Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1945)

6 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, September 11, 1945 New Screen Journal To Appear Oct. 1 Hollywood, Sept. 10. — The first issue of the Hollyzvood Quarterly, sponsored jointly by the University of California and the Hollywood Writers Mobilization, will be published on Oct. 1, Emmet Lavery, chairman, announced yesterday. The journal will deal with the creative and technical problems of the screen, radio and television. It is non-commercial. Articles scheduled for the first issue will include one by Morris Cohn, attorney, and Lester Cole, screen writer, contrasting the rights of authorship in Europe and Hollywood ; "Men in Battle," an analysis of war films by Dudley Nichols ; one by Alexander Knox on the problems of portraying Woodrow Wilson on the screen. William Dieterle and Irving Pichel will consider some screen problems, and Robert Nathan will discuss the transfer of a novel to the screen. In addition, Dr. Franklin Fearing, professor of psychology at University of California, will write on normal and neurotic outlooks among returning service men, and there will be articles on the testing of radio audiences, on radio music and reviews of notable radio scripts. Plans Park Ave. House Walter Reade, independent circuit owner, has purchased the Anderson Art Galleries building at Park Avenue and 59th Street, here, which he plans to convert into a 700-seat motion picture house. Central Savings Bank was the seller. Price is reported to be in the neighborhood of $600,000 and Reade intends to spend an additional $600,000. Review 'Love, Honor and Goodbye" (Republic) REPUBLIC has an engaging romantic farce, fortified with two substantial marquee names, Virginia Bruce and Victor McLaglen. Co-starring with Miss Bruce is British newcomer Edward Ashley, who has plenty of what it takes for setting feminine hearts aflutter. Rounding out the cast are Nils Asther, Helen Broderick, Veda Ann Borg, five-year-old Jacqueline Moore, and others, all of whom function excellently. It was this all-around good cast, plus Albert S. Rogell's able direction which converted a thread-bare plot into a delightfully entertaining production. The story, in a background of ultra modern settings, concerns the mixups of a married couple, the Baxters, charmingly portrayed by Miss Bruce and Ashley. He is a wealthy lawyer ; she aspires to be an actress. He knows she can't act and, in order that she may learn the truth, he backs a play in which she stars and which fails on its opening night. Mrs. Baxter is then satisfied to forego an acting career. But her erstwhile leading man, a role nicely 'hammed' by Nils Asther, reveals to her that her husband was responsible for closing down the play. Angered, she leaves Ashley but later, suspecting him of infidelity, returns to her household to get 'evidence' disguised as a French governess to take care of little Miss Moore whom Ashley has given a home, and who she thinks is really Ashley's child. On to her ruse from the start, he plays along with her until finally the resultant comic situation rights itself and the couple are happily rejoined. Whenever comedy threatens to falter, McLaglen, as a slow-witted tatoo artist, is injected into the proceedings for laughs. The screenplay, by Arthur Phillips, Lee Loeb and Dick Irving Hyland, is from an original by director Rogell and Art Arthur. Harry Grey was associate producer. Running time, 87 minutes. General classification. Release date, Sept. IS. Charles L. Franke Indians Touring to Buy New Equipment Chicago, Sept. 6. — R. K. Shorey, producer-director of Shorey Pictures in India and a member of the Northern India Film Producers Association, heads a delegation of film industrialists from India visiting local theatre equipment manufacturers. The delegation is touring the country to obtain equipment for needed replacements in India. * BIGGEST BRIDGE IS SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND BRIDGE * BIGGEST MOTION PICTURE EVER PRODUCED... * Petitions Challenged In Sunday Films Row Harrisbueg, Pa., Sept. 10. — Charging that some names on petitions collected by Harrisburg theatres requesting the placing of the question of Sunday theatre operations on the November ballot are not bona fide, local Sunday School classes have taken it upon themselves to check on the legality of all signers. Theatre managers here are annoyed at the procedure, feeling they carried out their part of the program in good faith. Each house had stationed a signature-taker in the lobby, whose duty it was to see that all signers were legal voters in the city. Meanwhile, opposition to the plan to legalize Sunday films is growing, with the latest attack coming from Bishop George Leo Leech. Rud Lohrenz Holds Midwest UA Meeting Chicago, Sept. 10. — Rud Lohrenz, Midwest district manager for United Artists, held a regional meeting at the Blackstone Hotel, here, at the weekend in the interest of the current Grad Sears drive. In attendance were the following branch managers : Sid Rose, Chicago ; R. E. Allen, Milwaukee ; Ralph Cramblet, Minneapolis ; Elmer Donnelly, Indianapolis ; William E. Truog, Kansas City ; B. J. McCarthy, St. Louis, and D. V. McLucas, Omaha. Legion Honors DeMille Cecil B DeMille will receive from Wall Street Post 1217 of the American Legion its 1945 gold Americanism Medal, "for his courage, sacrifice and non-temporizing struggle for the liberties of all." Feist Sets His Second Felix Feist, turned independent producer, plans a musical comedy based on "Hadrian's Wall," which he wrote. It will be filmed in color. His first will be "One of Ten," a psychological murder mystery by Aleen Leslie. Production Is Steady, with 48 on Stages Hollywood, Sept. 10. — Production maintained a shooting level of 48 features for the third consecutive week, with studios finishing eight and starting eight others ; the production scene follows : Columbia Finished': "Phantom of the Desert,' "Hit the Hay." Started: "Gilda," with Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready Joseph Calleia. Shooting: "Life With Blondie,' "Song of Broadway," "Tars and Spars," "Hail the Chief." M-G-M (j Shooting: "Holiday in Mexico,' "The Green Years," "Up Goes Maisie," "The Yearling," "What Next Corporal Hargrove," "Boys' Ranch,' "Bad Bascomb," "The Hoodlun Saint," "Two Sisters from Boston,' "The Postman Always Rings Twice, "This Strange Adventure." Monogram Started: "Charlie Chan in Mexico, with Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland Benson Fong ; "Cherokee Trail," wit! Jimmy Wakely, Lee (Lasses) White John James. .Shooting: "Black Market Babies. Paramount Finished: "Hot Cargo." Shooting: "Blue Skies," "The Brid Wore Boots," "To Each His Own." PRC Finished: "Strangler of the Swamp.' Started: "Buster Crabbe No. 1,' with Buster Crabbe, Al St. John. Republic Finished: "Dakota." Started: "Sun Valley Cyclone," witl Wild Bill Elliott, Little Beaver, Alia Fleming. Shooting: "Murder in the Music Hall," "Along the Navajo Trail,' "Concerto." RKO Radio Started: "Bamboo Blonde," witl Frances Langford, Russell Wade, lis Adrian. Shooting: "All Brides Are Beautiful," "Some Must Watch," "The Kid From Brooklyn" (Goldwyn), "Heart beat (Hakim-Wood), "Tarzan and the Leopard Man" (Lesser). 20th Century-Fox Started: "Centennial Summer," with Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Constance Bennett, Linda Darnell, William Eythe, Dorothy Gish, Barbara Whiting. Shooting: "Sentimental Journey," "Doll Face," "Smoky." United Artists Finished: "Diary of a Chamber-: maid" (Bogeaus). Shooting: "Tom Breneman's Breakfast in Hollywood" (Golden). Universal Finished: "Gun Town," "The Fugitive." Shooting: "Canyon Passage," "Because of Him," "The Daltons Ride Again," "Scarlet Street." Warners Started: "The Verdict," with Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan' Lorring, Paul Cavanagh. Shooting: "Never Say Goodbye", "The Man I Love," "Confidential Agent," "Her Kind of Man."