Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)

I 42 MOTION PICTURE HERALD May 16, 193 THE $H€CT TEATLCE Illl|i|| Roach Denies Use Of Paid Advertising Denial that paid advertising had appeared in one of his shorts was made by Hal Roach, whose Our Gang, Charley Chase, Laurel-Hardy and Boy Friends comedies are released through M-G-M. Suggestion had been made that scenes showing the use of a well-known insecticide and a popular soap came under the category of commercial advertising. "I have never accepted one cent from any advertising company for any advertising that every appeared in a Hal Roach comedy," said Roach. "I can promise every exhibitor that we will never accept any money for advertising until the theatre has first been informed of that fact and is asked to run the picture knowing that it is paid advertising." Talking Picture Epics Will Offer 6 Features, I 2 Shorts Talking Picture Epics will release "Alonsters of the Deep" as the first of six films on the 1931-32 schedule. It was produced by Natural Productions and photographed by Jack Draper. The second will be "Mexico Today," with four to be selected. There will be 12 shorts on the season's program. Tony Lucchese in Town Tony Lucchese, of Gold Medal Film, Washington and Philadelphia, is in New York consulting with Thomas McConnell, general sales manager of Mascot Pictures. Lucchese is distributing Mascot's four serials in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Vitaphone Completes Two The Warner \"itaphone studio has just completed "Opportunity Night," short, featuring Al Klein, Frank Leslie and Genevieve Bowman. Roy Mack directed. Ann Codec and Frank Orth have completed "Our Wife," and are touring RKO vaudeville. Ripley Cameraman Returns Edward Selzer, Warner staff cameraman, has returned from a "Believe It or Not" tour with Robert L. Ripley. Ripley is due in about two weeks. "Bugs" Baer's Wit on Screen Hollywood — Slang of Arthur "Bugs" Baer, humorist, will be part of the James Gleason series of two-reel RKO Pathe comedies. Radio Signs Von Elm, Golfer Hollywood — Radio has signed George Von Elm, golf star, for a two-reel film on the game. NEWS PICTURES FOX MOVIETONE NEWS— No. 65— King Prajadhipok in talker debut — Tallest building officially opened — Chicago turf fans get a thrill — Warbirds spread their wings in California — Circus visit cheers maimed veterans in Washington hospital — Fair sex prepares for the summer. FOX MOVIETONE NEWS— No. 66— British princes end long trip — Movietone rides Hawaiian waves — Gay week-enders take to sea — British financier urges cooperation — Japanese youngsters turn city boosters— Holland's queen opens new port. HEARST METROTONE NEWS— No. 264— Spatiish president halts new revolt — United States pilgrims sail to visit war dead — Blazing oil well runs wild in Texas — British princes end long trip — Metrotone films mightiest falls — Hawaiian troops go on parade — Wild west season gets a wild start in California — Japan celebrates Buddha's birthday — Uncle Sam drops some pineapples. HEARST METROTONE NEWS— No. 26&— Gridiron star wins outboard classic in New York — Meet real Mexican fire eaters — German radicals hail May Day Italian fishermen find real sport — Mexican steppers show dancing feet — Greatest dirigible near completion — Famous Preakness in Maryland thrills big crowd. PARAMOUNT SOUND NEWS— No. 81— Speed kings clash in r.ondi)n--125 Gold Star mothers on first 1931 pilgrimage to graves of war dead— Belgians celebrate S6th birthday of King Albert— William Green, president of A. F. of L., scores child labor — .\rniy in California sky war — Monkeys acquire sar torial fixings for summer. PARAMOUNT SOUND NEWS— No. 82— Boy ami phibians race in England — Two presidents' wive: greet women at New York gathering — Jack Sharke; in training for Camera bout — Country's police ii war against crime— 40,000 see Maryland Preakness— Spain hails president. PATHE NEWS— No. 41— Army's biggest bombers h: mark on ocean range — Milling thousands in Bombaj mob Ganhi on farewell tour— Roger W. Babson oi United States business outlook — President Roosevelt' widow pleads for maternity care — Dixie belles shcn Georgia's prize roses — New York society stage dazzling fete for charity. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEl^No. 3^ Francis Crowley, slayer, caught in New' York afte gun battle with police — Daring artisans finishin. work for French colonial expositoin — Riding thrill mark opening of annual hill and dale chase in Penn sylvania — News Paragraphs — Mussolini initiate 10.000 boy Fascists — Defy elements in constructini Niagara Falls foot bridge— New French train marvt breaks rail record with 78 mile soeed. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL— No. 39Football star sets outboard mark in Hudson — Den ver merchants help jobless by having stores painte< —Thousands see New York police parade — New: paragraphs — Elaborate pageant ushers in Californi; raisin festival — New Jersey financier pays child de positors money lost in bank failure— 5,000 destituti as flames sweep Manila, P. I. Vitaphone Plant Being Repaired The Warner Vitaphone studio in Brooklyn is temporarily closed for alterations and repairs following the completion of this season's shorts production. New production schedule goes into work on June 6. Vitaphone staff writers will be at work during the closed period on stories for the coming season, while Sam Sax, production head, and Murray Roth, studio director, will supervise and line up talent. The 1931-32 short suljjects concentrate on series for the most part, the groups including several new numbers, among them Ted Husing "Sportslants," E. M. Newman "Travel Talks." Booth Tarkington stories. Pepper Pot novelties, S. S. Van Dine detective mysteries, Broadway Brevities, Big Star comedies. Welshay Crew to Film World Spots Robert E. Welsh, production head o) Welshay Pictures, Inc., is planning to sent a production unit around the world tc: gather scenes for the new "Color Magazine of the Screen" series. The series will differ from the usual;: travelogue because the pictures will be onereelers and will show unique spots in na-; tural colors. Duke Green, who shot the technicolor scenes for the M-G-M "Mysterious Island," will head the unit. The first stop will be Hawaii and it will go from there to the South Sea islands. China. Japan and the Far East. Hagen, Kirkwood, VonElm and Smi+h in Paramount Shorts Beginning this week. Paramount Pictorial, in three issues, will release golf shorts featuring Joe Kirkwood, Walker Hagen, Horton Smith and George Von Elm. Kirkwood appears in the first, followed a month later by Hagen. In the third Smith and Von Elm illustrate grips and shots. In each number Paramount players will appear with the golfers. Summerviile Will Make Series Of Shorts As Marine Officer Universal will produce a new group of short-reel films with Slim Summerviile in the guise of a plaj'ful Marine. Ten comedies \vill be produced. The first, "First to Fight," is now in production at the San Diego Marine base. Eddie Gribbon also dons the Marine's uniform with him in the new pictures, and Eleanor Hunt has been signed to play the "feminine menace." Harry Edwards is directing and Edward Kaufman supervisor. Clifton, Whitman on "Vagabonds" Hollywood — Elmer Clifton is dubbingdialogue for the RKO Pathe Adventure series, formerly "Vagabond." Gayne Whitman replaces Tom Terris, originator of the group. Hurley to Direct Floyd Gibbons Amedee J. Van Beuren has signed Arthur Hurley to direct Floyd Gibbons in his series of "Floyd Gibbons' Supreme Thrills," which will be placed in immediate production. Hurley has been directing V^itaphone shorts for the past two years.