Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1931, Page 38

NEW FILM POLICY WILL OMIT CYCLE | FORTY-SEVENTH INSTALLMENT. Producers Decide Copying; Big Hits Is Bad for Industry. By the Associated Fress. HE evening of the day she was entered on the stencg.apher’s waiting list at Drew & Co., Cathleen took Julia for a cele- bration. They dined on the roof of a midtown hotel, and afterward went to the opening of show. It was well toward midnight when Cathleen startea a new chapter of her HOLLYWOOD., Calif., November 30.|‘Declaration of Independence” and re- ‘p-The movie cycle is out. Ju from the concensus of execu- tives at the major studios, there will be little plot or foimular copying ia the coming year's production programs. The reason is that the producers, Jooking back over the red ink ledgers of | confession. have decided that | pencil again. the last two yeas, | film cycles are bad for the industry and that too m:ny pictures are being | made. Usually the pictures that fol- Jow the original smash are much less successful. Although each year the several ex- | ecutives have announced they intended } to maintain variety in their output, it invariably followed that their plans drifted into cycles before they had pro- ceeded very fai. Definite New Trends. Each found tlic temptation to model | after_the other's highly successful pic- | ture too great to be overcome. The first | successful war talkie brought an ava- | lanche of others. So also was the first gangster story copied and recopied until sudiences rebelled. There will b definite new trends in the screen fare that is planned. How- ever, fantasies, humen interest stories, musicals and travelogues will have 2 | prominent place fi1 the schedule of each , studlo. ‘When people are depressed, finan- eially harassed and worried, they dis- like stark realism in their entertain- ment, the psychologists tell Hollywood. It is at such times, and when in such s state of mind, that they turn to stories of dream life, fantasy, gay adventure and happy romance for re- tion. Examples Are Given. Screen fantasy, as described by the ucers, is a picture like Douglas irbanks’ silent film, “The Thief of Bagdad,” or the more recent “Just Imagine.” “Bad Girl,” “The Champ,” and “Daddy Long Legs” are good ex- amples of human interest stories. ‘To “The Smiling Lieutenant” may go credit for plans to maks musical pic- tures. This demonstrated that songs can be reasonably and logically intro- duced. MOOSE DELAY BENEFIT Charity Ball at Willard to Be Held Next Saturday Night. ‘The Mooseheart charity ball, con- ducted under the auspices of Columbia Lodge, No. 126, Loyal Order of Moose, originally scheduied for next Friday, wili be held Saturday evening in the Wil- Hotel. Proceeds from the ball will toward the upkeep of Mooseheart, gm and school for the education and training of dependent children of dead members of the lodge. ‘Those in charge of the ball are James A. Balderson, Wade H. Mitchell, Isidor . Lavine and Harold H. Lavine, all of Columbia Lodge. S Tl e Basket Town Bankrupt. Because the world is not using enough baskets the town of Hoexter, in Westphalia, become are idle. cannot pay its municipal employes nor assistance to the unemployed, as debts now amount to $37.50 per head of population. One Business Limited ; EW fall passenger sched- ules on the Pennsylvania mean that you can go over- I night to Chicago at the cost of only one business hour. ‘The Liberty Limited now ! leaves Washington at 4.02P.M., | and gets you to the midwestern metropolis at 9 next morning. Meanwhile you enjoy the * luxurious equipment, fine cui- sine and attentive service of i one of the finest and fastest trains in America. ‘The Liberty Limited leads t trains daily to Chicago. re are six daily to St. Louis, The American and the of St. Louis.” “ Flyers to Chicago MIBERTY LIMITED ton s 3 JAN LIMITED ‘" Lesves Washington... corded this turning point in as a worker. only & few pages. But her other self, the one she reserved for the - diary. took possession of her and her pencil raced across the paper in a rapture of As late as th She had to gef work to do tomorrow, and afterward a her career She had meant to write She must sharpen the This was the third point. She glanced at the clock. Two am.! The rest must wait some sleep. Plenty of conference with the editor of the Ex- press. He bad written a note asking her_to come in tb see " “I've had two quiet ‘morths,” she said aloud to herseM. “I wonder if life is preparing to poke fingers in my ribs again.” She went to bed with a queer sense of expeetancy. . ‘The next morning Cathleen found Miss Mapes watching for her when she came into the file room. “They want you down in the execu- tive department,” Miss Mapes said. “Hurry_down, my dear. See Mr. Steb- bins. One of the stenographers is ill. They saw your name on the list and sent for you because you're right here ir the company. You must have a good fairy looking out for you.” Cathleen took off her green smock, and hurried down to the floor below Mr. Stebbins was crochety. He “hemmed” and “hawed,” then rumbled at her that she was to take soms ters, He :”untbecould watch her dictation k. . “Don’t dare let him make you nervous,” wcunmleen adjured herself. “You'll make a failure of it if you do. Just pretend he’s not there. Pretend it's Julia and you practicing.” Mr. Stebbins plunged into the busi- ness at hand. His mind, Cathleen de- cided at once, must be set on a hair- trigger. It outraced his tongue, which tripped along at record speed. There was no doubt that Mr. Stebbins knew what he wanted to say and said it. Thank heaven for those long hours she and Julia had spent working up speed. Was Mr. Stebbins trying to see :ow, fast he could talk just to catch er? Halfway through the pile of letters to be_answered, Mr. Stebbins stopped. “That's all for the present,” he rumbled. ' “Get those ready at once. Mr. Drew wants to sign them before he ‘goes to lunch. Don't bungle them. |If there's anything you don’t under- {stand, ask me.” Cathleen typed the letters with a moticulous care for their neatness. She | finished them in what she knew was |good time and took them to Mr. Steb- bins. He examined them critically. | “Slow on the typing, but they're in| et~ sat on the edge of his chair | sion, ! thleen took the letters, She found |s#id. Ca & 'man at a desk in the outer office of Mr. Drew’s suite. “Those letters are for Mr. Drew— for his signature,” Cathleen said. “You'll have to wait. He's busy on the wire.” Cathleen stood there, her knees feel- ing strangely incompetent, listening to the low murmur of a voice on the other side of a partition. Presently a buzzer whirred. The man jumped up and opened a door in the partition, motion- ing Cathleen to enter. Mr. Drew’s office was impressive. On the walls hung oils from the brushes of famous artists. The floor was thickly carpeted. The man behind the massive carved desk must be Mr. Drew. He had a long, thin face, a high-bridged nose, and snow-white hair. When he looked up, he reminded Cathleen sharply of some one she had known. Whom? She couldn't remember. Cathleen handed him the letters. He |placed them on his desk and began signing them, blotting each one and piling it neatly on its predecessor. apparently did not read them. “You are—?" He had finished and He AT THE HUB Six Reasons Why You Should Buy Your Radio 1. 2 3. 4 5 6. at The HUB $1.00 Delivers It. . No Finance Charges. Free Installation. . Free Service. . Easy Credit Terms. Every Radio Fully Guaranteed. ‘was waiting for Cathleen to.supply her -“Miss Carroll—Cathleen Carroll,” she ‘‘Good name. Has a rhythm to it.” #e leaned back and took in the pic- ture of the girl, ardent-eyed. modestly embarrassed by the attention he was ilvlgx?her. “You are now with Drew : Co.2" “Oh, no, sir. I've been here quite a while—in the files. I've just finished a business course in night school and I entered my name on the stenographers’ waiting list. I was called down this morning. One of the regular stenogra- Pphers is ill.” . Cathleen wondered why a smile twitched at the corner of Mr. Drew's mouth. 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