Showmen's Trade Review (Jul-Sep 1942)

40 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW August 8, 1942 RECORDS— ALONE PROVE GREATNESS HERE'S THE "CHAhA?" AGAIN — NOW THIS WEEK — ANCO — 42nd STREET REPEATING 66th TIME IN PHILADELPHIA— AT NEWS THEATRE— WEEK JULY 17th REPEATING IT 5 TIMES IT'S THE ONE AND ONLY HOWARD HUGHES PAUL MUNI AND GEO. RAFT HERE'S THE RECORD— NO FEATURE HAS PLAYED AS OFTEN IN THE SAME THEATRES. PLENTY PLAYED IT. . . . 6 TIMES PLENTY PLAYED IT. . . . 14 TIMES MANY PLAYED IT. . . . 26 TIMES A FEW REPEATED IT. . . . 50 TIMES SOME REPEATED IT . . . . 68 TIMES 'Scarface' In 65t-h Run on Broadway New York — The Apollo on 42nd Street Is running "Scarface," the Howard Hughes-Astor picture. The only news in this is the fact that it's making its 65th appearance in a Broadway theatre, probably playing more time in and around 42nd Street than any ten pictures ever made. AND STILL GOING — BREAKING RECORDS NEW PRINTS NEW ADV. ACCESSORIES ASTOR PICTU RES CORP. NEW YORK N. Y. EXCHANGES IN ALL KEY CITIES YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FOREVER (WB) Drama. Principals: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart, Edward Ciannelli, Joseph Downing. Plot: A managing editor is assigned to write the "Bewildered Hearts" column, as a punishment for printing an unconfirmed story. From one of the lovelorn column's clients, he gets a lead on a Lonely Hearts Club, which turns out to be a blind from which black market operations are carried on. He also learns the whereabouts of a woman needed in a murder trial who helps him smash the political dictator of the city and his entire gang. Director, Jo Graham. MUG TOWN (Univ.) Drama. Principals: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Bernard Punsley, Gabriel Dell, Tommy Kelly, Grace McDonald, Edward Norris. Plot: The boys are working in a terminal garage where valuable cargoes are stored. They learn that the owner's son is a tipster to a gang of hijackers, and that he plans to make one of them a fall guy in the next hijack. They follow the. next truck leaving, get everything straightened out and then reappear as sailors in the U. S. Navy. Director, Ray Taylor. SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON (Univ.) Drama. Principals: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Robert Paige, Marjorie Lord, Edmund MacDonald. Plot: Rathbone flies to Washington from London to solve the disappearance of a secret document which has been stolen from a British secret service operative. The document has been photographed on microfilm and inserted between the cover of a folding paper match book. Rathbone manages to locate it and show it to the spy as he is being led away by the police. Director, Roy Neill. OX-BOW INCIDENT (20th-Fox) Drama. Principals: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Harry Davenport, Florence Bates. Plot: Word comes to town that the partner of a well-known cattleman has been murdered. This creates such a furore that a lynching party is formed to get three strangers seen riding through. No amount of persuasion on the part of law and order, can avert it, so the three men are hanged. On their way back from the lynching, the party meet the "supposed" dead man very much alive. Director, William A. Wellman. BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU (Col.) Comedy-Drama. Principals: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Larry Parks, Jeff Donnell, Maude Eburne, Maxie Rosenbloom. Plot: Something mysterious is going on in the basement of an Inn belonging to Boris Karloff. Along comes Peter Lorre, who, when he learns Karloff is trying to perfect a method whereby ordinary men become supermen, becomes Karloff's partner. A call brings the police, who find five bodies. Chaos reigns before the "bodies" come back to life and Karloff and his helpers are sent back to the insane asylum by Lorre. a director of the institution. Director, Lew Landers. DESPERADOES (Col.) (In Technicolor) Western. Principals: Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, Claire Trevor, Edgar Buchanan. Plot: A bank robbery starts a chain of killings in a small town in Southern Utah in 1880. Behind this is the town banker, an apparently harmless old character, who runs a public stable, and a rancher. A new Sheriff has to find the culprits single-handed. He meets a newcomer and it is, indirectly, through him that peace is restored and the culprits apprehended. Director, Charles Vidor. (Continued on Next Page)