Judge — August 1938 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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THE MOVIES By Robert Terrall 'HE customary busy bickering con- tinues on the West Coast: despite the rainbow in the economic sky, the public is still not going to bad movies; and on the streets of Hollywood, our counter-revolutionaries inform us, the executives stop each other and ask what on earth’s the trouble. Will Hays has gone to Malibu, not being the worrying type. When he gets back he will deal with the embarrassing rumors that Blockade, a movie on a controversial topic, seems to be making money. (Dor. othy Lamour in Tropic Holiday and the Ritz Brothers in Kentucky Moonshine are not making money at all.) But vir- tually everyone, our people tell us, will conspire to keep the Blockade figures from him. What he doesn’t know won't hurt him. The public is evidently itch- ing to go to movies on controversial “WELL, THE GUY WARNED ME HE'D DO IT IF I CAME AGAIN!” topics, and if Mr. Hays ever got that through his carefully-barbered head, he might go back to Malibu for good. Where would the movie business be then? There is not much else that’s news from Southern California. Holiday and Rage of Paris and Having Wonderful Time ate good movies, but from now on for a couple of months the studios will be shut down for retooling. The word that Scarlett O'Hara had been chosen to play the part of Norma Shearer—now wait a minute; you know what we mean—arrived in Manhattan while a large group of newspaper critics was gathered in the Stork Club admiring Janet Gaynor's Southern accent. Miss Gaynor fainted dead away. In Hollywood Miss Shearer bit her lips to make them red, dabbed at her face with a hairbrush to get some color into her cheeks and murmured “This will teach the hussies."” Upon being in- formed that they had been called hus- sies, some two dozen MGM actresses affected indifference, Except for that, things went on as usual, In the South there were race riots in the principal cities and Senator Cotton Ed Smith said that he had sort of hoped the part would be played by a somewhat younger woman. Over Manhattan an airplane began skywriting lazily NORMA SHEARER NORMA SHEARER. David O. Selznick, in town to lay the cornerstone of the $5,000,000 David O. Selznick Building at the World's Fair, beamed in- discriminately at Grover Whalen. Grover beamed back. Mrs. John Hay “Jock” Whitney, at one time considered for the part, said a lot of little girls would be dis- appointed. She then hired an airplane with part of her considerable personal fortune, and it lazily began skywriting rs. JOHN HAY “JOCK” WHITNEY MRS. JOHN HAY “JOCK” WHITNEY. Janet Gaynor came to and broke into a hysterical fit of Southern girlish laughter. Margaret Mitchell, cornered in Macy's, said that Clark Gable was her idea of a real man. ~Clark Gable said that Margaret Mitchell was one of the few literary geniuses to be cornered in Macy's in our time. Will Hays, at Malibu Beach, said it was all for the best. David O. Selznick issued a mimeo- gtaphed announcement that he was starting screen tests for Bleak House, which he had just bought from the Dickens estate for an unannounced sum. n alba. here's your chance to gash in'on rhymes — & floors for each yingle SLICKER —— “used (T'S A GOOD OLO SPANISH CUSTOM TAKE YOUR MUG AND BRUSH, AND 6UST ‘EM fs The manufacturers of Burma-Shave (No brush— No lather) desire to buy fif- teen jingles for use on the Burma Shave signs next year. $100.00 will be paid foreach jingle accepted. All jingles must be in our hands before Sept. 1, 1938. ean tome easy spendin . ppd fae Tio of fan dolng ie ey E57," Send today forcomplete details SGP >= ofcontest and free manualoa how Pe UORR) 10 write Burma-Shave jingles. | Burma-Vita Co., r01g East Street, Minneapolis, Minnesoca Dora Olovivus Vacation Enjoy the sophisticated atmosphere of this world- famous Hotel and Chicago's unequaled program of sum- mer sports and recreation. Overlooking Lake Michigan. A.S. Kitkeby, Managing Director Did You Miss the Coupon On Page 3 ? comicbooks.com