The Film Daily (1934)

Thursday, June 21, 1934 ««■■«■■ *■-' ' MHHWMMSUUMIil DABLV 11 EKaazaBace ita i !ar it ml "imantit ■'•■'■• at Dollar Ifamon 'S?azine Murray td roles PARAMOUNT MEET NOTES LOS ANGELES ADOLPH ZUKOR arrived in America from Hungary when he was 16 years old, with but $14 in his pocket. His first job, in a fur store, netted him $2 per week. William LeBaron, associate -producer at the Paramount studios, who talked on studio production, was the editor of Colliers Weekly following the War. w ; chased ioction. kv Ed-' .' Unite as-' dramar and led to s and i L-eves : arEin . Sen lack Emanuel Cohen, vice president in charge of production at the Paramount studios, and who outlined the company's production plans holds a commission as major in the U. S. Array Reserve. George J. Schaefer, vice-president and general manager of Paramount, started with the company as a film booker in the New York City exchange, 15 years ago. To show John Howard, Indianapolis exchange man how the boys all missed him, George Schaefer appointed a committee of three to send Howard, who is ill with pneumonia, a special convention greeting. William Erbb, Dave Prince and Allen Usher were named as the committee. Scotty Chestnut, Jacksonville manager, made his initial appearance this morning wearing as usual a large white carnation. Listed among the feature gags presented to the delegates and guests at the annual convention of Paramount Pictures in session at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles was the Goofy News Reel the idea of Max Fleischer, father of Betty Boojp, Popeye and Screen Classics, following the opening session of the convention. One scene taken from Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong" was shown as it was released in all parts of the country, while another angle was depicted to "reveal" how producers in general "deceive" their foreign customers. It was a burlesque. Runner up for the title of "champion traveller'' among the delegates and guests has been awarded to J. E. Perkins, district manager for Paramount in China, who will have travelled 30,000 miles when he reaches his headquarters in Shanghai. Pat-he Review Changes Name Chicago — Starting with the new season, "Pathe Review" will be known as "Pathe Topics." There will be no change in general editorial policy, states Thomas Chalmers, its editor. 28 "Names" in M-G-M New Year Lineuo Chicago — Twenty-eight players will be starred or featured in M-G-M product released during 1934-35. Following are their names: Marie Dressier, Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gloria Swanson, Warner Baxter, Maurice Chevalier, Ramon Novarro, Laurel and Hardy, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Loretta Young, Charles Laughton, Fredric March, Evelyn Laye, Herbert Marshall, Jimmy Durante, Constanc2 Bennett, Helen Hayes and Jeanette MacDonald. M-G-M Releasing 52 Features, 1 04 Shorts for New Season (Continued from Page 1) Minna Gombell, directed by Ernst Lubitschj "David Copperfield," produced by David 0. Selznick, directed by George Cukor from script prelared by Howard Estabrook and Hugh Walpole; "The Good Earth," Pearl Buck's Pulitzer prize novel, produced by Irving Thalberg, directed by George Hill from Francis Marion's script; "Chained," with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin, Una O'Connor and Marjorie Gateson, Hunt Stromberg producer, directed by Clarence Brown from Edgar Selwyn's story; "The Barrets of Wimpole Street," with Norma Shearer and Fredric March, produced by Thalberg and directed by Sidney Franklin; "Mutiny on the Bounty," with Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery, produced by Thalberg and directed by Frank Lloyd; "Naughty Marietta," with Jeanette MacDonal and Nelson Eddy, produced by Stromberg and directe by Robert Z. Leonard. "Marie Antoinette," based on Stefan Zweig's biography, with Norma Shearer, Charles Laughton and Herbert Marshall, produced by Thalberg and directed by Franklin; "Biography." stage comedy, with Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery, produced by Thalberg and directed by E. H. Griffith; "In Old Vienna," original by Vicki Baum, book and lyrics by Oscar Ha-mmerstein II and music by Sigmund Romberg, with Ramon Novarro and Evelyn Laye, produced by Harry Rapf; "Indo-China," with Joan Crawford, produced by Bernard Hyman with Victor Fleming as director; "West Point of the Air," with Wallace Beery and Robert Young, produced by Monta Bell and directed by Richard Rosson; "His Brother's Wife," with Jean Harlow, produced by Lawrence Weingarten from original by George Auerbach; "Movie Queen." an original by Sidney Skolsky, starring Marion Davies and produced by Lucien Hubbard: "Sequoia," with Jean Parker and Russell Hardie: "A Lady Comes to Town," with Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald, produced by Oscar Ha-mmerstein II, two allstar comedies including Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Louise Fazenda, Stuart Erwin, Ted Healy and Una Merkel, produced by Charles Reisner and Jack Cummings. _ . Other properties to be included in the program include: Michael Aden's story of Iris March; "China Seas" by Crosbie Garstin: "Soviet" by Jules Furthman; "What Every Woman Knows" by Sir James M. Barrie; "Tish," by Mary Roberts Rinehart; "Timberline" novel by Gene Fowler ; "Vanessa" by Hugh Walpole, last in his Rogue Herries series; "The Wind and the Rain" by Merton Hodge, recent Broadway stage success; "No More Ladies" by A. E. Thomas, current New York comedy success; "Forsaking All Others," based on the drama by Edward Roberts and Frank Morgan Cavett; "Her Excellency's Tobacco Shop" by Luzlo Bus Fekete, European stage success; "The Casino Murder Case" by S. S. Van Dine, his latest Philo Vance novel; "Wicked Woman" by Anne Austin, a novel; "Evelyn Prentice" by W. E. Woodward, "The Gravy Game" by Harrv Stuhldreher (Notre Dame star) and W. Thornton Martin; "Any Port in a Storm" by Guy Gilpatric, based on the S. S. Glencannon "Saturday Evening Post" and Red Book stories; "The Bugle Sounds" by Major Zinovi Pechkoff, novel of the Foreign Legion ; "Jungle Red Man," based on the book by Harold Noice; "Repeal" by Charles Francis Coe, a "Saturday Evening Post" serial: "Living in a Big Way." the novelette by Louis Bromfield; "Man Crazy" by Vina Delmar, published serially in "Liberty" Magazine; "Pamela Thorndyke" by Moss Hart; "Death on the Diamond" by Cortland Fitzsimmons. The group of original stories also includes, "The Winning Ticket" by Robert Hopkins, and "Black Chamber" by Major Herbert O. Yardley. Short Subject Schedule The entire list of short product comprises three Laurel-Hardy two-reel comedies, in addition to the full-length pictures which they are scheduled to make; eight Charley Chase comedies, two reels each; seven special two reel comedy subjects starring Irvin S. Cobb, from material prepared by himself; eight Thelma Todd-Patsy Kelly co-starring comedies; s;x "Our Gang" two-reel comedies: six two-reel musical revues and 13 one-reel MG-M musical cartoons, both in Technicolor; 12 Pete Smith Oddities and six Pete Smith Goofy Movies; eight FitzPatrick Traveltalks and bi-weekly issues of Hearst Movietone News throughout the year, with Edwin C. Hill as the explanatory Globe-Trotter. Sees Death of Immoral Films Drawing New Biz (Continued from Page 1) Paramount sales convention here. He said he believes there should be class theaters catering to sophisticated and family trades. Big, expensive productions should never be allowed to play 10 or 15 cent houses, Lightman said. Change Benny Pix Title "Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round" is the final title for the feature starring Jack Benny, which will be released through United Artists, Harry M. Goetz, president of Reliance Pictures said upon his return from Hollywood yesterday. Wh'le on the Coast, Goetz conferred with Edward Small, vice president in charge of production. RKO Is Seeking Six More New York Houses (Continued from Page 1) _ House on West 34th St., the Grand Opera House on West 23rd St., and at least three Consolidated circuit theaters. These houses will bring RKO's total theater coverage in this district to 56 houses. Okays isutiaio Alternates Buffalo — Approval by Administrator Sol Rosenblatt of three new alternates for boards of the Buffalo area were announced here as follows: Francis Di Bartolo, attorney; Samuel J. Dickey, former judge of city court, and Charles A. Freiberg, former sheriff and state senator. RKO CONFAB RUMORS CHICAGO JyjTLT AMES of Boston is a guy for long walks, but usually takes along his Buick. Nicky Goldhammer insists upon munching peanuts. Stan Jacques, Cincy B. M's. is guarding that youthful figure. Schmitz is the boy who made good for Milwaukee. He's branch manager there. Eddie McEvoy, Eastern and Canadian sales manager, is rated top golfer of the assembled multitude. Cress Smith recalled his early film experiences in the Windy City. Ed Lamb of Seattle informed everyone that he is the proud owner of a yawl. Barret McCormick is the original from "The Circle to the Square guy". From Circle Theater, Indianapolis to Times Square, New York. Barney Pitkin of the New Haven tribe has stopped talking about weight reductions. It seems that he began giving the local exhibs' ideas of their own about reductions. Morrey Anderson, Milwaukee's best looker, in the future is to handle all the selling of the female exhibitors. Harry Kahn of Washington spent the early morning hours talking about his hunt the previous day for the lone exhib in Chicago who hasn't signed for the RKO nickers. Harry Zeitels of New Haven found the going so hot the first day that he had to forget his poetic ambitions. Mark Plottel was awarded first honors for talking exhibitors into submission. Mark is a Winnipeg lad. Jack Droy also a Canuck was second. Many of the hick lads continually questioned A. A. Shubart, the man with all the answers about the fancy features of Chicago big time life. Pays Tribute to Depinet Chicago — J. R. McDonough paid high compliments to Ned E. Depinet when he described this RKO executive as the man whose enthusiasm and faith had kept the company alive during its darker days. "The great work of the sales force headed by Depinet pulled the company through its private depression," said McDonough.