Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1939)

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0 "Dodge City ” Gives Namesake The Lowdown on Its History Dodge City, Kas. — Shades of the 1870’s returned to this cowboy capital of the western frontier Saturday and turned the world premiere of “Dodge City” into a colorful event. Many moons may pass before a film can be held responsible for swelling a town’s population from 10,000 peace-loving citizens to a cauldron of several times that number. Here were Marlene Dietrich, Ann Sheridan, Priscilla Lane, rubbing elbows with patriarchs of another day. Mustached and bearded natives, many of them apparently torn out of the pages that went with this cattletown when it was the great shipping point in the west, spun yarns with representatives of nationwide newspaper syndicates. Colorful, exciting and ingenious are hardly the words to describe the activity that gripped the town from the moment the first trainload of visitors arrived in the morning. Guests poured in on specially chartered trains and cars from Hollywood, New York, Chicago and Memphis. In all, there were about 200 representatives of every form of publishing media. Among the stars from the studios were Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland. Priscilla Lane, Marlene Dietrich, Ann Sheridan. Bruce Cabot, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Victor Jory, George Brent, James Cagney, Jane Wyman, Rosemary Lane, Gale Page, Glenda Farrell, Guinn Williams, Leo Carrillo, George Bancroft, Buddy Rogers, Claire Windsor, Dorothy Mackaill, Richard Dix and Hugh Herbert. In the official Warner party were Hal B. Wallis, S. Charles Einfeld, Ralph Budd, John Harkins, Bob Taplinger and Mitchell Rawson. Critics and representatives of about 150 daily news and trade papers, fan and class magazines and syndicates included Rose Pelswick, Bland Johaneson, Eileen Creelman, William Boehnel, Howard Barnes from New York; Paul Peters of Life, Ira Wolfert of NANA, Mark Barron of AP, A1 Kahn of UP, from the syndicates; Jimmy Starr, Guy Stafford, "Speed” Kendall, Harry Friedman, Erskine Johnson, and Harry Minse from Los Angeles, Thornton Delehanty and Paul Harrison of NEA, to mention but a few. Excursion trains which Santa Fe put on from cities along its route poured out visitors. They found themselves in a replica of the wild west days. Stores and buildings were decorated in suitable manner, and natives turned out in costumes remi e Republic ot Texas „ dream lor several ome a stale oi the , dream and goal oi ican who has loved through the Yea** tllemen more years Union. other -a 9lee as and lought liew Jackson AMERICA -FIRST, LASTALWAYS! ★ MAN OF CONQUEST ★ RICHARD DIX as Sam Houston • Gail Patrick as Margaret Lea • Edward Ellis as Andrew Jackson Joan Fontaine as Eliza Allen • A Republic Picture (Continued from page 6) which he can rest if he wants to and this is no conscious, or otherwise, oversight of his "Adventures of Robin Hood." Aside from its obvious moneymaking potentialities and if this is the time to draw any lessons from it all, "Dodge City" demonstrates quite clearly that, when Hollywood remembers motion pictures are supposed to move, Hollywood returns in a hurry to picture-making fundamentals which it frequently overlooks or forgets. This one starts to go from the beginning and simply refuses to stop. It's got something there. niscent of the eighties. To accommodate the horses that roamed the streets, car owners were asked to leave their machine buggies at a safe distance. Influences of the celluloid that have probably brought sharper focus on this town in the public print than any in the country were felt in all directions. The Kansas Music Festival was advanced one month. This unusual function featured 45 bands from all sections of the Jayhawk state. A gala western roundup in the new 8,000-seat stadium brought local entries against a group of Hollywood experts. Then a street parade, with stars, state and town officials, the 45 bands and costumed citizens participating. This, and more, all was tied up in a huge publicity bouquet with Dodge City’s 60th anniversary celebration. Following the film’s simultaneous opening at the only four theatres here — the Dodge, Crown, Cozy and Beeson — Gov. Payne Ratner and a host of officials were hosts at a civic ball. Every word describing the celebration that a half-hour nationwide radio hookup could carry went over 90 stations of NBC’s Blue and Red networks between 7 and 7:30 p. m., Central time. Majors' Legal Battery Draws Defense Lines (Continued from page 5) Distributors and their attorneys met with William F. Rodgers, general sales manager for M-G-M and head of the distributor sub-committee, at the Hotel Astor Tuesday and Wednesday when final changes in the draft were worked out. Sidney R. Kent, president of 20th-Fox, was unable to attend the meetings, being detained on the coast lining up product for the annual sales meeting which got under way in Chicago during the week. Prior to his departure, he told Boxoffice he hoped the final draft would be completed by April 1. It was finished just a few days ahead of that. 24 BOXOFFICE ;: April 1, 1939