman has to soy on the thc general subject Despite Ed passin the bUck beck to the Cr en and Louis B. B pus pass mr It right back to the exhibitor It Js' Js r really ally the pUblio who are responsible for the caU It what you ou will which Is found lound In Inthe inthe the movie of today TI The general public flocks to those thos pictures In which there Is something risque or naughty Check oyer the movies which have done big ble bus busl ness have been box office hits hits- and see lee for yourself Women dub clubs civic organ organ- lations and the like plead for pictures free from this Jar sort lort of thing thine They ask tor pictures which are sweet and clUn clen and wholesome But do these dubs clubs and nd organizations support such luch pictures when a producer hh has the courage and risks thousands of dollars to tomake make them The answer Mike says is NO I And d an extremely definite NO at that Once in a white while there comes a picture plc- plc ture cut to that pattern that proves from successful a business point of view he said Little Women was such a pIcture So was It Happened One Night But they are exceptions lions Com are the box of office lice receIpts re re- of Elysia which is an extreme ex example or of course with Mans Castle and you OU have the answer And box office means the nickels dimes and quarters that Mr and Mrs Public lay on the lirie see a picture the legitimate returns a producer may expect for the th thousands upon he has bas invested in making a picture The answer the is-the Amen Amerl can public likes to be shocked but it must be pleasantly They said Inane censorship In the films Is one reaSOn a writer welter goes coes back to New York as useless use use- less as the male udder odder Gene Fowler ROUSES IRE IREThe IREThe The shoe is on the other foot down downIn In fn Hollywood today and its It's pinching pinch pinch- ing plenty So much so that the squeals ot of pain are echoing around the world In raph wires And news pap paper r reporters are chuckling right heartily Usually the stars through their publicity agents hoodwink the reporters reporters re- re porters but in the case of B Bernard I putnam it was a case ot of turnabout I II Apparently the stars c cant can't nt take it Bernard Putnam posed as an Invalid In- In I valid correspondent for a Holland newspaper during g the 1932 Olympiad in Los Angeles He was as carried into the stadium on a stretcher and many manya a film notable including Douglas FaIrbanks Mary PIckford Claudette Colbert Eric Van Stroheim Jeannette MacDonald and Clive Brook posed for s with him praising his bravery in to his job in the fa of at physical handicap Comes now the payoff with the disclosure by Dr Adrian Having Hartog Netherlands consul in Lo Los Angeles Angeles Ange- Ange les that Putnam is none none other than Pleter Plater a Dutch dishwasher who is sought on fraud charges charges- in his native land Stormed Clive Brook when the news broke I think people who trIck screen s stars rs or Of moneyed p people plc in any Walk of life into helping them should be punished ten times more severely than swindlers of any other kind Mr Mn Brook neglected to designate a fitting punishment for screen stars or moneyed people who trick pers through fraudulent statements or actions into helping them Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps its it's just as well It might give ome lome ot of us an idea or two A SLIPPERY hEROINE If perchance e youve you've wondered why s studios refuse even to con sider stories submitted to them by unknown writers this may enlighten en en- lighten you somewhat Two scenarIos were recently submitted to o. In one entitled en- en ti titled ed The Glad Bath Tub a tub was the hero 3 and d a cake of soap was the heroine in the La-the the other the characters were a sewing ma machine chine two oranges three apples and an old hat Came Caine the dawn DANE Although they could find no place I for him on their salary roll with the advent of talking pictures for I whom he once starred in a series serles ot of silent comedies saved Carl Dana Dano from a paupers pauper's grave The comedian who rose to fame in The Big Parade Parado and surely you the clumsy and lovable lov- lov able galoot he played in that was burled buried yesterday In Hollywood tery Many film tum notables his coworkers Cu- Cu workers In the old nt days attended at at- tend tended d the services and paid th sizable bill Dane shot hImself elf to death last Sunday in his modest furnished room Years ago o he was in iii the big money but there was no place in talking pictures for Cor his Donish accent and failure attended his to fInd other work Impoverished Impoverish d and discouraged dis dis' he chose the suicide route out of his difficulties I Add Colossal Items The League Learue of Nations has S r recommended Mickey Mouse for children instead of gang ster ste and Hollywood love Jove films liES liE'S NOT PARTICULAR Widows or sIngle tram 16 to 35 this young man Isn't the least bit par par- it seems and needs n a little tue love Paramount last week received a aletter aletter letter from a Detroit bachelor who would a wooing go List to his sad plight and his generous offer Am a young man in the age of 25 and I really want to be marrIed to a movIe actress I Iam Iam am lonesome and I want love I Iam Iam am willing to marry any actress from the age of 16 to 35 They k kin 1 be single or widows In the newspapers I read many times that a young woman gets married many times to an old man nearly twIce as old as she is Here I am a young m man m who Is willing to get married to a actress and havIng no chance it if there is any chance for me write to the above name and address So far there haven't been any takers for or the offer Paramount being broadminded broad broad- minded about such things has ha turn turned d the proposition over to several of the theother theother other major studios for consideration Now that he hc has contributed Elysia and Sterilization toward to- to ward its goal coal Bryan Poy h has s joined the Human Betterment Foundation an an organization dedicated to the mental moral and physical improvement o of the h human man race Ho hum CAMERA IERA ANGL ANGLES S rs Mary Rubin lows as how she found Benny alleged comedian anything anything any any- thing but funny or is a wife wie any judge she's tiled filed suit for divorce for the second time within several we ks technically she charges that he nagged her the marital differences of James Kirkwood Kirkwood Kirk Kirk- wood and his former wile Lila Lee echoed in court Wednesday she's seeking modification of the divorce decree which gave their son son James Jr S 8 into Kirkwood's custody she wants custody of the child w wo o has been in her care for several years seems like its ns open season on actors Barbara was Wa excused as codefendant in a salary suIt filed by Margaret Halvor Halvor- sea sen who claims she was hired to organize organize or or- a professional women's club under the sponsorship Charles Charles' Cradick attorney for the actress actress ac- ac tress was retaIned as the other defendant defendant de- de and Victor sc scored n a court victory the 10 battery suit against him for the socking of an extra during the thc filming of a scene was dismissed the bock ock resulted in a smashed no nose and a crushed tear duct which says something for the Mc- Mc sock |