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...months have installed indoor ski-slides, covered with borax. Instructors ($2 to $3 an hour) give advice, teach beginners to keep their balance, to perform simple turns, to stop without falling down. In California, sale of ski equipment is this year 100% above last. In Hollywood, characters like Charlie Chaplin, Helen Twelvetrees, Joel McCrea, Mrs. Frank Borzage, have become skiing devotees. At the University of California, three years ago, Alexander Hildebrand, son of Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand, was the only competent practicing skier. Now not only California, but University of California at Los Angeles. Southern California and Nevada have...
...bewilderment, a small pathetic figure in a black sleeveless tunic, an absurd clerical hat. Her pantomime was always effective. She danced occasionally but she was just as communicative standing still. She spoke with her eyes, her wide childish grin, her expressive hands. European critics have likened her to Charlie Chaplin and the great Swiss Clown Crock. Though the comparison scarcely seemed warranted last week, she did prove herself a rare entertainer...
Lichtman. The ups-and-downs of United Artists this year started in June when Darryl Zanuck's Twentieth Century Pictures left the lot to merge with Fox, taking United Artists' President Joe Schenck with it. To replace Schenck, United Artists partners-Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Sam Goldwyn-chose Al Lichtman, for eight years the sales manager who was generally considered responsible for United Artists' brilliantly run distribution. With Lichtman as president. United Artists speedily refilled its producing plant with the Selznick company, a new Mary Pickford-Jesse Lasky partnership and Alexander Korda's London Films, whose pictures...
When Joseph Schenck and his Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists to merge with Fox last June, the remaining owner-producers (Mary Pickford, Samuel Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks) hastily set about compensating for their loss. First, David O. Gelznick decided to leave Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, form his own producing company to distribute pictures through United Artists. Then Mary Pickford took for a partner Jesse Lasky (who was last week vastly disgruntled by news that M-G-M had contrived to beat him in signing a contract with aging Ernestine Schumann-Heink, whom he had already announced as a star...
This week Paramount will release Cecil B. DeMille's The Crusades; RKO will exhibit Alice Adams, starring Katharine Hepburn. Within the next month will appear Greta Garbo in Anna Karenina, Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Top Hat, Will Rogers in Steamboat Round the Bend, Marion Davies in Page Miss Glory. Last week the first "superspecial" picture of the new season enjoyed its premiere in Manhattan. This-advertised on billboards all over the U. S. for the past two months, starring Jean Harlow, Clark Gable & Wallace Beery, produced at a cost...