The Film Daily (1930)

THE s2E2S DAILV Thursday, January 16, 1931 "Dynamite" M-G-M Capitol, N. Y. AMERICAN — * • * It is devoid of all the subtlety and cliarin of suggestion, and covers a too great canvas with gobs of raw, livid color. But it is nerve rasping as a file or glass, and quite liable to grin you in its sweep and leave you a little taut and tremb'y at its finish. • * • , DAILY NEWS — * * * What an explosive, vivid, virile bolt of talking celluloid ! Cecil DeMille offers it— his first since "TluGodless Girl." And it's just loaded with action. DeMille gives us red-hot romance and spectacle combined. And there's a dash of jazz-mad life. In fact "Dynamite" has everything, and then some. * * * HERALD — * * * There is, from time I' lime, a certain gusto and extravagant imagination of the type De Mille usually manages to capture, but, with all reverence for the eminent director, it must be said that "Dyiia mite" is a pretty silly picture, filled with excesses of plot, settings, dialogue and act ing and so lengthy that, for all its fury ol melodrama, it succeeds in being dull and lethargic. * * * TELEGRAM—* * * It is for the most part a slow moving, lengthy, heavy-handec: production that has as its only claim to di^ tinction some effective sequences depicting an explosion in a coal mine and some miBht> fine acting by Charles Bickford and Ka> Jfohnson and, surprisingly enough, by Con rad Nagel. ♦ • * TIMES—* * * Both Mr. De Mille as the director and Miss Jeanie Macpherson as the author need a restraining hand to guide them, for the result of this audacious ad venture becomes a hodgepodge, with char acters behaving strangely and conversing in movie epigrams. « ♦ * WORLD — * * * Too, it has not occurred to me before that Mr. De Mille could direct with so little imagination and so little of pace. "Dynamite" is a long time getting round to the business at hand, and when that moment does arrive it is neither a surprise nor much of a shock. * * • Original Roxy Company Sued by Stockholders Charging that Herbert Lubin, Harry G. Kosch and other directors of the Organizers Holding Corp., which succeeded the Associated Pictures Corp. and the Associated Holding Corp., original owner of the option on the site now occupied by the Roxy, has made large secret profits, Benjamin and Herman Warendorf have filed a stockholders' action in Supreme Court seeking to prevent dissolution of the company and asking for an examination of its books. Columbia Makes Cohen Special Foreign Rep. Harry J. Cohen, has been made special foreign representative of Columbia. The appointment follows close on the selection of Milton J. Schwartz as Columbia's European sales manager and the opening of offices in Paris and London. Cohen takes over his new post immediately and will make his headquarters in New York. He recently was affiliated with Pacent, which he represented abroad, and previous to that he held positions with Warner, Metro, and the old General Film. Chicago Rialto Wired Chicago — The Rialto, a burlesque house, now is equipped with Western Electric apparatus. $340,000,000 CAPITAL (Continued from Page 1) the International Labor Office. Italy, Spain and Soviet Russia each have 2,000 theaters now, says the report. There are more than 1,300 houses in Sweden, over 1,000 in Czechoslovakia and nearly 800 in Belgium. In Great Britain approximately 70,000 persons earn their living tl)rough the cinema industry, the Labor Office estimates. New Film Storage Law Being Framed in Ontario (.Continued from Page 1) films in local exchanges. The inquir.\-, influenced by the recent studio fire in New York, was started after Deputy Fire Marshal Lewis had ordered removal of films from the Warner office. The order being appealed. 'Ction was taken. Counsel representing distributors has promised cooperation in the removal of hazards. Loew 12 Weeks' Earnings Show 33 Per Cent Jump (Continued from Page 1) was $4,240,743 compared with $2,997,276 the previous year while depreciation and taxes amounted to $1,088,789 for 1929 as against the $895,243 tlie previous year. 60 Pictures Condemned in Canada During 1929 Toronto — Sixty pictures were condemned, 631 were ordered revised with deletions, and 1,805 were approved without change by the Ontario Board of Censors during 1929, according to the annual report just made. The releases examined included 719 in sound. Maryland Exhibitors Hold Election in March Baltimore — Annual election of officers by the M.P.T.O. of Maryland will take place March 20. A nominating committee, consisting of Walter Pacey, chairman; Julius Goodman, H. Zimmerman, E. B. McCurdy has been appointed. Zelma O'Neal Under Knife li'cst Coast Bureau. THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Zelma O'Neal is in a hospital here recuperating after an operation for appendicitis. She was stricken while flying from San Francisco to this city. Miss O'Neal's husband, Anthony Bushell, is here making talkers. Burn Up Flood Scene Toronto — Fire occurred in the projection rooin of ther Duchess while showing the flood scene in "Noah's Ark," and burned up the film. Sam Goodman, operator, fought the fire while other employees quieted the audience. m SECURITIES CORP. TO AID REFINANCING (Continued from Page 1) Trust Co., has been elected treasurer of the company. Jules A. Brulatour, who was named president and a director at a company meeting held Tuesday, resigned yesterday, stating that he was unable to assume the duties involved owing to the pressure of other business and plans for a trip to Honolulu. Fox Urges Stockholders to Accept Scrip Payment (Continued from Page 1) Uon had and has sufficient surplus, amounting to over $22,000,000, out of which the directors lawfully could declare and pay such dividends and at the time such dividend was declared it was expected that the temporary financing arising out of various acquisitions would be permanently funded so that there would be no difficulty in meeting the cash requirements for this dividend, amounting to $920,560. ".Such permanent funding of the corporation's indebtedness has not yet been accomplished. The corporation therefore asks for the loyal cooperation of its stockholders in this difficulty and requests stockholders to accept in lieu of the cash payment of the current quarterly dividend the corporation's dividend certificate which is inclosed." Fox Business Reported at New All-Time Record For the week ending last Saturday the Fox receipts, including business both in this country and abroad, were the biggest in the company's history, the Fox offices report. About $250,000 was collected outside of the U. S. and Canada alone. Gross for the month of December was 40 per cent ahead of the same period in 1928. W. E. Total is 4466; 3322 in U. S. and 1144 Abroad Total installation of Western Electric sound equipment in the world now is 4,466 with the United States having 3,322 and 1,144 installations completed in 44 foreign countries, according to the company. National Screen Service to Make Tiffany Trailers Tiffany, through General Sales Manager Oscar R. Hanson, has contracted with the National Screen Service for all trailers on Tiffany releases, starting with Mae Murray in "Peacock Alley." "Love Parade" Broadcast to Byrd "The Love Parade," showing at the Prince Edward Theater, Sydney, Australia, has been broadcast to Admiral Richard E. Byrd in the Antarctic. Within a half hour after the broadcast a reply was received from the Byrd expedition. New Theaters Pittsburgh — Alfred Karp will build a thej( ater at Beaver Falls to replace the Colonia'i Burington, Vt. — Plans for the Publix hous< to be built here are expected to be read} soon. Hamilton. O. — John Eberson is drawing plans for the new Paramount. The liousi will be owned by Midham Co. of Cincinnal and leased to Publix. Oakland, Cal. — Warners have purchased the site at Broadway and Franklin Sts., for : new $5,000,000 house to seat 4,500. Middletown, O. — Harry Lynch, real estate operator, has purchased for a client the sil( at Broadway, downtown, for the erection oi a 2,000-seat house. El Paso, Tex. — Publix has taken out permit for one unit of their new Pla?, theate-. More Tone-0-Graphs Ordered Tone-O-Graph, new Baby Granc sound device, will be installed at thi Princess, Jacksonville, Fla., Sanforc and Etta, Ocala. Other theaters tc order Tone-O-Graph equipment in elude the Sample at Fort Pearce, , link in the Sunrise Theaters, Int chain. , Moe Mark in. California 1 n'est Coast Bureau, THE FILM DAILi Los Angeles — Moe Mark has arrived here and is reported looking over several propositions for investment. He plans to stay here unti May before returning to the East. "Hell's Harbor" Premiere Jan. 27 Premiere of "Hell's Harbor," Hen ry King's latest for Inspiration, i: scheduled to have its premiere a the Tampa theater, Tampa, Jan. 27 Lou Lusty is en route to Tampa ti supervise arrangements. MARVELOUS! "Outstanding and marvelous picture in every degree." Moving Picture Review