The Film Daily (1934)

THE Tuesday, May 1,1934 j^* DAILY KrAtlA III M.DALY • • •THE AIR seems filled with Jimmy Savo these days ..and his appearance at the AMPA Naked Truth Dinner made several of the film lads wonder why this master of pantomime hasn't been grabbed for the pix in a Big Way the other nite he stopped the show at the Casino de Paree and at the swell sassiety functions he is a big drawing card at one recent Park Avenue affair Jimmy was voted the Most Pop Social Lion c'n ya imagine! T T ▼ • • • THERE IS a lot of interest manifested in the return of Jackie Coogan to the screen the lad has sprouted up into the young college youth type so they are making a series of 12 two-reel comedythrillers with the college atmosphere I. A. Allen of Allen Productions is making them at the Tiffany studios on the coast ▼ T T • • • A GOOD gag has been sprung on the RKO Radio exchanges "Let's do the Carioca" used when a conference is called at a branch office meaning that the gang should get their heads together and nail repeats on "Flying Down to Rio" in this pix the Carioca is danced with the dancing partners putting their heads together so "doing the Carioca" has only one meaning for the branch boys when they get together T T T • • • LONDON NOTES Frank Ditcham, Universal's English chief, scooped the British market by getting Elisabeth Bergner's "Ariane" this film was made shortly before "Catherine," but the censors until recently held it up . . Bergner is the biggest name in these parts Gregory Ratoff is hard at work in the Gaumont-British story, "Forbidden Territory" this is being produced for G. B. by Joe Rock from dear ole Hollywood Joe just returned from Latvia, where exteriors were taken "Jew Suss," the GaumontBritish epic, is the talk of Europe it's the biggest, finest thing this company has ever done Conrad Veidt heads a cast that simply dazzles in big names T T T • • • DIFFERENCES IN artistic opinion has caused Agnes de Mille to leave the cast of "Cleopatra" which her uncle, Cecil B. DeMille is directing for Paramount the young dancer is a daughter of William C. de Mille ., she came over from England to stage a dance that forms an integral part of the pix they could not compromise on the interpretation to be given the dance so they parted politely, respecting the honesty of each other's uncompromising attitude such is Art T T T • • • WHEN THE Metro Traveling Studio hit Little Rock, Arkansas you can imagine the excitement created by one of the winning gal contestants when she stepped out into the glare of those super-defining baby blue kleigs with no pantie, no brassiere, no notkin' on but her dress those blue lights bring everything out in high relief so the innocent gal got a great big hand and she was overcome with joy thinkin' they were applauding her "personality" well, mebbe they were Big Polish Studio Opening Warsaw — Falanga Film Co. this month will open its new studios, the largest and most important in Poland. Four Polish productions will start immediately after the opening of the plant. Kentucky Colonels to Meet Kentucky Colonels will converge on Louisville Friday night for their annual dinner and election of officers. From the picture business will come Charles C. Pettijohn. Frank C. Walker, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson and others. Invincible Picture for Casino "In Love With Life," booked to open at the Casino on May 11, is an Invincible picture, not a Chesterfield as previously announced by First Division, which is handling distribution. 10 Openings for "Blonde" Following its run at the Globe on Broadway, where it has been held a second week. Majestic's "Unknown Blonde" will open simultaneously in 10 key cities, says Herman Gluckman, president. TWO -COLUMN AD -398 LINES MAT. NO. 11 -PRICE .20? mt* THEY'RE ALL NUTt OUT ON A LIMB OF THEIR FAMILY TREE! Meet America's first Family of Filberts in the wildest laugh show of the yearl Grandma a riot with th« dUhes ... and a panic In her tuptl F/ftllKS Order from WARNER BROS