The Film Daily (1935)

If You're Lucky Enough to be Able, Help the Relief Fund nrimate in Character International in Scope Independent in Thought The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Now Seventeen Years Old -IP DAILY VOL. 68. NO. 138 NEW YORK, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1935 TEN CENTS Court Orders Dropping of Film Suit vs. Para. RUBIN IS ELECTED A VICE-PRESIDENT OF LOEWS Gov't Pursuing Ascap Case Despite Warner Withdrawal Deny Ascap's Claim That Chance of Proving a Monopoly Is Lost By GEORGE W . MEHRTENS FILM DAILY Staff Correspondent Washington — The fact that the Warner music firms have resigned from Ascap has not "by any stretch of the imagination" destroyed the department of justice's chances for proving Ascap a monopoly, The Film Daily learned here yesterday. "The fact stated by E. C. Mills that Warner music firms made up 40 per cent of Ascap's membership is simply Mr. Mills' idea as far as we (Continued on Page 3) NEW PHILLY UNIT STAYING IN MPTOA BARNSTYN LAUNCHES BRITISH COMPANY Franco-London Films, Ltd., has been launched in London by J. C Barnstyn of British & Continental Trading Corp., New York, with initial plans to produce three features for A. B. F. D. release. The first picture, "Symphony of Love", will star Gitta Alpar. Rights to the (Continued on Page 12) Union Shop Extended By Musicians' Local At a meeting of the membership of Local 802, musicians' union, it was decided that all music arrangers, copyists and proofreaders within the jurisdiction of the local must be union members and that no Local 802 members shall employ arrangers, etc., who are not union members The local has also fixed a scale for copyists, arrangers and proofreaders. "10 Best" Tieup in K. C. Kansas City— Lowell Lawrence. "Journal-Post" motion picture critic, is ottering free theater tickets to the persons whose selection of the ten best pictures of 1935 comes closest to the list which will be selected in the FILM DAILY S national poll of critics. The Independent M. P. T. 0., which is set as the name of the exhibitor association to be formed through merger of the M. P. T. O. of Eastern Pa. and the I. E. P. A., will retain its membership in the M. P. T. O. A., The Film Daily was authoritatively informed yesterday. As one phase of the agreement which is resulting in the combination, the new organization will not (Continued on Page 12) Academy Awards Group Holds First Meet Today West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — First meeting of the committee appointed by Frank Capra, president of the Academy of M. P. Arts & Sciences, to have charge of arrangements for the balloting and dinner in connection with the Academy's annual awards will be held today. Preliminary decisions will be made on the rules under which members of the Academy will cast nominating ballots early in January. Final balloting will be in February. The committee includes: Actors— Lionel Atwill, Lionel Ba-rrymore, Reginald Denny, Clark Gable, George Irv(Continued on Page 12) ADDITIONAL WORKERS GO UNDER I.A.T.S.E. Under the agreement between the I. A. T. S. E. and the coast studios, the I. A. obtains jurisdiction for the first time over wardrobe people and upholsterers, giving the I. A. somewhat of a vertical union setup on the coast. The pact exempts executive cameramen of the type of Hal Mohr and Sol Polito from union jurisdiction. The I. A. T. S. E.'s concession to the I. B. E. W. in permitting rein (Continued on Page 3) Rosenblatt Absolved By Attorney-General Sol A. Rosenblatt, former NRA official who is now practicing law in New York, yesterday, did not act in an "officious" manner in connection with the recent St. Louis antitrust proceedings, says Homer Cummings, Attorney-General, in a letter to Rosenblatt which was made public yesterday. In part it reads as follows: "With respect to the recent anti-trust proceeding in St. Louis, any statements which may have been made at the (Continued on Page 3) Dropping of Para. Film Suit Is Ordered by Federal Court Paramount Charters Unit For Its Astoria Studios Paramount is forming Astoria Studios Inc., a New York state corporation, to handle its studio property on Long Island at present being operated by Eastern Service Studios. From time to time it has been reported that the producer had (Continued on Pfltft" 3) Samuel Zirn was ordered yesterday by Federal Judge Goddard to discontinue within 30 days the suit in the state court against the 12 banks involved in the Paramount film pledging transaction. In so ruling, Judge Goddard held that Zirn was technically guilty of contempt through having violated Judge Coxe's order of June 17 prohibitingfurther action in the state (Continued \n Page 3) Officers of Loew's, Inc., are Re-elected at Board Meeting Loew's board of directors yesterday elected J. Robert Rubin as vicepresident, succeeding David L. Loew, who recently left the company to become a Hal Roach executive. All present officers of the company, including Arthur M. Loew, were again named, it was stated following the meeting. They include: Nicholas M. Schenck, president; David Bernstein, vice-president and treasurer; Ed (Continued on Page 3) "NEW LEASE ON LIFE" IS PROVIDED BY FUND A letter to the Film Daily Relief Fund Committee from Case No. 47. It tells the story simply and graphically: "The help you gave us on the rent problem was surely a new lease on life for my wife, the baby and myself. Everything looked black till you came to our aid. Thanks to the (Continued on Page 12) Warner Circuit Expanding In Pittsburgh Territory Pittsburgh — Aside from reopenings of dark theaters, Warners here are reported planning expansion in this territory in the near future. While local executives remain silent, several spots have been singled out by real estate firms as coming Warner houses. Reds Call Mickey Capitalist Moscow — Soviet critics regard Mickey Mouse as a capitalist, and his antics are construed as social satire, according to the reactions at the first showing of Walt Disney's cartoons here. "Disney is showing us the people of the capitalist world under the masks of pigs, mice and penguins," said one newspaper critic. Big crowds are turning out to see the American movies.