Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1930, Page 31

MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, March 26 (NAN.A). =Picture making is a strenuous game. . Harold Murray can testify to that. ‘The handsome singer, whose success in ice. Murray's role in the picture called for some outdoor work in the fog. When a starts there is no shirk' g. ‘The entire crew—director, cameramen, actors—carry ished. It was strenuous work and hit e pretty hard. But the singer's t came in for the most which has supple- mented this attractive personality. Murray came to pictures after a suc- the legitimate. He " when | is of idols being of the brunette order. And Adolphe Menjou is back in cine- maland with the intention of remaining, it would seem. No visit this, but a homecoming, which shows how far talkies have moved since that first fee- ble ‘which left the public won- dering if such a horrifying invention could possibly survive. Menjou, with his command of lan- , is more of an asset to the stu- than he was in the days when his ‘work was confined to pantomime. Then eertain physical characteristics limited him to a routine. In his silent days Menjou climbed to a high place in the salary ulalt. Seventy-five %hwund un:: picture & goodly sum for s gentle- man strictly gelatin-made. But the village aldermen were not , | with a manager in down in & body to welcome the return of an idol of the silents. They were en masse at the station this morning— mayor, civic leaders and brass band— to give the keys of the city to Leo, the cinema lion, who has returned from a personal appearance tour of America. Three years ago Jack Oakie came to Hollywood and worked as an extra. To- day he is one of the few personalities acknowledged an infallible box-office attraction. Women and children fall for him—he js. a knockout with the | male portion of the audience—and pro- | ducers have fallen into the habit of fighting over him. He receives a small salary, which has recently been augmented, He signed the days of lean pay | checks, and the manager got him into the limelight, sells him for a fat sum to various studios, and turns him over the slight fraction of the sum which | 1s his portion as per agreement. | This is disspiriting. but perfectly good |business on the manager’s part. It happened to Lupe Velez and to numer- ous others. But producers and man- agers often relent when a player has made a marked success. The case of Charlie Farrell is one in point. He was getting $75 a week when driving an ancient Ford inconspicuously in must on such an allowance. make his next picture, a John Wray story, called “The Sap From Syracuse.” ‘When he returns two good tales will be ready, for his grin and his dancing feet “Toplitzky Prom Notre Dame” “Merton of the Talkies.” “Well, what do you think of the heat wave?” called a lad gayly to one of our littlest blonds. T haven'; iried t," she gigwled. 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