Red head Nancy Carroll

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Title: Red head Nancy Carroll
Language: English
Source: The Sports Review Volume I (Issue No. 2) April 18, 1931
Year: 1931
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Fulltext: Page 24.· r'he sPoRts RE'Vrew. . . - . . April 18~ ."tf>:Jl ··· RED-HEAD NANCY CARROLL was waiting for rain storm. But she wasn't scanning the heavens for a cloud. Back of the cameras on one of the huge sets in Paramount's Long Island studio, she waited while the property men who were managing the "weather" arranged an indoor storm before the prop cottage. On the first "take", the noise of the rain on the roof of the porch had drowned out the players' words. So the scene had to be re-photographed. Such are the difficulties which complicate the recording of talk- anguish while her listeners ing films. considered the tragic· bean While the rain-makers were diet. Then she continued busy, Nancy was telling- grimly. with gestures-some of her "Well we ate beans and experiences in other pictures. we ate more beans, day af"There we were, in a not h- ter day while the director er cabin, while outside a took the scene first this way, studio blizzard raged," her then that way, and was nevoice rose to its most drama- ver satisfied. And the more tic pitch. "We were sup- beans we ate, the fatter posed to be starving to death. we got. We had a dreadOur rations were almost ex- ful tim~ putting on our makehausted. We had only beans up so that we would look to eat." She paused in mock famished. We were making Nancy Carroll Light Of Foot, Bright Of Hair and Sensible 1 'TheSin Sister" which didn't turn out to be a very good picture, after all the misery, she sighed "All right, Miss Carroll I Mr. March!" called an autocratic voice. An equally authoritative gong clanged through the studio-the signal for silence. The carpenters other sets stopped hammering. Conversation died a sudden death. with gay bante'ring conversation, behind the bright curtain of the studiomade show er. While two cameras photographed the action, the voices traveled through the "mixer's" sound-proof booth down to a vault below where it was recorded both on film and on wax ·discs. When the scene was finished -only ten minutes of actual recor~ing after hours of preMiss Carroll and Fredrick P~rahon-the players, the March, her leading man in director, Harry D' Arrast, and the picture, Laugther dashed the awed visitors on the set through the cool spray of listened to the play-back. manufactured rain storm to- Through a loud-speaker beward the porch cottage. hind the camera·s came the Presumably, they had just actors conversation, played alighted from their automo- back from a soft wax disc bile Actually, they had left used especially for test purthe automobile some where poses. The director deci"on location" the day be- <led the sound effects were fore along the shore of Long all right. The scene would Island. An innocent-look- not be retaken ing branch of the tree hung 'We didn't get to work before the porch Conceal- very early today," Miss Cared within its foliage was the roll said. "I didn't come to microphone which picked up the studio until noon. But the players' conversation. we had worked on the set 'Who do you suppose lives until two o'clock this mornhere?" Miss Carrooll car- ing, after spending all day rolled-as well she might- yesterday on location. Yes, while Mr. March pushed the the sun was pretty hot.?? door-button of the prop (It had been one of the hotcottage. test days in New York's "Probably someone named hottest month, but Miss CarSmith" he answered. roll was casual about the "More likely a family cal- trying weather). "There was led Jones." Cheek to cheek a little breeze and it wasn't they peered into the window. so bad as it would have been "Careless of them to be a- in the studio." way." No note of complain was The little scene continued (Continued on page 26) Page 26 Moviegrams Twenty years ago Laura La Plante was sent to bed without her supper for indulging in the forbidden practice of spanning the distance between first floor and second hy sliding cl<mn the bannister. Just recently she was paid a lianclsornc salary for performing Lhc erstwhile oullawe.d arl. The piquant eomedienne's spectacular desre n l is part of a hilarious role in "'LONELY WIVES"' a J>:\THE all star farce in \\'hich Laura provides plenty or laughs in conjunrlion with Ed\Yard Everett Horton. Est her Ralston. Patsy Huth l\lillcr, Spencer Charters and Maude Eburne. Russell Mack direeled 'LONELY WIVES", from the screen play by Walter de Leon. The selcdion of Arthur Houseman to portray one of his well known crook roles in "Help Wanted Female" a Pathc comedy featuring Daphne Pollard, marks the screen reunion of" the popuRED-HEAD (Continued from page 24) ---+---The SPORTS REVIEW AprJl 18, ~1931' ANN HARDING, DE- PATHE SIGNS MARION ducer for years and who also CLARES HOLLYWOOD SHILLING TO LONG ·acted i1;1 his own productions. HER HOME TOWN TERM CONTRACT The daughter has dropped the ---+--Holywood' the home town: It's come to that. Il used to be Keokuk, Kansas City, Cleveland-with Hollywood the mecca of the bright lights and gay life Now the tables are turned Ann Harding, who is now studying her role in 'Rebound" her next Pathe starring vehicle, is one of the first to note the change. Jar character with actor Marian Lord, former Broadway . comediene, since they appeared together in "Broadway," in which Miss Lord made her film debut. :-,ome of Houseman's most outstanding interpretations have been in such pictures as "Sunrise", "Sins of the Fathers" and "Fast Company." Although he will be seen as a crook in "Help Wanted Female", the role is really a comedy characterization. l\!Iiss Lord is one player the screen has recruited from the slage who has not yet return.ed to her supposed first love. Her most outstanding persons actually born in New York City. Her parents came from Ireland, as did her red hair, her blue eyes, her snub --+-Marion Shilling, who plays opposite Lew Cody in one of the seque~ces of "Beyond Victory" has been signed by Pathe to a long-term contract as a result of her excellent work in this all-star special in which Bill Boyd heads the cast. l\'Iiss Shilling is the daughter o.f Edward Schilling, who has been a stock pro-------- - - - - - - · "c" from her name for professional purposes. This Pathe player arrived on the West Coast shortly. after her graduation from Central High School in St. Louis, having accompanied her father and his partner when they roadshowed "Dracula:" While in Los Angeles they met John Lancester, casting director for MGM, v.'ho gave l\Iarion a screen test. At this, MGM was looking for an ingenue to play the feminine lead in "Wise Girls" with Elliot and J.C. Nugent stage productions in New York were "The Last \Varning," "Tarnish" and "Bootlegger's Bride." She also appeared in "the Shannons and this became iyriss Shillings of Broadway" in San Francisco and has been featured as a guest artist of Henry first screen role. Her success in her initial film won her the feminine lead in "Lord Duffy in numerous produc- Byron of Broadway" Then tions. . Her historic ability has achieved recognition via Tiffany placed her under contl t lk. c1· t1·act. Recently,. Miss Shi1e a ·mg screen me mm in such pictures as "Broad- Hing decided to free-lance and way and" "Liliom". under this policy played with Besides Daphne Pollard, William Powell in "Shadow Miss Lord and Houseman the of the Law" for Paramount, cast of "Help Wanted Fein "On Your Back" for Fox, male" includes Ginger Connelly, Edgar Kennedy and and her latest engagement in Herbert Proior. Pathe's 'Beyond Victory.' -~-·-------·-----in lier voice. Blazing sun, nose, her nimble feet, and, rain storms which didn't above all, her undaunted spibehave, a diel of l?cans riL Uncluobtedly her love m a studio blizzard "·ere all for the stage is part of her part of the day's work for Irish inheritance. ter over the big circuit eel in various Pacific Coast which took them through- versions of New York niuout the United States. Li- sical successes. There she refe in the "two-a-day" vau- ceived her first chance at deville circles is not a soft dramatic playing when she easy life. Nancy worked hard was cast for the leading role and long in those early thea- in lhe coast production of trical years. From vaude- the stage play Chicag0. The ville the Carroll Sisters went part had originally been playinto stage revues. They were eel by the famous Francine in the chorus of The Passing La_rrmore, but Nancy passShow of 1923. In that, and ed the test of comparison in The Passing Show of with a high mark. Between HJ24, Nancy did a specialty stage engagements the spidance which attracted more ritely redhead played small than ordinary attention. It parts in several motion picled to a prominent part in lures. lhis red-haired liltle actress Nancy's restless feet bewho learned lo be a good gan to get their training about trouper before she became as soon as she could stand a star. One may be Lem- upon them. She was one perarnental about some things of those youngsters who fol-and Nancy has the temper low the hand-organ man, which goes with her shade of tripping pleasurably to his hair-but work is work. tunes. Her sister was usualNancy Carroll learned lhat ly close at her heels. When lesson early in life. IL is older, they worked out steps forcibly impressed upon a together and won prizes girl when she is one of eight in amateur dance contests. children, as Nancy was, in These led to vaudeville booka family but scantily supplied ings for the Carroll Sisters, with this world's goods. first in neighborhood theaN ancy is one of those rare ters in New York City, laJHau Flower at the Forest About this time, Ann NiTheater New York. All chols was assembling a cast this dancing experience trai· for the screen version of ned th(light feet which were her famous play, Abie's to be her most valuable Irish Rose. It is said that asset in her early movie work. the unmistakably Irish NanThen Nancy's destiny took cy was calling for a friend her to California. She play- Continued on page 27 Page 28 The SPORTS REVIEW April 18, 1931 RED-HEAD Continued from page 26 + at the Paramount studio when Ann Nichols saw her, and exclaimed, "There's my Irish Rose." At any rate Nancy was casl in the part, playing opposile Buddy Rogers. Nancy played in many pic1 ures after thal, but with small sueeess until the advent of Lalking pictures. In silent films, Nancy looks like the typical ingenue. the "baby doll." It is only when she speaks that she reveals her dramatic talent. Hearl-break and laughter are in the cadences of her rich voice. Beeause she rould dance and sing and because she photographs so vividly Nancy was in great demand for the musical screen romances so much in vogue re('c11lly. Her dramalic talenl w:is not noted until she played in The Shopevorn Any<!. in Lhe role of a chorus girl who loved a soldier and married him before he went lo war. The critics began to wrile of her, "This little girl can ad! Give her a chance!" Her next big role was in the fim version of the successful stage play Burlesque re-named for the movies The Dance of L~fe She played the part of a vaudeville actress who was true to the shiftless "hoofer" who was her husband, standing by him loyally in spite of his neglect. Nancy Carroll has risen in her profession until she is not only one of the most popular players on the screen but also one of the most admired emotional actresses. One of her biggest dramatic successes was in the · T.fa• Devils Holiday. Her interpretation of the hard-boiled little gold-digger who found her heart when she fell in lovewith a simple country boy was so outstanding that her company outlined ambitious plans for her. Gone are her song-and-dance days and ingenue role. Hereafter she 1s to have emotional parts in dramatic stories The Referee Continued from page 13 Especially in the case of a scientific boxer versus a slugger, the bargain-priced customers never see the fight right anyway. From a distance it is practically impossible to tell whether every blow is landing or whether they are being slipped or closely evaded. The referee is really the only witness whose word be relied on in the case of a difference of opinion as to whether or not blows are landing effectively. Even those at the very ringside may be badly mistaken in judgment and blows that merely touch or graze may easily be seen as effective punches Obviously, we have had reference all along to ho·nest, fair minded referees We cannot forget that the referee is, in the majority of instances, a hard working man doing his best to earn a respectable living. Too often, though, his job depends on keeping within the good graces of local promoters, gamblers. and just plain hangers-on, all of whom are in reality a band of brothers, or in plain jargon-gansters and racketeers In some quarters there is likely to exist. a close ieonnection between big promoters and members of state athletic commissions: when this is true, there is not the slightest chance of fairness so far as the public is concerned. Hers is a fully round.ed life;- · A sensible, sturdy trouper she has her career, her bus- is Nancy,_ bringing into the band, and her baby. She is frequently artificial, highly married to Jack Kirkland, a newspaper writer, and they publicized life of a movie star have a little daughter. But the common-sense she learnN ancy's baby will not be ed first as a child in a large subjected to the limelight of family and later as a good publicity. trouper. TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONT COVER _______ . ______________________ Ignacio Fernandez FERNANDEZ MAKES $100,000.00 BUT RETURNS Pagl' PRACTICALLY PENNILESS-By R. V. de Mendoza _________ l CAPIZ BOY MAKES GOOD IN PACIFIC COAST BASKET-BALL _____________________ ·- _____________ ~----- --- _3 COLLEGE BOYS IN PROFESSIONAL BASE-BALL By R. G. Hawkins ___________ ---·-------- _____ A THE MIGHTY ATOMS IN PHILIPPINE SPORTS _________________ 7 ON THE SIDELINES-By Ray Hawkins ___ . ____________________ 8 A CORNER IN THE SPORTS MARKET ________________________ 9 CELEBRITIES ROW--(Jesus Suarez) _________________ -________ 10 HUNTING IN THE PHILIPPINES-By F. J. Garay ______________ ll EDITOHIALS a. Welcome Home b. An Anomalous Ruling l'. The Referee ____________ ·- ________________________________ 12 KINGPINS IN THE BOXING WORLD __________________________ l3 F!LlPlNO BOXERS CAMPAIGNING ABROAD __________________ l4 THE BROTHER ACT (The Villareal Brothers) ____________________ t6 STO. TOMAS, MANAGER OF FERNANDEZ, ALSO AN ATHLETE ______________ . __________________________________ 17 "PATSY RUTH" .JOHNSON '32 WITH MONTEE AT HELM SHATTERS WORLD'S MARK ______________ . ________ 18 THE SOUL OF GOLF-By Mary K. Browne ______________________ 20 ILOILO TYPHOON MEETS CAYITE PORTSIDER ______________ 21 RED HEAD NANCY CARROLL_ ______________________________ 24 THE RIB TICKLER ______________________________ . _____________ 28 Added to this, there is every evidence that newspaper sports writers are influenced to popularize and over-emphasize local products, until the average fan comes to believe that the local favorite is on a pinacle by himself. As a result, he attends a highly steamed up bout entertainng no doubts as to the ability of "his favorite" to easily defeat the other boxer. All of which sometimes leads to a state of mob psychology wherein the majority of spectators yell lustily for the favorite. The under-dog would have to win by the proverbial mile in order to have a chance under such circumstances. If the battle is close, the referee is .. "on the spot" in more ways than one. , Alright, let us suppose he has the courage of his convictions, and gives his verdict as he saw it-against the local pride. Where does it get him? He might just as well change his occupation. What cure do we suggest for an evil of this sort? · Take racketeering out of boxing, and keep boxing away from the racketeers. We need commissioners who have no connection with promoters or managers. All of which is easier said than done.· A truly powerful National Boxing Association could put the spot-light of nation-wide publicity on rotten conditiops as they exist in some quarters. Let us hope the present N. B. A. attains this much needed power."