The Film Daily (1938)

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THE Thursday, October 6, V DAILY Vol. 74, No. 77 Thurs., Oct. 6, 1938 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer; Entered as second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New York $1.0.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, "$3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone, BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne, Rauchstr, 4. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. f innnciDL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. 205/g 193/4 193/4 — 'A 147/8 143/4 147/s + 3/8 Am. Seat Columbia Picts. vtc. Columbia Picts. pfd. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. East. Kodak do pfd Cen. Th. Eq Loew's, Inc do pfd Paramount Paramount 1st pfd.. Paramount 2nd pfd. Pathe Film RKO 20th Century-Fox . 20th Century-Fox pfd Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros do pfd ■ 1% 1% 1% 8 1/4 8 8 y4 + 1/4 18034 1 78 1/2 180 + 11/2 I66V2 166 166 155/g 151/2 155/s + % 53i/8 52i/8 53 -) ll/g 117/8 lll/g 113/4 + 3/4 92l/8 92 92+3 113/4 9% 25/8 271/8 263/4 27 + 11 93/8 23/8 U3/4 + 3/g 93/4 + % 25/g + 1/4 1/4 351/2 351/2 3,51/2 — 1/2 6% '65/g 67/s + "i/4 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s46 91 91 91 Loew 6s41ww ....102 1 01 % 1 01 % — % Para. B'way 3s55... 61 61 61 + VA Para. Picts. 6s55... 937/g 937/8 937/8 + 17/8 Para. Picts. cv. 3 i/4s47 80 79'/2 80 +2 RKO 6s41 68 68 68 + 1 l/g Warner's 6s39 81 1/2 79y2 81 1/2 + 1 1/2 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Grand National 7-16 7-16 7-16 Monogram Picts. ... 2 2 2 Sonotone Corp 1 V2 1 1/2 1 Vl + Va Technicolor 23l/4 223/8 23!/8 + 1 '/g Trans-Lux 2 1% 2 + Vg Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER STOCK MARKET Bid Asked Pathe Film 7 pfd Fox Thea. Bldg. 6i/2s 1st '36 Loew's Thea. Bldg. 6s 1st '47 Met. Dayhouse, Inc. 5s '43 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 6y4s 1st '43 SAFETY LLOYDS FILM STORAGE CORP. Storage by Reel or Vault 729 Seventh An. New York City BRyant 9-5600 SECURITY Lew Lehr Featured in 8th Trailer For Quiz Contest Lew Lehr is featured in Trailer No. 8 for the Movie Quiz contest which will be released during the gridiron season with Lehr portraying a football referee. Trailer is now in production at National Screen Service, and Lehr was obtained through the courtesy of Fox Movietone News. Harold B. Franklin, business manager of the drive, in a bulletin issued this week urges exhibitors to keep up to date on Movie Quiz trailers, arguing against constant use of the same trailers. Mount Vernon and Bronxville, N. Y., will hold their industry drive parade Saturday with five floats, several bands, a police secort and ushers in uniform. Participating are the Skouras Bronxville, RKO Proctor and Loew's Mount Vernon Theaters. Shapiro Group Planning Circuit in Eastern Keys The Waldorf Theater has been taken over by a group headed by Irvin Shapiro, of World Pictures, and the house will be extensively remodeled and a new policy will be inaugurated, it was announced yesterday. The Belasco Theater in Washington will also be booked by Shapiro, and it is stated that these two houses will form the nucleus for a new circuit this group will establish in Eastern key cities. Myron Robinson and A. S. Mossback are associated with Shapiro, it was learned. Warner Trailer Plugging Pix Ties In With Drive West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — A special trailer, which ballyhoos such Warner pix as "Wings of the Navy," "Angels With Dirty Faces," "The Sisters," "Brother Rat," "Devil's Island," "Hard to Get," "Dawn Patrol," "Jaurez," "Oklahoma Kid," "Heart of the North," and "Blackwell's Island," is tied in with "Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment" campaign. Joe Cunningham and Larry Williams, Warner featured players, appear in the trailer titled "The Smiths Take a Short Trip." "Gay Nineties" to Astor World-wide distribution of "The Gay Nineties," new production of International Road Shows, Inc., has been taken over by Astor Pictures Corp., it was announced yesterday by R. M. Savini, president of Astor. Bert Goldberg represented International in working out the deal. New Fabian Cohoes House Plans are being prepared by John Eberson, film theater architect, for a new house which is being contemplated for erection by Fabian EnterI prises in Cohoes, N. Y. Altec Emergency Stock Re-equips N. E. Theaters That over $20,000 worth of sound equipment, baffles, horns, cables and other sound-projection necessities has been provided for New England theaters in the hurricane and floodstricken belt via Altec Service Corp. emergency stock, was declared yesterday by the company. Most Altec houses in the area have received all necessary replacement equipment without cost under the organization's comprehensive service contracts, it is announced. To alleviate theaters affected in New England, Altec inspectors rushed from Boston the day following the hurricane. One inspector rode across the stage of a Hartford, Conn., theater on an improvised raft to aid equipment restoration. In Finn's Theater, Jewett City, Conn., entire theater structure caved in, hurtling all sound equipment into the cellar. Carlton. Providence, and the Strand and Fay houses there were respectively beset with 10 and 15 feet of water in their auditoriums, Altec reports. Faralla Forms Dario Prods. To Make Para. Spanish Pix West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Incorporation papers have been filed in Sacramento by Attorney Herbert T. Silverberg for Dario Productions. The new company is headed by Dario Faralla and will make a series of Snanish pictures, starring Tito Guizar for Paramount release. Faralla has appointed Irving Applebaum production manager and Ralph Berger art director. Arthur Vernon Jones is writing the screenplay for the initial story, tentatively titled "Radio Troubador." Date for Second Parley on Trust Suit Not Set Although no date has been set yet for further meetings between industry counsel and Department of Justice officials in Washington, the next session probably will be set for either next week or that following, it was learned yesterday. Will Open Coast Offices Mary Warner, indie film distributor and broker, left yesterday for Los Angeles where she plans to establish coast offices for special handling of independent and industrial pictures for Progress Films and Lloyds Film Storage Corp. Irish Theater to Open The Irish Theater, which will show Irish pictures exclusively, will have its official opening Oct. 21. it was announced yesterday. Theater will show "Rose of Tralee" as its inaugural offering. comma mid goiii COL. W. J. DONOVAN, chief counsel RKO, is in Chicago. JACK L. WARNER, vice-president of W* Bros, and MRS. WARNER, sail for England day on the Queen Mary. g^fd i. CHEEVER COWDIN, Universal bo..rd cl man, is scheduled to sail for England todai the Queen Mary. JOHN MARK, Paramount story editor England, and LILI DAMITA, actress, also on the Queen Mary today. ARMAND DENIS and his wife, LEILA RO( VELT, producers of Universale "Dark Raptii arrived in Harrisburg, Pa., today to at the opening of their picture tomorrow nigh LOU IRWIN, agent, left for the Coast night via TWA. LAURITZ MELCHIOR, singer, and his v arrive from Europe today on the Europa. GAIL PATRICK, Paramount star, arrives Little Rock, Ark., today to attend the w premiere of Paramount's "Arkansas Trave tomorrow. JEAN CALE, Hollywood actress, is sta] at the Sherry Netherland. ROSCOE KARNS, actor, has left the d to attend the USC Ohio State game at Coh bus, O., on Saturday. He arrives in t York Sunday to spend a week to 10 cl vacation. RUTH WESTON, actress, returns from Coast this week to appear in a Broadway pi; MARY WARNER left for the Coast yesterc SAM BERKOWITZ, producer for Grand I tional, arrived in New York yesterday fi the Coast. World Series Visitors Boost Chicago B.O. B Chicago — Biz in the Loop theate took an upward turn last night, wi influx of World Series fans credit* </ 16,961 titles of Feature Productions released since 1915 are listed in the 1938 edition of the Industry's Standard Reference Book of Motion Pictures— THE FILM YEAR BOOK 1501 Broadway New York City The 1939 edition now in preparation