Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures Today (Jan-Jun 1930)

See Exposing the Exposer on Page 3 EXHI B I TOR.-r DAI LY_R E V I E W M O T I O PICTURES T (0) D A IT Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.— formerly Exhibitors Trade Review VCL. 27 NV, 142 NEW yOCI^. TUEXCAy JUNE 17, 19J3C TEN CENTX BROADWAY’S WORST WEEK HUGE ENTERTAINMENT CENTER PLANS ANNOUNCED IN DETAIL Decency and the Daylight By WHILE some of the reverend clergy are making themselves conspicuous and even notorious, it is gratifying to read the words of the Reverend Lon Ray Call of the West Side Unitarian Church who levels a sane attack on the increase of people who take delight in looking after everybody’s business. * * « The Reverend Mr. Call sets forth that, “The whole theory of censorship is immoral because it flourishes on partial fact,” and that the best way to suppress a bad book is to let everyone read it. N FIRST thought this latter statement would seem to be (Continued on page 2) CHOOSES CHILD HOLLYWOOD, June 16.— Lina Bastpiette has chosen between her hnsbanJ and her daug’hter. As a result she has left her husband, Peverell M.arley, former chief cameraman for Ctjcil DeMille, that she may have custody of her daug’hter, which resulted from her marriage with the late Sam Warner. The child had been adopted by Harry Warner. RKO to Operate Four Theatres Embraced in Enterprise— A project of building and architectural development that will transform three blocks square in the heart of New York, into a great institutional center devoted to the entertainment and cultural aji'ts encompassed by radio progress in the fields of sound and vision, was officially confirmed yesterday in an official statement issued on behalf of the J.D.Kockefeller, Jr. interests by John R. Todd, of the Todd, Robertson and Todd Engineering Corporation, and of Todd and Brown, of New York, w'ho are in charge of the entire development. Except for one or two structures, the area from 48th to 51st Streets fronting Fifth Avenue, and from Fifth Avenue clear across to a similar frontage of three blocks on Sixth Avenue, will be levelled, and building operations will be begun this Fall, in a project designed to establish a center for the (Continued on page 2) Roxy Hits Bottom with ^36,000; Two Warner Theatres Closed — Capitol and Paramount Do Average Business over Week End — Warners and Hollywood Theatres Closed — BLASTS HIS MONEY Broadway might have been the principal thoroughfare of one of these ghost mining cities of the west as far as the first run movie theatres were concerned last week. ^ Business was poorer than at any other period since the film industry has taken over the principal houses along the main street and the casualties are reported in the box office results. The Roxy’s business for the week fell to $36,000 which is starvation rations for that mammoth house, with its frequent grosses well over the $100,000 mark. The Capitol and Paramount ’reported “average” business, both, however, having exceptionally strong features at the week end. The terrific explosion at Pertli Amboy Suiulay didn’t help Reorge Slieairei, manager of the Grand Tlieatre. He was counting tlie day’s receipts, and had three larg-e stacks of bills before him when the blast scattered the money over the neighborhood. He refused volunteer assistance and sjieiit the night picking up the money by himself. HOLLYWOOD AOTRESS TO WED PRESS AGENT HOLLYWOOD, Cal., June 16.— Announcement was made today of the engagement of Dorothy Lee, motion picture star, and James Fidler. No date has been set for the ceremony. ^Censorship Theory Immoral* Pastor in Pulpit Declares The large congregation gathered at the West Side, New York, Unitarian Church last Sunday morning heard their pastor, the Rv. Lon Ray Call declare in the course of his sermon ; “The whole theory of censorship is immoral, because it flourishes on partial facts, often in almost hysterical zeal, and its chief concern is propriety, not truth.” This statement was prefaced by the Rev. Mr. Call’s observation of “an increase in the number of ACTRESS NEAR DEATH AS YACHTS COLLIDE A sailor was believed drowned and ten persons, including Claire Windsor, motion picture actress, were rescued when two yachts collided off Greenwich, Conn., at 9:35 last Sunday night. Miss Windsor was with a party aboard the Lolita, an express crusier owned by Philip D. Plant, (Continued on page 2) BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT RMY THEATRE Arrangements have been completed between S. L. Rothafel, “Roxy” and the Pan American Union at Washington for the recention of Julio Prestes, President of the Brazilian Republic, at the Roxy Theatre when he arrives here from Washington. A number of special features will be incorporated into the regula’’ program' of the theatre in honor of the dis'i-'-iiished guest. The theatre will be draped in the -'’tinnai .o of the South Amer ican country, and the Uniformed Staff will assume the dress imiform reserved tor special occasions. WARNERS TO BUILD AT WASHINGTON, D. C. Six lots adjoining the Apollo Theatre in Washington, D. C., have been purchased by Warner Bros. They will raze the old theatre and construct -> new one on the ploi acquired which is located at 624 H. St. N.E. (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2)