The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-05
Paramount
Has a Big
Schedule
Over Two Hundred Movies
Announced for Next
Season.

TALKING picture productions to
Il the number of 243 for the new
season starting Aug. l, were an
nounced for Paramount Publix Cor
poration by Jesse L. Lasky, first
vice-president in charge Of the pro-
duction, Signalling the initial
schedule of this organization under
its new corporate title.
The new program, which calls for
sixty-five all-talking feature-length
productions, marks an expansion of
so per cent over the number Of pic
lures announced last year.
This increased productivity, based
on the constantly developing facili-
ties of both east and west coast
studios of Paramount, is particularly
strong in the short subject division.
Here there will be eighteen screen
songs, eighteen talkartoons, twelve
pictorials, 104 one-reel acts and
twenty-six two-reel comedies.
The news department, which has
discarded silent prints entirely, is
also extensively augmenting its out
put. with 104 issues of Paramount
sound news, or double the number
issued last year.
A noteworthy aspect Of the fea-
ture productions will be the creation
of several screen stories of child
hood, designed for grownups as well
as youngsters and representing the
first audible features to deal with
Juvenile characters primarily.
A New Film Ideal
This innovation will mark the re-
turn of Jackie Coogan to the screen
as talking star. Jackie will play
the title role in tom Sawyer" a
screen version Of Mark Twain's hui
morouS classic Of boyhood. Junior
Durkin, who scored a Broadway
stage hit in Courage" will have
the role of Huckleberry Finn in this
production and will repeat it in a
production of "Huckleberry Finn"
in the schooling which his parents
felt should not be hampered by his
professional career, and a recent
scene with him in a picture dealing
with Hollywood first nights showed
him healthy, happy boy, who has
kept all the engaging youthful
qualities which first made him
famous.
The third of this type will be
"Skippy," talking version of Percy
Crosby's famous kid cartoons. The
youngster for the title role and his
supporting juvenile cast have not
yet been selected. The production
will have the aid of Crosby himself,
whose contract permits Paramount
to use any of his daily sketches for
the pictures.
Clara to Star Again
Among the popular groWn-up stars
already known under the Paramount
banner, Clara Bow will be rep
resented by four pictures. George
Bancroft will be in two starring
vehicles. Richard Arlen will be in
four, including Spanish Acres" one
of the Western type in which he
has been so successful.
Jack Oakie will have three, one Of
them being Merton of the Talkies,"
an up-to- the minute version of
Harry Leon Wilson's story about the
youth with soaring screen am
billions.
William Powell will be in two.
Nancy Carroll will have the same
number. Charles Buddy" Rogers
will be in three, including ''Molin-
off" musical successor to safety
in Numbers" adapted with dialogue
and lyrics by George Marion Jr.,
from a play by Maurice Bedell, and
giving the star a chance to portray
a wealthy young man, broke in
London, who becomes a chef. Ruth
Chatterton and Give Brook will re-
peat the starring combination which
was so effective in 1.-THE Laughing
Lady" by appearing together in
three vehicles. One Of these will be
1.-THE Better Wife," directed by
Dorothy Arzner and adapted by
Daniel N. Rubin and Agnes Brand
Leahy, from Couverneur Norris's
story of the playwright, who loses
one wife and finds another. A
second vehicle will be New Morals, :"
written in Hollywood by Frederick
Lonsdale, noted English playwright.
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