Variety (Sep 1942)

82 PICTURES Wednesday. Scjitembei^ 2. 1942 Mpk. Indies Grant 5% Increase; (%i Newark, BoodunenVDemands Minneapolis, Sept. 1. Averting a threatened strike, local Independent exhibitors, after long negotiations, have agreed to the terms of a new three-year contract with booth operators. The contract calls for a salary boost of 5% to IMov. 30, 1942, an additional 2V^% the next year and 214% more the third year. The first 5% boost is retroactive to last May. The operators already /had served strike notice on the exhibitors and the latter had declared they'd close their tiieatres rather than accede to the demands. However, the union finally won out, obtaining practi- cally everything for which it fought. The Bijou, lower loop subsequent- run 11c. twin bill house, and the union left one disputed point to arbitration. The Bijou for the past 10 years has been operating on a booth projectionists' schedule run- ning from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. daily. The projectionists now want to lop off a halt hour and wind up at 11 p.m., with overtime thereafter. SOEG PARRIES lATSE TAKEOVER IN FRISCO San Francisco, Sept 1. A move by lATSE to envelop the Coast exchange collarites, by taking over the Warner unit here, was blocked when the Screen Office Em- ployes Guild flled a petition to the Frisco NLRB for certification. Floyd Billingsley, lA v.p., had called a meeting of the Warner unit which was called off when Glenn Pratt, business agent of SOEG, autoed in from Los Angeles and took a straw vote of the employes, which favored the Guild. Billingsley had promised the same deal Warner em- ployes got in N. Y., plus any advan- tages given by the SOEG. lATSE Seehs New Pact Chicago, Sept. 1. International Alliance of Theatri- cal Stage Employees and its sub- sidiary, Motion Picture Operators' Union, are instituting a drive for a general increase in salaries, plus a reduction of working hours. The Chicago local of the Operators' Union has come up with demand Upon the theatres for an elimination of the seven-day week, to be re- placed by a siA-day week. This fol- lows the patterns of demands by the Chicago Federation of Musicians which several years ago obtained a six-day week in all branches of show business, including theatres, radio ■nd cafes. In addition to the six-day week, the Opqrators are asking for a gen- eral increase in salaries of 10%. Sev- eral initial meetings have been held with exhibitor groups already, and it appears likely that a compromise settlement wiU.be reached quickly and amicably. At the same time, the stagehands group has asked for a revision in salary terms, as'^ing for a 5% in- crease. The stagehands contend that this is, in reality, no increase, but Is merely a r&toration Of cuts agreed to by the union several years ago when the union granted a 20% cut during the depression. Since that time, the stagehands have gotten back 15% of that cut and are now asking for complete restoration to the levels of 10 years ago. Pat Scolterd, ArbiUr Hollywood, Sept. 1. Pat ScoUard of Paramount is en route here to act as company arbiter in the Screen Office Employes Guild wage dispute. Companies had first picked Al Schwalberg of Warners, but switched after an lA move in Frisco. CCol. Zanuck { Contlnacd from page S^^sssl Monday night for Chicago for the Tuesday session of the Chi regional. N. T. Opa' NegoUatlons Negotiations between distributors and the Moving Picture Machine Operators, Local 306, to cover pro- jectionists in New York screening rooms as well as scattered small sti-dios, are continuing without hitch and expected that an early settle- ment will be reached. The huddles with 306 were re- sumed three weeks ago after a deaa- lock had been reached and the op- 'erators' union had taken a strike vote empowering its president. Her- man Belber, to pull the men out at his discretion. Projectionists in h.o. and exchange screening rooms as well as studios, who have been going a-long since Aug. 31, 1940, under the provisions of the old deal, are demanding a 15% increase retroactive to that date as well as various conditions over which, in the main, the di.<;tribs and S05 have been in disagreement. ' Bill Goctt 'Sarprlsed' Hollywood, Sept. 1. William Goetz, v.p. in charge of the studio during Col. Zanuck's ab- sence, said his complete withdrawal from 20th production activities, for th; duration, came as a 'complete surprise.' He admitted Zanuck had talked about it for past weeks. Zanuck was among .the first in Hollywood to actively participate in making training films for Army. Prior to Dec. 7 he was reserve of- ficer in the Signal Corps since 1939. He was commissioned a lieutenant- colonel a year ago and last spring was given the rank of colonel. Re ported he will be advanced to brlga dier-general in short time. Zanuck no raw recruit at war game having been with AEF in last war and participated in two major engagements. At time of his enlist ment he was 15, and youngest in his outfit. Others in industry with reserve commissions who are doing part- time duty expected to be called into service on full time basis now that Zanuck is devoting all his lime to the war effort CASSIDY HEADS NEW MICH. INDIES COMBINE Advance Productioii Chart (Continue* from page 24) credits: camera, no credit Cast: Guy Klbbee, Mar- garet Hayes, John Archer, Wallace Ford, Florence Lake, John Miljan, Spencer Charters, Willie Best, Mar- garet McWade, Margaret Seddon. PIBATES OF THE PBAIBIE, western; prod., Bert Gilroy: dir.. Howard Bretherton; screen play, Morton Grant and Doris Schroeder: camera, Nick Musuraca. Cast: Tim Holt Nell O'Day, Cllfl Edwards. GUN LAW, western; prod., Bert Gilroy; dir., Sam Nelson;- no writing credits; camera. Max Stengler. Cast: Tim HoU, Joan Barclay, Cliff Edwards, Bud Mc- Taggart, Ed Cassiday. ONCE UPON A HONETUOON, .comedy-drama; prod.-dir., Leo McCarey; no writing credits; camera, George Barnes. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, George Sanders. SEVEN DATS LEAVE, formerly, SWEET OB HOT, musical; prod, dir., Tim Whelan; no writing credits; camera, Robert De Grasse. Cast: Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, JPreddie Martin and band, i^s Brown and band, Peter Lind Hayes, Marcy McSuire, Mapy Cortes, Har- old Peary, Buddy Clark. NAVY COMES THEOUQH, war drama; prod., Islin Auster; dir.. Eddie Sutherland; no writing credits; camera, Nick Musuraca. Cast: Pat O'Brien, George Murphy, Desi Arnaz, Jane Wyatt CAT PEOPLE, horrorer; prod., Val Lewton; dir.. Jack Tourneut; screen play, De Witt Bodine; camera, Nick Musuraca. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Tom Conway. THEY GOT ME COVERED, comedy; prod., Sam Goldwyn, dir., David Butler; no writing credits; camera, Rudolph Mate. Cast: Bob Hope. Dorothy Lamour, Phyllis Ruth, Henry Guttman, John Abbott, William Yetter, Edward Ciannelli. Donald McBride. THE FALCON'S BEOTHEB, mystery; prod., Maurice Geraghty; dir., Stanley Logan; no .writing crediU; camera, unassigned. Cast: George Sanders, Tom Con- way, Jane Randolph, Charlotte Wynters. LADIES DAY, baseballer; prod., Bert Gilroy; dir., Leslie Goodwins; no writing credits; ca< lera, Jack Mc- Kenzle. Cast: Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Max Baer, Patsy Kelly. BKO PIz In ProdncUon STAND BY TO DIE, air drama; prod., David Hemp- stead; dir., Lothar Mendes; no writing credits; camera, Johnny Mescall. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Fred Mac- Murray, Tom Conway. TAEZAN TRIUMPHS, action; prod., Sol Lesser: dir., William Thiele; no writing credits; camera, Harry Wild. Cast: Johnny WeissmuUer, John Sheffield, Frances GIfford, Martin Kosleck, Rex Williams. 20th Centnry-Fox PromlMd '4«-"4S Com- pleted 6 Shoot- 7 fiow Caltlns To go 10 47 Newark Ops' Demands Newark, Sept 1. In negotiations for a new contract with Essex County theatre operators, wage increases of approximately 257o were being asked last week by Local 244, Moving Picture Oper- ators' Union. Harry Oppenheimer, .secretary of the local, was conducting most of the negotiations for the union. On the owners' side were reprG.<;cnta- tives of 67 houses, about half of which were independents. Under an expiring contract op- erators have been receiving about $125 a week in downtown theatres. Neighborhood operators in chain theatres have been getting about $110 a week, and operators in inde- pendents about $76. Besides increas- ing these Males, the proposed new contract wouia pirbviae for revisions of holiday and overtime pay. Business agent of Local 244 Is Louis Kaufman, who Sept 29, last Detroit, Sept. 1. Close to 100 theatres are repre- sented in the Michigan Independent Exhibitors Association, new booking and buyin*g group which was formed out-state. First lineup in the meet- ing at Midland, Mich., saw William A. Cassidy, one of the prime movers for the new organization, elected as temporary president, with Joseph P. Uvick, attorney for the Schulte cir- cuit and himself an exhibitor, as sec- retary. Offices have been taken here by the group, which has announced that it will present a solid front to com- bat demands of producers for per- centage pictures. The Michigan In- dependent Exhibitors Association also has gone on record as being op- posed to raised admission prices on selected features and preferred play- ing times, with the emphasis against changes in the consent decree after Sept. 1. year, was indifted ' by a Federal grand jury in New York on charges of conspiring to extort more than $1,000,000 from four major produ- cers. Named with Kaufman in the indictment were George E. Browne and William Bioff as co-consplrators. Both the latter are now serving terms in a federal penitentiary. Also named in the indictment was Nick Dean of Chicago, who pleaded guilty March 16. Kaufman is under $10,000 bail waiting trial, which has been postponed numerous times. Featnres .... Pictures in cutting room or awaiting release: THUNDER BIRDS, air drama in Technicolor; prod., Darryl F. Zanuck; dir., William Wellman, original, Laurence Stallings; screen play, Lamar Trotti; camera, Ernest Palmer. 'Technicolor,-Ray Renahan. Cast: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, Dana Andrews, Janis Carter, Dorothy Deering, Vivian Mason, Mary Scott' Claire James, Elaine Fenwlck. THE .BLACK SWAN, adventure in Technicolor; prod., Darryl F. Zanuck; asso. prod., Robert Bassler; dir, Henry King; asst. dir., Henry Weinberg; novel by Rafael Sabatini; camera, Leon Shamroy. Cast: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mit- chell, Georg: Sanders, Anthony Quinn, George Zucco. THE MAN IN THE TBUNK, mystery: prod., Walter Morosco; dir., Mai St. Clair; screen play, John Larkin; camera, Glenn MacWiUiams. Cast: Lynne Roberts, George Holmes, Raymond Walburn. SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES, musical in Tech- nicolor; prod., William LeBaron; dir., Irving Cummlngs; no writing c.redits; camera, Epnest Palmer. Cast: Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda; Harry James and orchestra, Cesar Romero, Charlotte Greenwood. CHINA GIRL, drama; prod.,' Ben Hecht; dir., Henry Hathaway; original * screenplay, Ben Hecht; camera, Lee Garmes. Cast: George Montgomery, Gene Tierney, Myron McCormick, Osa Massen. GIRL TROUBLE, comedy; prod., Robert Bassler; original, Ladislaus Fodor; screenplay, Vicki Baum, Guy Trosper; screenplay, Ladislaus Fodor and Robert Riley Crutcher. Cast: Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Biliie Burke, Frank Craven, Alan Dinehart. MANILA CALLING, drama; prod., Bryan Foy; dir.. Otto Brower; original screenplay, John Larkin: camera, Lucien Andriot. . Cast: Carole Landis, Lloyd Nolan: HE HIRED THE BOSS, formerly TEN-DOLLAR RAISE, comedy; prod., Sol M. Wurtzel; dir., Thomas Z. Loring; original story, Peter B. Kyne; screenplay, Ben Markson and Irving Cummlngs, Jr.; camera, Glen Mac- Williams. Cast: Stuart Erwin, Evelyn Ve:iable, Vivian Blaine. Hugh Beaumont. THAT OTHSR WOMAN, comedy-drama: prod., Wal- ter Morosco; dir., Ray McCarey; no writing credits; camera, Joseph MacDaniel. Cast: Lynn Bari, James Ellison, Janis Carter. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, outdoor; asso. prod.. Lamarr Trotti; dir., William Wellman; no writing credits; camera, Arthur Miller. Cast: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn. 20th Century Pix in Production MY FRIEND FLICKA, drama in Technicolor; prod., Ralph Dietrich: dir., Harold Schuster; no writing credits; camera, unassigned. Cast: Roddy McDowall, Preston Foster, Rita Johnson. THE MEANEST MAN IN THE WORLD, comedy; prod., William Perlberg; dir., Sidney Lanfield; no writ- mg credits; camera, Peverell Marley. Cast: Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson. DR. RENAULT'S SECRET, mystery; .prod., Sol M. Wurtzel; dir.. Harry Lachman: no writing credits; camera, Virgil Miller. Cast; John Sheppard, Lynn Roberts, J. Carrol Naish, George Zucco. LIFE BEGINS \T 8:30, drama; prod., Nunnally John- son; dir., Irving Pichel; no writing credits; camera, Charles Clarke. ".asX: Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, John Shepperd. THE UNDYING MONSTER, horrorer; prod., Bryan Foy; dir., John Brahm; no writing credits; camera, Luclan Ballard. Cast: James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, Melville Cooper, Heather Thatcher. CRASH DIVE, submarine; prod., Milton Sperling: dir., Archie Mayo; no writing credits; camera, Leon Shamroy. Cast: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, James Gleason. Charles Grait%3wln. OVEB MY DEAD BODY, mystery comedy; prod., Walter Morosco; dlr„ Mai St Clair; no writing credits; camera, Lucien Andriot. Cast: Milton Berle, Mary Beth Hughes, Jill Warren, Reginald Denny, Wonderful Smith. United Artists Pntmliied Cmu- Sbaot- Now '41-4t pleted Ins Cuttlns To tm B«aoh 10 10 • • • Ko/ds S 4 • • 1 Snail B 8 • 0 • GlorU Pics 1 1 • 0 0 Lesser 1 0 0 • i Leew-Lewin i .0 0 1 i Pressbnrger 1 1 0 0 o Rowland 1 0 0 0 l Pascal I 0 0 0 1 ToUla 31 24 • 1 8 Pictures in cttttlng room or awaiting release: - THE McGUEBINS FROM BROOKLYN, formerly BROOKLYN BRIDGET, drama; prod.. Hal Roach; dir., Kurt Neumann; screenplay, Earle Snell, Clarence Marks; camera. Bob Pittack. Cast: Arline Judge, Wil- liam Bendix, Max 9aer, Joe Sawyer, Grace Bradley, Marjorie Woodsworth, Veda Ann Borg. THE MOON and' SIXPENCE, drama; prod., David L. Loew; dir. Albert Lewin; screen play, Al Lewin; camera, John Seitz. Cast: George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Eric Blore, Doris Dudley, Florence Bates, Steve Geray, Irene Tedrow, Devi Dja Javanese Troupe. CALABOOSE, western; prod., Glenn Tryon (Hal Roach); dir., Hal Roach, Jr.; no writing credits; camcrn, unassigned. Cast: Jimmy Rogers, Noah Beery. Jr., Mary Brian, Marc Lawrence, Paul Hurst TAXI, MISTER, drama; prod., Fred Guiol; dir., Kurt Neumann; screen play, Earle Snell, Clarence Marks: camel a, Robert Pittack. Cast: William Bendix, Grace Bradley, J'oe SaWyer, Sheldon Leonard, Jack Norton. FALL IN, army series; prod., Fred Guiol; dir., Kurt Neumann; no writing credits, camera, Robert Pittack. Cast: Wflliam Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Jean Porter, Arthur Hunnicutt Robert Barrat Rebel Randall. YANKS AHOY, army; prod., Fred Guiol; dir.. Kurt Neuman; screenplay, Eugene Conrad and Ned Sea- brook; camera Robert Pittack. Cast: William Tracy. Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodsworth. Universal rromlMd Ctim- •*t-*a pirird . . 56 2 .. 4 2 Slioot- Mow Ids CHttlns Tn k» 9 18 27 t I 1 0 6 1 29 Features .... Serials Westerpa 7 0 0 6 Totals 67 4 9 25 Pictures in cutting room or awaiting release: EYES OF THE UNDERWORLD, formerly DESTINY, melodrama; asso. prod., Ben Pivar; die, Roy William Neill; screenplay, Michael L. Simmons and Arthur Strawn; based on an original story by Maxwell Shane; camera, George Robinson. Cast: Richard Dix, Wendy Barrie, Don Porter, Billy Lee, Lloyd Corrigan, Lon Chaney, Mjrc Lawrence, Edward Pawley, Joseph Crehan, Wade Boteler, Gaylor Pendleton, Mike Raffietto. STRICTLY IN THE GROOVE, musical; asso., prod., Joseph G. Sanford; dir., Vernon Keays; original screen- play, Kenneth Higgins, Warren Wilsoi); camera, John W. Boyle. Cast: Mary Healy, Rlcharit<iDavies, Leon Errol, Shemp Howard, Grace MacDonald, Ronald O'Connor, Martha Tilton, Robert Weldon. Franklin Pangborn, Tip, Tap, Toe, Ozzie Nelson and his band. MADAME SPY, mystery; asso. prod., Marshall Grant: dir., Roy William Neil; screenplay, Lynn Riggs and Clarence Upson Young; original story, Clarence Upson Young; camera, George Robinson. Cast: Constance Bennett, Don Porter, John Lltel, Edward S. Brophy, John Eldredge, Nana Bryant. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TER- ROR, formerly SHERLOCK HOLMES SAVES LON- DON, mystery; asso. prod., Howard Benedict; dir.. John Rawlins; from the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 'His Last Bow'; screenplay by Lynn Riggs; adapted by Robert D. Andrews; camera. Woody Bredell. CaaV. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Reginald Denny, Thomas Gomez, Montagu Love, Henry Daniell, Olaf Hyttcn, Leyland Hodgson. GIVE OUT, SISTERS, musical; asso. prod., Bernard Burton; dir., Edward F. Cline; screenplay, Paul Gerard Smith, Warren Wilson; original stoor by Lee Sands, Fred Rath; camera, George Robinson. Cast: The Andrews Sisters, Dan Dailey, Jr., Grace MacDonald, Charles Butterworth, Richard Davies, Peggy Ryan. Walter Catlett William Frawley, Marie Blake, Fay Helm. Edith Barrett, The Jivin Jacks and Jills. Emmett Vogan, Irving Bacon, Leonard Carey, Lorin Raker. Don O'Connor. THE GREAT IMPERSONATION, drama; asso. prod., Paul Malvern; dir., John Rawlins: screen play, W. Scott Darling, based on novel by J. Phillips Oppenheim; camera, George Robinson. Cast: Ralph Bellamy. Eve- lyn Ankers. Kaaron Verne, Edward Norris, Henry Daniels, Audrey Mathbr, Mary Torbes, Charles Cole- man, Robert O. Davis, Fred Vogeding, Frederick Gier- man, Charles Irwin, Hans von Morhart. Audrey Long. Rex Evans. Yvette Duguay, Marcelle (3orday. Ludwig Stossel, Sylvia Arslan, Henry Guttman. WHO DONE rrr, comedy; asso. prod., Alex Gottlieb: dir., Earle C. Kenton; screenplay by Stanley Roberts. Edmund Joseph, John Grant; original story by Stanley Roberts; camerb, Charles Van Enger. Cast: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Patric Knowles, William Gargan, Louise AUbritton, Mary Wickes, Thoma.-: Gomez, William Beh'dix, Don Porter, Jerome Cowon. Ludwtg Stossel, Walter Tetley, Edmund MacDonald. NIGHT MONSTER, formerly HOUSE OF MYSTERY, mystery melodrama; prod.-dir., Ford Beebe; asso. prod.. Donald H. Brown; original screenplay, Clarence Upion Young: camera, Charles Van Enger. Cast: Irene Hervey, Leif Erikson, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill. Don Porter, Ralph Morgan, Nils Asther, Fay Helm. Dorlf Lloyd. Francis Pierlot Robert Homans, Ed Waller. Janet Shaw, Frank Reicher, iyril Delevanti. BETWEEN US GIRLS, formerly, LOVE AND KISSES, CAROUNE, comedy-drama; asso. prod.. Phil Karlstein. A Henry Koster production. Dir.. Henry Koster; screenplay by Myles Connolly and True Boarcl- man; based on play by Regis Ginoux and Jacquo (Continued on page 34)