Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1937)

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MOTION PICTUR£ DAILY MOTION PICTURE DAILY* HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW "Wings of the Morning" {New World-20th Century-Fox) Glendale, Cal., Jan. 7. — Produced by New World Pictures, Ltd., 20th Century-Fox English producing subsidiary, with Robert T. Kane as producer, this picture must be considered an auspicious offering from the other side, chiefly notable for the completly breath-taking effects of its Technicolor photographing of the beautiful Irish country. Certainly nothing better has yet come from any studio using color in a feature. The film for the most part is attractive, spirited, and entertaining. The story tells of a beautiful gypsy's love of and marriage to an Irish nobleman, his death, and the flight of years which finds her a queen of gypsies. Then the story takes up the romance of Henry Fonda, young Canadian, for the granddaughter of the gypsy queen, the training of race horses, the fun as Fonda at first mistakes the girl for a boy, since she wears the disguise in which she had fled from Spain's revolution, and a fine climax sequence picturing the Derby at Epsom Downs. Interjected are scenes of the countryside, at the castle, at the gypsy camp, with John McCormack singing several numbers, with Steve Donoghue in "civies" and astride a racer. Annabella, beautiful and talented, plays opposite Fonda, and Leslie Banks has an important role. Tom Geraghty wrote the screen play and Harold Schuster directed. In all, the picture should find a ready and appreciative audience, among the more discriminating filmgoers. Production Code Seal No. 2,879. Running time, 66 minutes. "G." "She's Dangerous" {Universal) Hollywood, Jan. 7. — A story of the outwitting of bond crooks by an attractive girl, posing as a crook herself, but in reality a private detective, this picture emerges as routine entertainment suitable for double bills and satisfactory fare of its kind. Not new in theme, reasonably active in pace, it has a competent cast. Cesar Romero, satisfactorily vicious as the gang leader, meets and accepts Tala Birell as a fellow-crook. Discovering she is not, he kills her employer and takes her with him on a trip for the disposal of stolen bonds, after having stolen the papers which prove her true identity. She is suspected of having killed the man. Their plane crashes, they are taken in and treated by Walter Pidgeon, doctor on a mountain vacation. Eventually she tells Pidgeon, with whom she has fallen in love, the truth, and when they are arrested, goes with them. Both Romero and Miss Birell are convicted of the murder and sentenced to death, Romero refusing to clear her. But a ruse in the death house, as he is prepared for the chair, causes Romero to tell the truth. Murray Roth and Ben Ryan wrote the original and Milton Carruth and Lewis J. Foster directed from the screen play by Lionel Houser and Albert R. Perkins. Production Code Seal No. 2,895. Running time, 65 minutes. "G." Thursday, January 7, 1937 4 Purely Personal ► KEN HODKINSON, assistant to George W. Weeks, will visit during his current trip west the company's exchanges at St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver and Salt Lake City. Arthur Greenblatt, eastern division manager, returned yesterday from Miami. • James Cagney, whose "Great Guy" today enters its second week at the Criterion, will leave for the coast this weekend. His brother, William, is now conferring with Douglas MacLean and J. G. Blystone on the star's next for Grand National. • Edward L. Alperson, president of Grand National, will leave for Hollywood next Thursday or Friday to approve several new productions scheduled to go into work in addition to closing negotiations for a studio. • E. W. Wingart of 20th CenturyFox's publicity forces left yesterday for Boston to return with Jane Withers, who has been making personal appearances at the Metropolitan. • William Gehring, central division manager for 20th Century-Fox, is in Minneapolis on business and William Sussman, eastern division manager, is spending a vacation in Florida. • Sam Strassberg, Louis Frisch, Irving Kaplan, Jack Hattem and Irving Renner sailed yesterday on the Empress of Australia for an 18day cruise to the West Indies. • Marlene Dietrich has notified Ernst Lubitsch that she will return to this country Feb. 6 and will reach Hollywood Feb. 10 to start work in 'Angel" for Paramount. • Lionel and Mrs. Atwill are due today on the Washington. Monty Banks also arrives on that ship. He has a directing contract with 20th Century-Fox. • _ Leo Justin has called off his vacation to Honolulu because of the seamen's strike, and instead will leave Jan. 20 for Havana, Miami and Mexico City. • Beatrice Kaufman, new eastern story editor for Samuel Goldwyn, has taken up her duties after 10 days of conferences with Goldwyn on the coast. • George Hirliman, president of Condor Pictures, has arrived here from the coast to confer on company policies. He is accompanied by his wife. • Monty Banks and Harry d'ArRast, who have been directing abroad for New World Prod., will arrive tomorrow on the George Washington. • Tony Martin, having completed his New York vacation and broadcasting, is en route back to the coast by train. He left yesterday. • Leo and David Gorcey of the original "Dead End" company have been signed by Robert Mc Intyre of Goldwyn Prod, for the films version and will be tested this week. Central Artists Bureau, Inc., placed them. Edith Roark, under the same management, has been tested by M-G-M. • Eleanor Hunt, who just completed a film for George Hirliman, is here on a short visit, returning to the coast in a few days. • Fay Bainter left for the coast yesterday via American Airlines on a hurry call from the M-G-M studio. • Hal Horne yesterday signed Estelle and LeRoy, dance team, for 'Walter Wanger's Vogue of 1938." • Meyer Schine, who arrived from Gloversville yesterday, will return to his upstate headquarters today. Charles Stearn, New England division manager for U. A., is making a quick trip to Boston. • Harry Asher, franchise holder for General Pictures in New England, is in town for conferences with Mack D. Weinberger, general sales manager. • Harry Gold, U.A.'s eastern salesmanager, is off on a tour of the Buffalo territory. • Ruth Roberts of "White Horse Inn" is back in the show after a brief illness. • Edward Schnitzer will sail on the Lafayette Jan. 29 for a West Indies cruise. • Robert T. Konikow has been made publicity representative for the Filmarte. • Edward Finney plans to leave for Hollywood within the next two weeks. • George Burns and Gracie Allen left yesterday for the coast. Mrs. Willard McKay is en route to Miami. 7 B. & D. Reports Loss In Year of £105,599 London, Dec. 31. — The report and accounts of British & Dominions Film Corp., Ltd., for the year ended Oct. 31 last, show a net loss of £105,599 and with the previous year's debit of £25,549, a total debit carried forward of £131,148. After crediting the amounts received under loss of income policies, in connection with the destruction by fire of the Elstree studios, there was a revenue surplus of £49,391, but further debit items included £121,638 depreciation written off productions, and £32,408 depreciation of fixed assets. In the year 1934-1935 the net loss was £37,031. Production had to be suspended for some months following the studio fire, it was stated in the report, which also records the decision to acquire half the capital of Pinewood Studios, Ltd., and the transfer of production to that plant, where a fifth stage will be completed shortly. B. & D. ordinary £1 shares are currently quoted at about five shillings. GB Signs Deal with English Technicians London, Dec. 31. — An agreement on wages and working conditions has been reached by the Ass'n. of CineTechnicians with the Gaumont British Corp. It covers the big Shepherd's Bush studio and is the first to be signed with the organized technicians. Although the agreement does not exactly follow the "model" recently publicized by the A. C. T., it establishes minimum salaries for cameramen, sound editors, still photographers, continuity writers and others and sets conditions regarding overtime, holiday and sick pay, termination of employment, "farming of services" and other matters. Hutchinson Due in Paris London, Dec. 31. — Walter J. Hutchinson, foreign manager of 20th Century-Fox, is expected in Paris from Cairo shortly, proceeding to London on the last lap of his world tour. Francis L. Harley, managing director for the company in London, will meet him in Paris. Brown Warner Director London. Dec. 31. — J. Walton Brown, general sales manager of Warner Bros., Ltd., has been named a director of the company. Brown was supervisor of Goldwyn, Ltd., prior to the Metro merger and later sales manager for F.B.O., Ltd. Up Borrowing Power London, Dec. 31. — The annual meeting of London Film Prod. Ltd., formally approved the amendment to the articles of association increasing the borrowing powers of the directors to £1,750,000. All shares in London Films are held privately. Helen Jepson Signed Helen Jepson, operatic and radio star, has been signed by Grand National to appear in a musical Victor Schertzinger will produce for the company. The singer is now on a concert tour and will report to Schertzinger in May, when production is scheduled to get under way.