Variety (Nov 1938)

20 VARIETY PIGTIIBES Weilnesday, November 2, 19SS Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 18) Stuart Boy Ian; based on adaptation by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan of story by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin; additional dialog by Virginia Van Upp; photographed by Theodor Sparkuhl. Cast: Lloyd Nolan» Dorothy Lamour, Tito Uuizar, Jessie Ralph, i\laxine Sullivan, William Frawley, Punkins Parker. Jerome Cowan. Matty Malneck and His Boys. 'TOM SAWYER, IWETECTIVE,' produced by Harold Hurley; associate producer, Edward T. Lowe; directed by Louis King; screen play by Lewis Foster, Robert Yost and Stuart Anthony; based on the novel by Mark Twain; photographed by Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Donald O'Connor, Billy Cook, Porter Hall, Philip Warren. Janet Waldo, Clara Blandick, Elisabeth Risdon, Edward Pawley, Etta McDaniels, Oscar Smith, William Haade, Stanley Price, Harry Worth, Si Jenlcs, Clem Bevans, Raymond Hatton, Howard Mitchell, MontC' Blue, Foy Van Dolson, Vic Demoruelle, Jr.; Murdock MacQuarrie, Billy Engle, Eugene Jackson, Robert Romans, Jane -Keckley, Elsie Bishop, Lew Short, Lon Pofl, Albert Hart, Tyler Brooke, Ethel Clay- ton. 'laNG OF cmNATOWN,' executive producer, Harold Hurley; associate producer, Stuiart Walker; directed by Nick Grinde; screen play by Lillie Haywaru and Irving Reis; based on a story by Herbert Hibernian; photo- graphed by Leo Tover. Cast: Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol- Naish, Anthony Quinn, Roscoe Karns, Bernadene Hayes, Philip Ahn, Sid- ney Toler, Ray Mayer, Alex Pollard, Sam Ash, Charles Trowbridge, Archie Twitchell, George Anderson, Marie Burton, Sheila Darcy, Wong Chong, Richard Denning, Judy King, Dolores Casey, Dorothy Dayton, Paula De Cardo, Harriette Haddon, Helaine Moler, North Gale, Gwen Kenyon, Charles B. Wood. George Magrill, Lily King, Ethel Clayton, Guy Usher. 'aiiDEUS OP IHE KANUL,' pxouuced by Hari-y Sherman; uu-eccea by Lesley Selander; from original story by Clarence K Mulford; photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Gleorge Hayes, Stanley Ridges, Ruth Rogers, Frederick Burton, Jack Rockwell, Roy Bar- crof t, Ed Cassidy, Sherry Tanzey, Jim Carey, Bruce Mitchell. 'LITTLE OltraAN ANNIE,' produced by JTohn Speaks; directed by Ben Holmes; screen play by Budd Schulberg, Sam" Ornitz, from story by -Andre Bohem and Samuel Ornitz; photographed by Fred Redman. Cast: Ann Gillis, Robert Kent; June Travis, Ian MacLaren, Margaret Armstrong,. J. M. Kerrigan, Dorothy .Baxighan, James Burke, Charles Wilson, Sara Padden, Tommy Bupp, Ben Welden, J. Farrel McDonald, Vincent Lombardy, Eddie Grlbbon, Dick Ridi, Harry Tyler. 'DiSiBAWBED/ produced by Harold Hurley; directed by Robert Florey; screen play by Lillie Bayward and Bobert R. Presnell from story by Harry Sauber; photograpibed by Harry Fisfabeck. Cast: Gail Patrick, Otto Kruger, Robert Preston, Sidney Toler, Helea MacKellar, Clay Clement, Edward Marr, Olin Howland. 'AMBUSH,' GJtf.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; i^tographed by William Mellor. Cast: Gladys Swarthout, Lloyd Nolan. William F^wley, 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, PoL^ Moran, Mary Zehner, Ethel Clay- ton, Wade Boteler, Archie TwitcheU, Dolores Casey, Dorothy White. i 'ZAZA' (tot 1938-39 season), produced by Albert Lewm; 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^oUier, Genivieve- Tobin, Bex O'MaUey, Rex Evans, Walter Catlett, Robert C Fischer, Ernest Cossart,-John Sutton, Michael Brooke, Phillip Warren, Alexander Leftwicb, Janet Waldo, Fredrika Brbwn, Dorothy Dayton, ELarriett 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 Goodrich; photographed by Karl Struss. Cast: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Charlie Butterworth, Otto Kruger, Hedda Hopper, Roscoe Karns, Laura Hope Crtws, Elizabeth Pat- terson. Patricia Wilder. Eddie Anderson. Jack Norton. Edward Gargan. 'FRONTIERSMAN,' 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, fivelyn Venable, William Duncan, Clara Kimball Young, Charles Hughes, Dickie* Jones, Roy Barcroft, Emily Fitzroy, John Beach. '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 Tetdaff. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny, E. K Clive, Elizabeth Pat- terson, George Zucco, Jean Fienwick, 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, Mary Carlisle, Erik Rhodes, Walter Kingsford, Holmes Herbert, Gertrude Sutton, Forbes Murray, Billy Daniels, William Collier, Sr., Mona Harriet George P. Huntley, Bil^ Lee, Joseph P. Swickard, Gwen Kenyon, Jean Fenwick, Grace Goodal, Gus Glassmire, George Hickman, Walter Soderling,. Major Sam Harris, Billy Benedict, George Magrill, Richard Denning, Archie Twitchell, Ruth Rogers, Marek Windheim, Bert Roach, Luana Walters, Joyce Mathews, Harriette Haddon, Byron Fbulger, Bernice Pilot Clara Mackin Blore, Edward Earle, Hooper Atchley, Paul Newlan, George Davis, Ed Cecil, Hayden Stevenson, Dolores Casey, Judy King, Marie Burton, Sheila Darty,. Paula De Cardo, Norah Gale, Helaine Moler, Porothy White, Ethel Clayton, George Cooper, Max Barwyn.' Paramount Fix Now in Production 'CAFE SOCIETY,' produced by Jeft Lazarus; directed by" Ed H. Griffith; no writing credits released; photographed by Ted Tetzlaff. Cast:- Made- leine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross, Claude Gillingwater, AUyn Joslyn, Don Alvarado, Mira McKinney, Hilda Plowright, Dorothy Tree, Harlan Briggs, Frances Raymond, Ruth Rogers, Dorothy White. 'PERSONS IN HIDING,' G.M.O. production; associate producer, Edward T. Lowe; directed- by Louis King; no writing credits released; photographed by Harry Fischbeck. Cast: Patricia Morison, Lynne Overman, William Henry, Elisabeth Risdon, Richard Carle, Charlotte Wynters, William Frawley, Judith Barrett, Hartley Tufjs, Phillip Warren, Richard Denning, Dorothy Howe, Richard Stanley, John Hart 'PARENTS ON PROBATION,' G. M. O. production; associate producer, William Wright; directed by G«org& Archainbaud; no writing credits re- leased; photographed by Henry Sharp. Cast: Charlie Ruggles, Mary Bo- land, Joyce Mathews, Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee. 'NEVER SAY DIE,'' produced by Paul Jones; directed by Elliott Nugent; no writing credits released; photographed by Leo Tover. Cast: Martha Raye, Bob Hope,'Ernest Cossart Paul Harvey, Alan Mowbray, Siegfried Rumann, An<iy Devihe. 'UNION PACIFIC,' produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille; asso- ciate producer, William H. Pine; location director, Arthur Rosson; no , writing credits released; photographed by Victor Milner. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Robert Preston, Akim .Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, ' Lynne Overman, William Haade. 'ARIZONA BRACELETS,' produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Leslie Selander; based on original story by John Rathmell; additional dialog and sequences by Harrison Jacobs; photogarphed by Russel Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, George Hayes, Charlotte Wynters, Russell Hopton, Sonny Bupp, Jack Rockwell, Roy Barcroft John Merton, Bob Kortman, and the King's Men, quartet August. Cast: Cary Grant Vict«r McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, Sam Jaffe, Montagu Love, Lumsden Hare, Robert Coote, Abner Biberman. '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 KeJly, Ann Gillis, Edgar Kennedy, Spanky McFarland, Benita Hume, Fay Helm, William Demarest Wade Boteler, Grant Mitchell, Nana firyant Louise Beaver. •LAW WEST OF TOMBSTONE,' proauced by Cliff Reid; directed by Glenn Tryon; 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 CUlI Reid; directed by Garson Kanin; screen play by Dudley Nichols and John Twist; photographed by Russell Metty. Cast: LuciOe Ball. James Ellison, Lee Bowman, Granville Bates, Mantan Moreland, Dick Elliott, Florence Lake, {"rank Shannon. 'LAWLESS VAIiLEY,' produced by Bert Gilroy; 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 Biurton, Bob Clark, Walter Patterson. RKO-Radi* rietnrcB N«« In Prodnetlen 'THE PURE IN MIND/ formerly titled 'SAINTS WITHOUT WINGS/ produced and directed by P. J. Wolfson; original screen play by Albert Bein; photogr;4;>hed by Boy Hunt Cast: Anne Shirley, Roger Daniel, James McCallon, Walter Ward, Chatles Powers, John Fitzgerald, Frank Malo, Paul White, Alan Baxter, Walter Tetley, Arthur Hohl, Fred Kohler, Sr. 'LOVE AFFAIR,' produced and directed .by Leo McCarey; no wviting credits released; photographed by Rudolph -Mate. Cast: rlrene Dunne, Charles Boycr, Lee Bowman, Maria Ouspenskaya, Maurice Moscovitch, Pr«d Malatesta, Scotty Beckett. 'PACIFIC UNUt* produced by Robert Sisk; directed by Lew Landers; original by Anthony CoHeway and Henry Roberts Symonds; screen adaptation by John Twist; photographed by Nick Musuraea. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Chester Morris, Wendy Barrie, Alan Hale, Barry Fitzgerald, PavQ Guilfoyle, -Allan Lane, John Wray, Douglas Walton, Walter Miller. 'THE <XKEAT MAN VOTES,' produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Garson Kanin; original by Gordon. Malherbe Hillman; screen play by John Twist; photographed l?y Russell Metty. Cast: John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, Donald MacBride, Bennie Bartlett Katharine Alexander, Elisabeth Risdon, Granville Bates, Luis Alberni, Clarence Kolb, J. M. Kerrigan. ^ 'THE CASTLES/ produced by George Haight; directed by Henry Potter; no writing credits released; photographed by Robert De Grasse. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields. R€|Nibiic Total Nvmber Nvnbcr Now ef Pix Coai- SbMt- Promisc* pleted ing 59 8 2 Now B»lanceto in BePlaoed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras ' tien 6 43 43 Pictui'es in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: 'SANTA FE STAMPEDE/ produced by William Berke; directed by George Sherman; screen play by Luci Ward and Bettj^ Burbridge; original by Luci Ward; photographed by Reggie Lanning. Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune. June Martel, William Farnum, LeRoy Mason, Martin Spellman, Genee Hall. ♦COME ON, RANQER,' formerly titled 'TEXAS RANGER/ produced by Charles E. Ford; directed by Joe Kane; original screen play by Gerald Geraghty and Jack -Notteford; photographed 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. 'ORPHANS OF THE STREET/ formerly titled 'STRONGHEART/ pro- duced by Herman Schlom; directed by Irving Pichel; original screen play by Earl Felton; photographed by Ernest Miller. Cast: Tommy Ryan, Robert Livingston, June Storey, Ace (canine), Harry Davenport James Burke, Ralph Morgan, Sidney Blackmer, Victor Killian. '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, RocheMe 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 Now in Production ♦WESTERN JAMBOREE/ formerly titled 'BLOOM ON THE STAGE/ produced by Harry Grey; directed by Ralph Statib; screen play by Gerald Geraghty from original by Pat Harper; photographed by William Nobles. Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jean Rouverbl, Frank Darign, Jack Perrin, Jick Ingram, Harry- Holman, Ben Hewlett, Ray Teal, Esther Muir, Eddie Dean, Joe Trisco, Edward Roquello, George Walcott, Margaret Arm- strong, Kermit Maynard, Frankie Marvin, Davidson Clark. 'RED RIVER RANGE/ produced by William Berke; directed by George Sherman; no writing credits released; photographed by Jack Marta. Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune. Big Scramble (Continued from page 11) will be completed "before the Christ- mas holidays: ClMrteoffli And. Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 1. Harry Chertcoff, owner of houses in this city, Lititz, Lemoyne, Sieelton, jaizabethtown and Mt. Joy, has pur- chased the big Auditorium on Cum- berland street near Fifth, Lebanon, Pa., near the center of the business district, and will completely recon- struct and enlarge it. Will invest about $60^000 in improvements. Erected 20 yea];s ago the hall was originally built for dance and con- vention purposes, but later a seri s of ran^ were constructed to tilt the -floor towards the stage and screen, for film theatre uses. Changes will include a new front and air conditioning. ' Deal made by Lebanon County Trust Co., recent.owner, and Chert- coff. Omaha, Nov. 1. Business men at Chester, Neb., built a "$30,000 community building, housing the Auditorium theatre which seats 400. Pictures are shown four nights a week in the new house, just opened. •Phllly Makes It Easier Philadelphia, Nov. 1. Highly-profitable new field has suddenly burst here upon motion picture supply houses and profes- sidnal I^fi^ers. It is the result of an idea that is spreading fast among city's real estate firms, both large and small. Instead of former time- consuming and costly plan of driv- ing prospective purchasers or rent- ers from one theatre to another, they just sit in the realtors' office now and the houses are unreeled be- fore them. Stunt has proven highly popular with the clients, too, for instead of the tiresome running around they formerly endured, a comfortable chair suffices for them to see not only the house itself, but shots of the surrounding neighborhood. When a buyer sees a theatre that particu>- larly iiterests. him,* that portion of the film is re-shown, and if he still likes- it, the real estate man then takes him around. Firm of David -and Austin New- man were first to use the device here. ^Buck Rogers * (Continued from page .1) character of 500^ years hence, bi- zarre weapons of planetary raid- ers, etc. 20th Century-Fox Total NamlMr Number N«w of Fix Com- SIio«t- Promised pleted Ing 55 15 4 New Balance to in Be Placed Stories la CuUins Before Prepara- Rooma Cameras tion 9 27 27 RKO-Radio Now Balance to Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: •GUNGA DIN' (for 1938-39), produced and directed by George Stevens; ' screen play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; photographed by Joe ' Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting- previews are: 'GIRL FROM BROOKLYN.' 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, F-ung, Doris Lloyd, Leonid Snegoff. 'EVERYBODY'S BABY,' produced by John Stone; directed by Malcolm St Clair; screen play by Karen DeWolf, Robert Chapin, Frances Hyland and Albert Ray; from original by Hilda Stone and Betty Reinhardt; photOr graphed by, Edward Srtyder. 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. '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 Fonda, 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; screen play by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan; from original by Hilda Stone and Betty Reinhardt; 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. •MR. MOTO TAKES A VACATION/ produced Jjy Sol M. Wurtzel; di- rected by Norman Foster; original screen play by Philip MacDonald and (Continued on page 25) Revampinip Disks Hollywood, Nov. 1. Due to hysteria raised by 'War of Worlds* broadcast, Jules Sel1;zer, ex- ploitation head for Hal Roach, was forced to revamp the transcription bally for 'Topper Takes Trip.' Script is cued from the orchestra to announcer, giving a flash from Hollywood that Billie Burke, suing for divorce, named Constance Ben- nett as the other woman. While the situation is based on a sequence in the picture, Roach studio now fears public's gullibility and likelihood it might be accepted as actual. Seltzer is rewriting the script and studio' ordered destroyed 200 discs pressed from original continuity. Judgment of Paramount exec's is declared justified in refusing to make a picture from H. G. Wells' book which was bought by the studio four years ago. Although laying out. a stiff price for the volume, produc- tion . heads foresaw possibility of audiences being thrown into hys- teria and decided to pass il up. Un- likely any studio will take chance with material, as the first hurdle would be a Hays office (okay. United Artists two years ago re- leased a picture produced by Alexan- der Korda based on H. G. Wells' 'Shape of Things to Come.' Fantastic yarn, although in the super-spectacle class, failed to create much of a stir among American picture fans. YOU GO YOUR WAY I'lL— Hollywood, Nov. 1. Gene Autry and Smiley Bjirnette split up temporarily for separate 10-day p.a. tours, Autry starting in Kansas City and Burnette in Detroit. Partnership is resumed in the next Autry picture at Republic, starting about Nov. 15.