The Film Daily (1934)

DAILY Saturday, June 2, 193 J? SHORT SHOTS from EASTERN STUDIOS = By CHAS. ALICOATE = pHIL SPITALNY, stage and radio orchestra leader, and His Musical Sweethearts, have been signed to appear in a one-reel Vitaphone short. Joe Ruttenberg, cameraman, returned to Neiv York Thursday a/<ter a two iveeks visit on the coast. "Cafe International", two-reeler for release in the Paramount "Headliner" series, has been completed at the West Coast Service studio. George Givot is featured, supported by Leon Belasco and his orchestra and Elsie Janis. Fred Waller directed, assisted by Leslie Roush, with William Steiner in charge of the camera. The Three Ritz Brothers have not been signed to appear in a series of shorts for Warners as reported in the papers, according to announcement by Al Ritz, manager of the trio. ■ Vincent Farrar, cameraman, assisted by George Stoetzel, left this week for the training camps of Max Baer, at Asbury Park, and Primo Camera, at Pompton Lake, where they will shoot scenes of the heavyweights in training. Oliver Film Corp. is producing the picture which will be released after the bout, June 14. Production on the all-Spanish picture, "Downhill", being made by Exito Productions for Paramount Intei-national under direction of Louis Gasnier, ivas completed yesterday at the Eastern Service studio in Astoria. Carlos Gardel is featured in the cast, supported by Mona Maris, Vincent e Padida and Anita Campillo. Fred Scheld and Warren Murray assisted on the r'f ui nre, with Robert Snody as proihieilon manager and George Weber in charge of the camera. C. A. T utile handled the sound. CODE CASES Activities of Local Grievance and Zoning and Clearance Boards NO <>\ ERBUYING IX NEW TBKRIA New Orleans — Elias & Scharff's Palace. New Ilieria. i* not guilty oi overbuying, the grievance board ruled in a complaint bi by the Slimans, managing the Evangeline and formerly the Elk>. which they contended be closed for lack of product. Both the grievance and zoning-clearance boards will hereafter hold open hearings and release their decisions. MIST DISCONTINUE REBATES 1 mplaint of Nicholas T. Basil, Genesee Theater, the Commodore. Roxy. Rialto and Ellen Terry theaters have lieen ordered to drop rebates. If the decision is not obeyed, similar steps will he taken as in the case of Edwin Wick's Majestic, which exchanges were notified to stop serving because it failed to comply with a grievance board order to c < f lotteries. « « FEATURE and SHORT REVIEWS » » Marion Davies and Gary Cooper in "OPERATOR 13" I Hollywood Preview) M-G-M Running Time, Not Set This is easily one of the best spy piclures that has reached the screen in many a moon. Marion Davies as a Northern operator and Gary Cooper as a Southern spy enact a tender romance against a melodramatic background of the Civil War. Richard Boleslavsky has directed ably, while Harvey Thew, Zelda Sears and Eva Green have written a screen play that maintains suspense until the closing scene. Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson supplied appropriate songs that are sung by the Four Mills Brothers as members of a medicine show. Jean Parker, Katharine Alexander, Ted Healy and Sidney Toler are among the principals whose work stands cut. George Folsey adds to his laurels as a cinematographer. Lucien Hubbard was associate producer. Cast: Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, Mae Clarke, Douglas Dumbrille, Ned Sparks. Henry B. Walthall, James Marcus, Jay Lloyd, Larry Adler, Hattie McDaniels, Four Mills Brothers, Jean Parker, Katharine Alexander, Ted Healy, Sidney Toler. Director, Richard Boleslavsky; Author, Robert W. Chambers; Adaptors, Harvey Thew, Zelda Sears, Eva Greene; Songs, Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson; Cameraman, George Folsey. Direction, Fine. Photography, Fine. FOREIGN DIALOGUE "THE RABBI'S POWER", silent produced in Russia; with Yiddish narrative by Joseph Bulcff; directed by George Roland; author and dialoguer, Jacob Mestel; with Jacob Buloff, J. Kadison, B. Basenko and B. Fishbein. With the addition of a prologue, an epilogue and an excellent job by Joseph Bulcff as the narrator, this Russian-produced silent makes mild entertainment for the older generation of Jews. Its plot, based on Jewish folklore, tells of the intervention of the Prophet Elijah to enforce a pledge made by two friends that their children, if one had a boy and the other a girl, should be wedded. Tale is interestingly unfolded in a melodramatic way with the prophet acting at the end to right several wrongs and effect a happy ending. "MOTHER, 1905", Soviet silent; produced by Mezhrabpomfilm ; directed by V. I. Pudovkin; with Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalof, A. Tchistyakoff. At the Acme Theater. Based on the Maxim Gorky novel, this picture, suppressed in this country for several years, is a tense but rather dreary affair with the customary dose of Soviet propaganda, shewing how a Russian workingweman became a revolutionary strike leader as a result of oppression. May Hear Labor Dispute Monday Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washing-ton — An unconfirmed report yesterday had it that the National Labor Board has scheduled a hearing for Monday involving an alleged labor dispute in the Consolidated Film laboratories. SHORTS "Mild Cargo" (Cubby Cartoon) Radio 7 mins. Snappy Comic Cubby does a burlesque on "Wild Cargo," going to the jungle to bring the wild animals back alive. He has all sorts of exciting adventures capturing the various jungle beasts. His main worry is a gorilla that insists on being captured in order to get away from a nagging wife. Cubby doesn't want him but the gorilla finally tricks Cubby into capturing him. Good novelty treatment and very snappy. "Held For Ransom" Majestic 19 mins. Interesting A re-enactment of the Urschel kidnapping, compiled principally from newsreel shots, this makes an interesting subject because of its timeliness, the complicated and fas1 cinating nature of the abduction and j the unusual quarry — Harvey Bailey, "Machine Gun" Kelly, two women and a boy — that was bagged in the roundup of the snatch band. Clips from the files supplied the actual locales. The sentencing of the kidnappers provided a dramatic finale. "RoamirT Vandals" with Patsv Kellv, Lillian Miles, Billy Gilbert, Eddie Foy. Jr. M-G-M 19 mins. Laughs and Music With an Indian medicine show as a framework, this is a combination of slapstick and song numbers that proves generally entertaining. Chased out of one county by the sheriff for peddling their fake herbs, the traveling troupe beats it into the next county and proceeds to put on its performance. There is hot singing in Kooch costume by Lilian Miles and an Indian number by Patsy Kelly, who also bats out most of the comedy. When they are again found out to be fakes, there is a fast getaway and auto chase that lands them crashing back in the former county where the sheriff is waiting to nab them. "Among the Clouds" Gaumont-British 10 mins. Mountain Beauties A picturesque journey through the Canadian Rockies with four venturesome travelers who pack their mountain ponies and start for the snow-clad heights. The scenery en route is gorgeous. The camera work cannot be surpassed. Many of the shots have the quality and lighting of a beautiful oil painting. Arrived at the snow altitude, the pack train is discarded, and with a Swiss mountain climber the party scales the perilous heights to the summit. A fine number for the warm weather with its suggestion of outdoor coolness. A Little from "Lots" ^^ By RALPH WILK ^^ nieii : j? HOLLYWOO y^LFRED SANTELL and Jai Keithley, newlyweds, are holdirilffjL. up their honeymoon until final edi; ing of "Life of Vergie Winters which Santell directed for RKO. ▼ T T "We Live Again" is the new tit for Samuel Goldwyn's new Anr Sten picture based on "Resurrei tion," by Tolstoy. T T T Shane Ryan and Hal Weiner hav formed a partnership as a publicit firm. They have opened offices i 1509 North Vine Street. Miss Rya has been general press represent* tive for shows in the East and o the Coast, while Weiner was for merly a dramatic critic on the " Angeles Express." ▼ T T Si Bartlett, whose original storsl "Kansas City Princess," will bl made by Warner, is now workin ■■ on the screen play and dialogue foan untitled story that will stai James Cagney. _ ▼ ▼ T Frank MeJford, production man ager for Sol Lesser, is making plan for "Peck's Bad Boy," which wi! go into production during June. 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