Motion Picture Daily (July–Sept 1938)

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iday, August 26, 1938 MOTION PICTURE DAILY To Stir Interest Among Theatre Patrons One tornado and three Hopi Indians . . .please ! A STRANGE REQUEST? Not at all — in the -world of the films. Today the call may be for "a tornado and three Hopi Indians" . . . tomorrow, perhaps, it will be for a trained ostrich and a replica of a 13th Century castle . . . and the day after for an under-sea cavern and a Roman legion. Whatever the demand, it must be met— regardless of how difficult or how costly. Whatever a picture needs to bring it to life, it gets. Casts numbering thousands are costumed . . . equipped . . . rehearsed. Nature in all its many moods is captured to perform before the camera's eye. Scholars search the archives of history . . . expeditions fare forth to the far corners of the earth . . . specialists of every sort and kind are called in — to make a picture ring with sincerity, speak with accuracy. And that is just a small part of the wonderworld behind the scenes where motion pictures are born. Into the making of a picture goes the work of brain and hand of the men and women of 276 arts, sciences and professions — collaborators with the great writers and composers, the directors and players whose names you see on the screen. Before a picture unfolds its story, artists and architects, designers and draftsmen, bricklayers and carpenters have labored — erecting sometimes whole streets or entire villages... building and furnishing slums and palaces — Lighting experts, musicians and mechanics, sound effects technicians, set dressers and seamstresses have worked day and night — each contributing his or her part to create the picture you see — each helping to make motion pictures what they are today — your best entertainment. Around the corner from your home — everybody's home — there is a world quite apart from the one in which we live ... a world into which each man and woman who sits in the darkened theatre enters and becomes a part — leaving the world of reality behind. Here in this other world are brave adventure and tender romance. Here are side-splitting laughter and tense emotion. Here are music and drama. Here is LIFE. Day after day the motion picture weaves its magic about the minds of millions of men and women. For them — we hope for you — the movies make this old earth a better, happier place. We who make and exhibit motion pictures like to think that they have brought more pleasure to more people at less cost than almost anything else the mind of man was ever responsible for — and have done the human race more downright good than all the medicines concocted since creation. * * * * This fall — with the motion picture standing on the eve of its Golden Jubilee — it is fitting that the Motion Picture Industry should have outdone itself to bring to you as fine an array of productions as you have ever seen in a single season. There are, as you will see from the list below, pictures of every kind — to suit every taste and match every mood. One after another they are coming to your favorite theatre — offering you entertainment, relaxation, freedom from care in overflowing measure. '250,000.00 5,404 CASH PRIZES LIST OF PRIZES! 1st Prize .-. . $50,000 2nd Prize .. . 25,000 2 of $10,000 each, 20.000 5 of $5,000 each, 25,000 5 of $2,000 each, $10,000 10 of $1,000 each, 10,000 40 of $500" each, 20,000 40 of $250 each, 10,000 300 of $100 each, 30,000 5,000 of $10 each, 50,000 5,404 TOTAL $250,000 FREE! FREE! AT YOUR FAVORITE THEATRE! Hurry! Hurry I Beautiful 32-Page Book For a Limited Tim* Onlyl FREE — your copy of this 32-P»*e Morie Quiz Contest Booklet *' roar faToriie theatre — contain) complete laiormauoD •bom (he I250.00O Morie Qtui Cash Prize Contest PLUS alt the oewj of forxbconuax hro — pictures of your favorite stars — a con test entry blank. Just ask for it — ITS FREE — and you ' re oo your way to ooe of the 5 .404 cash prizes totaling $2)0.000. Get ywrr copy today — at your locai theatre. Watch for these new season's pictures at your favorite theatre: LITTLE MISS BROADW AY Shirley Temple. George Murphy MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS Anne Shirley. Ruby Keeler. James Ellison PROFESSOR BEWARE Harold Lloyd. Phyllis Welch THE AMAZING DR. C LITTER HOUSE Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor THE CHASER Dennis O'Keefe. Ann Morriss, Lewis Stone BAREFOOT BOY Jackie Moran. Mama Mae Jones ALGIERS Charles Boyer. Hedy LaMarr. Stgrid Curie BULLDOG DRUMMOND IN AFRICA John Howard. Heather Angel. H. B. Warner GATEWAY Don Ameche, Arleen WheJan I'M FROM THE CITY |oe Penner. Richard Lane. Lorraine Krueger LETTER OF INTRODUCTION Adolphe Menjou, Andrea Leeds. Edgar Bergen THE CROWD ROARS Robert Taylor. Maureen O'Sullivan MR. CHUMP Johnny Davis, Lola Lane. Penny Singleton KEEP SMILING Jane Withers, Gloria Stuart PAINTED DESERT George O'Brien. Laraine Johnson RICH MAN— POOR GIRL Robert Young. Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey THE MISSING GUEST Paul Kelly, Cone La nee Moore THE TEX ANS Joan Bennett. Randolph Scott, May Robson RACKET BUSTERS Humphrey Bogart. George Brent THE GLADIATOR Joe E. Brown. June Travis ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND Tyrone Power. Alice Faye, Don Ameche BLOCK-HEADS Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy GIVE ME A SAILOR Martha Raye. Bob Hope. Betty Grable SMASHING THE RACKETS Chester Morris. Frances Mercer, Rita Johnson BREAKING THE ICE Bobby Breen. Charles Ruggtes DARK RAPTURE African Jungle Feature MARIE ANTOINETTE Norma Shearer. Tyrone Power SPAWN OF THE NORTH George Raft. Henry Fonda. Dorothy Lamour SPEED TO BURN Michael Whalen. Lynn Ban BOY MEETS GIRL James Cagney. Pat O'Brien. Marie Wilson UNDER THE BIG TOP Anne Nagel, Marjorie Main, Grant Richards CAREFREE Fred Astaire. Ginger Rogers FOUR'S A CROWD Errol Flynn. Olivia de Havilland FRESHMAN YEAR Dixie Dunbar, William Lundigan I AM THE LAW Ed ward G. Robinson. John Beal. Wendy Barrie MY LUCKY STAR Sonja Henie. Richard Greene SING YOU SINNERS Bing Crosby. Fred MacMurray. Ellen Drew THREE LOVES HAS NANCY Janet Gayrror. Robert Montgomery BOYS TOWN Spencer Tracy. Mickey Rooney IN OLD MEXICO William Boyd. Russell Hayden. George Hayes SAFETY IN NUMBERS The Jones FamJy. Jed Prouty. Shirley Deane THE AFFAIRS OF ANNABEL Jack Oakie. Lucille Ball THE COMET Wm. Gargan. Joy Hodges, Andy Devine SECRETS OF AN ACTRESS Kay Francis, George Brent, Ian Hunter THE LADY OBJECTS Lanny Ross, Gloria Stuart JUVENILE COURT Paul Kelly. Rila Hayworth. Frankie Darro HOLD THAT CO-ED John Barrymore," George Murphy RENEGADE RANGER George O'Brien. Rita Hayworth SONS OF THE LEGION Lynne Overman, Evelyn Keyes THE ROAD TO RENO Randolph Scott. Hope Hampton TOO HOT TO HANDLE Clark Gable. Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly VALLEY OF THE GIANTS Charles Bickford, Claire Trevor. Jack LaRue DRUMS Sabu. Raymond Massey. Valerie Hobson CAMPUS CONFESSIONS Hank LuiseUi. Betty Grable FUGITIVES FOR A NIGHT Frank Albertson. Eleanor Lynn LISTEN DARLING Freddie Bartholomew. Judy Garland THE LAST EXPRESS Kent Taylor. Dorothea Kent, Barbara Read TIME OUT FOR MURDER Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen FOUR DAUGHTERS Claude Rains. Priscilla. Rosemary, Lola Lane WANTED BY THE POLICE Frankie Darro GIRLS' SCHOOL Anne Shirley, Nan Grey KING OF A LCATRAZ Gail Patrick. Lloyd Nolan. J. Carroll Naish MR. WONG. DETECTIVE Boris Karloff YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Jean Arthur. Lionel Barrymore ROOM SERVICE The Man Brothers. Lucille Ball STABLEMATES Wallace Beery. Mickey Rooney SUBMARINE PATROL RichardGreene.NancyKelly.George Bancroft YOUTH TAKES A FLING Andrea Leeds, Joel McCrea, Dorothea Kent This advertising is sponsored by the leading Motion Picture Exhibitors, Distributors and Producers of the United States and Canada. Your opinions, criticisms or suggestions about motion pictures will be genuinely appreciated. Kindly address tbem to Motion Picture Industry Campaign, P. 0. Box 450, General Post Office, New York City. MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT S-J4-38 P4 Ad No. U 6 cols, x 236 lines