The Film Daily (1943)

•esday, November 9, 1943 DAILY iub Fans Shop Again is Marquees Blaze (Continued from Page 1) )cked by the downtown stands on •klay, Saturday and Sunday, afr spotty business during the earl• days of the week. But most to nefit by the stepped-up illumina>n were the nabe stands. Such theers as the Circle and the Harvard juare were recipients of particurly strong business, and their parkff lots, previously almost deserted, owed heavy parking trade. Bad jather is held accountable for the lling-off of theater grosses on onday, Tuesday, Wednesday and mrsday of last week. Encouraged by the week-end trade lame, downtown outlets are mak-mistice Day attendance and build g special plans of a promotional ture to create and handle large :r the "long week-end" ahead. ew Haven Exhibs. Sparing i Use of Bright Lights New Haven — Although theaters .ve thus far been given full rein their return to bright lights, ither downtowns nor nabes have ken full advantage of the lifting the dimout. The soffit lights are not burned ring the day, uprights have been ft dark for the most part, and marees go on at the last possible moent. The exhibitors are not only -operating with the warning that wer must still be conserved, but € acting for greater economy. old Funeral Services oday for J. H. Gallagher reviews of new films (Continued from Page 1) St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Cath | c Church on Park Ave. Death . me on Saturday in Boulevard Hos Dtal, Queens, after a protracted ill ss. Surviving are Gallagher's wife, >ra; two daughters and a son who I in the Navy. Gallagher was serving as advertis> manager of Showmen's Trade rview when he was taken ill. Prior that he acted in a similar capac' for Boxoffice. He had once been vertising chief of Columbia Picres. = TO THE COLORS! * DECORATED * .X McCOY, USA, formerly Paramount shipper, Omaha, awarded the Purple Heart and an Oak Leaf Cluster in the North African theater. * AR M~Y * 'JRCE FRAZER, manager, Palace, Lorain, 0. JCE SHELTON, manager, Paramount Theater. Des Moines. DIE WALTER, booker, Faramount. *~NAVY * PALMER, manager, State, Raleigh, N. C. "Cry Havoc" with Margaret Suliavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell M-G-M 97 Mins. THIS ONE PROVIDES EXHIBITORS WITH A DRAMATIC HIT; ALL-GAL CAST A BIG ASSET. The film version of the Allan R. Kenward play is a splendid tribute to the women who ministered to the wounded and ailing on Bataan with selfless devotion to their task and with complete contempt for their personal safety. By playing "Cry Havoc" the exhibitor will be doing a great service in that he will give those on the home front reason to feel ashamed of any complaining about having to sacrifice some of their comforts because of the war. Specifically, the film is the story of 13 women who saw their duty when the Japs closed in on Bataan and did it to the full of their abilities. Of the batch only two are trained nurses. Another is a driver and a fourth a cook. The others represent a polyglot group of civilians who offer their services as nurses' aides to relieve the shortage of experienced medical help. The relationships among the girls make an extremely human tale, vivid, moving and highly dramatic. The picture has little time for shallow heroics, giving the characters real substance as human beings. The civilians' change from a bunch of squabbling, fear-stricken females to a united group consecrated to the alleviation of the suffering of the fighting men of Bataan has been negotiated with skill and plausibility. Harrowing experiences play an important part in the transformation. There are no men in the cast. Whatever romance there is in the film is confined to dialogue. There is considerable talk concerning the attempt of one of the girls to steal the officer sweetheart of the nurse in command. It isn't until the end of the film when the man is killed that the girl discovers her superior and the officer were secretly married. At the end several of the girls are dead and the others are in the hands of the Japs. Paul Osborn has done a good job of transferring the play to the screen. Edwin Knopf handled the producer assignment meritoriously. The direction of Richard Thorpe is first-class. The nurse in command is enacted superbly by Margaret Suliavan. Ann Sothern and Joan Blondell stand out among the others. Fay Bainfer, Marsha Hunt and Ella Raines are a few others who deserve a nod. CAST: Margaret Suliavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ella Raines, Frances Gifford, Diana Lewis. Heather Angel, Dorothy Morris, Connie Gilchrist, Gloria Grafton, Fely Franquelli. CREDITS: Producer, Edwin Knopf; Director, Richard Thorpe; Screenplay, Paul Osborn; Based on play by Allan R. Kenward; Cameraman, Karl Freund; Musical Score, Daniele Amfitheatrof ; Recording Director, Douglas Shearer; Art Director, Cedric Gibbons; Set Decorator, Edwin B. Willis; Film Editor, Ralph Winters. DIRECTION, Good. PHOTOGRAPHY, Good. Eugene S. Rook Dead Youngstown, O. — Eugene S. Rook, 86, manager of the Loop Opera House for 30 years, is dead. "Deerslayer" with Bruce Kellogg, Jean Parker Republic 67 Mins. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER STORY REACHES SCREEN AS GOOD ENTERTAINMENT FOR KID AUDIENCES. The needs of those who cry for action in film entertainment should be more than adequately met by this film version of James Fenimore Cooper's "Deerslayer" with which Pete Harrison makes his bow as a producer in association with E. B. Derr. Since the film places movement above every other consideration, it pans out as ideal diversion for the kid trade. The production represents just the sort of stuff the children holler for. It's been a long time since an action picture about Indians has been along. This fact should help the film's prospects. That the film possesses a choppy continuity should be of little concern since the picture has been fashioned with the kids in mind. The young ones are given ample opportunity to root for Deerslayer, who proves himself one of those heroes that only exist in fiction. The fellow is kept busy as a beaver rescuing this one and that from the treacherous Hurons. When it's all over, the white settlers owe him more than a debt of gratitude. One of Deerslayer's greatest feats is rescuing an Indian princess snatched by the Hurons from the tribe with which our hero has grown up. The chap is made such a noble sort that he readily bows out of the picture when he discovers that the girl he is attracted to is in love with another man. The screen play and story treatment of Harrison and Derr are filled with violent incidents, besides containing enough excitement and suspense to satisfy juvenile minds. Lew Landers' direction places stress on action. John W. Krafft did the adaptation. The acting suits this type of film. Bruce Kellogg plays Deerslayer. Jean Parker is the girl he renounces and Warren Ashe the rival who gets her. Larry Parks enacts an Indian brave with whom our hero has been brought up. Ashe is easily the best of the players. CAST: Bruce Kellogg, Jean Parker, Larry Parks, Warren Ashe, Wanda McKay, Yvonne de Carlo, Addison Richards, Johnny Michaels, Phil Van Zandt, Trevor Bardette, Robert Warwick, Many Treaties, Clancy Cooper, Princess Whynemah, William Edmund. CREDITS: Producers, P. S. Harrison, E. B. Derr; Director, Lew Landers; Screenplay, P. S. Harrison, E. B. Derr; Adaptation, John W. Krafft; Based on novel by James Fenimore Cooper; Cameraman, Arthur Martinelli; Film Editor, George McGuire; Set Decorator, William Kiernan; Sound, Fred Stahl. DIRECTION, Okay. PHOTOGRAPHY, All Right. Rogers Sets St. Louis Mark St. Louis — Republic's Roy Rogers, appearing with his "Man From Music Mountain", set a new high in attendance for the first-run Fox here, playing to 50,000 admissions in the first four days of the current engagement. On Sunday the b.o. shut down for over an hour. Dismiss Appeal of U. S.. Crescent Asks (Continued from Page 1) tiff on the grounds that (1) the Court had no jurisdiction to grant the appeal and (2) plaintiff's appeal does not raise a substantial question." Cites Supreme Court Cases The defense petition for dismissal on "no jurisdiction" grounds is based on the fact that the first Government appeal petition was filed July 16, 1943 and that Judge Elmer D. Davies granted this appeal and cited the defendants to the Supreme Court. Several Supreme Court cases were cited by Armistead to sustain the defense contention that "after an appeal has been granted by the District Court and citations issued, the District Court loses jurisdiction until the appeal is dismissed or abandoned" by the higher court. The petition points to the fact that on Oct. 27 a second Government appeal petition was filed and granted by Judge Davies. Injunction Remedy Adequate With reference to the defense's contention that the Government's appeal "does not raise a substantial question," the petition cites the "acquisition clause" in the amended and modified decree filed by Judge Davies on Aug. 30 which provides "that each exhibitor defendant may acquire additional theaters if no coercive or predatory practices are used" and claims that "the injunctive remedy granted is wholly adequate and it would be outside the scope of the decision to require the Court to pass upon the acquisition of other theaters where the sale is purely volnutary." It continues: "If such an injunction is appropriate in the case at bar, it would be appropriate in the case of every small indeendent chain of theaters in the United States and would simply mean that the District Courts of the country would be giving approval or disapproval to transactions of an ordinary business nature without any rule or standard to guide them. It would appear from the state-' meiit of jurisdiction filed by plaintiff that the idea is to prevent defendant exhibitors from purchasing competitive theaters. The assignment of errors (Government) contain no such limitation and the decree presented to the Court by the plantiiff contains no such limitation." Filing of the petition was acknowledged by assistant U. S. District Attorney Horace Frierson in the absence of Judge Davies who is in Washington, D. C, presiding over a term of District Court there. Judge G. H. Foster Dead Kenton, O. — Judge G. H. Foster, 71, former Marion County probate judge and manager of the Kenton Theater for the last 15 years, died in Antonio Hospital Nov. 5 of heart disease after an illness of six weeks. McLucas Trains 'Em Omaha — Four of Omaha's branch managers along Film Row formerly worked under Donald McLucas, present United Artists' manager. The four are: Frank Hanhon, Warners; Bernard Mariner, PRC; Harry Lefholtz, Republic; and Bill Barker, Monogram.