The Film Daily (1934)

DAILY Friday, April 6, 1934 ALLIED STATES ASS'N IN PRODUCTION DEAL (Continued from Page ! I product to be made under the arrangement. Members of Allied will e to play the pictures, the average negative cost of which will be approximately $80,000. Business Reported Up In Lower Scale Houses {Continued from Page 1 i larly in evidence in houses charging 10, 15 and 20 cents, as compared with theaters with higher admission scales. They stated that double feature policies are growing in all territories in which they now exist and indications are that new dual zones will soon open up. Ft. Worth Palace Raises Scale Fort Worth — Admission prices at the Palace, first-run, have been increased to same as those of the other first-run Interstate houses here. Palace prices now are 25 anG 35 cents matinee and 50 cents at night, with pictures running a week The Worth, with two pictures weekly and stage shows four days a week has a top of 60 cents, while the Hollywood, with one picture a week, has top of 50 cents. No Ensembles in "Sweethearts" Warner's new musical, "20 Million Sweethearts," is without dancing ensembles, though it has several song numbers. In review of the picture yesterday it was stated, through typographical error, that it contained some ensembles. Lew Brown to Hunt New Faces Lew Brown, associate producer who handled Fox's "Stand Up and Cheer" and is now in New York for a six-week stay, has set up headquarters at the Fox home office, where he will conduct a search for new screen faces. 'Harum' Makes Indianapolis History Indianapolis "David Harum" will return to the Apollo after a four-week run. It was the best attraction in this city in the past three years, and the only picture to return after lour weeks' run in local ory. SHOWMAN'S REMINDER How cbout department store tie-up-, on fur storage? Good for space and block ticket sales. A LITTLE from "LOTS" Bv RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD T7IGHT pictures are in the course of production at Fox Movietone City with five more ready to be placed before the cameras as soon as the eight go into the cutting rooms. "The World Moves On," "Merry Andrew," "Now I'll Tell," by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein, "Call It Luck," "Change of Heart," "Springtime for Henry," "Too Many Women" and "Wild Gold" are all nearing completion. B. F. Zeidman, who will produce "The Loves of a Sailor," has assigned Kurt Neumann to handle the megaphone. "The Loves of a Sailor" will co-star Chester Morris and Slim Summerville. It was written by Dore Schary and Lewis Foster. First National has ' changed the title of the new Aline MacMahon starring picture from "A Woman in Her Thirties" to "Side Streets." AAA Dick Powell, who is now working in "Dames" with Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell, is planning a European vacation after making one more picture for Warners. He will spend six weeks abroad and upon his return will make a personal appearance tour for four weeks. Powell expects to stop over in New York, before sailing, to make an appearance in conjunction with the Broadway opening of "20 Million Sweethearts." AAA Universal discovered a new screen prospect right within its own gates. She's Marcia Remy, secretary tc David Werner, Universal casting diector. Miss Remy makes her screen debut in "Affairs of a Gentleman," starring Paul Lukas. And it isn't so strange that she is playing the part of a secretary in the picture. AAA Warner Oland returns to the screen as Charlie Chan once more when he appears in "Charlie's Chan's Courage" for Fox. Screen play is by Seton I. Miller. Louis King will direct. AAA Monroe Owsley, G. P. Huntley Jr., Anders von Haden, Torben Meyer and Russ Powell are additions to the cast of Universal's "Little Man, What Now?" Frank Borzage is directing it. Lew Borzage, his brother and assistant, has returned to the set after being laid up for a while due to a damaged eye and a broken wrist received in an auto accident which proved fatal tc his father. Charles Lang, who won the Academy's 193.3 photography award on "Farewell to Arms," will photograph Paramount's "She Loves Me Not" with Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Kitty Carlisle and Gertrude Michael. Elliott Nugent is directing. AAA Dick Hemingway, Brown Uinversity football star in 1928-1929, and an amateur boxing champion, was signed by Columbia Pictures this week on a long-term contract. His screen name will be Dick Heming, under which he made his first motion picture at Mack Sennett Studios last summer. AAA Genevieve Tobin has just been loaned again by First National, this t.me for the leading feminine role m "Kiss and Make Up." AAA Susan Fleming has been engaged for a role in Fox's "Call It Luck,' in which Herbert Mundin and "Pat" faterson have leading parts. Frank Moran, one-time prominent heavy.v-eignt boxer, will appear in "Change of Heart," the Gaynor-Farrell picture. AAA Catherine Doucet has been signed by Columbia for "The Party's Over.' Jtsther Muir is an addition to the cast. A ' A A "The Debutante," an original by Ralph Spence, has been optioned by Paramount for development as a Charlie Ruggles-Mary Boland comedy— third of a series of such pictures to be made regularly. "Mama Loves Papa" was the first, and "Melody in Spring" the second. Julien Josephson is developing the screen play. The title will be changed. AAA Hale Hamilton has been signed by Charles R. Rogers for "Private Scandal" for Paramount release, with cast also including ZaSu Pitts, Phillips Holmes, Mary Brian, Ned Sparks and Lew Cody. Ralph Murphy is directing. Other Paramount assignments this week included Kenneth Thomson and John Arthur for "Many Happy Returns," with Burns and Allen, and Vince Barnett for "She Loves Me Not." AAA The first "Miss Television" in America, Jilda Keeling, former Ziegfeld Follies dancer is in Paramount's "Cleopatra," featuring Claudette Colbei't, Warren William and Henry Wilcoxon. Adjudged a perfect type for television, Miss Keeling won first honors in New York in 1930 over a list of more than 300 Broadway beauties. AAA Helen Hayes, now starring on Broadway in The Theater Guild's "Mary of Scotland," plans to leave for the M-G-M studios about June 1 to start work in "What Every Woman Knows." FOREIGN FILM REMAKES ON THE INCREASE HERE (Continued from Page 1) foreign adaptations with the "Countess of Monte Cristo," "Madame Spy," and "Secrets of the Blue Room." Paramount's "Eight Girls in a Boat," and Fox's "Delicious" were both remakes. Activity at Biograph Exceeds Expectation (.Continued from Page 1) ion" said Yates. "We now have the Van Beuren shorts; one and possibly three features to be made by Classics Pictures, and I have no doubt but that RKO will make two features at Biograph before the end of the year. I also believe that plans for enlarging the present studius in the Bronx will be made for the early part of 1935.." Pauline Miliam injured St. Louis — Pauline Miliam, dancer who has appeared in pictures, is in St. Luke's Hospital in a serious condition as the result of injuries last week when an auto in which she was riding with Rosco Ates collided with another car near Kansas City. Miss Miliam was en route to Detroit to appear in the Ates vaudeville act. Suit Against Maloy Upheld Chicago — In an opinion by Judge O'Connor, the Appellate Court has reversed a Superior Court action dismissing a bill for temporary injunction, receivership and accounting brought by six members of Local 110, operators' union, against Tom Maloy, business manager, and other officers. Judge O'Connor ordered a hearing of the petition on its merits. Lowry Back in St. Louis St. Louis — Ed Lowry, master of ceremonies who established a record here, returns April 27 for two weeks at the Ambassador. Beatrice Lillie for RKO Short Beatrice Lillie is en route from London to Hollywood under contract to RKO for a short subject. BIG NEWS AS SEEN BY THE PRESS AGENT "Reginald Owen ate 40 kippers, 30 omelets and 30 kidneys in two d -ys while making a breakfast comedy sequence." — Radio Pictures.