The Film Daily (1932)

DAILV A Little from "Lots By RALPH IV ILK ft HOLLYWOOD A RTHUR VINTON has joined the /V cast of "Handle With Care," which David Butler is directing for Fox. James Dunn, Boots Mallory, El Brendel and Buster Phelps are among the other principals in the cast. * * * Our Passing Show: Edgar Selwyn Ben Piazza, Waldemar Younjr, Sidney Buchman, Raoul Whitfield. Bill Wripht. Edna May Oliver, Oscar Apfel, Maude Fulton, Al Herman at the Writers' Club entertainment. * * * Wheeler Oakman and Wade Boteler have been assigned feature roles in Columbia's "Red Man," Tim McCoy vehicle. Luana Walters has the feminine lead. D. Ross Lederman is directing. * * * More Passing Show : J. L. W'arner, Darryl Zanuck, Benjamin Warner, Loretta Young, Russell Gleason, Mervyn LeRoy, George Thomas, Joseph Marks, George Bilson at the premiere of "Life Begins"; B. P. Schulberg, Richard Wallace, Jack White, Cy Bartlett, Browne Holmes. Leon Shamroy, Leo McCarey, Bob Yost, Endre Bohem watching the U. C. L. A. in an upset victory from Stanford. * * * Keene Thompson has been putting additional thrills into the script of Tom Keene's latest western production, which starts in a fewdays under the direction of Robert Hill. Arthur Horman assisted Jack Jungmeyer on the screen play. * » * Eddie Clayton has featured role in "That's Africa," the Bert WheelBI and Robert Woolsey comedy for Columbia. * * * Rehearsals have begun for Tom Keene's "The Cheyenne Kid," formerly called "Land of the Six-Shooter," an RKO Radio Picture. The casl includes Mary Mason, Rosco Man Rosco, Anderson Lawler, John Kelly and others. Robert Hill is directing. David Lewis i superior. * * * .-i <ii Monogram's "Man's Law," I ri-tam Topper adaptation of the i't-tcr I>. Kyne ^torv ha> been completed, with Lois Wilson, Theodore Von Kit/. Claire WindMir. ltarbara Kent. Robert Elliott, Henrj Walthall, Jameson Thomas, George Lowell Sherman in "FALSE FACES" with Peggy Shannon and Lila Lee World Wide 83 mins. EXPOSURE OF PLASTIC SURGERY AS A RACKET MAKES A SUSPENSEFUL DRAMA WITH GOOD BOX-OFFICE POSSIBILITIES. A good topical subject has been given effective dramatic handling in this Lowell Sherman production turned out by the KBS forces. Sherman, the main character, is an unethical doctor who gets kicked out of New York for demanding graft in a free hospital. He goes to Chicago, at the same time walking out on a nurse, Lila Lee, who has been his sweetie, and sets himself up lavishly as a plastic surgeon. By pulling spectacular stunts regardless of whom they injure, Sherman builds up a classy practice. He also has become thick with his receptionist, Peggy Shannon, but is about to throw her over for the daughter of a rich patient, when the nurse he left in New York turns up and tips off the police just as he is making a getaway as a result of an investigation of his activities. At the trial, the jury is swayed by the charlatan doc's eloquence and he is acquitted, but is subsequently shot by a woman whose legs had to be amputated because of his unsuccessful operation. Cast: Lowell Sherman, Peggy Shannon, Lee, Berton Churchill, David Landau, Harold Walridge, Geneva Mitchell, Oscar Apfel. Miriam Seegar, Joyce Compron, Nance O'Neil, Edward Martindel Purnell Pratt. Director, Lowell Sherman; Authors, Kubec Glasmon, Llewellyn Hughes; Cameramen, R. O. Binger, Theodore McCcrd; Editor, Rose Loewinger. Direction, Good Photography, Good Jack Buchanan in "MAGIC NIGHT" Bright Spot Dallas — With "Smilin' Thru." the Palace hung up two attendance records, During out Manager James Cherry's prediction that show business is looking up About 10.500 people filed into the theater Saturday, setting an all lime single day attendance record for the house. On Sunday. 9.432 people saw the show, breaking the Sunday record set several weeks ago by "Horse Feathers." Hackathorne and Willy Fong as principals. Phil Rosen will direct under the production supervision of William T. Lackey. * * * Robert G. Lisman of London and New York is in Hollywood on business. * * * Thomson Burtis, author of "Madison Square Garden," has established something of a record since he arrived in Hollywood six months ago. In that time he has written four original screen stories and worked on the screen play of five others at Paramount. * * * Harrison Wiley, recently signed as art director for the Charles R. Rogers Productions, is a pioneer in his field and started his motion picture career under Robert Brunton, the first famous designer and creator of film settings. * * t Sharon Lynn, who returned to the screen in "The Big Broadcast," promises to set a new vogue with her portrayal of a vamp wih a sense of humor. The combination of comedy and sex appeal with which she endowed that part is distinct departure in screen characters. * * * Shirley Castle, striking reddishbrown-haired beauty, who worked in "Goldie" and "Hotel Continental," has rejected an offer to appear in a New York musical production. 85 mins. United Artists VERY PLEASING MUSICAL ROMANCE IN VIENNESE SETTING, WELL CAST AND ATTRACTIVELY PRODUCED. Somewhat typical of the Viennese romantic dramas with music, this British & Dominions production has a good deal of the rhythmic movement employed with good results in "Congress Dances" and "Love Me Tonight." The story itself is the favorite standby plot of the dashing lieutenant, played by Jack Buchanan, who is genuinely in love with a flower shop girl, nicely played by Anna Neagle, while his father, the general, has arranged a royal match for him with a countess. Outbreak of war between Austria and Servia gives the father a chance to separate his son and the flower girl, who thinks her lover has deserted her. She later becomes a great singer, while the lieutenant, after the war, goes to work as a shoe clerk to earn his own living. She comes to the shop, and at first is hostile to his attentions, but his persistence eventually brings her around. Buchanan gives a very likeable performance, the surrounding cast is thoroughly capable, and the action moves along with a good swing to the tune of the enjoyable romantic and military music. Cast: Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle, Clive Currie, William Kendall, Herbert Carrick, Gib McLaughlin, Clifford Heatherly, 0. B. Clarence, Aubrey Fitzgerald, Gina Malo, Peggy Cartwright, Muriel Aked, Joyce Bland. Director, Herbert Wilcox; Authors, Holt Morvell, George Posford, Direction, Good Photography, Okay Hoot Gibson in "THE BOILING POINT" Allied Pictures 64 mins. PLENTY OF PLOT AND ACTION PLUS GOOD PRODUCTION HANDLING ALL AROUND PLACES THIS ONE IN THE BETTER CLASS OF WESTERNS. Besides a dandy role for Hoot Gibson, this outdoor production has a load of plot material that keeps the action pumping all the time. Hoot is a cowboy with a hot temper which requires little excuse for rising to the "boiling point." To tone him down, his uncle sends him to a friend's ranch, where Hoot is to be on parole for 30 days. The other cowboys do all sorts of things to arouse him, but Hoot man ages to keep within his probation requirements. He even suffers himself to be ordered around by the rancher's daughter, who makes him do a lot of undignified chores — the girl not knowing about Hoot's promise to his uncle. For a time, too, Hoot must stand by and see the villain pulling off his dirty work, which includes cattle rustling and bank robbery in addition to his play for the hand of the girl, but finally, on the day before his goodbehavior time expires, Hoot lets loose and comes into his own. Helen Foster is nice as the girl, and Wheeler Oakman plays the heavy to good effect. Cast: Hoot Gibson, Helen Foster Wheeler Oakman, Skeerer Bill Robinson Lafe McKee. Billy Bletcher, Tom London George Hays, Charles Bailey, Bill Nye. Director, George Melford; Author, Donald W. Lee; Cameramen, Harry Neumann Tom Galligan; Recording Engineer L E Tope; Editor, Mildred Johnson. Direction, Fine Photography, Fine Thursday, Nov. 3, 1932 — IMIIHItaii II II HIWIII ■ Dallas — Foreign talking pictures, in Spanish and French, are a part of the broader foreign language program to be extended this year to students in that department at Texas State College for Women in Denton. Cleveland David A. O'Malley, general manager of Powers Pic j tures, Inc., is in town, arranging for local distribution of Powers pic tures. Indianapolis, Ind. — Edward Tar | bell, one time P. D. C. division manager, has been appointed local manager for American Display Corp. Cleveland— Charles "Chuck" Herbert, M-G-M assistant cashier, has been transferred to the Atlanta exchange. Kansas City — Victor Schram has been appointed representative for American Display Corp. in the Kansas, Iowa and southern Missouri territory, with headquarters here. Cleveland — H. H. Moeller, formerly with Multicolor, Ltd., of Los Angeles, has joined the Cleveland organization of American Display Corp., under the management of Lew Thompson. Kansas City — Aaron L. Dare has equipped his Rainbow here with RCA sound. Indianapolis — Articles of incorporation have been filed by Clinton's Capitol Theater, Inc. Incorporators are H. M. Ferguson, M. F. Thompson and Arthur Ferguson. Louisville, Ky.— W. Williston Dudley, who operates a theater for colored in Indianapolis, has remodeled and opened the Lyric here for the colored movie fans. Dallas — The Palace is announcing a return of pit music on Nov. 4 with Hyman Charninsky as conductor. Louisville, Ky. — Nat Royster, formerly exploitation manager for the Brown, has gone to the Grand, Evansville, Ind. Birmingham — George Nealeans of South Carolina has been made assistant manager of Wilby-Kincey's Alabama here. Ste. Genevieve, Mo. — Construction has started on A. C. Mercier's theater. Fan Foibles Rutgers Neilson, RKO press representative has received a letter addressed as follows: Miss Constance Bennett, care of Rutgles & Nelson, 1560 Broadway.