Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES TQCLtUtQ5 M'liile Boiidajie (GO) — Melodrama. When a newspaper reveals that a plantation owner is cheating" croppers out of their wages he is threatened with lynching, but the owner’s daughter saves him and admits her father’s guilt. Jean Muir. Gordon Oliver, Joseph King. Director: Nick Grinde. (F). June 19, ’37. (OMING KKI.KASES: Adventure^ (►f Fang— Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts. Gentleman I'roin Kimberley. Tlie — 'SVarner Baxter, Anita Douise. Mr. I)oci<l> Take> the Air — Kenny Baker. Talent Scout— Donald Woods. Jeanne Madden. GB Pictures Backstage (70> — Musical. An obscure street singer is discovered by an equally obscure girl dancer In a show. He becomes famous but turns his cheek to admirers in fa\or of the dancer. Anna .Waglo. Arthur Tracy, Tilly Losch. Director, Herbert Wilcox. (F) Mar. 15, ’37. (3G14) Everybody Dance (75) — Farce with music. A night club queen gets into a series of compilations when she assumes the role of a lady farmer to play hostess to her sister’s children. Cicely Courtneidge. Ernest Truex, Percy Pardons. iJireotor. Charles Rei.sner. (F). Feb. 15. 37. (3613). Head Over Heels in I.,<»ve (81) — Romantic musical. .A cabaret singer, reduced to poverty, chooses the man she has scorned for another. Jessie Matthews. Louis Borell. Robert Flemyng. Whitney Bourne. Director, Sonny Hale. (F). Feb. 20. ’37. (3601). King Solomon’s Mines (..) — Adventure. Members of an expedition in search of a rich diamond mine convince opposing natives of their supernatural powers when an eclipse of the moon comes to their aid. Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee. Roland Young. Director, Robert Stevenson. (F). April 15. ’37. (3618). Man of Affairs (70) — Action drama. The murderers of an Eastern ruler intent on gaining control of the country are apprehended when the twin brother of the Rrlti.sh Foreign Secretary takes a hand. George Aiii.«s. Rene Ray. Director, Herbert Mason. (F>. Jan. 20. ’37. (3606). Itiver of Tnrest (09) — Drama of the Irish rebellion. .An English officer in love with an Irish girl relea.ses her by assuming blame of her rebel brother’s death upon realizing she loves another. John I.,odge, John I..oder. Antoinette Cellier. Director. Brian Desmond Hurst. (F). Jan. 15. ’37, (3621). ''ilent Barriers (100) -Drama, of the perils and hazards which threatened abandonment of the building of tlie Canadian Pacific railroad, an amazing engineering feat. Barry Mackay. Antionette Cellier. Roy Emerton. Director. Milton Rosmer. (F) Apr. 1. '37. (3608). Tallc of the Devil (7G) — Mt lodrama. A man posing as the brotlier of an upright shipbuilder frames him but is exi>osed by another, who is in love with the shipbuilder’s ward, through his ability to mimic voices. Hi<ardo Cortez. Sally Filers. Basil Sydney. Director, Carol Reed. (F). June 1. '37. (3607). Tenth .'Man, Tlie (05) — Drama. A shrewd political!. using his position to further iin<h*rhandefi financial interests and wlio believes himself mentally superior to all mankind, meets his equal for an inglorious end. John I.odge, Antionette Cellier, Athole Stewart. l>ire«tor-: Brian Desmond Hurst. (F). May 15, ’37. (3622). You're in the Army N<i\v (83) — Comedy drama. By a chain of circumstances a smalltime racketeer is forced to live up to the traditions of the British army, makes good, and dies a hero. Wallace Ford, John Mill.s, Anna Lee. Director, Raoul Walsh. Mar. 1. ’37. (3626) COMING KEI.EASES: Coins for Candles — Nova Pilbeam. tfaiigwny Jessie Matthews. Non-Stop New York Anna Lee. l>esmond Tester. Grand National Arizona Days (52) — Western. A cowbody with theatrical ambitions joins a local troupe. Wlwen the troupe’s property is burned he trails and subdues the offenders, making himself a local hero. Tex Ritter, Ethelind Terry, Syd Saylor. Director, Jack English. (F). Jan. 30. 37. (147). Girl Loves Boy (formerly Two Shall Meet) (70) — Drama. The daughter of a widowed seamstress provides the wholesome influence that redeems a friend’.s wayward son from his evil ways. Eric Linden. Cecilia Parker, Roger Imhoff. Director, Duncan Mansfield. (F) Mar. 20. '37. (124) (ioUl Ka<‘ket» The (..) — Action drama. A federal agent and his wife assume disguises to obtain tlie evidence that convicts a gang of gold smugglers. Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt. Fuzzy Knight. Director, Louis J. Gasiner. (F). April 10. ’37. (1,38). Hittiii* the Trail (02) — Western. The head of a horse-rustling gang uses an innocent cow'boy as a "front” to frame a wealthy ranch-owner, but the cowboy rights matters and gets the ranchowner’s daughter. Tex Ritter, Jerry Bergh. Tommy Bupp. Director. R. N. Bradbury. (F). March 20. ’37. (14!)) Juggernaut (G5) — Drama. An eccentric scientist is led into a murder plot by a scheming wife, in order that he may continue his experiments to benefit humanity. Boris Karloff, Mona Goya. Joan Wyndham. Director, Henry Edwards. (A) April 30. ’37. Killers of the Sea (..) — Adventure. The undersea encounters of Capt. Wallace Casewell In his determination to make the Gulf of Mexico a safer body of water. Lowell Thomas. (F). May 8. ■37. (135). Navy Spy (62) — Action drama. A federal investigator risks his life to save the girl who supplies the clue that helps him locate a missing navy man, inventor of a valuable fuel. Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, Judith Allen. Director. Crane Wilbur. (F). Mar. 27. ’37. (137). Komaiice and Kiches (65) — Romantic drama. A young millionaire, told he’s not man enough to make his own way, proves his advisors are wrong, besides reh*’ biiltating the life among the poorer classes. Car> Grant. Mary Brian, Peter Cawthorne. Director. Alfred Z^iister (F) Feb 27. *37. (153) Sc'Otland Yard Goniinands (61) — Action drama. A retired navy commander reluctantly cultivates a girl’s friendship in order to learn, through her brother, the activities of gun smugglers. He fails in love with the girl and with her help clears the brother and smashes the smugglers Clive Brook, Victoria Hopper, Nora Swinburne Director. James Flood. (F). Jan. 23, '37. (152). 'Froiible in Texas (62) — Western. A cowboy entertainer wins the prize in a rodeo but is forced to clean up the gang attempting to apply racketeering methods to the affair before collecting. Tex Ritter. Rita Cansino. Earl Dwire. Director. R. N. Bradbury. (F) Feb. 27. ’37. (148) 23’^ Hourb Leave (76) — Action drama. A cocksure army rookie bets he'll have breakfast with the general. He accidentally discovers some spies, becomes a hero, wins the general’s daughter and the bet. James Ellison. Terry Walker. Morgan Hill Director. John G. Blystone. (F) Mar. 27. ’37. (103) Twu \Vh<i Dared (85) — Drama. Again.st a background of Czarist Russia and political intrigue it tells of a woman faced with the dilemma of confe.ssing her own lack of virtue or of sending a man to death. Anna Sten, Henry Wil <oxon, Viola Keats. Director. Eugen Frenke. (A). May 8. ’37. (113). ('OMIN(. RELKASKS: .Mias Blaekie Burke — Ken Maynard. Boots of Destin.\ -Ken Maynard, Claudia Dell. Death Takes a Cruise. D.> iiaiiiite — James Cagney. I iK'e the r'a<'ts — Stuart Erwin. I'orever Yours — Beniamino Gigli. (iirl Said No. The -Irene Hervey, Robert Armstrong. GiMernineut Agent--Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt, (^rand ( an^oii — Love Takes T'liglit — Bruce Cabot. Marked Money — Conrad Nagel, Eleanor Hunt. Photo Finish. '«iha»lo\\, 'I'he — Rod La Roeque. sing, Co\vh(»y, Sing — Tex Ritter. Miiall Town Boy — Stuart Erwin. '“oinething to Sing About Eric Linden. Cecilia Parker. Spy of Napoleon — Itichard Barthelmess, Dolly Haas. Sweetheart of the Navy. TITI.E CHANGE: >ome Call It Love, changed to MAYBE IT'S LOVE. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Caiiiille (115) — Drama. An extravagant but penniless beauty, broken in health, plunges into a fatal round of mad living to forget her lover. Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore. Lenore Ulrlc. Director. George Cukor. (A). Jan. 1, '37. (639). Captains Courageous (125) — Drama. A millionaire’s spoiled son seeks solace with his father after the fisherman, who taught him about the real things in life, is drowned Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore. Director, Victor Fleming. (F). July 30, '37. (717). Dangerous Number (70) — Drama. The wife of a young silk merchant, constantly embroiled in domestic disputes, resorts to some unique lusea in order to hold him. Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald Owen. Director. Richard Thorpe (F). Jan. 22, '37. (718). Day at the Itaees, A (..) — Comedy. The plot to gain control of a sanitarium is foiled by a new director, in reality a horse doctor, a jockey, an ice-cream vendor and a horse. Marx Bros., Al Ian Jones, Esther Muir. Director. Sam Wood (F). May 28, '37. (730). Kmperor’s Caiullestieks, The (..) — Drama. International intrigue, wlierein a Viennese nobleman, a countess, a pair of mysterious candlesticks, stolen jewels and a transcontinental chase figure in the conspiracy. William Powell, Luise Rainer. Director, George Fitzmaurice. (F). June 11, '37. (733). lOspionage (62) — Mystery drama. Rival man and woman reporters following a munitions magnate for a story, fall into plenty of trouble, get scooped in the bargain, but find love instead Edmund Lowe. Madge Evans, Paul Lukas. Director, Kurt Neumann. (F). Feb. 26, '37. (723). T'ainily Affair, A (68) — Drama. A judge with a spotless reputation succeeds in averting a false attack upon him by a blackmailer, who also idanned o convert a lucrative building project to his own means, which would have furthei reflected upon the judge. Lionel Barrymore. Spring Byington, Cecilia Parker. Director. George Seitz. (F). Mar. 12, '37. (6.32). Good Old Soak (07) — Drama. A retired business man. wrongly accused and about to shoulder the blame for a family disgrace, is exonerated when his son confesses causing the rift. Wallace Beery, Janet Beecher. Una Merkel. Director. J. Walter Ruben. (F). April 23, '37. (728). Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The (98) — Comedy drama. A woman wlio is accepted by an exclusive English set is swamped with marriage proposals. Although she is discovered to be a thief one of her admirers persuades her to be his wife. Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery Director. R. Boleslawski. (F). Feb. 19, '37. (719). Vlama Steps Out (71) — Comedy. A rich manu"osturer. his culture-mad wife and romant' daughter tour Europe until each get so much mnie than they had aimed for that home looks better than ever. Guy Kibbee, Alice Brady, Betty Furness. Director, George B. Seitz. (F). r-eb.' 6. '37. (721). Man of the Pei>ple (72) — Drama. A slum-born youth battles his w-ay through a maelstrom of political opposition to become a legal power but his benefactors send him back to oblivion, ruined, hut happy that he has been a martyr to his people. Joseph Calleia, Florence Rice, Ted Healy. Director. E. L. Marin. (F). Jan. 29, '37. (716). Ma.vtiiiie (134) — Operetta. A great opera star, now oid, tells the story of her life to a pair of quarrelsome lovers, setting them on the road to hapnines.s. Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore. Director, Robert Z. Leonard. (F). Mar. 26, '37 (720). Niglit .'Must Fall (115) — M.vstery drama. The emotional turmoil of a girl in love with and under the influence of an egomaniac, despite the fact she knows him to be a murderer. Robert Mont,gomer>', Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty. Director, Richard Thorpe. (A). April 30. '37. (727). Nobody’s Baby (69) — Comedy. Two nurses attempt to shield an expectant mother, whose husband, a famous dancer, didn’t want the world to know he was married. Patsy Kelly, Lyda Robert!, Lynne Overman, Director, Gua Meins. (F). April 23, '37. (729). Parnell (..) — Drama. The head of an Irish party is forced to resign over the scandal provoked by his love for the wife of one of his disloyal followers. Their marriage plans are cut short w'hen he dies. Clark Gable. Myrna Loy, Edna May Oliver. Director, John Stahl. (F). June 4, '37.' (722). Personal Property (88) — Romantic drama. An exconvict is urged by his brother to leave town. He does under protest but returns in time to atop the latter’s marriage to the wrong girl — taking her for himself. Jean Harlow. Robert Taylor, Reginald Owen. Director, W. S. Van Dyke. (F) Mar. 19, '37. (72.5). I'iek a Star (78) — Comedy. A country girl successfully crashes the gates of Hollywood, although beset by the machinations of a promoter who skips with her money. Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley Rosina Lawrence. Director, Edward Sedgwick ' (F). May 21. '37. (735). Song of the C»ty (68)— Drama. Fate throws a penniless scion of society, about to marry a millionaire divorcee, among a group of fishermen. Intrigue, racketeering and social differences fail to halt his love and marriage to a wharf girl. Edward Norris, Jeffrey Deane, Mar 30 BOXOFFICE :: May 15, 1937.