The Film Daily (1934)

m 6 THE -22H DAILY Tuesday, May 1, 1934 WATCH IT SWEEP THE COUNTRY! The Comedy Successor > to "It Happened One Night" • JOHN BARRYMORE in 20th Century" ivith Carole Lombard Walter Connolly RoscoeKams A HOWARD HAWKS Production j From the notable S. Y. stage success by Ben Hec/it ■ Charles MacArthnr Charles B. Milholland • OPENS MAY 3RD, RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL! • OPENS MAY 4TH IN FOLLOWING CITIES! Cleveland, Syracuse, Washington, Chicago, Rochester, Columbus, Providence, Detroit, Baltimore and Miami. 8 ACCLAIMED I AT HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW! i • "Should cop the Academy j award for 1934!" — Picture Play | I "We were rolling in the aisles. I can hardly say enough for it!" — Philadelphia Ledger Syndicate j UOught to be a smash hit!" / — Associated Press "A A LITTLE from "LOTS ►// By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD £LARENCE BROWN has completed additional scenes for "Pretty Sadie McKee," his latest directorial effort for M-G-M, in which Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone and Gene Raymond share honors. ▼ ▼ ▼ Richard Wallace, who does not start on his first assignment for Fox until Aug. 2, is understood to be slated to direct one picture for RKO before joining Winfield Sheehan's staff. Wallace is at present considering several stories submitted him by executive Pandro Herman. ▼ ▼ ▼ Following his announced arrival in New York last week, Howard Estabrook received 16 manuscripts from ambitious tyro authors asking his criticism. Due to pressure of business, Estabrook has been compelled to return these stories with a personal message of thanks. The M-G-M scenarist is en route to England in search of color for the script which he is writing on "David Copperfield." ▼ T ▼ A former botany teacher in an eastern high school who in the past two years has been doing extra work at Paramount studios has been engaged by Horace Jackson to supervise the planting of various rare blooms on the spacious grounds surrounding Jackson's Brentwood estate. The estate is considered one of the show places of Southern California. ▼ ▼ ▼ J. Walter Ruben may remain in England to direct another picture for Associated Talking Pictures, for whom he is now directing "Java Head." It is understood that negotiations are now on between the latter company and RKO, to whom Ruben is under contract. ▼ ▼ ▼ George Bertholon has reutrned to Monogram to supervise "King Kelly of the U.S.A.," which he was to have put in work last fall, when the picture was postponed so that he could take an M-G-M assignment. ▼ ▼ ▼ Production was started Saturday on John Wayne's new picture. "Randy Rides Again," being directed by Harry Fraser with a cast including Alberta Vaughn, George Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Earl Dwire. Arthur Ortega and Tex Phelps. ▼ ▼ ▼ "A Lady Surrenders," the orginal story by Mary McCall, Jr., which Warners have purchased, is being adapted for screen production by Miss McCall herself. ▼ ▼ ▼ Allyn Drake and Richard Heming, two of the young players recently signed by Columbia under long-term contracts, will make their first appearances for the company in "The Hell Cat," by Adele Buffington and Fred Niblo, Jr. Robert Armstrong and Ann Sothern are featured, supported by Minna Gombell, Henry Kolker, James P. Burtis, J. Carrol Naish, Joseph Crehan. Benny Baker, Purnell Pratt and James B. Leong. Albert Rogell is directing. ▼ ▼ ▼ Trem Carr has signed Christie Cabanne to direct "Jane Eyre," Adele Commandini's adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte classic, which is to be one of the specials on the current Monogram program. Cabanne also is scheduled to direct a West Point feature for RKO. ▼ ▼ ▼ Krimski Zembora, the noted Russian tragedian with the Moscow Art Players, may possess unusual histrionic ability, but so also does Irving Pichel. Just as Warners were about to send transportation for the former to come to Hollywood to portray the featured part of Pavlov in "British Agent," associate producer Robert Presnell showed chief studio executive Hal Wallis a test of Pichel as the head of the Russian Secret Service. So Pichel was signed for the coveted role. At present he is enacting one of the featured assignments in "Cleopatra," Paramount production. ▼ ▼ ▼ Production has begun on M-G-M's latest comedy two-reeler featuring the famous pantomime team, Shaw and Lee. Muriel Evans, Dewey Robinson, Claudelle Kaye, and Wal ter Brenen are included in the short, which is under the supervi sion of Jack Cummings. Alf Gould ing is directing. ▼ ▼ ▼ The motion picture public may be fickle in its idolatry of some stars and national heroes, but insofar as Lee Tracy is concerned, they are 100 per cent loyal. During the past three months Tracy's fan mail has increased in leaps and bounds and last week reached the highest mark when he received over 8,000 letters from admirers throughout the country. Tracy recently signed a longterm contract with Paramount and for his first two stories the studio has chosen "A Son Comes Home" and "One Woman." ▼ ▼ ▼ Edward G. Robinson's latest starring picture has had its title changed from "The Mysterious Mr. Chautard" to "The Man With Two Faces." It's based on "The Dark Tower," by George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott. T T T A new Andy Clyde Comedy, seventh in the comedian's starring series for Educational this season, is scheduled for production on completion of the Buster Keaton Star Comedy Special, "Allez Oop," now shooting at the Educational Studios. Vernon Smith is preparing the continuity from the original story by Harry McCoy and John Waldron. THE INDUSTRY'S DATE BOOK Today: Allied Theaters of New Jersey meeting. Gold Room. Hotel Lincoln. New York. 11 A. M. May 9: Public hearing on proposed modifications to Laboratory Code, Willard Hotel, Washington. May 14: Golf Tournament for benefit of Carolina film needy, Carolina Golf Course, Charlotte. May 18: Allied States Ass'n regional conference, in conjunction with meeting of Allied Theater Owners of New York, Syracuse. May 19: Cincinnati Variety Club Dinner and Charity Ball, Netherland-Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati. May 26: Monogram regional sales meeting, Salt Lake City. May 26-28: Fourth Annual Convention of Independent Theater Supply Dealers Ass'n, Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. May 31 -June 2: tox Film annual sales convention, New York. June 1 : Actors Equity Ass'n annual meeting and election, Hotel Astor, New York. June 2: Monogram regional sales meeting, Cincinnati. June 4-9: I.A.T.S.E. and M.P.O. convention, Louisville, Ky. June 16-July 2: International Motion Picture Week, Vienna. June 18-20: RKO annual sales convention, Drake Hotel, Chicago. June 18-20: Paramount annual sales convention, Hotel Ambassador, Los Angeles. June 29: Monogram regional sales meeting, New York. Sam Ashe, recently of the Broadway stage, has been signed for B. P. Schulberg's "Kiss and Make Up" at the Paramount studios. Harlan Thompson and Jean Negulesco are directing. The film features Cary Grant, Genevieve Tobin, Helen Mack and Edward Everett Horton. ▼ ▼ ▼ Stephen Roberts will direct Sylvia Sidney in her next starring production, "One-Way Ticket," a B. P. Schulberg production for Paramount release. Fred MacMurray, a Hollywood boy who is now in the New York stage hit, "Roberta," may be Miss Sidney's leading man. The film will go into production this week. Caruso Becomes Polish House Capital Film Exchange has arranged with the Caruso Theater to show a Polish film every second week up to Jan. 1, 1935. Currently the Caruso is exhibiting "Parade of the Reserves." Handling Westerns and War Film State Film Exchange, in which Samuel Reiss and Chas. and Lawrence Horlick are active, is distributing eight three-reel westerns produced by William Pizor, and "Hell's Holiday," World War compilation. Oldrimer in Cast Matty Roubert who played in the first three-reel picture made, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 25 years ago, has been cast in Paramount's "Thank Your Stars," featuring Jack Oakie, Ben Bernie, Dorothy Dell and Roscoe Karns. The Actor's father, William L. Roubert is a former motion picture director.