Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 109

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—MAY 5, 1929. The Great o E B bl v American Film Industry ; ; : 4 By W. E. Hill (Copyright, 1929, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) Publicity stuff. This is called an interview and it is just like being received by royalty. Miss Viva del Vista, popular motion picture star, surrounded by her staff, is granting an audience to a simple newspaper boy. Miss Del Vista's per- sonal secretary is toying with some new stills, just in case, while Miss Del Vista’s personal press representative is telling l[l)uelfl‘llrilled emissary of the Sunday edition all about how Miss el Vista’s great success in the talkies is due to the fact ~ “hil . : . that before she memorizes her lines she gets the sense of 3 Be‘r‘ I«"lcl;‘ré;‘: sahnoo“'gg‘;hfh'allf'cf them. _"And." concludes the personal press representative, A to “}:I:'smlxfid ::)‘:? st gu T’ ':ua)‘ “I'm going to give you some news that hasn’t been released i o b‘lh'm hilp(h ;'fie'h bl before now. You know the little white dog that played with 5 YR e e g arcion? Miss Del Vista in ‘The Passionate Sinner’? Well, that same 3 little dog is going to be with her in ‘Always a Lady,’ the new release. a screen version of ‘Madame Bovary'” Herman of the publicity department for True Heart Pictures, Inc, is always glad to see the repcrters, even though they are little nuisances at times. “There’s a swell story for you,” says Her- man, “over on stage 8. Dolores Meehan has just been elected chairman of the committee that’s get- ting up ‘Eat More Liver week'!” Wilma, the double, has been pinch hitting for Evelyn Pat- typat in times of stress for ' 4 7 three years now. Whenever . i — The producer. This is Wilbert O. Ma- ‘ 3 : the script demands that the The studio visitor (sometimes zuma, where the money comes from. Some- R b A heroine plow through a blind- ;‘:i) ?;Hg;li:.,pg t(':o:eghm::‘eogo“:;: times it comes more readily than at others. N ing snowstorm of salt and lot in about 30 seconds. “Can Just now Mr. Mazuma is retrenching, owing 4 ground rice, or be thrown off ou,” she asks of nobody in par- to a little matter of three million or so ~=’ a cliff, or be stepped on by an Yo c A i i hi I find which sank out of sight when the last 2 elephant, they use Wilma. ;‘f,"".femfififlymi ,:,,,e:em ss:nabol:n Mazuma feature flopped. 4 getting a child of 11, who is slightly deficient mentally, but very comical, into ‘Our Gang'” The character actress. You don't know half the misery, to actor and director alike, that’ hap- pens on the talkie stages. Take Bebe Baloney, a well meaning girl if there ever was one. The action of the comedy called for a tomato to be thrown in Bebe's face. It made such a resounding squash that two microphones were wrecked and the director had the face to blame it on poor Bebe. Sadie, the beautiful script girl, is very busy with a stop-watch and a lapiul of dialogue. Her job it is to see that a kiss, a mouse’s squeak Cameramen and boys are gettin; _ Time, 4:30 a.m. on the soundproof stage, showing Mr. more :nd mor: co.,‘;;‘;’;’u :snm dni. h"': Switzer, the director, all worn out and thinking, “Oh, what’s and a slap fit in with the action and Thceaasi A : the use, anyway?” The character woman went up in her increasingly difficult to tell them from the , anyway the script. college boy extras. lines and now the whole scene has to shot over again! ===l 2Nl Wl