The Film Daily (1936)

Ah £date> Tab SaU THE HOUSE— Eight rooms on the first floor; five bedrooms on the second floor and a large sleeping porch; with six bedrooms on the third floor for servants; also two large rooms for storage. THE GROUND— Nine and three-quarter acres of land beautifully landscaped. Swimming pool; tennis court and natural pond. A Gardener's Cottage and a four car garage. THE LOCATION— Rye, N. Y., directly opposite the Rye Country Club. Will sell or rent completely furnished at a price that will appeal to anyone interested in such a beautiful estate. Address Communications to Box No. 978 Care FILM DAILY, 1650 Broadway, N. Y. C. A "JUttM' fiOfn "Ms1 By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD "CRED ASTAIRE and Ginger Rogers have begun dance rehearsals for "Never Gonna Dance," which goes into production at Radio on April 1. Victor Moore and Helen Broderick have been added to the cast. George Stevens will direct and Jerome Kern will write the musical score. ▼ T T Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer have been signed for leads in "The Garden of Allah." ▼ ▼ T Merle Oberon has been transferred to a stellar role in "Dark Victory." T ▼ Y Simone Simon, has been cast for "Girls' Dormitory," 20th CenturyFox production. The picture is based upon the play "Matura" by Ladislaus Fodor. The screen play was written by Gene Markey. Under direction of Irving Cummings, production will begin the last week in April. T T T Jean Dixon, borrowed from Columbia, will have a featured role in "To Mary, With Love," shortly to go into production at 20th Century-Fox under direction of John Cromwell. ▼ T T Lew Pollock and Jack Yellen. are writing the music for "Sing, Baby, Sing," 20th Century-Fox picture in which Fred Allen will appear. T t ▼ Joseph Simmonds leaves for New York April 13 to arrange for production plans on the Excelsior Picture Corporation's program for the 1936-37 season. According to present plans, two melodrama specials based on Jack London stories will be made in addition to a series of melodramas and westerns. T T T Milton Krims is writing the screen play for "Green Light," which will be made by Warner Bros. Following this assignment he will complete his original story, "The Life of Beethoven." T t ▼ Our Passing Show: William LeBaron, Henry Herzbrun, Benjamin Glazer, Jack and Harry Cohn, John Stahl, Sol Lesser, Sam Bischoff, Josef von Sternberg, Howard Hawks, Larry Weingarten, Harold Lloyd, Maxwell Shane, Gus Barth, Lew Dorn, Bob Carlisle, Lester Cowan at the preview of "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." T T T Production has just been completed on "The Traitor," the last of the Tim McCoy series for 193536. Frances Grant, Frank Melton and Pedro Regas were among the principals, with Sam Neufeld directing. Sig Neufeld and Les Simmonds were the producers. T T T "Rio Grande Romance," which Victory Pictures is producing, went before the cameras this week, with Robert F. Hill directing. Al Mart wrote the screen play based on Pet B. Kyne's original. Sam Katzmi is the producer. ▼ T T Alden Nash, scenarist and pla wright, who recently completed s assignment at M-G-M, has bei placed under a managerial contra by Myrt Blum. ▼ ▼ ▼ Houseley Stevens, Sr., father i Onslow Stevens, and himself a wel known actor on the legitimai stage, has been cast as a Britis army surgeon in "Angel of Mercy, which stars Kay Francis. This : the third consecutive role he has s Warner Bros., whose scout saw hii at the Pasadena Community Plaj house in "Judgment Day." ▼ » ▼ "The Peppery Salt" is the title o a new two-reeler being filmed o the Columbia lot with Andy Clyd< Mary Lou Dix plays opposite an Warner Richmond is featured. De Lord is directing the Al Ray screei play. ▼ T T Murray Alper, Eddie Lee and Rob ert Emmett Keane round out th< supporting cast of Columbia's "Pani< I On The Air," co-starring Lew Ayres' and Florence Rice. T t ▼ Anne Nagel, Warner's newesl | "discovery,-' comes before the cameras for the first time as Dick Foran's leading lady in "Two-Gun Buckaroo." T T T Donald Crisp is the latest addition to the cast of First National's "Angel of Mercy," starring Kay Francis. William Dieterle will direct the Florence Nightingale saga which will present Ian Hunter and Donald Woods in prime male roles. T ▼ T Eleanore Whitney, tap dancing star under contract to Paramount for the past six months, has been given a new contract by Paramount. Her next picture will be "Three Cheers for Love," in which she will be featured with Grace Bradley, Robert Cummings and several of the younger Paramount players. Ray McCarey will direct. John Halliday and Roscoe Karns have also been ! added to the cast. T ▼ T Buster Crabbe has been assigned to a role in Paramount's production of the Zane Grey novel, "Raiders of the Spanish Peaks." John Kraft is writing the screen play for the picture, which A. M. Botsford will produce. ▼ ▼ ▼ Kay Griffith, young singer with Griff William's orchestra at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, will report to Paramount Studio April 29 to start her picture career. She was signed to a contract by Jack Votion, head of the Paramount talent department, who discovered the girl.