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...RKO Keith's 105th Theatre, a neighborhood house, innocently caused many a laugh. A brilliant sign on the marquee read: "The Walking Dead-Welcome...
...announced. Finding his Pioneer Pictures handicapped by producing color pictures only, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney finally merged it with Selznick International, David Selznick heading the combine with Merian Cooper and Henry Ginsberg at his side. All releases will be through United Artists, Mr. Whitney's contract with RKO-Radio being allowed to lapse...
Most enticing items on RKO's 54-picture list announced last week were three musicals-one starring Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire, two more in which they will appear separately. Singer Lily Pons will appear in an operetta drama called Street Girl, which may try to capitalize on the vogue for swing music. RKO proudly announced that The March of Time which it distributes had spread from 417 theatres to 7,236 in two years...
...average entertainment is that its 10-year-olds are endowed with adult minds and motives, a situation producing an unusual potency in the pranks the children commit, such as making a major catastrophe of a hotel Christmas tree and the party going on around it. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (RKO). A decorative dunderhead (Jean Arthur) who writes detective stories has a habit of dragging her surgeon-husband (William Powell; into real-life murder mysteries. When they are divorced she tries to get him back by entangling him in still another mystery, involving the murders of a jockey, a trainer...
Special Investigator (RKO) concerns a criminal lawyer (Richard Dix) who is good at persuading juries to acquit under-worldlings. When he is denounced by an outraged judge and his brother (Owen Davis Jr.) is killed, Dix changes his ways, joins the Department of Justice as a special investigator. The gangsters, having stolen a large amount of gold bullion, buy a Nevada ranch with an abandoned mine ship out the gold as newly-produced metal. Matters are made harder for Dix when he becomes enamored of the ringleader's sister (Margaret Callahan), but he is helped when the "gold miners...