The box office check-up of 1935 (1936)

BOX OFFICE CHAMPIONS Union Depot Make Me a Star The Phantom President International House College Rhythm Ruggles of Red Gap Big Broadcast of 1936 WITH MUCH APPRECIATION TO FRANCIS MARTIN RALPH SPENCE HARLAN THOMPSON AND A FEW DIRECTORS SUCH AS NORMAN TOUROG LEO McCAREY EDWARD SUTHERLAND WALTER DE LEON UNDER CONTRACT TO PARAMOUNT and "Oil for the Lamps of China" were filmed. In the case of the latter picture, Warner Brothers rented the set for a week, a practice not uncommon in Hollywood. A month from now, a submarine may push its periscope to the surface of Bill Darling's tank. Perhaps miniature shots of a naval engagement will be filmed there. It is no worry of Darling's. He waves his hand or rubs his lamp, and new sets are magically provided. Film technicians work such miracles as simply as boiling an egg. For seventeen years, Darling has been creating sets, and his structures alone have entailed average aggregate expenditure of more than $5,000,000 yearly. Early in his youth Darling had an ambition to become a civil engineer in his native Hungary. After two years of study, the mechanics of civil engineering proved too much of a bore, and he entered the Academy of Fine Arts at Budapest. Though at twenty-three he was recognized as a fine portrait painter, he continued his studies in art schools of Vienna, Paris, Munich and other centers, spending most of his time perfecting the peasant art. And to attain this end he lived with the peasants of France, Hungary, Germany and Austria. Coming to America in 1910, he worked in factories and shipyards, on the wharfs, in brick yards and even at building roads. An accident brought him into pictures. While driving through Santa Barbara his automobile broke down near the American Film studios. Learning that a position of scenic artist and draftsman was open, he applied for a trial. P. S. — He got the job. — Stanley Morris. INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Fred Astaire 105 Lloyd Bacon 50 Earl Baldwin 51 Richard Boleslawski 126 Samuel Bischoff 155 John G. Blystone 159 Joe E. Brown 86 Nacio Herb Brown 146 Sidney Buchman 152 David Butler 107 James Cagney 87 Roy Chanslor 161 William Conselman 56 Consolidated Film Corp 81 Claudette Colbert . . . 99 Edward F. Cline 142 Jack Conway 145 Gary Cooper 57 Frank Copra 130 Joan Crawford ... . . . 82 John Cromwell 121 Michael Curtiz 127 Delmer L. Daves 131 G. B. DeSylva 88 William Dieterle . . . 135 Laird Doyle 114 First Division 19-14 Fox 27 Arthur Freed 146 Tay Garnett 38 Lewis E. Gensler 153 Edmund Grainger .... 147 Howard Hawks 74 Lawrence Hazard 160 E. R. Hickson 161 Edward Everett Horton 138 William K. Howard 113 James Wong Howe 144 Harold Hurley . . . 93 I mperial 39 Talbot Jennings 157 Buck Jones 44 Arlin Judge 154 William LeBaron 130 Walter De Leon 162 Albert Lewin 117 Frank Lloyd 159 Robert Lord 112 Arthur Lubin 155 Douglas MacLean 137 George Marshall 122 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 62 William A. McGuire 139 Norman McLeod 110 John Meehan 161 Peter Milne 146 Jane Murfin 95 Paramount 3-4 Diversion Pictures 141 Carl Pierson 157 Lew Pollack 148 Dick Powell 97 Le Roy J. Prinz 142 RKO Radio 20-21 RCA 101 Regal Productions 58 Reliance Productions 32 Republic 72 Robert Riskin 147 J. J. Robins 154 Casey Robinson 134 Ginger Rogers 103 J. Walter Ruben 141 Wesley Ruggles 69 Roy Del Ruth 134 Mark Sandrich 126 Ewing Scott 152 William A. Seiter 67 David O. Selznick 65 Harry Sherman Prod 61 Ralph Spence 156 John M. Stahl 72 Guy Standing 149 George Stevens 125 Hunt Stromberg 118 A. Edward Sutherland. . . 109 Norman Taurog 133 Dwight Taylor 153 Shirley Temple 26 United Artists 33 Universal 78-79 Charles Vidor 160 King Vidor 148 Claudine West 156 Carey Wilson 138 Harold Young 123 Waldemar Young 129 Zeidman Film 45 162 THE BOX OFFICE CHECK-UP OF 1935