The Film Daily (1931)

THE Thursday, February 12, 1931 as& DAILV 11 HOLLYWOOD FLASHES ; By RALPH WILK VfEL BROWN is getting ready 11 to direct "Waiting at the Church" for RKO. Robert Ames and Mary Astor have the leads. Harry Woods and Ed Brady have \ been added to Columbia's "The Fighting Patrol," Buck Jones western. Lily Damita will appear in RKO'S "Put on the Soot," by Jack Lait. Ricardo Cortez plays opposite her, and Harry Joe Brown will direct. Ned Sparks has been assigned a featured comedy role in one of Louis Brock's shorts, with story by Scott Darling and direction by Mark Sandrich. Daphne Pollard has completed work on the sixth two-reeler under her present contract with Pathe. The title is "Bare Knees," an original story by David F. Silverstein adapted by Harry Frazer and Charles Callahan. Frazer directed. Walter Huston's supporting cast in "Upper Underworld," First National picture, will include H. B. Warner, Doris Kenyon. Dudley Digges and John Halliday. Frances Dee has been signed by Paramount for "An American Tragedy" with Phillips Holmes and Sylvia Sidney. Allan Lane, leading man for Alice Brady in "The Zero Hour," is now under contract to Warner Bros. Douglas Walton has been signed by Fox on a long contract. Universal has bought "A Lady of Resource," current Collier's magazine story by Arthur Somers Roche. William Haines' next picture, beine directed by Sam Wood for MG-M, will be called "A Tailor Made Man." It was formerly called "The Imposter." John Swor will appear in Fox's "Skyline," featuring Spencer Trary, Marguerite Churchill and Sally Eilers. Screen rights to "Polly of the Circus," the Margaret Mayo plav of 1907, have been acquired by M-G-M. "Daddy Long Legs" is set as Janet Gaynor's next picture. Thomas Meighan will appear with Writers Signed Paramount has added two prominent playwrights. Vincent Lawrence and Bartlett Cormack, to its writing staff. her. Meighan also will be featured in "Young Sinners" and "Good Gracious, Annabelle." Among players recently added to the Educational roster are Ethel Davis, vaude headliner; Virginia Brooks, George Chandler and Albert Austin. Conrad Nagel has signed a new long term contract with M-G-M. Lawrence Grant, DeWitt Jennings, Luke Cosgrave, Dickie Moore and Harry Northrup have been added to Cecil B. De Mille's "Squaw Man." Hale Hamilton will appear in MG-M's "Never the Twain Shall Meet," which W. S. Van Dyke will film in the Southern Pacific, with Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro featured. Karen Morley has been added to the Ramon Novarro picture, "Daybreak," being directed by Jacques Feyder for M-G-M. Helen Chandler has the feminine lead, and others in the cast include Jean Hersholt. Kent Douglass, William Bakewell, Carmelita Geraghty and Clyde Cook. Lloyd Hamilton has finished a new Educational comedy, "Ex-Plumber," which will be released March 8. Supporting Hamilton are Addie McPhail, Amber Norman and Stanley Blystone. William Goodrich directed. Our Passing Show: William Sistrom, Ralph Block, C. B. DeMille, George McManus, Joe Schenck, Bradley King, Donn McElwaine, Jack Schulze, Glen Allvine at the opening of "East Lynne"; Lew Schreiber dodging the rain at First National. Fred J. Blenthall, former Eastern exploitation man, has joined the Lichtig and Englander agency. Lillian Bond will make her screen debut in "Stepping Out" at M-G-M, playing the same role she enacted in the stage version of Elmer Harris' vehicle. Charlotte Greenwood and Reginald Denny play the leading roles. Harris also wrote "So Long Letty," in which Miss Greenwood won her greatest fame. Tom Hacker has resigned from the Motion Picture Herald and has joined the Charlotte Rogers Publicity Enterprises. Here and There: Myron Selznick and Frank Joyce motoring to Burbank in a rainstorm; Fred Niblo presiding as master of ceremonies at the "East Lynne" opening ; Arthur Landau surveying a flooded portion of Gower Street. Leigh Jason has signed Eddie Lambert to star in a "Humanette" Short Shots from Eastern Studios , By HARRY N. BLAIR, A N exact replica of the Austrian imperial palace, outside of Vienna, is now in the course of construction at Paramount's New York studio, under the supervision of Willie Hopkins, head of special effects . It is one of the largest ever built there, being 26 feet long and 12 feet high, and is correct in every detail. Kay Hush, who appears opposite Johnnie Farrell in Pathe's golf series, "The Duffer Swings," has been given a test by Paramount for a principal role in a forthcoming feature. Vitaphone has signed E. M. Newman, globe-trotter and lecturer, to make a novelty travelogue series. The film will be called "Newman Travel Talks." Two instances of parents reunited with their sons through seeing them in motion pictures are reported by Vitaphone. In one case, a boy playing a small role in "The Collegiate Model" was recognized by his father in Seattle, while a mother in Wichita located her son as a member of Henry Santry's band, which recently completed a short subject. Jay Gomey, until recently a staff composer at the Paramount New York studio, has completed an operetta in conjunction with E. Y. Harburg. Claudette Colbert, in the midst of rehearsals for Ernst Lubitsch's "The Smiling Lieutenant," will be interviewed over Station WOR tonight by Radie Harris, motion picture writer. The time is 7:30. "Oh, Mr. Gallagher — Oh, Mr. Shean," which became a world-famous duet, is now being interpreted for the talking screen. Al Shean, the surviving member of the team, has made arrangements to have his tune incorporated in one of the Paramount Screen Songs made by Max Fleischer. Today, being Lincoln's birthday, the Warner Vitaphone studio will be shut down. Paramount, however, will work. subject, which will be directed byJason. Marion Seyers has been signed on a long term contract by Mack Sennett, and will be featured in the next Eddie Cline production with Andy Clyde. Una Merkel's stage debut was beset by the figure 2. She played a part in a play titled "Two by Two," spoke two lines in it, and it ran two weeks. Charley Chase has finished the Spanish version of "Rough Seas," entitled "Monerias," and is now working with his director, James Parrott, and Carl Harbaugh, writer, on a story for his next comedy. George Stevens, director of The Boy Friends, and Gil Pratt, writer, are working on a story for The Boy Friends. Babe Ruth, Knute Rockne For 'U' Sport Subjects Babe Ruth and Knute Rockne have been signed by Universal for a series of pictures for next year. Thev will be called the Christy Walsh AllAmerican Sport Subjects and will be made partly in Universal City ana partly on sports arenas. The Rockne series will start about May 1, and the Ruth subjects will go in work after the baseball season. "Sleep and Eat," the Harold Lloyd colored-man discovery, has been added to Universal's "Virtuous Husband." James Seymour has written the screen play and dialogue for "The House of Glass," which will be produced by Pathe, with William C. De Mille directing. Charles George Saxton and Harold Tarshis have written an untitled story, which will be picturized as the ninth subject in the "Humanettes" series. It will star Eddie Lambert and will be directed by Leigh Jason. "The Border Bad Man," an original by Paul McVey, will shortly go into production. It will be produced by Trem Carr, with Tom Tyler starred. R-K-O Providence Changes Providence — Richard Farrell, formerly handling publicity, has been named house manager of the R-K-O Albee, assisting Harry Storin, manager. Clarence Mason has been transferred to New York. John Townsend of the R-K-O Victory also has been sent to New York. Emma May, treasurer of the Albee. will serve as treasurer for both Aline and Victory. New Incorporations Theodore Charlton, motion picture business; L. J. Weber, 276 Fifth Ave., New York. $50,000. .Timmie Savo Comedies, motion pictures; J. Kendler. 1540 Broadway, New York. 100 shares common. K. & R. Amusement Corp., theatrical: M. Wolf, 220 Fifth Ave., New York. $20,000. Portable Sound Equipment Co., motion picture theater products; M. Schccr, 1440 Broad way. New York. $10,000. Jules J. Leventhal, theatrical M. Winkler, 1440 Broadway, New York. 200 shares com mon. Mctro-Goldwyn Mayer of ERypt, Jersey City, motion picture film exchange. United States Corp. Co., New York. $10,000. 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