Variety (Dec 1937)

Wednesday, December 29, PICTURES VARlETr 29. Advance Produetion Chart Hollywood, t>eQ. 28. Ptoduciion CLcttvity in the Hollywood plants maintatined its level of past Jew months, although there was o slight slackening in pace in -anticipation of the holidayis. -With ihe s.ea'^Qn close to the-half-way mark,, studios still have a slight distance to: go H^efpre catching up with number of pictures promised. " Cohunbia Features IVcsterhs .. David Loew Number Number Now of Pik Com- Shoot- Promised pietcd. in; 40 13 82 5 0 2 0 1 Now BaUnce to in Be Placed Stories in Cutliiii: Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras (iea 8 18 % 3 13 % 9 1 1 Total 64 18 3 11 32 ' i Pictures now in th? cutting roorns or. awaiting previews are: • •WOMEN IN PRISON,'. fofnierly- titled : .'FORGOTTEN WOMEN,'; pro- duced by Wallace MacDonald for Irving Briskin unit, directed by Lambert Hiliy'er, original by Mortimer . Braus; screen play by Saul Elkihs; photo- graphed by Behjamn Kline. Cast:. Sara Padden, Wyh Cahoon, Scott Colton, Mayo Methot, Barbara Weeks. Arthur Lott, Bess Flowers. •SQUADRON OF iHONOR,' formerly titled 'AMERICAN LEGION,' pro- duced, by Ralph Cbhn; directed by C. C. Coleman, Jr., original by Martin Mooney; screen play by Michael Simmons; photographed, by Lucien Baliard. Cast; Don Terty, Mary Russell, Robert Warwick, James Holly- w.bod, George McKay* . •WHO RILLEB GAIL PRESTON?' formerly titled.'MURDER IN SWING- ■TiMV produced :by Ralph Cphn for the Irving Briskin unit; directed by Leori Barsha; original by. Fred Pederseh; screen play by Robert Kent and Henry Taylor; photographed by Henry Freiilich. . Cast: Don Terry, Wyh Cahoon, Robert Paige, Rita Hay worth, John Gallaudet, Gene Morgan. •OUTLAWS OF THE. PRAIRIE," formerly titled 'SINGING RANGERS,' produced by Harry L. Decker for Irving Briskin unit; directed by Sam Nelson; original "by Doris -Schroeder; screen play by Ed Earl Repp.. Cast: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Donald Grayson, Dick Curtis, •. •LITTLE MISS ROUOHNECK,' fornieriy tiUed ?WONDER CHILD,' pro- duced by Walla^ce MacDonald for the Irving Briskirt unit; directed by Aubrey Scotto; original, by Ffed Niblo. Jir., and Grace Neville; screen play by Nibl6, Miss Neville and Michael Sihimons; photographed by Benjamih . Kline. Cast: EdithvFeillows, Leo Carrillo, Margaret. Irving, Scott Colton, Inez Paiange, Jacqueline Wells. . ^PENITENTIARY/ formerly titled 'CRIMINAL CODE,' produced by . Robert North; directed by John Brahm; from play by Martin Flavin; screen play by Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo' . Jr. Cast: Walter Connolly. 'LAND RUSH DAYS,' produced- by Larry Darmour; directed by Joseph Levering; original stbry and screen play by Nate Gatzert; photographed by James S, Brown, Jr.: Cast: Jack Ludeni, Eleanor Stewart, Harry Woods; Lafe McKee, Buzz Barton, Bud .Osborne, Cactus MaCk, Tuffy (canine), Slim Whitfaker, Francis-Walker.-; 'LONE RIDER,' produced by Harry L, Decker foi* Irviiig Briskin unit; . directed by Sanx Nelson;, original by Folmer Blangsted; screen play by. Ed. Earl Repp; photographed by John Boyle. Cast: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Donald Grayson, Dick Curti.s; Allen Brook, Sons of .the Pioneers, 'ALL. WERE ENEMIES,'- formerly titled *A DANGEROUS AFFAIR,' produced by Larry Darmour; directed by Lewis D. Collins; oi*iginal by Howard Gre'en; screen play by Jefferson Parker; photographed by James Brown. Cast: Jack Holt, Beverly Roberts, Craig Reynolds, Doiiglas Wood, Spencer Charters, Maurice CaSs, Marjorie Gateson^ Tom. Kennedy, Corbet Morris, - Dorothy. Appleby, Gilbert Emery, John Wray, Sheila Bromley, Tully Marshall, Greta Meyer. 'CAMPUS MYSTERY,' produced by Ralph Cohn for the Irving Briskin . tjnit; directed by Lambert Hilly.er; original screen play by Earl Feiton; no photographer, credit, Cast: Scott Colton, Mary Russell. Frank C. Wilson, Phillip Ahn, S. Farrell MacDonald, Arthur Loft, Nick Lukats. 'YOU CAN'T WIN,' produced by Wallace MacDoniald for the; Irving Briskin. unit; directed by C. C. Coleman, Jr.; screen play by Arthur T. Hormari; photographed by" Henry Freulich. Cast: Don Terry, Jacqueline Wells, Robert Paige, Gene Morgan/ Thurston Hall, George McKay. . Columbia Pix Now in. Ij^roduction ^WIDE OPEN FACES/ Diavid. L. Loew i>rodUction; associate producer Edward Gross; directed by Kurt Neumann; screen play by Joe Bigelow; photographed by Paul Vogel. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Alison Skipwbrth, Lyda Roberti, Jane Wymian, Alan Baxter, Barbara Pepper, Lucien Littlefleld, Sidney Toler, Burton Churchill, Stanley Fields, Joe Downing, Walter Wills, Dick Rich. 'THE Lone wolf,' produced by Wallace MacPonald; directed by Al Rogell; original by Louis Joseph Vance; screen play by Arthur T. Horman. Cast: Francis Lederer, Frances.Drake, Walter Kingsford, Leoha Maricle, Albert Van Dekker, Bess Flowers, Roger Gray, Eddie Featherspon. •CRIME OF THE YEAR,' produced by Ralph Cohn for the Irving Bris- kin unit; directed by Danny Dare; original by Hai'old Shumate; screen play by Lee Loeb. Cast: Robert Paige, Jacqueline Wells, Pat Flaherty, John Gallaudet, Dick Curtis, Arthur Loft, John Tyrrell, Jimmy Millican, Bill Lally. Grand National F'eatures Westerns Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised plcted ing 43 11 .0 22 4 0 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories In Cuttinif Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tlon 1 31 5 t 17 -1 6 Total. 65 15 0 2 48 Pictures novi in the cutting room or a\yailing previews are: 'KING OF THE SIERRAS,' Condor, picture featuring three horses, Rex, Sheik and Thunder; Frank Gayass. associate producer; directed by Arthur Rosson; original screen play by Scott Darlihg; photographed by Tom Gal- ligan. Cast: Frank Campeau; Wally Albright, Morgan Brown; Edward Peil, Billy Van Every. . 'THE jSHADOW MURDER CASE,' formerly titled 'THE SHADOW speaks!,' produced by Max and Arthur Alexander;, directed by Charles Lamont; original, screen play by Jack Natteford; photographed by Marcel Picard. Cast: Rod LaRocque, Astrid Allwyn, William Van Bfinckeh, John St. Polls, Thomas Jackson. Oscar- O'Shea, William Pawley, Walter Bonn, William Moore, Lou; Hfern, Tenen Holtz, Lloyd Whitlock, Jack Baxley. Features .., Hal Roach. «'•...'*• Number Number Now. of pix Com- Shoot- Proinised pleted .. in);. 48 16 3 4 0 2 Now Balance to in Be PlacRd Stories In Cutting: Befom prepara- Rooms Cameras tion ■ 6 ■ . 23 ^ ■'.-5-'^ 0 -2 4 25- 9 Total ........... 52 16 5 6 Pictures iio>y in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: - *||AD MAN OF BRIMSTONE,' produced by Harry Rapf; directed -by .J. Walter Ruben; original by Ruben, Cast: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hat- jon, Virginia Bruce, Lewis Stone, Bruce Cabot, Larry Doyle, Joseph ^aueia, Guy Kibbee, Warren Hymer. Cliff Edwards, Noah Beery, Sr,. Arthur Hohl,: Robert Gleckler^ Olin Howard, Mitchell Lewis, John-Qualen, •^£IV^ O'Keefe, Guinn Williams, Scotty Beckett, John Wray. .EVERYBODY SING,' produced, by Harry Rapf; directed by Edwin L. iviann; ongmal story by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf; other Winer credits not available as Vet; photographed by Joe Ruttenberg. Cast; Tv''" Fanny Brice, Judy Carlaiid, Billie Burke, Reginald Owen, ^yniie Carver, Reginald Gardiner, Mai v Forbes. Elise Cavonna, Cupid Ainsworth. Marie Blake, Helen Troy,-Monty. Woollev. Adia KuznetzofT, .-Kcni-y Armetta, ' - ^..^*JSENE LUPIN RETURNS.', product by .lohh W. Confiidihe, Jr.; auectcd by GeorTe Fitzmau'ricc; original frorti story by Maurice Lcblanc; no other writer credits as yet announced; photographed by John. Seitz, Cast: Melvyn . Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John HalUday, Monty ..Woolly, George Douglas, Leonard Penn, Nat Pendleton, George ZuCco, E, E.. Clive. 'BENEFITS FORGOT,' produced by John W. Considine, Jr.; directed by Clarence Brown; novel by. Honore WiUsie Morrow; photographed by Charles Lawton. Cast: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn, Ted Healy, Charley Grapewin, Guy Kibbee, Ann Ruther- ford, Leatrice Joy Gilbert, John Carradirie, Arthur Aylesworth, Charles Peeki - Sterling HoUoway. - ^ 'THREE MEN IN THE SNOW/ produced by Sam Zimbalist; directed by Eddie Buzzell; origiiial from novel by-Erich Kaestner; no other writer credits as yet. Cast: Robert Young, Frank Morgan', Florence Rice, Reginald .Owen, <Edna Mae Oliver, Henry. Hull, Mary Astor, Herman Bing, Siegfried Ruman, Walter Kingsford.' 'LOVE' IS' A HEADACHE,' no producier cVedit; . directed by Richard Thorpe; from novels 'Twins for Her Majesty', by Lou Heifetz and Herbert Klein; no other writer credits as-yet. Cast: Gladys Georgie, Franchot Tone, Mickey Rooney, Barnett Parker, Ted Healy, Frank Jenks, Ralph Morgan, Virginia Weidler, Fay Holdeh, Henry Kohler. Metro Pix Now in Production 'GIRL. OF THE GOLDEN WEST,' produced by- William Anthony Mc- Guire; directed by Robert Z. Lieonard; from the stage play by Dayid Belasco; screen play: by William Anthony McGuire; photographed by Oliver Marsh. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson. Eddy, Leo Carrillo, v Buddy Ebseri,. Ray Bolger, Leonard Penni, Priscilla Lawson, Cliff Edwards, Inez Seabury^ Billy Be van; Brandort Tynan, Bob Murphy, Victor Pptel,- Olm Howland, Noah Young. : - . - ■ 'MERRILY WE LIVE,' (Hal Roach > produced by Milton H. Bren; directed by Norman Z. McLeod; original by E. J. Rath, screen play by Eddie Moran and Jack Jevne. Cast: Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray, Billie Burke, Bonita Granville, Tom Brown, Patsy Kelly,. Ann Dvorak, Marjorie Rambeau, Philip Reed; Clarence Kolb, Mar.iorie-Kane,. Willie Best, Paul Everton, Sarah Edwards, Olin. Howlahd, Pat Flaherty, Eddie Hart, •TEST PILOT/ produced, by Louis D. Lighten; directed by Victor Fleming;-original by Lt-Com. Frank Wead; photographed by Ray June, Cast; Clark' Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore,. Ted Pearson, Arthur AyJsworth, Claudia Coleman, Prisdilla Lawson, Virginia Grey, Gloria Hblden, Samuel S. Hinds, Mary Howard, Joe Donlin, Tom Rutherford, Harry, Tayl,or, Brerit Sargent. : •MADELON/ iJEofluced by Henry Henigson; directed by James Whale; original by Mauricl Baghol. Cast;-Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan, James Stewart, Cora Witherspooh, Jessie Ralph, Doris Lloyd. : 'SWISS MISS' (Hal.BoachX produced by S,. S, Van Kauren; directed by John G, Blystone; no writing credits as yet announced.. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Delia Lind, Walter Woolf King, Adia Kuznetzoff, Charles Judels, Greta Meyer. . MoDogram Features Western Number Ncmber Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ing 26 15 1 16 6 1 -^ow Balattooto In Be PlMOd 0torlM In CuUlnf Bctero Propara- ReoBu Camera* iion 2 8 5 1 8 * 3 16 Total .......... 42 21 2 Pictures in the cutting room: •TELEPHONEUiOPERATOR,' produced by Loh Young; directed by Scott Pembroke; origmal by John Krafft; screen play by Scott Darling; photo^ graphed by Gilbert Warreriton. Cast: Judith Allen, Grant Withers, Alice White. Warren Hymer, Pat Flaherty. , .. „ \ 'SALESLADY/ associate producer. Ken Goldsmith; directed by Arthur Greville Collins; screyi play by Marjon Orth; photographed by Gilbert Warrenton. Cast: Anne Nagel, Weldpn Heyburxi, Ruth Fallows, Harry Davenport, Aileen Carlyle; •WEST OF RAINBOW'S END/ produced by Maurice Cohn; directed by Alan James; original screen play by Robert! Emmett; photographed by Jack Greenhalgh.- Cast: Col. Tim McCoy, Kathleen Eliot, Mary Carr, George Cooper, Walter McGrail, Frank LaRue, Bob Kortman, Edward Mordaunt, Jimmy Aubrey, George Chang. Monogram Pix: Now in Producflon •iviY OLD KENTUCkY HOME' (Crescent for Monogram), produced by E, B, Derr; directed by Lambert Hillyer; original screen play by John T, Neville; rhotographed by Arthur Martinelli, Cast: Grant Richards, Evelyn Venable,' Clara Blandick, Bernadehe Hayes, Margajet Marquis, Cornelius Keefe, Kitty McHugh, Paiil White, Hall Johnson (Jhoir, J.. Farrell Mae- Donald, Raquel Davido, Mildred Gover. 'OUT WHERE THE WEST BEGINS/ produced by Maurice Conn; di- rected by J. P. McGowan; original by Stanley Roberts; screen play by Roberts and Gennaro Rea; photographed by Jack Greenhalgh. ^ Cast: Jack Randall, Luana Walters, Fuzzy Knight, Arthur Houseman, Dick Alexander, Ralph Peters, Budd Busier, Kit Guard, Joe Garcia, Noritian. Phelps, Arlene Lesley. Paramount Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'ROMANCE IN tHE OARK,' formerly titled 'THE YELLOW NIGHT- INGALE,' produced by Harlan Thompson; directed by H, C. Potter; screen play by Frank Partes and Anne Morrison Chapih; based on play by Hermann Bahr; photographed by William. Mellor. Cast: Gladys Swarth- oiit, John Boles, John Barrymore, Clair Dodd, Frit? Feld. ^CASSIDY OF BAR 20,' produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Les Selander; screen play by Norman Houston; original by (Clarence E; Mul- fcrd; photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast: Frank Darien, Russell Hay-^ den, Nora Lane, Robert Fiske, John Elliott,' William Boyd, .Margaret Marquis, Gertrude W* Hoffman, Garlcton Young, Gordon Hart, Edward Cassidy. - . -.'THE .BUCCANEER,' produced and- directed by .C. B. De Mille; photo- graphed by Victor. Milner; screen play by Edwin Justus Mayer, .Harold Lamb, and C. Gardner Sullivan frohi Jeanie MacPherson's adaptation of 'Lafitte, the Piratc' by Lyle Saxon. Cast: Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamirnifr. Ian Keith.. Walter Brennan, Douglas Dumbrille, Robert Barrat,'Fred KoKler, Sr.. Beulah Bondi. Margot (jrahame, Anthony Quihn, Hugh.. Sothern, John Rogers, Hans. Steinke, Stanley Andrews, Spring Byington, ' 'SCANDAL STREET,' fOrxnerly titled. 'THEY KNEW.'WHAT HAPPENEI),' produced b; gencral-inanager's office; directed by James Hogan; screen play by Bertram MillbaUser and Eddie Welch; based on story by Vera Ca.spary; ph6t.ogi-aphed by Hchry Sharp. Cast- Lew Ayres, Louise Camp- bell, Porter Hall, Ro.^coe Karns. Virginia Wcidler, Edgar Kennedy atid Cecil Cunningham. Elizabeth Patterson, Jan Duggan, Laraine Johnson, Lois Kent, George OITermati. Jr.* Esther - Howard, Lucien Littlefleld, Pern Emm.ett,.Louis BL'avers.^^Alfalfa.' Switzcr. ■ 'HEART O.F ARIZO.NA/ fprmerly titled 'GUN SMOKE/ produced by Harry. Sherman; directed by Le.s Selander; original by Clarence E. Mul- ford; ,scrooh-pIay by Norhian Houston; photographed by RiisseU Harlan. Ca.st: William Boyd, George Haye.^, Russell Haydcn, John Elliott, Billy (Gonlinucd on page .25) 56 of 25, mt OK (Continued from page 5) supply o,f embryo material from N.Y, amusement sources.' Par's School East Paramount has its own school of acting in. the east tp dt-velop folks showing greatest possibilitieis, Metro. as'siiit.s in coaching or. recommends s6'nne. acting school' when the. can- didate only lacks thespian polish. Twehtieth-Fox has'its o\vn dircctor- coiich on the payroll. RKO also has been known to suggest. coaching when , the aspirant shovvs chance of develbping. Its prineipal - acting; school is on the Coast, -. .. In. connectioh with its..work of scouting throughout the east, includ- ing Philadelphia, Baltimore, ChicagOji Washington and Boston regularly, Metro's talent division, under Al Alt- man's guidance, has collected a li- brary of 600 brief scripts in the last 15 months suitable for use in iscreeri tests. Majority of these ai:e designed to bring out : the best features of a candidate's possibilities. Such library. was collected because the depart- ment, was amazed at the. ab.sence of suitable dialog material 'for .. in tests, • Metro's analysis shows that talent. scouts watched or interviewed 25,000 for possible use in pictures, exclusive Of amateurs. Of this humber, - 8,000 were interviewed, 4,0Qp. auditioned, and 100 screen-tested .(involving 200- persons altogether). Only 15 Were sent to the Coast. Metro's Altman claims, his corhpahy.has the highest percentage of acceptances' ■ 'the trade in relation to tests made. His department tested. Joan Crawford; Franchot Tone and Igor Gorin among, others. Pariamount lo.pked over 15,000. applicants . or applications and .sent aboiit 30Q through its school of act- ing, commonly called Star University. Of these, aijout 110 (part of which number Were in support) were test- ed and six sent to' the Coast. Boris Kaplan, head ot the department, spent , years in the legit play casting field before joining Par. ZOth's Record Nearly 11,000 were considered by 20th-FDx, with 1,000 to 1,500 actually auditioned and 100 tested, About 10%, or 10 of those tes'ted, went to the Coast. Joseph Pincus, head of talent department, has..uncovered or aided, in finding many of piresent stars, including the Ritz Bros., Sonja Henie, Tyrone power and Don Ameche, . RKO talent department, under Arthur Willi, Interviewed 800 to 1,000 in a year's time; auditioned, 250 arid tested, 30. Of these, 25 were sent to Holly wood; Among present-day stars first test- ed in the east besides those named are Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Frances Langford, Frances Farmer, Gladys George, Edna Mae- Oliver, Spencer Tracy, Jean Muir, Madge Evans, Lunt and Fontanne, Helen Hayes, James Stewart, Joan Blohdell, James Cagney and Mae West. (Continued from page.l) Federal employees a chance to spend during the long ice season. The capital.-has been-grdwihg iri stature in importance in theatrical and legitimate stage circles. Box of- fice receipts on both flesh and film presentations have climbed up since Rooseveltiari agencies have overrun the capital with payrollers. / Walter E. O'Hara, who 'put over , hiis dinky Narragansett. Park, took out an option on the old Fort Ben- nings race track in the District of Columbia before Gov. Robert <3uinn of Rlibde Island called out the state militia, . Repeated efforts to get legalized : pari-mutuel wagering have failed, b!ut, the hope still lingers on—that old ' Benningis will again become the: scerie of the reckless playing arid reckless gaiety of bygone day.s. Tracks in. and around Baltimore/^ -which' have been drawing; the bulk of the pony-playirig by politicians, and cmployee.s heaved a. sigh of re- lief when 6'Hara's option was dropped. MERLE POTTER HONORED Minneapolis, Dec. 28. Twin City Variety Club and the- atre . men of city tendered Merle Potter a testimonial dinner party on the occasion of his lOlh £»nni- vcrsary as Journal film and drama editor. More than 200 . fllrri men, theatre managers. and owners, newspaper- men and city and btat'e 'officials-at- teridod