Boxoffice (Jan-Mar 1940)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES 'TeatutM i fashions a puppet from a block of wood. It comes to life and gets involved in a series of fairy tale complications. A. Shagin, S. Martinson, G. IJvarov. 1-40 Human Beast, The . . French . . (78) Juno Films Melodrama. Study of a man driven to acts for which he was no longer responsible. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon. Director: Jean Renoir. 3-40 I Condottieri . . Italian . . ( 89) Esperia Historical Drama. The historical beginnings of a united Italy. Luis Trenker. 3-40 Katia . . (French) . . (78) Mayer-Burstyn Drama. A marriage of love for Alexander II of Russia nearly alters his country’s course, when assassination ends all. Danielle Darrieux, John Loder. Director: Maurice Tourneur. 2-40 L’ Alibi. . (82) .. (Foreign Dialogue) Columbia French Melodrama. (English subtitles). A girl, stacked up against the persistent forces of the law, confesses to the falsity of a "perfect alibi.” Eric von Stroheim, Jany Holt, Louis Jouvet. Director: Pierre Chenal. 1-40 La Inmacuiada. . (95) .. (Spanish) UA Drama in Spanish. Produced by Atalaya Films for the Latin market. A girl, married to one man, loves another. When the husband finds she loves some one else, he kills himself. In the meantime her lover marries another girl. Fortunio Bonanova, Andrea Palma. Director: Louis Gasnier. 1-40 Last Desire. .French. . (80) Transatlantic Drama. The love of an old man for a young woman. Raimu, Jacqueline Delubac, Pierre Brasseur. 3-40 Life of Tchaikowsky, The (Es War Eine Rauschende Ballnacht) . . (93) UFA-Carl Froelich. .Nov. 1939 Music Drama. The composer's struggle for recognition. English sub-titles. Zarah Leander, Aribert Wascher, Hans Stowe. 12-39 Life on the Hortobagy . Hungarian. . (78) . .Eureka Semi-Documentary. Life among the horse and cattle breeders on the plains of Central Hungary. Native cast. 3-40 Louise. . (French) . . (72) Mayer-Burstyn Music Drama. In the period of 1900 a girl runs off to Paris with a composer. The opera integrates the storv. Grace Moore, Georges Thill. 2-40 Love in Old Naples. . (Italian) .. (99) Esperia Musical Drama. A story of unrequited love and the dutiful attention of relatives. Emma Grammatica, Vittorio De Sica. 2-40 Marseillaise. . (79) World. .Nov. 3 Historical Drama. Early days of the French Republic. Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Louis Jouvet. Director: Jean Renoir. 12-39 Motel the Operator. .Yiddish. . (86) Cinema Drama. A lost son, as a lawyer, defends his father against a murder charge. Chaim Tauber, Tetta Zwerling. Director: Joseph Seiden. 3-40 Overture to Glory . .Yiddish .. (87) G&L Melodrama with Music. Leaving the synagogue for opera, a young cantor, years later, atones. Moishe Oysher, Helen Beverly. Director: Max Nosseck. 3-40 Shors. . (Russian) .. (92) Amkino Historical Drama. The idealism that spurred the conquest of the Ukraine in 1917-19. Director: Alexander Dovzhenko. 2-40 Skeleton on Horseback. .Czech. . (78) Mindlin Drama. A doctor, headed to save a dictator and his coterie with his unique remedy, is killed by the forces they unloosed. 3-40 SOS Mediterranean. .French. . (81) Vedis Drama. Three nations, through their naval officers, run down the smuggler of a poisonous gas. Pierre Fresnay. 3-40 Tevya . . (Yiddish) . . (93) Maymon Drama. Daughter of a Jewish family in old Russia, married out of her religion, returns as the family is about to be expelled from the town, and with them leaves for a new life. Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle. 2-40 That They May Live (J’ Accuse) (78) Mayer-Burstyn Drama. Fantasy of dead comrades aiding a war veteran to fight for peace. Victor Francen. Director: Abel Gance. 12-39 They Wanted Peace . Russian .. (73) Amkino Historical Drama. The Bolshevik overthrow of the Kerensky government. F. Bagashvili, Tamara Markarova. 3-40 Ultimatum. French. . (73) Hoffberg Drama. Events that befall an Austro-Serbian couple when the World War breaks out. Eric Von Stroheim. Director: Robert Wiene. 3-40 We Two. . (Swedish) .. (89) Scandinavian Drama. A husband becomes involved in a flirtation with his friend's wife, but when his wife has a baby, happiness wipes clean the plate. Sture Lagerwall, Signe Hasso. 1-40 We Were Seven Widows. .Italian. . (80) ... .Esperia Comedy. A lawyer shipwrecked with seven women is left alone as each one’s husband turns up. Antonio Gandusio, Nino Taranto. 3-40 ALPHABETICAL GUIDE TO FEATURES A A Chump at Oxford UA A People Eternal Foreign All Women Have Secrets . . . Para Allegheny Uprising RKO Amazing Mr. Williams Col Another Thin Man M-G-M B Bad Boy SR Baker's Wife Foreign Balalaika M-G-M Barricade 20th-Fox Between Two Worlds Foreign Big Guy Univ Black Eyes SR Blondie Brings Up Baby Col Blondie on a Budget Col Boys School Foreign British Intelligence WB Broadway Melody of 1940. M-G-M Bullets for Rustlers Col Buried Alive SR c Cafe Hostess Col Call a Messenger Univ Calling Philo Vance WB Castle on the Hudson FN Cat and the Canary Para Charlie Chan in Panama 20th-Fox Charlie Chan in the City of Darkness 20th-Fox Charlie McCarthy, Detective. Univ Chasing Trouble Mono Cheyenne Ivld, The Mono Chip of the Flying U Univ Cisco Kid and the Lady . 20th-Fox Citadel of Silence Foreign City of Chance 20th-Fox Congo Maisie M-G-M Convicted Woman Col Covered Trailer Rep Cowboys From Texas Rep D Danger Ahead Mono Danger Flight Mono Danger on Wheels Univ Day-Time Wife 20th-Fox Days of Jesse James Rep Dead End Kids on Dress Parade WB Death Rides the Range SR Destry Rides Again Univ Devil Is an Empress Col Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet . . . FN Double Alibi Univ Drums Along the Mohawk 20th-Fox E Earl of Chicago M-G-M East Side Kids Mono Emergency Squad Para Entente Cordiale Foreign Everything Happens at Night 20th-Fox F Farmer’s Daughter Para Fatal Hour, The Mono Fighting Mad Mono Fighting 69th, The FN First Film Concert Foreign First Love Univ Five Little Peppers at Home Col Flaming Lead SR Flying Deuces RKO Four Wives FN Framed Univ Fugitive at Large Col G Gentleman From Arizona. .Mono Geronimo! Para Ghost Comes Home M-G-M Golden Key Foreign Goose Step SR Granny Get Your Gun WB Grapes of Wrath 20th-Fox Great Victor Herbert Para Green Hell Univ Gulliver’s Travels Para H He Married His Wife . . 20th-Fox Headleys at Home SR Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence 20th-Fox Hell’s Angels SR Henry Goes Arizona M-G-M Heroes in Blue Mono Heroes of the Saddle Rep Hidden Enemy Mono Hidden Power Col High School 20th-Fox His Girl Friday Col Honeymoon Deferred Univ Honeymoon’s Over 20tli-Fox House Across the Bay UA Human Beast Foreign Human Monster, The Mono Hunchback of Notre Dame . . RKO I I Condottieri Foreign I Take This Woman M-G-M Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday 20th-Fox Invisible Killer SR Invisible Man Returns Univ Invisible Stripes WB Ireland’s Border Line SR Isle of Destiny RKO I Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President M-G-M Judge Hardy and Son. . . .M-G-M K Katia Foreign Keep Punching SR Kid Nightingale WB Knights of the Range Para L L’AUbi Foreign La Inmacuiada Foreign Lambeth Walk M-G-M Last Desire Foreign Laugh It Off Univ Law of the Pampas Para Legion of Lost Flyers Univ Legion of the Lawless RKO Life of Tchaikowsky, The. Foreign Life on the Hortobagy .. -Foreign Light That Failed, The.... Para Lion Has Wings, The UA Little Old New York .... 20th-Fox Little Orvie RKO Llano Kid, The Para Lone Wolf Strikes, The Col Lost on the Western Front .... SR Louise Foreign Love in Old Naples Foreign Lucky Texan, The Mono M Ma! He’s Making Eyes at Me Univ Mad Empress, The FN Main Street Lawyer Rep Man From Dakota M-G-M Man From Montreal Univ Man Who Wouldn’t Talk 20th-Fox Marines Fly High RKO Marseillaise Foreign Marshal of Mesa City, The. RKO Meet Dr. Christian RKO Men Without Souls Col Mercy Plane SR Mesquite Buckaroo SR Mexican Spitfire RKO Mill on the Floss SR Millionaire Playboy RKO Missing Evidence Univ Money to Burn Rep Motel the Operator Foreign Murder on the Yukon Mono Music in My Heart Col My Little Chickadee Univ My Son Is Guilty Col Mystery in Swing SR Mystic Circle Murder SR N Nick Carter, Master Detective M-G-M Night of Nights, The Para Ninotchka M-G-M North Sea Patrol SR Northwest Passage M-G-M o Of Mice and Men UA Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love Univ One Dark Night SR One Hour to Live Univ One Night in Paris SR Our Neighbors — the Carters Para Outside the 3-Mile Limit Col Overture to Glory Foreign P Parole Fixer Para Phantom Strikes, The Mono Pinocchio RKO Pioneer Days Mono Pioneers of the Frontier Col Pioneers of the West Rep Pocomania SR Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex WB R Raffles UA Rebecca UA Remember? M-G-M Remember the Night Para Reno RKO Return of Dr. X FN Rhythm of the Rio Grande. . Mono Riders of the Sage SR Roll, Wagons, Roll Mono Rovin’ Tumbleweeds Rep Rulers of the Sea Para s Saga of Death Valley Rep Saint’s Double Trouble, The RKO Santa Fe Marshal Parn Second Bureau SR Secret of Dr. Kildare .... M-G-M Seventeen Para Shop Around the Corner. M-G-M Shors Foreign Showdown Para Sidewalks of London Para Skeleton on Horseback. . . .Foreign Slightly Honorable UA Songs and Saddles SR SOS Mediterranean Foreign South of the Border Ren Spies of the Air SR Straight Shooter SR Straight to Heaven ..SR Strange Cargo M-G-M Stranger From Texas Col Swanee River 20th-Fox Swiss Family Robinson RKO T Tevya Foreign That They May Live Foreign That’s Right, You’re Wrong RKO They Came by Night ... .20th-Fox Thou Shalt Not Kill Rep They Wanted Peace Foreign Three Cheers for the Irish.... FN Torture Ship SR Tower of London Univ Trigger Fingers SR Two’s Company SR u Ultimatum .Foreign V Vengeance of the Deep SR Vigil in the Night RKO Village Barn Dance Rep W We Are Not Alone FN We Two Foreign We Were Seven Widows. .Foreign West of Carson City Univ West of the Divide Mono Westbound Stage Mono When Germany Surrendered .. SIt Why This War ...SR Witness Vanishes, The Univ Women Without Names Para Y Yukon Flight Mono Young As You Feel 20th-Fox Young Tom Edison M-G-M z Zanzibar Univ 98 BOXOFFICE March 16, 1940