The Hollywood Reporter (Jan-Jun 1933)

Page Six iRiiP©ia?EKi Isn. 13. 1933 New Head of RCA Activities In West Despite reports from the East stating tliat C. Harold Porter had been appointed vice-president in charge of all west coast activities for RCA-Victor Photophone, officials and executives here know nothing of the move. The promotion of Porter was made by J. R. McDonough. president of the company, and the new post will have Porter in entire charge of the Hollywood office, with supervision of disc, sound-film, sound projectors and transcription departments. The appointment of Porter was news to Major I. E. Lambert, vicepresident and general counsel of RCA Victor, who has been here on company business. He stated last night heknew nothing of the switch, and was leaving this morning via plane for the East. Porter has been an executive vice-president of RCA Victor for some time, with an office in San Francisco. Thompson Assigned To Schulberg's 'Pick-Up' Keene Thompson has been assigned by Paramount to work on the screen play of "Pick-Up" with S. K. Lauren and Agnes Brand Leahy. B. P. Schulberg will produce the picture with Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney slated for co-starring spots under direction of Marion Gering. 'Red Pawn' Shelved Universal has shelved production on "Red Pawn," by Ayan Rand, and has returned the yarn to the story markef. The company purchased it for Tala Birell. Teddy Hart At Radio Teddy Hart, brother of Lorenz Hart, arrived in Hollywood from New York for a comedy role in the Wheeler-Woolsey picture for Radio. Downtown Store Running Free Pix A Los Angeles men's store is running free picture shows daily in an attempt to attract customers. Films of the U.S C.Notre Dame and the US.C.Pittsburgh games are presented in a one hour show, with performances running from 1 1 :30 to 5:30 daily. BRITISH PRODIICTIOIVS Lasky Celebrates 20Yrs. in Pictures Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of his entrance into the motion picture business. Jesse L. Lasky will be the guest of honor today at a luncheon in the Cafe de Paris, on the Fox lot. At the table will be many of his old-time associates, including Cecil B. DeMille, with whom he started. Sam Coldwyn and Winfield Sheehan. Another guest will be Loretta Young, who was born the year Lasky started in the game and who is now playing the leading role in the Lasky production of 'Zoo In Budapest." Fox Wants Gibson Fox is negotiating with Paramount for the loan of Wynne Gibson for a featured role in "The House of Refuge." with Heather Angel and Alexander Kirkland. The deal is all set with Paramount, pending the opproval of the part of Miss Gibson. Alfred Santell will direct. Crover Rejoins Bill Crover Jones joins William Slavens McNutt and Ray Harris on preparation of the screen play of "Don't Call Me Madame" for Paramount. Jones moved in after finishing work on the Marx Brothers' yarn. "Cracked Ice." Tradeviews (Continued from page 1 ) chortle with glee over innuendoes and double entendres. They have reached the stage, through their association with sophisticates, through their reading of the type of fiction now popular, where they believe that the 80.000.000 should, even if they do not, think along the same lines, should appreciate the efforts of the industry to furnish the "best" in modern literature, modern plays, modern movies. But the sophisticates on their way from New York to Hollywood do not stop over in Minnesota, in Kansas, in Nebraska, in Iowa, in the small cities and towns whose population forms the bulk of these 80.000.000. There is no reason to stop; there is no money for them there. Therefore, the denizens of these places have not had the "advantages" of the close association with the sophisticates which have accrued to the picture producers. • They do not understand. To them a suggestive situation in a picture is immoral. An innuendo, a double entendre, is smut. And they don't like immorality and smut, either for themseilves or for their families. Moreover, the 80.000,000 like entertainment that takes them out of their real life environment and sets them down amid events about which they have dreamed. They like to see situations in which they can imagine themselves, to see and hear people doing and saying things which they themselves might conceivably do and say. They are not keen on being educated in sophistication. They do not spend their dimes and quarters to see and hear movie players ape the actions and conversation of so-called "society" of any grade. They do not understand, do not appreciate this, nor do they want to do so. Entertainment designed to conform to their levels — mental, moral, physical and economic — is what they seek, and the first producer who comes to this realization, who peels the veneer of so-called sophistication off his pictures and gets down to the foundation of real life as the 80.000,000 know it. will clean up. As this analyst says: "Let's get movie people to make movies." BRITISH INTERNATIONAL John Maxwetl, Producer "HELP!" Cast: Gene Cerrard, Molly Lamont. Gus McNaughton. Clive Currie, Peter Godfrey, Toni Bruce, Claude Hulbert, Olive Borden. Director Monty Banks From novel by P. G. Wodehouse Screen Play: Gene Gerrard. Cecil Lewis, Frank Miller. Cameraman Claude Friese Greene CAUMONT BRITISH AND GAINSBOROUGH M. E. Balcon, Producer "SOLDIERS OF THE KING* Cast: Cicely Courtneidge. Edward Everett Horton. Dorothy Hyson, Anthony Bushell, Ivor McLaren, Phil Arnold. Rebla. Bransby Williams. Director Maurice Elvey From story by Douglas Furber Screen Play: Jack Hulbert. John Or ton, W. P. Lipscombe. Cameraman Percy Strong "FLEDERMAUS" Cast ; Evelyn Laye. jay Laurier, Gina Malo, Fritz Schultz. Diana Cotton. Director William Thiete Screen Play Leslie Howard Gordon Additional Lyrics and Dialogue A. P. Herbert Cameraman F. Krampf "LOVE AND LET LOVE" Cast: Madeleine Carroll, Ivor Novello, Kay Hammond. Director ._ Anatol Litwak Story and Screen Play.. ..Frank Schultz Cameraman Mutz Greenbaum WARNER-FIRST NATIONAL Irving Asher, Producer "MR. QUINCY OF MONTE CARLO" Cast: John Stuart, Rosemary Ames, Victor Fairlle. Director John Daumery Screen Play Brock Williams, Randall Faye BLATTNER STUDIOS "BRING EM BACK HALF DEAD" Cast: Nelson Keys, Polly Luce. Ben Weldon. Arthur Finn, Kenneth Kove, Jack Harris and his band. Director Redd Davis Screen Play Holt Marvell Cameraman Henry Harriss SHEPPERTON STUDIOS "THE WISHBONE" Cast: Nellie Wallace. Davy Burnaby. Rene McReady. Director Arthur Maude PARAMOUNT BRITISH •DRIVEN' Cast: Owen Nares. Basil Rathbone. Flora Robson, Evelyn Roberts. Director Henry Edwards Story by Temple Thurston Cameraman Stanley Rodwell LONDON FILM PRODUCTIONS Alexander Korda, Producer "COUNSEL'S OPINION ' Cast: Henry Kendall. Binnie Barnes, Cyril Maude, Francis Lister, Lawrence Grossmlth. Direction Allan Dwan Adaptation: Arthur Wimpress. Dorothy Greenhill. Cameraman Phil Tannura ASSO. RADIO STUDIOS Langham Fitms and George King, Producers 'TO BRIGHTON WITH A BIRD" Cast: Constance SHotter, Harry Milton, Sunday Wilshin. Kate Cutler, Percy the Penguin. Director George King Original John Quinn Adaptation John Elliott Stannard TWICKENHAM STUDIOS Julius Hagen. Producer "CAKK CALLED BACK' Cast: Franklyn Dyall, Dorothy Boyd, Lester Mathews. Directors -... Reginald Denham, Jack Harris Screen Play Fowler Mear WEMBLEY STUDIOS "SPEED KING * Cast : John Loder. Ida Lupino, Cyril McLaglen. Director Bernard Vorhaus Adaptation and Dialogue: Lionel Hale, Monica Ewer. Cameramen _ Fred Forde, Eric Cross Show Producers Refuse To Free Roberti For Pix Lyda Roberti has been forced to turn down the deal offered her by Sam Jaffe at Radio for the leading role opposite Wheeler and Woolsey in their comedy production. She is in the Aarons and Freedley musical comedy, "Strike Me Pink," in Boston. Deal fell through when the show producers declined to permit the player to leave. Marlow With Small Edward Small has borrowed Brian Marlow from Paramount to work on the script of "I Cover The Waterfront," with Claudette Colbert in the lead. James Cruze will direct. Termer For Composer Louis De Francesco. Fox composer, was given a long term contract at the studio as general musical director. De Francesco composed much of the musical score for "Cavalcade." RKO Delays Roxy Closing New York. — RKO has postponed the closing of the RKO-Roxy Theatre and will continue "Animal Kingdom" there for another week. Thompson Out of Radio Harlan Thompson has fulfilled the terms of his deal with Radio where he was a writer-director and has left the organization, Norton At Paramount Edgar Norton has been added to the cast of "Lady's Profession" at Paramount. Tyrell Davis At Radio Tyrell Davis has been added to the cast of "Our Betters" at Radio.