The Film Daily (1931)

THE ■Z2H DAILY Friday, June 12, 1931 D. W. GRIFFITH OBTAINS BACKING FOR NEW FILM i) the Audio in New York. new •it and i will con he thinks. Among the players being considered for a prin>hn Drew Colt, son rrymore. I'roduction is t the first week in July. HOLLYWOOD FLASHES Hx RALPH If ILK Win. Fox Denied Access To Grandeur Records • •tn 1'age 1) n denied by Justice Walsh in Supreme Court. Fox filed suit re centlj charging he had not received alleged profits made by tndeur. Another subject of keen conversation regarding William Fox yesterw.ts the effect of bis name being dropped from the new board of di• i Fox Film. Since he has \ely participated in the afx organization since withdrawal last year, either as a director or as chairman of the socalled advisory committee, the abhis name from the directorate is understood to involve no special significance nor to have any i his five-year $500,000 salMean while he retains the adchairmanship. Trude Made Warner Salesman Perry A. Trude, a member of Joe Hummell's contract department at Warner Bros., has been added to the ice of the organization and joins the Pittsburgh exchange under Haines. A/ew Low Rate in HOLLYWOOD ROOM WITH BATH 5 Right in the heart of Hollywood— with interesting places to u__ go-people to sco — iT« in ' r— — — ip Vriu fm BtcklA Vmutim Brum ROOSeVCLT ssss HOTeL= ROBERT J. McCABE, Manage* HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA | WARD SEDGWICK has resigned from the direction of Howard Hughes' "Sky Devils." Hughes Bays he is making a deal with Sedgwick to direct another picture, which is to start in about 12 ks. * * * i and Lillian Harmcr hare added to tlie cast of Paramount'* "Huckleberry Finn." * * * Paul Cavanagh has been selected to play the leading role opposite Ann Harding in "Devotion, which Hubert Milton will direct fur KKO Pathe. * * * Bcbe Daniels and Ben Lyon, Hollywood's favorite bride and groom, will sail for Hawaii tomorrow. * * * Lawrence Grant, head of the actor's divi—it-it of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and chairman of that organization's committee on public relations and college affairs, yesterday joined the cast of "Daughter of the Dragon," Paramount picture featuring Anna .May Wong, Warner Oland and Sessue Hayakawa. * * * C Itarlcs Starictt has been borrozved by Howard Hughes from Paramount to play opposite Biilie Dove in "The Age For Love," her first starring picture for United Artists. Robert E. Sherwood has uonc the dialog for adaptation of the Ernest Pascal novel, and Prank Lloyd will direct. * * * Yesterday was finish day at Universal City. Among the productions officially completed were: "Lasca of the Rio Grande," with Leo Carrillo, John .Mack brown and Dorothy Burgess: the serial "Danger Island," fea turing Kenneth Harlan and Lucille Brown; a Lloyd Hamilton comedy. "Robinson Crusoe and Son" with Josephine Dunn, and Daphne Pollard in "Say Uncle." * * * Thomas Edgelow, who has written more than 1,500 short stories, is now writing for Universal. He has also written numerous newspaper serials and is a prolific plot builder. * * * Mauri Grashin, comedy writer, is working on an original for Rosco Ates, which will be directed by Lloyd A. French. It will be produced by Lou Brock foi release by Radio Pictures. * * * Howard J. Green, the scenarist, is spending his spare moments writing a play. He is collaborating with Raymond Leslie Goldman, a magazine writer. * * * "The Million Dollar Swindle," starring Richard Dix. has been completed and is now in process ui being edited at the Radio Pictures studios. It was directed by J. Walter Ruben. In the cast are Shirley Grey, Purnell Pratt, Alan Roscoe, Edmund Breesc, Nella Walker, Ruth Weston, Boris Karloff. Carl Gerrard, Bert Starkey, Roberta Gale, Fred Sheridan, Walter James and J. W. Tohnston. * * * The Spanish version of "Trader Horn.' ■.chid: teas directed by limile de Recat, is mi-.o being shown simultaneously at four the atcrs in Buenos Aires. By the wax, if Rcc has become an airplane enthusiast and is Ink ing lessons in piloting a sky "boat." * * * Did you know that Leslie Fenton was in the manufacturing business with his father in Ohio? That Lucile Gleason planned to become a domestic science teacher? That John Francis Dillon had his own stock company? That Evelyn Brent wanted to be a school teacher? That Roland Young was an apprentice architect? That Conrad Nagel was a key clerk and telephone operator in an Iowa town? That Charles Bickford was a coal passer on the "Roosevelt's" trip around the world? That Wdliam Farnum, with his brother Dustin, created the first miniature "kid's" circus in New England? * * * By the way, all the above players an I pearing in "The Pagan Lady," which John Francis Dillon is directing for Harry I). E wards. The picture will be released by t lumbia. * * * Samuel Omit: and Lester Cohen and their betels hare returned from New York. Omit* and Cohen are novelists and have also done much writing for the screen, having been with Paramount, Metro and other companies. * * * Samson Raphaelson, who wrote the adaptaind dialogue for "The Magnificent Lie," starring Ruth Chatterton, wrote "The Man I Killed" in collaboration with Ernst Vajda. Raphaelson and Vajda also wrote "The Smiling Lieutenant," the Maurice Chevalier Ernst Lubitsch production. * * * Frank Darien has been signed by Fox for "Bad Girl." * * * Edward Goodman is to remain with Paramount as one of the company's leading feature directors, according to announcement from the offices of B. P. Schulberg. * * * Yesterday pretty Irene Thompson was a "stand-in" for Mary Astor in Radio Pi, "Nancy's Private Affair." Melville Bro-.vn, director, saw her and cast her in his cm rent production, "Fanny Foley Herself,' in an excellent part. * * * Mary Doran. who appeared in Columbia's "The Criminal Code," has returned to the same lot to depict an important part in "Fifty Fathoms Deep." Loretta Savers portrays the feminine lead. * * * Billy Butts, child actor, has been assigned a role in the new Bert Wheeler-Robert Woolsey starring production, "Full of Notions." * * * Slim Summerville, Universal comedian, is confined to his bed with a slight cold and a severe case of ptomaine poisoning. * * * Beryl Mercer has been sign,;! by Radio Pictures to do the grandmother role in These Our Children?" the metropolitan tragedy of a New York boy, from the original story by Wesley Ruyyles, who is to direct the picture. * * * "The Ruling Voice" is the new and permanent title for the First National picture hitherto known as "Upper Underworld." It was both written and directed by Roland V. Lee. Walter Huston is the star and his supporting cast includes Loretta Young, Doris Kenyon, David Manners. Dudley Digges, John Halliday and Gilbert Emery. * * * Rita La Roy appears in Radio's "Kisses By Command," formerly "The Strange Woman." * * * Edgar Kennedy, who has just completed bis first comedy. "Lemon Meringue." for KKO Pathe. will put aside the comedy mask temporarily to don the somber cloak of drama in "The Mad Marriage," Helen Twelvetrees' new starring picture. * * * Rochelle Hudson has Iwd her optional contract renewed for another six months by Radio Pictures. Miss Hudson, wh peared in five productions for Radio Pictures, is doing the ingenue lead in "Fanny Foley Herself," featuring Edna May Oliver. * * * Nora Lane, Alice Lake, Oscar Apfel. Mickey Flynn and Josephine Johnson are the latent principals added to Director Allan Dwan's cast for "Wicked" at Fox. PUBLIX ACQUIRING SHARE IN HOOT SHEA CIRCUIT {Continued from Page 1 ) and Shea will work on a 50-50 haw The theaters involved are located in Astabula, Conneaut, Dover and Geneva, Ohio; Erie and Bradford Pa., and Jamestown, N. Y. Goldburg to Make Eight For Hollywood Pictures 'Continued from Page 1) tribute the product in New York and Northern New Jersey through its own exchanges, and subfranchia other independent exchanges for the remainder of the U. S.. A corporation is now being forma by Goldburg and the features made by him will be known as Perfection Pictures. Goldburg leaves next week for the coast to organize a production staff. Activity of the company will t:ot be confined to the pictures being) made for Hollywood. Goldburg sayll but will include productions tor othen distributors. The eight pictures for which con-, tracts have been signed will be: "Lovebound," by James (rilberta "The Mystery of Judge Le (iardeJ by Oscar Shultz; "The Solitary Sin,1! by Victoria Beale; "Home Sweet Home"; "States Evidence.'" By Stanley Foster; "The Fugitive." by War-1 ren Williams; "The Reckoning," bv Lola Parsons and "Crooked Street-," bv Carl Dormont. William Hamm Dies; Last F. & R. Partner {Continued from Page 11 ed the Theodore Hamm Brewing Co., St. Paul's largest single industry. M. L. Finkelstein died early this year, while I. H. Ruben passed away less than two weeks ago New Chicago Censor Chicago — Frances James, former' musical comedy actress, has been ap-| minted a member of the M. P. Cen-| sorship Board by Mayor Cermak, Irene Purcell, signed by M-G-M to appear in the picturization of the David Bclasco play, "Dancing Partner." released under the title of "Just A Gigolo," has been given a long term contract by this company. Miss Purcell just completed a part in Robert Montgomery's starring vehicle, "The Man in Possession." • » # Dorothy Mackaill, Fir-t National star, has sailed for another vacation in Hawaii, where she will stay several weeks. "City Lights" Closing Return engagement of Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" at the George. M. Cohan, at popular prices, closes! Sunday night. NEW YORK CHARTERS II. & I. Amusement Corp., motion pictures; A. Lipshitz, 38 Park Row. New York. $5,00Ul Spring Valley Theater Corp.. theaters; T. W. Barker, Spring Valley, N. V. S'O.OOB pf. 60 shares common. DELAWARE CHARTER Art-Craft Pictures Corp.. New York, motion pictures; I'nited States Corporation Co., Dover, Del. 100 shares common. DESIGNATIONS Walt Disney Productions, California, Ltd., cartoons, motion pictures. 10,000 shares, no par. DISSOLUTION Rotondo Amusement Corp., Batavia, N. Y.