The Film Daily (1938)

l,onday, October 10, 1938 TIC DAILY 10 BRIT. FINANCES SOUGHT IN GN DEAL i) (Continued from Page J.ck Barnstyn, foreign manager, sil Wednesday on the Normandie :r=^ngland on deals concerning ire1?fi distribution. N's Eastern Sales Reps. Confer on Sales Policies REVIEWS Of nEiu fums 'The Sisters' (Continued from Page 1) amnions, president; Edward L. .[person, general sales manager, and , H. Skirball, vice-president in marge of production. Saturday morning was devoted to :reening two new pictures. A busik'ss session featured the afternoon, lid further conferences and screenigs were held on Sunday. T. R. "illiams, treasurer; Gordon S. [hite, director of advertising and Ikblicity; Harold Saxe and Bruno | eyers of the home office group also jldressed the sessions. Sam BerkoKtz, representing Fine Arts PicIres, Inc., also spoke. Home office and sales represental/es who attended also included, Jeorge Blake, secretary; F. X. Carill, Robert Doidge, L. J. Wooljidge, Sam Citron, Philip Leonard, 1)1 Edwards, circuit sales manager; ■ orris Safier, Coast district sales lanager; Ralph Kinsler, middle ■astern district sales manager; larry Asher, Eastern district sales lanager, and Jack Lamont, SouthIn district sales manager. I Branch managers who attended jere: Arthur Newman, Albany; Joe hvy, Buffalo; Israel Levine, New laven; Merritt Davis, Charlotte; Ixles Lapidus, Pittsburgh; Moe Sherian, Philadelphia; Harry Brown, "ashington, John Himmelein, Clevejnd; Peter Rosian, New York; and lew York Salesmen, Harry Goldlone and Richard Perry. [AG License Plan for Agents l Sets Commission at 10 P.C. \est Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Screen Actors Guild | .an to license agents provides that agents shall be entitled to reave commissions in excess of 10 2r cent for screen talent and that 3 agent will be allowed to operate he, the agency or anyone interred in the agency, is an employer ' talent except in such cases as e Guild may deem a proper one >r which to grant a waiver. It is said that officials of the uild feel that certain agents are larging excessive commissions for bookings and that fees have mged from 15 to 35 per cent and lat some representatives have larged as much as 50 per cent for ooking musical artists on the air. ees will be immediately reduced with Errol Flynn and Bette Davis Warners 98 Mins. (HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW) STRONG LOVE STORY WITH COSTARS TURNING IN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES. Here is a strong love story, with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn doing outstanding work as the chief characters. The story starts in 1904 at a dance in Silver Bow, Montana, where Theodore Roosevelt's presdential victory is being celebrated, and Director Anatole Litvak has caught the spirit of the time. In fact, Litvak has done a splendid job in directing the various elements of the story, and gaining fine performances from the large cast. David Lewis rates credit as associate producer. Milton Krims faced a difficult task in scenarizing the Myron Brinig novel, but furnished a gripping screenplay and clever dialogue. Tony Gaudio's photography is high-grade. Restless, moody Flynn, a San Francisco sports writer, comes to Silver Bow to cover a prizefight, and falls in love with Bette. They marry and go to San Francisco to live. Bette's sister, Jane Bryan, marries Dick Foran, a banker, whom Bette jilted. Luxury-loving Anita Louise marries Aian Hale, a millionaire widower. When his "great book," which Bette encourages him to write, fails to win the approval of his friend, Donald Crisp, Flynn feels himseif a failure and starts drinking. Flynn loses his newspaper job and Bette gets work as secretary to Ian Hunter, a department store owner. Following a spree, Flynn ships himself to Singapore as a seaman. Bette barely escapes death in the earthquake, but is befriended by Lee Patrick and her mother, Laura Hope Crews. When Flynn returns from the Orient, Bette is in Silver Bow with her parents, Henry Travers and Beulah Bondi, and her sisters. Crisp accompanies Flynn to Silver Bow. The three sisters are attending another presidential election ball in Silver Bow's lodge hall, and Bette's reunion with Flynn is reminiscent of her first meeting with him in the same building. CAST: Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp, Beulah Bondi, Jane Bryan, Alan Hale, Dick Foran, Henry Travers, Patric Knowles, Lee Patrick, Laura Hope Crews, Janet Shaw, Harry Davenport, Ruth Garland, John Warburton, Paul Harvey, Mayo Methot, Irving Bacon, Arthur Hoyt. CREDITS: Executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; Associate Producer, David Lewis; Director, Anatole Litvak; Author, Myron Brinig; Screenplay, Milton Krims; Cameraman, Tony Gaudio; Art Director, Carl Jules Weyl; Editor, Warren Low; Music, Max Steiner; Musical Director, Leo F. Forbstein; Dialogue Director, Irving Rapper. DIRECTION, Splendid. PHOTOGRAPHY, High grade. "Time Out For Murder" with Michael Whalen, Gloria Stuart, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley 20th-Fox 60 mins. GOOD MYSTERY STORY WITH PERSONABLE CAST PROVIDES PLENTY OF ENTERTAINMENT VALUE. More supposedly class "B" pictures like this one, and there will be fewer complaints about double bills. Getting off to a snappy start, the film hits a fast pace that is maintained to the finish, packing plenty of punch and entertainment for all types of audiences. Combining a good mystery story, able direction and a personable cast, the film never loses interest right through a punch-packed climax. Michael Whalen, a reporter, Chick Chandler, his photographer, Gloria Stuart, a female bill collector and the chief feminine interest, and Douglas Fowley, a racketeer, neatly fill the principal roles. Possibly Whalen and Chandler do not give as accurate a portrayal of newspapermen as they might, but they play the roles the way audiences want them played. H. Bruce Humberstone gets credit for the direction, and Jerry Cady for the screenplay. Supoorting roles are ably acted by Jane Darwell, Jean Rogers and Robert Kellard. Kellard is arrested for the murder of a woman whose jewels he had possession of. He was taking them to the bank he worked for. Whalen believes the murder solved when the arrest is made, but later developments lead him to suspect Fowley, a racketeer, but also a good friend. However, with the aid of Fowley he uncovers the real murderer and everything is worked out neatly. CAST: Michael Whalen, Douglas Fowley, Gloria Stuart, Chick Chandler, Jean Rogers, Robert Kellard, Jane Darwell, June Gale, Ruth Hussey, Cliff Clark, Peter Lynn, Edward Marr, Lester Mathews. CREDITS: Associate Producer, Howard J. Green; Director, H. Bruce Humberstone; Screenplay, Jerry Cady; Cameraman, Virgil Miller; Editor, Jack Murray. DIRECTION, Good. PHOTOGRAPHY, Good. MICH. REPORTED COOL TO DIVORCE STATUTE {Continued from Page 1) sideration is regulation of theater games. A prelude to the convention proper, the Board of Directors meets today and dines tonight. First business session of the convention is slated for tomorrow afternoon when William F. Rodgers, Metro sales chief, is scheduled to speak. Abram F. Myers, national Allied's general counsel, will address the convention Wednesday morning. Final business session will be held in the afternoon, with a banquet at night closing the conclave. FitzPatrick Sails for S. A. James A. FitzPatrick, producer of TravelTalks for M-G-M, is en route to South America where he will shoot material for his 1939-40 releases. Accompanied by Mrs. FitzPatrick and a Technicolor crew, 13 More Conn. Indies Sign For Campaign Movie Quiz FitzPatrick will visit Curacao, Ven zuela, Colombia, Panama, Jamaica I Thompsonville; ccording to the plans of the Guild and Haiti, returning to New York and Bryan Memorial facials. I on Oct. 24. ! ington Depot New Haven — Approximately 55 Connecticut indies now participate in the Movie Quiz campaign, 13 new names having been added to the list this week. Theaters joining recently are the Carroll, Hamilton, Cameo and Alhambra, Waterbury; E. M. Loew's, Hartford; Astor, East Hartford; Finn's, Jewett City; Playhouse, New Canaan; Capitol, Milford; Strand, Plainville; Strand, Strand, Seymour, Hail, Wash Lincoln Theater Deals Send B. O. Scales Upward Lincoln, Neb. — Most important incident in re-arranging the theater scene here in four years transpired when Nebraska Theaters, Inc., allied with L. L. Dent's Westland Theaters of Colorado, gained control of the Liberty, a 1,400-seater, and a partnership in the Colonial, a 750seater. This adds to their already operating Varsity and Kiva. Deal, set by T. B. Noble, Jr., who has the State, Oklahoma City, and was formerly Dent's general manager, finds the Colonial 50-50ed with George O. Monroe, Sr., and the arrangement in force yesterday. The Liberty, a snatch from the J. H. Cooper Lincoln Theaters Corp., which has the lease until Dec. 1, comes to the NTI group Jan. 1. Gives NTI 3,790 seats in the downtown area, against Cooper's 4,850 seats. Previous to Aug. 1, Cooper had 6,850 seats. More important than the change in seat distribution, will be the effect on prices, Lincoln having been a sinkhole of low admissions for nearly three years. Varsity, just reopend, went from 20 cents to 40 cents top. Kiva, under the new setup a holdover house, goes from 15 cents to 35 cents top. Liberty, 15 cents top, raises a nickel, and the Colonial likewise. Liberty becomes a second runner, and the Colonial changes from a subsequent to an action first. South African Exhib. Unit Wants Darryl Zanuck Visit Capetown — (By Cable) — Following the arrival here of Walter J. Hutchinson, director of foreign distribution for 20th-Fox, on Oct. 26, Hutchinson will be asked to extend an invitation from the exhibitors' organization of South Africa to Darryl Zanuck to spend his next vacation here. An elaborate reception has been planned here for Hutchinson, as 20th-Fox is mErking its first year with its own distributing organization in this territory.