Motion Picture Herald (Apr-Jun 1931)

May 2 3, 1 9 3 1 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 39 THE $H€CT rEATLCE EDUCATIONAL FILMS 31 ON OWN LOT NEWS PICILCCS FOX MOVIETONE NEWS— No. 67— King George sends new viceroy to rule India — Schwab sponsors kid calf club— Record crowd sees $50,000 Preakness — German girls display clothing fashions — New York police nab killer after two hour battle. FOX MOVIETONE NEWS— No. 68.— United States army airmen meet for big show in Texas — Mysteries of deep revealed by Movietone — Austria honors war dead — Meet Red Cross poster girl — Rome horse show attracts notables — Australian horses have high aims— Berlin youngsters study building. HEARST METROTONE NEWS— No. 266— Huge waves smash Pacific liner— Foreign Legion has 100th birthday— Stork pays a visit to the zoo— Lady Conan Doyle gets a message from beyond— Metrotone pictures future traffic conditions — ^Jumping horses put on a show — Some diving hints for summer girls — Airmen mobilize for record flight in Texas. HEARST METROTONE NEWS— No. 267— Daredevil jumper invents a new one — Thuringia, Germany, buglers give a concert — Uncle Sam tests his sea power — Spain's boy scouts hail new repubUc — Japanese workers cling to the old — All Paris honors Joan of Arc — Great crowd sees Kentucky Derby. PARAMOUNT SOUND NEWS— No. 84— Church children gather in Washington "military mass" — Berlin rocket car driven by powerful jet of oxygen — France holds great colonial exposition — Animal imitator demonstrates unusual vocabulary in New York — Navy tests strength in Pacific "war game" — 60,000 see Kentucky Derby of 1931. PATHE NEWS— No. 43— Ancient Egypt hails Graf Zeppelin on first trip to Cairo — France elects Doumer president — Stribling set for championship bout — Papa Emu at New York zoo has to mind eggs — Oldest convict ship on jail reform tour — New York chorus girls exercise atop building — Ex-Crown Prince of Germany sees Rome's horse show — Zulu warriors dance in stirring farewell to Earl of Athlone. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEU-No. 40— Italy-United States boxers break even in New York bouts — Bike racing ended as fire destroys famous Berlin velodrome — Finest dogs in 17th annual kennel club show — News paragraphs — Water pageant celebrates annual fete day in Manila, P. I. — Royalty applauds horsemen in Rome meet. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEI No. 41— Police avert riot as Gandhi arrives for national congress — Clark walks away with title in marathon grind — Retiring French president opens $16,000,000 colonial exposition — News Paragraphs — Hebrew actors give deaf-and-dumb play for mute audience— Twenty-Grand wins Kentuckyl Derby. Roach Lot Active With 40 Planned 26 Sennetts Are In Three Series The Hal Roach studio on the Coast is back at work, with Laurel and Hardy leading off with their first for 1931-32, "Come Clean," under direction of James W. Horne. Charles Chase starts this week on "The Panic Is On," with Virginia Whiting as feminine lead. James Parrott is director. Roach plans a schedule this year of 40 comedies for M-G-M release. Eight each will come from Pitts-Todd, Laurel-Hardy, Charley Chase, Our Gang and the Boy Friends units. The program of 26 two-reel comedies which Mack Sennett will make for Educational release next season will include eight Andy Clyde starring comedies, six Mack Sennett Eeaturettes and 12 standard Sennetts. Sennett plans to continue his policy of signing important comedians for individual pictures. Such players as Patsy O'Leary and Harry Gribbon will be featured in the 12 Sennetts. Tilden Sees Value of Slow Motion In Teaching Tennis William T. Tilden, H, who has completed his series of three shorts on tennis for MGM, said in New York that the slow motion picture is of great value in teaching the fundamentals of the game. Commenting further, he said, "The motion pictures ought to help beginners everywhere to benefit from what experts have learned." Seventy-Fifth Newspaper to "U" Fred McConnell, short product sales manager for Universal, announces that the Spartanburg ( S. C.) Journal has been added to the list of newspapers in the Universal newspaper newsreel lineup. This makes the 75th in the list of sponsors for the McNamee reel. Vitaphone Finishes 4 Shorts; Mack, Director, Visits Europe Roy Mack, director of shorts at the Warner Vitaphone studio in Brooklyn, sailed for Europe last week. Recently ' completed shorts include "The Naggers at the Races," "The Gigolo Racket," with Helen Morgan ; "The Silent Partner," with Billy Gaxton ; "Rough Sailing" with Joe Penner. Sam Sax, studio production head, is testing players for the Booth Tarkington series, while the studio is undergoing alterations. The comedy "The Bigger They Are," featuring Primo Camera, boxer, is ready for showing prior to the fighter's coming bout. French to Direct Savo Lloyd French has been selected to direct Jimmy Savo, comic pantomimist, in "The House Dick," his first comedy film, at the Hollywood Radio studio. Thirteen of This Number Will Be One-Reelers to Be Made in Sound Thirty-one comedies on Educational's 1931-32 li;neup will be produced at the Educational Studios, according to E. W. Hammons. Included will be 13 one-reelers, reviving the band. Cameo Comedies, the new series to follow in style the Cameos of the silent days. The new series, however, will be made with sound. "They will be rough and tumble comedies," according to the company, "built for big laughs, with fast action and slapstick the keynote, "Six Ideal Comedies, similar to the Ideal series released this season are also planned. On the strength of the popularity of the three comedies made this season, based on the experiences of 'three Hollywood girls,' there will be included in this series one or more comedies on the Hollywood girl theme. There is also being lined up for this series a player list that will include names of genuine box office importance. "The Mermaid Comedies, Education's oldest series, will have six next season, and will again be characterized as fast action comedy. "The Torchies, featuring Ray Cooke, already announced, will also be produced at the Educational Studios, by C. C. Burr. "William Goodrich, responsible for a number of the comedy successes at the Educational Studios during the current season, will be principal director at these studios next season, while Ernest Pagano and Jack Townley, Educational writers, have been re-signed for next season. "E. H. Allen continues at the helm as general manager of Educational Studios." Mascot Signs Carey, Booth Harry Carey and Edwina Booth have been signed by Mascot for leads in "The Vanishing Legion," new serial. B. Reaves Eason will direct. A solution to the DOUBLE FEATURE BILL A full length drama and a MICKEY MOUSE That will satisfy the most greedy audiences. Try it and see, says WALT DISNEY