Aug 4th
Pick a Star   

(US 1937)

A local girl gets the chance of a lifetime to screen test in Hollywood.
Slack studio vehicle for pretty Rosina Lawrence (the heroine of Way Out West), who deserved better than this, but redeemed briefly by the interjections of Laurel & Hardy (uncredited) in a couple of odd but amusing "on-set" sketches.

Written by: Richard Flournoy, Arthur Vernon Jones, Thomes J. Dugan.
Producer/Director: Edward Sedgwick.
Starring: Rosina Lawrence, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley, Mischa Auer, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Walter Long, Lyda Roberti.
Photography: Norbert Brodine.

Preceded by:
Shoulder Arms*

(US 1918. First National. 44m. bw. silent; A commemoration of sorts of Britain's entry into WWI - an original comedy of the time about a lowly private who dreams of fighting the enemy and capturing the Kaiser. Fairly routine and self-indulgent, with Chaplin still experimenting with innovations and longer length. Of historical interest at the very least.; w, d: Charles Chaplin; s: Charlie Chaplin, Enna Purviance, Sydney Chaplin, Henry Bergman.)