The Film Daily (1935)

THE ■a&a DAILY Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1935 Theater Expansion War Looming in Louisiana Vol. 68, No. 137 Wed., Dec. 11. 1935 10 Cents JOHN W. AL1COATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President, Editor and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager; Arthur W. Eddy, Associate Editor; Don Carle Gillette, Managing Editor. Entered as second class matter. May 21, 1918, 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 $10.00 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, 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone, Circle 7-4736, 7-4737, 7-4738, 7-4739. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California— Ralph WUk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. FINANCIAL New Orleans — Entry into Wynn, j La., with a house in opposition to ; the Page interests and construction ! of a new theater costing over $25,I 000 at Natchitoches, La., in opposition to D. L. Suddath, apparently marks the merging of the Hurd interests and the Bailey circuit as a fighting combination, and presages, according to some, a theater expansion war in small centers. The recent merger, effected by Hurd's purchasing an interest in the Bailey circuit and the Baileys buying into Hurd, which will bring the houses of both interests into one operation and give them over 30 theaters in small towns, was not officially announced until this week. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High 21% 49% 6% 19 161 'A 1 155V2 1 54% IO71/4 1 10% 81 % 12% 7% 51/2 231/2 303/4 61 10% 51% BOND — 5 — Vi + Am. Seat Columbia Picts. vtc. . Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. . East. Kodak do pfd 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 NEW YORK Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40. . Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 ctfs. Loew 6s 41 ww Par. Picts. 6s 55 RKO 6s41 Warner's 6s39 NEW YORK Sonotone Corp 2% 214 2% Technicolor 185/8 18% 18%— % Trans-Lux 4% 4 4% Low 21 47 5% 183/4 57 551/2 54 071/4 10 80 1/4 12 7 51/4 22% 30% 60 9% 51 Close 21 47 57/g 183/4 157 155% 54 1071/4 10 80 % 12 7 5% 23 30'/4 60 10 51 Net Chg. — % — 1% — % 5% 1/4 1 MARKET 19 18% 18% — % 183/4 18% 183/4 — 1/4 104 103% 103% + % 931/4 92 921/2 — 3/4 75% 75 75—2 89 88% 88% — 3/8 CURB MARKET Gilbert Roland Sally Eilers Guaranteed Opens Paris Office Mort Sikawitt, head of Guaranteed Pictures, announces the opening of a Paris office headed by Frank Bates, veteran Continental distributor and until recently in charge of Monogram's European affairs. Negotiations are now pending far additional appointments in other countries. Spanish Feature in Color "De La Sarten al Fuego," produced on the coast by George Hirliman, the first Spanish feature in color, opens tonight at the Teatro Campoamor. John Reinhardt directed the picture, which was filmed in Magnacolor and is being released by 20th Century-Fox. Would Avoid Long Disputes St. Louis — Working out some form of settling trade disputes without the expense and bitterness of court litigation will be among the chief aims of the M.P.T.O. of St. Louis, Eastern Mo. and Southern 111., for the coming year, says President Fred Wehrenberg. The unit plans an unusually active year. Issue Study Guide on Buck Film A study guide for use in schools has been put out by Educational & Recreational Guides, Inc., on the new Frank Buck animal feature, "Fang and Claw," produced by Van Beuren for RKO release. Burnham Making Color Shorts West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Will E. Burnham is making Hollywood Fashions Supreme, colored novelty shorts. Release will be through Imperial Distributing Corp. Wells Film Cost $1,200,000 London — Alexander Korda's production of the H. G. Wells story, "Things to Come," a London Films production for United Artists release, is stated to have cost $1,200,000. "$1,000 a Minute" for Roxy Republic's "$1,000 a Minute," with Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams, opens Dec. 20 at the Roxy. Allied-Empire-Local 306 Set on Merger Details Details of the merger between Allied, Empire and Local 306 have been pretty well worked out and action toward consummation of the merger may be expected following the election of officers of Local 306 on Dec. 18, it was said yesterday by Jos. D. Basson, president of Local 306. Basson indicated that completion of the merger was being delayed because of the election. Local 306 won a victory in the courts yesterday when Supreme Court Justice John L. Walsh held that the 10-year employment contract between the Allied operators union and I.T.O.A. members was not binding on the Edjomac Amusement Corp., operator of the Eltinge Theater on West 42nd Street. Judge Walsh ruled that the pact, while binding on individual members of the I.T.O.A., did not bind an operating company such as Edjomac, and with the consent of Murray Harston, Allied counsel, declared a mistrial. Allied had sought to oust Local 306 men employed at the Eltinge. O'Neill in Eberhardt Post G. R. (Gar) O'Neill has been appointed by P. L. Thompson, director of public relations for Electrical Research Products, to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Walter Eberhardt. Beryl Wallace in Joe Cook Comedy Beryl Wallace, featured beauty of Earl Carroll's "Sketch Book," will play the feminine lead opposite Joe Cook in the comedy which Al Christie starts today for Educational at Astoria under the tentative title "Hot Air Waves." Others in the cast include Ralph Theodore, Dudley Clements, Elvira Sessions, Jimmie Fox, Eddie Hall and Harry Short. This is Educational's 28th two-reel comedy so far this season, putting the production force well past the half way mark in the season's tworeel releases before the studio holiday vacation. Expect Closed Shop in Labs Here Sol A. Scoppa, business agent of Local 669, laboratory workers, said yesterday that Richard F. Walsh, I.A.T.S.E. vice-president, has been assigned to supervise pending negotiations with major companies and others for a new wage contract and that he expected to obtain a closed shop in the east for laboratory workers. At present the Paramount laboratory is partly open shop and the Consolidated Laboratories are non-union, Scoppa said. Marx Bros. Film Holding Over "A Night at the Opera," M-G-M's Marx Brothers comedy, will hold over for a week and three additional days at the Capitol, with "A Tale of Two Cities" coming in on Christmas Day. The Marx film originally was set for only two weeks. Coming and Going FRANK FAY arrives in New York today from the coast. SAM GOLDSTEIN of Guaranteed Pictures has returned from a three-month business trip abroad. UNA MERKEL, M-G-M player, arrives in New York on Friday from Hollywood. ROBERT K. HAWKINSON, after installing Bert Reisman in his new post as home office representative of RKO in Cuba, is returning from Havana to New York on the Veragua. LLOYD C. DOUGLAS, author of "Magnificent Obsession", arrives in New York today. MRS. ANTOINETTE D. SMIT, New York representative for Remaco's Filmbedrifj, N. V., RKO Radio distributors for Holland and the Dutch East Indies, sails today for Amsterdam on the Volendam to spend the holidays at home. She is accompanied by MRS. HENRICH J. DAUDEY, wife of Remaco's film manager. MRS. SMIT returns to New York shortly after the first of the year. JOHN P. NICK, I.A.T.S.E. vice-president returns today to St. Louis. GEORGE J. SCHAEFER, who is now in New Orleans, returns to New York Monday. BARNEY BALABAN left New York yesterday returning to Chicago. VINCENT McFAUL of Buffalo Theaters, Paramount subsidiary, is in New York from Buffalo. BEN HECHT and CHARLES MacARTHUR, who have been in Hollywood two weeks, will return to New York tomorrow to begin work on their next production for Paramount, a mystery drama titled "Murder At 21". DWIGHT FRANKLIN, art director, arrived in New York this week from California, where he acted as technical adviser in the filming of "Captain Blood." He will return to the Coast in about a week to assist in the production of "Anthony Adverse". STEVE NEWMAN, I.A.T.S.E. vice-president has returned to Hollywood. BILLY MAUCH, aged ten, who will play the boy Anthony Adverse in the earlier scenes of Warner's picturization of the Hervey Allen novel, will leave New York for California with his mother early next week. I. RAPPAPORT of Baltimore is in town. DON HANCOCK and a production crew will leave shortly for Banff, Canada, to film the winter sports there as one of the series of Van Beuren sports subjects. GEORGE E. BROWNE, president of the I.A. T.S.E. leaves today for Hollywood. Metropolis Gets Foreign Cartoon "Joie de Vivre" ("Joy of Living"), animated cartoon made in England by Anthony Gross and Hector Hoppin, and now being shown at the 55th St. Playhouse, has been acquired by Metropolis Pictures for U. S. distribution. Loew Unit Profit Lower Loew's (Marcus) Theaters, Ltd., a Loew circuit subsidiary, reports net profit of $52,862 for the year ended Aug. 29, compared with $96,634 the previous year. Will Take Up Option Standard Capital Co., in association with Charles R. Rogers, will exercise its option to buy Universal within a few weeks, it was definitely stated by a spokesman yesterday. Rogers, who will remain East three weeks before returning to Hollywood, is lining up 36 features for the company's 1936-37 program. He conferred with James R. Grainger, general sales manager, and downtown bankers interested in the deal yesterday.