The Film Daily (1935)

THE 12 ■cS^l DAILY Tuesday. Nov. 19, 1935 A "LITTLE" from HOLLYWOOD "LOTS" By RALPH WOK T3. P. ZEIDMAN will make "The ■^ Gold Bug," the Edgar Allen Poe story, which deals with Captain Kidd's treasure. James Knox Millen has been assigned to write the screenplay. Zeidman is dickering with Karloff to star in the picture. ▼ T ▼ Our Passing Show: Spyros Skouras, Fred Stone, Billie Burke, Walt Disney, Sol M. Wurtzel, Hal Roach, Jesse L. Lasky, Sol Lesser, John Stone, Marc Lachman at the dedication of the Will Rogers memorial stage at the 20th Century-Fox studios. ▼ ▼ T Ray Walker is being featured in "Wanted Men," a Peter B. Kyne story that Sam Katzman of Victory Pictures is producing. Walker has just completed the featured male role in "Music Is Madness," for 20th Century-Fox and was starred by Monogram in several pictures. Joan Woodbury is playing the feminine lead in "Wanted Men." ▼ ▼ T John Blystone who has been under contract to the Fox studio for over 17 consecutive years, will terminate his services after directing one more picture, according to reliable report. Blystone at present is nearing the completion of "Gentle Julia," supervised by Sol Wurtzel. t ▼ r Isabel Jewell's new contract with the Hal Roach organization permits her to appear on the stage four months during each year, thus satisfying a yearning for the footlights which this petite star has had since coming to Hollywood to appear in Warner Bros. "Blessed Event." » w m As soon as W. P. Lipscomb completes the screenplay and dialogue for "Under Two Flags," which Darryl Zanuck will produce for 20th Century-Fox, he will fly to New York to visit with his actress daughter Judi, who is shortly to make her debut on the Broadway stage. ▼ ▼ ▼ Henri Elliman of the Capitol Film Exchange, Chicago, has closed a deal for the series of eight Ted Wells Westerns, which American Pictures Corp. is producing. H. K. Buchanan of Allied Films exchange, Oklahoma City, has also closed for his territory. t v v Louis Lewyn has just completed a Technicolor two-reel subject, "Pirate Part yon Catalina Isle." Several screen stars appear in the short. The picture will be released by MG-M. T T ▼ Vince Barnett and Billy Gilbert are featured in a Coronet Comedy which has just been completed by Educational. Harry Edwards directed. T ▼ ▼ Jerome Kern has been signed by RKO Radio to write the score for "I Won't Dance," in which Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers will be starred. Dorothy Fields will do the lyrics. George Stevens will direct. ▼ r ▼ Luise Rainer has been given the principal feminine role in M-G-M's screen production of Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth." P. J. Wolfson has been signed by RKO Radio to adapt "A Sliver in God's Eye," play by Mildred Knopf. It is expected that Helen Gahagan will get the leading role. V T T Henry Stephenson is the newest addition to the cast of David O. Selznick's "Little Lord Fauntleroy," initial production of Selznick International Pictures for United Artists. T ▼ T Richard Boleslawski, whose last picture was Lawrence Tibbett's "Metropolitan" for 20th CenturyFox, has been signed by M-G-M to direct "Three Godfathers," based on Peter B. Kyne's story of the same "Three Men on a Bench" is announced as the final title for Jimmy Savo's first full-length production for Hal Roach. Formerly called "Alone, Alas!" the picture is now in production under direction of Gus Meins, with Isabel Jewell, Leon Errol and Carl "Alfalfa" Sweitzer, of Our Gang, in the supporting cast. T T T The Roach studio also reports that Tish Tash, syndicated cartoonist for the Los Angeles "Times," has been engaged as a writer and assigned to the Charley Chase unit. "The Bohemian Girl," starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, is again before the cameras following a delay necessitated by Laurel's ill Howard J. Green, Columbia's author-scenarist, who is writing the screenplay and dialogue for "Dick" Grace's magazine story, "The Devil's Squadron," lis the newest recruit to succumb to the lure of flying one's own plane. v T T Roy Del Ruth, for the third consecutive year, has received a crate of three turkeys from W. B. Besant, exhibitor-farmer of Champaign, 111., as a token of appreciation because of the business done by Besant with pictures directed by Del Ruth. This year Besant predicated his gift on M-G-M's "Broadway Melody of 1936." T T ▼ RKO Radio has assigned Herbert Rawlinson and Joie Ray to "Follow the Fleet," while Gaston Glass has been cast in "Two O'Clock Courage." T T ▼ First National has just presented Patricia Ellis with two temporary kid brothers for the role she is playing in "Backfire," opposite Ross Alexander. The two youngsters signed for these roles are David Holt and George Breakston. Bing Crosby will record on Decca phonograph records three songs specially written for him in Paramount's "Anything Goes." The tunes are "My Heart and I," by Leo Robin and Frederick Hollander; Cincinnati Chatter Cincinnati — James Wood, manager of the Strand, Newport, has resigned to take over management of the Paramount, Ashland. Martin Shear, manager of the Nordland, succeeds him. Wood formerly was assistant at the Palace here. Kay Francis, manager of the Mayfair here, has received word from the Ohio board of censors that "Bolero", which he was to show, is banned. "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Hands Across the Table" are holdovers here. Vera Gerves of the Warner offices was married Saturday. Irving Kappelman of Famous Music Co. is back from a trip east. J. J. Goldburg closed with Lee Goldberg of Big Features to handle the six features being made by the new company in which Goldburg is associated. Eddie Harper has resigned from GB to join Johnny Lewis' band at the Mayfair, Cleveland. Annabelle Ward of Phoenix Amusement, Lexington, is laid up by illness. Joe Goetz entertained the Bookers Club at the Variety Club last Wisconsin Wisps Milwaukee — Walter G. Goetzinger, 50, blind organist who played in various local neighborhood houses as well as state theaters, died here last week. Settlement of labor difficulties at the Van Der Vaart theater, Sheboygan, was reached last week, according to an announcement by John Kunstman of the projectionists' union and Nic Johnson, manager of the theater. Name of the Crystal Theater, Burlington, has been changed to the State by Jack Yeo, present operator. The Renovated Garrick theater. Fond du Lac, reopened Nov. 17 with Vern H. Touchett as manager and Jack Anderson as assistant. Fox-Calumet Corp. has filed copies of its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state and received a certificate entitling it to do business in Wisconsin. week. Visitors: Lester Coleman, Jamer F. O'Donnell, George Kramer, F. F. Vincent, Joe MacDonough, Georgt Jacoby, Sam Gelanty. "Moonburn," by Edward Heyman U and Hoagy Carmichael, and "Sailor I Beware," by Robin and Richard ! Whiting. George Stoil's band will ' accompany. V ▼ T With the signing of Lee Moran ; and Edward McWade, Columbia ' completed the cast for the first of ' the two Harold Bell Wright stories I which the company has scheduled for this season. Richard Arlen ia ' the star, with Charlotte Wynters as 1 the feminine lead. Douglas Dum I brille, Donald Cook, and Mary Korn I man are seen in feature roles, sup f ported by Ann Hovey, Frederick Burton, Tom Dugan, Carlyle Black i well, Jr. and Bryant Washburn, Jr. It was directed by Phil Rosen, while Harry Behn is credited with the screen play. ▼ T T Buster Keaton is so well recov I ered from his recent illness that he l has returned to the studio to resume | work on the short comedies under | his contract with Educational Pictures. The first of Buster's new pictures will be called "Three on a Limb." It is being shot under the direction of Charles Lamont, and has a large cast in support of Keaton, including Lona Andre and Harold Goodman. The last picture completed by Keaton before his illness, a comedy called "The Timid Young Man," has just been released ' by Educational through 20th Century-Fox, and is now playing firstrun theaters. T V ▼ Frankie Aitken, six months old grandchild of Spottiswoode Aitken, pioneer film star, appears in "Next Time We Live," which Edward H. Griffith is directing at Universal. ▼ TV With a cast that will boast such box-office names as Jean Harlow and M y r n a Loy, Director Clarence Brown will start filming "Wife vs. Secretary" on Nov. 20. The name of the fortunate male lead to play opposite these two glamorous personalities will not be announced until the M-G-M megaphonist completes making tests of several prominent players on the studio roster. Incidentally, Brown's guiding hand in the making of "Ah, Wilderness," is receiving much praise from those who saw the preview of this Eugene O'Neill opus recently. Already the work of Eric Linden and Cecelia Parker, who acquitted themselves so admirably in this production, has been recognized by the studio executives, plans being made to henceforth cast them only in featured rooles. T ▼ T The Warner film version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" has inspired a new song entitled "Can't We Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream," written by Joe Young and Fred E. Ahlert. It will be introduced by Phil Regan in a radio broadcast originating at Station KFI, Los Angeles, and carried over the NBC coast-to-coast chain next Thursday afternoon.