Universal Weekly (1924-1936)

18 UNIVERSAL WEEKLY Jan. 28, 1933 ''Love Birds" New Title SummervillePitts F eature CARL LAEMMLE, Jr. announces that hereafter, "Niagara Falls," the new Slim Sunnmerville-ZaSu Pitts co-starring feature comedy now before the cameras at Universal City, will be called "Love Birds." New cast additions to support the comedy stars are Shirley Grey, who was substituted for Thelma Todd when the latter recently sustained serious injuries in an auto accident; Alexander Carr, and George Hackathorne. Rollo Lloyd who just completed his role in Universal's "Destination Unknown," and little Cora Sue Collins also have important parts. "Love Birds," which Sam Taylor is directing, marks Cora Sue's third featured assignment in the SummervillePitts comedies, the child actress having appeared prominently in "The Unexpected Father," and "They Just Had To Get Married." Jobyna Hoivland Added to ''Cohens and Kellys" Cast JOBYNA HOWLAND. well known comedienne and character woman, has been prominently cast in "The Cohens and Kellys In Trouble" the newest and eighth co-starring vehicle for Charlie Murray and George Sidney, Carl Laemmie, Jr. announced yesterday at Universal City where the featured comedy is now in work. Other supporting players include Maureen O'Sullivan, Andy Devine, Frank Albertson, Arthur Hoyt, Herbert Corthell, Olive Cooper, Don Brody and Ed LeSaint. "Cohen" and "Kelly" will have no wives in this particular vehicle, written by Homer Croy and Vernon Smith. Geo. Smith is directing. Tom Reed Returns TOM REED, Universal scenarist, returned to Universal City this week to resume work following a fourmonth vacation in France, Spain, Italy, Austria, and Germany. While in Berlin, he spent a few weeks on the script of "S. O. S. Iceberg," Universal's forthcoming Greenland epic for which Tay Garnett and Dr. Arnold Fanch, who headed the film expedition into the arctic are now preparing the interiors in Universal's Berlin studio. i> "ST/IAMG£ AS Xt JIG-SAW PUZZLE "Strange As It Seems" joins the popular craze with this Jig Saiv puzzle in 11*14 size and striking color. Two Expeditions to Gather Material for Hix Shorts MANNY NATHAN and Jerry Fairbanks, producers of "Strange As It Seems," the Universal Short Subjects based on the John Hix newspaper cartoons, will utilize two expeditions into foreign countries this spring in quest of new material. They are now being prepared. Curtis Nagel, photographer of "Romantic Journeys," will head the first group which will go to Haiti and Siam, working under the sponsorship of an eastern museum, the second expedition will plunge into the jungles of South Africa. Photographic records of strange and unusual happenings suitable for Hix to incorporate into his Universal featurettes, will be gathered by both expeditions. POOCH The PUP "These are always good," says Exhibitors Horn & Morgan, Star Theatre, Hay Springs, Neb. "Lucky Dog" ISow Chic Sale Title CHARLES "Chic" SALE'S newest screenplay, "Pals," a story of the devotion between a man and his dog which the internationlly famous stage and screen comedian is making for Universal will be released as "Lucky Dog," Carl Laemmie, Jr. has announced. "Lucky Dog," written and directed by Zion Myers, is now in its third week of production at Universal City and will be completed within the next few days. In addition to Sale and "Buster," the Wonder Dog, the cast Includes Tom O'Brien, LaRita Parlllo, Harry Holman, and Victor Sarno. Wild Animal Break Feature Is Climaxed in "ISagana" Universal, which started this thrilling picture action, puts on the greatest example of letting-the-animals-loose in it's Tola Birell production. WITH the current cycle of jungle screenplays depending largely upon thrills for success, Hollywood movie producers are realizing more and more that the same basic elements that made a box office thriller fifteen years ago are just as effective today. That there is nothing more thrilling than the release of several wild animals on the screen was first discovered back in 1917 by Carl Laemmie, pioneer film maker and president of Universal, when he produced an animal picture entitled "Joe Martin Turns 'Em Loose." "Joe Martin" was a monkey and hdscored heavily with audiences — so heavily, in fact, that Mr. Laemme recently decided to inject a new 1933 version of the same idea in "Nagana," just completed at Universal City with Tala Birell and Melvyn Douglas in the leading roles. A ISew Twist "Nagana," a story of Africa, gives the fifteen-year-old thrill an entirely new twist. Instead of turning the animals loose to scare people to death, it is done in "Nagana" to save a life, and is the high dramatic point of this exciting production. But times have changed since Joe Martin turned them loose. Audiences now demand realism and they easily see through fakes. So in "Nagana" the animal jail break was accompanied by the most dangerous circumstances.