Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1944)

RKO Schedules More Than 50 Next Season (Continued from preceding page) nis Day and Phillip Terry, musical produced and directed by John Auer. My Pal Wolf, drama, with seven-year-old Sharyn Moffett. Produced by Adrian Scott, directed by Alfred Werker. Pan-Americana, musical, produced and directed by John Auer, 21 Latin-American beauties, one from each country. The Princess and the Pirate, Samuel Goldwyn production in Technicolor, comedy starring Bob Hope. Produced by Samuel Goldwyn ; directed by David Butler. Situation Out of Hand, story of a Texas family, with Ginger Rogers. Produced by David Hempstead. The Spanish Main, in Technicolor, romantic adventure, with Paul Henreid and Maureen O'Hara. Produced by Robert Fellows. Tarzan and the Amazons, produced by Sol Lesser, with Johnny Weismuller. The Three Caballeros, Walt Disney LatinAmerican musical feature in Technicolor, with live action and animation. The Wonder Man, Samuel Goldwyn production, starring Danny Kaye. Produced in Technicolor by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Bruce Hamberstone. BOOKS Betrayal from the East, based on Peter Hynd's non-fiction book, with Lee Tracy. Produced by Herman Schlom. The Body Snatchers, from the book by Robert Louis Stevenson, one of two "horror" melodramas starring Boris Karloff, to be produced by Val Lewton. Deadline at Dawn, suspense-and-action romance based on William Irish's novel. Produced by Adrian Scott. Directed by Harold Clurman. Experiment Perilous, co-starring Hedy Lamarr, George Brent and Paul Lukas, based on Margaret Carpenter's mystery. Produced by Jack Gross and directed by Ray Enright. Farewell, My Lovely, from the murder mystery novel by Raymond Chandler, with Dick Powell. Produced by Adrian Scott, directed by Edward Dmytryk. Having Wonderful Crime, from Craig Rice's best selling mystery, co-stars Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis. Produced by Robert Fellows; directed by A. Edward Sutherland. Hotel Reserve, featuring James Mason and Lusille Mannheim, based on an Eric Ambler mystery melodrama. Produced at the Denham Studios in England by Victor Hanbury ; directed by Lance Comfort and Max Greene. Johnny Angel, based on the Liberty Magazine serial and book, "Mr. Angel Comes Aboard," by Charles Gordon Booth, stars George Raft. Produced by Jack Gross. Directed by Ray Enright. Paulette Goddard Starred Lady Not Alone, with Paulette Goddard. Based on the Good Housekeeping story and novel by Katharine Brush. Produced by Jack Gross. Made in Heaven, comedy, starring Jean Arthur and produced by Frank Ross. Based on Muriel Roy Bolton's novel. Mademoiselle Fifi, based on the patriotic stories of Guy de Maupassant, with Simone Simon. Produced by Val Lewton, directed by Robert Wise. Nevada, first of two Zane Grey westerns starring Bob Mitchum. Produced by Herman Schlom ; directed by Eddie Killy. None But the Lonely Heart, starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore, based on the book by Richard Llewellyn. Produced by David Hempstead; directed by Clifford Odets. The Robe, based on the book by Lloyd C. Douglas. A Frank Ross production in Technicolor. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Tall in the Saddle, starring John Wayne, based on Gordon Ray Young's Saturday Evening Post story. Produced by Robert Fellows; directed by Edwin L. Marin. Mr. Fellows will produce another picture starring John Wayne. The Woman in the Window, International Pictures, from the novel by J. H. Wallis. A Nunnally Johnson production starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett. Directed by Fritz Lang. PLAYS The Enchanted Cottage, co-starring Dorothy McGuire and Alan Marshal, version of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play. Produced by Harriet Parsons, directed by John Cromwell. Portrait of a Lady, starring Rosalind Russell, based on the play by Alexander King and Chester Erskin. Produced by Robert Fellows. NEWSPAPER CARTOON Meet Dick Tracy, first of two Dick Tracy features, from Chester Gould's cartoon strip and radio serial. MAGAZINE STORY Meet Ding Dong Williams, featuring Marcy McGuire and Glenn Vernon, first of series, based on the Collier's Weekly stories by Richard English. Hollywood WAC 6-Month Report A six-month report On the activities of the Hollywood division of the War Activities Committee was issued by John C. Flinn, coordinator of the division, last Friday. For the period, 25 films were produced, ranging from trailers of 125 feet to two-reel productions of approximately 1,800 feet. Ten major and independent studios participated in this program. In addition, the studios turned out a number of onereel subjects, newsreel bulletins and trailers for the domestic film branch of the Office of War Information. During the six months, 148,602 prints were produced by Hollywood laboratories. There were more than 300,000 bookings in 16,000 U. S. theatres pledged to the WAC. Mr. Flinn also reported that more than 10,000,000 feet of film were used for screen messages in connection with the Fourth and Fifth War Loan and Red Cross drives. Brooks Appointed to MGM Public Relations Unit Expansion of the Loew's-MGM public relations department, headed by Henderson M. Richey, has begun with the appointment of Walter Brooks as assistant to Mr. Richey. The decision to expand was announced recently by William F. Rodgers, vice-president in charge of distribution, and followed the results obtained by the department in furthering MGM's 20th anniversary last month. Mr. Brooks formerly operated theatres in New York and Pennsylvania and has been consultant to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs on educational film practice. Three Canadian Releases Set by Warner Bros. Following "The Adventures of Mark Twain," which went into general release July 22, Warner Bros. has set three features for August distribution in Canada, Wolfe Cohen, general manager for the Dominion, has announced. Scheduled for the coming month are : "Mr. Skeffington," August 12; "Crime By Night," August 19, and "The Last Ride," Aguust 26. Irene Kuhn GOP Publicist Irene C. Kuhn, assistant director of information of National Broadcasting Company, has taken a leave of absence to become associate director of publicity for the Republican Presidential campaign. Mrs. Kuhn, with NBC for four years, was formerly engaged in newspaper work for 15 years in this country, the Far East and Europe. MGM to Offer Individual Termq To Subsequents MGM is offering special reissues for locali ; needing product ; it is offering subsequent exhibitors, where "conditions warrant," a ch<; of booking MGM on preferred playing time not ; its sales policies will continue to be "ba on the individual analysis of each individual sit tion." William F. Rodgers, MGM general s;j manager, vice-president in charge of distribute announced these policies to some 500 exhibitors a luncheon Thursday, in the Hotel Astor, M York, at which Mr. Rodgers, and other M( officials were hosts. For subsequent runs, in emergency situati< Mr. Rodgers added, his company will "so far our next group is concerned, and beyond thai the response warrants," offer pictures sold I group "on a basis whereby those who desire lease our pictures in the top brackets on a rental basis." He warned, however, that MGM was "motival by a sincere desire to cooperate with our c I tomers who do not enjoy the abnormal busir I that exists in other situations . . . but in doing I there is no implication that we are abandoning 1 percentage objectives in the future." Mr. Rodgers also said MGM expected g<1 business to continue after hostilities cease ; ; 1 he asked that all film industry branches defenc I in public, make it attractive in product and 1 service to communities. He asserted adherence | this policy would maintain increased patrona ] and enable the industry to hold its own agai I any competition. In addition to Mr. Rodgers the following atte 1 ed from MGM: Edward M. Saunders, Howl Dietz, Silas F. Seadler, William R. Fergus I Henderson M. Richey, Harold Postman, E. J Aaron, John J. Bowen, Ralph Pielow, and BjI jamin Abner. The luncheon was in line with I'j Rodgers' plan to hold as many get-togethjl throughout the country as possible to give thea'j owners a first-hand picture of MGM's plans I the future. Bar Children from Theatres In Paralysis Epidemic Children under 14 in Louisville, Ky., are : permitted to attend theatres because of an infanj paralysis epidemic. In Concord, N. H., attendail of children in theatres has declined as a result! five cases of infantile paralysis, which prompt health authorities to warn parents to keep youi" sters out of crowds. The health authorities at Madison, Ind., m Cincinnati, consider that the polio epidemic tb has subsided sufficiently to permit lifting the 1 prohibiting children under 16 from attend: theaters. A. H. Kaufman's Son Killed Private Herbert Kaufman died June 7 as 1 result of wounds received in Normandy June D-Day, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Kaufm owners of the Fountain theatre, Terre Haute, Ii were informed by the War Department last we I Private Kaufman was a graduate of Millersbil Military Institute, and attended Indiana Univi sity before enlisting in December, 1942. "Winkle" Opens in New York Columbia's "Mr. Winkle Goes to War," starri Edward G. Robinson, will have its New Yc premiere at Loew's Criterion theatre August The film, based on Theodore Pratt's novel of 1 same name, was directed by Alfred E. Green. Buys 48th Street Theatre The 48th Street theatre, New York, forme: the President, has been acquired by Moe Goldm; owner of the 55th Street Playhouse. The 4i Street will open about Labor Day under the nai of the Piccadilly theatre, exhibiting British filr 34 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, JULY 29, 19