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Almost 200 theatres are operated by F.P.C., which last year earned over $2,000,000. A unique feature of the deal is that it will make Radio Keith Orpheum and Paramount partners in a small way, for RKO and F.P.C. jointly control Radio Keith Orpheum. Ltd., of Canada...
...Case of Sergeant Grischa (RKO). When this story was published as a novel in the U. S. a year ago it was hailed as a masterpiece, in spite of the fact that its author, Arnold Zweig, had constructed it awkwardly. If Herbert Brenon, who directed the picture, had torn down the book and built it properly, starting the story at its real beginning, _ with the arrest of the Russian soldier, Grischa. after his escape from a German prison camp ? if he had shown the panorama of war moving around this insignificant figure in the foreground, getting across the tremendous...
...Deck (RKO). As a stage musical comedy, this was well liked three years ago. As a photograph of a stage musical comedy, it is handicapped by the fact that its great tunes-"Hallelujah" and "Sometimes I'm Happy"-are just old enough to be stale. Its story, stale to begin with, is laid in a seaport town populated by chorus girls who are always ready to swing into a routine, and by numerous chorus-boy sailors named Smith. Jack Oakie's talents are subdued by his struggles with the dialog. A girl named Polly Walker, new to films...
Seven Keys to Baldpate (RKO). Earl Derr Biggers wrote the story. George M. Cohan made a play of it. Douglas MacLean was in it as a silent picture. As a talkie it proves again that the mechanism of the mystery story is an ideal device for comedy. Richard Dix is the young author who bets that he can write a book in 24 hours and sits down to work in a lonely house in the country to which he believes he has the only key. Typical shot: $25,000 in stage money burning in the fireplace at Baldpate...
...connoisseurs as Feist's Edgar Bitner. Anybody who has written a musical composition may submit it. To ensure unprejudiced judgments the board will be kept in ignorance of the composer's name. If a composition is accepted, Radio Music Co. will publish it, NBC will broadcast it, RKO Productions perhaps may make of it a theme song, Radio-Victor will make records of it. But in all cases Radio Corp. of America will profit thereby...