The Film Daily (1936)

THE ■3&H DAILY Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1936 A "LITTLE" from HOLLYWOOD "LOTS" By RALPH WILK 'JHROUGH the efforts of Hollywood friends, including Director William K. Howard, Lucien Andriot, the cameraman, has been released from the bastille in Paris, where he was placed because he didn't answer the French call to colors in the World War. Andriot, who had been in America for several years, served with the American army, but this was not recognized by France. Howard recently made a trip to Paris in behalf of Andriot, who has now been Dardoned by the President of that Republic. T Y ▼ New contract signed by Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey with RKO Radio Pictures calls for three features in the next 18 months. T T ▼ Holmes Herbert, Matt McHugh and Paul McVey have been added by 20th Century-Fox to the cast of "The Country Beyond." Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, Paul Kelly and Alan Dinehart are featured, as is Buck, St. Bernard dog actor. Montagu Love has been assigned a role in "The Country Doctor." ▼ T T Fighting the inroads of what has been diagnosed as an attack of influenza, James Flood, 20th CenturyFox director, is hanging on for the completion of "Everybody's Old Man," Irvin S. Cobb's first starring picture. T T T The part of President Thomas Jefferson in Marion Davies' "Hearts Divided" will be played by the veteran character actor, George Irving. T ▼ ▼ Reginald Hammerstein, Broadway musical producer and grandson of the late Oscar Hammerstein, widely known impresario, has been assigned by Nat Levine, Republic production chief, to act as assistant to Ken Goldsmith, supervisor. He will be groomed for a production job. On the New York stage, Hammerstein directed Cary Grant, W. C. Fields, Helen Morgan, Charles Butterworth and James Dunn, in such successful productions as "Sweet Adeline," "Good Boy," "Ballyhoo," "Golden Dawn" and others. T ▼ ▼ Mischa Auer, Hedwig Reicher and Olaf Hytten have been added to the cast of "House of a Thousand FACTS ABOUT FILMS There were 957,000,000 cinema-goers in Great Britain in 1934, according to figures prepared by Simon Rowson. Candles," Republic production featuring Bela Lugosi, Mae Clarke and Phillips Holmes. Arthur Lubin is directing. T T ▼ So that he may thoroughly familiarize himself with the traditions and customs of the inhabitants of the Tahitan Islands, W. P. Lipscomb, English playwright-scenarist, will shortly visit this romantic story background to confer with Charles Nordhoff and J. N. Hall, authors of one of the best-selling novels of the year, "Hurricane." Lipscomb, who is under contract to 20th CenturyFox, has been borrowed by Samuel Goldwyn to write the screenplay for this story and is being sent to Tahiti in line with the producer's desire for authenticity to the 'nth degree. Following the completion of this assignment, Lipscomb will resume work on "Lloyd's of London," which Darryl Zanuck plans to produce as a special on this year's program. ▼ ▼ ▼ During the first week's shooting of "One Rainy Afternoon," the forthcoming Pickford-Lasky production starring Francis Lederer and Ida Lupino, there occurred a reunion of a number of the most notable performers in the screen's past. In a scene laid in a courtroom, the spectators and the attendants included Florence Turner, Thomas Ricketts, Rosemary Theby, Lorimer Johnson, Naomi Childers and Dorcas McKim. "One Rainy Afternoon," which will be released through United Artists, is under the direction of Rowland V. Lee. AAA "Petticoat Fever" has been placed in production at the M-G-M studios with Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy in co-starring roles. George Fitzmaurice is director, Bernard Hyman producer and the cast includes Reginald Owen. Harold Goldman prepared the screen version of Mark Reed's successful Broadway play. T T T Richard Dix, recently loaned by RKO Radio to Columbia, will soon return to the home studio where he has been assigned the stellar role in "Fugitive Gold," Erie Stanley Gardner's story of government agents operating between New York and Nevada. Adaptation of the story is being done by Thomas Lennon, Louis Stevens and Ferdinand Reyher. Louis King will direct, with William Sistrom as supervisor. ▼ ▼ T Sam Wood has been assigned direction of "Tish," M-G-M's adaptation of the Mary Roberts Rinehart book. This will be an Irving Thalberg production and is scheduled to get under way in the near future. T t ▼ "San Francisco" is listed to go before the cameras next week at M Pittsburgh Patter Pittsburgh — New Kensington exhibitors have retained counsel and are fighting the defeat of Sunday movies there, recently lost by 18 votes. Peter Alderman, former exhibitor, joined a film advertising service as local representative. Addie Klein, district sales manager for RCA Photophone, back from New York. Rudy Navary, Verona exhibitor, vacationing in Florida. The trade in this territory will honor William R. Brown, Tarentum exhibitor, at a testimonial dinner to be given in the Cardinal Room, William Penn Hotel, on Monday. Eli, Joseph and Morris Kaufman, local film figures, lost their father in Rochester, N. Y. Circuit theater operators gained 26 houses while independent exhibitors lost 65 theaters in the western Pennsylvania and West Virginia territory during 1935. Sidney Pink is opening his new 400-seater in Aspinwall late next month. This will be Pink's third house in this territory. Poster Committees to Meet Execuive committee of the National Poster Service Ass'n meets in New York next week to make plans for its annual convention, set for Chicago in April. Simon Libros of Philadelphia will preside at the session. Florida Flickers Miami — Exhibitors are protesting a proposed city ordinance to regulate and license projectionists. The Empire, Daytona, Beach, is giving free organ recital from 12:30 to 1 o'clock each noon. The Naples Theater, Naples, has opened for the season, showing twice a week. The Glades Theater, Moore Haven, is returning to its old policy of two pictures a week. John W. Black has assumed management of the Capitol, Plant City, replacing G. Leonard Bennett, who was transferred to the Ritz, Ocala. Joseph L. Marenette, manager of the Milane and Princess, Sanford, has let contracts for remodeling the Princess. Sparks circuit has opened the Dania Theater, Dania, on a threeday schedule, with H. G. Laney as manager. Remodeling is under way at the Ritz, Hollywood, a Sparks house. Industrial Confab Delayed Committees named by John G. Paine, chairman of the industrial section of the Council on Industrial Relations, which, among other activities, will take up the matter of motion picture industry trade practices, will not be called into session until conclusion of the current annual convention of the A. F. of L. in Miami. Personnel of all committees include labor representatives. G-M with Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald in leading roles. W. S. u VanDyke, who recently completed "Rose Marie," will be the director, Bernard Hyman producing. T T T Torben Meyer, William Wagner, Vernon Downing and Jay Eaton have been added to the cast of "Farmer in the Dell," RKO Radio production featuring Fred Stone. T ▼ T After having completed the filming of horse racing scenes at Newhall, Cal., the "Thoroughbreds All" company, has moved on to Flagstaff, Ariz., to make scenes showing colorful ranch life. The cast of this RKO Radio Picture includes John Arledge, Moroni Olsen, Willie Best, and Louis Latimer and Harry Jans, recently recruited from the New York stage. Lightning, the famous screen dog, and Warrior, well known movie horse, also have prominent roles in the film, which is being produced by Robert F. Sisk with Glenn Tryon directing. ▼ ▼ T Leo McCarey, laid up for the past several months by the baffling Malta fever, is being encouraged by letters from fans and friends making all sorts of suggestions for curing his malady. McCarey is in the Good Samaritan Hospital. T T T A cast composed exclusively of former stage favorites supports the current Richard Dix starring vehicle, tentatively titled "Mother Lode." Each of the featured players in this saga of the gold rush days won footlight acclaim before making his screen debut. Leila Hyams, who plays opposite Dix, first appeared on the stage at the age of five. Jessie Ralph made her stage debut at 16, and has scored metropolitan hits in "The Bat," "The Road to Rome" and "Twelfth Night," among scores of others. Andy Clyde toured the world in various plays before he entered the cinematic field and became a Mack Sennett star. Moroni Olsen was successful in stock, repertory, little theaters and on Broadway. Onslow Stevens appeared in more than 250 plays before coming to the screen, and Ted Oliver was behind the footlights for many years, having started his career in burlesque in San Francisco. Wallace Fox directed "Mother Lode," an RKO Radio picture, supervised by Cliff Reid. SHOWMAN'S ^REMINDER Many high schools have January graduating classes; give a theater party for the graduates.