The Hollywood Reporter (Jan-Jun 1933)

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t^Ji Page Two THPg (aifp>@mrili<!i April 5. 1933 FRANK POPE Managing Editor Published and copyrighted by THE WILKERSON DAILY CORP.. Ltd Executive-Editorial Offices and Office of Publication, 6717 Sunset Boulevard Hollywood. (Los Angeles). California Telephone HOMywood 3957 New York Office: Abraham Bernstein, Mgr. 229 W. 42nd St. Wisconsin 7-7193; Chicago. 6 N Michigan Ave ; London. 41 A Carlisle Mansions; Pans. 122 Blvd Murat: Berlin, 83-84 Mauerstrasse; Buenos Aires, San Martin 501 ; Sydney. 198 Pitt St Published every day with the exception of Sundays and Holidays Subscription rates, including postage, per year in the United States and Canada. $20. Foreign. $25 Single copies, 10c Entered as second class matter June 4. 1932. at the Post Office at Los Angeles, under the act of March 3. 1879 There's a funny angle to the test of Ruth Channing which resulted m a contract for her. We are told that some time ago Jean Harlow, who was much interested in Jay Whidden at the moment, arranged for a test for him. hoping it would land him a screen career. Soooo they made a test of the crooner, and. just to help things along, they chose Miss Channing to play opposite him in the test because she was a Harlow type. Well, the net result was that the girl landed a job. while Whidden landed outside the studio gates. • A writer with plenty of charm and a well-earned lousy reputation, thinks he is head man with a well-known screen ingenue at the moment, and. to all appearances, he is. He is getting plenty of dates and a lot of attention, but he doesn't know WHY. The actress had been keeping company with a young actor steadily until a few weeks ago. and right up to the minute of their last fight, was crying publicly because he wouldn't marry her. The writer came along just when she needed him most for jealousy-making purposes. So far. nothing encouraging has developed, but the girl is still determined to be the actor's bride — because she's currazy about him — "can't help it." Dorothea Wieck, imported German star of "Girls In Uniform" whom Paramount brought over last week, almost did a walk-out on the company after a series of disappointing incidents. It seems Paramount didn't expect her boat to land until a few days after it did. with the result that no one from the company met her at the dock and. afer some inquiry, the organization learned that someone had made reservations for the actress and her unclemanager at the Algonquin Hotel. So then Paramount woke up and did sorre swell wangling to pacify the girl, moving her to the Waldorf, sending bouquets and tickets to the legit shows. La Wieck is expected in Hollywood any day now and will find at least two stories waiting for her. GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE" MGM prod.; director, Gregory LaCava. writers. Carey Wilson, Bertram Bloch. Capitol Theatre World -Telegram: Vivid, expertly played and thoroughly entertaining film Sun: The talkie is. in short, an up-to-date imaginative and highly possible political thriller, American: The film tells the story of America today, tells it with thrilling, tingling effectiveness, omitting no trial nor tribulation, and suggesting remedies for ills and evils that will elevate each audience to the heights of inspired patriotic fervor. It is your drama, and mine, ard America's And it is tremendous. Perhaps the most tremendous the world has ever known. For upon its outcome depend civilization and humanity itself. Mirror: A stunning and impressive film. Inspiring, gripping, wildly dramatic. fournal: A picture that will hold you spellbound with its terrific strength; leave you breathless with its dynamic import and send you out exhilarated with its stirring vision. Post: Its Chauvinism, its note of panic, destroys its validity as historical drama and makes it sound as if it had been written by an hysterical old lady who had been listening to tabloid headlines shouted into her ear trumpet. Without this violent propaganda, "Gabriel Over The White House" would have been an interesting and dramatic film. Times: It is a curious, somewhat fantastic and often melodramatic story, but nevertheless one which at this time is very interesting. Although the White House seems to be a relatively cramped place in some of the scenes. Gregory LaCava. the director, has handled the incidents m the Senate and in the open air with the desired imagination and forcefu'n-ss News: It IS a stirring picture, directed m a masterly manner by Gregory LaCava. who has sketched in the large events of the story with broad and sweeping strokes. He had grand material to woi k with. Herald-Tribune: As a good, fast-moving, combative melodrama. "Gabriel Over The White House" has its decided points. It is destined to be the most discussed photoplay of the year. "THE KEYHOLE" War, 3ros. prod.; director. Michael Curtiz; writers. Alice D. G Miller. Robert Presnell. Radio City Music Hall Herald-Tribune: Poor Miss Kay Francis is beset by unworthy ma'es and, it mght be added, by an unworthy story, in the new picture. Times: The story is a little too obvious to be much more than a good-natured piece of work. lournaf: "The Keyhole" is a pleasant little program feature that offers nothing new in the way of a plot or plot construction, but tells its slim story agreeably with the assistance of a good cast. Sun: If the picture had held up to its first half it wou'd have wound up as better than average entertainment As it stands, it is only mildly satisfactory. News: "The Keyhole" is a shoddy tale that presents a glamorous pictorial effect because it is beautifully mounted and because it has been cleverly directed by Michael Curtiz and well acted by its competent cast. American: Aside from the unappealing characters, the story is drab and dull, nor has it been greatly aided by the direction of Michael Curtiz. Technically it is mediocre and as entertainment something less than that. Post: This transposing of the story into a comedy key is perhaps the best thing that could have happened, because unmitigated romance of the kind provided by principal actors would have done much to destroy Mrs. Miller's story, the able dialogue with which it has been provided and the swift and skilful direction which Michael Curtiz has given it. Mirror: The situations are deftly handled. The romantic developments are treated with great charm. The melodramatic ones are restrained and plausible. Smart comedy is neatly introduced. Lovely settings and smart clothes put a high polish on the production. World-Telegram: This admirable supporting talent is unable to make something out of a melodrama that fails to be either exciting or unusual. 'MURDERS IN THE ZOO" Vital Meeting of Writers Tomorrow Constitutional amendments making possible an organization along the lines of the Dramatists Guild will be proposed at the annual meeting of the Screen Writers Guild, at the Writers Club, at eight o'clock tomorrow night. These amendments, recommended by the Guild's board of directors, are said to meet the approval of a majority of professional scenarists. Writers have been joining the Guild at the rate of more than twenty a day for the last week in order to vote uf>on these amendments. All professional motion picture writers are urged by the board to join the Guild at or before the Thursday night meeting so that their votes may be recorded. This meeting includes the annual election of officers. Mitchell To MCM MGM signed Grant Mitchell through the Dave Thompson office yesterday for a leading role in "Night Flight." which the David Selznick unit is producing. Clarence Brown directs. Oliver H. P. Garrett is on screen play. '42nd Street' In Two Warners are holding "42nd Street" for a fourth week at the Warner Downtown, and the picture also goes into the Warner Beverly for simultaneous showings with the Downtown. Picture played three weeks at Warner Hollywood and Downtown Gardner Opens Office lack E. Gardner, formerly of the Vincent and Gardner office, has opened an artist manager's office in the Guaranty Building. His first important deal is the new Edgar Kennedy term contract with Radio. Two Roles For Maxwell Edwin Maxwell has ben signed for the cast of "Emergency Call." the Bil! Boyd picture at Radio, and also for a role in "Dinner At Eight" at MGM. Com. to Get Figures fContinurd from Page M Academy committee with complete and final information on incomes ar\c\ expenditures of all corrpanies for tht eight week period prior to March € besides comparative figures on tH; past four weeks. ^■^■^^^^^* DACHSHUNDE CRAYCECREENBURC 10964 Ventura Boulevard No. Hollywood ^ Paramount prcd : director. Edward Sutherland; writers. Philip Wylie. Seton I. Miller. Paramount Theatre American: It is a delightful whimsv in which o'd Doc Atwill murders lohn Lodge by an injection of snake vemon. shoves ex-panther-woman Kathleen Burke to a dreadful death in a festering slime of crocodiles, and is himself quite completely crushed in the coils of a huge constrictor. News: If mystery dramas are to be measured in terms of goose pimples and crawling flesh, then this one is good. Mirror: The director, the writers and the performers appear to have been at their lowest level of inspiration for "Murders in the Zoo," . w World-Telegram: Not very blood-curdling, in spite of its gruesome deaths. BREN & OR$>^TTI "Murders in the Zoo" leaves the state of mystery films just about where it found it— —considerably punch drunfe. ■ ' I Hugh Herbert j Management