The Film Daily (1932)

THE Friday, Nov. 25, 1932 riiuiiM vim By RALPH W ILK HOLLYWOOD gECAUSE James Cruze is busy on another picture, Jesse L. Lasky signed Rowland V. Lee to direct "Zoo in Budapest," Lasky's first for Fox. Cruze will direct a later film for Lasky. * * * Billy Bakewell, who is now portraying the featured juvenile role in "Heroes for Hire" at RKO, has enrolled in a flying school at one of the Los Angeles airports. * * * George Meeker, after using his eye to stop a blow in a sparring workout with his younger brother, has now taken up golf. * * * "Me and My Gal" has been chosen to supplant "Pier 13" as the title for the Fox picture featuring Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett, recently completed under the direction of Raoul Walsh. * * * Dick Grace, dare-devil aviator who turned author, has been signed to write an original story for RKO Radio Pictures. Merian C. Cooper will produce the picture and it may ' Taps be directed by Ernest B. Schoed sack. * * * CAST ASSIGNMENTS Paramount : Jerry Tucker, Sally Blane. Ted Collins, Randolph Scott for Kate Smith's film; Sidney Toler "Pat" Farley, Nydia Westman for "King of the Jungle"; Lona Andre, Gail Patrick for "The Mysterious Rider" ; Cary Grant, Marian Marsh, Grace LaRue, Harry Wallace for "Ruby Red"; Theodor von Eltz. C. Aubrey Smith. Frank Morgan, Leni Stengel, Verree Teasdale, Henry Wadsworth, Billy Bevan, Knute Erickson, Jerry Tucker, Edith Yorke for "Luxury Liner"; H. B. Warner for "Jennie Gerhardt" ; Fredric March, Arthur Byron for "The Quen Was in the Parlor." Fox : Robert Barrat for "The Giant Swing" ; Chester Morris, Victor Jory for 'The Interna' Machine"; Booth Howard for "Hot Pepper" ; Allen Vincent, Phil Tead for "Broadway Bad." First National: Constance Cummings, Allen Jenkins, Clarence Muse for "The Mind Reader" ; Earle Foxe, Mae Busch, Joseph Cawthorn Sterling Holloway, Sam Godfrey, Olin Howard, Arthur Vinton, Donald Kirke, Tom Kennedy, Tom Wilson for "Blondie Johnson." Columbia : Shirley Palmer, Dutch Hendrian for "Air Hostess" ; Lois Wi son, Leo Carrillo for "East of Fifth Avenue"; Gayne Whitman for "Ranker Man"; Helen Mack for "The Yankee Bandit." Radio Pictures: Myrna Loy for "Topaze." World Wide: Junior Coghlan for "Drum Appeals Court Upholds Union's Right to Picket (Continued from Page 1) Court enjoining the union from this activity. Houses embraced in the decision are the Kismet, State and Sumner. Local 306, operators' union, had previously been picketing these houses but was stopped by an injunction. Owing to an indicated change in the attitude of one justice in the Court of Appeals, expressed in the injunction obtained by J. J. & S. against Local 306, expectations Wednesday were that the operators' local might take steps to regain right to picket the theaters. HISCOTT WITH BRITISH LION London — Leslie Hiscott, director, who has been with Twickenham Film Studios for some time, is now under contract to British Lion Film Corp. Still in Electrics' Grasp? The consent decree signed in Wil-I mington on Monday "has not shaken) the grasp of the electric group on thel motion picture industry," declared Robert,' Robins, executive secretary of thei American Society for the Protection ofj the M. P. Theater, on Wednesday. Despite the assurances received from John Lord O'Brian, assistant to the attorneygeneral, Robins said the decree "astonished by its woeful lack and noticeable absence of any provision for the protection of the freedom of the electronic art relating to visual entertainment for the present or future." United Theaters Plans Chinese Sound Pictures United Theaters, which, with its associated enterprises, constitutes China's largest theater operating group, plans to enter sound picture production, said Charles S. Rosselet, secretary of the Hongkong Amusement Co., in New York yesterday. Pictures will be made in both Cantonese and Mandarin. A studio will be built in Shanghai, with production to start within two months, said Rosselet. United Theaters had just acquired the Cartha, 1,000-seat Shanghai house, and is now building the Grand, 2,000-seat theater in the same city, said Rosselet. Company now controls approximately 40 wired houses. Rosselet, who is secretary of Hangkong Amusement Co., a firm associated with United Theaters, finds that Chinese audiences show a marked preference for both war and animal pictures. He plans to go to London early next month en route to China. DETROIT CENSOR ON WARPATH Detroit — Lester Potter, local censor, has closed "Her Mistake" at the Shubert Detroit Opera House. The picture is believed to have beer, made over from one formerly condemned here under other titles. Potter told The Film Daily that any off color state rights pictures showr here will be prosecuted. DAILY • Tfy^^^Vi • |y||f £-'&0?: «. 77777777..... ,../<fl ^52 jp3r There is only one • YEAR BOOK . . In the Motion • • Picture Industry* • And that has been Published by • • • The Film Daily • • For the past • . . Fifteen Years • • And is universally • Recognized as the . Standard Reference Book of • • • . # Motion Pictures # i i 1 1933 EDITION OUT IN FEBRUARY 15th EDITION 1200 PAGES