Boxoffice (Jul-Sep 1938)

THE COMPLETE CHECK-UP ON CURRENT RELEASES Professor, Beware .. 3746 .. (93) July 29 Comedy. An Egyptologist finally gets his big chance to join an expedition but never gets there. Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Welch. Director: Elliott Nugent. ltomunce in the Dark .. 3731 .. (79) Alar. 4 Musical Comedy. Miss Swarthout, working as a maid in a tenor’s home, and awaiting an audition, poses as a Persian Princess to aid her master's suit for the hand of a Countess. Instead she wins the master and an operatic con tract. Gladys Swarthout, John Boles, John Barrymore. Director: H. C. Potter. Scandal Street. .3729. . (64) Feb. 11 Drama. A young woman is caught in a merciless tiap of suspicion and circumstances when she is found beside the murdered body of a playboy suitor, and small-town gossip does its work until the killer is found. Louise Campbell, Lew Ayres, Koscoe Karns, Virginia Weidler. Director: James Hogan. Sing You Sinners . . 3801 . . (90) Sept. 2 Comedy with Music. The story of three crooner brothers, two of whom are so lazy that the third brother has to forego marrying his fiancee to provide for the family. Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Donald O’Connor. Director: Wesley Ruggles. Spawn of the North .. 3750 .. (113) Aug. 26 Action Drama. A drama of America’s last frontier, the salmon fishing waters of Alaska, and the war between the trap-site owners and fish pirates, filmed against a scenic background. George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour. Director: Henry Hathaway. Stolen Heaven. .3738. . (88) May 13 Drama with Music. A gang of fleeing, international jewel thieves are marooned in a forest where they take refuge in the home of a retired concert pianist. Gene Raymond, Olympe Bradna, Lewis Stone. Director: Andrew L. Stone. Texans, The. .3748. . (93) Aug. 12 Historical Western. An epic of the reconstruction period in Texas after the Civil War. Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott). Director:. James Hogan. Tip-Off Girls . . 3735 . . (62) Apr. 1 Melodrama. G-Men apprehend a gang hijacking fast freight trucks. J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Nolan. Director: Louis King. Tropic Holiday . .3744. . (78) July 22 Comedy. A writer hides out in a little Mexican town to work on a movie script but is beset with charming distractions in the way of senoritas. Bob Burns, Ray Milland, Dorothy Lamour, Martha Raye. Director: Theodore Reed. You and Me. .3742. . (90) June 10 Drama. The shadow of the Big House looms up as a threat to romance in this story of a girl with a past. Sylvia Sidney, George Raft. Director: Fritz Lang. Republic Army Girl. .7002. . (85) July 15 Drama. An army captain assigned to a regiment to study the need of mechanizing that post with tanks. He meets and falls in love with the Colonel’s daughter. Madge Evans, Preston Foster, James Gleason. Director: George Nichols jr. Arson Gang Busters. .7022. . (65) Mar. 28 Melodrama. An arson squad member joins a gang of arsonists and after his identity is discovered the gang is apprehended. Bob Livingston, Jackie Moran, Rosalind Keith. Director: Joe Kane. Billy the Kid Returns. .851. . (56) Sept. 4 Western. As the “double” for the notorious Billy the Kid, the hero takes the side of the small farmers in their war against cattle 'barons. Roy Rogers, Smdley Burnette, Mary Hart. Director: Joe Kane. Call of the Yukon .. 7011 .. (70) Apr. 18 Outdoor Drama. Wild dogs and wolves raiding on game force natives of an isolated Eskimo village to move out or face a winter of starvation. A young authoress refuses to leave, but a rugged trapper forces her to accompany him south. Their adventures on the long trek furnish the action. Richard Arlen, Beverly Roberts, Lyle Talbot. Director: B. Reeves Eason. Calling the Mesquiteers. .7115. . (55) Mar. 7 Western. Three modern knights of the road, returning from a rodeo, are hijacked by silk thieves. To clear their names with the law, they take to the saddle and round up the gang. Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Lynn Roberts. Director: John English. Come on Leathernecks .. 7024 .. (66) Aug. 8 Action Drama. A Colonel in the U. S. Marines has been looking forward all his life to welcoming his son into the service, but the boy has other ideas. On the island where his father is stationed, the boy experiences a gun running episode and decides to stick with the Marines. Richard Cromwell, Marsha Hunt. Director: James Cruze. Desert Patrol. .7127. . (56) June 6 Western. A secret Ranger out to avenge the death of his buddy, joins the gang responsible tor the murder, and then springs the trap. Bob Steele, Marion Weldon. Director: Sam Newfield. Desperate Adventure, A. .7013. . (65) Aug. 15 Romantic Drama. A Parisian artist paints a portrait of his imaginary “dream girl,” but complications arise when an American heiress, who bears a startling resemblance to the picture, puts in her appearance. Ramon Novarro, Marian Marsh, Eric Blore. Director: John H. Auer. Durango Valley Raiders . . 7128 ..(..) Aug. 22 Western. The Durango Valley is terrorized by a ba.ndit known as the Shadow, head of a gang of killers. Through a fram.eup the hero is arrested for murder, but escapes and brings the real culprits to justice. Bob Steele. Director: Sam Newfield. Feud Maker, The . . 7126 . . (56) Apr. 4 Western. A range war between the cowmen and the nesters, following a mysterious slaying. Bob Steele, Marlon Weldon, Karl Hackett. Director: Sam Newfield. Gangs of New York .. 7004 .. (67) May 23 Melodrama. An officer impersonates a bigtime gangster who is held in prison but supposedly released, and cleans out gangland. Charles Bickford, Ann Dvorak, Alan Baxter. Director: James Cruze. Gold Mine in the Sky . . 7103 . . (60) Juy 4 Western with Music. Gene Autry as administrator of a will left by a girl’s father, has difficulty in keeping her from selling the ranch, which is the remains of her father’s fortune. Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes. Director: Joe Kane. Heroes of the Hills .. 7118 .. (55) July 20 Western. The Three Mesquiteers win a prison camp experiment plan after befriending two escaped convicts who tell yarns of prison oppression. Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune. Director: George Sherman. Hollywood Stadium Mystery. .7021. . (66) . . .Feb. 21 Mystery Drama. Centers around the mystery of a boxing arena murder, which occurs while the house is darkened before the start of the championship fight. Neil Hamilton, Evelyn Venable, Jimmy Wallington. Director: David Howard. Invisible Enemy .. 7010 .. (65) Apr. 4 Drama. An international oil ring is smashed by a man masked as a Parisian playboy. Alan Marshal, Tala Birell, C. Henry Gordon, Herbert Mundin. Director: John H. Auer. King of the Newsboys. .7009. . (68) Mar. 15 Drama. Danger returns two lovers, separated first by poverty and then by wealth, to each other. Lew Ayres, Helen Mack. Director: Bernard Vorhaus. Ladies in Distress. .7012. . (65) June 13 Comedy Drama. A woman mayor and her secretary start a reform movement to wipe out a racketeering element and are aided in their efforts by the town’s bad boy. Alison Skipworth, Polly Moran, Robert Livingston. Director: Gus Meins. Mama Runs Wild. .7003. .(66) Jun. 19 Comedy. A domineering, society-minded wife runs for mayor, but the men of the town elect her henpecked husband in retaliation. Mary Boland, Ernest Truex. Director: Ralph Staub. Man From Music Mountain. .7104. . (58) . . Aug. 15 Western. Autry swings into action when unscrupulous promoters subdivide a ghost town, in the heart of a. desert, on the false claim that the Boulder Dam power line will run through it. Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes. Director: Joe Kane. Old Barn Dance, The. . 7102 .. (61) Jan. 29 Western with Music. A horse trader is tricked into singing on a radio program for a pair of swindling tractor dealers, but the former comes through for his friends with horses in time for the harvest reaping. Gene Autry, Helen Valkis, Smiley Burnette, Walter Shrum and Hillbillies. Director: Joe Kane. Outside of Paradise. .7007. . (68) Feb. 7 Musical. Unable to buy out the girl co-owner of a castle he has inherited, the hero converts it into a hamburger stand. Romantic complications that ensue effect a truce. Phil Regan, Penny Singleton. Director: John Auer. Prison Nurse. .7008. . (67) Mar. 1 Drama. An imprisoned doctor, inspired by love of a prison nurse, administers relief when typhoid breaks out in a flooded prison and is falsely blamed for an ensuing “break.” Henry Wilcoxon, Marian Marsh. Director: James Cruze. Purple Vigilantes. .7114. . (59) Jan. 24 Western. The Three Mesquiteers, after ridding Trails End of vice, finish their job by smashing a new terrorist band which formed from the vigilante group. The Three Mesquiteers and Joan Barclay. Director: George Sherman. Riders of Black Hills. . 7117 .. (55) June 15 Western. The three Mesquiteers set about proving their innocence of a race horse stealing charge and expose the real gang. Bob Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune. Director: George Sherman. Romance on the Run. . 7023. . (67) May 11 Comedy Drama. A private detective, retained by an insurance company to recover a stolen necklace, is blocked in his efforts by a blundering cop, a suspicious secretary and the jewel thieves themselves. Donald Woods, Patricia Ellis. Director: Gus Meins. Tenth Avenue Kid. .7025. . (56) Aug. 22 Action Drama. The son of a mobster is adopted by the cop who had killed the boy’s father in a gunfight. The mob snatches the boy to keep him from talking but the cop and the youngster emerge as heroes in the gun battle that follows. Bruce Cabot, Tommy Ryan, Beverly Roberts. Director: Bernard Vorhaus. Under Western Stars. .7800. . (67) Apr. 20 Musical-Western. A crooning son of the saddle saves the range from its enemy, the duststorm. Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes. Director: Joe Kane. RKO Radio Affairs of Annabel, The . .902 . . (68) Sept. 9 Comedy. A behind-the-scenes satire on Hollywood, featuring a pampered star and a studio press agent assigned to elevate her to page one publicity. Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball. Director; Ben Stoloff. Blind Alibi. .829. . (61) May 20 Melodrama. To recover indiscreet letters written by his sister that were accidentally left in an antique sold to an American museum, Richard Dix poses as a blind man at the museum pretending to learn sculptoring by the “touch system.” Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne. Director: Lew Landers. Blond Cheat. .831. .(62) June 17 Comedy Drama. An actress, hired by a rich pawnbroker to break up the engagement of his daughter, falls in love with the man she was paid to vamp. Joan Fontaine, Derrick de Marney. Director: Joseph Santley. Border G-Man. .882. . (60) June 24 Western. A Federal investigator poses as a ranch foreman and rounds up a gang of gunsmugglers who are using the ranch as their base. George O’Brien, Loraine Johnson, John Miljan. Director: David Howard. Breaking the lee . . 845 . . (82) Aug. 26 Comedy with Music. A young lad of much promise in the ice skating rink, gives it all up to fulfill his ambition to take his mother to Goshen, Indiana. Bobby Breen, Dolores Costello, Irene Dare. Director: Eddie Cline. Bringing Up Baby. .739. . (100) Feb. 18 Comedy. An archeologist tries to promote $1,000,000 for his museum from a wealthy woman and encounters difficulty in the form of a leopard named “Baby.” Katharine Hepburn. Cary Grant, May Robson, Charles Ruggles. Director: Howard Hawks. Carefree. .837. . (83) Sept. 2 Musical Comedy. A psychiatrist attempts to aid a young lawyer and his fiancee, who refuses to marry him until she, too, becomes a lawyer. Humorous complications evolve, and when the smoke has cleared the doctor finds he is in love with the girl. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy. Director: Mark Sandrich. Condemned Women. .813. . (76) April 3 Drama. A woman prisoner whose outlook on life is changed by a doctor’s love, becomes involved in a stirring prison break when she feels she is burdening the doctor’s career. Sally Ellers, Louis Hayward, Anne Shirley. Director: Lew Landers. Crime Ring. .836. . (70) July 8 Melodrama. A newspaper reporter exposes the fortune-telling racket, with the aid of a girl who poses as a mystic to gather evidence against the syndicate which tries to collect 10 per cent of her “take.” Allan Lane, Frances Mercer. Director: Leslie Goodwins. Double Danger. .820. . (62) Jan. 28 Comedy Drama. The commissioner of detectives sets a trap for a jewel thief by inviting the suspects to his home for the weekend. Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Donald Meek. Director: Lew Landers. Everybody’s Doing It. .817. . (67) Jan. 14 Comedy Drama. Racketeers muscle in on a super-contest which has caught the public fancy and sell the answers to the contestants. Preston Foster, Sally Eilers. Director: Christy Cabanne. Go Chase Yourself . .825. . (70) Apr. 22 Comedy. Bank robbers steal a trailer with Joe Penner in it. Further hazards arise when they pick up a runaway heiress whom the bandits hold as ransom, forcing Penner to aid them. BOXOFFICE September 10, 1938