The Film Daily (1934)

THE Monday, April 2, 1934 ■cStl DAILY NEWS of the DAY Denver — Walter Weins, Paramount exchange manager, is spending his vacation in Florida. Birmingham — The Central Park theater has closed but will probably be reopened by Steve Fundenberg. Buffalo — Great Lakes theater has inaugurated a policy of new programs on Friday while Shea's Hippodrome has shifted to Saturdayopenings. Harvard, 111. — Charles House has sold the Harvard to A. Schoen. Nashville, 111. — T. Dickson has taken over the management of the Nashville from E. R. Hisey. Ziegler, 111. — W. C. Baker has sold the Empire to Homer Hulsey. Warren, Mo. — The Warren has reopened under the management of Thomas J. Watson. A LITTLE from "LOTS — By RALPH WILK ~ // HOLLYWOOD J) ICHARD BARTHELMESS, sent to bed by the doctor last week due to an abscessed ear, is expected back Wednesday at First National to resume his role in "The Old Doll's House." T T T Cliff Reid, who handled "Lost Patrol" for RKO, has been assigned to produce "Afterward," which will probably feature ZaSu Pitts. Seven of the beauties brought out here by Earl Carroll for Paramount's screen version of "Murder at the Vanities" are remaining in Hollywood. They are Ruth Hilliard, Wanda Perry, Anya Taranda, Beryl Wallace, Ernestine Anderson, Constance Jordan and Dorothy Dawes. Michael Curtiz will direct Leslie Howard in "British Agent," which starts April 9 at First National. "The Woman God Forgave" has been selected as the title for "Lizzie Skerrit," the Frances Marion drama Charles R. Rogers will produce for Paramount. T T ▼ Albert Rogell is directing "The Hell Cat," Columbia picture in which Ann Sothern and Robert Armstrong appear as a new romantic team. Minnie Gombell also is in it. Story is an original by Adele Buftington and Fred Niblo, Jr., with added dialogue by Joel Sayre. i. ▲ A CAST ASSIGNMENTS COLUMBIA — Andre de Segurola for "One Night of Love"; Vincent Sherman, Bradley Page, Kane Richmond, Clifford Jones and Lucien Prival for "Crime of Helen Stanley"; Minnie Gombell for "Hell Cat," PARAMOUNT— Warren Hymer for "It Ain't No Sin"; Morgan Wallace for "Many Happy Returns." WARNER-F. N.— Halliwell Hobbes for "Madame DuBarry"; Jesse Scott replaces Farina in same cast. M-G-M — Herbert Marshall for "The Green Hat" starring Constance Bennett. RKO — Ned Sparks for "Down to the Last Yacht." "Sweethearts" Pre-Release Warner's "20 Million Sweethearts" is being made available foi special pre release engagements the week of April 28, announces the company. The picture, which fea tures an all-star cast headed by Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Gingei Rogers, Allen Jenkins, the Four Mills Brothers and Ted Fio Rite and Orchestra, will be generally distributed May 26. A Broadway showing is planned shortly. Casino Postpones Cabaret Cabaret project in connection with the Casino theater which opens today with two-a-day vaudeville has been temporarily shelved. Original plan was to open both theater and cabaret simultaneously with the cafe underneath the playhouse to feature bargain prices in cocktails and dancing during intermissions wth hostesses provided. British DuBarry Picture London — "The DuBarry" will be placed in work this month by British International Pictures. A "DuBarry" picture also is being made in Hollywood by Warner Bros. Another B. I. P. in work is "The Return of Bulldog Drummond." Boston Research Council to Meet Boston — The newly-organized Boston Council of the Motion Picture Research Council will hold its first annual conference and luncheon at the Somerset Hotel on April 14 under the sponsorship of the New England committee, of which Stephen Cabot is chairman. Gets "Fighting Priest" for N. O. "The Fighting Priest," featuring Father C. E. Coughlin, has been acquired by Amity for the New Orleans territory. 1 Exhibitors are going to have a * Roman holiday with th'is one! * Just throw open the doors before ' I they batter them down to; see it! . I JOHN BARRYMORE m "20th Century,", with Carole Lombard, I Walter Connolly,' Roscoe Karns. , | Screen play by Ben Hecht and * Charles MacArthur. A Howard » Hawks production. | The strangely powerful drama of , a woman who'Ioved two men who ,; loved her — and had to choose!. J I ELISSA. LANDI in "Sisters Under *" ! The Skin," with Frank Morgan , I and Joseph Schildkraut. Directed I by David Burton. g