Variety (Jan 1938)

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^eilnesdajt January 26, 1938 PICTURES VARIETr 19 Advance Production Chart Holiyxoqod, Jan. 25. ■ Hollywood production finds 32 pictures facing the cameras as against 2i9 stilt due to round out total o/ 591 promised, for the current season. In the cutting rooms are 73, with 239 completed^ either released or pre- viewed. Studios gave out with 16 completed, pictures in the past two weeks and raised ^number in production by three over the pcist tv>o-week period. Cbhunbia Westeriis . • David Loew Total ..... ••••••• Nomber Number of Plx Com- Pr»inise# pleted 40 16 22 e ■ 2 . •• ■ ■Now. Shoot- ■ , .2 ■ • ■ NowBalanaot* im Be Plae«d( St«rit< in Cattinr Before Prep»rft- Booms CaaerM ilea 7 16 S 3 12 2 1 1 1 64 22 11 29 Pictures now in the cuttine rooms, or .awaiting previews are: 'WHO KILLED GAIL PRESTON?' formerly titled^MURDER IN SWING- TIME,' produced by Ralph Cohn for the Irving Brlskin iinit; directed by Leon Barsh.a; original by Fred Pedersen; $creien play by Robert Kent arid Henry Taylor; photographed by Henry Freulich. Cast: Don Terry, Wyn Cahoon, Robert Paige, Rita Hay worth, John Gallaudet, Gene Morgan. •LITTLE MISS ROUGHNECK,' formerly titled 'WONDER CHILD," pro- duced by Wallace MacDoniald for the Irving Briskin unit; directed by Aubrey Scotto; original by Fred NibloV; Jr., and Grace Neville; iscreen play by Niblo; Migs Neville and Michael Simnions; photographed: by Benjamin Kline, Gast: Edith Fellows, Leo Caririlloi ' Margaret Irving,: Scott Coltoh, Inez Palange, Jacquielihe Well?. ' •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: Wilter Connolly. / 'ROLLING CARAVANS,' formerly titled 'LAND RUSH DAT^,' pro- duced by Larry Darrrioiir; directed by Joseph Lev^riiig;. original story and screen play by Nate Gatzert; photographed by James S. Brown, Jr. Cast: Jack Luden, Eleanor Stewart, Harry Woods, Lafe McKee, Buzz Barton, Bud Osborne, Cactus Mack, Tilffy (canine )i Slim Whittaker, Francis Walker. 'CATTLE RAIDERS/ formerly titled ♦LONE RIDER,' produced by H^irry L. Dgckei: for Irving Briskin unit; directed biy SaihT^elsori; briglflal by Folmer BlangSted; screein play by Ed. Earl Repp; photographed by John Boyle.; Cast: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith,. Donald Grayson, Dick Curtis, Allen Brook, Sons, of the Pioneers. •EXTORTION/formerly titled 'CAMPUS MYSTERY/ produced by Ralph Coha for the Irving Briskin unit; directed by Lambert Hillyer; original screen play by Earl Felton; no photographer credit... . Cast:. Scott Colton, Mary Russell, Frank C. Wilson, Phillip Ahn, J. Farrell MacDonald, Arthur Loft, Nick Lukats. . ' . •WHEN G-MEN" STEP iN/ formerly titled'YOU CANT WIN,' produced by Wallace MacDonald for the Irving Briskin unit; directed by C. C. Cole- man, Jr.; screen play by Arthur T. Horman; photographed by Henry Freu- lich. Cast: Don Terry, Jacqueline Wells, Robert Paigej Gene Morgan, Thurston Hall, George McKay, 'WIDE OPEN FACES/ David L. Ldew production; associate producer Edward Gross; directed by Kurt Neumurin; screen play by Joe BigeloW;. photographed by Paul Vogel. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Alison Skipworth, Lyda Roberti. Jane Wyman, Alan Baxter, Barbara Pepper. Lucien Littlefteld, Sidney Toler, Burton Churchill, Stanley Fields, Joe Downing, Walter Wills, Dick Rich. ♦THE LONE WOLF IN PARIS/ formerly titled 'THE LONE WOLF/ produced by Wallace MacDonald; directed by Al .Rogell; original by Louis Joseph Vance; screen play by Arthur T. Horman. Cast; Francis Lederer, Frances Drake, Walter Kingsford, Ueona Marlcle, Albert Van Dekker, Bess Flowers, Roger Gray, Eddie Featherspoon. . 'CRIME OF THE YEAR/ produced by Ralph Cohn for the Irving Bris- kin unit; directed by Danny Dare; original by Harold ' 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. ' ^ 'OUTLAWS OF THE BIG BEND/ produced by Harry Decker for Irving Eriskirj unit; directed by Alan James; original screen play by Ed Earl Rapp. Cast: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Donald Grayson, Dick Curtis, John Tyrrell, Ed Le Saint, The Sons of the Pioneers, Eddie Cobb, ColumbU Pis Now in Prodaction 'THERE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN/ produced by William Perlberg; di- rected by Alexander Hall; screen play by Gladys Lehman and Philip Rapp from magazine story by Wilson CoUison; photographed by Henry Freulich. Cast: Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor, Frances Drake, Wyn Cahpon,. Robert Paige. 'FLIGHT INTO NOWHERE/ produced by Larry Darmour; directed by Lewis D. Collins; original screien play by Jefferson Barker and Gordon Rigby; photographed by James S. BroWn, Jr. Cast: Jack Holt, Jacqueline W;ells, James Burke, Dick Purcell, Hector Sarnb, Grand Natioiial Pictures now in the cutting room or awaiting previews are; 'KING OF THE SIERRAS/ 'Condor picture featuring three hbj-ses. Rex. Sheik and Thunder; Frank Gayasis, associate producer;: directed by Arthur Rosson- original screen play Oy Scott Darling; photographed by Tom Gal- ligah. Cast: Frank Campeay, Wally Albright, Morgan Brown, Edward Peil, Billy Van Every. 'THE SHADOW MURDER CASE/ formerly titled 'THE SHADOW SPEAKS,' prdduced by Mjaic arid Arthur Alexander; directed by Charles Lamont; original: screen play by Jack Nattefoi:d; photographed by Marcel Picard. Cast:; Rod LaRocque, Astrid Allwyn; William Van Brinckcn,: John St; Polis.. Thomas Jackson; Oscar O'Shea. William Pawley,' Walter Bontji, William Moore, Lou Hern, Terien Holtz. Lloyd Whillock,. Jack Baxley, Metro •BENEFITS FORGOT/ produced by John W; Considine. Jr.; directed by Clatence Brown; novel by Honore Willsie Mbrrov/; photographed by C'harle.-^ Lawton. Cast: Walter Huston, James Stewart. Bculah Bondi, Charles Coburn. Ted Healy, Charley GrapewinrGuy Kibbee, Ann Ruther- ford, Lsatrice Joy Gilbert, John Carradine, Arthur Ayleswoirth, Charles Peck, Sterling Holloway. 'MERRILy WE LIVE/ (Hal Roach) produced by Milton H. Brcn; directed by Norman Z. McLeod; original by E. J. Rath, screen play by Eddie Moran ■nd Jack .Tevnc. Cast: Constance Bennett. Brian Aherne, Alan Mowbray. Bilhe Burke, Bonita Granville, Tom Brown, Palsy Kelly, Ann Dvorak, Marjorie Rambeau, Philip Reed. Clarence Kolb, Marjorie Kane, Willie Best, Paul Everton, Sarah Edwards, Olih liowland, Pat Flaherty, Eddie Hart. Met^o pix Now in Produptioia ♦GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST/ produced: by William Anthony Mc- Guire; directed by Robert Z.Leonard; from the stage play by David Belasco; iscreen play by William Anthony McGuire; photographed by Oliver Marsh. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy. Leo Carrillo, Buddy Ebsen, Ray Bolger, Leonard Penn, Priscilla Lawson,. Cliff Edwards, Inez Seabury, 'Billy Bevan, Brandon Tynan, Bob Murphy, Victor Polel, Olin Howland, Noah Young. •TEST PILOT/ produced by Louis D. Lighiton; directed by Victor Fleming; original by Lt.-Com. Frank Wead; photographed by Ray June. Cast: Clark Gable, Myi-ria Loy, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Tied Pearson, Arthur Aylsworth, Claudia Coleman, Priscilla Lawson, Virginia Grey, Gloria Holden, Samuel iS. Hinds. Mary Howard, Joe Donlin, Tom Rutherford, Harry Taylor, Brent Sargent. ♦MADELON/ produced by Henry Henigson; directed by James Whale; original by Maurice Bagnol. Cast: Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan^ Maureen O'SuUivan, Jaines Stuart, Cora Wlthersppon, Jessie Ralph, Doris Lloyd, Shepherd Strudwicke. ♦SWISS MISS' (Hal Roach ); produced by S. S. Van KaUren; directed by John G. Blys^one; no writing credits as yet announced. Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Delia Lind, Walter Woplf King, Adia Kuznetzoff, Charles Judels, Greta Mpyer; ; , •MARIE ANTOINETTE/ produced by Hiint Stromberg; directed by W. S. Van Dykej adapted from biography by Stefani.Zweig; no other writing credits as yet; photographed by William Daniels. Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, Robert Morley, Maureen O'SuUivan, Melvyn Douglas, Jo- seph Calleia, Cora Witherspoon, Shepherd Strudwicke; Barnett Parker, Tom Rutherford, Reginald Gardiner, Henry Stephens, Ruth Hussey. ♦WOODEN WEDDING/ produced by Norman Krasna; directed by Rich- ard Thorpe; original story by Noi-man Kirasna; photographed by Joe Rut- tenberg. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Virginia Brace, VTarren William. MoBOgraiiii Features Westerns. Total . Number Ni mber of Pix Com- Proinised pleted . 26 1.5 ,:../is.-. . Now Shoot- ing '.'0 42 2£ Now Balanoo to in BoPiaeod Storios la Cutting Beforo Prop»rn- Rooms CametM tioa . 4 7 3 .. -.^ .1 14 5 Pictures in the cutting i-oom:. • 'TEtiEPHONE OPERATOR,' produced by Lon .Young; directed by Scott Pembroke; original by John Krafft; screen play by Scott Darling; photo- graphed by Gilbert Warrenton, Cast: Judith Allen, Grant Withers, Alice White, Warren Hymer, Pat Flaherty. 'SALESLADY/ associate producer, Ken Goldsmith; directed by Arthur GrevIUe Collins; screen play by Marion Orth; photographed by Gilbert Warrenton. Cast: Anne .Nagel, Weldbn. Heyburn, Ruth Fallows, Harry Davenport, Aileen Carlyle. 'WESt OF RAINBOW'S END/ produced by Maurice Conn; 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, 'MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME' (Crescent for Monogram), produced by E. B. Derr; directed by Lambert Hillyer; original screen play by John T. Neville; '■hotographed by Arthur Martinelli. Cast: Grant Richards, Evelyn Venable, Clara Blahdick, Bernadene Hayes, Margaret Marquis, Cornelius Keefe, Kitty McHugh, Paul White, Hall Johnson CJhoir, J. Farrell Mac- Donald, Raquel Davldo, 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, X-uaria Walters, Fuzzy Knight. Arthur Hou.semap, Dick Alexander, Ralph Peters, Budd Buster, Kit Guard, Joe Garcia, Norman Phelps, Arlene Lesley. 'THE PORT OF MISSING GIRLS/ produced by Lon Young;, directed by Karl Brown; screen play by Karl Brown from original by Brown and Lon Young; photographed by Gilbert Warrenton. Cast; Judith Allen, Harry Carey, Milburn Stone, Jane Jones, George Cleveland, Matty Fain, Willy Costello, Betty Compson. ♦THE' PAINTED "TRAIL, produced by Robert Emmett; directed by Rob- ert Hill; original screen play by Robert Emmett; photographed by Bert Longendecker. Cast: Tom Keene, Eleanore Stewart, LeRoy Mason, Frank Campeau, Walter Long, Jimmy Eagles, Ernie Adams, Bud Osborne, Horace Taylor, Lloyd Irtgram. Panmoimt Studio . Harry Sherman. Emanuel Cohen. B. P. Schulberg Total Niinibe.r Number of Pix Com- promised pleted 36 21 '7 4 8 2 8 8 Now Shoot- ing 4 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories In Cutting Before Prepars- Rooms Cameras tloa 8 3 5 X % 1 1 5 5 • • • 59 35 12 pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'ROMANCE IN THE DARK/ formerly titled 'THE YELLOW NIGHT- INGALE/produced by Harlan Thompson: directed by H. C. ^ptler; screen play by Frank Partos and Anne Morrison Chapin; based on play hy Hermann Bahr; photographed by William Mellor. Cast:. Gladys Swarth- out, John Boles, John Barrymore. Claii- Dodd, Fritz Fcld. •CASSIOY OF BAR 20/ produced by Harry Sherman;^ directed by Les Selander; screen play by Norman Houston; original by Clarence E. Mul- ford; photographed by Russell Harlan. ■ Carst: I; rank Danen. Russell Hay- den, &bfa Lane. Robeit Fiskc;. .John KHiolt. . WiMiam Boyd Margarc Marquis, Gertrude W. Ilolrnian, Caileton Young, Cjordon Hart, Edward ■Cassidy.- . •SG'ANDAL STREET,'.formerly titled 'TIIEY. KNEW WHAT HAPPENED, produced b- general managei's olTice; directed by James Hogan; screen play by Bertram Millhauser and F:ddie We.lch; based ., :s.tory. by Vera Ca.spary; photographed bV. Henry Sharp. Ca.st: Lew Ayrfc's. J/puisc Camp- bell Porter Hall Ro.scop Karn.s. ViiKinfa Wcidlcr. Edgar Kennedy and Cecil Cunningham. Elizabeth pattcr.s-6n, Jan Du^gnn. Lora.ine Johnson, Lpis Kent. George Ofterman. Jr.. F:.-<thbr Howard, Lucicn Lilllclicld, Fern Emmett, Louis.Beavers.'Alfalfa'Swilzcr. •HEART OF ARIZONA/ formerly titled ♦GUN S.^iOKE/' produced by Harry Sherman; directed Ijy Lcs Selander; original by Clarence E, Mul- ford- screen play by Norman Houston;: photographed by Russell Harlart. Cast: William Bovd, George Hayc:-4. Russell Haydcri. John Elliott, Billy King. Natalie Moorhcad, Dorothy Short, Aldcti Cha.sCi John Beach, Lane Chandler, Leo McMahon. •BIG BROADCAST OP 1938,' produced by Harlan Thomp.son; dir6ct(2d by MitchM.l Lci.sen; screen play by Walter DcLeon, Francis Martin, and ken Englund: based on adaptation by Howard Lindsay and. Ru.ssel.'Crouse of story by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan. Cast: W. C. Field.'?. . Martha Raye. Dorothy Lampur, Ben Blue. Rob lTope. Shirley Ross, Lelf Eriksbn, Kirsten (Continued On page 21 > Osterman (Continued from pa,ye 2^ Mercury theatre, the musicians' union demanded an orchestra which woiild ruin the idea completeli'; but Gris- man, with his tongue in his check and 1,000 bucks every week in his pocket, pays o(l the phantom orches- tra.. ,10 men (.$100 a piece), who re- pprt every, night but don't play. Cirismah wanted to piek his Pwn men, but the. union wanted tp do the picking, whereupon the . producer yelled, 'You mean my men that don't play aren't as good as your men that don't play?' They compromised, and Grisman ordered five bsr«^on players and five oboes, figuring those men need jobs. His iidded in.struction3 were: 'Don't .double-cross- me some night and send two trumpets that don't play .; .1 can tell ^tlie diflerchCe in a minute/ Fantastic part of this unusual if not unheard-of thing in the theatre, if Grisman takes the .s'hpw tp Chicago he vWill bo fprcod t.o have four stand- by musicians who don't (jlay. for the, ^uys who don't 'play whan they get their day off, Is 'that man with the >vlVite jacket waitiiig for us? "To the. opening of: the Hawaiian Yacht Club, with Dan Walker, who went from rcviewin'i the works of Mozart to Sharkey Bananas In one generation. : The r.adacprated 'room - is much nicer than the former club, and brings back merhorios bt Reisen- weber's aind the Doraldina.Room. (AU right, we were ; kid when we started.) A quick—stop at Jack'- White's- rnadhouse, wivere thSt human dynamo and his two Theatre Guild' assistants, Pat Harrington and Frankie Hires, provide'the best fun in town. Cornflakes at Da.v,e's Blue Room, where one of . .our greatest r;ctresscs, covered in mink, sits un- noticed,, A. cruel racket,/with no memor.y to speak of, this show busi- ness, of oiirs. The lady? Oli, ot course—^Lohore Ulric! Thoughts While Thinking Wonder if Mitzi Mayfair's favorite opera is 'The Tales of Hoffman?' It used to be Mills, Kirk and Martin... then came Mills, Gold and Ray. . .Sid Plermont got lonesome,.so. Wot to be outdone, last week he booked In 'Navy, Blue and Gpld'.. .Viplinsky, in.from the Cpast,.claims he pwed his . landlady so much dou'»h she moved out on him... .Jack LaRue and Vince Barnett did eight swell shows a day at the State last week; four oh the stage and four in their di'essing room ..iSince the Bishop .suspended the' fasting Dean Israel Noe, looks like Al Shean has the corner on the mir- acle market. . .After much contro- versy, Herman Stairk's Nicholas Bros, went on tbe Bernie program and killed 'em...Jack Waldron.says he passed by the Hollywood Cafe, and the mice were singing 'Bel Mir Bist Du Schoen'...we saw the Braddock victory...a sentimental thrill... and show business is getting so that to- day if you are a good professional, you can gradually work,yourself up to a great amateur! 10 P. M. Legit (Continued from page 1) ."ith avenue, or north of Central P; SPUth, is tiie element that; figures ici the traffic cpiitiestlpn. Because, es- pecially during the winter, wh?ii stprm pr sleet further retards traf- flc; it rcal.ly creates a nuisance at almpst, every theatre, spme ar' i- trarily delaying curtains until enpi" h of the sold ticket-holders .fira'ly shpw^ up.. Result has been that 1>a punctual- ones become, the mo-e irked through. pr»rh3r)s h'lvirt;; skipped or hurried, dinner in ord?r to be on time. . In London of course the .su'jnep habit is. such that the V/e.U End .thea- tres dp not face that prpbleai,. msny dining afler tbsi .show. .; iBUt - as'.' presently • constituted N.i Yi. leisurely beff)re-lhc':it:-e din- ing ha.s bbcome . a . great, worry f.jp the legitimate- ih:^at<-(;. Many of .the. hotels .ind east'.sirljis. eat^iries. reco.'^nizin", Unt the thoatre habit will npver tip brol-er.i, h^ve-. tried.cooperatin'? .)v scbedulin'j 'the- atre dinners.'- The hbadwaiter asc'.;r- tains" the altraction to Ijc; ,seon .Tnd, trom h!.s own. liMiC-l'ib'e Of wh^n curta.ihs go up,, the cher ooppr.it vi. accprdin';(l.V, iri nrdci' I') ivi lha n:>"tr oiit in time .to. m:ii;r; tti!> curt""!!. However, that's ii.; :iliy a rush "p^T'*'r., m matter inv/ s-)r'':it'nis .the f-'".':v'"^. In the Tiinf'.i S^unrc .sc>ct'M- hotels. T".stnii.mtit-i'. elo.. n')w f'*'i'-i"'& timo-t.Tblcs f^ivi.ri.T l')r5tions airl cur- tain. I'ln^ of oncit theatre, as- a fi',i> then h.elp M')t to ovi-^i^rush . th patron.-).