The Film Daily (1933)

THE Friday, June 30, 1933 "THE WOMAN I STOLE" with Jack Holt, Fay Wray Columbia 69 mins. COLORFUL DRAMA OF NORTH AFRICA HAS PLENTY OF PEPPY ACTION AND SEXY ROMANCE. A typical Joseph Hergesheimer novel translated to the screen with an understanding directorial hand by Irving Cummings. This is the type of film that carries an appeal for the femmes and males alike, for it has quite a torrid romance as well as a lot of he-man plot and action. Intelligent dialogue helps a lot. Jack Holt has a colorful role as a swashbuckling adventurer who has developed some oil fields in North Africa for a big company, and secured the appointment of a young man as superintendent simply because he is sweet on the other's wife. They are preparing to elope together, when Holt finds himself embroiled in a plot of the oil field's manager to ruin the company through the bandit work of an outlaw chief and his gang of natives. He stays to see it through, outwits the crooked manager and the bandit chief, and leaves the faithless wife flat on realizing what a good sport her husband is. Plenty of sophistication that lifts it out of children's fare, with Jack Holt delivering strong and splendid support. Cast: Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Noah Beery, Raquel Torres, Donald Cook, Edwin Maxwell. Charles Browne, Ferdinand Munier, Lee Phelps. Director, Irving Cummings; Author, Joseph Hergesheimer; Adaptor, Jo Swerling; Editor, Gene Havlick; Cameraman, Benjamin Kline Direction, very good Photography, excellent Seeks Accounting in Trans-Lux Corp. Suit Wilmington — Allegations that the affairs of the Trans-Lux Daylight Picture Screen Corp. of New York have been conducted in an extravagant and wasteful manner with the payment of exhorbitant salaries and incurring of excessive expenses are made in an injunction and accounting suit filed in Chancery Court here yesterday by Ray L. Hall, owner of 100 shares of the corporation's stock, against the corporation and directors. The complainant asks the court to enjoin the individual defendants and the corporation from expending any of the corporation's funds except in the normal and usual course of the corporation's business and to order the individual defendants to account for any money of the corporation which has been spent to maintain the present management in control or for other simi'ar purposes. Application for a preliminary injunction pending final hearing of the suit has been set down for a hearing July 19. Hall recently filed a suit against the corporation and directors asking the Court to determine the validity of three directors at last month's annual meeting of the corporation. "THE RETURN OF CASEY JONES" Monogram 67 mins. FAIR RAILROAD MELLER WHICH PROBABLY WILL GO OVER WITH AUDIENCES THAT GO FOR THIS TYPE. Audiences that like railroad melodramas should take to this one although it is nothing out of the ordinary. The title, properly exploited, should bring out the customers who went for the old Casey Jones film. Story concerns the railroad figure, Casey Jones, who is killed on a special high speed run, and the boy who idolizes him. The boy later becoming an engineer. The World War breaks out and the boy is about to join up when the news of his mother's heart attack changes his mind. Gossips brand him a slacker and later a coward when he falls from his locomotive while trying to repair an air-brake leak. He is demoted to the rank of fireman on the train of an old friend. While they are hauling a load of soldiers the aged engineer faints and the air-brake pressure drops, with the train headed for a limited coming the other way. The boy climbs out on tht engine; repairs the leak and brings the train to a stop inches from the other, with the resultant reinstatement to his old rank. Cast: Charles Starrett, Ruth Hall, Robert Elliott, George Hayes, Jackie Searl, George Walsh, Margaret Seddon, G. D. Wood, George Nash, Anne Howard. Director, J P. McCarthy; Author, John P. Johns; Adaptors, J. P. McCarthy, Harry 0 Jones; Cameraman, John Mescall; Recording Engineer, John A Stransky, Jr Direction, Okay. Photography, Good. Ken Maynard in "THE LONE AVENGER" World Wide 61 mins. OKAY WESTERN WITH PLENTY OF WHAT IT TAKES IN THE WAY OF ACTION AND SHOOTING. The necessary amount of action, riding and shooting is contained in this one. Ken Maynard plays the part of the son of a bank president who has been killed so that the crooked officers of the bank can make way with the funds and blame the deficit on the late president. The murder is planned to look like a suicide but Ken believes otherwise and sets out to prove his theory. The crooked gang turns suspicion on Ken; he is captured but escapes. He joins up with the local vigilantes and with their help manages to trap the guilty ones. The finale is a grand free-for-all fist and gun fight in the saloon with Ken and the vigilantes stopping the gang from escaping with the money, thus saving the bank from ruin. Cast: Ken Maynard, Muriel Gordon, James Marcus, Al Bridge, Niles Welch, William Norton Bailey, Ed Brady, Charles King, Jack Rockwell, Clarence Geldert. Director, Alan James; Authors, Forrest Sheldon, Betty Burbridge; Adaptors, same. Direction, Good Photography, Good teady Reference Directory With Addresses and Phone Number] of Recognized Industry Concerns What To Buy And Where To Buy It • Distributors iJ "Easy Millions" Release — June 30th CASH IN! Freuler Film Associates, Inc. R.K.O. Bldg. * New York City • Engravers • YV7HAT came as the biggest surprise of the day were the gifts Earl Hammons presented each one attending the convention. A leather brief case with each recipient's name stamped on it in gold. The epidemic of colonelships is still on. George A. Roberts, Cleveland district manager, received word while at the convention that his name has been added to the list of Kentucky Colonels. Edgar Moss, Philadelphia district manager, has been holding "open house" for the boys at the convention at his summer home in Atlantic City. And how the boys love it. E. R. Bergman, salesman, of the Cleveland unit, is the most attentive man at the convention. Reason: his boss is Mrs. E. R. Bergman, who is assistant manager of the Cleveland office. Educational district managers who are in attendance include, J. J. Scully, Boston; D. Dubin, Kansas City; G. C. Blumenthal, San Francisco; J. Kaliski, Atlanta; H. R. Skirball, Cleveland; J. A. Bachman, Chicago and H. Starr, Detroit. Sid Towell, who is expected to arrive today, will be attending his first Fox convention as treasurer of the company. Other arrivals expected today are Spyros Skouras and W. C. Michel. CALL— "CITY" PHOTOENGRAVING (Day and Night Service) 250 W. 54th St., N. Y. C. Tel. COIumbus 5-6741 Equipment J VORTKAMP AND COMPANY Lamps and Carbons ALL OTHER THEATER SUPPLIES 1600 B'way, CH. 4-5550 N. Y. C. Foreign Congratulations were in order during the day for Lee Balsley, for his exhibit of 1933-34 theater accessories placed around the hotel and on the Steel Pier. Earl Hammons, who started the day off with an early morning dip, says it peps him up for at least one day. J AMERANGLO CORPORATION EXPORTERS— IMPORTERS Cable: Chronophon 226 WEST 42ND STREET NEW YORK CITY LONDON PARIS BERLIN • Hand Coloring -1 G. A. Roberts, I. J. Schmertz, D. S. Davidson, E. R. Bergman, S. N. Lichter and F. J. Hunt of the Cleveland division spent the noon hour looking for a photographer as they pulled the convention gag so many times on the frau, they have to show the proof. Roger Ferri continues to be the busiest man at the convention. HAND COLORING of POSITIVE PRINTS 528 Riverside Drive New York City UNiversity 4-2073 Scrap Film J Instead of the usual dining room rush at meal time J. J. Schwartz, ! Joe Lee, Sam Wheeler, Herndon I Edmond, B. B. Reingold (not the , beer man but of the St. Louis Reingold stock) Jack Dillion, and Charlie Walker all took a dip in the sea. WE BUY JUNK FILM Guarantee No Piracy BEST MARKET PRICES WOODRIOGE NEW JERSEY