The Film Daily (1940)

Tuesday, October 29, 1940 O^k tac, Cuba Modifying Proposed Contract (.Continued from Page 1) tract was said to have the same meaning as Clause Six. The clauses covered arbitration of disputes. ^ Representing the distributors at jhe meeting were E. F. O'Connor, Metro; J. D. Rappaport, Paramount; Basilio de Armas, Pedro Saenz and their counsel, Dr. George Cassuso. Terms of the proposed contract were published recently in The Film Daily. Lightfoot and Simpson In Associated Brit. Posts London (By Cable)— Eric Lightfoot has been appointed managing director of Associate British and R. G. Simpson, chairman of board. Appointments fill the vacancies occasioned by the death of John Maxwell. Legion of Decency Rates Chaplin Comedy for Adults Legion of Decency has placed "The Great Dictator" in "Class A — Section Two — Unobjectionable to Adults." Joan Crawford on Air Joan Crawford will appear before a WMCA microphone from 4:15 to 4:30 o'clock, tomorrow afternoon, in the first of a series of broadcasts which will be relayed by short wave to England and which are designed to bolster the morale of English listeners. Soviet Pix to Open In Chi. "The Great Beginning," a new Soviet film, has been booked in Chicago to open at the Studio Theater on Nov. 7 for an indefinite run. This is the first of a series of new Soviet film releases to be distributed in this country by Artkino Pictures, Inc. "Rockne" Nov. 15 in Chi. Chicago — "Knute Rockne — All American" will have its first-run in this territory Nov. 15 at Warners' Avalon. STORKS! Cleveland — It's a girl over at the home of Joe Longo, director of publicity for Loew's Theaters. Family's first daughter weighed in at St. Anne's Maternity Hospital at 7% pounds. Henry Reiner, National Screen Service metropolitan salesman, is passing out cigars. It's a boy, born to Mrs. Reiner in the Lying In Hospital. Leo Justin, of the Walter Reade circuit, became the father of an eight-pound daughter Saturday morning. Baby, which is the Justins' second daughter, was born at the Le Roy Sanitarium. HCLLYWCCD $PE4nMNe« =: By RALPH WILK '■ —HOLLYWOOD TDWARD H. GRIFFITH added another dis*~ covery to his list recently, when he tested Helen Slade, member of the Hedges Group of Players at Laguna Beach, for a role in his next production for Paramount, "There's Always Juliet." Miss Slade, it is understood, has been placed under contract at Paramount. • © OUR Passing Show: — Edward Ellis, Ivan Kahn, Sol Polito, Forrest Tucker, Robert Wyler, Del Goodman, Sadie Fryer, Robert Palmer, at "Forty Thousand Smiths" at Ben Bard's Playhouse. • • ^>HARLIE RUGGLES has sent letters to ^■^ a host of his friends to bring to his See-Are Kennels, old books and magazines which the comedian will shortly present to Lt. Henry M. Fine at March Field, for Uncle Sam's aviation group. • • I^IRECTOR Rouben Mamoulian believes ^ in co-operative direction. On his most recent 20th Century-Fox directorial job, "The Mark of Zorro," Mamoulian encouraged cast and crew to offer suggestions as to script, dialogue, makeup or anything that didn't seem natural. • • COR a couple of dance sequences in his * latest picture, "Three Girls and a Gob," George Murphy, on loanout to RKO from M-G-M, has worked out simple methods of doing the Rhumba and the La Conga. In instructing Lucille Ball in the routines on the screen, he will also make the dances simple for the audiences. • • CLARENCE BROWN, directing "Come Live With Me," for M-G-M, is putting the engineering knowledge he learned at the University of Tennessee to practical use on his Calabasas ranch. Brown has designed a cantilever bridge and is erecting it across an arroyo which cuts his ranch in two. • • KJORMAN TAUROG, who would rather '^ direct children than adults, has kept a file of pictures of all the kids he has directed since he first won the Academy Award with "Skippy," in 1931. The file has 500 pictures, the latest addition being 12 shots of Judv Garland whom he directed in "Little Nelly Kelly," for M-G-M. Coast Studios Startina Eight Features This Week (Continued from Page 1) starring Margaret Sullavan and Charles Bover with Richard Carlson. Frank McHugh and Frank Jenks: and "Where Did You Get . That Girl?" At Warners: "January Heights" starring Bette Davis with George Brent: and. "Father and Son." At Hal Roach: "Tonper Returns" with Joan Bennett. Joan Blondell Roland Young, Billie Burke and H. B. Warner. At Producers Releasing Corp.: "The Devil Bat" with Bela Lugosi. "Plenty of excitement and action" — Film Daily 'Lots of laughs . . . more than usual serving of suspense' — The Exhibitor "Tense melodrama"— M. P. Daily