Variety (Feb 1933)

T.ues'ay, February 21, 1933 PICT E S VARIETY 23 Hollywood Production Week of Feb. 20 (Pictures now filming, or about to start, are listed below alphabetically by studies. Symbols are D—Director. A—Author, C—Cameraman.) COLUMBIA 'Murder of the Circus Queen' (Srd week) D —Roy Wm. Nelll A—Jo Swerling C—Joe August Cast: Ailolphe Menjou Greta NiBsen Donald Cook Geo. Rosener Dwieht Frye Ruthelma Stevens Harry Holmnn . 'Tniupico' {tut week) D—Irvlns Cummlngs A—Joseph I-lorKeshelmer Jo Swerling C—Ben Kline Cast; Jack Holt Fay Wrny Raquel Torres FOX 'Zoo in Budapest' (Otii week) D—Roland V. I^e A—Melville Itaker Jack Klrkland I>an Totheroh I'Oulse X..onR Roland V. Lee C—Lee Garmes Cast: LorettA Young Gene Raymond O. P. HegKle Wallle Albright Paul Fix Murray KInnell Frances Rich Ruth Warren Roy Stewart Nlles Welch Lucille Ward Russ Powell Dorothy Lalialre Dora Marende 'Warrior's HuRband' (Lasky) (4tli week) i>—Walter Lang A—Julian S. Thompson Ralph Spence C—Hal Mohr Cast: lillssa Landl Erne.it Truex Ferdinand Gottschalk Helen Ware Marjorle Rambeau Helen Madison David Manners Maude Eburne John Sheehan Bobble McLeod Janet McLeod 'PlesHure Cruise' (4th week) D—Frank Tuttle A—Austen Allen Guy Bolton C—Ernest Palmer Cast: Roland Young Genevieve Tobln Ralph Forbes Herbert Mundin Una O'Connor Minna Gombell Theodore Von Eltz Frank Atkinson Robert Greig Arthur Hoyt Fred Hlllson Robert Corey George Kirby 'Man Kuter' (14th week) D—Clyde Elliott A—James C. Spearing C—Corl Beyer Cast: Marlon Tlurns Kane Richmond Harry Wood TIlRrlmnge' (Srd week) D—John Ford A—I. A. R. Wylle Barry Connors Philip Klein Dudley Nichols Henry Johnson Cast: Henrietta Crosman Marian Nixon Norman Foster Heather Angel Minna Gombell Frank Craven Wm. Collier. Sr. 'Bondage' (Srd week) D—Alfred Sanlell A—Grace S. Leake Arthur Knber Doris Malloy C—I.uceln Andrlot Cast: Dorothy Jordan Alexander Klrkland Merle Tottenham Nydia AVestinan Edwiird Woods Isabel Jewell Herta LInd Catherine Navarro Jane Darwell Dorothy Labaire Rafaola Ottlano Miirlan Hall 'Trick for Trick' (Srd week) il—Hamilton MncFadden A—Harry WaestalT Grlbble Howard Green C—L. W. O'Connell Cast: Kalph Morgan Victor Jory Tom Dugan Sally Dugan Sally Blane Wlllard Robertson Luis Albcrnl Hdward Vnn Sloan James Burtis Adrain Morris John George Herbert Uunston Jimmy Leong iJorothy Appleby Booth Howard ClllTcird Jonc.H 'Adorable' (iHt we«'k) D—Wm. DIotTio A—Paul Frank Illlllc Wilder Gen, Marlon, Jr. Jane Storm C—John Seltz Cast: Janet Ciynor llcnrv t;;iiiit C. AiiiTi'v .'^mlth Herbert Mundin Edward McWade James Marcus 'My Lips Betray' (Ist week) D—John Blystone A—Atllla von Orbok Hans Kraly C—TJnasRlgned Cast: Lilian Harvey John Boles El Brendel Una O'Connor 'The Power and tiie Glory' (Ist week) D—Wm. K. Howard A—Preston Sturgos Cast: Spencer Tracey METRO 'Peg of My Heart' (2nd week) D—Robert Z. Leonard A—J. Hartley Manners C—George Barnes Cast: Marlon Davles Onslow Stevens J. Farrell MacDonald Alan Mowbray Juliette Compton 'Hervice' (2nd week) D—Clarence Brown A—C. L. Anthony C—Oliver P. Marsh Cast: Lionel Barrymore Lewis Stone Phillips Homes Benita Hume Douglas Walton Elizabeth Allen Doris Lloyd Colin Cllve 'Onbripl Over tiie Wblt« House' (Srd week) D—Gregory La Cava A—Carey Wilson Bertram Bloch C—Bert Glcnnon Cast: Walter Huston Karen Morley Otto Kr'uger Franchot Tone C. Henry Gordon Dickie Moore David Landnu 'The White Bister' (10th week) D—Victor Fleming A—F. Marlon Crawford Donald X>gden Stewart Leonard Prasklns C—Wm. Daniels Cast: Helen Hayes Clark Gable Lewis Stune Louise Closser Hale May Robson Edward Arnold Alan Edwards 'Beonlon in Vienna' (Srd week) D—Sidney Franklin A—Robt. E. Sherwood Ernest Vajda Claudinc West C—George Folsey Cast: John Barrymore DIan.i Wynyard Frank Morgan Henry Travcrs (.Charles Giblyn May Robson Una Merkel Bodll Rosing 'Man on the Nile' (4th week) D—Sam Wood C—I.ien ^mlth Cast: Uamon Novarro Myrna Loy Reginald Denny C. Aubrey Smith Edward Arnold Louise Closser Hale Marcelle Corday 'Rivets' (Stii week) D—Tod Browning A—John McDermott Carl Brow Ralph Wheelwright C—Peveral Marley Cast: Jack Gilbert Mac CInrkc Robert Armstrong Sterling Holloway VInce Barnett Warner Richmond Robert Burns Muriel Klrkland Reginald Barlow Herman Blng Harry Shultz 'Made on Broadway* (1st week) D—Harry Beaumont A—Courtney Terrett Cast: Robert Montgomery Mae Clarke 910N00RAM 'Fnlne Front' (1st week) D—Phil Rosen A—Tristram Tupper Cast: Ralph Forbes VIvlenne Osborne Paul Page Gall Patrick Big Boy Williams Carl Miller Arnold Grey Pauline Oaron 'Black Beauty* (1st week) D—Wm. Cowen A—Anno Sewell Charlie Logue PARAMOUNT 'Legal Crime' (Iflt week) D—Ralph Murphy A—Wlllnrd Mark dene Towne Graham Baker Cast: Chns. nicktord Kk'hard Arlen Jean Hcrsholt Jjoulse Dresser Allen Jenkins Andy Dcvine 'Dead Reckoning' (ith week) D—Paul Sloon A—Robt. rronnell ■Harvey Thew Manuel Seft C—Harry Fiachbeck Cast: Charlie Ruggles Nell Hamilton Verree Teasdale Shirley Grey Morgan Wallace Paul Hurst Thomas C. Jackson John Halllday Wm. Janney Jack Laltue 'The Story of Temple Drake' (4tli week) D—Stephen Roberts A—Wm. Faulkner Maurlne Watklns Oliver H. P. Garrett C—Ernest Laszlo Cast: Miriam Hopkins Jack LcRue Wm. Gargan Wm. Collier, Jr. Irving PIchel Sir Guy Standing Elizabeth Patterson Kent Taylor •A Bedtime Stoiy* (5th week) D—Norman Taurog A—Waldemar Young Nunnally Johnson C—Charles LAng Cast: Maurice Chevalier Helen Twelvetrees Charlie Ruggles . , Ed. Everett Horton Gertrude Michael Ernest Wood Adrlenne Ames Minor Watson Leah Hay Baby LeKay •rick Up' (5tli week) D—Marlon Uering A—Vina Delmar S. K. Lauren Cast: Sylvia Sidney George Haft Wm. Harrlgan Lillian Bond Clarence Wilson Louise Beaver 'Under the Tonto Rim' (Srd week) D—Henry Hathaway A—Zane Grey C—Arcni^ Stout Cast: Stuart Erwln Verna Hlllle Raymond Hntton Fred Kohler Fuzzy Knight 'Song of Songs' (Srd week) D—Reuben Mamoullan A—Herman Sudormann C—Victor Mllner Cast: Marlene Dietrich Brian Aherne Helen Freeman Hardle Albright Allison Sklpworth 'I Love That Man' (Ist week) D—Harry Joe Brown A—Gene Towne Graham Baker Cast: Edmund Lowe Nancy Carroll Lew Cody 'The Bagle and the Hawk' (Ist week) D—Stephen Roberts A—John Monk Saunders Bogart Rogers Seton I. Miller Cast: Fredric March Gary Cooper Jack Oakle Sir Guy Standing 'International House' (Ist week) D—Edward Sutherland A—Lou Helfetz Nell Brant Francis Martin Walter Delcon Cast: Peggie Hopkins Joyce W. C. Fields Sari Marltza Burns & Allen Rudy Vallee Col. Stoopnagle & Budd 'Cracked Ice' (iRt week) D—Norman McLeod A—Bert Kalmar Harry Ruby Grover Jones RIchy Craig, Jr. Lou Breslow Keene Thompson Henry Myers Cast: Four Marx Brothers Margaret Dumont PATIIE 'Dnde Ranch' (Allied) (2nd week) D—George Melford A—Jack Natteford C—Harry Newman Cast: Hoot Gibson Gloria Shea Gordon DeMalne RADIO ■Silver Cord' (Ist weeW) D—John Cromwell Cast: Irene Dunne 'Decloiwee' (Iwt week) D—E. H. Griffith A—John Balderson Jane Murfln Cast: Ann Harding Mary Duncan Henry Stephenson Untitled (Ist week) n—Wm. Seller A—Joe Manklewicz Glen Tryon Cast: Wheeler & Wooleey Marjorlft White Hugh Herbert Phyllis Harry ROACH 'Frn DInvolo' (Srd week) Col. Hunting Stories But Has the Titles Hollywood, Feb. 20. Columbia la huntlner yarns for seven pictures all scheduled for re- lease within the next 12 weeks. Stories are needed for 'Mike,' 'Pearls and Emeralds/ 'Fury of the Jungle,' East of Fifth Avenue,' one Jack Holt feature and two action productions. Unknown Outfits Have Some Hopes At Sugar Per Hope Los Angeles, Feb. 20. Two outfits holding out hopes— at so much per hope—for those who are screen struck, but none too wise, are now operating in Holly- wood. One. the American Pictures Co., which has Amos Stlllman and Joseph G. Beckmann in the saddle, informs applicants that eight six- reel melodramas will be produced. To those wishing to play In the pictures, the outfit, it is charged, slaps on a tax of $100 for publicity expenses, with the provision that the applicant must work in the first film without pay. In subsequent pictures, a wage commensurate with the hopeful's ability is promised. Producers' association, which has no record of American, was given as a reference. Better Business Bureau is investigating. Second is being operated by Van S. Trefon, also unknown to the Producers' body. Claisslfled ad in the Los Angeles 'Examiner' (Hearst) was the come-on for this proposi- tion. Trefon, according to reports made to the BBB, had an idea of raising a bank roll by obtaining loans from applicants, who would be given a mortgage on the picture. Promoter Is alleged to have had no set figure for his take from the gullible. From one applicant he is reported to have a loan of $300; from another, $260. Latter appar- ently appealed to Trefon aa likely material for a $26 a week salary went with the loan. Third appli- cant was asked for only a $176 in- vestment, BBD complaint charges. Trefon also operates under the name. Van Ness Newsreel Co. When Tie Corner' Was Hanunerstein's By Epes W. Sargent No Strand Deal Warners does pot Intend to give up the Strand, Albany. Report had the house as likely going to RKO. Joe Bernhard, g. m. of Warner Theatres, nixes the thing, stating there have been no negotiations with RKO. Temporary closing of the Rialto theatre, which promises to become chronic, revives memories of its predecessor, the Victoria theatre, affectionately known as 'The Corner.' It was the last New York music hall with a personality, and in Its heyday was even better known than tlie old Koster & Dial's. The story already has been told of how the late Oscar Hammerstein nailed the flag to the staff when he was ousted from his Olympia music hall, now the New York and Cri- terion theatres. He bragged he would have another house before the ensign was blown to rags, and he made good his boast with plenty to spare. Originally, Hammerstein's was de- voted to musicals, and it was here that Eva Tanguay dawned on the metropolis as that end girl in the chorus line. Some years before a syndicate had spent $10,000 trying to put her over as a vaudeville star, but failed. She went into the chorus and literally wriggled her way out to stardom. Marie Dressier was there in 'Miss Print,' a short-lived musical not helped much by a pre- liminary tour which Jumped her all over the country. Hammerstein produced a couple of his own shows, and if memory serves, the first Rogers Bros, musical show was launched here, the subsequents be- ing taken over to K. & E. houses when the Victoria went vaudeville. Pleasure and Business Management of the house as a music hall was turned over to the late William Hammerstein, who had studied the business with the late William Morris. Both loved to tell how after a long day in the Geo. Liman agency, Morris, then but a clerk, would meet Hammerstein, they would buy a package of all- tobacco cigarettes and shoot pool in the billiard parlor above the Dewey theatre, talking shop all the time. Hammerstein was born with a strain of P. T. Barnum in his veins. He brought Flossie Crane, a strident voiced singer in the Coney Island beer resorts, into temporary stardom for four wftftks.during the silly sum- mer season; booked Ethel Conrad, a show girl, whose chief claim to fame was that she had shot her millionaire landlord in the leg; gave Ann O'Della DlsDebar, high priestess of spookdom, a week to tell how she fooled the credulous with her spirit paintings, and brought John and Eva Fay In for an entire summer season on the roof with their spirit- ualistic fake. He gave Horace Gol- dln his chance to show his new act In his own country. Goldin had gone abroad a clever but Impossibly crude magician. He returned a veritable sensation. Hammerstein created other novelties, but he never got up the nerve to launch his pet idea, a masked dancer to be known as 'Countess X,' and who was to be brought from London wearing a mask at all times. - He was afraid that the newspapers might find out I Picture Possibilities || 'Four o'clock'—Unfavorable •FOUR O'CLOCK* (Melodrama, Charles Henderson, Blltmore). Story based on sensational murder of a blackmailer and on vice cop methods, not well done. Jbec. 'One Sunday Afternoon'—Favorable •ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON' * (Comedy-drama, Peters and Splller, Little). Will probably make more entertaining fllm than play. Ibee. 'Conquest'—Favorable 'CONQUEST' (Drama, Arthur Hopkins, Plymouth). Finely written with plenty of dramatic possibilities. Should make excellent feature Hamlet theme with timely application and atmosphere. Ibee. D—Hal ' Roach A—Jeannle Macpherson C—Art Lloyd Cast; Laurel & Hardy Dennis King Thelma Todd Henry Armetta Donald Reed Lucille Brown James FInlayson WABNEBS 'Karrow Coroer' (3nd week) D—Alfred E. Green A—Somerset Maugham Robt. I'resnell Cast: Doug Fairbanks, Jr. Patricia Ellis Dudley DIgges Ralph Bellamy Arthur Hohl Henry KolUcr Willie Fung 'I'he .Mnyor of Hell' (Srd week) D—Archie Mayo A—Islln Auster Ed. Chodorov C—Barney McGill Cast: James Cagney Madge Evans Allen Jenkins Arthur Byron Dudley DIgges Frankio Darro Farina Robert Barrat Geo. Pat Collins Mickey Bennett Sidney Miller Charina Cane Dorothy Peterson Raymond Borzage 'Lilly Turner' (3rd week) D—Wm. A. Weilman A—Philip Dunning Ctfo. Abhntt Gi.-nc .Markoy Knthryn .Scola C—Sid Hl' kox Cast: Ruth f'h.-ittfrldfi George Breni Frank McHugh Guy KIbbee Ruth Donnelly Lyle Talbot Marjorle Gateaon Robert Barrat Gordon Wesfott Grant Mitchell Hobart Cavanaugh .Margaret Seddon Mayon Methot Claudia Coleman Ethel Wales 'Gold Diggers of 1033' (2nd week) D—Mervyn Lclloy A—Avery Hopwood D.TvId Doehm James .Seymour Cast: Warren William Joan Illondcll Ruliy K-r-lcr I)i<-k rowcll Aline M:ii-.Mahon <;uy KIM.en (Jlngcr KociTM Allen .Tf'nU'n..f .\cd .'-'jisiikH and ride him, though the stunt haa been since done. Loose Management The management was loose, but seemingly adequate. Aaron Jones, the box ofnce head, wa^ an im- possible crab, yet no one seemed to resent his churlishness, and there was extremely lax discipline. Willie stared in amazement one afternoon when a newspaper man requested permission to go back stage to see a friend. 'The door's open,' was his only comment, and once past the open door no one gave heed to the stranger, who spent 10 minutes locating Mike Simon, the stage manager. 'Miss Blank,' Mike repeated. 'She's in room 7. Go right up.' Usually on Monday the stage would be ankle deep in agents, for every booker was on hand for the Monday matinee. The gallery had been built with a steep pitch, and this left a huge loft under the rear portion. Oscar Hammerstein had a floor laid, walt^ board tacked on and made it his home. No effort was made to divide the space. It remained one apart- ment some 60 feet long with a kit- Chen, bath tub and other accessories at one end and a bed at the other. In between were his piano and an automatic cigar making machine of his own invention. If he ran short of smokes he would start up the ma- chine and run off a couple of dozen. One afternoon a soprano called by appointment for an audition. She took with her a chorus girl friend. The latter asked permission to take a bath, and splashed in the tub while the aspirant ran the scales and sang her show pieces. She didn't get the Job. Originally, the theatre carried an open air roof garden, known as Paradise Roof, with a square stage, in the center suggesting a prize ring, the performers entering through the audience. It was here that Louise Dresser made her New York debut singing with a bunch of Negro boys. After Hammerstein built the Republic, next door, he added that roof, put in a stage at the Broadway end of the Victoria's roof and put in a half roof over the seats. The Republic was about 19 feet higher than the Victoria, and was approached by a wide flight ot steps. It was known as The Farm, and was dressed up as a Dutch scene, with real ducks in a real pool. It was a great place from which to listen to Creatore and his band, which also made Its debut here. After Willie Hammerstein took hold the house was a gold mine, and with the tobacco machinery patents permitted the elder to play with grand opera over at his second Manhattan Opera house. When Willie died, Loney Haskell took his place, but the music hall idea was already headed for the chutes, and no one could have held it back, though Haskell retarded its speed. The glory that was the music hall passed with the razing of the Vic- toria. There has never been its like. JACK HESS GOES BROKE; OWES $4,275; BANKRUPT Jacques Julius Hess, better known as Jack Hess, 70 West 55th street. New York, who left the Paranriount- Publix organization in last week's shakeup, admits to $4,215 in debts and 1130 worth of assets in a volun- tary bankruptcy petition filed through Julius Kendler. Bills are chiefly for medical services, mer- chandise and obligations on a lease at 55 Central Park West. The Motion Picture Club took a judgment for $002 against Hess Dec. 9, last, against which he paid $160, leaving a $742 balance. E. M. (Emo) Orowltz. formerly associated with Hess in the RKO publicity or- ganization, is mentioned for $200, along with others in New York and Chicago. Hess hails from Chi. Hess gives his business as adver- tl.slng. New Orleans Scenes Hollywood, Feb. 29. Wanda Tuchork and Leonard i'ra.skin.s l*>ave here for New Orleans tonight for final work on the script (if 'No Bod of Roses,' Constance lJ<nn(-tl's next feature for Radio. Thoy expect to be gone about two A cTmeruman will go along, mak- ing iitnioBplulie shots for the film.