Variety (Sep 1937)

28 VARIETY PICTURES Wednesday, September 22, 1937 Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 25) United Artists Number Number Samuel Goldwyn. Alexander Korfia. Selznick Walter Wanser... C'haplin .... i... • liondbn Films.... Total of Fix Promised 6 6 5 8 I - 8 34 Com- pleted 2 0 1 0 0 0 Now Shoot- ine 2 0 1 0 • 0 Now Balance to in 3e Placed Stories in Cuttinir Before Prepara- RoOms Cameras tion 1. 0 1 3 0 0 1 6 2 5 1 8 23 1 6 2 5 1 8 23 Philly Easing Out ; Of Giveaways, Says It's Not Hurting Biz Philadelphia, Sept, 21.; Gabbing continues In territory as to how much giveaways and games are hypoing film biz, as announce- ment comes from two indiw ,in Al- lehtown that they have stopped handing out cash' without socking b.o, at all, while chain house in same town is doing big exploitation on amount of money it is passing out.' ' Manager William Burke, of Mid- way, and Leon Korr and Sidney Kapner, owners of Transit, declare they have experimented with cessa- tion of coin awards, for several weeks' Greenman Expanding: In St. Loo; Plans Chain of 10 St. Louis, Sept, 21. Harry Greenman, owner , of the Dakota and the Yale, South St. Louis nabes, has actiuired the Irma, a 500- seater located in the western part of town, from Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lilly, and is planning the erection of three more houses in various. residential districts within the next 12 months. Greenman also, is reported ready to purchase several more houses to bring his string to 10. In addition to the Dakota and the Yale, Greenman has a working agreement with the Normandy, lo- cated in St. Louis County, and the Lexington, a North St. Louis nabe, relative to booking of pix, advertis- ing, etc. Charlotte's Banko Test ^TlXETSiLOy? AGAIN/ produced l^mit« Tiftit nnrnthv Sticknev Florence Lake, Genee nan, Auce \.^av«iind.. - -SbSmNG SACRED^ pfoduccd by David O: Selznick; directed by Wil- i,„2 A WnSma?: JriSnal by Jame/'H. Street; screen/play by Pen Hecht. Wilmer and Vincent's Stat.e, ,6n other hand, has erected big lobby display to show it .has .unpocketed more than $10,000 ii;i cash to cus- tomers. A big ledger,, tagged the 'Lucky Album,' has been put up witl^ names of 580 fortunate ones who banked the dough. Passersby in- vited in to page through the book, which. shows winners of daily. .$10 matinee , a\vard and $25 evening prize. • •,' '.: Charles Bierbauer, district W\ &' 'V. supe, credits giveaway for added biz at Stfite. • Charlotte, N- O., Sept. 21. i?olice and court authorities are moving, to gather evidence in the attempt to determine whether bank and japkpot nights sponsored by Charlotte theatres are legal. Solicitor John G. Carpenter of su- perior court and,. Solicitor Fred H. Hasty of city record's court con- ferred with attorneys for the the- atres sponsoring . the moniey prize events. in Charlotte, and were as- sured that thie affairs here are well beyond the reach of the state lottery laws. Everett Horton, Hugh Herbert, May Ilot)SOri, lilarie 'Wilson, 'Warren Hymer, Donald Meek, Granville Bates, Andrew T6mbes,° Tim' Hennihg. 'l^iHE GREAT GARRICK,' produced by Mervyh LeRoy; directed by Jameg 'Whale; original screen, play by Ernest yajda; photographed by Dorothy Lamour, Raymond Massey l^^^^ MitcheU Jerome Cowan, Movita, Maiho Clark, Kuleu ue L<iercq, Mitcncu, Jerome vw. p,„t„rcs Now In Productloii ^ roM«,vn- •THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO,' produced by Samuel Goldwyn,. Liu, Ferdinand Gottschalk. hv David O 'Sel*' Horton, Luis Alberni, Lana Turner, Marie. Wilson, Linda Perry, Craig •THE ADVENTU&ES OF TOM SAWYER,' V Wp^^^ fromM' Reynolds, Dorothy Ti;ee, Henry O'Neill, Lionel Atwill, Fritz Leiber. iilck; directed by Norman Taurog; screen play by John v.^^^^ lALCATRAZ ISLAND,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Btory by Mark Twain; Photographed by James Wong ttow^^ McCann; original screen play by Crane Wilbur; photographed by Lu Cline. Cast: Tommy Kelly. Jackie ^oran, May Robson, O'Connell. Cast: John' Litel, Ami Sheridan, Mary Maguire, Gordon Oliver, Ann GiUis, Victor Jory, Mickey Rentecl^^^^^^^ Cora f "f^^^J}^"!'^^^^^ Addison Richards, Ben Welden, Dick Percell, George E. Stohe. Doris Lloyd, man. Spring Byington, David Holt, M.^r^^^ 'PRAIRIE THUNDER.' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Breezy Phillip Hurtic, Erville Aldctson, Donald Meek, Nana uryani, vicror i^uiai, ggg^j^. origjnaj by Ed Earl Repp. Cast: Dick Foran, Ellen Clancy, Al Frank McGlynn, Sr. . , ^„ di-ected by Smith, Yakim •THE GOLDWIN FOLLIES,' Pro'^;jced by SamueVGo^^ ^SUBMARINE »-!,' produced by Lou Edelman; directed by Lloyd Bacon; George Marshall; photography by Gregg jol^nd, originai^^^^ original story by Commander Frank Wead; screen-pl&y by William Wistier Ben Hecht. Cast: Kenny Baker, Virgin a V^errill, .^^^ Haines; photographed by Arthur Edeson, Cast: Pat O'Brien, George Brent, RiU Brothers, Helen Jepson, Charles Kullmani^^^^ ' ^- ^ . _ . _ b __ and Chatlie McCarthy, Zprina, Bobby piariS'^^^^^nV^^*"* William uoiiar, George Balanchine's American Ballet, Andrea Leeds. F. & M. POLUNG ST. L PUBLICS PK TASTES St. Louis, Sept. 21. A survey to determine the likes and dislikes of its patrons on pro- grams offered in 31 houses controlled by Fanchon & Marco here is being made in. a cooperative tieup with the St. Loxiis Star-Times, afternoon rag. This iS; believed to be the first time such a'Survey has been made by a film house in this country. Survey got under way when the sheet propounded several questions to readers on whether' they were satisfied with what Hollywood studios are producing in the way of cinema entertainment, etc. Question asked are: Do you prefer stage shows with movies; who is your,favorite actor; what kind of pictures do you prefer (melodrama, comedy, war, gangster, musical, love, romance); do you pre- fer two full-length feiatures oi^ one feature with short subjects? F&M is distributing 400,000 ballots to patrons inside of thfeatre , during lO-.day poll and while no prizes are offered for best answers, etc., man- agement states it is. reajiy t9 help its patrons get the shows they like best." The newspapfer will print; a box score on replies;. Universal Total < Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- !Promised pleted. ing 50 5 2 Now.'Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms CalnCras tion 10 33 4 Pictures in the cUttiflg rooms or awaiting previews: j- 'THE BOSS OF LONEi^ VALLEY,' produced by Buck Jones; directed bv Ray Taylorf nbiv^l by Forrest Brown; screenplay by Frances Guihan. Cast: Buck Jones, Miiriel Evans, Harvey Clark, Walter Miller, Lee Phelps, Ted Adams, Dickie'Howland; Ezra Paulette, Matty Fain, Grace, Goodall. 'ADVENTURE'S END,* produced by Trem Carr; directed by Arthur Lubin: novel by Ben Ahies Williams; screen play by Ben G-^Kohn. Cast: John Wayne, Diani Gibson, Morcn: Olsen. Montagu Love Maurice Black, Paul White, Cameron Hiall. Patrick J„ Kelly, George Cleveland. , 'THE WESTLANP' CASE,' produced by Larry Fox and Irving Starr, directed by ChristFCabanne; screen play by Robertson White, based on Sovel by Jonatha&atimer. 'Cast- Preston %er Carol Hughes Barbara Pepper. Frank Jeiiks,i Astrid AUwyn, George Meeker Theodore Von Eltz, Clarence Wilson. Russell Hicks. Rollo Lloyd, Sehner Jackson. 'BEHIND THE MIKE,' produced by Lou Brock; directed by Sidney Salltow: original by Thorhas Ahearn and Walton Butterfleld; screen play by Barry Trivers. Cafet: William Gargan, Judith fiarrett Don Wilson. Sterling Halloway, William Davidson, Gerald Oliver Smith, Grady Sutton 'SUDDEN BILL DOBN,' produced by Buck Jones; directed by Ray Taylor; novel by Jackson Gregory; screen play by Frances Guihan. Cast: bS Jones, Noel Francis, Frank McGJynn, Sr., Harold Hodge, Ted Adams, ^^CARNIVAL^QUM^^ by Robert presnell; directed by Nate Watt; screen plcy by, James Mulhauser,^ Lester Cole and Harold Buckley, from novel by Riphard Wormser. Cast: Dorothea Kent, Robert Wilcox, Hobart Cavanaughj David Oliver, G. Pat Collins, Ernest Cossart, Jonathah ITs-Ig Hsrrv Tylci*" * ' - 'BLONDE DYNAMITE,! produced by E. M. Asher; "directed by Milton Carruth; novel byfW. R. Burnett; screen play by Lester Cole. Cast: N^^ Bs'-ry, Jr., Nsm Grey., William Gargan, Dorothea Kent, Rowland Drew. 'A GIRL WITH IDEAS,' formerly titled 'MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD,' produced by Edmund Graiager; directed by S. Sylvan Simon; original by Bruce Manning; screen play by Robert T. Shannon. Cast: Wendy Barrie, Walleii Pidgeon, Kent Taylor, Henry Hunter, George Bar- bier, Dorothea Kent, Hobart Cavanaugh, Samuel S. Hinds, Horace Mac- li/r?.hon. 'MERRY-GO-ROUND of 193S,' produced by B. G. De Sylva; directed tey Irving Cummings; original .screen play by Monte Brice and Dorian Otvos. Cast: Joy Hodges, John King, Bert Lahr, Billy House, Mischa Au2r, Jimmie Savo, Alice Brady. Barbara Read, Louise Fazenda, Richard Carle, Howard Cantonwifte, Charley Williams, Dave Apollon and orchestra. 'COURAGE OF THE WEST,' produced by Trem Carr; directed by Joe Lewis; original screen play by Jay Norton Baker; photographed by Vitgil Miller. Cast: Bob Baker, Lois January, J. Farrell MacDonald, Fuzzy Knight, Carl Stockdal?. . ' , • ♦RENEGADE WRANGLERS,' produced by Trem Carr; directed by Joe Lewis; original screfen play by Harry O. Hoyt; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Boh Baker, Joan Barclay, Fuzzy Knight. Universal Pictures Now In Production 'TIM TYLER'S LUCK,' produced by Henry MacRea; directed by Ford Beebe; screen play by Wyndham Gittens, Norman S. Hall, Ray Trampe Cast: Frankie 'rhottfas, Frances Robinson. 'YOUNG r.^AN'S FANCY,' produced by B. G. De Sylva; directed by David Butler; original story by Bill Thomas, Maxwell Shane and Warren ' Wilson; screen play by Monte Brice and Charles Grayson. Cast: Alice taye, George Murphy, Ken Murray, the Three Diamond Brothers, Andy Devine, Larry Blake, Harry Stockwell, Charles Winninger. Frank Jenks, Frances Hunt, THEATRE RENDEZVOUS FOR SEUNG OF DOPE Warners Volal Number Z'umber Now of Pix Com- Shool- Promised pleted ing 60 10 9 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cuttingf Be'ore Prepara Rooms Cameras tion 13 28 10 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are 'THE PERFECT SPECIMEN,: produced by Harry Joe Brown; directed by Michael Curtiz; original by Samuel Hopkins Adams; screen play by Law- rence Riley and Norman Rcilly Raine; photographed by Charles Rosher. Cast: Errol Flynn, Joan Blon'dell, Dick Foran, Beverly Roberts, Edward Wayne Morris, Frank MdHugh, Doris Weston, Ronald Reagan, Henry O'Neill. Owen King, Denni) Moore. .• 'MISSING WITNESS,' produced, by Bryan, Foy; directed by William Clemens; original screen play by Kenneth Garnet - and Don Ryan; photo- graphed by 3id Hiqkox. Cast: Dick Purcell, Jeail Dale, John Litel, Eddie Acuft, Hugh O'Connell. 10VER THfi GOAL,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Noel Smith; original.by.William Jacobs; screenplay by Jacobs and Anthony Coldeway; photographed by Warren Lynch. Cast: William Hopper, June Travis, Wil lard Parker, Johnny Davis, William Harrigan, Gordon Oliver, Herbert Rawlinson. fEVIDENCE,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Frank McDonald; original screen play by Crane Wilbur and Qeorge Bricker; photographed by James Van Trees. Cast: Dick Foran, June Travis, John Litel, George E, Stone, Dick Purcell. Veda Ann Borg, Ward Bond, Tommy Bupp. 'SHE LOVED A FIREMAN,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Johnny Farrow; original screen play by Carleton Sand; photographed by Lou O'Connell, Cast: Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan, Robert Armstrong, Hugh O'Connell, Veda Ann Borg. 'SH! THE OCTOPUS,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Mc- Gann; screen play by. George Bricker from play by Ralph Murphy and Donald Gallaher; camera. Warren Lynch. C-ast: Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Marcia Ralston, George Hosener, John Eldredge, Eric Stanley. 'SERGEANT MURPHY,' produced by TBryan Foy; directed by Breezy Eason; .original screen play by Abem Finkel and William Jacobs; camera, Ted McCord. Cas.t); Ronald Reagan, Mary Maguire, Donald Crisp, Edmund Cobb, Max Hoffmah, Jr., William Davidson., 'WITHOUT WARNING,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Johnny Farrow; original scKjen play by Crane Wilbuir; camera, Lu O'Connell. Cast: Boris Karlofl!, MflTfc('Wilson, Eddie Craven, Regis Toomey, Charles Tow- bridge, John Harfon', Willard Parker, Frank Faylen. 'LARGER THAN LIFE,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Lew Seller; adapted from plaj^y Joseph Schrank, based on magazine story by Norman Matson; screen play by Schrank and Robertson White; camera, Arthur Todd. Cast: Frank McHugh, Berton Churchill, Jane Wyman, Ferris Tay- lor, Dianne Lewis, Cora Witherspoon, Raymond Hatton, William Haade, Tom Kennedy. Warner Pictures in Production 'HOLLYWOOD HOTEL,' produced by Sam Bischoff; directed by Busby Berkeley;.original story by Jerry Wald and Maurice Leo; screen play by Wald, Leo and Richard Macauley; camera, Charles Rosher. Cast: Dick Powell, Frances Langford, Mona Marshall, Lola Lahe, Hugh Herbert, Johnnie Davis, Mabel Todd, Alan Mowbray, Ted Healy, AUyn Joslyn, Eric Stanley, Edgar Kennedy, Benny Goodman and band, LoQella O. Parsons, •TOVARICH,' produced by Robert Lord; directed by Anatole Litvak; play by Jacques Deval; screen play by Casey Robinson; photographed by Charles Lang. Cast:: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Bathbone, Melville Cooper, Isabelle Jones, Anita Louise, Allan Conrad, Morris Car- novsky, Gregory Gaye, Fritz Fold, Vladimir Sokoloff, Kurt Bois, Christian Rub. Reine Riano. Montagu Love, George Davis, May Boley, Alphonse Martel. Heather Tratchey. ' . 'GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT,' produced in technicolor by Sam Bischoff; directed by Michael Curtiz; story by Clements Ripley; screen play by Warren Duff and Robert Buckner; photographed by Sol Polito. Cast; George Brent. Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Margaret Lindsay. Tim" Holt. Rufisell Simpson. John Litel. George Hayes, Pat West, Marcia Ralston. 'PATIENT IN ROOM 13,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Bobby Connolly; original screen play by Mignon Eberhart; photographed by James Van Trees. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Patric Knowles, Vicki Lester, "Edward McWade. • 'THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS,' formerly titled 'RETURN FROM LIMBO,' produced by Robert Lord; ditected by Stanley Logan; original by A. H. Z. Carr; screen play by Horace Jackson; photographed by Sid Hickox. Cast: Kf.y Francis, Pat O'Brien, Alan Mowbray, Gordon Oliver, Ralph Forbes,'Herbert Rawlinson, John Eldredge. Thurston Hall, Grant Mitchell. 'SWING YOUR LADY,' produced by Sam Bischoff; directed by Ray Enright; original by Kenyon Nicholson and Charles Robinson; screen play by Joseph Schrank and Maurice Leo; photographed by Arthur Edeson. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy McNulty, Louise Fazenda, Frank Mc- Hugh, Allen Jenkins. Eddie Acuff, Nat Pendleton. 'PENROD AND HIS TWIN BROTHER,' produced by Bryan Foy; di- rected by William McGann; original screen play by William Jacobs and Hugh Cummings; photographed by Arthui' Todd. Cast: Billy and Bobby Mauch, Spring Byington, Charles Halton, Jackie Morrow, Bennie Bartlett, Frank Craven.' •TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Arthur Lubin; original screen play by Lawrence Kimble, Jean Negulesco and Wally Klein; photographed by George Barnes. Cast: Dolores Costello, Bonita Granville, Donald Crisp, Donald Briggs, Natalie Moorhead, Lucille Gleason. 'ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Clemens; original screen play by George Bricker. Anthony Colde- way and Morton Grant; photographed by Bob Ross. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell, Addison Richards, Hugh O'Connell, Dick Purcell, Sheila Bromley. New Orleans, Sept. 21. Frank DiGiorgio, 44, doorman of the Gaiety theatre here, was charged by federal agents Saturday (18) with selling dope to patrons of the thea- tre, arranging with them as to the seats thpy would occupy and then delivering to them in.the darkened- house during.the pix run. The government said DiGiorgio would meet his prospective custom- ers at the entrance of the, theatre. He'd murmur to them the location of their seats, and then he'd saunter in and hand them the dope, the agents said. Indiana, Circle, ApoDo, Indianapolis, in Fool Indianapolis, Sept. 21. Climaxing a destl that has been on the fire for some months, three of the city's largest first-fun houses.. the Indiana, Circle and Apollo, will be. joined in an operating pool under the Greater Indianapolis Amus. Co, composed of companies now operat- ing the houses. The Fourth Avenue Amus. Co., operators of the Apollo, joins forces with the Indianapolis Theatre Management Associates, Inc., operator of the Indiana and Cir- cle, assuming a 10-year lease on the properties .effective Sept. 24. Harry Katz is president of the combine, Fred J. Dolle, v.p., and D. H. Long, treasurer. The 3,300 de- luxe Indian?, after being renovated, will be opened about Oct. 15, and will play the ace product of pictures available to the combine which in- clude RKO, Paramount, and the Apollo's share of Warner's, Fox and Universal, now split with the Lyric. The smaller Apollo will be used for holdover's or to sluff off excess pic- tures on contract arrangements. Plans for the Circle are still incom- plete. House may continue on dou- ble feature policy, as at present,, or go to stage show policy if grosses sag.. Art Baker, present manager of the Circle, will continue in that capacity, representing the Katz interests. Ken Cfollins. manager of the Apollo, will move his office to the Indiana, and look out for Fourth Avenue share. Manager Refuses Tax Snooper-s Entry; Bonded San Antonio. Sept. 21. Leon M. Oppenheimer, manager and. owner of the Prince theatre, was put under $1,500 bond last week, because ho resisted an internal revenue officer, who wanted to look over Oppenheimer's books. Officer said that the - theatreman pushed him out of the. office, and refused him access to the books. . Showman claimed that he. did not shove the federal man but merely told him he v/as busy and did not want to be disturbed. Case was on docket in Federal District Court here.