The Film Daily (1935)

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Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1935 LAUNCH FIGHT AGAINST ADV. MATTER IN FILMS (.Continued from Page 1) nies and to President Ed Kuykendall of the M.P.T.O.A. urging that such ad material be eliminated or else that the theaters be paid for running it. Specific instances of recent releases in which well-known trademarks were shown are cited by Wehrenberg. No Increase in Studio Labor Costs Agreement under which the I.A.T.S.E. obtains jurisdiction over I; n wecoynt:aecntsacodveCr/rren at 'I" C°aSt,Wi" "°» inCr"se stu'dii "labo?^™.* Z ATS when Z ZfJn?" ^"^ W'^ be neS°tiated "y the studios and the expires' in February TH 1^7"' between the studios and the studio crafts win make the I AT If , «D^LY..WaS lnformed yesterday by the I.A.T.S.E. This m t Thl J,£L« SJi! °f !u6 ?ai'i /Sreement between the studios and studio cratts. The agreement between the I.A.T.S.E. was the I.B.E.W. affecting the coast studios will be put into effect within 30 days, an I.A.T.S.E. source said Pittsburgh Briefs Omaha Odds and Ends Omaha — A. L. Snider, neighborhood circuit operator, reported Monday his loss in the Victoria theater fire Sunday night would reach $500. Pittsburgh— The pledge of the Legion of Decency was renewed on Sunday in all Catholic churches of the Pittsburgh Diocese. The Fulton here is closing tomorrow until Christmas. Plans for its future policy are now being discussed by the Mott-Shea outfit in New York. Jack Trott, former assistant man Another weekend fire at Emmets ^er,7at t.he Fith moved to Wheeling, burg, la., obliterated the State, man aged by A. J. Swanton, with a total loss of $40,000. Joe Rosenberg, Columbia salesman, was in Lutheran hospital over the weekend with an infected arm. Ted Mendenhall, Paramount branch manager, Bill Harrmann booker; George Hinton, Ike Ruben and Roy Palmquist, salesmen, and Wendell Overturf, ad sales manager, went to Des Moines for a district meeting with Ralph LiBeau in charge. Variety Club will buy all clothes needed for the inmates of the Hattie B. Monroe Home for Crippled children during 1936 Cleveland Clips W. Va., in a similar position at the Capitol. George Otte, theater manager for the Dipson Circuit, moved his home to Kittaning. When the firm's new 1500-seat house in Bradford opens next month, Otte will be named in charge. Art Levy, Columbia exchange head and chief barker of the Variety Club, surprised his friends Monday when he revealed that he and Bess Lefkowitz were married in his home town, Hamilton, Ontario, on Sunday, the I . s Lefkowitz quit her office job with Warners here. Jack Duff returned to his old job as manager of a Carnegie house afFrank Pennington, Villisca, la., j *er tourning the East with a Major exhibitor, unable to endure Califor I **™es J"11? nia sunshine any longer, cut his va ! . R°y Haines former Warner divication short and was this week back | Jjon .manager .here ^^now filling. ply &fi£ ^™' ^tTevTra, °n the J°b. . !Sn in Town0^ " se^al^ay's S ^ ,in ,Cleveland Tin PCOTnsU^tior ! tending business conferences with W1"i local manager L. P. Langford. Harry Kalmine and Ben Kalmenson, . A _M Goodman, United Artists Cleveland — Second annual Variety Ball was staged Friday night at the Mayfair Casino with a full house in attendance. All available 700 tickets were sold far in advance. Variety Club members from out of town included Allan Moritz and Max Stahl, Cincinnati; Art Levy, Mark Goldman, Bert Stern, William Rosenthal, Pittsburgh; "Duke" Clark and a party of ten from Columbus, and Leo Bochner and Darty from Montreal. Georgie Price from New York was master of ceremonies. Col. Nat Wolf headed the committee on entertainment. Nat Holt, as Variety Club oresident, was official host. I. J. Schmertz was general chairman of committees. Frank Gross, owner of the Grand Theater, has taken the adjoining store room to be added to his present lobby as one of the features of his extensive renovizing plans. By reducing the stage, he will add 250 seats. The Gustav Hirsch Organization of Columbus, designers of marquees, has appointed Harry Klein of Cleveland as northern Ohio sales representative. L. S. Hunt, National Theater Sup Foreign Flashes Berlin — Attendance since June has been 19 per cent higher than in the same period last year throughout Germahy. Brussels — First color film on the Dassonville process will be "Fairy Tales", in French, Spanish and English. Berlin — Producers in Germany spent $7,500,000 in making pictures for 1934-35. This year the figure is estimated at $10,000,000, an average of about $250,000 for each feature. Berlin— Ufa's receipts in 1934-35 totaled $23,000,000, a decrease of 4 per cent from the previous report. Berlin — Tobis-Sascha will make "Silhouettes" in English, French and German. Big Features Buys "Custer" Lee L. Goldberg, Big Feature Rights Corporation, will distribute "Custer's Last Stand," Weiss serial, in the Cincinnati territory. Louis Weiss, en route to California to pre local executives The trade expects a special 20 per cent levy on Sunday admissions to be introduced in the special session of the legislature which opens in Harrisburg next month. Jake Silverman, Altoona exhibitor, has gone to Tucson, Ariz, for the winter. His co-partner, Ike Silverman, has been left in charge. As scheduled, Warners reopened the Columbia in Warren, the Strand in Greensburg and the Liberty in Donora. William A. Benson in from New York to succeed Bert Reisman as main line sales representative for RKO Radio. Reisman has been appointed special representative for the company in Havana. Iowa Items Des Moines — The Iowa Theater at Emmetsburg suffered a $40,000 loss by fire which destroyed the Opera House block last week. The house had been recently redecorated at a cost of $8,000, according to A. J. pare for the production of "The Swanson, manager. Clutching Hand," new Arthur B. Mr. and Mrs. Myron Blank of Des Reeve serial, closed the deal in Cin Moines have returned from their lyn, will play "Thanks a Million cinnati the other day. wedding trip to Honolulu. ' for a full week. branch manager, reports that he has closed contracts for the new season with every local circuit, and almost every spot in the city not operated by circuits. Max Marmorstein announces a combination vaudeville-film policy at his Circle Theater for the duration of the holiday season. Lew Wasserman, former manager of the Circle, is now connected with the Mayfair Casino in the publicity department. "Frisco Kid" is holding over a second week downtown. The picture opened at the Hippodrome and moved over to the Allen for a continued first downtown run. Clarence J. Vogel, president of Liberty Amusement Co., is increasing the seating capacity of the Liberty Theater, Wellsville, O., and of the Lincoln Theater, Chester, W. Va., and has started construction of a new 400-seat picture house in Salineville, O. Full Week for "Thanx" Sub-Runs Starting Friday, the Palace and other RKO theaters in Greater New York, excepting the Albee in Brook S. R.O. TRIPLED There is a theatre in a suburb near our factory that is attended by a number of our employes. These men and their families grumbled to the exhibitor about his sound. (Most people don't take the trouble to kick; they just go elsewhere.) Finally the theatre manager said "Yes" when a Photophone man called. The house thought it was doing well when it sold out Saturday night; since installing RCA Photophone it averages three sell-outs a week, usually Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And the increase has not all come from RCA employes, either ! ^ RCA Photophone has a decided effect at the box office. Its perfection of sound increases attendance, often in a spectacular way. The above example is typical of results. PHOTOPHONE RCA TRANS LUX • RCA SONOTONE RCA MANUFACTURING CO., INC. CAMDEN • NEW JERSEY A Radio Corporation of America Subsidiary