The Film Daily (1935)

10 GALLING SPECIAL MEET OF FOX MET. CREDITORS {Continued from Page 1) fair and the plan will be submitted to the bondholders in order to obtain the necessary assents for iinal confirmation. These operations are expected to take two months with the probability that two more months will elapse before the actual transfer of assets to the new company. Joseph M. Schenck is expected to deposit an additional $600,000 with Judge Mack today as a further guantee of performance of the plan. Preparing 6 New Ones At RKO Radio Studios {Continued from Page 1) C. Aubrey Smith and Halliwell Hobbes, director, John Cromwell; "Last Days of Pompeii," with Helen Mack, Preston Foster, Alan Hale, Louis Calhern, John Beal, David Holt and Gloria Shea, director, Ernest B. Schoedsack; "Leander Clicks," with James Gleason, who will codirect with Eay McCarey; "Old Man Rhythm," with Charles (Buddy) Rogers, Erik Rhodes, Betty Grable, Eric Blore and Dave Chasen, director, Edward Ludwig, and "Three Musketeers," director, Rowland V. Lee. "Pompeii" and "Old Man Rhythm" are scheduled to start shooting this week. Three pictures are currently in work: "The Arizonian," with Richard Dix and Preston Foster, director, Charles Vidor; "Return of Peter Grimm," with Lionel Barrymore and Helen Mack, director, George Nicholls, Jr., and "Top Hat," with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. "Becky Sharp," "Hooray for Love," "The Nitwits" and "She" are being edited. Kansas City Squibs Kansas City — With Fox planning to reopen the Boone, colored house closed for two years, there will be seven colored houses here. Fox also is improving the Lincoln, another colored house, and increasing its capacity from 500 to about 1,700. The old Eblon, colored house renamed the Roxy, is being equipped with RCA High Fidelity and will be reopened by a group of Negro business men. Bill Strickler, Sand Springs, Okla., was here last week and reported he is building a circuit of houses in the Sand Springs area. He already has four — Bixby, Dewey, Skiatook and Sand Springs. R. E. Hamler is building a $10,000 house at Valley Falls, Kan., to replace the one that was burned down. It will have RCA equipment. C. H. Schultz of Commonwealth Theaters will reopen the new Uptown, Columbia, May 16. Don Davis has sold RCA sound to Ray Musselman's new Princess at Lincoln, Kan. Also to Merrill Swank's Nova, Stockton, Kan., and the Senate, Shidler, Okla. • The Broadway Parade • Picture and Distributor Theater Goin' to Town (Paramount) Paramount Bride of Frankenstein (Universal) Roxy The Informer (RKO Radio) Music Hall Werewolf of London (Universal) Rialto Gigolette ( RKO Radio) Globe Phantom Fiend (Olympic)* (return run) Criterion Sunset Range (First Division)* Criterion Go Into Your Dance (Warner Bros.) — 2nd week Capitol G-Men (Warner Bros.) — 2nd week Strand Mark of the Vampire (M-G-M) — 2nd week Mayfair Les Miserables (United Artists) — 4th week Rivoli My Heart is Calling (GB Productions) — 2nd week (a) Westminster Mississippi (Paramount) (a) Palace The Gay Divorcee (RKO Radio) — 2nd week (b) Astor ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS ♦ Les As Du Turf (Paramount) 5th Ave. Playhouse The Red Village (Amkino) — 2nd week Acme Youth of Maxim (Amkino) — 3rd week Cameo ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ The Last Wilderness (DuWorld) — tomorrow 55th St. Playhouse Break of Hearts (RKO Radio)— May 16 Music Hall Baby Face Harrington (M-G-M) — May 17 Capitol Escape Me Never (United Artists)— May 23 Music Hall Mr. Dynamite (Universal) (c) Roxy The Glass Key (Paramount) (d) Paramount Let 'Em Have It (United Artists) (e) Rivoli Night at the Ritz (Warner Bros.) (f) Mayfair • Dual bill. (a) Subsequent runs. (b) Revival. (c) Follows Bride of Frankenstein. (d) Follows Goin' to Town. (e) Follows Les Miserables (f) Follows Mark of the Vampire. A LITTLE from "LOTS" By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD ^ ALTER WANGER has signed Wilson Collison, novelist, playwright and scenarist, to work on the script for "Smart Girl," Wanger's next production for Paramount, which so far has Ida Lupino and Gail Patrick in the cast. ▼ T ▼ Francis Faragoh is doing a dramatic script based on the life of Dr. Samuel Johnson for RKO Radio. Kenneth Macgowan will be associate producer on the film, tentatively titled "Dr. Johnson." T ▼ T Walter Byron has been assigned to replace George Meeker in First National's production of "Not On Your Life," in which Warren William and Claire Dodd have the leading roles. Meeker is otherwise engaged at present. r T T Alison Skipworth will play a featured role in "Shanghai," Walter Wanger's current Paramount production, in which Loretta Young and Charles Boyer are featured. ▼ T T Ann Sothern will have the lead in Columbia's "The Girl Friend," which Eddie Buzzell is to direct. The studio also has assigned Victor Killian and Wyrley Birch to "After the Dance." T ▼ T In addition to appointing a committee to make a survey of the status of television, the Research Council of the Academy also has launched an investigation of acoustic set and construction materials to determine the frequency characteristics, fire hazards, lasting qual ities and other engineering features of various types of sound proofing materials. Carl Dreher, Gordon Chambers, J. G. Frayne, N. M. LaPorte, Hollis Moyse, R. C. Willman and Gordon S. Mitchell are handling the television survey. T T ▼ Slavko Vorkapich, whose specialty is unusual sound and lighting effects, has been signed by RKO Radio to handle these matters on its forthcoming production of "Mr. Grant," Arthur Goodrich play about the Civil War general. Charles Arthur Powell, M-G-M writer, as the guest of the Hollywood Kiwanis Club, addressed the student body of the Hollywood high school on foreign correspondence as pertaining to newspapers. Powell was staff and war correspondent for the United Press and Associated Press in Latin America from 1921 to 1933. T T T Vh'ginia Sale is a late addition to Columbia's "After the Dance," featuring Nancy Carroll and George Murphy. T T ▼ Edward Everett Horton leaves early in June for London, where he will make a picture for Julius Hagen of Twickenham Pictures. Horton is new in "Top Hat" at RKO and will go into the London production as soon as he completes this role. T T T Dave Gould, M-G-M's dance director, believes he has a new find in June Lewis, who played in New York in Ed Wynn's "Grab Bag" and "A Man's Man." NATIONWIDE STUDIES BASED UPON FILM J I I? {Continued from Page 1) plays have been compiled by educational authorities and endorsed by the Association and are being forwarded to the heads of the 18,000 high schools and to many of the private and parochial schools of the nation. The plan announced by Lewis, f who is also chairman of the Department of Social Studies of the Evander Childs High School, New York, marks the national approval and extension of pioneering activities inaugurated by the National Council of Teachers of English which for the last two years haa published study guides on outstanding motion pictures for use in English classrooms only. The first of the new guides to be issued by the Association covers 3 "Les Miserables." It is designed for the use not only of teachers of English but also of romance languages and the social sciences. Specific classroom discussions before and I after seeing the photoplay are outlined and there is a 15-minute radio dramatization. Photoplay studies are now being planned for "Call of the Wild," "Midsummer Night's i Dream" and "The Crusades." Dr. William Lewin will be managing editor. ->jtl .? •::jli Pittsburgh Briefs Pittsburgh — The State in Johnstown has been acquired by Warners. Manuel Greenwald, local U. A. publicity chief, off to Akron and Canton to exploit "Les Miserables." John H. Harris and Jimmy Balmer deserted local office for a business trip to New York and Boston. The national Variety Club Convention will be held here May 17 and 18. Harold Henderson, brother of Morty Henderson, Variety Club manager, with the Ross Federal Theater Checking Service. Jack Boyd, formerly with the Warner booking office, and Peggy Wirsing, Duquesne Garden cashier, married last week. Mike Marks, Nick Anas, "Doc" Herman, Pete Nikas and Al Weiland added their names to the Allied Convention bound party which leaves here Sunday morning. Charlie Stanton of Atlantic Screen Service added the following to the staff of his newly-opened studio: Oscar L. Raup, Jr., in charge of studio management; J. L. Baker, production head, and Mrs. Frieda Johnson, dramatic coach. ml '•a fa ■ 1)1 liil ":t New Roxy Opening Record Roxy theater reports a new open ing day attendance record of 24,731 with "Bride of Frankenstein." House will open its doors at 10:30 A. M. today. i mutt