Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

.1 /(7 V /.\ /PiP S 1 1 O W M 1<: N ' S TRADE REVIEW Page 25 Dates Shown Are Release Dales This department is primarily intended to convey Important Information regarding product on which no press book or ad material are available. Showmen who run pictures pre-release will find it a valuable source. Listings will appear but once. MICKEY, THE KID Rep. Drama Not set Selling Names: Bruce Cabot, Tommy Ryan. Ralph Byrd, Zasu Pitts. Director: Arthur Lubin. Assoc. Producer: Herman Schlom. Story Idea: Bruce Cabot, wanted for murder, sends his son, Tommy Ryan, whom he had brought up, to his grandmother's home. F. B. I. men, learning of Tommy's whereabouts, try to make him speak — but he keeps quiet until Cabot, trying to make a getaway after visiting Tommy, uses a bus full of children for his flight car. Tommy follows and saves the children's lives. Catchline: "He had to denounce his father, to save many lives." Duke, in trying to avoid reporters and photographers, gets on a special train bound for Dartmouth College's famous winter carnival. There she again meets Richard Carlst)n, a professor whom she had jilted six years before, and when all the excitement is over, the romance is assured a happy culmination. Catchline: "She married the wrong man, but fate brought her back to the man she loved." DISPUTED PASSAGE Para. Drama Not set Rep. IN OLD CALIENTE Western Not s«t Selling Names: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, George "Gabby" Hayes, Jack La Rue. Assoc. Producer and Director: Joe Kane. Story Idea: Roy Rogers is robbed of a large sum of money belonging to his employer and is arrested on suspicion of theft. George "Gabby" Hayes. Rogers' old friend and teacher, and his niece Mary Hart, believing in his innocence, have him released so that they may find the guilty party. The major-domo of the ranch. Jack La Rue is trapped into confessing the theft. Catchline: "His ruse trapped the bandits". Selling Names: Dorothy Lamour, Ak'im Tamiroff, John Howard. Director: Frank Borzage. Producer: Harlan Thompson. Story Idea: Akim Tamiroff is a coldblooded scientist, whose God is science and who expects John Howard, one of his students, to follow in his footsteps. Howard and Dorothy Lamour plan to marry, but Tamiroff convinces her that Howard must not be diverted from his goal, so she leaves. Unhappy and discouraged, Howard wanders aimlessly until he gets to China, where he and Dorothy find each other again, vowing never to part. Catchline: "He was a cold-blooded scientist, until love performed a miracle." WINTER CARNIVAL UA Drama Not set Selling Names: Ann Sheridan, Richard Carlson, Helen Parish, Robert Armstrong. Director: Charles F. Riesner. Producer: Walter Wanger. Story Idea: Ann Sheridan, an American heiress recently divorced from a Russian MEMORY OF LOVE RKO Drama Not set Selling Names: Kay Francis, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Charles Coburn. Director: John Cromwell. Producer: George Haight. Story Idea: Kay Francis is Cary Grant's wife because she has been chosen for him by his parents. He meets Carole Lombard, a widow with a small child and they are mutually attracted. Carole refuses to marry Grant because she doesn't want to break up CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Ten cents per word. No charge for name and addrcn. Five insertions (or the price of three. Money order or check with copy. Classified ads will appear a( soon as received unless otherwise instructed. Address, Oasfifiw] Dept., SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, 1501 Broadway, New York City. BOOKS SYSTEMATIZING THEATRE OPER.•\TION, a condensed, easy-to-read book containing every important phase of theatre operation. Written by "Chick" Lewis. Sent postpaid upon receipt of $1.00 in cash, check or money order. Address, Showmen's Trade Review, 1501 Broadway, New York City. BUSINESS STIMULANTS THEATRE OWNERS. Don't be a sucker and pay royalties on any theatre game — Play Double Bingo— and buy the cards as you want them — You will increase your business 25% to 50% — They cost you $1.25 a thousand — It's like Keno, Screeno, Tango. The big difference is a double card. World Wide Theatrical Agency, 148 Leavenworth St., San Francisco, Calif. SEAT REPAIR MATERIAL ~ ARTIFICIAL LEATHER MOLESKIN 81c per yard; Sateen 60c yd. Six seats from two yards. Samples on request. Commercialeather, 116 Merimac St., Boston. SOUND-PROJECTION SERVICING $3 BRINGS YOU INSTRUCTIONS on servicing your sound and projection equipment for entire year! This service includes "How to Service" your complete sound equipment, amplifier, soundheads, speakers, etc.; "How to service and repair your projectors, intermittent movements, Arc Lamps," etc.; and additional service pages during the year; free consulting service; also loose-leaf binder for service sheets; film for setting lenses; book on tubes. Written and illustrated in simple, easy to understand words. — You need this service even if you have service, — more so if you don't have service. — Send me complete details, tubes, make, etc; projectors, lamps, make. WESLEY TROUT, Consulting Engineer, Box 575, ENID, OKLAHOMA. THEATRES WANTED WANTED TO BUY THEATRES IN yiRGINIA, West Virginia or North Carolina in towns of less than 5,000. J. F. LOFTUS, BRANDY. VA. USED EQUIPMENT NO MATTER what you have to sell a classified ad in STR will reach a wide volume of potential buyers at a cost too small to be considered an expense. STR classified ads are read because many who have used this medium expressed their satisfaction of the results they secured. Let us do the same for you. The cost is only 10c per word, five insertions for the price of three. Address, Classified Dept., Showmen's Trade Review. New York Citv. his home. Grant takes sick and Kay, realizing that it is only Carole he loves, consents to a divorce. Catchline: "Married in name only . . . should he sacrifice his home or his heart?" HOTEL FOR WOMEN 20th-Fox Drama Not set Selling Names: Elsa Maxwell, James Ellison, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern. Director: Gregorj Ratoff. Assoc. Producer: Raymond Griffith. Story Idea: Linda Darnell arrives from Syracuse looking for a modeling job and also to be near James Ellison, with whom she is in love. Ellison having found other attractions, is cold and unresponsive, until Linda gets into trouble. He then finds that she is the only one he loves and together they go back to Syracuse, where they feel they belong. Catchline: "Which . . . together in a small town or apart in a big city?" WAY DOWN SOUTH RKO Musical Drama Not set Selling Names: Bob Breen, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan, Steffi Duna. Director: Bernard Vorhaus. Producer: Sol Lesser. Story Idea: Bob Breen and his dad, Ralph Morgan, live on a plantation down south with their happy slaves. When Morgan dies, his lawyer and friend Edwin Maxwell, becomes executor of the estate. Maxwell attempts to sell the slaves and the plantation, so that he may have enough money to go away with StefiS Duna, an actress. Bob enlists the aid of a judge — and so saves the slaves and the plantation. Catchline: "The liarvest festival of songs, as celebrated on old-time plantations." THE RAINS CAME 20th -Fox Drama Not set Selling Names: Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy, George Brent, Brenda Joyce. Director: Clarence Brown. Assoc. Producer: Harry Joe Brown. Story Idea: During the rains in India, when disease and trouble run rampant — George Brent, a world weary Englishman, finds the one woman in the world for him, Brenda Joyce. Tryone Power, a surgeon and descendant of one of the oldest families in India, decides to dedicate his life to his people and Myrna Loy, an Englishwoman who has always used her charms to gain her ends with men, sacrifices her life because of her love for Power. Catchline: "A river whose waters changed the course of their lives." THE JONES FAMILY AT THE GRAND CANYON 20th -Fox Drama Not set Selling Names: Jones Family, Horace McMahan. Director: Malcolm St. Clair. Assoc. Producer: John Stone. Story Idea: The Jones family set off to claim the house and mine left them at the Grand Canyon. The house has been used as a hideout by Horace McMahan, a murderer, so that when the Jones Family arrive, McMahan and his gang make it as uncomfortable as possible, in order to get rid of them. Jed Prouty, eventually, captures McMahan and gets the $2,000 reward. Catchline: "The Jones Family become sleuths."