Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES T'2atutQ6 COMING RELEASES: Army Girl. Bachelor Girl, Dang:erou$ Pleasure. Dishonorable Lady. Doomed at Sundown — Bob Steele. Isle of Lost Men. Portia on Trial. Range Defenders — Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan,, Rhythm in My Heart, Swift Lightning. 20th Century-Fox As You Like It (96) — Dramatization of the Shakespearean classic dealing with Rosalind, whose romance with Orlando forms the main thread of the farcical plot. Elisabeth Bergner, Laurence Olivier. Director, Paul Czinner. (F). Jan. 8, '37. (711). ('afe Metropole (83) — Romantic society drama. The adventures of an American heiress in Paris who falls in love with a countryman forced to appear as a Russian prince. Loretta Young, Tyrone Power, Adolphe Menjou. Director, Ed. IT. Griffith. (F). May 7, '37. (750), Charlie Chan at the Olympics (71) — Mystery. With the aid of science, an adventuresome sleuth captures a gang which has stolen an important airplane safety device and which holds his son as hostage. Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore. Director, H, Bruce Humberstone. (F). May 21, '37. (752), Charlie Chan at the Opera (68) — Mystery. Against a background of the opera “Faust,” a few weird killings and prevention of a murder occupy the attention of a sleuth, who successfully solves the crimes. Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke. Director, H. Bruce Humberstone. (F). Jan. 8, '37 (730). Crack Up (70) — Drama. A group of foreign spies attempt to learn peacetime secrets of American commercial aviation but are successfully repulsed by four men, although they fail to prevent wrecking of the first regular Amehican-Europe passenger plane. Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood. Director, Malcolm St. Clair. (F). Jan. 15, '37 (727). Fair Warning (70) — Romantic drama. With a resort hotel for background, patrons and tourists are implicated in a murder until it is discovered that a lost gold mine is the underlying cause of the mystery. J. Edward Bromberg, Betty Furness, John Howard Payne. Director, Norman Foster. (F). Mar. 5, '37. (740). • Fifty Roads to Town (81) — Dramatic romance. Fate brings a socialist girl and a young aristocrat together and their cross suspicions in connection with a fleeing gunman evolve his capture and their marriage. Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, Slim Summerville. Director, Norman Taurog. (F). April 16, '37. (748), Great Hospital Mystery, The (59) — Mystery. A nurse, to save her brother, innocent of a bank robbery, substitutes a charity patient for him in the morgue while the mystery is cleared up. Sally Blane, Thomas Beck, Jane Darwell. Director, James Tinling. (F). May 14, ’37. (751). Holy Terror, The (68) — Comedy with music. The motherless daughter of a stern naval commander manages to provoke or subdue a series of disturbances climaxed when she prevents spies from stealing American secrets. Jane Withers, Anthony Martin, Leah Ray. Director, James Tinling. (F). Feb. 5, '37. (734). It Happened Out West (..) — ^Western. An agent appointed to prevent a girl ranch owner from squandering an inheritance is wrongly accused of sabotage but squares himself by trapping the real culprit. Richard Arlen, Virginia Grey, Johnny Arthur. Director, Howard Bretherton. (F) May 7, '37. (745). Lloyds of London (115) — Historical drama. Story of Great Britain in the 1700*3 during the days of Napoleon and Lord Nelson which saw the birth of the internationally famous “Lloyds of London.” Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, Freddie Bartholomew. Director, Henry King. (P). Jan. 29, '37. (735), Love Is News (78) — Comedy romance. A rich girl outlies the newspaper men and fortune hunters that have hounded her for years when it becomes necessary to assure her own romantic bliss. Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Don Ame che. Director, Tay Garnett. (F). Feb. 26, '37. (729). Midnight Taxi (72) — Action drama. A government agent permits his colleagues to beat and shoot him in order to convince a gang of counterfeiters he is one of them, thus paving the way for their end. Brian Donlevy, Frances Drake, Alan Dinehart. Director, Eugene Ford. (F). April 2, '37. (744), Nancy Steele Is Missing (84) — Drama of a man who becomes an innocent victim of the law’s persecution but who redeems himself in time to stop committing a crime. Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly, Peter Lorre. Director, George Marshall. (F). Mar. 12, '37. (738). Off to the Races (57) — Comedy. A typical American family’s adventures at a county fair, with a relative’s racing horse and his brat daughter complicating matters. Jed Prouty, Slim Summerville, Spring Byington. Director, Frank R. Strayer. (F). Feb. 19, '37. (736). On the Avenue (89) — Musical comedy. A blue blood girl and her family decide to buy a show in order to halt being ridiculed by its star, who subsequently saves the girl from a bad marriage and takes her for himself. Dick Powell, Madeleine Carroll, Alice Fay, Ritz Bros. Director, Roy Del Ruth. (F). Feb. 12, '37. (732). One in a Million (95) — Musical romance. A group of entertainers having trouble finding work come upon a girl skater and help her win Olympic fame. Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou, Jean Hersholt, Ned Sparks, Ritz Bros., Don Ameche. Director, Sidney Lanfield. (F). Jan. 1, *37. (722). Secret Valley (58) — Western. While seeking refuge from her gangster husband, a girl meets and falls in love with a rancher. When her huband's gang seeks to capture her, a battle ensues, leaving her free to marry the man she loves. Virginia Grey, Richard Arlen, Jack Mulhall. Director, Howard Bretherton. (F). Jan. 15. ’37. ((731). Seventh Heaven (100) — Love drama. A little girl of the Paris pavements manages to shut out the sordid life about her and make a new world through her love for a man. Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt. Director, Henry King. (F). Mar. 26. '37. (742). Step Lively, Jeeves (70) — Comedy. A pair of unsuccessful swindlers try to convince a butler that he is a scion of nobility in order to use him as a “front” for their game. Arthur Treacher, Patricia Ellis, Robert Kent. Director, Eugene Forde. (F). April 9. ’37. (747). 'That I May Live (70) — Drama. An ex-convict, on the comback trail, is arrested for another's crime. Escaping and befriended by a peddler and a girl, he is persuaded to confess, and aids in tracking the real culprits. Rochelle ITud son, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg. (F). April 30. ’37. (755). This Is My Affair (..) — Semi-biographic drama. A young naval officer risks his life and love for a girl on order of President McKinley to break up a gang terrorizing the midwest. Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen.. Director, Wm. Seiter. (F). May 28, ’37. (721). Time Out for Romance (72) — Comedy melodrama. The young driver of a motor cavalcade and a girl running away from a loveless marriage in search of romance fall victims to an odd assortment of events. Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Joan Davis. Director, Malcolm St. Clair. (F). Mar. 19, ’37. (742). Wake Up and Live (89) — Musical comedy. A feud between a columnist and a night club operator over the identity of a “phantom troubadour” winds up with everybody in harmony. Walter Wincheil, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye, Patsy Kelly, Jack Haley. Director, Sidney Lanfield. (F). April 23, ’37. (749). Wings of the Morning (87) — Romantic drama. The granddaughter of a gypsy woman who had married a nobleman falls in love with a man who trains her horse to win the Derby although the victory might have been his. Henry Fonda. Leslie Banks, Annabella. Director, Harold Schuster. In Technicolor. (F). Feb. 19, '37. (737). Woman Wise (70) — Action drama. A sports writer anxious to aid penniless ex-fighters runs afoul of an unscrupulous pair of promoters but is vindicated in the end. Rochelle Hudson, Michael Whalen, Thomas Beck. Director, Allan Dwan. (F). Jan. 22, '37. (733). COMING RELEASES; Angel's Holiday — Jane Withers, Sally Blane. I MTIl Be Faithful — Michael Whalen, Gloria Stuart. Jones Family in Big Business, The — Frank Conroy, Russell Gleason. Laughing Senor — Richard Arlen. Married Lady — Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, One Mile From Heaven — Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen. She Had to Eat — Rochelle Hudson, Jack Haley. Sing and Be Hai)py — Joan Davis, Anthony Martin. Slave Shii>— Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery. Under the Red Robe — Conrad Veidt, Annabella. Utah Trail — Wee Willie Winlcie — Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen. TITLE CHANGE; Armored 'Taxi, changed to BORN RECKLESS. United Artists Accused (86) — Mystery drama. The key to the murder of a revue star, the guilt of which points to a girl dancer, is unearthed by the latter’s husband-partner. Douglas Fairbanks jr., Dolores Del Rio, Basil Sydney. Director, Thornton Freeland. (F). Jan. 8. '7. (326). Dreaming Lips (78) — Drama. Tlie emotional crisis brought on the wife of a violinist who falls in love with her husband’s best friend drives her to suicide. Elisabeth Bergner. Raymond Massey, Romney Brent. Director, Paul Czinner. (A). May 28. '37. Elephant Boy (100) — Jungle drama. The Rudyard Kipling story of a native boy, descendant of elephant riders, who is acclaimed a great hunter after overcoming many hazards. Native cast. Directors, Robert Flaherty and Zoitan Korda. (F). April 23, '33. Fire Over England (84) — Historical drama, with early England as the background, combining fact and fancy that depict the events that led to the destruction of the Spanish Armada. Florence Robson, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks. Director, William K. Howard. (F). Mar. 5, '37. History Is Made at Night (95) — Drama. An insanely jealous shipping magnate, about to be divorced, accidentally causes a ' murder by attempting to compromise his wife to stop her plans. The incident brings her together with a Parisian with whom she falls in love. Their problems are eventually solved by the husband’s suicide. Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo. Director, Frank Borzage. (F). March 5, '37. Knight Without Armor (..) — Drama. An English spy and a Russian countess in love are made enemies through the revolution, but through dangerous intrigue are reunited and escape to safety. Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh. Director, Jacques Feyder. (F). May 1, '37. Love From a vStranger (87) — Drama. After marrying a charming stranger she met casually, a young woman learns he is going to murder her but cleverly outwits him. Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale. Director, Rowland V. Lee. (A). May 14, ’37. Love ill a Bungalow (..) — Romantic comedy. A hostess for a model house and an unemployed drifter meet, win a “happiest couple’ contest prize, but have to confess the hoax when called upon to prove their story. Nan Grey, Kent Taylor, Dorthea Kent. Director, Ray McCarey. (F). June 20, '37. Man Wlio Could Work Miracles, The (82) — Fantasy with comedy. An English dry-goods salesman becomes endowed with the power to suspend or alter the laws of nature and he uses It to bring about some fantastic transformations. Roland Young, Joan Gardner, Ralph Richardson. Director, Lothar Mendes. (F). Feb. 19, *37. Men Are Not Gods (82) — Drama. Sympathetic secretary of a drama critic alters one of his unfavorable reviews at the request of the star's wife. She later meets and falls in love with the actor but renounces him for the sake of the unhappy wife. Miriam Hopkins, Sebastian Shaw, Gertrude Lawrence. Director, Walter Reisch. (F). Jan. 22, '37. Star Is Born, A (141) — -Drama. A story of Hollywood; the rising of one star and the setting of another, who are husband and wife. Fredric March, Janet Gaynor, Adolphe Menjou. Director, William Wellman. Technicolor. (F). April 30, ’37. Woman Chases 3Ian (70) — Farce comedy. A penniless girl architect interests a “screwy” old man in a model suburb. His millionaire son finally BOXOFFICE :: May 15, 1937, 33