The Film Daily (1933)

BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD" " Ifith Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Madge vans, Russell Hardie, Jackie Cooper, Eddie Quillan 1-G-M 85 mins. 1 SWELL BACKSTAGE DRAMA WITH MUSICAL TOUCHES HIGHLIGHTED BY OME SWELL PERFORMANCES. < i" THE Saturday, Sept. 2, 1933 -a&Ok DABI.V plays . da For fidelity to its theatrical locale, for • he excellence of its performances, pariculariy the grand work of Alice Brady and 'rank Morgan, and for the sustaining in .erest of its story, this backstage picture Elen: •» in a class by itself. Exhibitors need have o apprehension that they are getting a lartly remade "March of Time" made some ears ago, but never released. It is a new roduction in all respects except for a hort color sequence, a tableau number 'hich may advisably be eliminated. Story races the ups and downs of a theatrical Jamily through three generations, starting ack in the Tony Pastor vaudeville days nd winding up with the third generation fisfiarring in the movies. Besides the grand cting of Miss Brady, Morgan, May Robson, ussell Hardie and Madge Evans, there are ine bits by Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, ddie Quillan and others. Cast: Alice Brady, Frank Morgan, Madge vans, Russell Hardie, Jackie Cooper, Eddie luillan, Mickey Rooney, Tad Alexander, Edard Brophy, Ruth Channing, Jean Howard, ;immy Durante, Fay Templeton, May Rob,pn, Claire DuBrey, Muriel Evans, Claude 'eKaye, Nelson Eddy, Una Merkel. I Director, Willard Mack; Authors, Willard /lack, Edgar Allan Woolf; Adaptors, Same; ameramen, William Daniels, Norbert Bromine; Editor, William S. Gray. Direction, Aces Photography, A C? i I:; : it ■ if; Gary Cooper in "ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON" with Fay Wray, Neil Hamilton, Frances Fuller, Roscoe Karns Paramount 70 mins. ENGROSSING ROMANTIC COMEDY DRAMA ADAPTED FROM STAGE HIT MAKES VERY ENJOYABLE ENTERTAINMENT. What gives this production its principal merit is the natural sincerity in its handling of a small-town romantic mixup of years ago. Gary Cooper, the village tough lad, is hit hard when Neil Hamilton, the factory owner's son, steals Fay Wray from him and marries her. Frances Fuller gets Gary on the rebound, but he continues thinking of Fay. Neil also is indirectly responsible for Gary serving two years in jail. Eventually Gary becomes established as a dentist. One day Neil and Fay, who have been living in the city, return to the small town and Neil suddenly has to have a tooth pulled. Still brooding over what Neil did to him, Gary is about to give him an overdose of gas, when Fay enters with such airs of affectation that Gary decides the best punishment for Neil is to let him keep on living with her, while Gary finally wakes up to an appreciation of his own devoted spouse. Cast: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Neil Hamilton, Frances Fuller, Roscoe Karns, Jane Darwell, Clara Blandick, Sam Hardy, Harry Schultz, James Burtis, A, S. Byron, Jack Clifford. Director, Stephen Roberts; Author, James Hagen; Adaptors, Graver Jones, Wm, Slavens McNutt; Cameraman, Victor Milner; Recording Engineer, Harry D Mills; Editor, Ellisworth Hoagland. Direction, Natural Photography, Fine 'BUREAU OF MISSING PERSONS' with Bette Davis, Lewis S. Stone, Pat O'Brien, Gienda Farrell First National 79 mins. GOOD EXPLOITATION NUMBER MARRED BY MIXED INCIDENTS AND HOKE HOLLYWOOD ENDING. Runs along for many minutes with flashes of the operations of the Bureau of Missing Persons at New York City police headquarters, presenting the various types of cases that the Bureau handles, such as a lost kid, a kidnapping case, eloping wives, suicides, etc. Which is ail very interesting and filled with human interest, but it is not a film story. The latter gets going at last through the interest of Pat O'Brien as an investigator in the Bureau in Bette Davis who claims to be searching for her missing husband from Chicago. It develops that she is after a murderer for whose crime she is accused. O'Brien succeeds in uncovering the criminal, and so to the romantic ending. The let it down with a hoke Hollywood slapstick climax to polish off the corned, touch running through an otherwise ab sorbing subject which could have beer treated dramatically throughout and scored A natural for exploitation. Cast: Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pa O'Brien, Gienda Farrell, Allen Jenkins Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, A'an Dinehart, Marjorie Gateson, Tad Alexander Noel Francis, Wallis Clark, Adrian Morris, Clay Clement, Henry Kolker, Harry Beresfcrd, George Chandler. Director, Roy Del Ruth; Authors, Capt John H. Ayres, Carol Bird; Adaptor, Robert Presnell; Editor, James Gibbons; Cameraman, Barney McGill. Direction, Good Photography, Fine "GOODBYE AGAIN" with Warren William, Joan Blondell, Genevieve Tobin, Hugh Herbert First National 65 mins. HIGHLY AMUSING FARCE LOADED WITH LAUGHS AND ENJOYABLE FOOLERY HANDED OUT AT A FAST PACE. Based on the stage play of the same name, this is a very amusing romantic comedy, with emphasis on the comedy, which has a hilariously nutty vein that should keep any audience laughing most of the time. The doings concern a romantic entanglement between Warren William, a hot fiction author on a speaking tour, and a former flame, Genevieve Tobin, who married a dull husband and has worked up an amorous fever for the now famous writer. Despite efforts of Warren's secretary, Joan Blondell, and members of Genevieve's family to intercept a compromising situation, the worst happens and everything looks pretty muddled until the wife is intentionally disillusioned by her hero. The story is appropriately acted by the entire cast. Hugh Herbert, as the indulgent husband, is particularly funny. Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Genevieve Tobin, Wallace Ford, Helen Chandler, Hugh Herbert, Hobart Cavanaugh, Jay Ward, Ray Cooke. Director, Michael Curtiz; Authors, George Haight and Allan Scott; Adaptor, Ben Markson; Cameraman George Barnes; Editor, Thomas Pratt. Direction, Lively Photography, Fine. irp: "HER FIRST MATE" with Slim Summerville and ZaSu Pitts niversal 66 mins. I SWELL LAUGH NUMBER WITH BOTH .'ASU AND SLIM SCORING STRONG ND GETTING HAND. It would do any exhib's heart good to [ai|iear 'em laughing right through the footage and then giving a big hand at the \ , Jose, as happened at the first showing astft the Roxy 7th Avenue. When it is ecalled that Frank Craven had considerable to do with the original stage version under title of "Salt Water," it is easy yjjjij) understand why the plot is filled with Jilever little twists and touches that keep JlJhe laughs coming right along. The comaV(|dy team were never seen to better advantage, and their roles fit them as if lade to order. ZaSu is the little wife fho is trying to get her husband off his )b as first mate on the Albany night boat o he won't be tempted by females. She vants him to buy the old ferry line |own on Long Island where they live and '¥ e the captain. Slim is come of a line & ~-f salt water mariners, and rebels at the six' humiliation. The fun comes when it is labi iiscovered Slim is only the popcorn and •atf eanut vendor on the night boat. Filled li'virh comic incidents. A pop number. '*"'' ' Cast: ZaSu Pitts, Slim Summerville, Una /lerkel, Warren Hymer, Berton Churchill, ___ jjeorge Marion, Henry Armetta, Jocelyn 'lee. ; Director, William Wyler; Authors, Dan arrett, Frank Craven, John Golden; DiaDguer, Dan Jarrett; Adaptors, Earl Snell, H. M. Walker, Clarence Marks; CameraI nan, George Robinson. Direction, Good. Photography, Fine. „ NG THE WITH PHIL M. DALY • • • WELCOME HOME to W. Ray Johnston will be combined with a formal opening of Monogram's new quarters in the RKO building Tuesday at 12:30, with a buffet luncheon Ray will return from Hollywood to find that his home ossif has gone ritzy to get past the barred outer door, ya haveta be ANNOUNCED it must be the RKO Influence * * * * • • • SPEAKING OF the Arkayo you advertising and publicity mugs will all turn green with that well known "NV" when you lamp the pressbook Barrett McCormack has prepared on Heavenly Hepburn's pix, "Morning Glory" exhibs can hang it on the wall by their desk for it is so equipped with a board backing, with an Advertising Schedule planned for the week's run with space notations for charges, lobby and accessories, billboards, newspaper ads, everythin' and the book itself! Neat, we calls it index tabbed for ready reference on Sections of Merchandising, Publicity, Ads and Posters the ad schedule laid out for two weeks' advance and during run covering every type of newspaper it's ALL Hepburn as it should be those ad drawings of Katharine are in appropriate Hepsotic Burning poses get that one where Menjou is lunching on her bare shoulder Oui! Adolphe! . .'. really, a Smash Pressbook that is in the New Deal Manner * * * * • • • BACK AT the Radio Music Hall is Patricia Bowman under direction of Maestro "Roxy" who first started her toward Fitful Fame Reach Agreement On Lab Pay and Hours (Continued from Page 1) will receive a minimum of $15 even if the actual hours worked are less than forty. The hourly rate will be based at 50 cents for part time employees. This agreement will increase employment 15 per cent and laboratory payrolls 12 per cent. The matter is now awaiting the approval of the NRA officials. Laboratory Contracts Run for 3 to 8 Years (Continued from Page 1) provision will work fine, if we can get the cooperation of our customers," he said. Wage scale proposed by Sol Scoppa, laboratory labor representative, is as follows : Apprentices and helpers in assembly department, $20 weekly; Workers in negative, cutting, printing departments, $25; Developers, $30; Workers in title, maintenance, projection inspection, $36; Timing department, $45; Negative developers, $62.50. Warner Club Annual Meeting Annual meeting of the delegates of the Warner Club to elect the board of governors and the executive committee of the board for the National Organization for the coming year will be held Sept. 16 at the Warner home office.