Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES garet Lindsay. Director, E. Taggart. (F). April 2. '37. (724). They Gave Him a Gun (..) — Drama. The triangle of two war buddies and a nurse, who marries one out of pity when told the other, who she loved, is dead, is solved when the latter returns to save her from a horrible fate. Spencer Tracy, Gladys George, Franchot Tone. Director, W. S. Van Dyke. (F). May 14. '37. (731). Tliirteentli (’hair. The (..) — Mystery. A scientific crime solution is exposed when a medium goes into a trance to find the culprit guilty of a clueless murder. Madge Evans, Henry Daniell, Klissa Landi. Director, Geo. Seitz. (F). May 7. ’37. (732). COMING RELEASES: Broadway Melody of 1937 — Eleanor Powell, Robeit Taylor. Firefly, The. General Hospital. Good Earth, The — Paul Muni, Luise Kainer. Marie AValewska — Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer. Saratctga— Clark Gable, Jean Harlow. Topper — Constance Bennett, Cary Grant. Way Out West — Laurel and Hardy. Viui’ll Be Married by Noon — Ilobt. Young, Florence Kice. Paramount Borderland (83) — Drama. A Texas Ranger accepts a disgraceful discharge in order to give the impression he is on the outlaws' side, and after gaining their confidence brings their destruction. William Boyd, Jimmy Ellison, George Hayes. Director, Nate Watt. (F). Feb. 26, '37. (3668). Bulldog Drummond Escapes (67) — Mystery. A girl held captive by the men she suspects as her brother’s murderers is accidentally discovered by a passerby, who releases and marries her. Ray Milland, Heather Angel, Porter Hall. Director, James Hogan. (F). Jan. 22, '37. (3626). Champagne Waltz (90) — Musical. Combining old Viennese waltzes and modern swing music; and how the daughter of the waltz palace wins out ever the leader of the “hot” band that threatened her family’s livelihood. Gladys Swarthout, Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie. Director, A. E. Sutherland. (F). Jan. 29, '37. (3628). Clarence (63) — Comedy. A war veteran gets a job with a slightly psychopathic family and before he's through, aided by a saxaphone, order is restored and he wins himself a wife. Roscoe Karns, Charlotte Wynters, Eugene Pallette. Director. George Archainbaud. (F). Feb. 12, '37. (3632). Crime Nobody Saw, The (72) — (formerly Danger, Men Working) — Comedy mystery drama. Three authors in search of a plot, with 18 hours to complete the story, have a real murder mystery dropped in their laps. They solve the case and get their material. Lew Ayres, Ruth Coleman, Benny Baker. Director, Charles Barton. (F). March 12. '37. (3635). Doctor's Diary, A — (77) — Drama. Following the discharge of a doctor from a private hospital he is brought back to fight a paralysis epidemic by the nurse he had earlier fired, and gives up his fiancee to marry her. George Bancroft, Helen Burgess, John Trent. Director, Charles Vidor. (F). Jan. 22. '37. (3627). Girl From Scotland Yard, The (61) — Mystery drama. With the help of an, American newspapermah an English girl runs down an inventor who is destroying England’s defense equipment due to an old grudge. Karen Morley, Katharine Alexander, Robert Baldwin. Director, Robert Vignola. (F). April 9. '37. (3638). {ireat Gambiiu, The — Mystery. A mind reader who predicted that a marriage would not take place i.s instrumental in revealing the murderer of the fiance. Akim Tamiroff, John Trent, Marian Marsh. Director, Charles Vidor. (P). June 11. '37. Her Husband Lies (formerly The Love Trap) (75) — Drama. A big-shot gambler retires but gets back into the game and pays for it with his life in an effort to keep his brother from a similar fate. Ricardo Cortez, Gail Patrick, Akim Tamiroff. Director, Edward Ludwig. (F). Mar. 19, '37. ((3636). Hills of Old Wy<miiiig (77) — Western. A trio of ranchers succeed in preventing an uprising by revealing the head of a cattle rustlers’ gang who used innocent Indians to cover his activities. William Boyd, Gail Sheridan, George Hayes. Director, Nate Watt. (F). April 16, ’37. (3669). Hotel Haywire (..) — Comedy. What started out as a gag by a “screwy” astrologist threatens to cause a domestic breach in a home-loving family. When the source of the trouble Is located those involved run him out of town. Leo Carrillo, Lynne Overman, Mary Carlisle. Director, George Archainbaud. (F). June 4, '37. I Met Him in Paris (..) — Romantic comedy drama. A young fiancee on a Parisian vacation is pursued by two men. The one acting as chaperon steps aside to favor his friend, but the friend and the prospective husband get the air when the girl decides on the chaperon. Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young. Director, Wesley Ruggles. (F). May 28, '37. Internes Can’t Take Money (..) — Drama. An Interne befriends a wounded gang leader who helps him locate the missing daughter of the widow the interne falls in love with. Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan. Director, Alfred Santell. (F). April 16, '37. (36.39). John Meade’s Woman (88) — Drama. An unscrupulous lumber tycoon tries manipulating with wheat but drouth and dust storms ruin him through his earlier refusal to reforestate the destroyed watersheds. Edward Arnold. Francine Larrimore, George Bancroft. Director, Richard Wallace. (F). Feb. 26. '37. (3630). King of the Gamblers (80) — Action drama. A newspaper reporter and a night club singer, while searching for the latter’s girl friend, “get” the racketeer responsible for her disappearance. Claire Trevor. Lloyd Nolan. Akim Tamiroff. Director, Robert Florey. (F). April 23, '37. (3640). I.ast Traill From Madrid, The (..) — Drama. Plots and counter-plots involving various people about to leave the l)eleaguered city of Madrid as an invasion threatens to overtake them. Dorothy I.,aniour, Gilbert Roland, Lew Ayres. Director, James Hogan. (F). June 25, '37. Maid of Salem (83)~Drama. A woman who helps a political prisoner escape is adjudged a sorceress on the accusation of a young girl. The prisoner returns to clear his friend, himself and explode the “witch” scare. Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens. (F). Feb, 19, ’37. (3631) Make Way for Tomorrow (92) — Drama. The elderly mother and father of children upon whom they are dependent are shunted back and forth, but survive the indignities and vicissitudes even though they must be separated forever. Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter. Director, Leo McCarey. (F). April 30. '37. (3641). Midnight Madonna (..) — Drama. A husband has his former wife adjudged an unfit mother of their child in order to gain control of a fortune left her. A gambler befriends the wife, secures a retrial and reunites mother and child. Warren William, Mady Correll, Robert Baldwin. Director, James Flood. (F)'. July 2, '37. Mountain 31usic (,.)— Comedy. An amnesia victim runs out on a marriage, proposes to another and causes his brother to be accused of his murder. Brought back for the trial he has a lapse of memory at the critical moment but fate saves the day. Bob Burns, Martha Raye, John Howard. Director, Charles Riesner. (F). June 18, '37. Murder Goes to College (70) — Mystery. Under the menace of a numbers racket mob, a detective and a newspaperman solve the murder of a university professor whose wife was the sweetheart of the numbers king. Roscoe Karns, Marsha Hunt. Lynne Overman. Director, Charles Riesner. (F). Mar. 5, ’37. (3633). Night of Mystery, A (...) — Mystery drama. A detective’s shrewd deductions lead to the man bent on exterminating a family, who had succeeded to the point where only two girls were left Roscoe Karns, Helen Burgess, Grant Richards. Director. E. A. Dupont. (F). May 21, '37. North of the Rio Grande (..) — Western. A member of a sheriff’s posse, avenging the death of liis brother, obtains the confidence of corrupt citizens to round up the outlaws responsible for the crime. William Boyd, George Hayes, Stephen Morris. Director, Nate Watt. (F). June 18. '37. Outcast (73) — Drama. Although cleared of a murder charge a doctor is so hounded that he takes refuge in a small town where his presence causes a scandal with lynching threats until he's cleared. Warren William, Karen Morley. Lewis Stone. Director, Robert Florey. (F). Feb, 5, '37. (3629). Swing High, Swing Low (95) — Comedy. What happens to a trumpet player, fresh from the army, and a dancer, turned manicurist, when they get together for mutual protection in Panama. Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth. Director, Mitchell Lelsen. (F). Mar. 12, ’37. (.3634) Turn Off the Moon (78) — Comedy with music. A department store owner afflicted with astrological influences marries his secretary in spite of interference from the stars and troublesome employes. Charles Ruggles. Eleanore Whitney. Johnny Downs. Director, Lewis Seiler. (F). May 14. '37. (3642). Waikiki AVedding (90) — Comedy romance with music. The publicity man for a Hawaiian pine ^QatutQ5 apple firm r)Uts on a contest, the winner of which he falls in love with but not before a kidnaping, fake robbery, volcano eruption and other complications beset them. Bing Crosby. Bob Burns, Martha Raye. Director, Frank Tul tie. (F). Mar. 26. ’37. (3637). COMING RELEASES: Angel — Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall. Artists and Models — Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamoui Double or Nothing — Bing Crosby, Martha Raye. Easy Living — Jean Arthur, Ray Milland. Exclusive — Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer. Forlorn River. High, Wide and Handsome — Irene Dunne, Ran dolph Scott. Souls of the Sea — Gary Cooper. George Rafl. Frances Dee. Things Began to Happen — Fred MacMurray, Frances Farmer. This AVay, Please. Wild Money — Edward Everett Hoiton. T.;ynne Overman. RKO Radio Behind the Headlines (..) — Action diama. Dealing with the use of pocket-sized short-wave transmitters that enable news events to be broadcast “from the spot” and the ingenious methods used by a brash reporter. Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson, Donald Meek. Director, Richard Uosson. (F). May 21. '37. (727). Border Cafe (••) — Western. The son of a staid New England family settles in the west to rehabilitate himself. When eastern thugs try to invade the territory a feud breaks out threatening harm to his visiting parents, but the lad saves the day. John Beal. Armida, Harry Carey. Director, Lew Landers. (F). June 25, '37. (730). China Passage (64) — Mystery. An American girl In China aids two men in recovering a diamond they were delivering. Although she accuses one of the men of the theft, she later falls in lovt with him and reveals she’s a customs agent Constance Worth. Vinton Haworth, Leslie Fenton. Director, Edward Killy. (F). Mar. 12, '37 (718). Criminal Lawyer (72) — Drama. A lawyer whose cnances for a governorship depend upon his successful prosecution of a former client announcets he is unfit to hold the office in order to protect a girl he knows Is testifying against her will Lee Tracy, Margot Grahame, Eduardo Ciannelll Director, Christy Cabanne. (F). Jan. 29, ’37(713). Don’t Tell the Wife (63) — Comedy drama. A trio of confidence men induce a man with a blueblood name to be the “front” for their gold mine stock-selling racket. When things look black for all concerned the latter discovers the mine to be rich, helping to recover investors’ money and ruining the racket. Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Lynne Overman. Director, Christy Cabanne. (F). Mar. 5. '37 (720). Hollywood Cowboy (formerly Looking for Trouble) (..) — Western. Big time city racketeers transfer their activities to the plains. A cowboy film star, on location, is accused of being one of them, but acquits himself by stifling the gangsters. George O’Brien, Cecilia Parker, Maude Eburne. Director, Ew’ing Scott. (F). May 28, ’37. (783). Man Who Found Himself, The (67) — Drama. A young doctor stages a “comeback” after an innocent act of kindness had plunged him into a sea of notoriety, forcing him to live under an assumed name. John Beal, Joan Fontaine, Philip Huston. Director, Lew Landers. (F) Apr. 2, '37. (722) Missus America (..) — Comedy. Satirizing the contests in which American housewives are constantly participating and of a careless housekeeper’s w'inning national recognition in a noodle contest although her husband does most of the work. Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Anne Shirley. Director, Joseph Santley. (F>. June 4. ’37. (729). Outcasts of Poker Flat (72) — Melodrama. A teacher rehabilitates but loses a ruthless gambler who is driven from a California gold mtn BOXOFFICE :: May 15, 1937. 31