The Film Daily (1934)

. DAILY Thursday, June 21, 1934 A TITTLE" from HOLLYWOOD TOTS //. By RALPH WILK TOE E. BROWN, whose next picJ ture is to be "Six Day Bike Rider," is absorbing the atmosphere of bicycle racing in Hollywood, having acted as starter for a 24-hour cycle race in the cinema city. T T T Paul Muni's next starring vehicle for Warner Bros, will be "Black Hell." Abem Finkel and Isaac Goldberg are at work on the script, with Muni, himself also collaborating. T T T Rosemary Ames has been signed to a new Fox contract. T t ▼ James Dunn has been assigned the male lead opposite Jean Parker in M-G-M's "Have a Heart,'" which David Butler will direct. ▼ ▼ Y Helen Chan, young Chinese actress discovered by Monta Bell, producer, has been signed for a featured comedy role in "Student Tour," M-G-M musical. T T T Sig Herzig, who collaborated with Earl Carroll on the screen play for "Beaux Arts Ball," which will be produced by Carroll, is now working on the script for "The Girl Friend," which will be made by William Rowland for release through Columbia. T ▼ T Gladys George will make her debut in pictures, replacing Mae Clarke in the leading role in M-GM's "Four Walls." T T ▼ Laurel and Hardy will be featured in M-G-M's "Babes in Toyland,'' which goes into production about July 10. T ▼ T Erskine Caldwell has signed a writing contract with M-G-M, and is expected to join the coast scenario staff in the near future. His "Tobacco Road" was dramatized by Jack Kirkland. ▼ TV Ethel HilL who collaborated with Harvey Gates on the screen play for "I'll Fix It," is one of the busiest writers on the Coast. She wrote the screen play for "Blind Date," for Columbia, and also worked with Dorothy Howell on the script for "Whirlpool." She is co-author of "A Woman in Her Thirties," which was made by Warner Bros. ▼ t ▼ Mo Wax and Ronald Bank are preparing a script based on the life Disney Turns to Satire With the production, of "Who Killed Cock Robin?" his latest Silly Symphony. Walt Disney turns from comedy to satire. Until now a producer of animation of famous fables and musical masterpieces, he is invading the field of mystery stories by a fitting start with this daddy of them alL and exploits of the late Augustino Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel. v T T Manny Seff and Peter Milne are writing the screen play for "Gold Diggers of 1935," which will be one of Warner Bros, million dollar productions for next season. Robert Lord and Milne wrote the original story. ▼ ▼ ▼ Our Passing Show: Jesse L. Lasky, Claudette Colbert, Edward Sutherland, Irving Starr, D o r e Schary, Al Rosen, Daniel Reed, Arthur Pierson, H. S. Kraft, Marty Cohn, Max Shagrin, George Seaton, Frank MacDonald, Arthur Bloch, Sidney Harmon at the opening of "Keep It a Dream." T T T Ben Holmes, comedy director, who has been with RKO for four years, has been re-signed for a fifth year. He will do five more Chick Chandler comedies and one more Clark and McCullough. V T T Dave Gould, who staged the "Carioca" in "Flying Down to Rio," will cieate "The Continental," a new dance number, for "The Gay Divorce," which Mark Sandrich will direct for RKO. One-hundred dance teams will be used, with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire featured. Ted Healy, Ruth Roland, Ben Bard, Jeanette Loff, Al Rogell, Sam Jaffe, Eugene and Vina Delmar and Arthur Stebbins have joined the "Bath and Tennis Club," which was organized by Nick Stuart. The club is located in Cheviot Hills, has eight tennis courts, badminton, squash and handball courts, a large swimming pool and other facilities. ▼ ▼ ▼ Laura Hope Crews is returning to the screen in the leading character role in "Age of Innocence," at RKO. Her absence from pictures was due to her appearance in the Broadway stage play, "His Master's Voice" which ran for nearly nine months. v T T Abe Meyer, head of the Meyer Synchronizing Service, which supplies music for independent producers, has been appointed by Jack Robbins as studio representative for the Rabbins Music Corp. In the future, all negotiations by studios for permission to use music owned by the Robbins concern in their productions will be handled by Meyer acting for the publishers. ▼ ▼ ▼ Christine Ames' "The Human Side," got under way yesterday at Universal City. To the cast which is headed by Adolphe Menjou and Short Shots from Eastern Studios By CHARLES ALICOATE J-^ELEN HAYES and Fanny Brice were visitors on the set of the Hecht-MacArthur production now in work at the Eastern Service studio in Astoria yesterday. • Shooting will start Monday on a new Educational-Tom Howard comedy, tentatively titled "Fun in a Drug Store." Al Christie will produce and direct the comedy at the Eastern Service studio in Astoria. George Shelton, will as usual, appear in the second comedy role. • The second of the series of all Spanish talking features, for release by Paramount International, is scheduled to go into production next Thursday at the Eastern Service studio in Astoria. Carlos Gardel, will play the leading male role in the picture which will be directed by Louis Gasnier. Fred Scheld will assist on the direction with Robert Snody supervising and George Weber in charge of the cameras. Supporting cast is now being selected. • Harold Atteridge has been added to the writing staff of the ChristieEducational comedies with headquarters at the Eastern Service studio in Astoria. Ruth Gillette has been signed for a role in "Woman in the Dark" the feature now in production at the Biograph studios under the direction of Phil Rosen for Select Productions. Others in the cast include Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy Melvyn Douglas, Roscoe Ates, and Nell O'Day. • Joe Rivkin has signed the Radio Ramblers under his personal management. The Trio just completed a short at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio. Studio Observations: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur playing roles of reporters in their own production Lee Garmes making sure of his shots Art Rosson elated over the fact that his brother, Harold, is completely out of danger Harold Godsoe, assistant director Walter Strenge, checking on Garmes Sol Midwall, making the best of it Slavko Vorkapitch directing the trick shots in the regular Vorkapitch style Eddie Hylan, Matty Cohen and Billy Kelly holding a confab Jack Shalitt being paged for a still Fred Ryle, just looking and Terry Hogan holding script. Doris Kenyon, a number of players were added by director Edward Buzzell. They are Reginald Owen, Joe Cawthorn, Betty Lawford and Dickey Moore. ▼ T T Universal is bringing Clara Kimball Young, the former star back to the screen in an important role in "Romance in the Rain," a romantic comedy with music featuring Roger Pryor, Heather Angel, Victor Moore and Esther Ralston. ▼ ▼ ▼ Production begins tomorrow at Universal City on "Million Dollar Ransom," adapted from Damon Runyon's "Cosmopolitan" Magazine story, "Ransom $1,000,000." Murray Roth is directing and featured role's are played by Edward Arnold and Phillips Holmes. Other parts are played by Andy Devine, Wini Shaw, Marjorie Gateson, Bradley Page, Edgar Norton, Hughey White and Robert Gleckler. Joan Bennett is out of the cast. _, . ▼ r ▼ The original story, "I Murdered A Man," by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements, has been purchased by Universal for early production. The picture will be directed by Edward Laemmle. ▼ T T Karl Freund has been assigned to handle the megaphone on "It Happened in New York," an original story by Ward Morehouse, at Universal City. Rian James will be associate producer. ▼ ▼ ▼ John Wexley, successful dramatist, Theater Guild director and screen writer, has been added to Columbia's list of authors and writers. ▼ ▼ r Armand Schaefer and B. Reeves (Breezy) Eason will co-direct "Law of the Wild," a Mascot serial starring Rex, the wild horse, and RinTin-Tin, Junior, and featuring Ben Turpin. ▼ ▼ T Mitchell Lewis has been engaged by Reliance for "The Count of Monte Cristo," in which Robert Donat and Elissa Landi are costarred. Rowland V. Lee is directing for United Artists release. ▼ V T Lou Edelman, who supervised production on "Here Comes The Navy" and collaborated with Delmar Daves on the script of "Flirtation Walk," has been given a new long term Warner contract. t r v Adaptation of "Sand Hog" an original, has been assigned to Jack Kirkland by Fox. mida s I'' is poc ■«, 1 Wi •to !< 91)111: Army Imta iooto' pointe Bom i spei Sco sice lor Lis irese: -■jest Parai it .1 was i | M limn. lolloi "llVt forei iMn) Col. Signs John Gilbert John Gilbert, was engaged yesterday by Columbia for one qf the featured roles in "The Captain Hates the Sea." The cast includes Florence Rice, Fred Keating, Alison Skipworth Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson.