The Film Daily (1935)

THE •%2H DAILV Tuesday, May 21, 19, "NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN" I Feature version) with Herman Brix and Ula Holt (HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW) Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises 74 mins. THRILLS AND SUSPENSE WILL SATISFY ALL TARZAN FANS. Thrills, suspense, action, comedy, beautiful settings, a new Tarzan, Herman Brix, with the body of a Greek God, this Edgar Rice Burroughs' fantasy should click big with the kids and those grown-ups who like their all-powerful Tarzan. In this one there is the African jungle, the ruins of Guatemala, and a Tarzan who speaks and is a gentleman besides being the King of the Jungle. Jiggs, his chimpanzee companion gets a lot of laughs. The plot holds one's interest throughout, but for speed in spots, some of the scenic materia' might be eliminated. There are three different parties which are interested it finding the precious stone located in the ruins of Guatemala. Tarzan, really Lord Grayson, is a member of one of the parties and through his efforts all obstacles are hurdled and the treasure recovered. Cast: Herman Brix, Ula Holt, Don Castello, Frank Baker, Lcuis Sargent, Jiggs the chimpanzee, Dale Walsh, Harry Ernest. Merril McCormack. Producer, Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises; Director, Edward Kull; Author, Edgar Rice Burroughs; Adaptation, Charles F. Roya' and Edwin Blum; Screenplay, Charles F Royal; Cameramen, Edward Kull, Ernest Smith; Editors, Edward Schrceder, Harcld Minter; Art Director, Charles Klague; Recording Engineer, Earl N. Crain, Lyle E. Willey. Spencer Tracy in "IT'S A SMALL WORLD" with Wendy Barrie, Raymond Walburn Fox 67 mins. COMEDY ROMANCE WITH RURAL ATMOSPHERE GIVES SPENCER TRACY CHARACTERISTIC ROLE. In his first all-comedy role, Spencer Tracy gets a chance to show his flair for the lighter type of histrionics, and also win the girl in the end, which is something of a record for him. He handles the part with his characteristic blunt wholesomeness, and the laughs ripple through the action. It's a light number that will please with an appealing romance. Tracy is an attorney who finds himself in a crash with his speeding car as Wendy Barrie rams her roadster into his near a small Louisiana town. Under an old law, he has the girl remanded in his keeping till she pays for his demolished car. She is a headstrong miss not used to taking orders, but he proceeds to tame her and make her like it. There are complications after she has consented to marry him, but the skies clear in time for the usual happy fadeout. Play up Spencer Tracy in his first allcomedy part, and pleasing love story. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Wendy Barrie, Raymond Walburn, Virginia Sale, Astrid Allwyn, Irving Bacon, Charles Sellon, Nick Fcran, Belle Daube, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Frank McGlynn, Jr., Bill Gill is, Ed Brady, Harcld Minjir. Producer, Edward Butcher; Director, Irving Cummings. Author, Albert Treynor; Screenplay, Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, Cameraman, Arthur Miller. Direction, Good. Photography, Okay. Rex Bell in "FIGHTING PIONEERS" Resolute Pictures 60 mins. FRONTIER DAYS AND FIGHTING INDIANS KEEP THIS ONE PEPPED UP WITH ACTION AND THRILLS. The frontier atmosphere starting off with a wagon train attack by Indians, with the U. S. Cavalry commanded by Rex Bell as Lieutenant driving off the hostile redmen and mortally wounding the Indian chief. Bell secures the friendship of the chief's daughter by allowing her to take the dying chieftain back to his tepee. Later a theft of rifles from the army stockade is discovered, and Bell is put in the position of clearing his name, as he and a sergeant were the only ones having access to the gun storeroom. The Lieutenant does some sleuthing and scouting, and gets a line on the sergeant being in league with the fort trader to sell the guns to the Indians. Plenty of action and hard riding result when Bell is captured by the Indians escapes with the help of the Indian girl chieftain, and later gets the two culprits with the goods, and then leads the cavalry to the rescue of the wagon train that has again been attacked. Very good Indian atmosphere, and the U. S. Cavalry in action is well handled. Cast: Rex Bell, Ruth 'Mix, Buzz Barton, Stanley Blystone, Earl Dwire, John Elliot, Roger Williams, Guate Mozin, Chief Standing Bear, Chuck Morrison, Chief Thunder Cloud. Producer, Al Mannon; Director, Harry Fraser; Authors, Harry Fraser, Chuck Roberts; Screenplay, same; Editor, Logan Pierson; Cameraman, Robert Cline. Direction, Good. Photography, Okay. \ Robb and Rowley Seek To Enjoin Dallas Board (Continued from Page 1 ) and Rowley Theaters, operators c ' the Royal, against the board, th Adams Film Exchange, Dallas, and V. E. Hamm, owner of the Wash ington theater, Sherman. Pittsburgh Briefs Pittsburgh — ■ Caroline Bauer of Warners' office is on a two-week vacation. Charles Rich and Harry Kalmine will attend the Warner sales convention on the Coast next month. Neighborhood houses are rebooking "Imitation of Life" for the third time. Mark Browar of the Roosevelt i; papering his district with Jewish one-sheets heralding the coming of "Power." Over two dozen picture poses o* •Judge M. A. Musmanno, author of "Black Fury," taken in coal mines around here are displayed in conjunction with that picture in the tristate area. The Center Square is now operating every Sunday with revivals. The Casino in Vandergrift, has added stage bills to its picture policy. A LITTLE from "LOTS" By RALPH WILK Sten Pact Cancelled Samuel Goldwyn announced yesterday that the contract between himself and Anna Sten has been terminated b mutual agreement. The producer brought the star to this country trom Europe. HOLLYWOOD ri. EORGE STEVENS, who directed "Laddie" and "The Nit-Wits," has a busy schedule ahead. He has started work on "Alice Adams," starring Katharine Hepburn, and will follow his current assignment by directing Barbara Sanwyck in "Shooting Star," for RKO. T T T Our Passing Show: May Robson, Mr. and Mrs. James Gleason, Virginia Sale, Rupert Hughes, Laura Hope Crews, Lionel Belmore at the tea celebrating the nineteenth anniversary of the Hollywood Studio Club; Will Rogers and Irvin S. Cobb considering a joint invitation to speak before the California legislature while they are at Sacramento making scenes for Fox's "Steamboat 'Round the Bend." T T T Con Conrad and Herb Magidson, who won the Academy award for their "Continental," have writter "Here's to Romance" for Nino Martini's initial starring picture, which Jesse L. Lasky will produce for Fo:-:. They have also written "Midnight in Paris," for the same picture which will be directed by Alfred E. Green. T T T More Passing Show: Jean Harlow w^th Marian Marx; Betty Furness discussing her 12-hour vacation in New York. T T T Several of the sets designed by Stephen Goosson for Grace Moore's "Love Me Forever" will be on exhibition in the Motion Picture Hall of Fame at the California-International Exposition at San Diego. T T T Warners have assigned Robert Armstrong and Edward Everett Horton to "Little Big Shot," and Lewis Stone, Nick Foran and Robert Light to "Anchors Aweigh." After nine consecutive months of work on the script and the set oi C. B. DeMille's "The Crusades" a; Paramount, author Harold Lamb has left Hollywood for a two-week rest at his home in Piedmont, Cal. He will return to begin work on the stcry for the next DeMlle produc t'.on, not yet announced. T T T Joe Morrison's next for Paramount probably will be the Arthur Lake-Sherman Rogers story, "From Little Acorns," which touches or the activities of the administration'; CCC. Paul Gerard Smith is writing the screenplay. David Holt and batting jrolf balls around a local j Baby LeRoy both are up for parts course; Janet Gaynor playing tennis in the picture. "MOTIVE FOR REVENG with Donald Cook, Irene Hervey, Lloyd, Edwin Maxwell Majestic 60 m SATISFACTORY MURDER DRAr, THAT SHOULD PLEASE AUDIENCES. Enough interest and suspense are ma tained in this to make it worth while, bit slow in the beginning, it picks toward the end with a little murder-nv tery stuff. Donald Cook, as a bank tell is driven to sealing bank funds by mother-in-law who is continually naggi him about her daughter's poverty. He apprehended and sentenced to jail. Wit there the mother forces her daughter divorce him and marry a wealthy indi trialist. When Cook has served his te he returns and arouses the new husban jealousy by allowing him to catch wife and Cook in a faked meeting. A si is heard and the industrialist falls de Cook and the girl are accused of mun but escape together. They are fin: cleared of suspicion when a maid confes the killing, the couple go off to anotl part of the country to start over Cast: Donald Cook. Irene Hervey, Dc Lloyd, Edwin Maxwell, William Le Strar Millman, Russell Simpson, Jchn Kelly, ! win Argus, Billy West, Wheeler Oakm Frank LaRue, Fern Emmett, Dorothy W bert. Producer, Larry Darmcur; Director, B Lynwocd; Screenplay, Stuart Anthony; tor, Dwight Caldwell; Cameraman, Herb Kirkpatrick; Recording Engineer, Thon Lambert. Direction, Gocd Photography, Good Goman Gets Control Of West Coast Studi< (Continued from Page 1) and is completing a new set cc struction department. Goman li been connected with the studio various capacities for the past thi years. New Orleans Notes New Orleans — G. Richard Frai United Artists' manager, flew frc here to New York to attend t bedside of his mother who is : ported critically ill. The M-G-M exchange manag Jim Briant, has returned from sales meet at Kansas City. Floyd Murphy, who used to s for United Artists here, and w was transferred to Atlanta, r been re-transferred to New Orlea $125,000 Negligence Suit A negligence suit asking $125,( and resulting from an explosion the RKO Prospect Theater in Yoi ers in 1934, came up for trial y terday in the White Plains Supre Court. The plaintiff is Mrs. Ju Minnick of Yonkers. h Jay lit] p I: it len lt\ L sat h [ Oceanic Booking •Les Miserables," Darryl Zanuck's 20th Century Production is announced as the film with which the motion picture theater aboard the S. S. Normandie will be dedicated on the first night out. The theater seats 400.