The Film Daily (1936)

Tuesday, May 12, 1936 —. &JK. DAILY n 27 STORIES ARE SET ON NEW M-G-M LINEUP (Continued from Page 6) in the above group, the film company announces three additional Jean Harlow pictures, three for Robert Montgomery and at least one more picture each for Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and the co-starring teams of Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson Eddy, Myrna Loy-William Powell and Myrna Loy-Robert Montgomery. Grace Moore has also been engaged to make at least one starring film for M-G-M during the new year. Additional Stories Supplementary properties from which the new season program may be drawn include the following plays, books, originals and short stories : "The A. B.C. Murders," Agatha Christie's latest detective thriller. ■'Always Tomorrow," by Mildred Cram and Marcella Burke. "The American Flaggs," Kathleen Norris novel. "Anchor Man," Saturday Evening Post serial by Fanny Heaslip Lea. "As Thousands Cheer," the Irving BerlinMoss Hart musical hit. "Bright Girl," Vina Delmar's Liberty Magazine serial. "Cat Across the Path,' by Ruth Feiner. "A Couple of Quick Ones," novel by Eric Hatch. "Declasse," Zoe Akins' stage success. "The Devil Passes,' international stage hit by Benn W. Levy. "The Distaff Side," John Van Druten's popular play. "Espionage," by Walter Hackett. "False Dreams, Farewell," Hugh Stange's play. "A Family Affair," short story by Albert Richard Wetjen. "The Far Off Hills," Lennox Robinson's stage success. "Felix," French comedy by Henri Bernstein. "Ferike as Guest Artist," Hungarian play by Laszlo Bus-Fekete and Alexander Goth. "The Firefly," stage hit by Otto Harbach. "Frat House," by Fred Ballard and Mignou G. Eberhart. "The Girl from Trieste," by Ferenc Molnar. "Gold Eagle Guy," Melvin P. Levy's play. "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," adaptation of James Hilton's best-seller, with Charles Laughton starred, and Irving Thalberg producing. "Gram," Cosmopolitan magazine story by Kathleen Norris in which May Robson and Mme. Schumann-Heink will have leading roles. "The Harbour Master," William McFee's novel. "The Heavenly Sinner," based on T. Everett Harres novel. "Her Excellency's Cigar Store," Hungarian play by Laszlo Bus-Fekete. "I Have Married An Angel," the Hungarian comedy by Janos Vaszary. "If 1 Were You," farce by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. "La Tendresse," the French play by Henri Bataille. "Living in a Big Way" Louis Bromfield's Cosmopolitan Magazine novelette. "The Longest Night," with Joseph Calleia in the leading role, to be directed by William Wellman. "Lost Horizons," stage play by Harry Segall. "Love on the Run," Cosmopolitan magazine story by Alan Green and Julian Brodie. "Lucky Night," short story by Oliver Claxton which appeared in Collier's. "Man Proposes," by W. Chetham-Strode. "Merrily We Roll Along,' Broadway stage success by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. "Mrs. Van Kleek," story by Elinor Mordaunt. "Nancy Stair," novel by Elinor Macartney Lane. "A Native Son Returns," novel by Ida M. Evans. "Night in Glengyle," novel by John Ferguson. "Night Operator," story by Lucile Selk Edgerton. "Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep," novel by Richard B. Sale. "Once There Was a Prisoner," French play by Jean Anouilh. "One Came Home," by Grace Norton. "The Paradine Case," novel by Robert Hichens. "Parnell," Elsie Schauffler's Broadway A "£Mt" fn»» "Ms /• By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD AMALGAMATION of the Screen Writers Guild with the Authors League of America will take place immediately. The Guild has rescinded Article 12 which would have prohibited members from signing contracts beyond May, 1938. A meeting of seceding members of the Guild, for the purpose of forming a rival organization, was scheduled for last night. Rupert Hughes yesterday said the Guild's efforts to enforce closed shop methods would sovietize the writing craft and curb freedom of expression. T ▼ T Arthur Collins will direct "Thank You, Jeeves," for 20th Century-Fox. Arthur Treacher is starred. Paramount has bought the Saturday Evening Post story titled "Tightwad," by Paul Gallico. Charles Ruggles will probably be cast in the title role. Darryl F. Zanuck has purchased "Four Men and a Prayer," the new novel by David Garth, for 20th Century-Fox. Sonya Levien will write the screenplay. ▼ vv Walter Wanger says that the correct spelling on the production tentatively titled "Sahara" is "Simoon," not "Simoom" as previously announced. ▼ ▼ Y "Heart of the West," new musical number by Sam Coslow and Victor Young will serve as main title and theme song for the sixth Hopalong Cassidy western which Harry Sherman is producing for Paramount release. Adapted from Clarence E. Mulford's book "Tumbleweeds" by Doris Schroeder, "Heart of the West" is scheduled to go into production May 18 on location at Kernville. Howard Bretherton directing, Archie Stout lensing. William Boyd, Jimmy Ellison and George Hayes head tentative cast. Detroit Doings Ben Washnansky, former general manager of the Jacob Schreiber circuit, has temporarily resumed booking for these houses. He continues his post with the New Bijou in which he has a personal interest. Julius Fodor has taken back the Cozy Theater, Mishawaka, Ind. Joseph B. Mitchell, owner of the Rex, has returned from California with his wife. Associated Theaters has appointed Bernard Samuels, former manager of the Loop, to manage the Granada. I. S. Katcher, who opened the Empire on the west side several months ago, is closing the house and retiring from show business. Cinema Service, Inc., headed by Paul N. LeVeque, has been chartered to specialize in advertising displays. Offices are in the National Bank Bldg. Jack Hurford, assistant manager of the Fox, was initiated in the third degree at the Daylight Masonic Lodge. Stanley Marz, owner of the State, Saginaw, lost his mother a few days ago. S. K. Decker, division manager Baltimore Bits "Under Two Flags" has been held for a second week at the New Theater. Residents of Howard county, Maryland, will vote next November on Sunday movies. Action on the part of the Maryland censors in twice refusing to approve the showing of the film "Ecstasy" caused Eureka Productions to take court action, with Judge Joseph N. Ullman in City Court overruling the censors. for Grand National, is back from New York. Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone will be today's guests at the Variety Club luncheon in the BookCadillac Hotel. Net proceeds of the Variety Club's April 25 frolic were about $2,000. Columbia exchange was visited last week by Holbrook Bissell from Cleveland and Marty Solomon from Indianapolis. Rene Germani, owner of the Majestic, Monroe, is back at work after a flu attack. stage hit in which Joan Crawford and Clark Gable will be co-starred. "Party," comedy drama by Ivor Novello. "Pitcairn's Island," sequel to "Mutiny on the Bounty," from the best-seller by James Norman Hall and Charles Nordhoff. "Presenting Lily Mars," the Saturday Evening Post serial and novel by Booth Tarkington. "Rage in Heaven," novel by James Hilton. "The Red Mill," play by Victor and Henry Blossom. "Rennie Peddigoe," Woman's Home Companion serial and novel by Booth Tarkington. "Algeria," play by Glen McDonough, with music by Victor Herbert. "Sad Indian," novel by Thames William "Sari," comic opera by Julius Wilhelm and Fritz Greenbaum, with music by Emmerich Kalman. "The Second Mrs. Lynton," novel by Wilson Collison. "Sehoy, Ahoy!", Cosmopolitan Magazine short story by Clements Ripley. "The Shining Hour," international stage success by Keith Winter. "Silas Marner," classic novel by George Eliot. "Sweethearts," musical play by Harry B. Smith and F. De Gressac. "Timberline," novel by Gene Fowler. "The Transgressor," novel by Anthony Richardson. "Troubadour in Trouble," by Franz Schulz and Jay Gorney. "Two Thieves," novel by Manuel Komroff. "Vein of Iron," novel by Ellen Glasgow. "The Wedding Dress," by Helen Grace Carlisle. "The Wind and the Rain," international stage success by Merton Hodge. "Wings of Tomorrow," by Frank Wead. EIGHT SHORTS SERIES ON M-G-M PROGRAM (Continued from Page 1) junior features for the new season. The eight series, totaling 92 subjects, will include the following: 12 Hal Roach "Our Gang" comedies; 12 "TravelTalks," made by James A. FitzPatrick in three-color Technicolor; 18 Pete Smith Specialties; 18 Harman-Ising "Happy Harmonies" cartoons in three-color Technicolor; 6 M-G-M two-reel musical comedies; 6 new releases in the "Crime Doesn't Pay" series; 10 MG-M Miniatures, featuring Chic Sale, Robert Benchley and Carey Wilson, and 10 tabloid musicals. The 102 issues of Hearst Metrotone News will again have Edwin C. Hill as the Globe-Trotter. Cleveland Clips "Great Ziegfe'.d" is being held a third week at the Hanna. For the first time in local movie history, an M-G-M picture this week is playing the RKO Palace. Loew is back on releases. Max Marmorstein has concluded a new ten-year lease on the Circle Theater. Rental is $700 a month and 10 per cent of the first $125,000 receipts each year and 12 per cent above that sum. Cleveland's new 1,800-seat Shaker Theater opened last week with formal speeches by the mayor of Shaker Heights and other notable officials. Sam Stecker, Myer Fine, Abe Kramer and associates built it. "Mr. Deeds", which equalled the house records when it played its first week downtown at Warners' Hippodrome, and broke the Allen record last week on its extended downtown run, is being held a second week at the Allen. The Carter Theater, owned by Cleveland Trust and formerly operated by the Community Circuit Theaters, has been leased as a PWA theater. Frank Drew, branch manager, headed the Cleveland delegation that left Saturday to atend the M-G-M convention in Chicago. With him went B. D. Stoner, Jack Sogg, Gene Vogel, Eddie Brauer, Jack Mundstuk and Philip Harrington. Midnight benefit performance of the Variety Club last week was a great success. As a result, immediate relief was given to stranded members of the Cole circus, all of whom were given transportation home. I. J. Schmertz is Variety Club president. Jack Davis, Vitagraph booker, picked June 13 for his marriage to Marguerite Brockenfeld. Lemoto Smith, owner of the MuWa-Tu theater, Coshocton, has returned from a 12-week vacation in Florida.