Show r r T r r Hollywood By Dy DAN THOMAS NTA NEA l' l EA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD HOLLY Calif Oct 19 19 Ills Ils name has been on Broadway continuously for the last two years jears Only one film director in Hollywood can claim that distinction His name Is Alan Crosland About two years ago Don DO Juan I went w Into the Warner a r Brothers Brothers' ro theatre in New York Crosland Crosland directed It It Then followed When a a. aMan aMan Man Loves also a a. Crosland pro pro- production although although I cant can't figure why he boasts about it A short time Ime ago Old San Francisco opened In the same theatre And Crosland will soon have his fourth consecutive film mm on Broadway when The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson opens pens By the time Its run Is finished Crosland's Crosland s record on Broad- Broad Broadway way I ay will be be- pretty close to three years ears Crosland started In pictures when they hey really were an Infant Industry In n those days a a. director also had hado to o be an actor writer cutter and sometimes a cameraman As a result Crosland learned every branch of f the game from the ground up The rhe things he learned in those early arly days are largely responsible for or his successful pictures of today When Sarah Bernhardt arrived In n New York on her last visit she he Inserted an ad In a newspaper newspaper per cr asking for extra girls for tor forler her ler stage chorus Jensen JensenI was as one of the six chosen from the he applicants Although she was signed as a chorus girl that really was the start of s film mm career At that time the young girl was absolutely unknown Several years on the stage carried her to the heights as a great emotional actress Then rhen she made The Goddess Goddess' at atthe atthe atthe the old studio In New York That film tum marked her as one of best emotional actresses And she has been going well ever since having Just finished Uncle Tom Toms Tom's s Cabin S S Regardless of the distinctive claims other actors around the village might make Ralph Forbes Is alone In having a woman chauffeur She handles his expensive car very well I too A S Motion pictures as an aid to medical science will be the next step forward In the opinion of Fred Niblo prominent director Can Can- Cancer Cancer Cancer cure will be brought about by bythe bythe bythe the movie camera very shortly Cancer has heretofore been con con- considered consIdered considered Incurable because no one was ever able to study Its pres pres- presence presence presence I ence and growth Motion pictures will soon overcome that obstacle I I While Wh wandering about the Metro Metro- Metro Metro-I Mayer Goldwyn lot the other day I noticed Louis B B. B Mayer Major trying to beat Charley Paddocks Paddock's record be between be- be between tween teen the projection room and his office He lie must have been trying to t earn part of that dollar million-dollar- year a-year salary his new contract calls for And they talk about economy In the cinema factories Ben Hendricks has been fighting lighting for ten jears years and and hes he's never won wona a battle yet jet et The reason is that young joung Hendricks does all of his fighting before a movie camera camern and the scripts always call for him to tobe tobe tobe be the loser |