Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

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S no VV M I'. N ' S 1M< A I ) K l'. \' I l'". VV Page 27 HCLLyWOCt) with the "Oldtimer" We've seen previews and previews, but you will have to fro a lonji way to "lop" 20tli Century-Fox's, "Story of Alexander Graham Bell" at Treasure Island. That old saying ■"the best to date", goes for the entire atl'air, doubled and re-doubled in spades . . . and *'the best to date" for Don Anieche, Loretta Young and Director Irving Ciimniings. Thanks, Harry Brand, for everything. NEWS ITEM: Paramount stars are the first in Hollywood to have niu'sic with their meals. Wonder how the boys with the "hand-waving" complex will keep time ... to say nothing of the musical soup guzzlers. It's one swell chance of getting Crosby with your hash. Leave it to Hollywood to surpass the magnitude and grandeur of both the Grand Canyon and the Royal Gorge in a single movie. America's two greatest subways, owned by Martha Raye and Joe E. Brown, will be seen in the same picture. Nail down the "props" boys, or else. The "Dead End Kids" will be starred by Warner Bros, in a college picture with a football team as a vital part of the picture. We know a dozen lads around Hollywood who would pay a lot of "dough" to be on the other team for about ten minutes. Here's the kind of news we like to hear. Jack Mulhall, oldtime star of the silent screen, has been signed to an acting contract at MGM. Jack's first assignment is in "6,000 Enemies" with Walter Pidgeon and Rita Johnson. Just show them what an "oldtimer" can do. Jack. Gentlemen, we give you the world's greatest commuters. Charles Einfeld of Warner Bros., Robert Gillham of Paramount and Lynn Farnol of United Artists. Everytime you look around, they are either on their way to New York or just leaving to go some other place. Some fun, hey boys! Looks Like It's Okay Basil Rathbone (seated), Virginia Field and John Burton take time off to go over the script of Universal' s "The Sun Never Sets." Monogram Will Issue 250 Prints on New Jackie Cooper Starrer More lliati 2.S0 prints will be issued immediately by Monogram on "Streets of New York", starring Jackie Cooper with Martin Spellman, it was announced this week by W. Ray Johnston, in-esident of the company. Monogram salesmen in the New Y^ork and Chicago zones saw the picture and have voted it the best production to be released in a long time. George Weeks presided at the Chicago session and Edward Golden at the New York showing. Other district sales meetings devoted entirely to sales plans on the picture will be held as soon as additional prints can be shipped. Small Announces Six Top-Budget Pictures for 1939-40 Program With the best selling novel, "My Son, My Son", set to lead off the program, Edward Small has announced a list of six topbudget pictures for release by United Artists during the 1939-40 season. Small paid $50,000 for the privilege of making the Spring book into a picture and is scheduled to spend one million dollars on the production. The five other pictures to be produced by Small were announced as follows: "South of Pago-Pago", "Food for the Gods", "The Life of Rudolph Valentino", "Two Years Before the Mast", "Quantrill, the Raider". At the present time. Small is filming "The Man in the Iron Mask'", and immediately upon completion will close his 1938-39 schedule with "Kit Carson, Avenger". Ex-C-Man, Turrou, to Tour With "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" Leon G. Turrou, former G-man who broke the Nazi spy ring in America and came to Hollywood to serve as technical adviser on "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" at Warner Bros., will make a series of personal appearances in conjunction with the showing of the picture. Turrou is expected in New York, where he will make his first stop at the world premiere of the picture, at the Strand Theatre. The former G-man is very popular as a speaker and already has addressed 40,000 hearers at luncheons, meetings and club affairs, in addition to making radio broadcasts on the subject of Nazi espionage. Number Fourteen of jones Family Series Will Start in Two Weeks Number fourteen of 20th Century-Fox's popular series of Jones Family movies, will find them in the picturesque setting of the Grand Canyon, in two weeks, under the supervision of Associate Producer Jo'hn Stone. Malcolm St. Clair, who has directed five previous Jones films, will again handle the megaphone on the story which is being whipped into shape by Joseph Hoffman. Outside of the regular clan, Jed "Dad" Prouty, Spring "Mother" Bjangton, Florence "Granny" Roberts, George "Roger" Ernest, June "Lucy" Carlson, Ken "Jack" Howell and Billy "Bobby" Mahan, no other castings have been made as j^et. Hawks Winds Up With Thriller A flaming tri-motored plane, forced into a tailspin, pulled out after making 22 complete spirals. This was the spectacular and concluding scene filmed by Howard Hawks for his Columbia production, "Only Angels Have Wings", which co-stars Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. Richard Barthelmess marks his return to the screen in this production, and other featured roles are played by Thomas Mitchell, Rita Hayworth, John Carroll and Noah Berry, Jr. i OearUi II ^oyd lVete allp/zi^ to tJie ptemiet ^ ' 5howin(iof ifout K^ncit'Hopubn^ CtiifiJif' picture flinONA MINN. POST C^RO Reason for the Smile Bill Boyd, star of Paramount' s " Hopalong Cassidy" series, produced by Harry Sherman, holds a postcard signed by 800 admirers from Winona, Minn. Boyd had this picture sent back to Winona for lobby display. Ryskind Signed by RKO Morrie Ryskind, top-flight Hollywood scenarist, has been signed by Pandro S. Berman, vice-president in charge of RKO production, to write the screenplay of "My Fifth Avenue Girl", which Gregory La Cava will produce and direct with Ginger Rogers starring. Frenke to Produce "Anschluss" Hitler's seizure of Austria and his dramatic entry into Vienna wdl be dealt with in "Anschluss", a picture which will be produced by Eugene Frenke very shortly. Frenke is now looking for an actor to play the part of the German leader. Sutherland Leaves Roach A. Edward Sutherland has left the Hal Roach studio after serving six months on a one-year contract. "The Housekeeper's Daughter", which he was scheduled to make, will be taken over personally by Roach, and will start the early part of May. Making Up Her Face Lucille Ball, -who teams zv-ith Alan. Lane in "Panama Lady", RKO-Radio drama, prepares for the next "take", making up her face to suit the lighting conditions. Abner Biberman, also in the cast, is intrigued by the procedure.