The Film Daily (1935)

THE Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1935 &&^ DAILY A "LITTLE" from HOLLYWOOD "LOTS" By RALPH WILK HpHIRD of the Gene Autry musical 1 westerns, "The Sagebrush Troubadour," goes into production Saturday at Republic City. Joe Kane is slated to direct, with Armand Schaefer supervising. Smiley Burnette has been cast as featured comic. Joe Poland and Oliver Drake adapted Drake's original story. ▼ T T George Givot, who has been in Hollywood appearing in "Riff Raff" for M-G-M, may give up a London trip in order to accept a role in Paramount's new Mae West picture, "Klondike Lou." From London the "Greek Ambassador" has an offer from GB as well as from the Piccadilly Theater. ▼ ▼ ▼ David 0. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures is planning to form a stock company of probably five or six stars. He expects to be ready to announce the name of the first one this week. ▼ ▼ ▼ Sam Wood, who directed the Marx Brothers in "A Night at the Opera" for M-G-M, lost a $1,000 football bet to the comedy stars, who talked Wood into picking the wrong team. ▼ T T Howard J. Green, Reliance screen writer, who is part owner of a racing stable, will send three of his horses to Tanforan for the current meet. One of the animals recently won at the Pomona County fair and is being groomed for entry in highstake handicaps. ▼ ▼ ▼ After recovering from wounds inflicted by a lion during the filming of a Universal picture, Charles Bickford, red-headed actor, has returned to the Paramount lot to make additional scenes of "Rose of the Rancho," in which he is featured. ▼ ▼ ▼ Charles Kenyon, Warner scenarist, will do the screen play and dialogue for "The Golden Arrow," from the short story by Michael Arlen. Kenyon recently completed the scenario of "The Petrified Forest." ▼ ▼ T Irving Cummings, 20th CenturyFox director, is visiting his son, Irving, Jr., at Palo Alto, where the latter is a student at Stanford University. The megaphonist, who recently underwent a serious operation, expects to be able to return to work shortly. ▼ ▼ ▼ .ii "The Gentleman from Louisiana, Tristram Tupper's story, is being adapted by Jack Natteford for Republic. M-G-M Co-Starring Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Spencer Tracy and Myrna Loy will be co-starred by M-G-M in "The Whipsaw," based on James E. Grant's "Liberty" Magazine short story. Sam Wood, whose last picture was the Marx Brothers' "Night at the Opera," will direct and Harry Rapt will be producer. Tracy is now appearing with Jean Harlow in "Riff Raff" and Miss Loy is playing in "The Great Ziegfeld." Mrs. Kalmus Film Author West Coast Bur., THE FILM DAILY Hollywood— Natalie M. Kalmus, art director of Technicolor Motion Picture Corp., is the author of "La Ballerina," romantic comedy to be produced by Pioneer Pictures in Technicolor. First National's "Hard Luck Dame," starring Bette Davis and Franchot Tone, has been re-named "Dangerous" at the studios on the west coast. Supporting cast includes Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge, Walter Walker, Richard Carle, George Irving, Douglas Wood and Florence Fair. Alfred E. Green directed the picture from an original story and screen play by Laird Doyle. ▼ ▼ T Celebrating their Long Beach Dale theater's first anniversay, A. A. Gelston and R. Sutton were hosts to two score more Bay City officials and businessmen at a banquet and Marcal theater party in Hollywood. Those participating in the entertainment were Dorothy Grainger, Carol Tevis, Catherine Gale Hubbard, Ruth Pearce, Ernest Caress and others of stage and screen. ▼ T T Tomokazu Hori, Consul of Japan, was the guest of honor at a luncheon given by Tay Garnett at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Garnett, in his efforts to entertain the eminent diplomat, invited the Consul to visit the set of "Professional Soldier" and told the Honorable Hori about his plans to visit Japan and get photographs. Everything went well until someone stole the Consul s hat. T ▼ ▼ "Just My Luck," New Century picture starring Charles Ray, is now in the cutting rooms and it will be two weeks before it is previewed. This is the first picture in which Ray has starred since his retirement from the screen a few years ago. ▼ ▼ ▼ Ardent golfers and lovers of sport traditions like Roger Pryor, Sidney Franklin, Eddie Sutherland, Arthur Hornblow, Dr. and Mrs. Herbert T. Kalmus and Frank Borzage are regular vsitors at Ensenada. The old golf course there was the first links constructed on the American continent. T ▼ ▼ George Bancroft, stage and cinema actor, and for many years one of Paramount's leading stars, has been engaged by Columbia for the stellar role in the Harold Shumate story, "Hell Ship Morgan," shortly to go in production. "Western T Courage,'7 Ken Maynard's third starring production for Columbia, is rapidly nearing completion. The latest cast additions are Renee Whitney and Captain E. H. Calvert. Geneva Mitchell is the star's leading woman, with Betty Blythe, Cornelius Keefe, Charles French and Ward Bond appearing prominently. Spencer Gordon Bennett is directing from Nate Gatzert's adaptation of Charles Francis Royal's story. ▼ ▼ T "Prison Farm," with Donald Woods, Eddie Acuff and Kay Linaker in the leading roles, enters production at the First National studios today. It is a topical story of the genre of "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang." The story and the screen play were written by Harold Buckley and Abem Finkel. ▼ ▼ ▼ Helene Chadwick, star of silent pictures, and Lucille Ball, young contract player, have been added to the cast of "It Happened In Hollywood," now in production at the RKO Radio Studios. Christy Cabanne is directing the picture, and in the cast are Wallace Ford, Phyllis Brooks, Alan Hale, Molly Lamont, Brian Donlevy and Erik Rhodes. "It Happened In Hollywood" is an original by Ray Mayer and Tom Dugan, actors. ▼ TV Edward Gargan, Carlyle Moore, Jr., and James Bush are the latest additions to the cast of "Ceiling Zero," in which James Cagney and Pat O'Brien are starring for Warn Olin Howland, Ely Malyon, E. E. Clive and Mary Forbes. Arthur Greville Collins directed. T ▼ T Sanami and Michi, Oriental dance team who spent three years with Max Reinhardt, have been added to the cast of Paramount's "Anything Goes" for a specialty number. They will present a Javanese specialty in a sequence with Ethel Merman, Bing Crosby and Charlie Ruggles. ▼ ▼ ▼ As soon as he finishes his current picture, Buck Jones will start in I Charles Selzer's novel, "Silver ] Spurs." If Helt n Splane recovers from the illness which kept her out of "Sunset of Power," she will be leading lady of "Silver Spurs." "Captain Blood," the First National picture starring Errol Flynn an 01:via de Havilland, is in the last few days of production and the notable cast is engaged in the filming of the most exciting parts of the romantic novel by Rafael Sabatini, adapted for the screen by Casey Robinson. The large cast of the special feature includes Robert Barrat, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Henry Stephenson, Ross Alexander, Forrester Harvey, J. Carroll Naish, Guy Kibbee, David Torrence, Maude Leslie, Frank McGlynn, Colin Kenny,. Pedro de Cordoba, George Hassell, Harry Cording, Mary Forbes, Leonard Mudie, E. E. Clive, Ivan Simpson, Stuart Casey, Dennis D. Auburn, Vernon Steele, Jessie Ralph, Holmes Herbert, Donald Meek, Hobart Cavanaugh and Gardiner James. Michael Curtiz is directing. With the engagement of Edgar Brophy for an important role in "Shoot the Chutes," the cast of Eddie Cantor's sixth annual production for Samuel Goldwyn is rapidly nearing completion. t ▼ ▼ James Vincent came to Hollywood on a vacation, but will remain to contribute a vast fund of "Romeo and Juliet" lore to Irving G. Thalberg's production of the Shakespearean classic at M-G-M. A chance meeting with Director George Cukor resulted in his being signed to assist on the filming of the romance, which is to star Norma Shearer. Vincent, for seven years Katharine Cornell's stage manager, worked side-by-side with Cukor on Broadway. ▼ TV "Meet the Duchess," in which Warren William and Dolores Del Rio are starred by First National, was completed last week. It is an adaptation of "A Present from Margate," London stage success of last season by Ian Hay and A. E. W. Mason. F. Hugh Herbert and Charles Beldon wrote the screenplay. The cast includes Viva Tattersall, Louise Fazenda, Herbert Mundin, Ray Kirkwood has signed Gertrude Messenger to play opposite Bill Cody in Spectrum Pictures' "Lawless Border," a Zara Tazil original story now in production. Fred Gilman, Roger Williams, Ed Cassidy and Hank Bell are included in the cast. T T T Newark Theater Leased Newark, N. J.— Chesterfield Theater Inc. has leased the Mosque Theater, closed for more than two years, and will reopen it next month with vaudeville and films. Warners formerly had the house. "La Maternelle" Holds Over "La Maternelle" ("Children of Montmartre"), Jean Benoit-Levy production in French with English titles, has gone into a second week at the 55th St. Playhouse. Ann Harding Back at RKO Ann Harding is returning to the RKO Radio Studios in Hollywood to star in "The Indestructible Mrs. Talbot," an original story by J. P. Wolfson. The picture is expected to go into production shortly. Miss Harding's last film for RKO Radio was "Enchanted April," released a year ago. Since that time she has appeared in several productions for other producing companies. The director and supporting cast for "The Indestructible Mrs. Talbot" have not yet been chosen.