The Film Daily (1937)

THE llhursday, Aug. 5, 1937 -%2Hk DAILV % "mit" from Hollywood "Ms // Bv RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD "'JA MBITIOUS musical film schedW^ ule set by 20th Century-Fox .Jitudios for the present season has ,.;J-esulted in the signing of Raymond ., Bcott's recording swing band to a .Jong term contract by that studio, frhe musicians will be seen and heard in "Ali Baba Goes To Town." T T ▼ An innovation in the preparing f Irene Dunne's forthcoming RKO ialRadio picture, "The Joy of Loving," was the system of having the author, composer and lyricist work as )1)J» unit. The usual custom has been For such parties to perform their jjiasks separately, with a resultant ^eleventh hour attempt to blend the jS independent parts into a production; put Author Herbert Fields, Composer Jerome Kern and Lyricist [Dorothy Fields tried the co-operative plan with generally satisfac. tory results. ▼ ▼ T With its title changed from "Silent Sinclair" to "Roaring Six Guns", '!) Maurice Conn will start the next ltlKermit Maynard western starring Jlvehicle before the cameras this week. The story is from an original by Arthur Everett, prepared :afor the screen by Joseph O'Donnell. it J. P. McGowan has been assigned id! to direct. Picture replaces "Don't Fall in Love," originally scheduled for production at this time, but which due to casting difficulties, was, of necessity postponed. tl T V V ,] Six youngsters who appeared in WHO'S WHO IN HOLLYWOOD • • • Introducing Interesting Personalities: No. 118 • • • \A/ILLIAM ANTHONY McGUIRE. Writer-director-producer, under contract '"to M-G-M. Native of Chicago, one of 13 children. Wrote his first play at 15; James K. Hackett called it "splendid," encouraged him to keep on writing. Famed as a Broadway playwright since achieving his first noteworthy success with "The Divorce Question" more than 20 years ago, directed several of his later musical successes for the late Florenz Ziegfeld as well as some of his own authored plays. Numbered among h's Ziegfeld hits were "Three Musketeers," "Whoopee," "Rosalie," "Kid Boots," "Smiles," and "Show Girl," while others of his outstanding plays were "It's A Boy," "If I Were Rich," "Six Cylinder Love," and "12 Miles Out." Among his important film contributions are "D'sorderly Conduct," "Roman Scandals," "Okay America," "Kid from Spain," "Little Man, What Now?" and "The Great Ziegfeld." He bows as a film producer with "Rosalie," from his screenplay version of his original Ziegfeld musical. Stands 5, 9. Eyes, brown. Hair, graying. both the stage and cinema versions of "Dead End," have been signed by Mervyn LeRoy, through arrangement with Samuel Goldwyn, for a production to be titled "Heroes of the Streets." The screen story is now being written by Leonardi Bercovici. The New Universal today has a cowgirl torch singer on its roster. Her name is Constance Moore. Rufus LeMaire, heard hqr sing in Dallas and asked her to come to Hollywood for a test. She'll debut in a small role in "Blonde Dynamite." T T V Three players were yesterday cast in B. G. (Buddy) De Sylva's production "Merry-Go-Round of 1938." Inez Courtney, due to prior engagements, was unable to report for her role and was replaced by Fay Helm in the role of Dainty Doris. Richard Carle was yesterday cast in the role of Frooks and Charlie Williams was cast to play Dave Clark. When John Boles completes his stellar role in RKO-Radio's "Fight for Your Lady," he will fly to Portland, Ore., for his eleventh onenight concert engagement in that city within the last 15 months. In the same period, his songs have thrice drawn capacity crowds in Denver and twice in New York. T T V A 2,500-seat talkie theater now under construction in Granite City, 111., for K. T. Chrisman, will be named in honor of Richard Dix. Although the screen star and the theater operator were boyhood friends in St. Paul, they have not seen each other in over 20 years. T T T With "You and Me," in which he was to have co-starred with Sylvia Sidney, shelved for the time being, George Raft, Paramount star, is marking time while his studio readies "Argentine Love," now set as his next vehicle, and in which he will have Ida Lupino and Dorothy Lamour as leading women. T T ▼ Richard Thorpe, directing M-GM's "Double Wedding," which costars Myrna Loy and William Powell, has cast Katherine Alexander as Powell's screen wife, bringing his total of name players for the production up to 31. Y T Y Frank Wilson, is the latest cast addition to Columbia's "The Awful Truth," the motion picture version of Arthur Richman's stage comedy. oi Peggy Hopkins Joyce Sued tWest Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY :' Los Angeles — Celebrity Pictures, ''Inc., suit for $20,000 damages fagainst Peggy Hopkins Joyce will [go to trial in Supreme Court here Sept. 20. Australia Bans Pix Sydney, N. S. W. (By Cable) — Presumably because of its story, "The King and the Chorus Girl," i< produced by Warners, has been banned by the Australian government. Mary Kelly With Ultem Mary C. Kelley, for seven years with "Screen Romances," has joined the Ultem Publishing Co. "The Cat" Comes Back West Coast Bur. THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — The New Universal yes Jterday announced that it would make ,ne\production of "The Cat and the lt0Jiary," by John Willard. Universal ■*-r,as owned the property, which has been on the summer schedule of almost every stock company in the U. S., ever since it was produced on Broadway at the National Theater. Charles R. Rogers has assigned the production to E. M. Asher. Third of New Year's Pix Ready, Monogram Reports With eight features including a western in the exchanges, one in the cutting room, and four in production, Monogram Pictures swings into the new selling season with a third of its product ready or nearing completion. Prints delivered by Monogram to start the 1937-38 schedule of fortyfour promised, are "The Thirteenth Man," "Hoosier Schoolboy," "Blazing Barriers," "Riders of the Dawn," "Paradise Isle," "Legion of Missing Men," "The Outer Gate," and "Shadows of the Orient." "Atlantic Flight," starring Dick Merrill, transatlantic flier, is in the cutting room. Now shooting are "God's Country and the Man," original of four Tom Keene westerns; "A Bride for Henry," with Anne Nagel and Warren Hull; "Federal Bullets," and "Stars Over Arizona," with Jack Randall. Probe Dog Racers Returns Boston — U. S. Treasury Department agents are delving into income tax returns of operators of dog racing tracks and kennels. Brooklyn Paramount Gets New RCA Sound Apparatus Installation of two complete new RCA sound reproducing systems in the Brooklyn Paramount has been finished under the supervision of RCA Photophone engineers. The equipment consists of a twochannel High-Fidelity motion picture sound system for three projectors and an elaborate stage sound re-enforcement system accommodating eight velocity type microphones with a mixer control. A duplicate set of multi-cellular loudspeakers are used. Powells Reported Safe Shanghai (By Cable) — Bonney Powell, U. S. newsreel cameraman, and Mrs. Powell are reported safe at the Wagon Lits Hotel, Peiping. Concern had been expressed for them. Fowler Funeral Today Glens Falls, N. Y. — Funeral services for Albert Nelson Cheney Fowler, 65, playwright, will be held today, with interment to follow at Troy. Fowler leaves his widow. Jeane Cohen Takes Rest Jeane Cohen, for many years executive secretary to Jesse Lasky and later to Harry Cohn, has started on a month's rest — two weeks of which she will spend at the Beth Israel Hospital in Stuyvesant Square. Since leaving Columbia Pictures Miss Cohen has been head of the talent, play and script department at the Artists Management Bureau, Inc. New House at Wellston Wellston, O.— Thomas D. Clutts has purchased the Porter block on East Second Street and will erect a new theater on the site. Plans for the building have been completed. Associated with Clutts in the new theater is Clark M. Young of Bowling Green, O. Jinx Takes a Holiday West Coast Bur., THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Big-scale defiance of the "13" jinx is under way at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Its staff of associate producers numbers 13; there are 13 members in its African expedition, now in Kenya Colony filming scenes for "Stanley and Livingstone"; and on its contract list are 13 players whose names have 13 letters each.