Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

THE COM PLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES ing town by vigilantes. Preston Foster, Jean Muir, Van Heflin. Director, Christy Cabanne. (F). April 16, *37. (710). Park Avenue Dogger (65) — Drama. The adventures of a socialite, whose reputation as a wrestler Is unknown to his lumber magnate father who makes good in a big way when forced to learn the logging business. George O’Brien, Beatrice Roberts, Willard Robertson. Director, David Howard. (F). Feb. 26, '37. (782). Plough and the Stars, The (72) — Historical drama. Dramatization of the 1916 "Easter Week Rising" in Dublin and the part played in it by a husband whose life Is saved by his wife after he opposes the authorities against her wishes, Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster. Denis O’Dea. Director. John Ford. (F). Jan. 15, '37. (640). Quality Street (83) — Comedy drama. The adventures of a girl who assumes a dual identity in order to embarrass a suitor w^ho once impoverished and then disappointed her. Katharine Plepburn, b^anchot Tone, Eric Blore. Director, George Stevens, (F). Mar. 26, '37. (709). Racing Lady (59) — Romantic drama. A successful girl horse trainer accepts a contract to handle a W'ealthy man’s stable. Due to a misunderstanding her choice to take the big race is scratched but is entered the last minute and wins, at the same time clearing up a bruised romantic situation. Ann Dvorak, Smith Ballew. Harry Carey. Director, Wallace Fox. (F). Jan. 22, '37. (707). Riding on Air (..) — Comedy. A "hick" reporter’s misadventures begin when he wins a radio slogan contest, thus attracting to his sleepy village a confidence man who proceeds to wake the town up. Joe E. Brown, Florence Rice, Guy Kibbee. Director, Edward Sedgwick. (F). June 18. ’37. (771). Sen Devils (88) — Action drama. Dealing with the spirit of the United States Coast Guard ano its work in saving life at sea and performing ice patrol work to protect the steamer lanes. Victor McLaglen. Preston Foster, Donald Woods. D1 rector. Ben Stoloff. (F). Feb. 19, ’37. (714). Shall We Dance (109) — Musical comedy, A famous ballet dancer and a leading revue artist, on finding that the w’orld believes them married, are forced to make it real. Fred Astaire. Ginger Rogers, Edw^ard Everett Horton. Director, Mark Sandrich. (F'). May 7, ’37. (724). Sohlier and the Dady, The (85) — Adventure. WMth Siberia in 1870 as a background, the story deals with the indomitable courage of the Tsar’s courier in the perilous task of getting through the Tartar battle lines to reach the Russian army w'ith plane. Anton Walbrook, Margot Grahame. Akim Tamiroff. Director, George Nicholls jr. (F). April 9, ’37. (717). There (ioes My Girl (..) — Mystery drama. Although they are in love, the boy and girl reporters become bitter rivals when the big murder yarn breaks. Just when the romance is on the verge of collapsing, cupid steps in.. Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Richard Lane. Director, Ben Holmes. (F"). May 21. ’37. (728). They Wanted To Marry (CO) — Romantic drama. A newspaper cameraman using a carrier pigeon to hasten publication of his shots gets involved with the publicity-shy father of the girl he finally marries. Gordon Jones. Betty Furness, Henry Kolker. Director, Lew Landers. (F). Feb. 6. ’37. (715). Toast of New York. The (..) — Biographic drama of Jim Fisk w^ho in the aftermath of the '’ivil W'ar rose from a New England peddler to power and fame as one of the country’s early captains of finance and industry. Edward Arnold. Cary Grant. Frances Farmer. Director, Rowland Lee. (F). June 11. '37. Too Many Wives (61) — Romantic comedy. A penniless young man who seeks a job and the hand of a society girl, gets both, although the path is a precarious one. Anne Shirley, John Morley. Dudley Clements. Director, Ben Holmes. (F). April 9. ’37. (723). We Who Are About to Die (82)— Drama. A factory w^orker is wrongly accused of a payroll robbery and murder but through the efforts of his fiancee and a sympathetic police official he is cleared and the guilty ones condemned. Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak. John Beal. Director, Christy Cabanne. (F). Jan. 8, '37. (639). W’e’re on the Jury (71) — Comedy mystery. An Inquisitive society woman and a real estate promoter are thrown together on a jury and are instrumental in saving an innocent woman from the electric chair. Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Philip Huston. Director, Ben Holmes. (F). Feb. 12. *37. (716). When’s Your Birthday? (75) — Comedy. A third rate fighter laboring under astrological illusions occupies a series of odd jobs until the position of the moon provides him with the strength to become champion. Joe E. Brown, Marian Marsh. Fred Keating. Director, Harry Beaumont. (F). Feb. 19. '37. (770). Woman I Love, The (formerly Eseadrille) (88) — Drama. Against the background of a French air squadron’s activities in the World War, the story is of a woman w’ho respects but doesn’t love her husband and of the latter’s best friend, who captures her heart. Paul Muni, Miriam Hopkins, Louis Hayward. Director, Anatole Litvak. (F). April 23, '37. (721). You C’an't Bu.^ Luck (61) — Action drama mystery, A girl, a murder and a catastrophe combine to reform a superstitious race horse owner with queer ideas. Onslow Steveins. Helen Mack, Hedda Hopper. Director, Lew Landers. (F). April 30, ’3 7. (726). COMING RELEASES: Easy Going — Wheeler and W’oolsey. New Faces of 1937 — Joe Penner, Harriet tiilliard. Super Sleuth — Ann Sothern. Jack Oakie. Viva<‘ioiis Lady — Ginger Rogers, James Stewart. You Can’t Beat Love — Preston Foster, Joan Fontaine. Republic Affairs of Cappy Ricks, The (..) — Drama. The head of a navigation company finds control of his business going to other hands and his daughter's happiness threatened. He rights matters by taking the principals involved to sea, forcing them to accept his terms. Walter Brennan, Mary Brian. Lyle Talbot. Director, Ralph Staub. (F). May 17. '37. Bill Cra<-ks I)<»wn (62) — Action drama. A love triangle is solved when the "softie" son of a steel magnate earns his spurs and commands the respect of a stern superior. Grant Withers, Beatrice Roberts, Benny Weeks. Director. William Nigh. (F). March 22. ’37. (6028). Bold Caballero, The (69) — Adventure. The daughter of a Spanish governor, seeking to avenge his death, finds her hate for his supposed killer turn to love. Robert Livingston, Heather Angel, Sig Rumann. Director, Wells Root. Technicolor. iF). Jan. IS. ’37. (6101). Circus Girl (62) — Dramatic romance. An aerialist, plotting revenge on his partner, believing he has stolen his wife's love, rescues his partner and becomes the victim of his own plot upon realizing his error. June Travis, Bob Livingston. Donald Cook. Director, John Auer. (F). March 1, ’37. (6014). Come On, Cowboys (..) — Western. A ranch owner, made an innocent victim of a counterfeiting i)lot by his partner, entrusts guardianship of his little daughter to three cowboys, who win the battle to prove they’re fit to keep her. Robert Livingston, Kay Corrigan, Max Ternune. Director. Josei)h Kane. (F). May 19, ’37. (6317). Dangerous Holiday (..) — Drama. A child violin virtuoso whose life and income is controlled by greedy relatives runs away and unintentionally causes capture of a gang suspected of having kidnaped him. Ra Hould, Hedda Hopper, Guinn Williams. Director, Nicholas Barrows. (F). May 24, ’37. Gambling Terror, The (53) — Western. A gang of racketeers operating under threat of harm to merchants comes off second best when a wandering gamblei exposes them. Johnny Mack Brown, Iris Meredith. Charlie King. Director, Sam Newfield. (F). Feb. 15. ’37. (6324). Git Along Little Bogies (69) — Musical western. A >oung cuWDoy discovers that a. coiispiiaiur is trying to wrest an oil well from a girl friend and risks his life to expose the scheme, accidentally bringing oil and a railroad to the cattle country. Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Maple City Four, Director, Joseph Kane. (F). March 22. ’37. (6302). Gun l>»rds of Stirrup Basin (..) — Action drama. A fight between feuding families that threatens to break up a marriage is ended when the husband proves neither side was responsible for the killings. Bob Steele, Louise Stanley, Karl Hackett. Director, Sam Newfield. (F). May 10, '37. (6336). Guns in the Dark (58) — Western. A cowboy W’rongly accused of murdering his pal, exposes the real culprit, who is also responsible for cattle and dope smuggling and the kidnaping of the girl the cowboy loves. Johnny Mack Brown, Claire Rochelle, Syd Saylor. Director, Sam Newfield. April 14, '37. (6326). Gunsrnoke Ranch (..) — Western. Three cowboys put an end to the activities of an unscrupulous politician who is engaged in swindling settlers by getting them to buy condemned land. Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune. Director, Joseph Kane. (F). April 26, ’37. (6316). Hit Parade, The (80) — Musical comedy. The pub licity agent that grooms a girl singer to prominence via the radio overcomes the prejudices of her reform school background by proving she was unjustly sentenced. Phil Regan, Frances Langford, Louise Henry. Director, Gus Meins. (F). April 26, '37. (6002). Hit the Saddle (59) — Western. A faithful horse and a trio of cowboys break up the gang en gaged in stealing wild horses. Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan. Max Terhune. Director, Mack V. Wright. (F). March 3, ’37. (6315). It Gould Happen to You (..) — A young man under the influence of a strongwilled professor operates a "phoney" citizenship school with him. The former executes a murder in order to retain his position but commits suicide when he learns it was his pal’s father he killed. Alan Baxter. Andrea Leeds, Owen Davis jr. Director, Phil Rosen. (A). June 7, ’37. Jim Hanvey, Detective (70) — Comedy mystery. A country detective spurns an insurance company’s plea to search for valuable jewels but exposes the thief when a young couple becomes implicated. Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Lucie Kaye. Director. Phil Rosen. (F). April 5. '37. (6006). Join the Marines (68) — Romantic drama. An exOlympic star, as a condition to marriage, makes good in the marines, but not until he quells some native uprisings and convinces the girl of the merits of a service life. Paul Kelly, June Travis. Reginald Denny. Director, Ralph Staub. (F). Jan. 25, '37. (6704). Larceny on the Air (61) — Drama. A doctor using the radio to expose fraudulent patent medicines runs afoul a group of racketeers but outwits them with the aid of a radium poisoning victim. Robert Livingston, Grace, Bradley, Willard Robertson. Director, Irving Pichel. (F). Jan. 11, *37. (6030). Lightnin* Crandall (formerly A Texan Rides) (60) — Western. An expert cowboy, posing as a tenderfoot. becomes involved in a gang war but bests the faction intent on rustling and who are also holding his girl friend as hostage. Bob Steele, Lois January, Charlie King. Director, Sam Newfield. (F). March 24. '37. (6335). Michael OTIalloran (..) — Drama. A flighty wife bestows favors on a pair of young orphans as a stunt to win court favor in a trial for custody of her children. The orphans’ influence reforms the wife, reuniting her with her family. Wynne Gibson. Warren Hull, Jackie Moran. Director, Karl Brown. (F). May 10, '37. (3510). Navy Blues (68) — Romantic action drama. During the amorous pursuits of a blue-blood girl, a sailor says he’s with the Intelligence Service and becomes the hero of a coup started by would-be assassins. Richard Purcell, Mary Brian. Warren Hymer. Director, Ralph Staub. (F). April 19, '37. (6015). Paradise Express (61) — Action drama. A battle of wits and brawn for a hauling contract between the young receiver for a railroad line and the unscrupulous operators of an auto trucking firm puts the railroad on top. Grant Withers, Dorothy Appleby, Arthur Hoyt. Director, Joseph Kane. (F). Feb. 22, '37. ‘Rders of the Whistling Skull, The (55) — Adventure. Trio aiding a girl to locate her missing father wipe out members of a lost cult guarding the ancient village where the father is held Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune. Director, Mack V. Wright. (F). Jan. 20, '37. (6314). Rootin’ Tootin' Rhythm (..) — Western. A ranch owmer and his pal disguise themselves as outlaws to win the confidence of a gang of rustlers and bring about their defeat. Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Armida. Director, Mack Wright. (F). May 3, ’37. (6307). doiind-Up Time in Texas (51) — Adventure. A mine operator, framed for the murder of his partner. Is rescued by his brother who traps the real killer. Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Maxine Doyle. Director, Joseph Kane. (F). Feb. 8. '37. (6306). frail of Vengeance (55) — Western. The cowboy who befriends the daughter of a murdered rancher is accused of the crime but manages to reveal the real culprit. Johnny Mack Brown, Iris Meredith, Warner Richmond. Director, Sam Newfield. (F). March 29, ’37. (6325). Trusted Outlaw, The (52) — In an effort to go straight and remove the family stigma of outlaw a cowboy incurs the wrath of thieves but gets the upper hand, the girl a>nd a job. Bob Steele, Lois January, Joan Barclay. Director, Robert Bradbury. (F). Feb. 1. '37. (6334). rw’o Wise Maids (70) — Comedy drama. An oldfashioned school teacher introduces some starting innovations to ward off the appointment of a young man as principal. Her actions bring suspension until her kid friends come to the rescue and the charges are dismissed. Alison Skipworth, Polly Moran, Donald Cook. Directorj Phil Rosen. (F). Feb. 15, '37. (6013). 32 BOXOmCE May 15, 1937,