Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1931, Page 22

MOVES INPROVE 1S COST DECLINS Better Acting Contributes to Change, Says Milhauser, Hollywood Producet. By the Assoclated Press. HOLLYWOOD. Calif,, March 14.—As | & whole, motion pictures are row less | costly to make. In many cases—all things being equal ~talkles are being produced at a much lower cost than cilent pictures of two years ago and before. | Despite this trend, feature films are | manufactured on a basis of 100 per | cent more value per dollar than they| were a year ago. | “This result is attributable, largely, | to common sense and to a fuller culti- vation of the bushmess instinct,” Bert- ram Milhauser, associate producer of Radio' Pictures, said. | Time and Materials. { Although there is & distinct saving in time, which runs into big money m] Hollywood, and in materials, this is not necessarily visibl> on the balance sheets. It means simply a finer and more entertaining picture is being manufactured at a cost comparable to the_poorer pictures of yesterday. “The saving,” Milhauser said, “is re- | flected in the construction of better | sets, ‘the obtaining of better acting | talent and in the longer preparation of | story. “Like the automobile, the motion pic+ ture is being improved and refined under practical methods of manufac- ture. The principal advantage over & year ago is that common scnse produc- tion methods have eliminated the | necessity for retakes. This item, alone, usually accounted for 20 per cent of the totali cost of a picture. | Very Few Retakes Now. “Today there are very few retakes. sound. It is impossible to change the meaning of a scene filmed in dialogue. | Better still, it is impossible to make drastic editorial additions and celetions. “This taught the industry its most | vital. Jesson, namely. that more time and attention should be given the | Ppreparation of the story. “In the silent days we ‘shot’ scenes | like mad men and knew we never could | possibly use all of them. Yet we photo- | graphed them for protection in the | event our story needed added grandeur | o a few extra thrills.” | The money saved in production—as | eompared with previous expend:tures— | is being turned back into the pictures £o that what the producer gets, and incidentally the public, is & 100 per cent better picture for the same price. The | perfection of round recording ap-| paratus, now past the experimental and trial by error stage, also has helped in lowering overhea BURROUGHS TO DIRECT JOHNSTOWN, PA., CHEST Assistant Director Here Will Take Charge of New Organization in Pennsylvania. Lisle Burroughs, for the past two | years assistant director of the Com- munity Chest, will leave for Johnstown, Ps., within the week to take over the duties of director of the newly created Community Chest of that city. Officers of the local Chest announced Mr. Bur- rough's resignation yesterday. Mr. B , & native of Minne- spolis, attended the University of Min- nesota before he served during the war in the Navy. Following the war he was graduated from Boston University and pursued graduate study in eéconomics at Harvard. Completing & course at the New York School of Social Work, he was sent to Washington as a student in the first campaign of the Washington Chest in 1929. He was appointed ms- sistant director of the Chest here about ::,P years ago by Elwood Street, direc- At a farewell party given in his honor at the Blue Triangle Hut last night by Mr, and Mrs. Elwood Street, Mr. Bur- roughs was presented with a bronze smoking stand, the gift of fellow Chest employes. The presentation was made by Mr. Street. . ELECTED T0 GRIDIRON Capt. Taylor Branson, Marine Band Leader, Joins Club. i Capt. Taylor Branson, leader of the United States Marine Band, was elected yesterday a limited member of the Gridiron Club. Capt. Branson, for more than 30 years, has taken part in the musical program at Gridiron dinners. A predecessor of Capt. Branson &s leader of the Marine Band, John Philip Sousa, | has for many years been a limited member of the Gridiron Club. Capt. Branson was unanimously elected at | Yesterday's meeting of the elub, whose | active members are newspaper men sta- | tioned in Washington. | School to Open AMERICAN UNIVERSITY WILL HOLD SUMMER CLASSES THIS YEAR. DR. WALTER M. W. SPLAWN. American University will start & new Summer school this coming season un- der direction of Dr. Walter M. W. Splawn, dean of the Graduate School of American University, it was announced Iast night. The work will be given at the Senior College and Graduate School at 1901- 1907 P street, but will not include the College of Liberal Arts on the campus at Massachusetts and Nebraska avenues. The new school will open June 15 and run for six weeks. A Courses will be presented in several departments of the Graduate School and the School of the Political Sciences. They will be available to students who can enter college &s a junior or & senior, or to those who are graduates of a col- | lege and wish to do graduate work, look- | ing toward a master's or a doctor's de- One'of the major causes for this is | BT, e. These courses, Dr. Splawn explained, will nct only serve students of American University who want to utilize the six weeks of the Summer in study, but will be open to students who are to be in Washingion during the Summer, and who wish to earn some credits toward | the higher degrees The faculty will consist of some members of the faculty of the two American University schools. but also some visiting professors. Among the courses to be offered will be those in English, philosophy, «nternational law, political science, economics, psychology and education. DELLINGER’S NEW TRIAL MOTION IS WITHDRAWN Suspension of Assault Sentence to | Be Recommended by Fitz- patrick, Hitt Told. A motion for a new trial in the case of Policeman Joseph. H. Dellinger, sus- pended eleventh precinct officer, wWho was convicted by a Police Court jury February 18, on a charge of assault, was withdrawn in United Statcs Branch of Police Court yesterday. Judge Isaac R. Hitt was informed that Assistant District Attorney John R. Fitzpatrick would recommend suspension of the execution of sentence. Dellinger was convicted of assaulting Oscar A. Raba, jr, 17 years old, of Boulevard Heights, Md., on January 31, after he had attempted to arrest the ‘young man on Minnesota avenur south- east, on a charge of speeding. Dellin- ger claimed the man resisted arrest, and attempted to strike him with a crank handle. In a struggle which followed, Raba sustained an injury to his hea He later accused the officer of beath him on the head with the crank handle. ‘The motion for a new trial was filed by Attorney E. 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