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Cinema Snapshots 1 Stand, Up and Fight ” —Robert Taylor's New Film Not even the most prejudiced critics of Robert Taylor will be able to call him “Pretty Boy” after his appearance iu M-G-M’s ” Stand Up and Fight.” This film, which is now in producP t finally Wallace Beery der the hard-boiled Wallace lieery. The clash between these two lasts all through the film until the climax. At one point, Taylor takes a thrashing from Beery, but later, in a free-for-all. he gets his own back, which is pretty nice going for a young fellow who was a matinee idol less than two years ago. Also in the cast are Florence Rice, who is the girl of Taylor’s choice, and Helen Broderick, who appears as her aunt who was once engaged to Beery. Patsy Kelly in “There Goes My Heart” If Patsy Kelly hadn't learned a tap dance routine when she was 10. she wouldn’t be one of the screen’s leading comediennes to-day. Patsy, who is currently appearing with Fredric March and Virginia Bruce in ‘ There Goes My Heart,” Hal Roach’s gay comedy romance, says she learned to dance “on the sidewalks of New York.” She became a tap dancer and then a teacher in Jack Blue’s famous school, and when Frank Fay offered Patsy's brother a job in one of his shows, sister went over to the theatre to coach him in his routine, with the result that the following week Patsy landed a job in the show. After three years with Fay, she went into “Three Cheers.” Earl Carroll's “Sketch Book” and “Vanities,” was seen in “Wonder Bar” with A 1 Jolson, went to Hollywood in 1933 and appeared in Hal Roach comedies with the late Thelma Todd, After Thelma’s death she was teamed with Lyda Roberti. and was also recruited for a number of feature length films. Her hobbies are golf, badminton and music: recently she scored in Roach’s “Merrily We Live.” zmzxiziiixxtzziv. Annabella Proves She Can Take It In Hie words of one of their most charming representatives, the French can “ took it.” Witness the hardships undergone by the lovely Annabella for her latest picture, “ Suez.” She spent days standing in a pool of water up to her neck, then she spent days being dumped unceremoniously into the same pool, then she spent hours smoking a hookah, and finally she was turned loose in a zobah-huh. Hands across the sea is nn idle gesture in Hollywood; the only trouble is that each hand is usually encased in knuckle-dusters. Actually some of the stars aren’t treated much more gently—but visitors might expect somew’hat more tender handling. Still, the way things are in Hollywood now the price of fame seems to be a pair of black eyes *and the signs of screen success are a couple of broken ribs. And a loyal daughter of Paris, France, or Texas will be willing to pay such a trifling price for stardom if for nothing else than to please the folks back home. Still the one thing worse than beInc: beaten up in the movies is not being beaten up. When Annabella first I went to Hollywood some years ago to | nmke a French version of “ Caravan ” nobody raised a fimrer to her and slic departed for home when her work was done, as quietly and as unnoticed as when she arrived. But. on the oilier hand, after her rough time in her latest picture, she left for Franco a full-fledged Hollywood •'tar. Probably the toughest part of her assignment was working through a sobah-hah. A zobah-hah in its natural habitat is a particularly violent form of simoon, which itself is a particularly violent hot sandstorm, and 20th Century-Fox saw to it that the pale didn’t lose anything by being transported. Fred Serseh and Lou Witte, the men who destroyed a city for “In Old Chicago,” were put in command of the sandstorm and told to do their darndest. They did. The gale they stirred up blew for ten days, at times reaching a seventy-five mile an hour velocity. The cameramen and their equipment had to be housed in reinforced glass and steel booths to work, but the actors, Annabella and Tyrone Power, conspicuous among them, had to face the blasts unprotected. FLASHES UNIVERSAL have shelved tuiil arc trying to find story for Danielle Darricux. “ Rio ” another TjWELYN KEYES not ered from appendi in “ Say it in French ” by Mary Carlisle. having recovcilis, her place is being taken i'M.ENDA FARRELL has had an inx Ration from the North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to run as candidate for the mayoral elections. She would be the first lady.