Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

28 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD October 11, 1930 20 Films from Sono Art-World Wide Will Include 10 by Cruze "Thrill-0 -Drama" Group Has 10 Attractions, Four of Them Specials; Two Pictures Ready for Production (Special to the Herald-World) NEW YORK, Oct. 9. — With several pictures now playing leading theatres of the country and with a number of others ready for release, Sono ArtWorld Wide this week announces its complete production schedule for 1930-31. TWENTY pictures are on the new season's program, 10 of which are "James Cruze-World Wide Winners" and 10 "Thrill-O-Dramas." In the Cruze-World Wide group are the following attractions: "Costello Case," a James Cruze production featuring Tom Moore, Lola Lane, Russell Hardie, Roscoe Karns and Wheeler Oakman. Story by F. McGrew Willis. Directed by Walter Lang. "Reno," adapted from Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.'s novel starring Ruth Roland: With Kenneth Thompson, Montague Love, Sam Hardy, Doris Lloyd, Edith Vosselli. Directed by George J. Crone. "Symphony in Two Flats," adapted from Shubert's Broadway play; featuring Ivor Norvello and Jacqueline Logan. Directed by V. Gareth Gundry. "Rogue of Rio Grande," a Cliff Broughton production, featuring Myrna Loy, Raymond Hatton and Jose Bohr. Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennett. "Charge of the Light Brigade," English War Office makes one. A Gainsborough production; based on Tennyson's poem; made under supervision of British war office. Featuring Cyril MacLaglen, Benita Hume, and cast of 5,000. Directed by Maurice Elvey. "Once a Gentleman," a James Cruze production: featuring Everett Edward Horton, Lois Wilson, King Baggott, George Fawcet, Francis X. Bushman. Directed by James Cruze. "Week End Sinners," by Gerald Bowman. It concerns the Saturday-to-Monday adventures of harried husbands seeking relief from the routine of domestic ties. "Just For a Song," a Gaumont-Gainsborough production, featuring Lillian Dawes, Roy Royston and Constance Carpenter. Directed by V. Gareth Gundrey. "The Big Fight," a James Cruze production based on the Belasco play; featuring Lola Lane, "Big Boy," Guinn Williams. Stepin Fetchit and Ralph Ince. Directed by Walter Lang. "The Scoop," by John Drinkman, an exciting narrative of a newspaperman's exploits in helping to solve a baffling crime. In the Thrill-O-Dramas group there will be 10 pictures, four of which are scheduled for specials, the story material, casting and production of which will start in three weeks in Hollywood, is as follows: "Air Police" (Special) by Arthur Hoerl is an epic of a new type of civilian projection now offered to the larger cities of America; "Hell Bent for Frisco," by Gene Pritchard is an automobile racing story reminiscent of Wally Reid vehicles: "First Aid" (Special) bv Michael L. Simmons glorifies the ambulance surgeon; "Hell Skipper." by H. G. Wilson, is a story of a devil pilot who terrorized a crew of nrimitive hate-maddened men; "Casey Jones, Jr.", (Special), by Greeory T. Kelsey. is a railroad melodrama; "Is There Tustice?" (Special) by Francis Packard, is the story probine the use of capital punishment; "Cheyenne Kid," by Arthur Hoerl, is a tvpe of outdoor Western revolvinc around stunt thrills in a rodeo: "Neclc and Neck," by Thornton Churchill, is a racehorse melodrama; "Swanee River," by Roger W. Sherwood, shows an absorbing "triangle" drama reaching its climax in a spectacular flood; "Mounted Fury," by G. Evarts Pence, presents a new interesting drama of the Northwest Mounted Police who refused to get his man. Of the above, "Air Police" and "Hell Bent for Frisco" have reached the continuity stage, with casting to begin in two or three weeks. George W. Weeks will supervise production of these. Germans Would Join in Denial U. S. Men Caused Prague Riot, Says Hays (Special to the Herald-World) NEW YORK, Oct. 9.— Will H. Hays, president of the M P P D A, termed as "utterly without foundation" the reports received here from Prague that recent rioting over the presentation of German films was instigated by importers of American pictures. He bases this statement on reports from American motion picture interests abroad. "Such accusations are absolutely baseless," he said. "I believe every factor in the German motion picture industry will join us in resenting such absurd reports, which can only spring from a desire to affect the very cordial relations that now exist between the American and German film industries." French Paper to Build Its Own Picture House (Special to the Herald-World) PARIS, Oct. 9. — A motion picture theatre is to be made part of the regular equipment of the French newspaper, I'lntransigeant, which has enlarged one wing of its office building1 to house it. It will be called Les Miracles. This novel theatre will be devoted especially to the encouragement of French moving pictures, but pictures from Hollywood and other foreign places will also be shown. The paper also has a radio news service. The theatre will open in December. Owners and Union Agree; Beaumont Strike Averted (Special to the Herald-World) BEAUMONT, TEXAS, Oct. 9.— A strike of Beaumont union motion picture operators did not materialize, owing to what the union men termed a compromise with their employers in their wage and hours dispute. Robs Tulsa Ritz of $20 (Special to the Herald-World) TULSA, Oct. 9.— A youthful bandit stepped up to the box office of the Ritz theatre here and took $20 from the cashier. Know Your Exchange —Managers The exchange manager is the direct contact between exhibitor and distributor, and therefore it is to their mutual advantage to know each other. The Herald-World presents a series of brief sketches of exchange managers and their outstanding activities in the motion picture field. Felix Mendelssohn FELIX MENDELSSOHN, the affable manager of the Chicago office of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was born in Kansas City, Mo., "some time during the latter part of the Nineteenth Century," and that's one bit of historical statistics that never will be more definite as far as this paragraph is concerned. It was in 1917 that Mendelssohn left other fields of human endeavor to enter the motion picture business. For the year from 1917 to 1918 he was manager for the World Film Corporation at the Cincinnati office. Then followed the beginning of the connection with the organization that he has been with ever since. SAM FEINSTEIN a Denver manager for RKO, started with Select Pictures Corporation in 1922, and was with this company for 22 months working in the Salt Lake City and Denver territories. Then in 1924 he joined Vitagraph as sales representative, covering Utah and Montana for sixteen months. He left Select to represent Metro GoldwynMayer in Montana, until July, 1926. At that time he affiliated with the FBO Pictures Corporation as salesman in the New Mexico territory, op Sam Feinsteln erating out of the Denver branch. A J J. CLARKE, manager of the Chicago * branch of Pathe, is right at home on the job in more ways than one. For one thing it's his home town. He was born in Chicago in 1893 went to high school, through De Paul and Loyola universities and then taught mathematics at a high school in Iowa. Perhaps it was while teaching mathematics that he acquired the adeptness at figures that won him promotion when he took to film sales. And perhaps his experience as a catcher for Chicago in the old Federal League brought him skill in catching contracts. He was salesman successively for Famous Players, M G M and United Artists. John J. Clarke