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in Coney Island. He enlists Faraday’s aid and they discover the “Mechanical Man” and his aides are secret agents intent on smuggling a bomb sight out of this country. Blackie is vindicated. Mermaids on Parade Cast: Not Set. Producer: Charles R. Rogers. Director: Not Set. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: No Credits. Musical comedy with an “aquacade” locale. Mr. Carnation Cast: Not Set. Producer: B. P. Schulberg. Director: Not Set. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: Frank Gill jr. Comedy-melodrama chronicling the adventures of a modern Lothario. Mr. Twilight Cast: Not Set. Producer: Everett Riskin. Director: Not Set. Origrinal: Sidney Harmon. Screenplay: No Credits. Topical drama, its background the United States Supreme Court. One Way Street Cast: Not Set. Producer: Irving Briskin. Director: Not Set. Original: Morton Thompson, Malvin Wald. Screenplay: Morton Thompson, Malvin Wald. Melodrama of crime and redemption, with a big city’s slums as its locale. Penny Serenade Cast: Cary Grant. Irene Dunne. Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran. Beulah Bondi. Producer-Director: George Stevens. Original: Martha Cheavins. Screenplay: Morrie Ryskind. Roger Adams (Cary Grant), a reporter, and Julie (Irene Dunne) marry on the day Roger is transferred to Tokyo. When Julie joins him, she finds a lovely house and gardens, but learns he’s much in debt. The earthquake strikes their home and later in San Francisco Julie loses her baby. Roger buys a California paper with money he inherited. They adopt a child and when she dies they are hard hit and Roger takes to drinking. Just as Julie is on the verge of leaving him, they make up, go down to adopt another child, and all is well. Red, White and Blue Cast: Not Set. Producer: Irving Briskin. Director: Not Set. Original: Robert J. Cosgriff, Screenplay: Not Set. story pertaining to national conscription. Royal Mail Cast: Cary Grant (Incomplete). Producer: Not Set. Director: Not Set. Original: No credits. Screenplay: No credits. Drama of England’s mighty postal service, born in an age of turbulent romance, and the foundation for worldwide mail service. A Saint in Diamonds Cast: Not Set. Producer: Irving Briskin. Director: Not Set. Original Screenplay: Robert Andrews. Historical drama dealing with a “miracle man” named St. Germain, who lived during the time of Voltaire and was a friend of Louis XV of France. St. Germain claimed to have discovered the elixir of life by which one could prolong his existence for centuries. Secret Ship Cast: Not Set. Producer: Jack Fier. Director: Not Set. Original: Alex Gottlieb. Screenplay: Houston Branch. Action melodrama in which G-men play the leading roles. Senate Page Boys Cast: Herbert Marshall, Virginia Bruce (Incomplete). Producer: Charles R. Rogers. Director: Alfred E. Green. Original: Lewis R. Foster. Screeniday: No credits. A story never before portrayed on the screen depicts the behind-thescenes drama and adventures of the youths who serve in Congress. Show Business Cast: Rudy Vallee, Glen Gray and Orchestra. Producer: Irving Starr. Director: Sidney Salkow. Original Screenplay: Bert Granet. Musical comedy. Texas Cast: William Holden (Incomplete). Producer: Sam Bischoff. Director: Not Set. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: No Credits. Historical western melodrama, dealing with the growth of the Lone Star state. They Dare Not Love Cast: Martha Scott, George Brent (Incomplete). Producer: Sam Bischoff. Director: James Whale. Original: Ernest Vajda. Screenplay: No credits. Backgrounded against modern Vienna, a city under Nazi domination, this traces the plight of two liberals whose great love is threatened, but not thwarted, by the long arm of the Gestapo, the hated and feared German secret police. Tomorrow's Citizens Cast: Not Set. Producer: Wallace MacDonald. Director: Not Set. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: David Silverstein. A military academy furnishes the background for this drama relating how future citizens are molded from the youth of today. Under Age Cast: Patti McCarthy (Incomplete). Pro ducer: Ralph Cohn. Director: Edward Dmytryk. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: No Credits. Melodrama concerning a blackmailing ring operating through a string of “motels” on the outskirts of big cities. GOLDWYN The Blonde Blitzkrieg Cast: Gary Cooper, Virginia Gilmore (In complete). Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Not Set. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: No Credits. Comedy concerning a burlesque queen who falls in love with a bashful country boy. The Little Foxes Cast: Bette Davis (Incomplete). Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: William Wyler. Origrinal: Lillian Heilman. Screenplay: Lillian Heilman. Based upon the hit play starring Tallulah Bankhead, this tells of the hypocritical members of an old Southern family who connive and conspire to send their aged grandmother to her grave and receive their inheritances. Macintosh Cast: Not Set. Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Not Set. Original: W. Somerset Maugham. Screenplay: John Wexley. A South Sea Islands story by the author of “The Letter,” “Rain” and other tropical tales. METRO-GOLDWYN MAYER A Tailor-Made Man Cast: Not Set. Producer: Not Set: Director: Not Set. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: Bradbury Foote. Comedy. A Woman's Face Cast; Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt (Incomplete). Producer: Victor Saville. Director: George Cukor. Original: No credits. Screenplay: Donald O. Stewart. Remake of a Scandinavian drama, this will find Joan Crawford in the role of a woman struggling to find beauty of face and mind. Adventures of Pierre Cast: Not Set. Producer: Edgar Selwyn. Director: Not Set. Original: Edgar Selwyn. Screenplay: Marion Parsonnet. Comedy-drama with a Canadian northwest locale, this was once made as a silent picture in 1913. Andy Hardy's Private Secretary Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Ian Hunter, Kathryn Grayson. Producer: No Credits. Director: George B. Seitz. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: No Credits. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney), as head of numerous committees in his senior high school class, gives Harry and Kathryn Land (Todd Karns and Kathryn Grayson) jobs, appointing Kathryn his secretary. This upsets Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford) , Mickey’s girl. Kathryn’s father, offered a post in South America, asks Andy to send his acceptance wire. Not wanting the Land children to leave before graduation, Andy changes the wording and Land (Ian Hunter) loses the job. Andy fails in his English examination. This will prevent him from graduating and lose him the car his parents promised him. He determines to run away, but the Land children help fix up things for him and all is well. Babes on Broadway Cast: Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple (Tentative, incomplete). Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Busby Berkeley. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: No Credits. Musical comedy, patterned as a semisequel to “Babes in Arms.” The Big Time Cast: Not Set. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Not Set. Original: Howard Emmett Rogers. Screenplay: No credits. Deals with the glories of vaudeville and relates the joys and sorrows of a song-and-dance team, progressing through “tank town circuits” to the ultimate goal of all variety players — an engagement at New York’s Palace Theatre. Billy the Kid Cast: Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Mary Howard, Ian Hunter, Gene Lockhart, Cy Kendall. Producer: Irving Asher. Director: David Miller. Original: No Credits. Screenplay; No Credits. Young William Bonney (Robert Taylor) , an outlaw, arrives in New Mexico in 1879. Dan Hickey (Gene Lockhart) hires him to help run off Keating’s (Ian Hunter) cattle. Billy discovers that Jim Sherwood (Brian Donlevy) , an old friend, is Keating’s foreman. Billy be 116 BOXOFTICE BAROMETER