Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (Sep 1934 - Aug 1935)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1935 11 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Ten cents per word, including initials, address, or box number. Minimum insertion 15 words. Cash or money order with each copy. Yearly contract rates are lower. Send for contract scale. Address communications to FILM BULLETIN, 1313 Vine Street, Phila., Pa. THEATRES WANTED PENNA., N. J., DEL., MD. Buy or lease. Goodis, 1201 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. INSURANCE All forms of special insurance applying to theatre operation handled on minimum rates. Representative will be sent on request. Box FB 107. FILM FACTS GOSSIP Ben Turpin (remember the X-eyed comic?) is having his biography ghost written. It will appear as "My Cockeyed Past." Ben's 66 years old now. * * * Harms, Inc., will publish the six song hits from Liberty's "The Old Homestead." In the picture the songs are delivered by Lawrence Gray, Lillian Miles and Fuzzy Knight — all well known stage players. * * * The unhappy association of Fox and Spencer Tracy was terminated several weeks ago when the actor was released from his contract. He was immediately signatured by Metro and goes to work for that studio at once. Tracy had been squabbling with Fox for a year or more. * * * Monogram has borrowed Betty Furness from M-G-M to appear in the lead, opposite Neil Hamilton, of "Keeper of the Bees" — the famous Gene Stratton Porter story. * * * Trem Carr, Monogram production boss, purchased the screen rights to Peter B. Kyne's "Cappy Ricks" yams. These stories' were extremely popular when first published and one was made as a silent film. If you're interested, Chinese movie fans like action in their films. This was reported to Washington by the vice-consul to China. It illustrates the universality of the old silent films as compared to the talking pictures, which are largely confined within a nation's borders. Action and emotion are universal — talk is national. * * * "Black Fury," Paul Muni's coal mine film, is receiving lots of free publicity in the newspapers. Warners are capitalizing the supposed opposition to the film by the coal barons, issuing statements to the effect that the mine operators are trying to halt its showing. We have learned, however, that the picture really condones the actions of the bosses and praises the reactionary labor elements who oppose strikes. * * * One of the most impressive casts in any independent production this season will be seen on Gold Medal's "Headline Woman." Included are: Roger Pryor, Mae West's leading man in "Belle of the 90's" ; Conway Tearle, Heather Angel, Jack LaRue, Jack Mulhall and Lillian Miles, the new Warn pas Baby Star. The raid on the American star market by G-B Productions netted the following prominent players who will appear in G-B pictures for the new season : Richard Dix, George Arliss, Walter Huston, Madsre Evans, Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Maureen O'Sullivan, Boris Karloff, Helen Vinson, Robert Donat ("Monte Cristo"), Lupe Velez and C. Aubrey Smith. * * * B. P. Schulberg, former Paramount production executive, has finally connected with Columbia as a producer and studio executive. Since being let out by Paramount several months ago, Schulberg had been discussing independent production until the Columbia deal was offered. * * * New York's famous Criterion Theater, at the Crossroads of the World, Times Square, is doing quite well, thank you, with a steady diet of independent pictures. A major picture hasn't been played in the house in months. Now showing there are "Behind the Green Lights" and "The Phantom Fiend." * * * The result of a vote by the patrons of the classy little Plaza Theatre in New York revealed that the films most favored for repeat dates are: "One Night of Love," "Henry the VIII," "The Thin Man," "Barretts of Wimpole Street." * * * Republic has already purchased six novels with which to start its new production schedule. Among them are James Fenimore Cooper's "The Deer Slayer" and Peter B. Kyne's "Cappy Ricks Returns." sft ♦ v The composers of that ancient melody of the inebriated, "Sweet Adeline," are suing Warner Brothers for using the song in their picture of the same title without paying them. * * * Warners' "G-Men," dealing with the Federal agents' activities in tracking down criminals, has been banned by the Chicago Board of Cen>orReason given by H. M. Costello, head of the Crime Prevention Division of the police detriment, is that the "series of murders would prove over-stimulating for children." 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WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1935 COLUMBIA Release Date REVENGE RIDER April 22 Tim McCoy SWELL HEAD April 22 Wallace Ford — Barbara Kent FIRST NATIONAL BLACK FURY May 4 Paul Muni — Karen Morley G-MEN May 11 James Cagney — Margaret Lindsay FOX LADIES LOVE DANGER April 26 Gilbert Roland — Mona Barrie METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER MARK OF THE VAMPIRE May 2 Lionel Barrymore — Bela Lugosi BABY FACE HARRINGTON April Charles Butterworth PARAMOUNT PRIVATE WORLDS April Claudette Colbert — Charles Boyer FOUR HOURS TO KILL April 20 STOLEN HARMONY April 26 George Raft — Ben Bernie UNIVERSAL MR. DYNAMITE April lb Edmund Lowe — Esther Ralston PRINCESS O'HARA April 20 Jean Parker — Chester Morris 60 6.1 84 74 73 65 80 Everything in equipment NATIONAL THEATRE SUPPLY CO. 1315 Vine St., Phila. SPR. 6156 "Not a dark house in more than 20 years of film delivery service!" NEW JERSEY MESSENGER SERVICE 250 N. JUNIPER ST. PHILA.