The Film Daily (1931)

THE ■uesday, July 21, 1931 •kMHI DAILY A LITTLE From "LOTS ►// By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD /[ARC LACHMAN, a Texas boy who made good on Broadway id who has been a prominent pub:ity man for several years, has incd the Fox scenario staff. + * * Joan Bennett has been assigned the feminine lead in "Surrender," ox film based on the novel \xelle," by Pierre Benoit. Edard Crandall will play opposite her, ith William K. Howard directing. Edward "Goodman, director of .Vomen Love Once," is reading veral stories from which he is to lect his next assignment for Paraount. Goodman was recently given new contract by this organization. * * * Leo McCarey, who directed Gloria wunson in "Indiscreet," has sev•ed connections with the Howard ughes organization, it is reported. * * * Walter Byron will play an impor nt part in "The Yellow Ticket," lissa Landi's next starring picture ■ r Fox. Arnold Korff and Sarah tidden have been signed to play in ipport' of Miss Landi. Raoul ^alsh is the director. * * * Mark Sandrich is directing "A '^lon Drama," starring Clark and cCullough. The comedy is being ■oduced by Louis Brock for reuse through Radio Pictures. The or II is an original by Bobby Clark. * * * Laura Hope Crews, who guided loria .Swanson, Carole Lombard, lan Marsh and others through the tricacies of acting for the talkers, IS completed her contract with ^niuel Goldwyn. She is planning vacation in the East before decidp on several offers which have >en tendered her in Hollywood. r. Goldwyn has expressed the hope lat Miss Crew's wide dramatic lowledge will be available through consulting arrangement. + * * Dick Pearl writes that he is en)ying London. "The people here e busy making their own pictures, It they still want American picres and are buying them," he . 'ites. From Japan, Leon Shamy writes that he is en route to lina ISUNSHIN€ 1 ^>m ^ IN ^\ ^.^IH H THE 1 ^m K DAY'S W NEWS Miniature golf courses, last year's : chief bugaboo for exhibs, are now 90 j per cent extinct and getting extincter. Ill" ilillllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllll" John F. Goodrich, the scenarist, was second in the annual California trapshooting tournament. He broke 193 out of 200. More than 100 marksmen were entered in the tourney. * * * Harry Joe Brown has been made a life member of the Masquers. Others who hold this distinction are Antonio Moreno, Fred Esmelton and Ingle Carpenter. * * * Ralph Morgan will play the leading role in "The Lone Wolf's Son," Fox film based on a story by Louis Joseph Vance. Hamilton MacFa<aden will direct. * * * Robert Lord, Warner Bros.-First National supervisor, having completed the special assignment for which he was borrowed by M-G-M, has departed on a three weeks' vacation. * * * Edward Crandall will !>€ Janet Gaynor's leading man in "Delicious," the George and Ira Gershwin musical for Fox. El Brendel and Lawrence O'Sullivan also are in it, with David Butler directing. * * * Wallace Smith is reported writing a new novel which will be published bv George Putnam & Sons. Smith is under contract to Radio Pictures. Lucien Littlefield's latest assignment is in the Fox film, "Sob Sister." Helen Jerome Eddy has been signed for a part in the same picture. * * * Having completed the direction of "Larceny Lane," his latest Warner production, Roy Del Ruth is preparing his palatial yacht for an extended voyage that will embrace Seattle, Vancouver and Alaska * * * Fredric March has been definitely decided upon by Paramount for the lead in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Mariam Hopkins will play opposite him, with Rouben Mamoulian directing. * * * Nick Stuart has one of the featured roles in "Sundown Trail," the picture which will introduce Tom Keene as an RKO Pathe Western star. * * * Virginia Kellogg, former script girl who wrote "The Road to Reno," has been given a Paramount contract. * * * "Timber Beast," an original story of the logging camps by Marion Jackson, is being prepared as a forthcoming starring feature for Bill Boyd. Miss Jackson and Don Ryar are writing the screen play and dialogue. Before making "Timber Beast," Boyd will star in "Suicide Fleet." COVERAGE Advertising Men Who know their Onions tell us FILM DAILY Is the Easiest Quickest And most Economical Way of reaching The buying Power of the Motion Picture Industry.