The Film Daily (1935)

Monday, July 15, 1935 DAILY A LITTLE from "LOTS" By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD T EE TRACY resumes work at ' Paramount July 29 in "Getting Smart," by James Gleason and Richard Taber, screen play by Sam Hellman, Francis Martin and Eddie Moran. Roscoe Karns tentatively is up for a co-featured role. T ▼ T "Buccaneer" has been selected as the final title for "Farewell to Fifth Avenue," Fox adaptation of the society-Texpose by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. Sol M. Wurtzel will produce it. T t ▼ • Boyce DeGaw and Isabel Dawn, who wrote "Don't Bet on Love," for Warner Bros., are working on "One to Two," which will be made by RKO, "with Edward Kaufman supervising. T T Y Tommy Atkins is directing his own original story, "Hi, Gaucho," for RKO. John Carroll, Rod LaRocque, Steffi Duna and Montagu Love head the cast. John Burch is supervising. AAA Fox cast assignments: S'dney Toler, Gloria Roy and Gordon Westcott for "Meal Ticket," in which Jane Withers is featured: Frank Vogeding for "Charlie Chan in Shanghai," with Warner Oland; George Irving for "Beauty's Daughter," in which Claire Trevor and Ralph Belamy portray the featured roles. T T T Wanda Tuchock is now at Columbia, working on an original idea suggested by Harry Cohn. She was recently at M-G-M, where she and Leonard Praskins did the original screenplay of "O'Shaughnessy's Boy." T ▼ ▼ Joe Ruttenberg, ace cameraman, who photographed "Peoples' Eneemy," "Gigolette," "Frankie and Johnnie" and several other pictures, has arrived from the east and plans to remain on the coast. T T T Pauline Frederick has been signed by Fox for "Ramona," in which Gilbert Roland and Rita Canstino have the leads. Kent Taylor and George Barbier also have been borrowed from Paramount for this picture. T r T Columbia has assigned Dwight Frye and John Wray to "Atlantic Adventure," and Edward Cooper and Charles T. Arnt to "She Married Her Boss." Iowa Briefs Des Moines — A. H. Blank and Ralph Branton, Tri-States heads, have left for New York on a tenday buying trip. L. M. McKechneay, Tri State treasurer, will leave July 31 on a three-week trip to Montreal, the New England states and New York. B. J. McCarthy, RKO chief is on a fishing trip in northern Minnesota. Paul Walsh of the Warner staff has gone to Chicago and the office rumors he will return married. M. E. Lee and J. M. Baetty, Warner bookers, have just returned from Grand Rapids, Minn. Joe Kline has been added to the Columbia territory staff here, replacing Robert Winnick, transferred to Milwaukee. ooonononnoo --gaSfflE New Orleans Notes New Orleans — Ed Ortte, Republic salesman who lives in Claremont Harbor, Miss., probably holds the film row record this summer for fishing. He caught a boatload of speckled trout and what's more he tells where they can be found. Marx Connett, who runs a house in Pass Christian, Miss., has another house in his plans but he is not revealing where it is at present. One theater for each of his three sons — that's the ambition of George Carey. He has houses in Paris, Ark., Ackerman, Miss., and recently opened in competition to a house in Kosciusko, Miss. Visitors to film row: Lawrence Lampo, A. Lehmann, William Cobb. Pittsburgh Briefs Pittsburgh — A last minute switch decided not to close the HarrisAlvin this summer. House will continue with double bills until fall. Variety Club golf tournament will be staged at the St. Clair Country Club Aug. 12. Art Levy is chairman, Harold Lund treasurer and Johnny Harris in charge of the trophies. Doc Herman's farm will again be the place for the annual outing to be staged by the Allied M. P. T. 0. of Western Pennsylvania next month. Fred J. Harrington is chairman of arrangements. Fulton is being redecorated for an opening early in August. All Production Of All Companies For The Coming Year Completely Listed In The 1935 FILM DAILY Production Guide Now In Work ^ °^ *» ^ Out This Month