The Film Daily (1935)

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THE -C&H DAILY Friday, Dec. 13, 1935 NEW EQUITY DRIVE LIKELY ON COAST A drive by Actors' Equity to organize players working in pictures at the Coast is now indicated following settlement of jurisdictional differences between the I. A. T. S. E. and the I. B. E. W. Actual work of lining up members would be carried on by the Screen Players' Guild, which became affiliated with Equity, and automatically the A. F. of L., last January. Asked to comment on prospects of a drive to organize Coast actors, Frank Gillmore, executive secretary of Equity, yesterday said: "I imagine that great encouragement will be derived by the Guild from the recent settlement, but at present I know of no new plans beyond the usual efforts to obtain members." Equity has twice tried to organize the Coast. A. P. Archer Heads Denver Managers' Ass'n (Continued from Page I) elected vice-president ; Emmett Thurmon, secretary, and Buzz Briggs, treasurer. Directors are Harry Huffman, Rick Ricketson, B. D. Cockrill, Gerald Whitney, Frank Milton, Dale Cline, and Burns Ellison. The organization meets monthly for luncheon at the Brown Palace Hotel, and is usually entertained by an outside speaker. Virginia Censor Cuts Reach New Low Level Richmond, Va. — Continued decline in objectionable matter found in films has brought the deletions by the Virginia censors down to a new low level. Not only has feature film quality improved, according to Edwin S. Reid, director of the censor division, but shorts also are better than before. Oppose Roxy Allowance Opposition to the application of Proskauer, Rose & Paskus for $75,000 as a final allowance for services rendered to the Roxy trustee was expressed yesterday before Federal Judge Caffey by Carlos Israel of White & Case, counsel for the Roxy first mortgage bondholders' committee. Judge Caffey reserved decision on this application and also on that of Howard S. Cullman for an allowance of $20,000 for his services. Warners Opening New Wash'n Thea. Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Warners will open a new "streamlined" theater, known as the Penn, sometime this month, according to John J. Payette, general zone manager. The house will seat 1,500, with modern air conditioning and one of the largest screens in the district. This will make 11 houses for Warners in this district. w\0* ^ ^ PHIL M.DALY T ▼ T • • • LUNCHTIME LOONIES Si Seadler enters a Broadway restaurant and snags his favorite table in a corner . Billy Ferguson, Eddie Carrier, Phil De Angelis and your kolumist at a table across the room, unseen by Si so Bill writes a mash note and sends it over by the waitress to Si Si reads the note: "Handsome, I am open for an engagement— and it doesn't have to be in pictures. Gertrude." Si blushes, and looks around the restaurant furtively the four hoodlums at the other table let out wild guffaws and disrupt the dignified atmosphere of the place. . ▼ T T • • • THEN THE business of Si busy with a pencil decorating a paper napkin, which is duly relayed via waitress to the quartet of ribbers the napkin sketch shows Si ordering four hard boiled eggs, and the smart waitress saying: "I getcha — like those goofs over there!" as she points with her thumb to Us (and Si's sketches of us were Very Lifelike). • • • THEN THE irrepressible Fergie wraps up our four checks in the sketch and sends 'em over with a note: "Si: Your generous offer accepted herewith. Thanks!" so Si takes his licking like a major, and sends back word: "I'm honored to pay your checks, gentlemen." and walks out "Guess that's putting it over on Si!" chortles Billy Ferguson gleefully and when he got to the cashier's desk the girl presents him with the four checks, which Si had thoughtlessly (?) left there nice guy, Si smart, too but no gentleman sez Bill bitterly being Scotch • • • EVER ON their toes with New Sales Slants that RKO Radio home office bunch two of 'em this week a Short Subject Manual with a smart black leather cover with gold embossed letters the contents a loose leaf binder with pages of vari-colored stock and a tab index for ready reference each series of RKO Radio shorts has a separate page followed by a page describing the individual shorts in that particular series a handy pocket reference for the salesman to flash on the exhib the second exhibit of Smart Showmanship is the first issue of "The RKO Foreign World" printed in four languages English, French, Spanish and Japanese four columns to the page and each language displayed issued for the informtion of RKO men throughout the world • • • WITH MARCH 20 set as the national release date for 20th Century-Fox's "The Country Doctor" in which the world-famous Dionne quintuplets appear . . . . . Joseph Moskowitz, just back from Callander, Ontario, where scenes with the babes have just been completed, gave an interview at his hotel to the metropolitan, trade and fan press and a bunch of excited girl scribes plied Mister Moskowitz with intimate questions about baby life — color of their eyes, their habits, etc you know the sort of questions gals can ask about babies and poor Joe a bachelor! so he stam mered and hemm-hemmed and finally said: "I can safely say, ladies, that this will be a Five Star Picture." • • • OVERSUBSCRIBED that is the word from the Committee handling the AMPA Xmas Party luncheon to be held in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor on Thursday, Dec. 19 Ralph Stone and his radio orck will furnish the music many celebs of stage, screen and radio will be on hand it will be a Grand Event worthy of its predecessors with the Relief Fund benefitting COUNSEL GETS LEAVE TO APPEAL ON FEES ( C ontinuert from Page 1 ) services to the trustees and receivers were inadequate in view of the size and complexity of the estate, volume and quality of services required, results accomplished and the previous setting up of a fund out of which to make compensation. It is learned that Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and its counsel, Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood, will probably appeal or request a rehearing. Judge Coxe denied in toto the applications of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood for $100,000 and $150,000 respectively for services in the Paramount reorganization. Joe Brandt Confers On Italian Film Deal « f* €* » » V> (.Continued from Page 1) connection with a new enterprise with which he will be associated. Brandt spent nine days in Rome. Over the week-end he goes to the Coast to confer with people interested in the deal. Italian producers will make about 30 features this year, said Brandt. Despite the war clouds overhead, Rome theaters are doing good business and the entire Italian industry is making definite progress, Brandt declared. Business Advisory Council Plans to Continue Efforts Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Despite the, blowup of Major Berry's labor-industrial conference this week, Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper said that the plans of the Business Advisory Council for cooperating with industries, including films, will continue as originally planned. He revealed that the Council would soon undertake studies of various units of business, including movies. "Scrappy" Novelties for Xmas A line of plastic novelties, including Christmas tree ornaments, toy and household dishes, lamps, and other items, all featuring "Scrappy," movie cartoon character, is being produced by the General Electric's Plastics Department, Lynn, Mass., through arrangement with Columbia. The tree ornaments are now in production and 600,000 will be distributed to retail chain stores shortly before the holiday season. They mark the initial entry of G-E plastic products into the field of novelties having an animated-cartoon tie-up. Brient in Co-op Theater Group Richmond, Va. — Elmer H. Brient, who now heads the Broadway and Bacon theaters in Hopewell, has become a director of the Richmond Theater Guild, non-stock corporation just chartered to maintain and conduct a cooperative theater.