The Film Daily (1931)

DAILY Sunday, May 31, 1931 HOLLYWOOD ACTIVITIES ^ ^ ▲ Latest Production News Received By Wire From The West Coast .**.,▲.,▲. FOUR NEW PRODUCTIONS STARTED AT FOX STUDIO Four productions were started last week at the Fox studios. They are "The Plutocrat," "Bad Girl," "Wicked," and "Merely Mary Ann." This brings the total in work to seven, with "Wyoming Wonder," "Their Mad Moment" and "Transatlantic" now nearing completion. "The Plutocrat," starring Will Rogers, is being directed by David Butler. Jetta Goudal, Dorothy Paterson, Joel McCrea and Peggy Ross appear in important roles. Frank Borzage is directing "Bad Girl," with Sally Eilers in the lead. Allan Dwan is directing "Wicked," with Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, Allan Dinehart, Una Merkel and Theodore Von Eltz. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are reunited in "Merely Mary Ann," with Henry King directing. Sam Taylor is scheduled to start a fifth new production within a few days. After several weeks in New York, where he made atmospheric shots, he is back and ready to start with a cast including Hardie Albright, Thomas Meighan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Myrna Loy, J. M. Kerrigan, William Holden and Kendall Mac Comas. A LITTLE from "LOTS >// B\ RALPH WILK A/ew Low Rates in HOLLYWOOD $ 4 ROOM WITH BATH 5 BSBJ Right in the heart of Hollywood— with interesting places to go— people to seo §#a'fl|'3^i *aJ things to do. TnmfmB-Ua. Vmtti nooseveLT ™~ HOT€L== ROBERT J. McCABE. Manage! HOLLYWOOD. CALIFORNIA (T1ENEVIEVE TOBIN is the latest to be signed for a Radio picture. She will play the feminine lead in "Strange Women," by Ivan Lebedeff and Benn W. Levy, and to be directed by Richard Boleslavsky. Betty Compson will do the, principal charter role, portraying an alluring baroness. Ralf Harolde, Arthur Edmund Carew and Colin Campbell have also been signed for the cast wherein Ivan Lebedeff is to play a featured role. + * * Charles O'Malley and Josephine Wittell have been added to the cast of "Full of Notions," with Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey and Dorothy Lee. now in ■ production under the direction of William Seiter. * * * John McCormack, the singer, is an enthusiastic tennis player. He and Bramwell Fletcher are teamed in doubles in the sixth annual Motion Picture Tennis association tournament, and they won their first match, 7-5, 8-6. * » * Among the players in the tournament are Richard Barthelmess, Dave Selznick, Warren Hymer, Martin Cornica, Joseph A. Fields, James Seymour, Mauri Grashin, Ruth Weston, Wells Root, Cederic Gibbons, Francis Perrett, Anthony Bushell, Hugh Trevor, Ed Marin, Ted von Eltz, Solly Baino, R. McKee, Richard Neill, Gilbert Roland, Geoffrey Kerry, Eileen Percy, Dick Hunt, Bob Koke, Erwin Gelsey, Albert Cohen, Craufurt Kent. * * * Natalie Kingston will appear in "The House Dick," short subject starring Jimmy Savo, and now in production at the Radio Pictures studios under supervision of Lou Brock. * * * Lowell Sherman's contract with Radio Pictures has been extended for another long term, it is announced by William LeBaron. Ivan Lebedeff also has had his contract renewed. * * * Maurice Murphy, well known juvenile, is doing a characterization in James Cruze's filmization of "Women Go On Forever." * * * Ray Coffin, well known publicist, recently addressed the Women's Press Club of Southern California. "Guardsman" to Be First Lunt-Fontanne Picture Ferenc Molnar's "The Guardsman" will be the first M-G-M co-starring screen production for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The stage couple plan to start work on their initial film venture in June. Sidney Franklin will direct. William Haines begins work soon on "The New Adventures of GetRich-Quick Wallingford," to be directed by Sam Wood. Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of "Tarzan of the Apes," has been commissioned by M-G-M to prepare an original woven about the character of Tarzan. "Nancy's Affair" on Location Radio Pictures' "Nancy's Affair," with all the principals, is on location at San Marino, Cal., to film exterior scenes of the famous Wilson home and gardens. In the cast are Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Edward Everett Horton, Noel Francis and Ruth* Weston. Marie Dressier Going Abroad Marie Dressier is getting ready for another trip to Europe as soon as she finishes "Politics," her new MG-M picture. C. C. Burr Preparing First Feature Picture "The Cub Reporter," first of a series of four features to be made by C. C. Burr for the independent market, is now in preparation. PATHE STUDIO PREPARING HARDING, QUILLAN FILMS Ann Harding's next starring vehicle, "Devotion," to be directed by Robert Milton, and "The Lady Killer," in which Eddie Quillan and Robert Armstrong will appear together again, are being prepared for early production at the RKO Pathe studio. Three features are currently in production. "The Mad Marriage," with Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez and John Garjick, is the latest to go into work, with Tav Garnett directing,. Eddie Quillan in "Sweepstakes," directed by Al Rogell, is practically completed, and Bill Boyd's "The Iron Chalice" is well under way, with Fred Niblo at the megaphone. The short subject department also has four two-reelers in work. A Solution to the DOUBLE FEATURE BILL a full length drama and a MICKEY MOUSE That will satisfy the most greedy audiences. 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