Variety (Oct 1938)

Wednesday, October 19^ 1938 PICTURES VARIETY 21 Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 19) TamirofT, J. Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, Roscoe Karns, Bernadene Hayes, Philip Ahn. •KIDEBS OF THE B<aNGE/ produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Lesley Selander; from original story by Clarence E, Mulford; photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, George Hayes, Stanley Ridges, Ruth Rogers, Frederick Burton, Jack Rockwell, Roy Bar- croft,, Ed Cassidy, Sherry Tanzey, Jim Carey, Bruce Mitchell. %(TTLE ORPHAN ANNIE/ produced by John Speaks; directed by Ben Holmes; screen play by Budd Schulberg, Sam Ornitz, Andre Bohem; photo- graphed by Fred Redman. Cast: Ann Gillis, Robert Kent, June Travis, Ian MacLaren, Margaret Armstrong, J. M. Kerrigan, Dorothy Baughan, James Burke, Charles Wilson, Sara Padden, Tommy Bupp, Ben Welden, J. Farrel McDonald, Vincent Lombardy, Eddie Gribbon, Dick Rich, Harry Tyler. 'DISBARRED,' produced by Harold Hurley; directed by Robert Florey; screen play by Lillie Hayward and Robert R. Presnell from story by Harry Sauber; photographed by Harry Fishbeck. Cast: Gail Patrick, Otto Kruger, Robert Preston, Sidney Toler, Helen MacKellar, Clay Clement, Edward Marr, Olin Howland. 'SUNSET TRAIL,' formerly titled 'SILVER TRAIL PATROL' (for 1938- 39 season), produced by Harry Shermaii; directed by Les Selander; screen play by Norman Houston, from-^tory by Clarence E. Mulford; photo- graphed by Russel Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Charlotte Wynters, Jane Clayton, Robert Fiske, Catharine Shel- don, Maurice Cass, Anthony Nace, Kenneth Harlan, Alphonse Ethier, Glenn Strange, Jack Rockwell, Tom London, Claudia Smith. 'ZAZA' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Albert Lewin; directed by George Cukor; screen play by Zoe Akins; from play by Pierre Berton and Charles Simon; photographed by Charles Lang. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Helen Westley, Constance Collier, Genivieve Tobin, Rex O'Malley, Rex Evans, Walter Catlett, Robert C. Fischer, Ernest Cossart, John Sutton, Michael Brooke, Phillip Warren, Alexander Leftwich, Janet Waldo, Fredrika Brown, Dorothy Dayton, Harriett Haddon, Helaine Moler, Dorothy White, Duncan Renaldo, Hala Linda, Tom Ricketts. 'THANKS FOR THE MEMORY' (for 1938-39 release); executive pro- ducer, Harold Hurley; associate, Mel Shauer; directed by George Archain- baud; from play by Albert Hackett and Frances Cioodrich; photographed by Karl Struss;. Cast: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charlie Butterworth, Otto Kruger, Hedda Hopper, Roscoe Karhs, Lat>ra Hope Crews, Elizabeth Pat- terson, Patricia Wilder, Eddie Anderson, Jack Norton, Edward Gargan. 'FRONCTERSMAN,' produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Leslie Selander; screen play by Norman Huston from original story by Clarence E. Mulford; additional dialog by Harrison Jacobs; photographed by Rus- sell Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Evelyn' Venable, William Duncan, Clara Kimball Young, Charles Hughes, Dickie Jones, Roy Barcroft, Emily Fitzroy, John Beacli. 'ARREST BULLDOG DRUMMOND,' formerly titled 'SCOTLAND YARD VS. BULLDOG DRUMMOND' (for 1938-39), produced by Stuart Walker for Harold Hurley unit; directed by James Hogan; original story by H. C. 'Sapper' McNiele; photographed by Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive, Elizabeth Pat- terson, George Zucco, Jean Fenwick, Leonard Mudie, Clyde Cook, David Clyde, Ferdinand Munier, John Rogers. 'SAY IT IN FRENCH,' produced and directed by Andrew Stone; screen play by Frederick Jackson from play by Jacques Deval; photographed by Victor Milner. Cast: Ray Milland, Olympe Bradna, Irene Hervey, Janet Beecher, Evelyn Keyes, Erik Rhodes, Walter Kingsford, Holmes Herbert, Gertrude Sutton, Forbes Murray, Billy Daniels. Paramount Fix Now in Production 'AMBUSH,' G.M.O. production; associate producer, William Wright; di- rected by Kurt Neumann; screen play by Laura and S. J. Perelman based on a story by Robert Ray; photographed by William Mellor. Cast: Gladys Swarthout, Lloyd Nolan, William Frawley, Ernest Truex, William Henry, Hartley Tufts. Rufe Davis, Brod Crawford, Antonio Moreno, Harry Fleisch- mann, John Hart, Raymond Hatton, Robert Greig, Richard Denning, Clem Bevans, Max Hoffman, Jr., Jim Pierce, Eddie Acuff, Al Hill, Frank Mere- dith, Ted Oliver, George Melford, Polly Moran, Mary Zehner, Ethel Clay- ton, Wade Boteler, Archie Twitchell, Dolores Casey, Dorothy White, 'CAFE SOCIETY,' produced by Jeff Lazarus; directed by Ed H. Griffith; no writing credits released; photographed by Ted TetzlafI, Cast: Made- leine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross. 'PERSONS IN HIDING/ G.M.O. production; associate producer, Edward T. Lowe; directed by James Hogan; no writing credits released; photo- graphed by Harry Fischfoeck. Cast: Patricia Morison. RK^Radio Now Balance to Number Number N«w in Be Placed Stories in of Pix Com- Siioot- Cuttinff Before Prepara- Promised pleted Ins Rooms Cameras tion Studio 60 9 3 4 34 34 Sol Lesser 3 0 0 1 2 2 Herbert WUcox... 1 0 0 0 1 1 Total 54 9 3 5 "37 37 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'MIRACLE RACKET,' produced by B. P. Fineman; directed by Les Goodwins'; screen play by Saul Elkins and Joseph Pagano; original by Saul Elkhis; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Sally Filers, Ann Miller, Lee Bowman, Alma Kruger, Paul Guilfoyle, Jonathan Hale, Jack Arnold, Cecil Kellaway, 'PECK'S BAD BOY WITH THE CIRCUS,' produced by Sol Lesser; asso- ciate producer, Leonard Fields; directed by Edward Cline; no writing credits released yet; photographed by Jack McKenzie. Cast: Tommy Kelly, Ann Gillis, Edgar Kennedy, Spanky McFarland, Benita Hume, Fay Helm, William Demarest, Wade Boteler, Grant Mitchell, Nana Bryant, 'LAW WEST OF TOMBSTONE,' procuctd by Cliff Reid; directed by Glenn Try on; screen play by John Twist and Clarence Young; photo- graphed by J. Roy Hunt. Cast Harry Carey, Anne Shirley, Tim Holt, Evelyn Brent, Allan Lane, Paul Guilfoyle, Bradley Page, Esther Muir, George Irving, Eleanor Hansen, Peggy Carroll, Robert Moya, Jane Wood- worth. 'TRAILER ROMANCE,* produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Garson Kanin: screen play by Dudley Nichols and John Twist; photographed by Russell Metty. Cast: Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Lee Bowman, Granville Bates, Mantan Moreland, Dick Elliott, Florence Lake, Frank Shannon. 'LAWLESS VALLEY,' produced by Bert GUroy; directed by Dave How- ard; screen play by Oliver Drake; original by W. C. Tuttle; photographed by Harry Wild. Cast: George O'Brien, Kay Sutton, Walter Miller, George Burton, Bob Clark, Walter Patterson. RKO-Ra.dlQ Pictvrcs Now in Production 'GUNGA DIN' (for 1938-39), produced and directed^b^ screen play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; photographed by Joe August. Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine. Eduardo Ciannelli. Sam Jaffe. Montagu Love. Lumsden Hare. 'SAINTS WITHOUT WINGS*' produced: and directed by P. J.. Wolfson; original screen play by Albert Bain; photographed by Ray Hunt. Cast: Anne Shirley, Roger Daniel, James McCallion,' Walter Ward, Charles Powers, John Fitzgerald, Prank Malo, Paul White. 'LOVE AFFAIR,' produced and directed by Leo McCarey; no writing credits released; photographed by Rudolph Mate. Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles oyer. Republic . , Now Ba-biMi^ to of Pix Com- Shoot- Cutting: Before Prepara- Promisei pleted ing: Rooms Cameras tion Total 59 5 3 « 45 *5 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: 'OVERLAND STAGE RAIDERS' (for 1938-39). produced by William Berk6; directed by George Sherman; screen play by Luci Ward; photo- graphed by William Nobles. Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Ter- hune, Louise Brooks, Frank La Rue, Charles Whittaker, Duke R. Lee, Edwin Gafltaey. Jr., Anthony Marsh, George Plimis, George Sherwood. 'PRAIRIE MOON/ produced by Harry Grey; directed by Ralph Staub; screen play by Betty Burbridge and Stanley Roberts; photographed by William Nobles. Cast; (Irene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Shirley Deane, David Gorcey, Tommy Ryan, Walter Tetley, Stanley Andrews, William Pawley, Rafael Bennett, Warner Richmond, Tom London. 'I STAND ACCUSED/ produced and directed by John H. Auer; no writing credits yet; photographed by Jack Marta. Cast: Robert Cummings, Helen Mack, Lyle Talbot, Gordon Jones, Thomas Jackson, Leona.Roberts, Tom Beck, Robert Paige, Robert Middlemass. /HAWK OF THE WILDERNESS' (serial), produced by Robert Beche; co- directed by William Witney and Jack English; no writing credits released yet; photographed by William Nobles. Cast: Herman Brix. Jill Martin, Monte Blue, Mala, Noble Johnson, William Royle, George Eldredge, Snow- flake, Dick Wessel, Tom Chatterton, Earl Askam, Jerry Sheldon, Harry Tenbrook. 'STORM OVER BENGAL,' formerly titled 'BENGAL LANCER PATROL,' produced by Armand Schaefer; directed by Sidney Salkow; original screen play by Garret Ford; photographed by Ernest Miller. Cast: Patric Knowles, Richard Cromwell, Rochelle Hudson, Colin Tapley, Doug- las Dumbrille, Halliwell Hobbes, Claude Alister, Clyde Cook. 'RHYTHM OF THE SADDLE/ formerly titled 'RODEO BUSTER,' pro- duced by Harry Grey; directed by George Sherman; original, screen play by Paul Franklin; photographed by Jack Marta. Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Peggy Moran, Pert Kelton, LeRoy Mason. Republic Pix New in Production 'SANTA FE STAMPEDE/ produced by William Berke; directed by George Sherman; screen play by Luci Ward and Betty Burbridge; original by Luci Ward; photographed by Reggie Lanning. Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, June Martel, William F^rnum, LeRoy Mason, Martin Spellman, Genee Hall. 'TEXAS RANGER,' produced by Charles E. Ford; directed by Joe Kane; original screen play by Gerald Geraghty and Jack NatteforeJ; photo- graphed by Jack Marta. Cast: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, Raymond Hatton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Purnell Pratt, Lane Chandler, Bruce Macfarlane, Harry Woods, Lee Powell, Chester Gunnels. 'STRONGUEART/ produced by Herman Schlom; directed by Irving Pichel; original screen play by Earl Pelton; photographed by Ernest Miller. Cast: Tommy Ry^n, Robert Livingston, June Storey, Ace (canine), Harry Davenport, James Burke, Ralph Morgan, Sidney Blackmer, Victor Killian. New Theatres St, Louis, Oct, 18. New Strand, 1,000-seater, Tuscola* 111,, owned and operated bjr ' George Barber, has opened. Barber ' also owns the Strand, 300 seats, in same town, Robert Cluster, Metropolis, III., has opened new theatre, 700-seater. Alterations costing $5,000 are being made in Criterion, St. Louis nabe owned by William Pappas and also in the University, owned by Green- man Theatres, Inc. Sam Komm and Alex Pappas have taken the Maryland, 454-seater, South St, Louis,'*formerIy operated by Louis Landau. Glen W. Dickson Theatre, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo., planning to build new concrete theatre in Warrens-» burg. Mo. Company also will make- extensive alterations in its house at Monett, Mo. Controversy between the CIO and AFL continues to hold up erection of Hippodrome, Herrin, 111., for John Harlow. New house will replace one leveled by fire; $125,000 will be in- vested in new structure. J. W. Hayton, who operates 400- seater in CarterviUe, 111., planning erection of another in the same time. Improvements, etc., are slated for the Empire, Chrisman, III.; Com- munity. Community, III.; State, Road- house, 111., and the Elmo, St. Etmo,- III. 20th Centary-Fax Total Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ing 55 14 8 Now Balance to in Be'Placed Stories In Cutting Before Prepara- Roems Cameras tion 6 27 27 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'GIRL FROM KBOOKLYN,' formerly titled 'BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Edward Kaufman; directed by Gregory Ratoff; original by Gene Markey; photographed by Karl Freund. Cast: Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Charles Winninger, Keye Luke, Arthur Treacher, Willie Fung, Doris Lloyd, Leonid SnegoS. 'SUBMARINE PATROL/ formerly titled 'WOODEN ANCHORS/ for- merly titled 'SPLINTER FLEET' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Gene Markey; directed by John Ford; screen play by Rian James, Darrell Ware and Jack YeHen from story by Ray Milholland and Charles B. Milholland; photographed by Arthur Miller; Cast: Richard Gt-eene, Nancy Kelly, George Bancroft, Slim Summerville, Douglas. Fbwley, Joan Valerie, Pres- ton Foster, John Carradine, Warren Hymer, Elisha Cook, Jr., Ward Bond. Maxie Rosenbloom, Harry Strang, Russ Clark, Charles Tannan, Dick Hogan, Henry Armetta, J. Farrell MacDonald. George K Stone, George Humbert. «MR. MOTO TAKES A VACATION/ produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; di- rected by Norman Foster; original screen play by Philip MacDonald and Norman Foster; photographed by Charles Clarke. Cast: Peter Lorre, Vir- ginia Field, John King, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill, Iva Stewart, George P. Huntley. Victor Varconi. 'THE ARIZONA WILDCAT,' produced by John Stone; directed by Her- bert I. Leeds; screen play by Barry Trivers and Jerry Cai^ from original idea by Frances Hyland and Albert Ray; photographed by Luoien Andriot. Cast: Jane Withers, Leo CarriUo, Pauline Moore, Hienry Wilcoxon, Etienne Girardot, Douglas Fowley, William Henry, Henry Woods, Rosita Harlan. 'UP THE RIVER,' formerly titled 'HARD TO GET/ produced by Sol Wurtzel; directed by Alfred Werker; screen play by Lou Breslow and John Patrick^ based' on original story by Maurine. Watkins; photographed by Robert Planck. Cast: Preston Poster, Phyllis Brooks, Tony Martin, Arthur Treacher, Bill Robinson, Slim Summerv^le, Jane Darwell, Eddie Collins, Alan Dinehart, Robert Allen, Sidney Toler. 'JUST AROUND THE CORNER' (for 1938-39 season), produced by David Hempstead; directed by Irving Cummings; screen play by J. P. McEvoy and Ethel Hill; original story by Kenneth Earle and Howard Smith; songs by Walter Bullock and Harold Spina; photographed by Arthui; Miller. Cast: Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Bill Robinsonj_Charles Farrell, Bert Lahr. George Barbier, Franklin Pangborn. Bennie Bartlett, Amanda Duff. 20th-Fox Pix Now in Prodnetion 'JESSE JAMES' (for 1938-39, in Technicolor), produced by Nunnally Johnson; directed by Henry King; original screen play by Nunnally John- son; photographed by George Barnes. Cast: Tyrone Power, Henry F-onda, Nancy Kelly, Walter Brennan, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg, Brian Donlevy, Douglas Fowley, Jane Darwell, Donald Meek, Ernest Whitman. 'KENTUCKY' (in Technicolor), produced by Gene Markey; directed by David Butler; screen play by Lamar Trotti and John Taintor Foote; from novel, 'Look of Eagles,' by John Taintor; photographed by Ernest Palmer. Cast: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Ralph Morgan, Willard Robinson, Douglas Dumbrille, James West, Charles Waldron, Karen Morley, Ward Robinson, Moroni Olsen. 'SAMSON AND LADIES,' produced by Sol Wurtzel; directed by H. Bruce Humberstone; no writing credits yet; photographed by Edward Snyder. Cast: Michael Whalen, Lynn Bari, Iva Stewart, Robert Allen, June Gale, Guinn Williams, Edward Brophy, John Miljan, Theodore Von Eltz, Chester Clute. 'THE LITTLE PRINCESS (in Technicolor); produced by Gene Markey; directed by Walter Lang; screen play by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris; based on novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett; photographed by Arthur MiUer; Technicolor photography by William Skall: Cast: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Himter, Cesar Romero, Arthur Treacher, Mary l^ash, Sybil Jason, Miles Mander, Marcia Mae Jones, Deidre Gale, Ira Stevens. TAIL SPINj/ produced by Harry Joe Brown; directed by Roy Ddl Ruth; original screen play by Frank Wead; photographed by John Mescall. Cast: Alice Faye, Constance Bennett. Nancy Kelly, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell, Jane Wyman, John King, Waijy Vernon, Joan Valerie, Robert Lowery, Edward Norrisj J. Anthony Hughes, Jack Pennick. 'THE THREE MUSKETEERS,' produced by Raymond Griffith; directed by Allan Dwan; music and lyrics by Sid KuUer, Ray Golden, Walter Bul- lock and Samuel Pokrass; no writing credits released; photographed by Peverell Marley. Cast: Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Gloria Stuart, Pauline Moore, Binnie Barnes, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine, John King, Lionel Atwill, Douglas Dumbrille, Miles Mander, Russell Hicks. 'THANKS FOR EVERYTHING/ produced by Harry Joe Brown; directed by William A. Salter; music and lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel; no writing credits released; photographed by Lucien Andriot. ' Cast: Jack Oaki.p A<^olphe Menjoti .TacVr H^iley, Arleen Whelan, Binnie Barnes, Tony ♦ilVERYBODY'S BABY/ produced by John Stone; directed by Malcolm St. Clair; no writing credits released; photographed by Edward Snyder. Cast: Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russell Gleason. Ken Howell. George Ernest, June Carlson, Florence Roberts, Billy Mahan, Hattie McDaniel, Marvin Stephens, Claire DuBrey. (Continued on page 23) Cleveland, Oct. 18. Jerome Smith and Max Kaplan, Cleveland exhibs, have leased Penn Square, reopening. i'i as foreign pix house Friday (21). Formerly oper- ated by Al Schulman, who has stepped out of the field. Built a:t estimated cast of $150,000, Embassy was preemed last week as newest downtown theatre by<v Max and Morris Lefkowich with Leo and- Harry Greenberger as co-partners. Combine operates 20 other indi houses here. Eugene- Frank, for- merly of Mall and associated with them for 10 years, managing. Fairmont, W. Va., Oct. 18. A fifth theatre is being- promoted by R. Earl Knight (a brother of Fuzzy KnigHt of films) and James H. Brownfield, who have managed the Warner Bros, theatres here in' recent years. Atlanta, Oct. 18. Plans for immediate construction of new community theatre at North avenue and Techwood drive were announced last week by Collett H. Munger, prez of Lanier Development Co,, which wiU operate house. $150 Stichttp m AtlaMa Atlanta, Oct. IB. While throngs milled aroundT"* lone armed bandit stepped up to the ticket wicket of Paramount theatre at 9:30 o'clock Friday (14) night and forced cashier, Mrs. J, T, Eason, to hand over $150 in csish. Stickup man walked up and pushed note through box «£flce grille, which read: 'This is a holdup. Give me all the money you have and don't ring no burglar alarm.' ^ Cashier carried out written in- structions and bandit took the $150' and the note r.nd vanished into, crowd. Although throngs passing theatre were unaware of holdup, cashier istated that three men. os- tensibly companions of bandit^ stood silent guard while robbery was tak- ing place, their hands thrUst .omi- nously into coat pockets. As soon as bandit made off with swag they disaopeared into crowd right on his trail. San Antonio, Oct. 18. Tom Mooney, ex-convict, was sert- tenced to eight years in state pen after ha pleaded guilty. Wednesday (12) to holding up Texas, Interstate house, boxoffice on Aug. 16. Gun- man's haul was $346: Dusting Off 'Drums' Hollywood, Oct. 18. 20th-Fox is dusting off 'Drums Along the Mohawk,' on the shelf since last spring. Sonia Levien is polishing the script for production by Raymond Griffith. Randy Scott at Col. Hollywood, Oct. 18. Columbia contracted Rattdolpht^ Scott to feature in a series of film» over a period of six years. Actor has betn freelancing ,.Biao* he left Paramount.