The Film Daily (1934)

THE Monday, April 30, 1934 -z*m DAILY A Little from "Lots" — By RALPH WILK = HOLLYWOOD WILLIAM SEITER is directing "Arabella," which has just gone in work at RKO with Marian Nixon, Reginald Denny, Billie Burke, Grant Mitchell, Buster Crabbe and Gloria Shea. Glendon Allvine is producing it, with Glenn Tryon as the adaptor. Story is based on "Let Who Will Be Clever," by Alden Nash. r r r Allie Wrubel and Mort Dixon are writing words and music for First National's "Flirtation Walk," which will probably co-star Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. T ▼ Y Don Tailor, author and zoologist. has been signed by Columbia as technical director for "Black Moon." t r r Robert Welsh has assumed his duties as executive producer for Monogram. T T T Maxine Doyle has been put under long-term contract by Warners. » V » "Kansas City Princess," by Cy Bartlett and Manny Seff, will be a First National production, with Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell and Hugh Herbert. William Keighly will direct. ▼ T ▼ Thelma Rambeau, sister of Marjorie Rambeau, makes her film debut in Fox's "Grand Canary." . T T Y Louis King, who directed "Murder in Trinidad" and "Life in the • The Broadway Parade ♦ Picture Distributor Theater Journal of a Crime Warner Bros Roxy Finishing School Radio Casino Stand Up and Cheer (2nd week) Fox Music Hall Hitler's Reign of Terror Jewel Prods Mayfair 20 Million Sweethearts Warner Bros Strand We're Not Dressing Paramount Rivoli The Witching Hour Paramount Paramount Tarzan and His Mate (2nd week) . She Made Her Bed The Lost Patrol* Queen Christina* Unknown Blonde (2nd week) Just Smith (2nd week) Gaumont-British. M-G-M Capitol Paramount Rialto Radio Center M-G-M Little Carnegie Majestic Globe Westminster ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUNS ♦ Viva Villa (3rd week) M-G-M Criterion Housa of Rothschild (7th week) United Artists Astor ♦ FOREIGN DIALOGUE PICTURES ♦ Adieux Les Beaux Jours (2nd week) ... Ufa 55th Playhouse Broken Shoes (2nd week) Amkino Acme Parade of the Reserves (Polish) Capital Exchange Caruso ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ 20th Century (May 3) Columbia Music Hall No Greater Glory ( May 4 Columbia Roxy Manhattan Melodrama (May 4) M-G-M Capitol In Love With Life (May 4) Chesterfield Casino Glamour** Universal Roxy Double Door (May 4) Paramount Paramount Success at Any Price (May 4) Radio Rialto Romance in Budapest (May 5) DuWorld 55th St. Playhouse Cheaters (May 7) Hollywood Pict Mayfair Beyond Bengal ( May 16) Showmen's Picts Gaiety Sorrell and Sonf United Artists Rivoli Subsequent run. Date not set. t Follows We're Not Dressing. Raw," for Fox, is making preparations for his next picture, tentatively titled "Wanted." Rosemary Ames and Harry Green have been cast for it. r r t Gene Austin, noted composer pianist and singer, has completed work in "A Ferry Tale," his initial two-reel subject for RKO-Radio. It was directed by Sam White. Austin is identified with several sensa ^— >5nn -pere/ay I OR 1 PERSONS ^ ^y Above the Sth Floor $6.00 and up Enjoy the comforts of « parlor and bedroom suite. . . . All rooms equipped with combination tub and shower bath, and running ice water. Ideal location — adjacent to shopping, business and theatre districts. SWIMMING POOL AND GYMNASIUM FREE TO GUESTS tional hits songs, introduced or published by him, such as "My Blue Heaven," "Melancholy Baby" and "Forgive Me." T T T Our Passing Show: Sid and Al Rogell chatting at Columbia; Lew Fields, the veteran comedian, weighing himself on a Gower Street machine; Julius Tannen hobnobbing with Paramount friends. T T T Bryan Foy is making elaborate plans for "High School Girl," which Crane Wilbur will direct. Ethel Hill, who wrote "A Woman in Her Thirties," for Warner Bros.. is writing another original, "Blind Date," for Columbia. She collaborated with Dore Schary on the screen plays and dialogue for "Fog" and "Fury in the Jungle," also for Columbia. t r ▼ Max Scheck will direct 500 colored dancers in a ritual number for "Black Moon," which R. William Neill is directing for Columbia. r T T Basil Woon, who recently returned from Europe, is collaborating with Gladys Lehman on the screenplay for "Intimate of a King," at Paramount. His book, "Incredible Land," dealing, in part with Hollywood, has proven very popular and he will write another gossipy guide dealing with San Francisco and the gold mines of northern California. Dezel Gets "Guilty Parents" Chicago— -Al Dezel of Road Show Pictures has acquired "Guilty Parents" for Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. SHORT SHOTS from EASTERN STUDIOS By CHAS. ALICOATE PRODUCTION on a Paramount short for the "Headliner" series has been completed under the direction of Fred Waller at the West Coast Service studio. Leslie Roush assisted Waller on the short, which features the Yacht Club Boys and Ina Ray. William Steiner was in charge of the cameras. • William Watson and Arthur Jarrett have started work on the story for a two-reel musical comedy to be produced and directed by Al Christie for Educational release. Production is scheduled to get under way in about two weeks at the Eastern Service Studio in Astoria. • Robert Stillman, associated with Harold Godsoe, will produce a series of one-reel comedies. The story for the first has been completed, with production scheduled to start in a few days at the West Coast Service studio. • Shemp Howard has been signed by Sam Sax, production head at the Vitaphone studio, for a series of four shorts. Howard will be costarred in the first with Daphne Pollard. Production starts soon after the opening of the studio about May 15. with JACK LARUE THELMA TODD GAIL PATRICK RUSSELL HOPTON '"Rate* High As Film Entertainment" — VARIETY . . . "Swell picture . . . will. keep audiences in suspense" — M. P. DAILY . . . "Outstanding mystery story"— BILLBOARD . . . "One of the topnotch independent productions of the year"-. /V. Y. STATE EXHIBITOR. 1934 1935