The Film Daily (1935)

» REVIEWS « "THE GAY DECEPTION" with Francis Lederer and Frances Dee (HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW) Fox 79 mins. GRAND ENTERTAINMENT IN DELIGHTFUL CINDERELLA STORY THAT WILL PLEASE THE FANS GENERALLY. This is one of the best pictures that has borne the Jesse L. Lasky label. Gay, refreshing and full of delightful touches, it deserves much plugging. It will send the fans away well satisfied and boosting the picture. William Wyler has done an excellent job_of directing, while Francis Lederer and Frances Dee are at their best. Don Hartman and Stephen Avery have concocted a Cinderella story that will please all types of audiences. The picture has been well cast and Wyler's battery of comedians scores consistently Frances Dee, winning a $5,000 lottery deserts the drudgery of her job and a small town, to have a high holiday in New York. At her hotel, she meets Lederer, a foreign prince, who is working as a bellboy. He falls for her and when he learns she has no one to escort her to the big charity ball, he does the honors. In his haste, he dresses in a suit blonging to a Count and in the shoes of another guest. He is arrested for impersonating royalty, but all complications are ironed out. Joseph Valentine deserves a bow for his photography. Cast: Francis Lederer, Frances Dee, Benita Hume, Alan Mowbary, Lennox Pawle, Adele St. Maur, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Richard Carle, Lenita Lane, Barbara Fritchie, Paul Hurst, Robert Greig, Akim Tamiroff, Lionel Stander, Luis Alberni. Producer, Jesse L Lasky Director, William Wyler; Original Screenplay, Stephen Avery, Don Hartman; Cameraman, Joe Valentine. Direction, Bright. Photography, Fine. FOREIGN "PRENEZ GARDE A LA PEINTURE" ("Mind the Paint"), in French, with English titles; produced by Epoc; directed by Henri Chomette; with Simone Simon, Charlotte Clasis, Renee Dennsy, et al. Distributed by John S. Tapernoux. At the Cinema de Paris. Very entertaining comedy drama about a faithful woman servant's love for her master, a gifted painter, whose genius is not recognized until after his death. Good cast, direction and photography. Pittsburgh Briefs Pittsburgh — Ezra Skirball in charge of the First Division exchange here while his brother, Joe Skirball, is recuperating in the Valley Hospital, Sewickley, after an auto smash-up. Pete Profili will open his newlyacquired Frederickstown theater in Frederickstown, Pa., early next month. Harry Greely, former well-known independent picture distributor, back in harness on Film Row. Redecorate Denver House Denver — Civic Theaters, Denver, which recently took over the Englewood theater in Englewood, Colo., a suburb of Denver, is redecorating the house for reopening this fall. w\0^* ^ PHIL M.DALY 1 • • • OUR PRIVATE statistician, Mike Glotz, has been engaged for months compiling figures on the number of cattle rustlers in Westerns Mike's statistics prove that according to the number of rustlers shown in Westerns the past five years half the population of the cattle country have been engaged in this nefarious rustling business and the other half engaged in chasin' 'em and recapturing the stolen herds • • • BUT OUR statistician has not stopped there Mister Glotz has delved into the economic aspects of the situation he finds that the cattle are so confused by all this runaround they are gettin' that it interferes with their orderly digestion they get no nourishment from their food that's why you can't get a decent steak any more and Mike sez this is a helluva price to pay for Westerns T T T • • • THE ONLY remedy we can suggest, Mike is for the indie producers to make Westerns WITHOUT cattle rustlers then the fans wouldn't recognize the ptix as Westerns any more that would take the curse off the darn things, and the distributors could get Bigger Rentals and everybody would be happy the thot has never entered the bright minds of these producers of Westerns that the ranchers and the sheriff aren't the only guys sore at these rustlers a helluva lot of picture fans are so sore that now they won't even pass a theater showin' a Western leave alone PAY to look at it • • • A NEAT tie-up has been arranged between Nedick's and Columbia Pictures and the Loew circuit as follows the 44 Loew theaters hereabouts run a trailer for a week announcing that the theater will give to the first 200 kids at the Saturday matinee a ticket entitling each youngster to two free drinks of Nedick's orange drink honored at any Nedick stand the trailer announces that Scrappy (the Columbia character in the release) is giving the treat to the kids in return for the plug, Nedick is running a trailer in each store showing a few hundred feet of Scrappy and boosting Columbia the stunt was arranged by Edward Ruby • • • OVER AT the Trans-Lux newsreel theater on Broadway they are piling 'em in with the sensational attraction short reel of the world championship wrestling bout in Boston we sat through it yesterday and the audience became almost as excited as the yelling thousands who witnessed the actual massacre and when James Braddock acting as referee was forced to knock out two battling seconds in the ring after the Main Bout boy, the crowd in the theater gasped a genuine Thrill Novelty • • • IN THE wilds of Maine on his vacashe Irvin Shapiro of Du-World postcards thus "To get to a movie one must row a mile walk a half mile ride four miles on a dirt road and when you arrive at the Opera House they are playing a Western!" Monday, Aug. 19,1935 HERE & THERE Sheboygan, Wis. — Warners have taken over the Rex theater and reopened it. Fred Reeths, Jr., manager of the circuit's Sheboygan and Majestic theaters here, has been named supervisor of all three houses, with Leo Schuessler, formerly assistant manager of the Majestic, promoted to house manager of the Rex. Spring Green, Wis. — The Rex has gone dark. Milwaukee — E. J. Weisfeldt, manager of the Riverside theater, has contracted for Major Bowes' amateur show this fall. M €< €€ » » » New Orleans — Buddy Harris of Alexander Films, here on a fishing trip, he said, could not confirm reports current here that Alexander would open a local office. National Theater Supply is preparing to develop its depot here into an office which would take over the New Orleans territory now sold through Dallas. Estonia, N. M.— The Star theater has been sold to Matt Freilinger by L. L. Law. Dallas— Suit asking damages of at least $10,000 for alleged infringement of Bank Night has been filed in Federal District Court by Affiliated Enterprises of Denver against the O. K. Theaters, Dallas concern, which operates houses in thirteen Texas cities. Windber, Pa. — Wenard Kough remodeled his Opera House here, installed a complete new unit of Lipman Full Range sound equipment and is making preparations for a formal new-season opening late this month. Chicago Chat Chicago — Berns Warden has left the post of advertising sales manager of the local Paramount office and is now covering the eastern section of Chicago sales territory. He has been succeeded by Fred Auerilio, who was transferred from Milwaukee. "Red" Felbinger, Paramount news booker, is in Hollywood on vacation. Joe Fitzgerald, cashier of the local office, is vacationing in the north woods. Victor Bernstein, Paramount shipper, is the father of a son born this week. Joe Corrigan has resigned as manager of the Warner's Capitol to join the Chicago police force. He is succeeded by Richard Barry, who has been assistant manager. Walter Estrupp, who has been assistant manager of the Parthenon, Hammond, Ind., moves to the Capitol as assistant, and A. J. Kenney, of the local Paramount office, goes to the Parthenon as assistant manager. The Valencia in EVanston is being remodeled at a cost of $25,000.