The Film Daily (1930)

DAILY Friday, August 2; Nine Educational Subjects Now in Various Stag First 7 of New Shorts Series Are Already Completed Hollywood— Nine new Educational subjects are now in various sta of production. These include "Teari ,,,." tentative title, in which Marion Shockle} is featured: Charlotte Greenwood's first tentati called "I >ni Good Turn;" "Won B3 A Neck.' first new Lloyd Hamilton series; the second ideal Comedy in which I ' '■' an and .lame' Brad burj will be co-featured; "Lo\ > a I ,a Mode." second in the Mermaid sermd 1 '• [ack Sennett subjects. I u the east, Paul I 1 rrj and Frank Mosler are working on a new TerryToon. Robert E. ' rillaum also is assemtg a new Lyman H. Howe H Podge number. Four Assignments Made at Fox Studios Rpur important production assign ilientS have been made at the Fox studios. Hamilton MacFadden, \\'\ direct "Stolen Thunder." featuring Harold Murra\ and Jeanette Ma donald. Philip Klein is collaborating with I. im Starling on the screen plaj and dialog of "Stolen Thunder." Alexander Korda, recenth returned from Europe, will direct "The Princess And The Plumber." Chandler Sprague, currently directing "The Play Called Life." has be< n assigned to direct "I his Modern World." adapted from the novel. bv Eleanor Mercein. Bebe Daniels Signs New RKO Contract Bebe Daniels has signed a new long-term contract with RKO, it is announced bv William LeBaron. Counselman To Supervise William Counselman, writer and scenarist, has been signed by Columbia I the company's production ove O* Lil," adaptation of "Liberty Magazine's'' famous cover series. Sally Starr. Elliot Nugent, Jack Mulhall and Margaret Livingston are featured in .i~t. Seek Another Pearl Pathe is on the hunt for another girl with the athletic ability, courage, beautiful figure and other box-office qualities possessed by Pearl White. The company wants such a maid, if any, for the new "Perils of Pauline" and "Exploits of Elaine" with sound and dialogue. It is planned to comb the country for a girl to fill the bill. A Little from ''Lots'9 By KALPU WILK Hollywood T.\ MAKING the round. of the Universal offices one meets up with man; of literati's top holers. A recent peek into the story shops revealed Louis Bromfield, Pulitzer priz< winner in 1926: John Wexley, who did "The Last Mile." and Dudley M urphy. ' * * * Robert Kurrle is to handle the camera work faf Edwin Cure we when he starts "Resurrection" at Universal City. John Bales and Lupe VeU : will have the leads. * * * The latest to desert the screen for the "boards" is Patsy Ruth Miller, who will do "Rebound'' at the Ful( Jaklj * * * Ktru inmcnl's fUmization of Hal •arts' "Spanish Acres'* will reach 'the screen as "The Santa Fe Trad." The picture has been progressing under the working title of "The Tan Rides West." * * * toll in Ronald Colman sings a song to his lady love in his next production. * * * That spiffy individual spurting at>ont town hi a new 16-cylinder Cadillac is Lowell Sherman. A present fin, a liis ivife, nee Helene Costello, 'tis said. Russell Hardi has been signed by United .Artists for a role in "The Dove." * * * Tin cat having ■made a hearty repast of the canary there was nothing else to do but to eliminate the feathered one in filming "The and the Canary." The new title is "The Cat Creeps." * * Joan Bennett has gone over to Fox for "Scotland Yard," at the pletio'n of which she will return to United Artists to star in "Smilitv Thru." * * * Roy Pomeroy, who should know, says that television isn't as far off as one might be led to believe. * * * The latesl "Do You Know"? from i Lddy, RKO's clutterer-up of valuable desk space, concerns the fact that Bert Wheeler has eaten an appte in every part he has played for 12 years. * * * The locale of "Rebound" beUig in Fa vis. Director— E. H. Griffith has booked '■ passage lo get the authentic bucky round. Some significance, after all, to his other two Ann Harding '"us, "Paris Bound" and ■■Holiday." The Tuna Club has as its new president, William de Mille. A reward, as it were, for snagging a whopper. * * * I'hyllis Crane, who is featured in Lathe's "Hold the Baby," is a proley e of Mary Lickford, who happened to see th< auburn-haired girl at the United Artists casting office one day and arranged a screen test for her. An unusual procedure will be followed for the scenes in William Lowell's next for Paramount, "New Moral." by Frederick Lonsdale. John Cromwell is to direct the picture, but a regatta sequence is being taken on the lake at Chicago under the direction of Victor Schertzinger. * * * Vera Marsh, who ivus with Harry Carroll's Music Box Revue in Los Angeles, is playing the feminine U'ad in "Meet the Widow," J'uthe apmedy directed by Monte Carter. Mar\ Brian's withdrawal from the nn'nine lead opposite Gary Cooper in "Fighting Caravans" is explained h\ the fact that Paramount wanted to send her east to play with Ina Claire in "The Royal Family." Sos? wh stage Apolh High" playing to business. In the East of our Hollywood friends i believe the musical comedy ms died should drop into the New York, where "Flying is playing. The attraction is "standing room only" By the way, DeSylva, Brown and Henderson, who fashioned the book and. music for "Sunnyside Up" and "Just Imagine." for Fox. created "Flying High." The Four Gale Sisters, who have played Grauman's Egyptian and Fanchon and. Marco routes, are in the cast, /chile Oscar Shu u\ the Long Island golfer, also does his staff. Bert Lahr is the star. * * Our Passing Show: O. O. "Bunny" Dull watching "Flying High" and going backstage to say "hello" to Bobby Connolly, who directed the dances; Brock Pemberton dodging traffic on Broadway; Schuyler Grey lunching at the Motion Picture Club. Do you remember when Joseph Caw thorne wrote and sang "I Can I »ance With Everybody but W ii W lien Richard Carle sang "I Picked a Linton in the Garden of Love, Where I thought Only Peaches Grew?" * * Our Passing Show in Chicago: Joe Harris. Sammy Lee and 0. O. Ann Harding Rehear With Husband Opj Ann Harding has begun reh for "The < ireater J ,o\ e." he Pathe starring vehicle, with Bannister, her husband, playi posite her. Eugene Walter wr play, while Rollo Lloyd, pro New York stage director, bathe adaptation and will direct. Contract for Dorothy Peter Dorothy Peterson, recent from stage to screen, has been to a long-term contract by Fir: tional following her work in tin ing role of "Mothers Cry." Busy on Pathe Football Sf hour cameramen and two r ing engineers of Pathe are n' South Bend, Ind.. working und direction of Clyde Elliott in tb duction of the scries of Rockne football subject being duced by Terry Ramsaxe. Four for Doug, Jr., Next Se : Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. reel made a star by First National! be presented by that c four films next season. Emmett Flynn Writing for Fj Lmmett Flynn, who directed Shannons of Broadway" and pictures, has joined the ; department. His tir-l assigl "The Connecticut Yankee," in . Will Rogers will star. College Story for Marilyn Mil Although the title has not| been announced. Marilyn Mi Next for First National will story oi college life. Dull waiting in the La Salle St. Ration, prior to boarding the "Cent!/" for New York; Marilyn Miller, '3e Donahue, Louis Bromfield arri ig from the Coast; George Haw is worried about two Scotch tens. * * * From a New York Centr window we saw midget gol played in Wauseon, Ohio. Golden's old home town. * * * Kddie Conrad, who play "The Blaze 0' Glory," and ' wife, Marion Eddy, are play vaudeville. By the way, Miss En is the only woman who hold cense as a pilot of a seaplane. Page "Ingagi" To fill the role of a lion in "Babes in Toyland," the Victor Herbert operetta being produced by RKO, William LeBaron has engaged Phil Dwyer regarded as the world's greatest animal impersonator, who has appeared in Ziegfeld and other productions in New York and in various attractions abroad.