The Film Daily (1935)

THE .ja -Z&H DAILY Tuesday, Feb. 12, 193 A TITTLE" from HOLLYWOOD "LOTS By RALPH WILK T. WALTER RUBEN, who was to J have directed M-G-M's "Piccadilly Jim," which has been postponed because Robert Montgomery is not available for the title role, will direct "B. I. D. J.," which Ruben and Wells Root authored. Lucien Hubbard is the producer, and title means Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice. T T T Howard Smith is the father of e girl. Mrs. Smith is Jane Hilton, playwright. » T T Irene Bently and Richard C. Hemingway, players, were married Sunday at Lake Arrowhead. T ▼ T Dave Gould has been added to the group of dance experts at M-G-M. Others include Chester Hale and Margarete Wallman. T T T Nat Levine has signed Norman Foster to play the lead in "Behind the Green Lights," which Mascot is making from a book of the New Fox Signs 14 New Players Ten states have contributed to the crop of 14 new players signed recently by Fox Film. The young beauties are: Shirley Aaronson, Fresno, Calif.; Lynn Barrie, Roanoke, Va.' Mary Blackwood, Alexandria, La.; Esther Brodelet, Chicago; Julie Cabanne, Hollywood; Dorothy Dearing, Parachute, Colo.; Patricia Farr, Kansas City; Phillip] Hilber, Los Angeles; Anne Nagel, Boston; Geneva Sawyer, Minneapolis; Irish Shunn, Sioux City, la.; Anita Thompson, Dallas; Marion Weldon, Duluth, and Florine Dickson, San Francisco. York police department written by Captain Cornelius W. Willemse. The picture is now in production under the direction of Christy Cabanne. Colbert Clark will supervise. Story was adapted by James Gruen. T V T A transplanted barn, now on the Irving Cummings estate in the San Fernando Valley, which formed a background for the first production he ever acted in, "At the Window," at Mount Vernon, N. Y., will be used again as a background in "It's a Small World," which he is directing for Fox. ▼ T T Working with three secretaries in a single day, Laird Doyle is managing to complete the script of "Wo men Are Bum Newspapermen" for Warner-First National in record time so that it will be ready for filming about the middle of the month. » * T W. Scott Darling has completed writing the modern version of "The Old Homstead," which Liberty has placed in production at RKO Pathe Studios in Culver City with William Nigh directing. The cast is as follows: Mary Carlisle, Lawrence Gray, Dorothy Lee, Eddie Nugent, Willard Robertson, Fuzzy Knight, Lillian Miles and others. "The Old Homestead" will be produced with a musical background. ¥ T » The French influence is being felt by 20th Century Pictures. "Les Miserables" and Cardinal Richelieu" are in production, with "Folies Bergere" in the editing stages. Strand Week-End Records Broken by "Devil Dogs" Warner's "Devil Dogs of the Air" broke all week-end records for business at the New York Strand, according to the house management. Receipts ran nearly $1,000 ahead of the "Flirtation Walk" record. The picture starts its second week tomorrow. As part of the exploitation for the picture, an aerial show was staged over Broadway on Saturday by a squadron of U. S. Marine planes. The maneuvers were described through a public address system by Irving Windisch, exploitation director for Warner Metropolitan Theaters, who pinch hit when Barney Capehart, who was scheduled to do the commenting, failed to show up in time. Advices from coast yesterday stated that "Devil Dogs" had set a new house record at the RKO Hillstreet in Los Angeles. Nat Holt Heads Cleveland Variety Cleveland— The Variety Club has elected Nat Holt, RKO division manager, president for the coming year, to succeed Frank D. Drew. Other officers elected were : First vice-president, I. J. Schmertz; second vicepresident, Col. Harry E. Long; treasurer, Nat L. Lefton, and secretary, M. B. Horowitz. Drew, Jess Fishman and Jack Shulman were elected to the board of directors. Asquith to Direct "Elizabeth" London — Alexander Korda, head of production for London Films, has assigned the direction of "Elizabeth of England" to Anthony Asquith. Flora Robson has the leading role. John Ira Angus expects to becon the film colony's newest Blackston He will take the state bar examim tions the latter part of this mont' He has been a unit business mai ager for several years. ▼ ▼ T Leon Schlesinger is all smilt these days. "Mr. and Mrs. Is th Name," one of his "Merrie Melodies subjects, is being shown at the Wai ner Hollywood theater and the Lo Angeles RKO-Hillstreet in conjunc tion with "Devil Dogs of the Air, "Beautiful Dames," another "Merri Melody," recently played the Ne^ York Mayfair, while "Pop Goe Your Heart" was at the New Yori Strand. ▼ T T "Western Justice," the fifth of th Bob Steele series being produced b; Supreme, is in production, with Rob ert N. Bradbury directing. "Ki< Courageous" will follow immediate ly, with Bradbury directing. San Katzman will act as supervisor oi both pictures, while A. W. Hackli is the producer. Wants "March of Time" Classed as a Newsreel Cleveland — Maurice Lebensburger local First Division branch manager, is negotiating with Dr. B. 0 Skinner, head of the state censoi board, in an effort to classify "The March of Time" as a newsreel anc therefore exempt from censorship Skinner had previously placed it outside the newsreel classification on the alleged basis of an advertise, ment in which it was stated that "March of Time" is not a newsreel Services for Ed Hatrick's Mother Services will be held tomorrow in! Mauch Chunk for Mrs. G. P Hatrick, mother of Edgar B. Hat-j rick, vice president and general! manager of Cosmopolitan Cor-I poration and of Hearst Metrotonej News. She died Sunday at her home| in Mauch Chunk, Pa. Hatrick was on the coast when news of his mother's illness reached him. He flew east and was at her bedside before the end came. Mrs. Hatrick is survived by two other sons and two daughters. Gabriel L. Hess William Collier, Jr. Tom Moore