The Film Daily (1936)

THE Thursday, Sept 3, 1936 ■s&m DAILY 11 mU" (com Hollywood "£ots // By RALPH WILK DRANDON TYNAN has been signed by M-G-M for one of the )rincipal roles in "Parnell." Tynan las had an extensive career as a tage star. ▼ T T Victor Moore, who appears in Swing Time," has been put under ong-term contract by RKO Radio, rhicli means the comedy star is deerting Broadway for a spell. T T ▼ Paramount has signed Joe Cook, tage comedy star. ▼ ▼ ▼ Boris Karloff will soon be preented by First National in a mysery thriller which will deal, among ther exciting matters, with advenures in the stratosphere. Two writrs, Robertson White and Ben Grauiian, are now at work on the screen lay, "Hell is Above." t t y Irving Bacon has been set for a eatured role in "You and Me," next leoree Raft picture, in which Arne Judge has the feminine lead, 'he story is by Norman Krasna, fho also will direct as his first nder a recently-signed writer-diector contract at Paramount. T ▼ T Universal has bought the forthoming novel, "Wings Over Honoilu," by Mildred Cram. ▼ v ▼ Ruby Keeler's next Warner picure will be entitled "Ready, Willing nd Able." The masculine lead will e played by Ross Alexander. The lm will be adapted from a Saturay Evening Post story by Richard lacauley. Warren Duff has written tie screen play. T ▼ T Larry Crabbe, currently in "Rose >owl," will have the featured lead n Paramount's next outdoor romance, the Zane Grey story "Stairs f Sand/' which James Hogan will irect. Raymond Hatton and Anhony Nace have also been set for eatured parts with other members f the cast yet to be chosen. Dan [eefe of the A. M. Botsford staff is roducing. T T T Recent cast assignments at 20th !entury-Fox include: Katherine De lille for "Banjo on My Knee"; larjorie De Haven, daughter of ]arter De Haven, for "Pigskin Parde"; Montagu Love, J. Edward iromberg, George Ernest, George Chandler, Helen Jerome Eddy, Alan Mnehart, Hattie McDaniel, Edward IcWade and Julius Tannen for "Reinion." T T T Harold Lloyd this week broke lart of the secrecy that has surounded his plans for his next Paramount picture to reveal that he and lis writing staff have completed a 2,000-word synopsis and story outine, which has been approved by Idolph Zukor and William LeBaron, Norma Shearer as Juliet on the Air Norma Shearer, who, since the world premiere of M-G-M's "Romeo and Juliet" at the Astor Theater, has been acclaimed as one of the outstanding Juliets of the generation, will make one of her very infrequent appearances on the air tomorrow night over the CBS network on the Hollywood Hotel program. She will reenact three scenes from "Romeo and Juliet," with Ralph Forbes and Edna May Oliver. Paramount production chiefs. Filming will start early in the fall. T T T Bent on a two-week deep sea fishing cruise, John Blystone, accompanied by his wife, has departed on C. C. Yates yacht, "Splendora" for Mexican waters. Blystone plans to return in time to attend the preview of his recent Universal production, "Magnificent Brute." T T ▼ George O'Brien and the members of the "Daniel Boone" company who were in Big Bear for the past six weeks returned recently to the Pathe studios to finish the George Hirliman picture which David Howard is directing. T T v Lew Pollack and Sidney Mitchell, the 20th Century-Fox writing team which recently completed the musical score for "Pigskin Parade," are now writing the songs for Sonja Henie's initial picture for this organization, "One in a Million." T T T James Branch Cabell, author of "Jurgen" and many other books, will be represented by Lichtig & Englander. T T ▼ W. P. Lipscomb, British playwright and scenarist, may be compelled to produce his new play, "The Birth of the Navy," in Hollywood. The recent announcement of his plans to absent himself from the film capital for six months in order to devote his time to the New York and London stage brought a surprising number of lucrative offers from local film producers. At present Lipscomb is completing the screen version for "Phantom of the Opera," a Universal production. When this is finished, Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Paramount producer would like the writer for an assignment. In addition M-G-M has offered him an assignment, with other tempting offers from RKO and 20th CenturyFox. T T T Assurance that "Melody for Two," First National's picture now in production, will live up to its musical title is contained in the announcement that two teams of song-writers have been signed to compose melodies for the new picture. They are Harry Warren and Al Dubin, and M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. T Y T Universal has changed the title of its Edmund Loew-Gloria Stuart feature from "Rich and Reckless" to "The Girl On The Front Page". T ▼ T Ginger Rogers, back in Hollywood after a vacation in New York, will plunge into preparations immediately for her next production, which will be a solo starring effort in Kate Douglas Wiggins' "Mother Carey's Chickens." John Beal will play opposite her. William Hurlburt is writing the screenplay, and Dorothy Arzner will direct, v t ▼ Bruce Cabot, as the heavy, and Crawford Weaver, young theatrical leading man who was placed under contract by Columbia last week, will share top honors in "Legion of Terror," to which Marguerite Churchill has already been assigned as the feminine lead. The picture, originally titled "Hooded Terror," will be directed by C. C. Coleman, Jr. ▼ T T Wesley Ruggles has completed the scoring for his Paramount production, "Valiant is the Word for Carrie," which he also directed. Immediately following the preview showing of this picture, Ruggles will fly to New York for a week's vacation. PACIFIC NORTHWEST H. C. Benson, proprietor of the Empire Theater, Anacortes, has been visiting Seattle. "Deeds" has knocked all longdistance records cock-eyed going into a 17th week at the Blue Mouse of Portland. Erick Paulson has sold his Variety Theater in Petersburg, Alaska, to B. F. Shearer of Seattle. Gene Elliott has been appointed press agent for the Glenn Hughes theaters in the university district of Seattle, succeeding Tom Herbert, who resigned to handle programs for the Campus Radio Studios. ST. LOUIS Jack Partington of Fanchon & Marco and John Eberson, architect, were recent arrivals here, followed by Harry C. Arthur Jr. Julius Leventhal, theater owner, and Nat Steinberg of Republic have been in Hollywood on a business and pleasure trip. Gradwell Sears, S. Charles Einfeld, Joseph Bernhard and Georgie Price were among recent visitors here. City Marshal Henry Kausler in Festus, Mo., forced two union labor men to leave town when they began picketing the new Idle Hour Theater now under construction. The vast Thomas Ford TF ranch near Bakersfield is being used by Director Richard Boleslawski for scenes for "Theodora Goes Wild." This production is being filmed by Columbia, Boleslawski having been loaned by M-G-M for the assignment. T ▼ T Rebecca & Silton, representing John Boles, have made arrangements for the baritone screen star to broadcast from Toronto, Canada, on the Rudy Vallee-Fleischman hour, which functions in New York on Sept. 10. T T Y In order to enjoy strict privacy, • Lew Pollack and Sidney Mitchell, the 20th Century-Fox song writing duo, have staked out a tent on the extreme far end of the studio lot where there are no telephone connections or visitors. They are currently writing the songs for "One in a Million." ▼ v T Howard Estabrook has launched his first Frank Lloyd production for Paramount, "Maid of Salem," which Lloyd is directing with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray in the principal roles. Estabrook is now preparing the screenplay for his second production, as yet untitled. t v ▼ Gene Towne and Graham Baker, Walter Wanger scenarists, have gone to the San Francisco bay region in search of atmosphere for their original stoi-y, "We Live Only Once," scheduled to start filming next month with Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda co-starred. Y Y Y Character roles in "Cross Fire," Charles Starrett's Columbia starring production now in work under the direction of C. C. Coleman, Jr. have been assigned to Ed Le Saint, Edmund Cobb and Albert J. Smith. Mary Blake plays the feminine lead. Others who have already been engaged for this Peter B. Kyne story are Ed Piel, Allen Craven, Ed Coxen and Ralph McCullough. Y ▼ Y Bing Crosby, now en route to Hawaii, will become casting director for his next Paramount picture immediately upon arrival in the islands. Bing will seek native types among the beach boys and hula girls, as well as native singers and musicians, for "Waikiki Wedding" when production of that musical starts at Waikiki around the first of October. The story, now being prepared by Frank Butler and Don Hartman, was read in outline and I approved by Bing before his departure last Saturday on the S. S. Lur , line. While casting yet is indefinite, ij it is indicated that Bob Burns and [ Martha Raye, featured with Bing in "Rhythm on the Range" again will , appear with him, and that Mary Carlisle and George Barbier will have other featured parts. Edward " A. Sutherland will direct.