The Film Daily (1934)

Tuesday, June 19, 1934 THE -3&*l DAILY OlflJ SHORT SHOTS from EASTERN STUDIOS k By CHAS. ALICOATE «H hi Itniij |, 1 '! ffOI M wife, hit till ir Ik Coast «tt, K. All Good UMJtl for ton Holry r New ijSiw Km Yort York In tiling Kl : lltiliol a where Inei || loi si Wit liat Mae ox ai rectc hi 8| he la QUS EDWARDS, well-known as a song composer and discoverer of stage stars, started work yesterday with his "stars of tomorrow" in a one-reel short subject at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio. The supporting cast includes the Blenders quartette, Amy Ritzere & Ray Bradley, specialty dancers, Lee Sullivan, Nancy Evans, Erna Gilsow and Garfield Swift. The short will be released in Vitaphone's series of "Pepper Pot" novelties. • Production on "Woman in the Dark", adapted from the Dashiell Hanvmett novel of "Dangerous Romance", the first of a series of features to be made by Select Productions, got under way yesterday at the Biograph studios in the Bronx. Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy, Melvyn Douglas and Roscoe Ates head the cast with Nell O'Day as the ingenue. Granville Bates_, Georgia Harvey and Joe King have been signed for suvvorting roles. Phil Rosen, will Direct "Woman in the Dark" with Chris Butte as assistant director and Walter Scott and Carl Berger behind the cameras. Phil Brandon is production manager while Ed Lavenstein has been named as business manager. • An industrial production for the Equitable Life Insurance Co., is being made at the West Coast Service studio. • Get Fourth Cleveland House Cleveland — Meyer Fischer and William Weiss of the Fischer Film Exchange have taken over the Rialto from the Scoville Essick and Reif circuit. This is the fourth local house acquired by Fischer during the past year. The others are the Mall, Memphis and Fountain. Ohio Bans "Unknown Blonde" Columbus — "Unknown Blonde," Majestic release, failed to pass the Ohio Censor Board. FACTS ABOUT FILMS The Garrick, Loop house in Chicago, claims to have the smallest box-otfice in the world. It measures less than tive feet in circumference. jMOMCtheI m.J >Mt I p. f PHIL M DALY • • • AN EFFORT is being made by Warners to discover the best Barnum in show biz via the cleverest campaign on "The Circus Clown" starring Joe E. Brown with a circus background and a group of prominent circus performers participating Warners are urging exhibs to sell the pix more as a circus than a film • • • SOON TO appear in a Paramount short Irving Mills with his two newest bands Joe Venuti and his orch, and Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears Booking agreement between Loew's and Paramount making the Capitol theater a straight picture house will cause Duke Ellington and his orch to play at the Paramount in New York the week of June 29 instead of the Capitol Joan Ab bott, blues singer from George White's "Scandals," will be featured with Joe Venuti and orch at the Metropolitan theater in Brooklyn starting June 22 • • • A VERY pretentious production of the life of Cecil Rhodes whose romantic and colorful career played such a part in the development of South Africa is being under taken by Gaumont-British it will be directed by Victor Saville with the locale covering all the main incidents in the career of this great pioneer some unusual South African scenes will be filmed • • • THE SECOND in a series of tieups with the Borden radio programs will be the dramatization of Warners' "Madame Du Barry" over the Columbia Broadcasting network July 8th with WABC as the key station The Warner Club's annual boat ride and outing takes place tomorrow the gang will board the Peter Stuyvesant at 9:30 A.M. for the sail up the Hudson to Bear Mountain about 1500 Warnerites and their guests will participate games, dancing, athletic events, and a dinner arrangements handled by Harold Rodner and Irving Birnbaum • • • A POP boy in Hollywood these days is Jack Benny ...... .a visiting fireman from New York the autograph hounds ran him ragged so he had a rubber stamp made, which he carries around in his pocket for ready use the stamp says: "Love and kisses — Jack." all the sweet young things say it's cute so intimate and everythin' the lad is interested in pix, but has no intention of dropping his radio work he says shyly "I think I'm just what the picture business needs." • • • BEFORE THE Fleet sailed from the Harbor Al Christie and his production crew on a chartered tug securing innumerable authentic shots of Uncle Sam's boats which will provide a background for a comedy revolving around the fleet's stay in New York A regular Tuesday nite feature at the Roxy theater which starts tonite will be a radio program titled "Stageshow Revue" over WOR the program will be under direction of Fanchon & Marco with Roger Bower as emcee A clever booklet issued by Audio Productions shows Big Business how to profitably use talking shorts to publicize their products IT was about 65 years ago that Jules Cheret a French artist the Father of the Poster produced his first commercial design advertising Sarah Bernhardt this poster marked the beginning of the adaptation of Art to Advertising so remember Cheret's name « « « » » » NEWS of the DAY Detroit — A meeting of the Detroit zoning board was held this week, with H. A. Harrington, impartial member, president. Thirty-eight complaints were on file. Detroit — Charles A. Garner, of Regal Film Distributors, has bought "The Black King," Sack Amusement Enterprises production, as the first of a series of monthly feature releases to play a circuit of colored houses in Detroit and Michigan. Detroit — Leon and McKrim have opened the Sun. The house was formerly the Vendome, closed two years, and has been entirely remodeled and re-seated. House is being operated directly by the circuit, instead of by William Klarry and Joseph Kessler, as originally planned. Klarry remains as general manager of the circuit. J. Richard Gamble is house manager, coming from the Kramer theater. He plans to put dramatic stock with films into the house in the fall. New Orleans — Interstate Circuit, Inc., Louisiana-formed parent corporation for the various Interstate subsidiaries which were dissolved last week, will be dissolved here out of court. This is the Hoblitzelle Texas circuit. Milwaukee, Wis.— G. N. Blatchford, treasurer for the Wisconsin Amusement Enterprises, Inc., is the father of a nine-pound baby boy. Making Scenes in Chicago Chicago — The opening scenes of Eddie Cantor's musical production for Samuel Goldwyn, "The Treasure Hunt," will be filmed at the Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago, it was announced yesterday. Goldwyn has sent Walter Mayo, production manager and a crew of cameramen to Chicago. Cantor and Ethel Merman will visit the fair for scenes in the picture as soon as their work at the studios is completed. Named Board Alternates Cleveland — Milton Mooney, manager of Vitagraph, Inc., and A. M. Goodman, United Artists branch manager, have been named alternates on the local clearance board. Eddie Peabody Held Over Eddie Peabody will be held over as Master of Ceremonies at the Roxy for another week starting Friday. 62 Have "Famiiy Nights" St. Louis — Sixty-two local theaters have inaugurated a Friday "Family Night" program at the suggestion of the Better Films Council of Greater St. Louis, the annual report of that organization, just issued, states. Surveys prove that nearly all children attend the theaters, and that nine-tenths of them go with no advice from their parents or the church in their choice the Council declares.