The Film Daily (1933)

DAILY Friday, June 30, 1933 82 ATTENDED M-G-M K.C. SALES MEETING Kansas City — More than 82 men were present at the Kansas City sales convention at the Muehlebach Hotel, which closed yesterday. Home Office: Felix F. Feist, Edward M. Saunders, Thomas J. Connors, Fred C. Quimby, Howard Dietz, Alan F. Cummings, Jay A. Gove, John S. MacLeod, Si Seadler, William R. Ferguson, Harold Postman, Joel Bezah'er, Selvyn J. Levinson and Charles Deesen. District Managers: Harris P. Wolfberg, George A. Hickev, Charles E. K"ssnich, and Samuel A. Shirley. Exchange Managers: Atanta, James W. Hanlcn; Chicago, Felix Mendelssohn; Dallas, Leroy Bickel; Denver, Henry A. Friedel; Des Moines, Walter E. Banford; Indianapolis, Wade W. Willman; Kansas City, Frank C. Hensler; Los Angeles, Jacob J. Milstein; Memphis, Jay F. Willingham; Milwaukee, Samuel Shurman; Minneapolis, William H. Workman; New Orleans, Clarence J. Briant: Oklahoma City, William B. Zoellner; Omaha, Harry J. Shumow; Portland, Louis Amacher; St. Louis, Clayton T. Lynch; Salt Lake City, Maurice D. Saffle; San Francisco, Grover C. Parsons; Seattle, Langdon C. Wingham. Sales Force— Atlanta: L. B. Butler, Louis C. Ingram, Francis F. McGuire, E. B. Coleman; Canada: Walter F. Hayner; Chicago: Frank Ishmael, Theodore L. Mendelssohn, David E. Ross, Fred Bartow; Dallas: Clyde Houston, Charles D. Lyne; Denver: Cecil E. Pace; Des Moines: Dexter C. Kennedy. Lou Levy; Indianapolis: Robert D. McRaven, H. A. Wagner; Kansas City: George Baumeister, Edwin W. Green, Sam Stoll, Claude E. Morris; Los Angeles: Francis A. Bateman, William A. Calihan; Memphis: Jack ReVille; Milwaukee: Edward Lipson, A. J. Shumow; Minneapolis: William C. Cameron, Allen S. Clatw irthy, George W. Turner, Morris Abrams; New Orleans: Virgil H. Bridges: Oklahoma City: Roy M. Avey, James N. Byrd; Omaha: Charles H. Macke, Carl Nedley, Fred C. Thortsen; Portland: Joseph T. Warren, Hal Elias; St. Louis: Glenn C. Gregory, Jack Quinn, George Reilly; Salt Lake City: Samuel J. Gardner, Walter K. Millar; San Francisco: Edward C. Mix, Louis C. O'Connor; Seattle: Mac Rubenfeld, B. W. Rucker, Provide Radio Sketches In addition to the regular campaign material contained in the Merchandising Plans on their pictures, the Warner Bros, publicity department makes available to the exhibitors a ten minute radio programme on most of their releases. The highlights of these films are extracted from the script and a complete radio broadcast written around them. 39 Fox Players Set Assigned parts in Fox new season features are 39 stars and featured Players. Their names follow Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Clara Bow Lilian Harvey ^enry Garat Les lie Howard, Heather Angel, Sally Eilers, John Boles, Spencer Yracy,*' Colleen Moo e, Marian Nixon, Elissa Land! Lew Ayres, Norman Foster, James Dunn Victor Jory, Myrna Loy, Adolphe Menjou, Henrietta Crosman, Henry Stephenson Harvey Stephens Preston Foster, Raul Roul.e M,m, Jordan. Warner Oland Sid Silvers ZaSu Pitts, Madeleine Carroll, George O'Brien Beryl Mercer, El Brende , Herbert Mundin, Jesse Matthews, Louise Dresser, Conrad Ve.dt. Herbert Marshall, fhil.p Menvale, and others. Titles of 43 of 54 Features Next Year are Listed by Fox {Continued fi story, with H'nriette Crosman, Marian Nixon, Norman Foster and Heather Angel. Directed l>\ John Ford. "My Lips Betray." Lilian Harvey's first starring picture in America, with John Boles and El Brendel. Directed by John Blystone. "Life's Worth Living," the adaptation of the hest seller, "The Last Adam," by James Gould Cozzens, starring Will Rogers and featuring Louise Dresser, Vera Allen, Marian Xixon and Ralph Morgan. Directed try John Ford. "Berkeley Square," John Balderston's famous play, featuring Leslie Howard, Heather Angel. Valorie Taylor and Irene Browne. Directed hy Frank Lloyd. "The Power and the Glory,'' by Preston Sturges, with Spencer Tracy and Colleen Moore: a drama in a new film technique. Directed by William K. Howard. Next for Janet Gaynor "Paddy, the Next Best Thing," from Gertrude Page's novel, starring Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter, with Harvey Stephens and Walter Connolly. Directed by Harry Lachman. Dialogue director, Edwin Burke. "Hoop La," a story starring Clara Bow against a World's Fair background, with Philip Merivale and Norman Foster heading the supporting cast. "The Good Companions," a Fox-GaumontBritish production, from the play and novel by J. B. Priestley with Jessie Matthews. "The Worst Woman in Paris?" by MontBell, with Adolphe Meniou, Myrna Loy, Harvey Stephens. To he directed by Bell. "Jimmy and Sally," an original screen story with James Dunn and Sally Eilers. "Peking Picnic," from the "Atlantic Monthly" prize novel by Ann Br'dge. Cast to hannounced. "Orient Express," from the popular novel by Graham Greene, with Heather Angel, Nor man Foster, Herbert Mundin. "The Grand Canary." from the hest seller by A. J. Cronin, with Warner Baxter. "All Men Are Enemies," by Richard Aldington. Cast to be announced. "The Constant Nymph," from the best seller by Margaret Sanger. A Fox-Gaumont-British production. "Smoky," the popular story of a horse, by Will James. For Spencer Tracy "Marie Galante,'* from the novel by Jacques Deval, with Spencer Tracy. "The Mad Game," from the novel, "Lead Harvest." by Edward Dean Sullivan, with Spencer Tracy, Ralph Morgan and Claire Trevor. Director, Irving Cummings. "As Husbands Go," from the successful play by Rachel Crothers. Against Death," an original story filmed 1 Malay, with Marion Burns, Kane Richmond and Harry Woods. "David Harum," from the classic by Ed am Page I ) ward Noyes Westcott. starring Will Rogers. "There's Always Tomorrow." from the "Saturday Evening Post" story by Anne Cameron, starring Will Rogers with ZaSu Pitts and Florence Desmond. "Walls of Gold," from the "American Magazine" story by Kathleen Norris, with Sally F.ilers and Norman Foster. "I Was a Spy," a Fox-Gaumont-British production, from the novel by Marthe McKenna, with Herbert Marshall, Madeleine Carroll and Conrad Veidt. Lilian Harvey's Second "My Weakness," Lilian Harvey's second American film, with Lew Ayres, Sid Silvers, Boots Mallory and June Vlasek. Directed by David Butler. "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case," the popular mystery story by Earl Derr Biggers, with Warner Oland and Heather Angel. Director, Hamilton MacFadden. "Fox Movietone Follies," a pretentious musical production with dances staged by Sammy Lee and music by Richard Whiting, which will feature every star in Fox Movietone City. "Kiss and Forget," a musical with Henry Garat. "Dressed to Love." from the play by Alfred Savior, with Elissa Land!, "Sleepers East," from the novel by Frederick Nebel, with a cast to be announced. "In Your Arms," a third Lilian Harvey production. "I Am a Widow." with Elissa Landi, John Boles and Ralph Morgan. Three George O'Brien features. "The Last Trail." by Zane Grey, with Claire Trevor: "Nerve," by Peter B. Kyne, and "Frontier Marshal." by Stuart Lake. "3 On a Honeymoon," with a cast to be announced. "I Come From Hell." an original story to star the comedian. El Brendel. "Madness for Two," a story laid in the Ural Mountains. Cast to be announced. "Woman and the Law" "Woman and the Law," a Spencer TracySally Eilers feature. "Odd Thursday," by Vera Caspary, with Warner Baxter. "The Favorite," another James Dunn-Sally Eilers co-starring film. "The World Moves On." by Reginald Berkeley, to be directed by John Ford. Cast to be announced. "Aniakchak," a film of a natural phenomenon by Father Hubbard, world famed Arctic character. Some of the more prominent writers include: J. B. Priestley, Rachel Crothers, Kathleen Norris. Peter B. Kyne. I. A. R. Wylie, James Gould Cozzens John Balderston, Zane Grey, Will James, Alfred Savoir, Margaret Kennedy. Richard Aldington, Preston Sturges, A. J. Cronin and Earl Derr Biggers. "TOMORROW AT 7" PREVIEW RKO's "Tomorrow at Seven," featuring Chester Morris and Vivienne Osborne, will be given a preview at the original Roxy tonio-Vit following the last showing of RKO's "Emergency Call." ALAN DINEHART WEDS li i i I oast Bureau oj 1 III ill u /» ill y Hollywood — Alan Dinehart, director-actor, and Mozelle Britonne, player, haw married here, CRESSON SMITH RETURNING Cresson Smith, western and southern sales manager for RKO, will arrive home from the Orient in time to attend the company's San Francisco sales convention. END NAT. DIVERSIFIED TRIAL Trial of Otto E. Goebel and eight other defendants on charges of mail fraud in the sale of stock of National Diversified Corp., religious picture company has been completed. CLARK PAYS TRIBUTE TO SHEEHAN AT MEET Atlantic City — Tribute to the reorganization effected by Winfield R. Sheehan at the Fox studio was paid by John D. Clark, general manager of distribution, at the opening session of the company's annual sales convention here. He spoke of the development of new players for coming Fox programs. Other speakers included: Earl H. Hammons, Truman Talley, Jack Skirball and W. H. Kupper. The Fox-Educational short subject program for the new year was analyzed and other matters discussed. The Educational program will be officially announced today. New Ebenstein Firm To Make 12 Features {Continued from Page 1) duce and distribute an initial program of 12 features for the season of 1933-34. Production will be at the coast under the supervision of Alfred T. Mannon, vice-president, who leaves for the coast July 15. Alec Moss is vice-president in charge of publicity and advertising and will act as liaison officer between studio and home office. Moss was formerly advertising and publicity director for Columbia. Distribution of Resolute Pictures will be through independent exchanges preliminary to a later co-ord'nation of the exchanges into a national organization. Offices will be opened tomorrow at 1619 Broadway. Opinion Clears Way For Vitaphone Suit (Continued from Page 1) seach Products for modification of the restraining order issued against it in the suit filed by Vitaphone Corp. This opinion, signed in connection with action of Vitaphone to obtain royalties claimed due the company and to secure an accounting, clears the way for trial, taking the dispute away from arbitration proceedings which have been pending some time. Some time back the chief justice overruled a plea filed by the defense contending that the complainant is barred, by reason of an arbitration agreement, from bringing the suit. George E. Quigley and Abel Carey Thomas started the suit for Vitaphone with Hugh M. Morris of Wilmington, George Wharton Pepper and Theodore S. Paul, both of Philadelphia, and Robert W. Perkins of New York also identified with its prosecution. Author! Author! An exhib used one of the prepared reviews from the pressbook on "Gold Diggers," and planted it with his local paper. When the mug in the Warner publicity dep't who wrote it got the clipping, he cracks: "Can't we sue that rag for plagiarism?"