The Film Daily (1931)

THE DAILV Tuesday, November 10, 1931 A LITTLE from "LOTS // iBy RALPH WILK . HOLLYWOOD D ADIO PICTURES has completed shooting on "The Dove" and the untitled Mary Astor-Ricardo Cortez picture based on a story by Louis Weitzenkorn. They are now in the cutting room. * * * Paramount has assigned Frances Starr and Frances Dee to "Second Cfiances," Paul Lukas and Marjorie Gateson to "No One Man," and Stuart Edwin and Stanley Fields to "Two Kinds of Women." * * * M-G-M has engaged Jean Harlow for the feminine lead with Walter Huston in "City Sentinel," which Charles Brabin will direct; and Roland Young has been added to "Courage," the Robert Montgomery vehicle which Robert Z. Leonard is directing. * * * RKO Pathe has signed Ian McLaren for the Ann Harding picture, "Prestige," and Hans Joby will appear in the new Helen Twelvetrees picture being directed by Ralph Murphy. ♦ * * Columbia assignments of the last few days include Ralph Bellamy and Halliwell Hobbes for "Forbidden," and Harry Todd and Robert Ellis for "Justice Rides Again," Lucy Beaumont and Armand Kaliz for "Blonde Baby," and Joan Marsh and Natalie Moorhead for "Yellow," which J. Francis Dillon will direct. * * * Charles Middleton, Nat Pendleton, Edward Piel, Otto Yamioka, Evelyn Selbie and Anna Chang are recent additions to First National's "The Honorable Mr. Wong." * * * • Educational has signed Harold Grayson's Hotel Roosevelt orchestra for a Mermaid comedy being directed by William Goodrich ....Phyllis Crane also has been signed for a Mermaid appearance. .. .Al Christie is back in harness as a director on "For the Love of Fanny". .. .Billy Hornbeck, Mack Bennett's chief editor and cutter, has returned from a tour of Europe. * * * Radio Pictures has placed Suzanne Fleming under long contract . . . George Frank, Tiny Sanford and Gertrude Astor have been added to "Chi Chi and Her Papas" . . . Art Goebel, Frank Clarke, Leo Nomis, Arnold Grey and Arthur Housman are additions to "Lost Squadron." * * * The Boston Bruins, four times winners of the American Hockey Professional Championship, have been engaged for the fourth in the Bill Cunningham Sports Review series, according to Howard C. Brown who, with Curtis F. Nagel, is producing the series for Educational. * * * Bryan Foy has completed the fourth of his "Monkeyshines" series of comedies for Columbia release. The newest short is titled "The Jazzbo Singer." The cast is composed entirely of monkeys and in this particular subject a Mammy singer has the title role. Lou Breslaw directed. * * * Our Passing Show: Tom Mix, Babe Ruth, Christy Walsh, Edward Everett Horton, W. Frank Harling, Eileen Creelman, James Ashmore Creelman, at the Wampas meeting; Frankie Albertson, Joan Marsh, Al Cohn, Mervyn LeRoy, Ken Maynard, Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Starr, John D arrow, Rochelle Hudson at the Cocoanut Grove. * * * The University of Southern California Dramatic club will present "First Night" on Nov. 10. The play was written by Fred Rath, member of the Paramount writing staflF. It was shown on Broadway last season. * * * Walter Byron is playing an imrportant role in "The Feathered Serpent," which is being made by Columbia. Byron recently appeared in "The Yellow Ticket" at Fox. Melvyn Douglas, New York stage favorite, who played opposite Gloria Swanson in "Tonight or Never," in the same role that he created on Broadway, is playing opposite Ann Harding in "Prestige." Mervjm LeRoy directed "Tonight or Never." while Tay Garnett is directing "Prestige." * * * John Francis Natteford has completed the screen play and dialogue for "File 113," which M. H. Hoffman will produce for Allied Pictures, with Chester Franklin directing. * * * Dorothy Christy has rejected a leading role in "Mrs. Moonlight," a musical comedy, which will be produced by the Shuberts. She believes that an absence from pictures at this time might injure her screen career. She is playing the role of a "gold digger" in "Pudge." at Universal. « « * "Cain was the first villain and Mr. Hyde the worst," it was declared by B. P. Schulberg, managing director of West Coast production for Paramount, in discussing the production of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." * * * Vivienne Osborne, who is under contract to Paramount, will soon start work on her third talking picture. She recently completed the leading feminine role in "Husband's Holiday" and prior to that production, which was supervised by Felix Young, she played in "The Beloved Bachelor." Stephen Roberts, former comedy director who recently joined Pararnount's directorial staff, has been given a new contract. Here and There: Mr. and Mrs. George Arliss, Al Christie, Lois Wilson, George O'Brien, David Howard, Nat Goldstone. Bert Hanlon, Lew Lipton, Irene Dunne. Charles Butterworth, William S. Gill at the Hotel Roosevelt Blossom Room; Louis Stevens and Peter Milne lunching at the Errbassy. * * * Howard Bretherton has been signed to direct two pictures for Monogram. His first assignment is "Police Court." Warner Bros, has bought the Mary McCall story, "The Gold Fish Bowl," for Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Jack Murphy, juvenile, has returned from a trip around the world. HEADQUARTERS The Film Daily Year Book is a veritable gold mine of statistical data and information on the motion picture industry. It is published annually in January and, for fourteen years, has been constantly in preparation. It is universally used, and recognized as Standard by practically every executive in the industry. It has the enthusiastic backing and co-operation of every branch of the motion picture industry in every part of the world and lives up to its reputation by growing bigger, better and more practical with each new issue. The 1932 FILM DAILY YEAR BOOK (14th Edifion) IS NOW IN PREPARATION FILMDOM'S RECOGNIZED REFERENCE BOOK Distributed in January BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER