Daylight saving, Hollywood's great bugaboo, has been dragged forth again to harass the industry. When the time measure is in effect in the East the three-hour differential is increased to four, which commercial and financial houses dislike. - In addition California lends: itself to added enjoyment because of the extra hour of light.
The screen has vigorously opposed the measure each time it has come up, and in 1930 barely defeated it through a most intense campaign on the screen. Every theatre ran short subjects showing how probity, sanity and decency would be jeopardized by enactment. This year the industry believes that the measure will pass, for, the town doubts that it can get away with the) same campaign that has been so effective before.
Real Life Gerald O'Hara Gerald O'Hara was an Irish~American, and so is Thomas Mitchell, the actor who plays the part of Scarlett's father in the technicolour production of "Gone with the Wind." The question of how to render a Southern accent with an Irish inflection was an important one in casting the character of O'Hara. It was settled with the same careful and meticulous attention that went into other preparations for the film version of Margaret Mitchell's story of the American Civil War times, Mitchell's father was an Irish journalist, and his father's uncle was the famous. actor, Dion Boucicault, This ancestry manifested itself in Mitchell's frst job—writing a vaudeville sketch and acting in it—when he was seventeen years old. Afterward he became a newspaper reporter on the Newark "Star," not far from his native city of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
It wasn't long, however, before his instinct for the drama took him New Green Room As was anticipated by the manage-[ment of the Bolero Night Club, the newly-opened Green Room, jmmediately. adjacent to the dance floor, is drawing a considerable number of patrons, particularly on Saturday nights. The Green Room offers semi-privacy in an artistically-decorated space which is but a few farther from home, He signed with the famous Ben Greet players, for a presentation of "The Tempest', at Madison Square Garden, New York, and was a success as a Shakespearean actor, Soon his career as a playwright began, and he wrote and played in "Little Accident," "Cloudy With Showers," and staged "Stick in the Mud," before he went to Hollywood, Laughton as a Farmer both foreign and Russian, are served in the Green Room: Inspiration for dancing is offered by the Tafet-Ruff dance band, which also alternates with concert music, Swing band. Dene- Translation Perils The perils of translating movie titles from English into Russian and then back again into English were demonstrated recently when an article on Hollywood filmo by an American writer, published in a H)Soviet newspaper, was picked up by American correspondents and cabled again to this country. In nslating the Russian' titles into ish the representative of one newspaper came across with rather surprising titles. They Were: "Webb Lincoln in Ilinois," gone cum Wind" and "Clusters of anguish"
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