Motion Picture Daily (July–Sept 1938)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Friday, July 15, 19! 4 Purely Personal ► HAROLD ORLOB and Dudley Murphy left New York yesterday for Dennis, Mass., to confer there with Sylvia Sidney on production plans for ". . . one-third of a nation . . .," work on which is scheduled to start at Eastern Service Studio, Aug. 29. Miss Sidney plans a trip to London in the interim. Thomas Orchard, associate producer of "March of Time," and his father, Charles, will leave today on the Santa Rosa for a 16-day Central American cruise. • Les Whalen, 20th Century-Fox foreign publicity director, lunched yesterday with Jack Murphy, production manager for Harold Lloyd, an old friend. • Capt. John W. Mauss, known in vaudeville as Willie Mauss, is returning to Europe aboard the Deutschland, which left New York Wednesday night. • John J. Friedl of Minnesota Amusement Co., is here from Minneapolis for conferences with Y. Frank Freeman, Paramount theatre head. • Dan Doherty of Movietone News will return Monday from his vacation. He recently moved his family to their new home in Long Beach. • Ralph Branton and Joseph Dietch of the A. H. Blank circuit are in New York from Des Moines for a short stay. • Rutgers Neilson, RKO publicity manager, and Mrs. Neilson will leave Monday for a Nova Scotia cruise. • Victor Cockle, G.B. Export manager, left yesterday for Montreal. He may sail for London from there. • George Black, director for March of Time, has returned from a camera expedition to Nova Scotia. • Ted Richmond is in town from the coast on Allied Pictures business. "Paris" at $30,000 In 2nd Roxy Stanza "The Rage of Paris" came through with $30,000 for a second week at the Roxy, compared with $48,000 for the first stanza. The Criterion's business fell to $6,500 with "Rose of the Rio Grande." "Man's Paradise," Modern Films' three-reeler, bolstered the feature. "There Goes My Heart," first Hal Roach release through United Artists, will play the Music Hall in October, following Alexander Korda's "Drums." Paramount's "Prison Farm" is being first run at Loew's State. Loew's to Show "Pearls" "Pearls of the Crown" is the second foreign film to be shown in Loew's metropolitan circuit with a Hollywood companion feature, the booking being inspired by the success of "Mayerling." The film will go into circuit houses Tuesday. The Newsreel Parade Movietone News Vol. 20. No. 88 (20th Century-Fox) This issue is noteworthy for skill ful handling of the China floods which impeded the Japanese advance near Hankow. It's a slice of "The Good Earth" and a great human document Of domestic interest is the visit of Shirley Temple in the east, showing her cruising the New York water front and at a Hyde Park picnic with Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt. The balance includes the moving of the Government's silver treasure to the vaults at West Point ; the wonder of snow on California's Mt. Lassen ; Lew Lehr kidding a "beautiful leg" contest ; Ed Thorgersen energetically describing the Goshen, N. Y., trotting races ; stunning models displaying ritzy footwear, and furious aquaplaning in the Pacific. Reviewed without the clip on Howard Hughes. Runningtime, 9l/2 mins. F. News of the Day Vol. 9, No. 286 (M-G-M) The excellent scenes of the North China floods which stopped the Japanese war machine near Hankow are duplicates of the Movietone News story but have their own narration. Spectacular night skiing on Mt. Lassen in California, where the snow rarely falls deep, makes a good shot, and a grandmothers' _bathing beauty contest at Coney Island is a good novelty. The reel also has the climax of the Sokol gymnastic meet at Prague, showing 32,000 women in mass drills ; the harness races at Goshen, N. Y., and demonstrations of fancy diving at Jones Beach. Reviewed without the Howard Hughes story. Running time, 8 mins. F. Paramount News No. 99 (Paramount) Shots of the Floyd Bennet field arrival of Howard Hughes and his crew of four at 2 :37 P. M., from their speed flight around the world give this release exceptional news value. Anything after that is anti-climax, but there is interest in the trotting races at Goshen, N. Y., and in the closeup of principals in the conviction of U. S. Nazi leaders in Riverhead, L. I. Canton displays ingenuity in the bomb-deflecting bamboo roofs erected over buildings. Drills of the uniformed "Amazon Battalion," young Chinese girls, also are included. Discovery of gold in their backyard in Lakeside, Cal., rewards patient efforts of Mrs. Guy Kimball, wife of a disabled war veteran. On the lighter side are the hot weather shots in the Detroit Zoo, where even the tigers went in swimming when the thermometer shot up. From the West come pictures of the President in Pueblo, Col., where he heard miners ask him to run for a third term ; and other shots showing the chief executive enjoying the scenery at Royal Gorge. I.K. RKO Pathe News Vol. 9. No. 103 (RKO) Shipped without the footage on the arrival in New York of Howard Hughes, which will be added as soon as available, this issue of the reel features a spectacularly shocking crash on an auto race track in Australia. Not necessarily gruesome, it is start ling, and probably will long remain as one of the most sensational of all newsreel shots. The camera was full on the car as its wheels locked, it went into a spin, plunged straight into a crowd of spectators lining the side of the track, and driving at full tilt, lit erally mowed them down and tossed them aside like pins in a bowling alley It is an exclusive for RKO Pathe. The rest of the reel features a college tennis victory in Pennsylvania, a Long Island prosecutor commenting on the conviction of members of the German Bund, good shots of trotting races at Goshen, N. Y., a Congressional committee visiting a unit of the T.V.A., an interesting fish run which results in a pool jammed with fish, and pictures of President Roosevelt in Colorado on his westward tour. It is an interesting reel, and with the race track sequence, a spectacular one Running time (without Hughes' footage), 6% mins. A. Universal Newsreel Vol. 10, No. 684 (Universal) Sufficient advance footage to cover the arrival of Howard Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field was prepared and sent out with this regular release of the reel. There are approximately 50 feet of this material. Actual shots of the round-the-world plane's return will follow the regular release into the theatres. The subjects comprising the regu lar release achieve a good standard for news, topical and novelty material. They consist of shots of the President at Pueblo, Colo. ; the effects of Japanese bombing in Canton ; flight tests of the new 47-passenger, four-motored Douglas commercial ship ; George French, former millionaire, working on a golf range at Allston, Mass. ; Capt. George Eyston, British speed champion, preparing for new record trials on the Utah salt flats ; a working model of the U.S.S. Texas under full steam in an indoor swimming pool ; a beauty contest for grandmothers ; a "blindfold" bathing beauty contest; July snow scenes at Mt. Lassen, Cal. ; Philadelphia's welcome to its homecoming rowing champion; the start of a homing pigeons' race; trotting races at Goshen, N. Y., and aquaplaning at Hermosa Beach, Cal. Running time, (without Hughes footage) 9 mins. K. Columbia Sets Dividend Columbia has declared a quarterly dividend of 68J4 cents per share on the $2.75 convertible preferred stock, payable Aug. 15 to stockholders of record Aug. 1. "Sister Act" Retitled Hollywood, July 14.— "Daughters Courageous" has been chosen by Columbia as the release title for "Sister Act," based on the Fannie Hurst novel. The Lanes are featured. "Antoinette" Scale Fixed at $2.20 To M-G-M's two-a-day showing "Marie Antoinette" at the Astc opening Aug. 16 for an indefinite ru will be at $2.20 top nights, with mal nees at $1.10 top. Three shows w be given Saturday and Sunday. The opening of the "Marie Antoi ette" museum at the theatre yesterd; drew crowds, 338 persons viewing tl antiques and props in the first hoij By 4 o'clock 2,056 visitors ym clocked. If the opening day's pa<*» sustained, M-G-M estimates 200,01 persons will view the collection in tl next month. The film is now being roadshov at the Carthay Circle in Hollywoo Additional roadshow dates are und consideration. RKO Hearing Ad jour ne Federal Judge William Bondy a journed the RKO reorganization hea ing scheduled for yesterday to Ju 21 at 2:30 P. M. The hearing w adjourned to allow Special Mast Alger time to render his report on tl amended plan of reorganization a scheduled hearing on July 18, at t! request of Col. Hamilton C. Rickafc attorney for the proponents of the pi; which stated that the report wou probably be filed in the U. S. Distri Court on that day. Set Fabian Golf Prograi Sam Rosen of the Fabian circuit h. lined up a program of golf, swimmin tennis and other amusements for tl first Fabian Theatres golf tourname to be held next Thursday at Prea ness Hills Country Club, Paterson, minutes from George Washingti Bridge. Tickets are available fro Mr. Rosen in the Paramount Buil ing. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) MARTIN QUIGLEY, Editor-in-Chief ana Pi Usher; J. M. JERAULD. Managing Edit JAMES A. CRON. Advertising Manager. El TORIAL STAFF: Charles S. Aaronson, Jack Bi ner, Al Finestone, Thomas Fltzsimmons, Sherv A. Kane, Irene Kuhn, Joseph Priore. 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