Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1942)

esda>. January 6, 1942 Motion Picture Daily 7 1942's BIG NEWS about a BIG PICTURE Purchase' $14,000 .Minneapolis' High (Minneapolis, Jan. 5. — "Louisiana 'archase" drew a smash $14,000 at the . ite. , Estimated receipts tor the week ding Jan. 1 : i'amor Boy" (Para.) E ,OPHER-(99S) (2Sc) 6 di f 1 00. (Average. $2,500) kU That Money Can Buy" (RKO) .IfORLD— (350) (2Sc-39c-44e-55c) 7 $2,600. (Average. $1,600) isiana Purchase" (Para.) i-ATE— (2.300) (28c -49c -44c I 7 :*s: $14,000. (Average. $6,000) -oak Who's Laughing" (RKO) 'RPHEUM — (2.800) (28c-39c-44c) 7 oss: $7,500. (Average. $5,500) i. M. Pulham, Esq." (M-G-M) L'EXTL'RV— (1,600) (20c-39c-44c) 7 oss: $7,500. (Average. $4,000) harlie Chan in Rio" (20th-Fox) (3 days) Outlaws of the Desert" (Para.) (3 days) toad Agent" (Univ.) (4 days) 'rivate Nurse" (20th-Fox) (4 days) ASTER— (900) (17c-28c) 7 days. Gross: .200. (Average, $1,800) Reviews dross: da' dav days. day: Swamp Water* Is High in New Haven New Haven, Jan. 5. — "Swamp ater" and "Small Town Deb" took :>.000 at the College. "Tarzan's Sect Treasure" and "Married Bacher" at the Loew-Poli grossed $9,800. II grosses were strong. Estimated receipts for the >ding Dec. 31 : Swamp Water" (ZOth-Fox) imall Town Deb" (20th-Fox) COLLEGE— (1,627) (40c-50c) 7 oss: $6,000. (Average, $2,700) . arzan's Secret Treasure" (M-G-M) Carried Bachelor" (M-G-M) I.OEW-POLI— (3.005) (40c-50c) 7 days, -oss: $9,800. (Average, $8,000) Wake Up Screaming" (20th-Fox) ►tarry the Boss's Daughter" (20th-Fox) PARAMOUNT— (2.373) (40c-50c) 7 days, ross: $6,000. (Average. $4,500) r'ou're in the Army Now" (W. B.) 31ues in the Night" (W. B.) ROGER SHERMAN (JjCi-i l+V *l 7 vs. Gross: $6,700. (Average, $5,000) week days. *lans Raid Defense n N. H. Film District New Haven, Jan. 5. — In coopera>n with the Committee for Civilian ■efense, John Pavone, manager of ' niversal, is working out a plan of r raid defense for the film district ,)d its employes. Rose Romanoff, in large of fire drills, will soon call r raid drills on Meadow Street, and i" raid wardens will be appointed in »ch exchange. "Call Out the Marines" (RKO) THOSE two marines — Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe — who fought through most of the first World War are back in uniform again, preparing for the second. Except for the fact that they have grown somewhat stouter and their hair is beginning to thin, the lads are still up to their old tricks, fighting between themselves but intensely loyal, competing for girls and shouting, "Sez you !" at each other. The picture was completed before the entrance of this country into the war and it makes no mention of our participation. Some audiences may object to a picture at this time depicting the Marines as a rowdy lot whose main interest is girls, but on the whole the story sticks prettyclose to peace time films about Marines and most film goers can be counted upon to understand that it was finished before the Japanese attack. The story begins with a reunion between the two buddies at a race track and their subsequent recall to the Marines. They start their duties vigorously but the scene soon changes to a nearby cafe where they start their usual arguments about girls. Meanwhile, Paul Kelly is engaged secretly in uncovering a spy plot, although he poses as a dismissed officer of the Marines. McLaglen and Lowe almost ruin the capture of the spies by their interference but Kelly straightens things out. Binnie Barnes gives a good performance as a cafe hostess, others in the ca^t including Robert Smith, Dorothy Levett, Franklin Pangborn, Corinna Mura and George Cleveland. The King's Men and Six Hits and a Miss offer songs by Mort Greene and Harry Revel. Several scenes make the picture unsuitable for children. Frank Ryan and William Hamilton directed, while Howard Benedict produced. Running time, 67 minutes. "A"* Edward Greif *"A" denotes adult classificati "Hay Foot" (Roach-United Artists) Hollytvood, Jan. 5 HP HE principal characters in Hal Roach's "Tanks a Million" continue * from where they left off at the close of that picture to deliver 48 minutes more of the same type of entertainment in "Hay Foot." It is perhaps the most completely direct continuation of a comedy ever accomplished, and by the accuracy of its maintenance of the spirit of the fir^t picture it appears to have guaranteed an identical audience reception. William Tracy, the intellectual doughboy with the photographic memory is again the stone in the shoe of Joe Sawyer, the hardboiled sergeant, and James Gleason continues as the commandant with the quick temper. Elyse Knox is seen as his daughter, Noah Beery, Jr., as a sharpshooter, Douglas Fowley and Harold Goodwin as officers incidentally present. Produced and directed by Fred Guiol in the manner of the first picture, the second is strung upon a screenplay by Eugene Conrad and Edward E. Seabrook which supplies the players with plenty of incidents in the vein of "Tanks a Million" with which to entertain the customers. Running time, 48 minutes. "G."* Roscoe Williams lean, Kaufman Trial Scheduled for Jan. 19 I Federal Judge Simon H. Rifkind ;sterday set the trial of Nick Circella, lias Dean, and Louis Kaufman for Ian. 19. Dean, Giicago night club perator. and Kaufman, business agent f the Newark operators' union, are larged with conspiracy to extort |iore than $1,000,000 from film comanies. I Handles Chaplin Reels Mort Sackett, president of Guaraned Pictures, Inc., announced yesterly that his company is tN? only one ithorized by Herbert Silverberg, at■rney for Festival Films, Inc., to act 5 the exclusive distributor for the 12 utual-Chaplin two-reel comedies. Joseph Thibault Dies \ Ottawa, Jan. 5. — Joseph Thibault. '), once stage manager of the old ussell and Casino Theatres here, ed at his home here yesterday. "The Mad Doctor of Market Street" ( Universal) Hollyzvood ', Jan. 5 A N addition to the shock and shudder school of entertainment, this Paul Malvern production directed by Joseph H. Lewis from a script by Al Martin fills its running time compactly without setting precedents or hewing out new highways of melodrama. Par for the course about defines it. Lionel Atwill plays the demented scientist of the title, much as he has played many similar characters previously, performing his works and incidental murders this time in quest of a technique for restoring life to dead people who, he theorizes, will have been cured of their diseases during their temporary deaths. Others in the cast are Una Merkel. Nat Pendleton, Claire Dodd, Anne Nagel, Hardie Albright, Richard Davies, John Aldredge, Ray Mala, Noble Johnson, Rosina Galli, Al Kikute, Milton Kibbee, Byron Shores, Tani Marsh and Billy Bunkley. The picture opens in a city, probably San Francisco, where the doctor commits his first murder, moves aboard ship, where he commits his second, thence to a desert island where savages complicate his life and the lives of his shipwrecked associates, all of whom are saved by a plane which leaves him behind to meet death at the hands of the natives. Running time, 61 minutes. "G"* Roscoe Williams *"G" denotes general classification. HERE'S news about 1942's great NEW hit with the biggest cast OF stars Republic has ever ASSEMBLED. There's glamorous JOAN BLONDELL AS a Belle of THE old MISSISSIPPI IN the title ROLE of "LADY FOR A NIGHT." JOAN has NOT one— BUT two LEADING MENIHANDSOME JOHN WAYNE is ONE of her HEROES AND suave RAY MIDDLETON is THE other. The story is as big and EXCITING as its stars. And REPUBLIC has spared no expense! IN making "LADY FOR A NIGHT" a vivid epic of life AMONG the fascinating people OF the old Southern ARISTOCRACY AND the colorful CROWD of DRAMATIC ROGUES who ply THE river for ROMANCE and < ADVENTURE-and WHO don't mind BREAKING hearts as they go. IN addition to its three big stars; YOU'LL see such FAMED BROADWAY PLAYERS as/ PHILIP MERIVALE, BLANCHE, YURKA, EDITH BARRETT, LEONID KINSKY, and MANY others. "LADY FOR A NIGHT' IS a picture for the years. It's A REPUBLIC PICTURE