Variety (Nov 1938)

'Wednesday, 'Noyember SO, 1938 PICTURES VARIETY 19 Advance, Production Chart (Continued from page 17) WORTH/ formerly titled 'THE LAST BIDE/ formerly titled TSCAPE FROM YESTERDAT' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Jeff Lazarus: di- rected by Alfred E. Green; original story and screen play by Ferdinand Beyher and John C. Moffit; photographed by William Mellor. Cast: Akim Tamiroflf, Frances Farmer, Leif Erikson, Lynne Overman, Vladimir Soko- loH, Wade Crosby, Dewey Robinson, William NewelL John Bliefer, Alex Woloshin, James Flavin, 'ST. LOUIS BLUES' (for 1938-39 release), produced by Jeff Lazarus: directed by Raoul Walsh;' screen play by John C. Moffltt and Malcolm Stuart Boylatt; based on adaptation by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan of story by JJleanore Grlflfln and William Rankin; additional dialog by Virginia Van Upp; photographed by Theodor Sparkuhl. Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Dorothy Lamour, Tito Cimzar, Jessie Ralph; Maxine Sullivan, William Frawley. Punkins Parker, Jerome Cowan, j^atty Malneck and His Boys. 'TOlMt SAWYER, DETECdPlVE/ 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 Tetzlafl. Cast: Donald O'Connor, Billy Cook, porter Hall, Philip Warren, Janet Waldo, Clara Blandick, Elisabeth Risdon. Edward PaWley, Etta McDaniels, Osc&r Smith, William Haade, Stanley Price, Harry Worth, Si Jenks, Cleni Bevans, Raymond Hattori, Howard Mitchell, Monte Blue, Foy Van Dolson, Vic Demofuelle, Jr., Murdock MacQuarrie, Billy Engle,. Eugene Jackson, Robert Homans, Jane Keckley, Elsie Bishop, Lew Short, Lon Pofl, Albert Hart, T^ler Bropke, Ethel Clay- ton. 'KING OF CHINATOWN/ executive producer, Harold Hurley; associate producer, Stuart Walker; directed by Nick Grinde; screen play by Lillic Hayward and Irving Reis; based on a story by Herbert Biberman; 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. 'DISBABBED/ produced by Harold Hurley; directed by Robert Florey; screen play by Lillie Hay Ward 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. '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 Swai-thout, Lloyd Nolan, William Frawley, Ernest Truex, Williani 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 Acufl, Al Hill, Frank Mere- dith, Ted Oliver, George Melford, Polly Moran, Mary Zehner, Ethel Clay- ton, Wade Boteler, Archie TwitcheU, Dolores Casey, Dorothy White. '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 OTVIalley. 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. 'BULLDOG DBUMMOND'S SECBET POLICE/ G. M. O. production; associate producer, Edward T. Lowe; directed by James Hogan; no writing credits released; photographed by Merritt Gerstad. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Elizabeth Patterson, Reginald Denny, E. B. Clive, Leo Carroll, Forrested Harvey, David Clyde, Clyde Cook, Crerald Rogers. Neil Fitzgerald. Elspeth Dudgeon, Dutch Hendrian, Dick RuSh. 'ARIZONA BBACELETS/ 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 Barcroftj John Merton, Bob Kortman, and the King's Men, quartet. 'FEBSONS IN HIDING/ G.M.O. production; associate producer, Edward T. Lowe; directed by Louis King: screen play by William R. Lipman and Horace McCoy; original by J. Edgar Hoover; photographed by Harry Pischbeck. Cast: Patricia Morison, Lynne Overman. William Henry, Elisa- beth Risdon, Richard Carle. Charlotte Wynters. William Frawley, Judith Barrettv Hartley Tufts, Phillip Warren, Richard Denning, Dorothy Howe Richard Stanley, John Hart. ^•TWO WEEKS WITH PAY, formerly titled 'PARENTS ON PROBA- TION,' G. M. O. production; associate producer, William Wright; directed by George Archainbaud; screen play by Laura and S. J. Perelman; based on a story by Lloyd Corrigan and Monte Brice; photographed by Henry Sharp, Cast: Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, Joyce Mathews, Donald O'Connor, Billy Lee. Paramount Fix Now In Production •CAFE SOCIETY/ produced by Jeff Lazarus; directed by Ed H. Griffith; original and screen play by Virginia Van Upp; photographed by Ted Tetzlafl. Cast: Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Shirley Ross, Claude Gillingwater, AUyn Joslyn, Don Alvarado, Mira McKinney, Hilda Plow- right/ Dorothy Tree, Harlan Briggs, Frances Raymond, Ruth Rogers, Dor- othy White. 'NEVER SAY DIE,' produced by Paul Jones; directed by Elliott Nugent; screen play by Don Hartman, Frank Butler and Preston Sturges; based on a play by William H. Post; photographed by Leo Tover. Cast: Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Ernest Cossart, Paul Harvey, Alan Mowbray, Siegfried Rumann, Andy Devine. « ^ '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, RoTjert Preston, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Lynne Overman, William Haade. 'MIDNIGHT;! produced by Arthur Hornblow; directed by Mitchell Leisen; no writing credits released; photographed by Charles Lang. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Francis Lederer, John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Elaine Barry, Hedda Hopper. . . . ..x 'HOTEL IMPEBIAL/ directed by Robert Florey; no writing credits re- leased; photographed by William Mellor. Cast: Isa Miranda, Ray Mil- land, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Rudolph Forster, Curt Bois, Michel Werboff, Henry VictorT^nencer Charters, Bodil Rosing, Betty Compson, Wolfgang, Zilzer, Egon Brecher, Bert Roach, Augustino Borgato, Paul Everton, George Magrill, Lee Shumway, Davison Clark, Harry Tenbrook, Paul Kruger. Don Cossack Chorus. . ™ •. 'I'M FROM MISSOURI/ produced by Paul Jones; directed by 'Theodore Reed: no writing credits released; photographed by Merritt Gerstad. Cast: Bob Bums, Gladys George. Judith Barrett, Barry Mackay. William Henry. •THE LADY'S FROM KENTUCKY/ produced by Jeff Lazarus; directed by Al Hall; no. writinft credits released; photographed by Theodor Sparkukl. Cast: George Raft, Ellen Drew, Hugh Herbert, ZaSu Pitts. 'ARIZONA LEGION/ produced by Bert Gilroy; directed by Dave How- ard; original by Bernard McConville; screen play by Oliver Drake; photo- graphed by Harry Wild. Cast: George O'Brien, Laralne Johnson, Carlyle Moore, Tom Chatterton, Glenn Strange, 'PACIFIC LINER,' produced by Robert Sisk; directed by Lew Landers; original by Anthony Coldeway and Henry Roberts Symonds; screen adaptation by John Twist; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Chester Moirris, Wendy Barrie, Alan Hale, Barry" Fitzgerald,. Paul Guilfoyle, Allan Lane," John Wray, Douglas Walton, Walter Miller. 'THE GREAT MAN VOTES,' produced by C?iff Reid; directed by Garson Kanin; original by Gordon Malherbe Hillman; screen play by John Twist; photographed by 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 PURE IN MIND/ formerly titled 'SAINTS'WITHOUT WINGS,' produced and directed by P. J. Wolfson; original screen play by Albert Bpin; photographed by Roy Hunt. Cast: Anne Shirley, Roger Daniel, James McCallon, Walter Ward, Charles Powers, John Fitzgerald, Frank Malo, iPaul White, Alan Baxter, Walter Tetley, Arthur Hohl," Norman Willis. ■ - 'NEXT TIME 1 MARRY/ formerly titled, 'TRAILER ROMANCE/ pro- duced by Cliff Reid; directed by Garson Kanin; screen play by, Dudley Nichols and John Twist; photographed by Russell Metty. Cast: Lucille : 3all, James Ellison, Lee Bowman, Granville. Bates, Mantan Moreland, Dick Elliott, Florence Lake, Frank Shannon. RKO-Radlo Piistures Now In Production 'LOVE AFFAIR,' produced and directed by Leo McCarey; no writing credits released; photographed by Rudolph Mate. Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Lee Bowman, Maria Ouspenskaya, Maurice Moscovitch, Fred Malatesta,- Scotty Beckett, Astrid Allwyn, Phyllis Kennedy. ♦THE CASTLES/ produced by George Haight; directed by Henry Potter; no writing credits released; photographed by Robert De Gras'se. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields, Edna May Oliver, Jack Carson, Esther Muir, Janet Beecher, Donald MacBride, Sonny ijamont. j 'FISHERMAN'S WHARF/ produced by Sol Lesser; directed by Bernard Vorhaus; original scfeen play by Bernard Schubert, Herbert Clyde Lewis and Ian Hunter; photographed by Charles Schoenbaum. Cast: Bobby Breen, Leo Carrillo, Henry Armetta, Lee Patrick, Tommy Bupp, Rosma Galli, George Humbert, Leon Belasco, Leonard Kimbrick, Ronny Page, Jackie Sailing, Milo Marchetti, Jr., Stanton Mu. , „ „ j. * j •THE FLYING IBISHMAN/ produced by Pandro S. Berman; directed, by Leigh Jason; screen play by Ernest Pagano and Dalton T^mbo; Photo- graphed by J. Roy Hunt. Cast: Douglas Corrigan, Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong, Donald. McBride, Dorothy Appleby, Eddie Quillan, Joyce Compton. Republic Now Balance to In Be Placed Stories In Cutting Before Prepara Booms Cameras tion 5 39 39 Warners Profit Down $3,945,461; Debenture Plan Number Number Now of PIx Com- Shoot- Proinisei pleted Ing Total 59 14 1 Pict\ire$ in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: 'ORPHANS OF THE STBEET/ formerly titled 'STBONGHEABT/ pro- duced by Herman Schlom; directed by Irving Pichel; original screen play by Earl Felton; photographed by Erriegt Wilier. Cast: Tommy Ryan, Robert fiivingston, June Storey, Ace (canirte), Harry Davenport, James Burke, Ralph Morgan,. Sidney Blacknicr, Victor Killian. 'BED RIVER RANGE/ produced by William Berke; directed by George Sherman; original story by Luci Ward; screen play by Stanley Roberts, Betty Burbridge and Luci Ward. Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Polly Moran, Loma Gray, Kirby Grant, Sammy McKim, William Royle,.Pe£ry lyins, Stanley Blystone, Lenore Bushman, Burr Caruth, Roger Williaii»€^tl Askam, Olin Francis. 'SHINE ON HARVEST MOON/ produced by Charles E. Ford; directed by Joe Kane; original screen play by Jack Natteford; photographed by William Nobles. Cast: Roy Rogers, Mary Hart, William Farnum, Lulu Belle and Scotty,' Chester Gunnels, Stanley Andrews, Jack Rockwell, Pat Henning, Frank Jaquet, Joe Whitehead. •FEDERAL MAN HUNT/ produced by Armand Schaefer; directed by Nick Grinde; original by Sam Fuller and William Lively; screen play by Maxwell Shane; photographed by Ernest Miller. Cast: Robert Living- ston, June Travis, Ben Welden, Horace MacMahon, Gene Morgan, Marga- ret Mann, Charles Halton, Sybil Harris, John Gallaudet, Jerry Tucker, Matt McHugh, Frank Conklin. . •FIGHTING THOROUGHBREDS, formerly titled 'KENTUCKY SWEEP- STAKES/ produced by Armand Schaefer; directed by Sidney Salkow; screen play by Wellyn Totman; additional dialog by ^ran^lyn Cpen; orieinal story by Clarence E. Marks and Robert Wyler; photographed by j"ck Mart^^cSt: R^^^^ Mary Carlisle^ Robert AUeii, Geo^^^^^^ Hayes. Marvin Stephens, Charles Wilson, Kenne Duncan, Victor Kilian, Eddie Brian, Robert Warwick, Republic Pix Now in Production 'MYSTERIOUS MISS X/ produced by Herman Schlom;. directed by Gus Meins- no writing credits released; photographed by Ernest Miller. Cast. ;&el w£C^ ChickChandler, Wade Boteler, Regis Toomey, Don Douglas. RKO^Radio Studio , Sol Lessee Herbert Wlloox.. Number Number of Plx Com- promised pleted 60 12 3 2 1 • Now Shoot- 3 1 0 Now Balance to in . Be Placed Stories In Cutting Before Prepara- Booms Cameras tlon 7 0 f Total 54 14 28 0 1 29 28 9 1 29 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 August. Cast: Cary Grant. Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, Sam Jaffe, Montagu Love, Lumsden Hare Robert Goote, Abner Biberman. ^ , . •BEAUTY FOB THE ASKING/ produced by B. P. Fmeman; directed by Glenn Tryon; original sto^y by Edmund L. Hartmann; screen play by Doris Anderson and Paul Jarrico; photographed by Frank Redman. Cast: Lucille Ball, Patric Knowles, Donald Woods, Frieda Inescort, Leona Maricle, Inez Courtney, Frances Mercer, Whitney Bourne, Ann Evers. 20tli Century-Fox Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories In Cuttliis Before Prepara- Booms Cameras tlon 7 24 24 Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ing Total *5 21 3 ' Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are:. „ . „ 'GIBL FBOM BBOOKLYN/ formerly titled 'BY THE DAWN'S EABLY LIGHT' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Edward Kaijmanr directe^^^ Greeory Ratoff; original by Gene Markey; photographed by Karl Freund. cS Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Charles Winninger, K6ye Luke, Arthur Treacher, Willie Fung, Doris Lloyd, Leonid Snegoff. 'THE LITTLE PRINCESS' (in Technicolor) prodnced b^^ directed by Walter Lang; screen play by Ethel HiU and Wal^^^^ Ferri^ based on novel by Frances Hodgson .Burnett _photographe Ker- Technicolor^ photograph^ b^ WilT^^^^^ Cast:;Shirley Temple, Srd SSene? Ani^t?^^^^^ Ian ^nter, Cesar Romero, Arthur T^^^^ Mary Nash, Sybil Jason, Miles Mander, Marcia Mae Jones, Deidrfe Gale, ^'^'TAIl' SPIN/ produced by Harry Joe Brown; directed by Boy Del Ruth; original screeii play by Frink Wead; photographed by John pscalL Cast: Sile Faye^CoSice^ Bennett. Nancy Kelly, 5oan Davis, Charles Farrell, Jane wSan Kane Richmond, Wally Vernon, Joan Valerie, Robert Low- S^EdwSd Norr"s, J. Anthony Hughes, Jack Warren Hymer.^ •THE THREE MUSKETEERS/ produced by Raymond Griffith; directed bv ifllan Dwan- music and lyrics "by Sid Kuller, Ray Golden Walter Bui- iZiTi«,?4amiiPi P^ra^^ screen play by M. M. Musselman, Wm. A. Drake Miles Mander, Russell Hicks . , ^ • . j i.„ ■KT.t^^oiiv 'JESSE JAMES' (for 1938-39, In Technicolor), produced by Nunnaliy Ke'v^ SMS Fowley, JaAe Darwell, Donald Meek Ernest Whitman. 'KENTUCKY' (in Technicolor),_produced by Ge^^^^ Operating profit of Warner Bros^ and subsidiaries dropped $3,945,461 in the fiscal year ending last Aug. 27, as compared with the preceding fiscal 12 months, according to the company's statement issued last week. Operating profit totaled $1,- 929,72f as.'against $5,876,182 in the previous year, after provisions for Federal income tax including surtax on undistributed profits and after deducting all other charges, in botb instances. This was equal to 41c on the common as compared with $1.48 for the fiscal year ending in 1937, after' providing for the pre- ferred dividends. Gtoss income, after eliminating Inter-company traiisactions^ *totaled $102;205,9U as conij^ared with $100,- 516,498 in 1937. The company noted the fact that Warnott,. Inc., 75% of whose capital stock is owned by Warner Bros. P'lctures, Inc., and Continental Lithograph, Corp., 77.16% of whose common stobk and 58.10% of whose preferred stock is owned by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., are included in the consolidated financial statement for the first time. As a consequence, the accounts of all subsidiary com- panies in which the company owns directly or indirectly, 75% or more of the equity or common stock are included in the statement. In addition to the operating profit, a net credit has been made to the deficit statement in the amount of $1,931,024 and capital surplus has been increased by $90,000. Deficit Cut As a result of this $1,931,024 net credit, Warner Bros., statement shows that the deficit on Aug. 27, 1938, carried to balance sheet, amounted to only $327,298 as against $4,188,044 on Aug. 28 last year. Com- pany's capital surplus was figured at $57,134,330. Warner Bros, noted the fact that pictures planned and produced on a elaborate scale during the fiscal year covered by the report, when re- covery seemed to have definitely set in late in 1936 and early in .1937, were more ejfpensive than esthnated because of new labor contracts, labor laws and tax^ss. • WB Debenture. Excban^e Detailed. A total of $18,864,000 principal amount of Warner Bros, debentures have been deposited, and certifliiates of deposit, listed on the. New York - stock exchange, issued for then! un- der the plan of exchange provided by Warner directorjs. This note points out that the com- pany's optional 6% convertible de- bentures, due In' 1939, mature by thehr terms on Sept. 1 next year and that the directors have giVen care- ful consideration. to thl$-.maturity. After a canvass at the situation, it is stated, it became obvioiis,;. from the condition of the capital, securi- ties market, that a satisfactory offer- ing of . a refunding Issues of deben- tures could hot bp successfully un- derwritten, and sold. Only' other al- ternative was to offer to debenture holders new debs in exchange for the old maturing in 1930. Company then submitted a plan of exchange dated July 22 this year to debenture holders, providing for th6 offering Of transferable, certificates of de- posit for the $29,400,000 debentures then outstanding, new series being due In 1948. Under the 75% stipulation, to make the plan effective, Warner Bros, needs less than $4,000,000 of old liens to be shifted into certificates for the new debentures to make the plan operative. However, the company must make declaration to that effect. Directors Monday (29) voted to ex- tend the date -on which exchange may be made to March 15, 1939. Old dea,^line was Dec. 1 next. SfSu.rffitos?n°"£!;.^rDSJ.b^^ west, Charles Waldron.Kar™ Morley, Ward Robinson, Moroni Olsen. , .„ , .-^^ «THA.NKS FOR EVERYTHING/ produced by Harry Joe Brown; directed u, wAilm A Seiter music and lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel; \lrZa %f iy ^^^^^ C^^tis Kenyon and Art (Continued on page 21) Quash $1,399,397 Oaii Two claims totaling $1,399,397 filed by G. B. Theatres Corp. against Paramount-PUblix Corp. were tossed out yesterday (Tuesday) by N. Y. Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxe on the recommendation of Special Master John C. Joyce. The claims were based on In- 'Jjentures held by G. S. Corp. from 'I928 to 1930. These indentures wero later transfiJrred to Olympic Thea- tres Corp., which also went into bankruptcy.