The Film Daily (1935)

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THE -sm DAILY Monday, Dec. 9, 1935 NEW ASGAP METHOD BASED MORE ON USE (Continued from Page 1) which the actual use of music played a minor role in determining the size of the payments. As a result of this ruling, all the movie-owned companies other than the Warner firms, will remain in the society. Wisconsin Wisps Milwaukee — Vandals were reported responsible for several thousand dollars damage last week to the screens and projection equipment in the Juneau, south side Milwaukee theater, and the Sheboygan, Sheboygan house, both operated by Warners. Managers report they have had no labor trouble. Joe Burmek, former publicity man for the darkened Garden, downtown Milwaukee theater, will join his brother, Cliff, doing publicity in Hollywood. Economy month during December has been announced by the Capitol in Manitowoc with twin feature programs. The Upgar Co. has filed articles of incorporation in Milwaukee with L. A. Crosswaite, T. R. Crosswaite and R. Polacheck as incorporators. The Pastime Theater at Kiel has cut its week-day admission price for students to 15 cents. Des Moines News Des Moines — Tri-States district managers, Joe Kinskey for eastern Iowa, Evert Cummings of the Omaha district, and Stan Brown in the central region, attended a conference here last week, marking the wind-up of a district drive for improved attendance. Members of the Fox exchange will have a Christmas party at Wayside Inn on Dec. 20. The affair will be headed by Stanley Mayer, manager. G. Ralph Branton will be chairman of Des Moines Variety Club's first charity party for shut-ins to be held Dec. 27 at the Paramount. Tri-States theater employees will hold their Christmas party Dec. 23 at the Izaak Walton Club. G. Ralph Branton, A. H. Blank and Stanley Brown will be honored guests. New "Time" at Center Wednesday December issue of "The March of Time" will have its first-run showing at the Center Theater starting Wednesday on the same bill with the 20th Century-Fox feature, "Your Uncle Dudley." Maurice Levin a Father Akron, O. — An eight-pound daughter was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Levin. The father operates the Peoples theater here and is widely known as an exhibitor in eastern Ohio. • • • EVEN THE highly specialized experts in the film biz can go wrong occasionally as witness the amazing history of the Soviet film, "The New Gulliver" now in its seventh week at the Cameo theater where they show these Russian pix and still going strong T T ▼ • • • THE FILM is a modern Soviet version of "Gulliver's Travels," the story that charmed us all in childhood, with Gulliver traveling into the land of the little people, The Lilliputians, and helping them in their problems it was a natural for the Soviet as a propaganda film and this time they were very smart they treated it with subtlety, art and delicious humor getting entirely away from their usual deadly seriousness a/id grimness ▼ TV • • • THEY EMPLOYED a brand new technique in the use of animated cartoon characters that may possibly open up an entirely new field for the Hollywood producers to copy in certain types of themes a modern Russian youth of some 14 years becomes the fabled traveler, Gulliver he finds the nation of the Little People downtrodden and oppressed by the ruling powers while the mass of the people suffer and the little boy goes to work to help and the whole subject is handled so delightfully, with such grand human touches, and such a wealth of human psychology that always has a tongue in cheek attitude, that the film proves a sheer delight ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • BUT A group of Too Serious Thinkers in Moscow objected to the film they said it portrayed the workers in Lilliputia as mere robots without individuality and with this adverse criticism the film when it opened in Paris for the first foreign showing had a poor reception ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • SO WHEN the officials of Am kino the American organization handling Soviet films, heard all this they decided to play safe . they would at least try to get some of the negative cost out of the feature so before it even was released in the United States, they sold it to Arthur Mayer, Oscar Serlin and Joe Burst yn The rest is history T ▼ ▼ • • • A GRAND movement is under way by the Variety Club of Philadelphia to create a Xmas Fund for charity every branch of the local amusement industry is backing a plan to have news cameramen make trailers to be shown in all theaters in the territory the newspapers have promised their hearty co-operation the slogan is: "Variety and Charity must go hand in hand." Chairman Ben Amsterdam and his special Charity Committee have hit on a swell Novelty Idea and it looks as if the Xmas Fund will go over to a tremendous gross incidentally, the Variety Club in Philly includes a bunch of lads who are regular contributors to our own Film Daily Relief Fund so here's success to both Splendid Causes ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • SIMULTANEOUS MEETINGS will be held in New York and Hollywood to enlist aid for the current campaign of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies on Wednesday Eddie Cantor heads the Hollywood contingent Louis K. Sidney the New York end with Major Albert Warner and David Bernstein as co-chairmen Ten tables seating ten each have been reserved for the Harry Hershfield Dinner by Donald Flamm, prexy of the WMCA station for the affair to be given in Harry's honor by the Broadway Cheese Club at the Hotel Astor on Sunday nite, Jan. 26 Mister Flamm will be host to all his radio stars on the occasion, with several of them taking part in the elaborate floor show YOUR RELIEF FUND $$ HELP GASES LIKE THIS (Continued from Page 1) been chopping wood every night, but simply can't chop enough to keep us warm. Have been going around the countryside picking up wood here and there. Could you possibly help me to get a ton of coal as my wife is quite ill, and has been for a month. A few years ago as you know, I was president of a three million dollar corporation. Today I am lucky to get a ton of coal." Why comment? If you have a heart, there is nothing more we can add. The Committee has dozens of cases as tragic as this one — and worse. It's up to you, fellows! You yourself can see no reason why your name isn't on the list below. Send your check for any amount you feel you can afford. Every dollar will help some emergency case of a film man who needs it more than you do. THE HONOR ROLL "Watch It Grow" €€ « » » » A. M. P. A. Harold Hendee Jerome J. Cohen Mrs. Edna Sussman Miss Addie Dannenberg Leo Klebanow Ray Johnston City Photo Engraving Corp. Ben Amsterdam William German William Massce Richard Brady Moe Streimer H. D. Behr E. B. Hatrick Phil Reisman Max Stuart Jack Alicoate Don Mersereau Maurice Kann Al Lichtman H. M. Masters Wm. Barnett Arthur Israel, Jr. Stella Hamlin Tom Hamlin Harry Weltz Herbert Berg Winfield Andrus Louis Nizer Alan Freedman Anonymous Sardi's Restaurant Don Gillette Renee Carroll George Gerhardt Chas. A. Leonard Edward McNamee Quigley Publishing Co. Morris H. Kinzler N. D. Golden Charles A. Rossi "Chick" Lewis Marcus A. Benn Morris Goodman J. A. Tanney Cresson E. Smith C. C. Pettlfohn Edward Curtis William Orr Eddie Edelson Leon Bamberger Paul Lazarus Rube Jackter I. S. MacLeod Charles C. Moskowitz Felix F. Feist E. M. Orowltz Eugene J .Zukor H. D. Buckley Louis K. Sidney Thomas J. Connors Sam E. Morris Emanuel Silverstone M. Van Praag John D. Clark Silas F. Seadler J. Kessler Jay Emanuel Ben Y. Cammack Herbert Ebenstein Saul E. Rogers W. R. Ferguson L. J. Schlaifer W. P. McCartney A. F. Cummings David Barrist Joseph R. Vogel David A. Levy Toby Gruen Ed Finney Completing Colored Revue "The Black Network," the allcolored revue which has been in production at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studios this past week, will be completed tomorrow. Starring Nina Mae McKinney, torch-singer, night club entertainer and featured film player, the two-reel musical will be released in Vitaphone's "Broadway Brevity" series. Supporting Miss McKinney, currently entertaining at the Cotton Club, are the Nicholas Bros., dancers, impersonators and bluessingers; the Washboard Serenaders, Amanda Randolph and Babe Wallace. Roy Mack is directing.