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...ones. Reared in a household which was kept awake at night by new and erratic ideas about cinema, he has been full of ideas ever since. His idea when he resigned from Paramount where he had been getting $104,000 a year as assistant to Production Manager Ben P. Schulberg was this: mass production in the cinema is wrong. It produces inferior pictures and costs more than production in small units. Also, Depression has recently made exhibitors partial to independent products. Selznick-Milestone will make perhaps six pictures a year. If the company is a success, there will be other...
...troubles of Cinemactress Clara Bow really began when Benjamin P. Schulberg, Paramount's Western managing director of production, then associate producer, signed her to make silent cinemas in 1925. She was then a well-stuffed Brooklyn redhead with a Coney Island character. Two years later, when she had been the incarnation of Author Elinor Glyn's It, she was the most famed cinemactress in the U. S. She had her name made into a big electric sign for her father to hang outside his Brooklyn restaurant...
Last week, when she was preparing to go to the ranch of friend Rex Bell for further recuperation. Executive Schulberg announced that Clara Bow's contract with Paramount, running till next October, had been cancelled at her request. Said he: "This ends a long and successful . . . affiliation. . . . We are all anxious to see you emerge as the greatest and most popular actress...
...things when she went to bed. . . ." One day Clara bought herself a $10,000 engagement ring. While the trial was still in progress. Paramount removed Miss Bow from the cast of City Streets in which she was to star with Gary Cooper. Said Chief Studio Executive B. P. Schulberg: "She has been under severe nervous strain . . must have a rest. . . ." Beau Ideal (Radio ) . Photographically brilliant, but hindered by dreadful dialog and a silly story, this sequel to Capt. Percival Christopher Wren's Beau Geste is weak stuff in spite of the care that has been wasted staging it. Lester...
...cinemacting (TIME, July 8 et seq.) were last week crystallized. Four secret meetings were held in Hollywood between an actors' committee (Equity President Frank Gillmore, Ethel Barrymore, Paul Turner, of the New York Equity office) and a producers' committee (Winfield Sheehan, Irving Thalberg, Jack Warner, B. P. Schulberg, Joseph Schenck, Mike Levee, Cecil B. DeMille, Louis Mayer). The result was a complete deadlock, but both sides, for perhaps the first time, made themselves clear...