The New York State Exhibitor (1933)

THE NEW YORK STATE EXHIBITOR Aug25'33 57 U-A SET FOR GALA SEASON Several Features Completed, Many at Work as Industry Awaits Banner Line-up from Company With several features already completed, several more in active production and others about to go before the cameras and microphones, United Artists is launched on the most active and ambitious schedule in the history of the company. Chaplin Completes Story of New Release Silent As Usual on What Topic Will be _ Charles Chaplin has completed the story for a new picture which will go into production shortly, and is expected ready for release by the end of this year. The story, written by Chaplin himself, takes place in the industrial center of a big city, and will, of course, be one of the most important United Artists releases. Charlie will portray his usual characteriza¬ tion of the amusing little vagabond with the battered derby, slouchy clothes, trick mustache and bamboo cane. Paulette Goddard will be his leading lady. As on all his previous pic¬ tures, Chaplin will not only be the author of the story, but will direct and write the music. Syd Chaplin, Too Arthur W. Kelly, vice-president in charge of foreign distribution for United Artists, announces that Joseph M. Schenck, president and chairman of the board of United Artists, and Charles Chaplin will distribute Sydney Chaplin’s first talking picture throughout the world. New pictures are coming from Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, 20th Century, the new organization headed by Joseph M. Schenck and Darryl Francis Zanuck, will have a minimum of twelve; Samuel Goldwyn will contribute five; Reliance, the Edward Small unit, will make four ; there will be sev¬ eral from independent producers, such as John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran, who have fin¬ ished “Emperor Jones”; British and Dominions will contribute a quota including Noel Coward’s “Bitter Sweet” and "The Private Life of Henry VIII,” and there will be 13 Silly Symphonies and 13 Mickey Mouse short features from Walt Disney. Pictures already completed are “Bitter Sweet,” “Private Life of Henry VIII,” star¬ ring Charles Laughton; “Emperor Jones,” starring Paul Robeson, and “The Bowery,” first 20th Century production with a cast including Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray, and Pert Kelton. Raoul Walsh directed this colorful story of the time of Chuck Connors and Steve Brodie, played by Beery and Raft, respectively. Samuel Goldwyn’s “The Masquerader,” star¬ ring Ronald Colman, with Elissa Landi in the feminine lead, is also completed. Goldwyn has two others in active production, “Roman Scandals,” a new Eddie Cantor musical with Ruth Etting and 100 Goldwyn Girls, and “Nana,” first Anna Sten starring vehicle, to be followed by "Barbary Coast,” based on Herbert Asbury’s vivid novel of the San Francisco tenderloin. Goldwyn, as his fifth production, will offer an epic of American family life after the fashion of "Cavalcade.” The 20th Century lot is humming with activitiy as shooting proceeds on the Walter Winchell story, “Zorro Rides Again” News from Douglas Fairbanks! The Gay Musketeer will soon be back in his beloved Hollywood to start a new picture. Tentatively, the title for the new Fairbanks swash-buckling romance is “Zorro Rides Again. ” In “Zorro Rides Again/' Doug in¬ tends to snap up the talkie tempo with fast action, a minimum of dialogue and a maximum of picture. Music and color will play a dominant role in the production. ‘‘Broadway Thru a Keyhole” and “Blood Money,” in which George Bancroft is starring. The Winchell yarn i LTnited Artists release, and a super comedy will come from Sydney Chaplin. Another picture to be made in England for the United Artists schedule will be a { has a cast headed by Constance Cummings, Paul Kelly, ■ Russ Columbo, Texas Guinan and a long list of other stage and screen celebrities and is being directed by Lowell Sherman. Judith Anderson will make her screen debut in “Blood Money,” and the cast of this melodrama ex¬ posing the bail bond racket also includes Frances Dee and Chick Chandler. Two of the most important pictures on the 20th [ Century list are “Red Tape” and “The House of Rothschild,” both of which will star George Arliss, 1 famous stage and screen actor, now under exclusive i* contract to Schenck and Zanuck. Constance Bennett will make two films for 20th 1 Century, the first of which “Moulin Rouge,” based on a French play, is expected to soon go into produc : tion. It will be a musical extravaganza, with a sup¬ porting cast including Tullio Carminati, late of “Music in the Air.” The Ann Harding feature on the 20th i| C entury list will be “Gallant Lady,” with Clive Brook, Janet Beecher, Tullio Carminati and Veree Teasdale, to be directed by Gregory La Cava. Spencer Tracy and Jack Oakie will star in “Trouble Shooter,” first picture to deal with the telephone line¬ men and their trials and tribulations in keeping the wires clear, and other 20th Century films will be “Miss Lonelyhearts,” based on the experiences of an advice , -to-the-lovelorn columnist, adapted by Leonard Praskins 1 from the sensational best-selling novel by Nathanael West; “Born to Be Bad,” an original story by Ralph Graves, who has also sold “The Fair” to Zanuck; “I Knew Her When,” to be directed by Gregory La ( Cava from a story by Willard Robertson; “P. T. i Barnum,” based on the life of the famous showman, to star Wallace Beery, and “Gentlemen, the King!” an original story by Damon Runyon. The Reliance Company, makers of “I Cover the Waterfront,” will contribute “Toe Palooka,” based on the Ham Fisher comic character, with Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez and Stuart Erwin; “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “The Shanghai Gesture” and “Style.” Alexander Korda will make two gigantic specials for talking version of “Sorrel and Son.” Harry Gold is assistant general manager of United Artists; Harry D. of the Buckley, Joseph H. Moskowitz and Arthur Kelly are ail vice-presidents company. All Executives of United Artists