Variety (Oct 1937)

^ednesda^r^ October 6,' 1937 PICTURES VARIETY 23 AdpQnc€^ Production Chart I ^ . (Cpptinued from page 21) 'IHE 40SB 6F LONEir vAlIEY,' produced by Buck Jones; directed by Ray Tdiyloii novel by Forrest BroXvn; screen play by Frances Guihan. Cast: Buck Jones, Muriel Evans, Harvey Clark, Walter Miller, Lee Phelps, Ted Adams, Dickie Howland, Ezra Paulette, Matty Fain, Grace Goodall, •ADVENTl^ItE'S END/, produced by Treipi Carr; directed by Arthur Lubin: hovel by Ben Ames Williams; screen play by Ben G. Kohn. Cast: John W&yne. Diana Gibson, Moroni Olsen, Montagu Love, Maurice Black, Paul White; Cameron Hall, Patrick J. Kelly, George Cleveland. ♦BEHIND'THE MIKE/ produced .by Lou firock; directed by'Sidney Salkow; original by Thomas Ahearn and Walton Butterfleld; screen play by Barry Trivers. - .Cast: William Gargan, Judith Barrett, Don Wilson, Sterling Halloway, ,WilU&m Davidson, Gerald Oliver Smith, Grady Sutton. ♦SUDDEN BILL DORN/ produced by Bucjc Jones; directed by Ray Taylor; novel by Jackson Gregory; screen play by Frances Guihan: Cast: Buck Jones, Noel Francis, Fra^ik McGlynn, Sr., Harold Hodge, Ted Adams, Evelyn Brent, L6e Phelps. ' . , . > . •CAKNIV'aL 9UEE1^/' produced by Robert Preshell; directed, by Nate Watt; screen play by James Mulhauier, Lester Cole ahd Harold Buckley, from hovel by Richai'd ' Wormser. Cist: Dorothea Kent, Robert Wilcox; Hobart CaVanaugh, David Oliver, G. Pat Collins, Ernest Cossart, Jonathain Hale, Harty Tyler. , • . <S0M£ BLONDES ARE DANGEROUS/ produced by E. M. Asher; di- rected by Milton Carruth; novel by W. R. Burnett; screen play, by Lester Cole. Cast: Noah. Beery, Jr.. Nan Grey, William Gargail, Dorothea Kent, Rowland DreWi <A IGIRL WITH IDEAS/ formerly titled 'MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD/ prodiiceld by Edmund Grainger; directed by S. Sylvan .Simon; original by Bruce Manning; screen play by Robert T. Shannon. Cast: Wendy Barrie,' Witter. Pldgeon, Kent Taylor, Henry Hunter, George Barr bier,- Dorothea Kent, Hobart Cavanaugh, Samuel S. Hinds,' Horace Mac- Mahon: ' . ■ flUERRX-^lp-liOVNto OF 1938,' produced by B. G. De Sylva; directed by Irving .Cummings;j original stireen play by Monte Brice • and Dorian Otvos', Ciapt:'Joy;Hodges, John Klhg, Bert Lahr, Billy House, MiScha'AUer, Jiihhile Savo,' Alice Brady, Barbara Read, Louise Fs^zenda, Richard Carle, Howard' Oaaitbnwi'ne, -Charley Williams, DaVe ApoUoh and orchestra. - ♦COURAGE Of TI|E WEST/jproduced by Trem Carr; directed by Joe Ldwjls;.drig;ihal scrfe^n.play by Jay Norton Baker; photpgraphed by Virgil Miller." Cast: Bob iBaker, Lois January, J. Farrell Mact>ohald, Fuzzy Knight, Carl StockdaleV . : . • .. ♦RENEGADE (WRANGLERS/ produced by Trem Carr; directed by Joe Lewis;' original screen play by Harry O; Hoyt; photographed by Virgil Miller.; Cist: Bob Baker, Joan Barclay, Fuzzy Knight. Universal Pictures Now in Prodjaction ♦TUVI TYLER'S LUCK/ produced by Henry MacRae; directed by Ford Beebe; screen play by Wyndham Gittehs, Norman S. Hall, Ray Trampe. Cast: Frankie Thomas, Frances Robinson. , * . •YOU'RE A SWEETHEART/ formerly titled "YOUNG MAN'S FANCY/ produced by B. G. De Sylva; directed by David Butler; original .story by Bill Thomas, Maxwell Shane and Warrien Wilson; screen play by Monte Brice and. Charles Grayson. Cast: Alice Faye, George Murphy, Ken Mur- ray, the-Three Diamond Broth^rs, Andy Devihe, Larry Blake, Harry Stock- well; CHafles Wipriinger, Frank Jenks, Frances Hunt. tA PRESCRIPTION FOR ROMANCE/ produced by Edmund Grainger; directed hy' S, Sylvan Simon; original by John Reinhardt and Robert Ne- ville; screen play by James Mulhauser, Robert T, Shannon and Albert R. Perkins. • Castr Wendy Barrie, Kent Taylor, Mischa Auer, Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks, Henry Hunted. Warners NLRB Data (Continued from page 6) Total > Number ^Tumber Now^ of Fix . . Com- Shoot- Promise^ pleted ing 60 14 7 Now Balance to < in Be Placed. Stories, in Cutting Be'ore Prcpara- Rooms Cameras tion 12: .?7 9 Pictures in tlie cutting rogms Or awaiting previews' are: ♦ALCATRAZ ISLAND/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William McCann; original screen play by Crane' Wilbur; photographed by Lu O'ConnfiU. Cast: John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Mary Maguirie, Gordon Oliver, Addison Richards, Ben Welden, Dick Percell, George E. Stone, Doris Lloyd. 'SUjBMARINiB D-1,' produced by LOu Edelman; directed by Lloyd Bacon; original story by Commander Frank Wead; screen play by William Wister Haines; photographed by Arthur Edeson. Cast: Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris, Frank McHugh, Doris Weston, Ronald Reigan- Henry O'Neill, Owen King, Dennie Moore; ■ ' • ♦MISSING WITNESS/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Clemens; original screen play by Kenneth Gamet and Don Ryan; photo- grkphed by Sid Hickox. Cast: Dick Purcell,. Jean Dale, John Litel, Eddie Acuff, Hugh OrConnell. • , ♦EVIDENCE,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Frank. McDonald; original; screen play by Crane Wilbiir and George 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'Conneli. 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. Cast: Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins. Marcia Ralston, George Rosencr, John Eldredge, Eric Stanley. 'SERGEANT MURPHY/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Breezy Easbn; original screen play by Abem Finkel and William Jacobs; camera, Ted- McCord. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Mary Maguire, Donald Crisp, Edmund Cobb. Max Hoffman, Jr., William Davidson. 'WITHOUT WARNING/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Johnny Farrow; original screen play by Crane Wilbur; camera, Lu O'Connell. Cast: Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, Eddie Craven, Regis Toomey, Charles Tow- bridge, John Harron, Willard Parker, Frank Faylen. 'LARGER THAN LIFE/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Lew Seller; adapted from play by Joseph Schrank, based on magazine story by Norman Matson:, screen play by Schrank and I^obertson White; camera, Arthur Todd.' Cast: Frank McHugh, Bertori Churchill, Jane 'Wyman, Ferris Tay- lor, Dianne Lewis, Cora Witherspoon, Raymond Hatton, William Haade, Tom Kennedy. ' '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 Rathbone, Melville Cooper, Isabelle Jones, Anita Louise, Allan Conrad. Morris Car- novsky, Gregory Gaye, Fritz Feld, Vladimir Sokoloff. Kurt Bois, Christian Rub, Reine Riano, Montagu Love, George Davis, May Boley, Alphonse Martel, Heather Tratcher. 'PATIENT IN ROOM 18,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Bobby Connolly; original screen play by Mignon Eberhart; photographed by James Van Trees. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Patric Khowles, Vicki Lester, Edward McWade. 'ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Clemens; original screen play by GeorKe 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. ' 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, Framces Langford, Mona Marshall. Lola Lane, Hugh Herbert, Johnnie Dayis, Mabel Todd, Alan Mowbray, Ted Healy, Allyn Joslyn, Erie Stanley, Edgar-Kennedy, Benny Goodman and band. Louella O. Parsons. , 'THIS WOMAN Is DANGEROUS,' formerly titled 'RETURN FROM LIMBO/ produced by" Robert Lord; directed by Stanley Logan; original by A. H. Z. Carr; screen play by' Horace Jackson; photographed by Sid Hickox. Cast: Kay 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 Ennght; original by Kenyon^ Nicholson and Charles Robinson; screen play- oy Joseph Schrank and Maurice Leo; photographed by Arthur Edeson. ^ast: Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy McNulty, Louise Fazenda, Frank Mc- Vlii- -^llen 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 *iugh Cumtnings; photographed by Arthur Todd. Cast: Billy and Bobby working. He said the company often employs from 12 to 14 writersl ' 'Witness testified his company de- livers negatives to United Artists., which distributes prints to ' ex- changes and makes own deals wth exhibitors. He said Wanger receives a percentage of the receipts from United Artists on each release, Nayfack told the examiner that Metro produced 41 full-length fea- tures last year and 43 shorts. He said that company shipped 10,223 fvdl-length ptfints and 6,872 of shorts out of the state of California during ,the last year. \ Henry King, director at 20th-Fox. toid of the duties' of a director, and said the script, was the foundation ,6t. a . picture,, and that no major changes --yvere made without the presence of a,writer. Major Nathan Levinsonj head of sound department at Warners, ,told of the advent of sound and imprbve- mients that have been made up- to date. ■' ' Writers' hearing ■ started after ,at- •torneys for; the producers. and coun- sel for- SP urged dismissal of SWG petition on ground that board lacked jurisdiction; that Nittional Labor Re- lations Act is unconstitutional; 'that employment- of wrlters..does 'not af- fect commerce, and that -writers do not dome within meaning of Wagner Labor law., Examiner Ring, over- ruled- objections, to introduction of testimony and took under advise- ment motions to dismiss- proceedings. Flacks Bail YiYAit Collars Screen ■ Publicists - Guild has nixed admission of .office" workers, and- voted to confine membership strictly to publicity writers. Committee is now drafting a bargaining agreement to be presented to producers. Ma- jority favor asking a weekly mini- mum of $125 for-class A flacks. New agreement between producers and International Alliance of The- .atrical Stage Employes, gi-ving make- up artists - weekly minimum of $115 and -hair stylists $62.50, became ef- fective Oct. 1. Pact was negitiated by Williarit Bioff, personal represen; tative of George E. Browne, presi^ dent of lATSE. • . Society of Motion Picture Film Editors - resumed negotiations with producers by - nixing counter-pro-^ posal ofilcred by studio executives. Editors have refused to affiliate with the lATSE, and threaten to tasc their case to the NLRB unless pro- ducers negotiate agreement. Screen Directors Guild is taking a secret; mail ballot of membership on proposal to appeal to IJLRB.- Pro-^ ducers halve refused to : negotiate with the organization unless SDG is divided into two separate; groups, one composed of directors and the other of unit managers and assistant directors. Producers claim duties are dissimilar and that conflicting judgments will arise. Revoke Scenlcs' Charter Charter of United Scenic Artists' Local 621 has been revoked by Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America - be- cause of non-payment of per capita tax. Members have been instructed by President L. P. Lindelof to clear into Motion Picture Painters Local 644. Several have already affiliated with lATSE, but Herbert Sorrell, business represerttative of Painters, insists that Local 644 will retain jur- isdiction over all workers who use a paint bi'ush. Culinary Workers Union has asked Central Labor Council to place Wal- lace Berry on labor's unfafr list. John Sarjeant, business representa- tive of eulinary workers, claims Beery has repeatedly crossed picket lines here to patronize Brown Derby^ Question has been referred to ex- ecutive committee for action. It was disclosed at hearing that Actors Equity has already suspended Beery because of his failure to join the Screen Actors Guild. Beory now has application pending for SAG membership,' but no action will be taken on. it until Equity suspension is lifted. The Girls' Eye View By Marian Squire ♦Life of the Party'a Bit of a Medley 'The Life of the Party' has a plot hanging wistfully about somewhere, but it's such a weak little thing it's kicked around till it gels lost among the' antics of Joe Penner, Parkyakarkas, Helen Broderick and Victor Moore. Majestic Margaret Dumont, as Joe Penner's aristocratic mother, wiears handsome go.wns, one' afternoon dress, a long chiffon, with gray fox cuf- fing the elbow sleeVes. Designer Edward Stevenson goes in heavily for furs, spangles and metal cloth; concentrating on short puffed sleeves for Harriet HilUard. One frock employing the latter is black with sheer sleeves and white pique outlining a low neckline. M6st bf the time, simplicity is passed up for glitter. Miss Hilliard wearis sparkling metal cloth pajamas with a hip-length jacket and rhinestone cli^s; and one sequin or something-that-glitters evening gown with cape attached at shoulders and fallipg into a lon^ train behind. A pencil slim coat with huge fur sleeyes in'another a bit to the mad side. Miss Hilliard introduces a'new hair arrangement which may sweep the country (if you don't keep your fingers crossed). It looks well on her, but must be the .work of an expert. Hair is parted in the cdnter with a full combination bang-pompadour on the forehead. It's easy to imagine the results if the girls try to do it themselves. ' Miss Hilliard is, attractive, biit as thei daughter of a countess (which she is in 'Life of the Party') she should remeriiber that y-o-u-r is not pro- nounced 'yer/ nor is g-o-t t-o properly 'gotta/ • Gene Raymond is Miss Hilliard's. boyishly exuberant swain and he brings out a pleasant isinging voice from wherevet* ho has been hiding it— and of cour-se that gprgeous taffy wave. Why-doesn't his public start a 'morie light comedy for Gene Raymond' club? When nn actor is decora- tive, it seems to taJce the powers a long time to find out that he can be funny too. : , . . More Hollywood Fourth Estatelng^ Newsmen have long since ceased to widen incredulous eyes at the antics of film newspapermen and the btmpsphpre of a HollyyVood city room. They know by now what tp expect when the studios dish put press pictures, and have schooled themselves to accept it philosophically. But 'Back in Cir- culation'is too much-even for the. layman. - Pat O'Brien, the demon managing editor, and Joan Blondell as the gal ■repbrter who outvirits everybody, even herself, seem to be* having a mar- velous time, breaking, doors and sharllng at each other. Starting off with a perfectly, terrible railroad crash with a papier-mache train plowing through some cardboard interferehce. it goes on where Miss Blondell, acting on her editor's instructions, first railroads Margaret Lindsay to the electric chair and then tescues'her from-the torrid seat. For some strange reason Miss Lindsay is very grateful to Miss Blondell for the rescue, even though she was oriBihally responsible for her precarious position. Not the least of Miss Blondell's accomplishments in 'Back in Circulation* is the management of her budget. Such luxury on a reporter's salary-^- even a star reporter—is worthy of respect; She boasts a maid, an ex- pensively appointed apartment.and a wardrobe that any cinema star might en-vy. For the most part, she is neatly tailored, with two or three spiffy suits for every day-in the week and more <hats than-even her ample apart-* ment could-house. ' She goes more elaborate for eveninj; wearing a black, sequin, hip-lcngth jacket with presumably;a drtiss und3.rneath^ldn't show 'as she remained'seated at a bar-. Later a white affair wiith-stiffened peplum jacket and yards and yards of sheer skj|rt fioating behind Her, In which she knocks Walter Byron stone'cold with one punch of her dainty paw. Miss Lihdsay, until the final clos6-up, is much .put upon in simple mourning with touches of white'a't.the thrpat, not. b?ing allowed out of the funeral black until 'she departs-happily on a honeymoon aftet her acquittal. ,' ; Debutihjr Danielle' Darrlcux Universal heaved one of the season'^: mbst extravagant binges at the Hotel Pierre, N. Y., Friday, Introducjing, its latest cinema import, Danielle Darrieux. From five. to sev^n, cocktilli, canapes, the press and Miss Darrieujt circulated about while the flashlight bulbs flared, cameras clicked, ahd the guests bewildered the poor star by trotting out their rusty American-French for hief benefit. She does very well with English, but so many assorted French accents haven't been heard since the boys first came back from 'oVerseas, In a pencil slim black Schit^parelll'^ 'with high cPllir and .a narrow gold belt. Miss Darrieux chfcerfully faced {he cameras at the bar, with and with- out her swarthlly handsome husband, Henri Decoin. Thyra Sdmpter Wins- low, present, wore a smart dark street dress, with Hope Hampton choosing a black suit lavishly black-foxed, and a tihy blue hat held to its precarious perch over her right eye by a band across her flowing blonde waves. Miss Darrieux doesn't care to discuss politics. New York's tall buildings or the traffic problem. Says all she knows is what she reads in her con- tract—first picture for Universal to'be 'The Rage of Paris.' INFANTILE SCARE ON AGAIN IN OMAHA Omaha, Oct. 5. Ban on theatre attendance and public gatherings of minors clamoed on again Saturday (3) even before it was actually lifted after six new cases of infantile paralysis reported to health department within week. Dr. Kinyoun, city health medico, early last week announced ban would be lifted as of Saturday and schools would open Monday (4), But new cases and warmer weather called for re.^cinding of order. Order blasted hopes of theatre men for return to normnl fall biz, as all houses advertised with eye to juve- nile trade most of week. Health de- partment order gave ray of hope in lowering age limit from 10 to 14, as high schools open Monday while gr.ides delayed another week. Situation reported materially Imr proved in past 10 days, especially in comparison to surrounding states. Omaha (and Nebraska) epidemic has slackened considerably more than any of neighboring- states. . Order continuing ban lifted any hope of breathing spell and extends to seventh week dearth to nabe biz. Downtown houses taking it on cliin less and less as ban c::tonds, hut nabes heavily stifled and one cxhib on northside reported broke by spsll. Curtailed operations and c-tsnded ecdhomlies have saved otbcrr;, but continued lack of hiz may tumble some virtually On vor-ijc. At present outloolc is Cor 0::t as day of relict. 11 Par to Filni Hulda' Mauch, Spring Byington, Charles Halton, Jackie Morrow, Bonnie 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 Costcllo, Bonita Granville, Donald Crisp, Donald Briggs, Natalie Moorhead, Lucille Gleason. ♦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. Russell.Simpson,.'John Litel, George Hayes, Pat West. Marcia Ralston. 'THE AD-VENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD/ produced by Henry Blanke; directed by^illiam Keighley; ortginal screen play by Norman Reilly Raine and Set6n 1.* Miller; photographed by Tony Gaudio. Ca!;t: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter. Claude Rain.i. Basil Rathbone, Patric Knowles, Alan Hale, Eugene Pallette, Melville Cooper, Herbert Mundin. Hollywood, Oct. 5. Paramount will fum Hella Wucli- jeki's play, 'Ilulda, Daughter of Par- liament/ which is reported having a successful run in Europe. Albert Lewin will produce wllh Irene Dunne favored for the top role. Art Directors Assisrned Hollywood, Oct. 5. Randall Duell has been signed by Cedric Gibbons as asoociatc art di- rector on Metro's 'Benefits For.ijot.' Gibbons als.'> h'.^s assigned Chet Williams to 'A Matter of P^'ide/ Wade Rubottom to 'Another Family Affair,' and Richard Duce to 'Behind the Criminal' and 'The Bootll Mystery.'