Variety (Sep 1938)

Wednesday, September 21, 1938 PICTURES VARIETY 19 Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 17) Young, Billie Burke,- Richard Carlson, Minnie Dupree, Margaret Early, Charles Halton, Lya Lys, Eily Malyon, Henry Stephenson, Tom Ricketts. 'THERE GOES MY HEART' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Hal Roach; associate producer, Milton H. Bren; directed by Norman McLeod; original screen play by Eddie Moran and Jack Jevne; photographed by Norbert Brodine. Cast: Fredric March, Virginia Bruce, Patsy Kelly, Alan Mowbray, Nancy Carroll, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Lake, Adia Kuznit- zoff, Mary Field, Pat Gleason, Greta Grandstedt, Moroni Olsen, Kenneth Harlan, Eugene Pallette, Etienne Girardot, Irving Pichel, William Davidson. United Artists Pix Now in Production 'LADX AND THE COWBOY' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Samuel Goldwyn; directed by H. C. Potter; screen play by Sam Behrman from an original by Leo McCarey and Frank R. Adams; photographed by Gregg Toland. Cast: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, David Niven, Thomas Mitchell, Walter Brennan. Patsy Kelly. Mabel Todd, Fuzzy Knight, Henry Kolker, Emma Dunn, Harry Davenport. 'TRADE WINDS/ produced by Walter Wanger; directed by Tay Gar- nett; screen play by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Frank R. Adams from original story by Tay Garnett; photographed by Rudolph Mate. Cast: Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy/Ann Sothern, Alan Baxter, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Patricia Farr, Wilma Francis, Kay Linaker, Dorothy Tree, Phyllis Barry, Walter Bryon, Wilson Benge, Harry Paine, Hooper Atchley, Franklin Parker, Lee Phelps, John Webb Dillion, Dick Rush, Mrs. Sojin, Gloria Youngblood, Ethelreda Leopold, Marie DeForest, Earl Wallace, Princess Luana, Paulita Arbivu, Iko Magara, Suzanne Kaaren, Lotus Liu, Robert Elliott. •TOPPER TAKES A TRIP,' produced by Milton H. Bren for Hal Roach; directed by Norman Z. McLeod; screen play by Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran from the Thome Smith novel; photographed by Norbert Brodine. Cast: Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray, Verree Teasdale, Alexander D'Arcy, Franklin Pangborn, Leon Belasco, Irving Pichel. 'MADE FOR EACH OTHER/ produced by David-JO. Selznick; directed by John Cromwell; screen play by Jo Swerling; photographed by Leon Shamroy. Cast: Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Lucile Watson, Donald Briggs, Charles Coburn, Arthur Hoyt, Ruth Weston, Nella Walker, Harland Briggs, Mickey Rentschler. Universal Total Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ing 48 6 3 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 7 32 32 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: 'RED BARRY' (serial) (for 1938-39 season), produced by Barney Sarecky; directed by Ford Beebe and Alan James; screen play by Ford Beebe, Norman Hall, Ray Trampe; photographed by Jerry Ash. Cast: Larry (Buster) Crabbe, Frances Robinson, Edna Sedgwick; •YOUTH TAKES A FLING' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Joe Past- ernak; directed by Archie Mayo; original by Phil Epstein; screen play by Myles Connolly; photographed by Rudolph Mate. Cast: Joel McCre'a, Andrea Leeds, Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks, Granville Bates, Oscar O'Shea, George Offerman, Jr., Frank Scully, Eddie August, Isabel Jeans. •SWING THAT CHEER' (for 1938-39), produced by Max Golden; directed by Harold Schuster; story by Thomas Ahearn and F. Maury Grossman; screen play by Charles Grayson; photographed by Elwood Bredell. Cast: Tom Brown, Andy Devine, Robert Wilcox, Constance Moore, Stanley Hughes, Samuel S. Hinds, Ray Parker, Ernest Truex, 'Doodles' Weaver, Margaret Early. 'PRAIRIE JUSTICE/ produced by Trem Carr; directed by George Wagg- ner; original screen play by Joseph West; photographed by Gus Peterson. •Cast: Bob Baker, Hal Taliaferro, Dorothy Fay, Jack Rockwell, Carleton Young, Forrest Taylor, Glenn Strange. •THAT CERTAIN AGE/ produced by Joe Pasternak; directed by Edward Ludwig; original story by F. Hugh Herbert; screen play by Bruce Manning, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; photographed by Joe Valentine. Cast: Deanna Durbin, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, John Holliday, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Searle, Juanita Quigley, Addison Richards. 'SERVICE DE LUXE' (for 1938-39), produced by Edmund Grainger; directed by Rowland V. Lee; no writing credits released yet; photographed by George Robinson. Cast: Constance Bennett, Vincent Price, Charles Ruggles, Mischa Auer, Helen Broderick, Joy Hodges. •THE LAST EXPRESS/ produced by Irving Starr; directed by Otis Gar- rett; screen play by Edmund L. Hartmann from novel by Baynard Ken- drick. Cast: Kent Taylor, Adrianne Ames. Don Brodie, Greta Granstedt, Paul Hurst, Shaw and Lee, Edward Raquello. Universal Pix Now in Production 'THE STORM/ produced by Ken Goldsmith; directed by Harold Young; screen play by Hugh King, Daniel Moore and George Yohalem from origi- nal by Hugh. King and Daniel Moore; photographed by Milton Krasner. Cast: Charles Bickford, Barton. MacLane, Preston Foster, Tom Brown, Andy Devine, Frank Jenks. Samuel Hinds. 'EXPOSED/ produced by Max H. Golden; directed by Harold Shuster; screen play by Charles Kaufman and Franklin Coen; photographed by Stanley Cortez. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Otto Kruger, Herbert Mundin, David Oliver, Charles B. Brown, Lorraine Krueger, Chester Clute. 'STRANGE FACES/ produced by Burt Kelly; directed by Errol Taggart; screen play by Charles Grayson from original story by Cornelius Reece and Arndt Giusti; potographed by Elwood Bredell. Cast: Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks, Andy Devine, Leon Ames, Mary Treen. Warners Total Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ing; 52 1 7 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting: Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 13 41 51 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'SECRETS OF AN ACTRESS/ formerly titled «WOMAN HABIT/ for- merly titled 'LOVELY LADY/ produced by David Lewis: directed by Wil- liam Keighley; original screen play by Rowland Leigh, Milton Krims and Julius Epstein; photographed by Sid Hickox. Cast: Kay Francis, George Brent, Ian Hunter, Gloria Dickson, Isabel Jeans, Dennie Moore, Gloria Blondell. Rosella Towne, John Ridgeley. Penny Singleton, Larry Williams. Selmer Jackson, Herbert Rawlinson. Emmet Vogan, James B. Carson. Grace Hayle, Marion Alden, Paulette Evans, Eddie Graham, Stuart Holmes. Jack Goodrich. Arthur Houseman, Jack Mower. Olaf Hytten. John Harron. 'BROTHER RAT/ produced by Robert Lord: directed by William Keigh- ley; screen play by Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay from the play by John-Monks. Jr., and Fred Finkelhoffe; photographed by Ernie Hallor. Cast: Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane. Jane Wyman, Johnny 'Scats' Davis. Henry O'Neill, Ronald Reagan. Jessie Busley, Louise Beavers. William Tracey, Edward Albert. Gordon Oliver. 'ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES/ produced by Sam Bischoff; directed by Michael Curtiz; original story by Roland Brown; photographed by Sol Polito. Cast: James Cagney. Pat O'Brien. Ann Sheridan. Humphrey Bo- gart, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley. Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall. 'CURTAIN CALL/ produced bv Bryan Foy; directed by John Farrow; screen play by Mark Hellinger from magazine story by Faith Baldwin: Photographed by James Wong Howe.! Cast: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter. Janet Chapman, Melville Cooper. Donald Crisp, John Litel, lan Keith. 'TORCHY GETS HER MAN/ formerly titled 'TORCHY FINDS OUT/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Beaudine; no writing credits released as yet; photographed by Arthur Todd. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Willard Robinson, George Gould. •BLACKWELLS ISLAND/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William McGann; original screen play by Crane Wilbur and Dave Marcus; photo- graphed by Sid Hickox. Cast: John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Morgan Conway, Peggy Shannon, Dick Purcell, Lottie Williams, Stanley Fields, Charley Foy, Norman Willis. Granville Bates, Raymond Barley, Jimmy O'Gatty, Wade Boteler, William Davidson, Walter Young. •THE SISTERS/ produced by David Lewis; directed by Anatole Litvak; no writing credits released yet for adaptation of novel by Myron Brinig; photographed by Tony Gaudio. Cast: Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Jane Bryan, Errol Flynn, Harry Travers, Beulah Bondi. Henry Davenport. •DEVIL'S ISLAND/ formerly titled 'RETURN OF DR. X/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Clemens; no writing credits released as yet; photographed by George Barnes. Cast: Boris Karloff, Leonard Mudie, Frank Reicher, James Stephens, Pedro De Cordoba, Nat Carr, Tom Wilson, Sidney Bracy, Stuart Holmes. Dirio Corrado. John Harman. 'HARD TO GET/ formerly titled 'KISS AND RUN/ formerly titled 'HOT HEIRESS/ formerly titled HEAD OVER HEELS/ produced by Sam Bischoff; directed by Ray Enright; no writing credits released yet; photo- graphed, by Charles Rosher. Cast: Dick Powell, Olivia De Havilland, Allen Jenkins, Charles Winninger, Isable Jeans, Bonita Granville, Melville Cooper, Patric Knowles, Penny Singleton. 'KING OF THE UNDERWORLD/ formerly titled 'UNLAWFUL/ pro- duced by Bryan Foy; directed by Lew Seiler; screen play by George Bricker; photographed by Sid Hickox. • Cast: Kay Francis, James Stephen- son, Humphrey Bogarjt, John Eldredge, Jessie Busleigh, Harles Foy, Joe Develin, Penny Singleton. 'HEART OF THE NORTH' (in Technicolor), produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Lewis Seiler; screen olay by Robert Rossen, Vincent Sherman and Lee Katz from novel by William Byron Mowery; photographed by L. William O'Connell. Cast: Dick Foran. Margaret Lindsley, Gloria Didk- son, Janet Chapman, Patric Knowles, Allen Jenkins, James Stephenson, Alec Harford, Russell Simpson, Gordon Hart, Pedro de Cordoba, Jack Mower, John Harron. Anthony Averill, J. Crawthers. 'WINGS OF THE NAVY/ produced by Lou Edelman; directed by Lloyd Bacon; original screen play by Michael Fessier; photographed by Arthur Edeson. Cast: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh, John Ridgeley, Henry O'Neill, John Litel, Regis Toomey, Donald Briggs, Max Hoffman, Jr., John Gallaudet. •TORCHY IN CHINATOWN/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Wil- liam Beaudine; screen play by George Bricker; photographed by Warren Lynch. Cast: Glenda Farrell. Barton MacLane, Henry O'Neill, Tom Ken- nedy, Janet Shaw, Dick Bond,"Patric Knowles, James Stephenson, Andy Lawlor, Frank Shannon, George Guhl, Joe Cunningham, Jack Mower, Charles Hickman, Bruce Mitchell, John Harron. Warner Pix Now in Production •GOING PLACES/ produced by Barney Glazer; directed by Ray En- right; screen play by Maurice Leo, Jerry Wald, Sig Herzig; photographed by Arthur Todd. Cast: Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Allen Jenkins, Walter Catlett, Minna Gombell, Thurston Hall, Hal Huber. •DAWN PATROL/ produced by Robert Lord; directed by Edmund Goulding; original screen play by Seton I. Miller and Don Totheroh. Cast: Errol Flynn, Melville Cooper, Basil Rathbone, Rodin Rathbone, David Niven, Barry Fitzgerald, James Stephenson, Michael Brooke, Stuart Hall, Norton Lowater. 'THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL/ produced by Benjamin Glaze^ direct- ed by Busby Berkeley; screen play by Sig Herzig from story by Bertram Millhauser and Beulah Dix; photographed by James Howe. Cast: John Garfield, Gloria Dickson, Beula Bondi, Claude Rains, ,Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, Bobby Jordon, Bernard Punsley. •WOMEN IN THE WIND/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by John Farrow; screen play by Lee Katz and Albert DeMond from novel by Francis Walton. Cast: Kay Francis, William Gargan, Victor Jory, Maxie Rosenbloom, Sheila Bromley, Harvey Stephens, Frankie Burke, Frank Faylen. 'UNFIT TO PRINT/ produced by Sam Bischoff; directed by James Flood; screen play by Earl Baldwin, Niven Busch, Lawrence Kimble and Robert Buckner from original story by Saul Elkins.and Sally Sandlin; photographed by Charles Rosher. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Bobby Jordan, Alan Baxter, Joe Cunningham, Douglas Dumbrille, Armand Kaliz, Ed Dearing. 'NANCY DREW—DETECTIVE/ formerly titled 'PASSPORT TO LARK- SPUR LANE/ produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Clemmens; no writing credits released yet; photographed by Lew O'Connell. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas. John Litel, John Ridgely, Richard Bond, Frank Mayo, Jack Mower, Helena Phillips Evans, Frank Orth. 'CRIME IS A RACKET/ produced by Sam Bischoff; directed by Lew Seiler; no writing credits yet; photographed by Sol Polito. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop. Henry CNeil, John Litel, Harold Huber, Henry Travers, Harvey Stephens. WB Golf Tournament Finales Divot Season; 110 at the Major's Clnb Probably the last golf tournament of the year for pictures but one of the most successful and well-man- aged affairs of its kind ever put on, the Warner Bros, niblick-fest at the Old Oaks Country club, Purchase, N.Y., Friday (16) ended well in the black financially, with 110 contest- ants turning out in spite of the threat of bad weather. This is Ma- jor Albert Warner's club and al- though the major couldn't win a prize with his clubs, he was reported as having done well at bridge and was not entirely out of the picture otherwise by being voted the best- dressed of the fairway diggers. Members of the hard-hitting sales staff at the Warner New York ex- change grabbed honors away from all other departments of WB, with Lester Rieger bringing in lowest gross- of 79, and Charlie Foder turn- ing in the lowest net in the Class A division. Second best low gross of 83 went to Leonard Palumbo of for- eign publicity, while' third, 84, was won by Pat Marcone of eastern pro- duction forces. In the Class A di- vision, second low net was taken by Al Carpenter, also of the exchange, while, third went to E. N. Ullberg of .the' tax department. In Class B it was Ray Kinney of publicity, first; Harold Rodner of the theatre dept., second; and J. Lubin, music dept., third. First in the putting contest to Charles Warren, also of the music division; second to W. A. Cannon (tax dept.), and third to Harry Ros- enquest, theatres. Joe Hummel of the foreign department won the longest drive. The duffer was Mar- tin Schiff, In foreign. Herman Starr got no prize for it but he had the distinction of being the only man shooting a golf ball into a tree and having it stick there. In addition to the main prizes, in- cluding three sets of golf clubs and bag, kodaks, electric clocks, travel- ing bags, cocktail sets, liquor, ice cube containers, clothing, etc., there were many lesser awards, including raincoat jackets to a dozen trade pa- per representatives who, being guests, were not eligible for prizes in play. Major Warner got a ladies' nightgown for being the best- dressed golfie. Although the prizes were numer- ous and the sales division did well, Eddie Schnitzer among other execs cashing in, the Warner eastern- Canadian sales chief, Ray Haines, who can shoot under par in an ex- hibitor's office, went home empty- handed. No reports as to whether his score of 104 was in dispute, since Raph Budd didn't assign any check- ers for some of the boys. The score of Sid Rechetnik is probably still be- ing audited and a derrick crew has been s&nt up to the club to rescue Gil Golden from a sand trap. Golfers were sent off on both morning and afternoon rounds, with lunch at noon and a banquet' at night, when prizes were awarded, with Leonard Schlesinger acting as m.c. and getting many laughs, a lot of- them at the expense of Rodner. Jerry Keyser was in charge of ar- rangements. Rep's Serial Finale - Hollywood, Sept. 2D. Republic started shooting yester- day (Monday) on 'Hawk of the Wil- derness,' last of the serials on its 1937-38 program. Jill Martin plays the femme lead opposite Herman Brix in a story of the Arctic. Cliffhanger will use background footage shot by the stu- dio for its 'Call of the Yukon.' t Schading, St. L IBEW Agent, Assassinated St. Louis, Sept. 20. Arthur C. Schading, business agent of Local No. 1, IBEW, was asassinat- ed by two unknown men Monday (19) as he was leaving the organiza- tion's hall, and his death marks the end of a long and turbulent career in local IBEW history. Gendarmes, investigating the killing, are trying to link the murder with Schading's declaration last week that IBEW members would replace the Furni- ture, Piano Movers and Helpers' Union in servicing approximately 3,000 coin phonographs in local tav- erns and restaurants. Furniture, Piano Movers and Helpers' Union claimed jurisdiction on the .phono- graphs because they are called oh. when the machines are to be moved. At a meeting Friday (16) when Schading was asked 'What are you going to do about those phonographs that the Teamsters' Union, an affili- ate;, with the Furniture Movers' Or- ganization, hais- been putting laTbels on?' Schading is reported to have re- plied Til take care of that next week. I don't think I'll have any trouble with them.' ' Schading beat an extortion rap preferred by Harry R. Wendt, Kirk- wood (Mo.) motion picture theatre owner, May 26, lest, when a jury found him not guilty of attempting to extort $2,000 after Wendt's pic- ture house was damaged after being wired by non-union juicers. Angered because a photog of the Post-Dispatch, a p.m. r.ag, and owner of radio station' KSD, snapped his pic in the Civil Courts bldg., a year ago, Schading pulled a strike at the station that lasted 15 minutes until he reconsidered his action. ..Schading has been 'arrested ,21 times since 1927 and mostly for ques- tioning into bombings and assaults. FLEISCHER DEADLINE SET FOR TODAY (WED.) Pending further negotiations on a renewal of the contract covering animators, artists, etc., Max Fleischer and Paramount, distributor of the Fleischer cartoons, has asked the United American Artists, Local 60 of the C.I.O., to hold off its threat of a boycott. Deadline for that had been set for today (Wed.), following breakdown of negotiations for a new six months' contract. Make Way for Biggies Hollywood, Sept. 20. Five productions get the gun at Universal to clear the decks for spe- cial features scheduled in October, when high-budget pictures will need most of the studio's stage space. Those put in work are 'Adam's Evening,' 'All in a Lifetime,' 'West Side Miracle/ 'Sky Police' and the Buck Rogers serial with Buster Crabbe in the title role. Specials coming up are 'Destry Rides Again/ 'Three Smart Girls Grow Up,' 'You Can't Cheat an Hon- est Man' and 'Rio.' SMPE's Speechifyers Detroit, Sept. 20. Speakers so far listed for Society of Moving Picture Engineers' annual conclave here Oct. 31-Nov. 2 are Dr. Charles F. Kettering, vice-prez of General Motors Corp.; George W. Trendle, head of United Detroit thea- tres (Par); Jamison Handy, prez Jam Handy (commercial pix), and S. K. Wolf, of N. Y., prez of Engineers. W. C. Kunzmann, of Cleveland, convention v.p., was in Detroit last week conferring with members . of local committee, headed by Karl Brenkert, of Light Projection Co., on plans for meeting, which'U be held in Hotel Statler here. As usual, awards will be made for outstanding technical contributions made to film industry during past year. lily Cahill's Pic Lily Cahill, le^it player is set for a part in 20th-F -:'s London film production of 'So r ";is Is London/ She sails for L"- -n today (WedL).