The Film Daily (1935)

THE ■SE&H DAILY Thursday, Dec. 12, 1935 Vol. 68, No. 138 Thurs., Dec. 12, 1935 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE 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 motiths, $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 Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. LondonErnest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin— Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 2*5. Paris— P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK High Am. Seat 20% Columbia Picts. vtc. 46 V4 Con. Fm. Ind 6 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. 18'/2 East. Kodak 159 1 do pfd 156 1 Loew's, Inc 54y2 Paramount 10'A Paramount 1st pfd. 81 Paramount 2nd pfd. 12'A Pathe Film 7'/g RKO 5">8 20th Century-Fox . 23 20th Century-Fox pfd. 3034 Warner Bros 10y4 NEW YORK BOND Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40. 19 Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 ctfs. 19 Keith A-0 6s46 . 94 Vi Loew 6s 41ww 104 1 Paramount Picts. 6s55 92'/2 Par. B'way 3s55 .58 Warner's 6s39 89'/2 NEW YORK CURB Sonotone Corp 2'/4 Technicolor 18% Trans-Lux 4 MARKET Net Low Close Chg. 20% 20% — % 46i/4 46 V4 — % 5% 6 + % I8V2 I81/2 — V4 57 159 + 2 55% 156 + Vi 54 10 80 12 7% 5V4 54V4 + Vi 10% + % 803/g + % 12% + % 7% + % 53/g + % 223/4 23 30 30% + 3/g 9% 101/4 + MARKET 18% 183/4 + 183/8 18% — % 94% 94% — 1 % 03% 103% 915/g 92% — % 58 58 + Vi 885/8 885/g MARKET 2% 2% 18% 185/g 4 4 % % Va Vi Cocktails With Chuck Reisner A cocktail party will be given by Charles "Chuck" Reisner at his apartment in the Waldorf Towers this afternoon to invited guests. Reisner sails for London Saturday under contract to work for GB on comedy features. ANNUITIES 6% to 12% for life, according to age. Issued by large Insurance Companies. Reuben Samuels BRyant 9-3740 1540 Broadway Coming and Going ARCH SELWYN leaves New York tomorrow for the coast, having postponed his plans to stage "French Dressing" until next season. He also says that "Night of January 16," current Broadway play, will be presented at the Geary, San Francisco, with Walter Pidgeon in his original role. ROLAND YOUNG will return to Hollywood for picture work after "Touch of Brimstone" closes its Broadway run at the end of the week. MANUEL PENA RODRIGUEZ, one of the leading film critics of South America, arrives in New York next Thursday on the Southern Cross. Rodriguez, who is cinema editor of "La Nacion," is on his way to Hollywood. CLAUDE EZELL is in town from Dallas. MORT SINGER arrived yesterday from Chicago. W. RAY JOHNSTON is expected back on Saturday from Hollywood. S. S. KRELLBERG leaves today for a rest at Miami. CHAS. KOERNER, RKO New England division manager, is in town from Boston. MARQUIS HENRI DE LA FALAISE leaves tod^y for Hollywood. VINCE BARNETT and CHARLES KING will appear at the Stanley, Pittsburgh, during Christmas week. GEORGE SEIBEL, critic of the Pittsburgh "SunTelegraph," is on a New York visit. LEOPOLD SACHSE, director of the Hamburg Theater, and ANTOINETTE GIROUX, Canadian actress, arrive in New York today from abroad on the Lafayette. ERROL FLYNN, featured in the title role of "Captain Blood," Warner release, will arrive in New York from the Coast on Monday on Cinesound Productions Planning 14 Features Sydney — Production of 14 features in Australia is planned by Cinesound Productions, which has three studios in Sydney and Melbourne. Lineup is as follows: "Thoroughbred," with Helen Twelvetrees; "Big Timber," "Robbery Under Arms," and three other major productions, four romance specials and four outdoor pictures. Sam Byrd Gets Raphaelson Play Sam Byrd, young actor who has been appearing in "Tobacco Road" since it opened on Broadway two years ago, has acquired the rights to "White Man", Samson Raphaelson play, and will produce it next fall. Raphaelson is now a writer for M-G-M on the coast. New British Studio Ready by Aug. London (By Cable)— New $2,500,000 studio being erected by Amalgamated Studios, Ltd., at Elstree is expected to be finished by August, according to S. H. Soskin, promoter. There will be 10 acres of buildings in the project. Don Bartlett Rejoins Erpi Don Bartlett, who lately has held an executive position with Paramount Pictorial, is back in a production post with Erpi Picture Consultants, it is announced by W. A. Bach, president. a brief vacation trip, and will attend the world premiere of the picture at the Strand. JOHN BEAL, young leading man now rehearsing in "Russet Mantle", soon to open on Broadway, will return to the RKO Radio Studios at Hollywood in May for further picture work. Beal's RKO contract permits him to return to New York for theatrical engagements durng the winter. RAYMOND MASSEY. star of the Alexander Korda production of H. G. Well's "Things To Come," U. A. release, arrives tomorrow in New York ..-bo.ird the Aquitania. STANLEY NEAL. a director of Revelation Films, London, is expected next week from abroad to discuss a cartoon production deal with Celebrity Pictures. OSCAR R. HANSON has returned to Toronto from New York. JESSE L. LASKY is due in New York today from the Coast. STANLEY HATCH is in Buffalo while on an eight-week tour of key cities. EDDIE SILVERMAN, who is in New York, returns to Chicago in a few days. ARTHUR ISRAEL and E. PAUL PHILLIPS, both of the Paramount legal department, left New York yesterday for Detroit. NEIL F. AGNEW went to Boston yesterday and returns to New York tomorrow. CONRAD NAGEL arrives tomorrow from abroad and will leave shortly for the coast to make a picture for George Hirliman. MARY ELLIS, Paramount contract player who has been abroad for the past few months, returns to New York tomorrow aboard the Aquitania. Her first picture on her return to California will be the Walter Wanger production tentatively titled "Brazen." Carolina Meet Jan. 12-13 Charlotte, N. C— New dates of the M. P. T. O. of North and South Carolina convention are Jan. 12-13. President Ed Kuykendall of the national association will be present and later visit New York to resume his activities in behalf of an industry self-regulation plan. Re-election of Charles Picquet as president is expected. Glen Gray for Paramount Theater Glen Gray and His Casa Loma Orchestra will appear in person as the Christmas Week attraction at the New York Paramount Theater. Screen attraction will be "The Bride Comes Home", with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. FOR SALE Laboratory and animating equipment. Printers, cameras, slicers, rewinders, projectors and developing machinery. O. and W. CINE EQUIPMENT CO. 729 Seventh Avenue New York City Room 608 Tel. ME 3-3913 If tiiDEN fouNDjWRnny $ 33 W. 60th ST NEW YORK CITY MUSICAL WUND TRACK^rEVERY MOODgiPTYPf OF PICTURE SEND FOR OUR CATALOG Form Franchise Dep't For Columbia Tie-Ups Increasing demand for commercial tie-ups on the cartoon characters Scrappy, Margy, Oopy and Yippy, and on Grace Moore fashions has resulted in the establishment by Columbia of the Columbia Franchise Department, headed by Eli Gottlieb as merchandise counselor. Marvin Springer continues in the capacity of franchise salesman. A feature of the new department will be a merchandising service, designed to assist the licensee in promoting the sale of his product, for which service Rohama Siegel has been transferred from the publicity and advertising proper. Branford Wins Business Drive Newark, N. J. — Branford Theater has been awarded first prize in the Bernhard Jersey Sweepstakes, 13week contest in which 55 Warner theaters in Northern New Jersey participated. Saul J. Ullman, manager, was presented with a check for $300 as the major award for first place. The Branford seats 3,000 and is first-run here. Year's Run for Freddy Mack at Roxy Freddy Mack, master of ceremonies and orchestra conductor at the Roxy, tonight completes a record run of 52 consecutive weeks as a featured entertainer of the variety revues current at this playhouse. Mack leaves tonight for a week's vacation, returning to his dual post at the Roxy on Dec. 20. Piazza Signs Talent in Louisiana New Orleans — Five Louisiana beauties have been signed by Ben Piazza, Paramount talent scout, to go to Hollywood for three months' training with film contracts in view if they make good. The girls are Ann Evers, Wilma Sareussen, Louise Schmaltz (Miss America of the World's Fair), Gill Bean and Jennie Perkins. "SO RED THE ROSE" closes a week at the METROPOLITAN THEATRE HOUSTON, TEXAS, to "business 25% above average .