Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

CHANGES Pinky Lee, Harold Waldrldge. Feb. 26. '37. TERRY-TOON Bug: Carnival (7) — A little lady bug is almost captured by a ferocious insect but her sweetheart comes to the rescue. April 16, ’37. Paramount COLOR CLASSIC Chicken a la King: (7) — A love-sick rooster-Sultan foresakes his harem of hens for a flirtatious duck. April 16. *37. rOPEYK Hospitaliky (7) — Popeye and Bluto try frantically to get injured in order to have Olive Oyl nurse them. April 16, '37. reatute3 First National Cherokee Strip, The (..) — Western. Justice comes to a thriving town when a crusading lawyer who had been thwarted in staking his land rush claim pins a murder on the same man responsible for his loss. Dick Foran, Jane Bryan, David Carlyle. Director, Noel Smith. (F). May 15. GB Pictures King Solomon’s Mines (..) — Adventure. Members of an expedition in search of a rich diamond mine convince opposing natives of their supernatural powders when an eclipse of the moon comes to their aid. Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young. Director, Robert Stevenson. (F). April 15. *37. COMING RELEASES: Coins for Candles — Nova Pilbeam. Gangivay — ^Jessie Matthews. Non-Stop New York — Anna Lee. Desmond Tester. Grand National Two Who Dared (85) — Drama. Against a background of Czarist Russia and political intrigue it tells of a w'oman faced with the dilemma of confessing her own lack of virtue or of sending a man to death. Anna Sten, Henry Wilcoxon, Viola Keats. Director, Eugene Frenke. (A). April 30, *37. (113). TITLE CHANGE: AVhen I*in With You, changed to SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT (back to its original). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer COMING RELEASES: 1.3th Chair — Madge Evans, Henry Daniell. NEAV RELEASE DATES: Day at the Ra<*es, A May 21. '37 Good Old Soak, The April 23. *37 Night Must Fall April 30, *37 They Gave Him a Gun May 7. *37 TITLE CHANGE: The Old Soak, changed to GOOD OLD SOAK. Poramovmt TITLE CHANGE: The Ascending Dragon, changed to THE GREAT GAMBINI. RKO Radio Outcasts af Poker Flat (72) — Melodrama. A teacher rehabilitates but loses a ruthless gambler who is driven from a California gold mining town by vigilantes. Preston Foster, Jean Muir, Van Heflin. Director, Christy Cabanne. (F). April 16, ’37. (710). You Can’t Buy Luck ( . . ) — Action drama mystery. A girl, a murder and a catastrophe combine to reform a superstitious race horse owner with queer ideas. Onslow Stevems, Helen Mack. Hedda Hopper. Director. I.ew Landers. (F). May 7. •37. (726). NEW RELEASE DATES: Shall We Dance? April 30, ’37 Soldier and the I.ad.v, The April 9. ’37 Woman I Love, The .A^pril 23, ’37 Republic Bill Cracks Down (62) — Action drama. A love triangle is solved when the ’’softie” son of a .steel magnate earns his spurs and commands the respect of a stern superior. Grant Withers, Beatrice Roberts, Benny Weeks. Director, William Nigh. (F). March 22, ’37. (6028). Circus Girl (62) — Dramatic romance. An aerialist. plotting revenge on his partner, believing he has stolen his wife’s love, rescues his partner and becomes the victim of his own plot upon realizing his error. June Travis, Bob Livingston. Donald Cook. Director, John Auer. (F). March 1. ’37. (6014). Gambling: Terror, The (53) — Western. A gang of racketeers operating under threat of harm to merchants comes off second best when a wandering gambler exposes them. Johnny Mack Brown, Iris Meredith, Charlie King. Directo^r, Sam Newfield. (F). Feb. 15, ’37. (6324). Jim Hanvey, Detective (700) — Comedy mystery. A country detective spurns an insurance company’s plea to search for valuable jewels but exposes the thief when a young couple becomes implicated. Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Lucie Kaye. Director, Phil Rosen. (F). April 5, ’37. (6006). Trusted Outlaw, The (52) — In an effort to go straight and remove the family stigma of outlaw a cow’boy Incurs the wrath of thieves but gets the upper hand, the girl amd a job. Boh Steele, Lois January, Joan Barclay. Director, Robert Bradbury. (F). Feb. 1, ’37. (6.3.34). 20th Century-Fox TITLE CHANGE: Escape From lyOve, changed to I WILL BE FAITHFUL. Last Year’s Kisses, changed to YOU CAN’T HAVE EVERYTHING. Universal As Good as Married (..) — Romantic drama. An infatuated secretary marries her philandering boss. Memories of his past come up, shattering her illusions and causing her to walk out. This causes him to reform, and brings a reconr^iliation. John Boles, Doris Nolan, Walter Pidgeon. Director. Edward Buzzell. (F). Mav 9. *37. (1012). Wings Over Honolulu (..) — Romantic drama. When a former suitor attempts to interfere wdth a whirlwind marriage, causing Injury to the husband’s naval career, the wiife cancels a planned elopement and saves her husband’s reputation. Wendy Barrie, Ray Milland, William Gargan. Director, H. C. Potter. IF). Mav 16. »37. (1011). Warner Bros. (lo Getter, The (..) — Romantic comedy-drama. Despite the enmity engendered by a jealous boss and some dangerous assignments, a crippled ex-sailor wins his superior’s admiration, daughter and managership in a huge firm. George Brent. Anita Louise, Charles Winninger. Director, Busby Berkeley. (F). May 22, ’37. •Melmly for Two (60) — Musical comedy-drama. A battle of wits, love, temper and pride between a band leader and his girl singer introduces the origin of swing music and seals a romance. James Melton, Patricia Ellis, Fred Keating. Director. T.,oui.s King. (F). May 1. ’37. Skott6 Columbia COLOR RHAPSODIES Let’s (io (9) — The industrious bees set an example for the grasshoppers by showing them how to run their village. April 8, ’37. TWO REELERS New News (19) — Two reporter.s hire out a.s cook and butler in order to get a scoop on wealthy woman’s engagement to a foreign prince. Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins. April 1, ’37. Three Dumb Clucks (20) — The Three Stooges set out to prevent their father’s marriage to a dizzy blonde who helomgs to a gang of blackmailers. April 17. ’37. Educational GAGS AND GALS Comic Artist’s Home Life (19 — Jefferson Machamer marries a beautiful girl reporter in order to get ideas for his weekly comic sheet. Jean Christie. April 9, ’37. SONG AND COMEDY Dental Follies (10) — Young dentist puts on a floor show to keep his patient’s mind oft the pain. RKO Radio BILL CORUM Foreigji Sports (10) — The outstanding athletes of foreign nations are pictured in sporting coniests in London, Spain and Japan. April 19, ’3t. EDGAR KENNEDY Dumb’s the Word (18)— While cleaning the attic of hi.s house, Kennedy discovers a teapot full of gold pieces but it is finally taken away by his neighbor. June 11, ’37. PA'THE TOPICS No. 6 (9) April 2, ’37 MARCH OF TIME No. 8 (20) March 19, ’37 WORLD ON PARADE California Missions (11) — Places of worship erected by the Franciscan. Friars a century ago still retain their origin charm. April 16, '37. Universal GOING PLACES No. 34 (8) — A fiesta to the ox in San Isidro, Mexico; borax deposits in Death Valley; the hottest spot in the United States; the two million dollar mystery man who lives in Death Valley. March 22, ’37. OSWALD CARTOONS Birthday Party (7) — Oswald invites the three little ducklings to his birthday party with disa.strous results to the presents and refreshments. March 29, ’37. STRANGER THAN FICTION No. 3.5 (10) — ’The president’s double; an egg poaching pooch; lighthouse-keeping in the middle of Atlantic City; a blind watchmaker; a school that played hookey; a Cuban Dr. Divine. April 26. ’37. Vitaphone BIG TIME vaudeville Vitaphone Diversions (10) — The Five Juggling •Jewels; Dave Monahan, xylophonist: Brown. Rich and Ball, a comedy team; and Smith and Dale, dialect comedians. April 3, '37. BROADWAY BREVITIES Play Street (21) — Cherry Preisser, star in a Broadway show, Invites her sister, June, and Duke McHale to a party w'here they demonstrate their dancing ability. April 3, '37. Romance of Robert Burns (16) — The famous poet leaves his country sweetheart to go to Edinburgh where he meets a society girl but he returns to his home in time to marry his true love. Owen King, Linda Perry. In Technicolor. April 10. '37. LOONEY TUNES Porky’s Romance (7) — Porky Pig displays his romantic nature to Petunia Pig but he finally decides to remain a bachelor. April 3, '37. VITAPHONE NOVELTIES Ghost to Ghost Hook-up, A (11) — The Radio Ramblers have an opportunity to display their famous imitations of popular stars in a haunted house. April 3, '37. Home Run on the Keys (9) — At a hunting lodge Byron Gay and Zez Confrey, composers, are trying to get an idea for a song when Babe Ruth reminisces about his baseball days, hence the title song. April 24, ’37. 22 BOXOFFICE :: April 10, 1937.