The Film Daily (1936)

THE -%tl DAILV Wednesday, April 1,1936 A "£Mz" from. Uattywwd "Ms // By RALPH WILK OLANS are being completed for immediate release of four Walter Wanger features by Paramount, including: "Big Brown Eyes," which was recently completed. Other completed productions are "Palm Springs," "Fatal Lady" and "The Moon's Our Home." Another picture is already in production and a script is being readied for the sixth on the Wanger schedule. T T ▼ Sam Fox developed something new for song exploitation by giving a swank preview here of "Captain January,' starring Shirley Temple, for the musical profession exclusively. Fox operates the Movietone Music Corp., which is a 20th Century-Fox affiliate. A similar preview will be held in Chicago next week and one will also be held later in New York. T T T Our Passing Show: Jesse L. Lasky, Walter Wanger, Richard Dix, Edward G. Robinson, Clarence Brown, Howard Estabrook, Jeffrey Bernerd, Harold B. Franklin, Harry Green, Edmund Grainger, Carl Brisson, C. Aubrey Smith, Alice Joyce, Robert Young, Don Gledhill, Eddie Selzer at the opening of "Rhodes" at the Foui--Star theater. T T T Ray Fernstrom, aerial cinematographer, is walking on air these days. On March 27th he became the father of a boy, Erik Hans Gerell Fernstrom. The dad was formerly an ace newsreel man, working for Paramount News, with headquarters in New York. ▼ T T Larry Urbach, Jed Buell and Helen Gurley handled the studio contacts for the opening of "Rhodes" at the Four-Star theater. T ▼ ▼ Frank Kilduff, for five years with the Fox West Coast Theaters, is now publicity director for the Roosevelt Hotel. ▼ t ▼ Before starting on his final starring production for 20th CenturyFox release, George O'Brien is enjoying a week's vacation at Coronado. The migratory western star plans on a three weeks' sojourn in Hawaii following the completion of his contract with Sol Lesser. ▼ T T W. P. Lipscomb, British playwright-scenarist, who is writing the screenplay for "The Garden of Al lah," to be directed by Richard Boleslawski for Selznick International, is recognized as one of England's foremost authorities on American history. T ▼ T Olivia de Havilland will be the heroine of "The Charge of The Light Brigade," opposite Errol Flynn, when that picture goes into production this week at Warner Bros. T ▼ T Two new screen writers were engaged today by Republic productions. They are Ray Harris, who will work on the script of "Ticket to Paradise," a musical, and Marcus Goodrich, who has been assigned to "Navy Born." T ▼ T George Hayes has been added to the cast of the "Glory Parade" which Lew Ayres is directing for Republic. T T T Fred Stone, who is now celebrating his 50th year in show business, has been signed to a long-term contract by RKO Radio. ▼ T T Owen Davis, Jr., and Louise Latimer, have been given roles in RKO Radio's "His Majesty, Bunker Bean." The picture will go into production in April under the direction of Edward Killy and William Hamilton. AAA Esther Heimer rounds out the cast of the next Columbia Western starring Ken Maynard. Other supporting players include Ward Bond, John" Elliott, Zela Russell, Wally Wales and Edward Heme. ▼ T T Victor Jory has left the Columbia lot, temporarily, in order to play the leading role in the Ramona Pageant at Hemet in the Jacinto Valley during the week of April 5. He has played the role since the inception of the pageant 10 years ago. His wife, too, appears in the spectacle. » ▼ T Owen Davis, Jr. is writing an original screen comedy titled "Three Married Men," which Paramount will produce with William Frawley, Roscoe Karns and Lynn Overman. T T T Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland will be teamed next in Paramount's production of "Hotel Haywire," with Burns and Allen in featured roles. The screen play was written by Preston Sturges. Milwaukee Notes W. D. Young is the new operator of the Murray, Milwaukee neighborhood house, formerly operated by Manning Silverman. E. M. Starkey is now operating the Community at Red Granite, formerly conducted by the Red Granite Advancement Association. The Strand and Oshkosh, Oshkosh, manager by F. S. Norton and R. H. Brose, respectively, are co-operating in a plan developed by local business clubs to promote Oshkosh as a tourist resort center, through the sale of resort promotion tickets. HOLLYWOOD HOME OF THE STARS «| ■/^\ o \ / IN THE | '■■: ■■ ^ g\ ; ..;;a /HEART OF THE II w . / FILM CAPITAL // * // 400 OUTSIDE ROO UNEXCELLED VIEW CHARMING APARTMENTS Words and Wisdom T^OR the stage play you have two and a half hours to tell your story, while the film production is limited to one-half that time. The stage permits three or four acts; the movies have fifteen or so. The legitimate drama appeals to its particular audience while the screen must be cosmopolitan in its approach.—HOWARD J. GREEN. I think the historical characters it is possible to re-create on the screen have just about had their cycle. Modern books and magazines are full of good stories and ideas. —FAY WRAY. So many of the best English writers are in Hollywood that should American writers be barred from England, it would be difficult for the British companies to get decent screen material.— JOHN EMERSON. TARIFF A HULL HOTEL ^^ TOM HULL In all fairness, I believe a writer should be required to split the money a movie pays him for his play with the producer of the play. The producer spends a lot of money and takes a risk.— HELEN JEROME. Young children don't like the kind of films the uplifters are afraid they may like. So the uplifters are fanning the air when they try to keep children from seeing those movies. — N. Y. DAILY NEWS. Visual instruction (by films) has long since passed the ballyhoo stage. No one needs to be sold on the value of visual material. The question that is constantly being raised is where can we get material. — F. DEAN McCLUSKEY. Detroit Notes The poetry of the stage is expressed in the spoken line. The line is the important thing. On the screen, the poetry must be in terms of the picture image . . . expressed in lighting and picture overtones. — DUDLEY NICHOLS. Those nice parts don't get you anywhere. To be a star you've got to play a dirty bum. — WALLACE FORD. Hollywood men are far superior to their women.— ELSA MAXWELL. Report Three N. Y. Film Bills Are Dead At Albany (Continued from Page 1) engineers and firemen and compelling a theater to flash on its screen for 30 seconds before each performance, a statement indicating the fire exits. Second Week for French Pix "Crime et Chatiment," French version of "Crime and Punishment," yesterday entered the second week of a return engagement at the Cinema de Paris. Golden Arrow Productions, of which Hubert Pratt is president, has moved from the Murphy Building to the Park Avenue Building. The company plans to begin production soon. New sales mostly complete stage equipment, recently made by the Detroit office of Twin City Scenic Company were reported this week by Manager R. J. Mork, as follows: Remodelling job at the Avon, Watertown, N. Y., remodelling of theater at Ashland, O., and the new theater at Bucyrus, O., all for the Schine Circuit; new stage front on the Regent, Detroit, miscellaneous equipment for the Farnum, Hamtramck, Mich., and remodelling of the Butterfield at Holland, Mich., damaged by fire. Jobs being started are the new Strand at Delaware, O., and the new Cassidy at Saginaw, Mich. Ray Moon, general manager of Cooperative Theaters of Michigan, has returned from Florida. A 500 seat theater is to be erected by Lee Carrow on Corunna Road, the west side of Flint. David Idzal, managing director of Fox, gave a talk before the Federation of Women's Clubs recently, outlining his plan to secure closer cooperation between the women's clubs and theater operators.