The Film Daily (1934)

DABLY Tuesday, April 10, 1934 I NO GREATER PRAISE has ever been lavished on ■ a picture as that accorded I £ 1 i GREATER i GLORY • A deluge of critical raves from every town I the picture has played! i "One of the fines! films of ib kind ever screened." — Hartjord Daily Cnurant \ "Beyond the usual trend of film entertainment. One of the important dramas ' of the yttr."— Springfield Daily News "A lovely and moving picture ... an || I event sufficiently rare." » — Springfield Union % "The kind of a picture that should be encouraged in Hollywood." — Springfield Daily Republican * | "NO GREATER GLORY is all that its I makers say it is. There are scenes which > will linger long in the memory. Enough to recommend the picture without rescr a vation." — Akron Times Press . "A motion picture rare and precious. It has the beauty and power of honesty, I humanity and humility." . I — Akron Beacon Journal » "An achievement which deserves a place in cinematic history with 'The Birth of A Nation', 'All Quiet on the Western * Front' and those other productions which 1 have achieved a lasting place." — Washington Herald ■ "You will thrill and laugh and weep as much as you did at 'What Price Glory' or 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. One of the most dramatic movies ever filmed." — Washington Daily News . , The screen's greatest emotional masterpiece, "NO GREATER [ J GLORY". A Trunk Borzage J i jtrotlitctiou bused on Fereuc j , • j Moluar's world famous novel. » i A LITTLE from "LOTS" By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD FWO week-end marriages spliced Alberta Vaughn, a 1926 Wampas baby, and Joseph Egli, assistant casting director at Paramount, who nad the ceremony performed in Yuma, while Martha Sleeper and Hardie Albright took the leap in Riverside. T T T Barbara Cannan Shelton, prominent in theatrical circles, and Paul Edmonds, long active in amusements in Chicago, have formed an agency, with offices in the Pantages building. They will represent talent for the stage, screen and radio. T T T Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heer ■ man, whose screen play of "Little Women" won the Academy of M. P. Arts and Sciences award, have completed the screenplay of "Age of Innocence," for RKO. T T T Our Passing Show: Julius Tannen finding it difficult to find the entrance to the Paramount studic restaurant; Allen Rivkin, Sidney Buchman, Dave Garber, Bud Eilers. Ralph Davis playing tennis, with Arthur Lubin and Abram Robert Simon interested spectators. T T T Jules Schermer, former trade paper reporter, has joined the Nat Goldstone agency as an associate. T T T Joan Bennett's initial public appearance since th.e arrival of her month old daughter, Melinda, will not be on the screen, strangely enough, but on the air. She will appear on the Shell Hour program over the National Broadcasting hookup April 16. T T T James Dunn has engaged Ralph G. Farnum as his exclusive agent and business manager. Dunn is undei contract to Fox and has two more years to go under that agreement. T T T Twenty-four of the Albertina Rasch girls are now dancing in "DuBarry," at Warner Bros. Mme. Rasch has originated a spectacular dancing scene in which they perform. T T T Following his work for "Gypsy Melody," at Fox, Werner Richard Heyman, famous European composer, is scheduled to write the music for a new operetta in New York. His "Prince of Monaco" is the sensation of Paris this season. "Buffalo Bill" will be the second subject in the "Famous Americans" series being made by Hal-Lyons. Alex Hall will direct, with Henry Kruse in charge of the camera work. T T T Robert H. Planck, ace cameraman, is in charge of photography on "Our Daily Bread," which is being directed by King Vidor. Planck photo graphed "Manhattan Love Song," •"Frontier Marshall" and numerous other pictures. T ■ T T T Jerry Fletcher, Valerie Stevens, Ferdinand Munier, Leo Chalzell, Irene Franklin and Bert Pisano will be the principals in "The Stooge," written by Claude Binyon and Joe Mankiewiecz, well known scenarists, ine comedy will have its premiere at the Threshold theaters, jLJeverly Wills, April 11. T T T Milton Krasner, wno did the camera work on "Private Scandal" ana several other Charles R. Kogers productions for Paramount, will soon oe assigned another Rogers picture. Y T T Here and There: B. P. Schulberg. Eduie Mannix, Harry Rapf, Sylvia txciney, Hunt Stromberg, Chas. R. Kogers, Leon Schlesinger, Larry Wemgarten, Robert Presnell, Gary Cooper, Richard Wallace, Arthur L,anaau, King Vidor, Edward Arnold, jonn Siahl, Ivan Kahn at the opening of "Biography," starring Alice Brady. T T T Bela Lobiov, who directed the Viennese musicians in "Reunion in Vienna," has been engaged by MG-M to handle musical details in "The Merry Widow." This picturization of Franz Lehar's operetta, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette Mac-Donald co-starred under Ernst L,ubitsch's direction, went into proauction this week. T V T Dwight Taylor and Leonard Praskms are at work on the screen play of "Barbary Coast," in which Samuel Goldwyn will present Gloria fewanson. r T T Joan Gale, a Gale Quadruplets member, now under contract to MG-M, has been assigned to the musical short, "What Price Jazz," featuring Ted Fio Rito and being directed by Sam Baerwitz. ▼ ▼ ▼ Muriel Evans and Irene Hervey, two promising feature players at M-G-M were assigned last week to the new trick card short featuring Luis Zingone, world famous card trickster and sleight-of-hand artist. CAST ASSIGNMENTS PARAMOUNT — Genevieve Tobin, Toby Wing, Mona Maris and Rafael Storm for "Kiss and Make-Up"; Judith Allen replacing Gertrude Michael in "She Loves Me Not." RKO — Erin O'Brien Moore, Leonard Corey and Irene Hervey for "Sour Grapes"; Creightton Chaney, Helen Vinson, Bette Furness, Ben Alexander, Donald Crisp and Edwin Stanley for "Life of Vergie Winters"; Noah Beery and Franklyn Pangborn for "Cockeyed Cavaliers." FOX — Ned Sparks for "Marie Galanfe"; Betty Bryson for "Grand Canary." WARNER-F. N.— Ann Dvorak for "Housewife"; Claire McDowell to replace Mary McLaren and Berton Churchill in place of Hobart Cavanaugh for "Dames". UNIVERSAL — Andy Devine to replace Slim Summerville in "Loves of a Sailor"; Russ Brown for the same cast. COLUMBIA— Rollo Lloyd and Stanley Blystone for "The Party's Over." • REVIEWS * "I BELIEVE IN YOU" with Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory and John Boles Fcx 68 mins. DRAMA COMBINING SOCIAL AND ROMANTIC THEMES HAS GOOD IDEA THAT WILL INTEREST CLASS AUDIENCES MOST. Although there is a substantial idea bohind this story, it is chiefly of a nature 2ppealing to the more serious audiences. The theme is primarily of the social order, dealing with the efforts of Rosemary Ames to prove that a group of struggling Greenwich Villagers could make good at writing, art, dancing, etc., if some good angel financed them. So, after serving a term in jail with Victor Jory, a labor radical whom she loves, for hitting a rich pla'boy, Jchn Boles, who ridiculed her fake a.ty" crowd, Rosemary becomes friends with Bcles and he supplies the money to test her theory. The outcome is that the supposed geniuses all fail to make good, while Jory disappoints her even more by transferring his attentions to another girl. 8ut Rosemary herself becomes a successful writer, with Boles turning cut to be hir real friend. The sto;y also has some comedy touches, though it seems that more could have been done with the whole idsa. Miss Ames is a newcomer who shows premise. Cast: Rosemary Ames, Victor Jory, j hi Boles, Gertrude Michael, George Meeker, Leslie Fentcn, Joyzelle, Jed Prouty, Morgan Wallace, Luis Alberni. Director, Irving Cummings; Screenplay by William Conselman from idea by William Anthony McGuire; Cameraman, Barney McGill; Recording Engineer, George Chapman; Editor, Al De Gaetano. Direction, Good Photography, Gcod. "TRENCK", in German; produced by Phoebus Tonfilm; directed by Heinz Paul, with Hans Stuewe, Dorothea Wieck, Olga Tschechowa, Theodor Loos, Anton Pointner, Paul Horbiger, Grete Schubert. At the 79th St. Theater. Worthy historical and romantic drama with excellent cast and strong on production values. Presence of Dorothea Wieck in the cast gives if seme measure of interest for American audiences. "LA SOMBRA DE PANCHO VILLA", in Spanish; produced by Modern Film; directed by Moguel Contreras Torres; with Miguel Contreras Torres, Luis G. Barreiro, Manuel Tamez, Carmen Guerrero, et al. At the Teatro Variedades. Poor story and acting make this just a fair concoction dealing with the exploits of the Mexican bandit. Will appeal almost exclusively to Spanish audiences. "HOLLYWOOD, CIUDAD DE ENSUENO" '"Hollywood, City of Illusion"), in Spanish; produced by Super-Joya-Hispano-Universal; directed by George Crane; with Jose Bohr, Lia Tora, Donald Reed and Nancy Drexel. At the Teatro Variedades. Fairly entertaining Hollywood romantic comedy, with good cast, but rather slight story and comedy. Birmingham Bans "8 Girls" Birmingham — "Eight Girls in a Boat" was banned here when it opened at the Temple, Wilby house.