The Film Daily (1935)

» REVIEWS « "HOORAY FOR LOVE" with Ann Sothern and Gene Raymond (HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW) RKO Radio 70 mins. FAIRLY ENJOYABLE MUSICAL WITH REVUE SPECIALTIES AS MAIN ITEMS OF MERIT. The specialties are the things that make this picture. They include Bill Robinson dancing, his song number with "Fats" Waller, Pert Kelton as the would-be opera singer, and Maria Gambarelli ballet number. For the trade that goes for toe dancing, they'll get their money's worth in Gambarelli's work. Lionel Stander as the harassed foreign director is a standout. Story in itself isn't much, being that regular backstage yarn, where at the last moment the proper financing allows the show to go on and the boy marries the girl. However, it does serve as a reasonable background to allow for the specialties mentioned above. The Fields and McHugh music is good but not terrific and the dialogue fair, with Stander having some pretty fair lines. Except for a somewhat slow start, Walter Lang's direction keeps things moving briskly. Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern, as the boy and girl, do their standard good work. Cast: Ann Sothern, Gene Raymond, Bill Rcbinscn, Maria Gambarelli, Thurston Hall, Pert Kelton, Georgia Caine, Lionel Stander, Etienne Girardot, "Fats" Waller, Jeni LeGon, Sam Hardy. Producer, Felix Young; Director, Walter Lang; Author, Marc Lachman; Screenplay, Lawrence Hazard, Ray Harris; Music and Lyrics, Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh; Dances, Sammy Lee; Cameraman, Lucien Andriot; Sound, Paul F. Wiser; Editor, George Crone. Direction, Good. Photography, A-l. FOREIGN "FRUEHLINGSMAERCHEN" ("Fairy Tale of Spring"), in German; produced and directed by Carl Froehlich; with Claire Fuchs, Maris Wetra, et al. Distributed by General Foreign Sales. At the 79th St. Theater. Very entertaining operetta with particularly good music and a good cast in a nice romantic story. B, .OOKING DACK From The Film Dally Files FIVE YEARS AGO— Educational, Metropolitan and Christie studio properties merged into one organization headed by E. W. Hammons. TEN YEARS AGO— R. F. Woodhull elected president of the M.P.T.O. after merging Allied. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO— Charles Urban forms Urban Motion Picture Industries to merge Kineto Co., Urban Movie Chats and the Kineto Review. DAILY Monday, May 20, 1935 MONG THE f :: RIALT< PHIL M DALY • • • A NOTABLE event in the annals of the industry took place Friday night at the Ritz-Carlton when Grace Moore received the annual gold medal fellowship award of the Society of Arts and Sciences for her work in Columbia's "One Night of Love" the award being made for "conspicuous achievement in raising the standard of cinema entertainment." in the memorable record of fifty-three consecutive years that this Society has functioned she is the second woman to win the award and it is the first time that it has been awarded to anybody in the field of the Motion Picture T T T • • • SO IT was quite fitting and a very gracious gesture when Miss Moore took Harry Cohn's hand and had him stand beside her as the great honor was conferred it was a Vital Moment in the life of Harry and Columbia Pictures among the list of 300 notables present were Will Hays, Jack Cohn, Abe Cohn, Harry M. Warner, J. Robert Rubin, M. H. Aylesworth, Nate Spingold, Al Lichtman, Abe Montague, W. G. Van Schmus, Sir William Wiseman, A. C. Blumenthal, Nathan Burkan, Frank F. Kolbe, Valentine Parera, William M. Greve, C. Frank Reavis, Abe Schneider, Bruce Gallup, Ben Atwell, Beatrice Lillie, Tullia Carminati, Jesse H. Jones, Roy Howard, A. Atwater Kent, Rosa Ponselle T T T • • • THE BIG Chief in a Hollywood studio was on the set it was 11 A. M he spies a studio worker just arriving for work and does he bawl the poor slob out "But Mister Schmalz," protests the guy, "I was working on this set till 4 o'clock this morning." and the Big Shot stamps his foot, and throws his arms in the air "Look!" he yells excitedly, "I bawl him out and he tries to change the subject on me!" T ▼ T • • • WITHOUT ANY possible fear of contradiction we place the laurel wreath at the feet of certain gents who have produced the finest specimen of an elaborate and down-to-earth merchandising Pressbook that we can ever recall being delivered in the Independent Field so if Messrs. George W. Stout, Ben S. Cohen, Harry Rathner and Nat Rothstein of the Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises will kindly step forward we will herewith confer the Award and compliment them for their vision and showmanship in backing up their feature-serial production, "The New Adventures of Tarzan" with a Smash Pressbook that is the Last Word in all departments get yourself a copy YOU be the judge words fail us and now if George W. Harvey will please rise, he can join the Award group for his organization handled the job with Artistry and Class. T T T • • • WHILE THE month of June is the month for the brides a lotta mugs in the film buz are wedded to Dame Golf watching some of 'em perform on the fairway we'd call it Dam Golf however that may make no never mind all and sundry golfers, goofers, dribblers and amateurs who make up the entries for the Film Daily Golf Tournaments are hereby urged to get their bids in on the printed blanks for the Twenty-third Annual Massacre at the Progress Country Club at Purchase, N. Y on June 12 if we told you about the 50 Handsome Prizes for the foursome winners and the runners-up you gents would sprain your check book getting it on the line the Prize selected this year is the Tops THE RKO Golf Tournament has been switched to Fenimore Country Club for May 23 Thursday the other golf club got scared when they saw the list of duffers T T T • • • AS THE ancient proverb goes: "The Mountain labored, and brought forth a Mouse." it seems that Hal Home took this literally and literarily so he made book on the ole proverb and brought forth a Magazine a Gag Ha Hal ought to appreciate it and the guy's Mickey Mouse Book is breaking newsstand sales records across the continent Equity Ass'n annual meeting, New York. »DATE_BOOKfl May 20-23: Allied States Ass'n annual convention, Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta. May 20-24: Annual Spring Meeting of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, Hotel Roosevelt. Hollywood. May 23: RKO Golf Tournament, Fenimore Country Club, White Plains, N. Y. May 26-June 2: Tenth annual Hollywood motion picture tennis tournament, Los An geles Club, Los Angeles. May 25: Seventh Annual Bridge Party of the National Board of Review, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. 1:45 P. M. May 27: Annual New England Film Golf Tournament, Pine Brook Valley Country Club, Weston, Mass May 27: Actors Hotel Astor, May 27-29: GB sales convention, New York May 30-June 2: Fox annual sales convention. Congress Hotel, Chicago. May 31: Chicago Film Relief Ball, Chicago. June 1 : Universal Club's spring supper-dance. Astor Roof, New York. June 1-3: Universal annual sales convention, Hotel Stevens, Chicago. June 4: Public hearing on proposed revision of amendment for minimum booth costs and maximum hours of employment in Greater New York, Hotel Washington, Washington, D. C. June 7-8: Republic Pictures sales convention, Netherlands-Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati. June 9-13: Warner-First National sales convention, Hotel Ambassador, Los Angeles. June 12: Twenty-third Film Daily Golf Tournament, Progress Country Club, Purchase, N Y. June 15-18: Independent Theater Supply Dealers Ass'n annual convention, Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. June 16-17: M.P.T.O. of Virginia convention, Patrick Henry Hotel, Roanoke, Va. June 17-19: RKO annual sales convention, Drake Hotel, Chicago. June 19: Warner Cli/b's annual outing to Bear Mountain. RFC Ready to Loan On Any Safe Project Commenting Saturday on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation's policy toward theater loans, Jesse Jones, RFC head, said: "We will be glad to loan money on any project that is safe and sound and serves a useful purpose." Jones said he had been informed of the Roxy theater application to the RFC and remarked that the amount asked was much less than the value of the property. Jeanette MacDonald Signs Anew Y West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY], Hollywood — Jeanette MacDonald has signed a new long-term contract, at M-G-M. Her next picture will be "Americans Can Sing, Too!": with Nelson Eddy. Know Your Industry How many features were released by major companies in 1934? Answer: 361. (See 1935 Year page 369, for tabulation and list.) Who is president of Eastman Kodak Company? Answer: Frank W. Lovejoy. (See 1935 Year Book, page 562, for personnel of important companies.) sd by * Kodak