The Film Daily (1935)

Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1935 THE -22a DAILY THIS KIND OF SPIRIT WILL PUT FUND OVER! {Continued from Page 1) handling the Film Daily Relief Fund. He has prepared a swell letter which he is sending to his pals — and being an important guy, he knows the biggest in the biz. When you get through reading his letter, and you can still refrain from kicking in to the Fund, then you must have a Heart of Stone. What we mean— this chap can WRITE. The Relief Fund is bound to be helped materially by this individual's splendid co-operation. We asked him why he went to all this extra effort after he had already made his own donation. He said: "In the past few weeks I have met three men who told me that the Relief Fund had come to their aid when all other avenues seemed closed. And so I figured that any movement that could do that for our own boys, certainly deserved a little extra effort on my part." That's just another evidence of how this Relief Drive is sinking in to the consciousness of a lot of Regular Fellows. And the Honor Roll is growing. It's eight more days to Christmas. Are you going to wait till the LAST day to send us YOUR check? THE HONOR ROLL "It Has Room For You!" A. M. P. A. Harold Hendee Jerome J. Cohen Mrs. Edna Sussman Lou Blumenthal William Orr Eddie Edelson Leon Bamberger Mrs. cand m "" — . t — Miss Addie Dannenberg ?aul Lazarus Leo Klebanow Ray Johnston City Photo Engraving Corp. Ben Amsterdam William German William Massce Richard Brady Moe Streimer H. D. Behr E. B. Hatrick Phil Reisman Max Stuart Jack Alicoate Don Mersereau Maurice Kann Al Lichtman H. M. Masters Wm. Barnett Arthur Israel, Jr. Stella Hamlin Tom Hamlin Harry Weltz Herbert Berg Winfield Andrus Louis Nizer Man Freedman Anonymous Sardi's Restaurant Don Gillette Renee Carroll George Gerhardt Chas. A. Leonard Edward McNamee Quigley Publishing Co. Morris H. Kinzler N. D. Golden Charles A. Rossi "Chick" Lewis Marcus A. Benn Morris Goodman J. A. Tanney Cresson E. Smith C. C. Pettijohn Edward Curtis Ned E. Depinet E. A. Schiller Arthur Loew Willie Wang Arthur A. Lee Mrs. Joseph R. Miles Bertram Mayers Jack Glucksman Paramount Adding Studio Facilities West Hollywood — Purchase of Coast Bureau if THE FILM DAILY new equipment and the construction of additional units for production needs will be undertaken immediately by Paramount in order to speed up its expanded 1936 schedule. The property building will be enlarged by 15,000 square feet, entailing an additional floor to the building, while the machine shop space and sound scoring stage will be doubled Pittsburgh Patter Eve Unsell Benjamin W. Solomon Jack H. Skirball Harvey B. Day Harry L. Gold A. Schneider Gabriel Hess Walter Futter David Palfreyman John C. Flinn J. R. Grainger Sophie K. Smith Albert Warner Rube Jackter J. S. MacLeod Charles C. Moskowlt* Felix F. Feist E. M. Orowitz Eugene J. Zukor H. D. Buckley Louis K. Sidney Thomas J. Connors Sam E. Morris Emanuel Silverstone M. Van Praag lohn D. Clark Silas F. Seadler J. Kessler Jay Emanuel Ben Y. Cammack Herbert Ebenstein Saul E. Rogers W. R. Ferguson L. J. Schlaifer W. P. McCartney A. F. Cummings David Barrist Joseph R. Vogel David A. Levy Toby Gruen Ed Finney B. K Blake Jules Levy David Bernstein Amusement Supply Co Irving Chidnoff N. H. Brower W. F. Rodgers Ben Shlyen Joseph Bernat H. J. Glick Hap Hadley Charles J. Sonin Pittsburgh — Roy Rowe, former Warner manager in this district who moved to North Carolina to build a circuit of his own, acquired the Belden theater in Elizabethtown and the Pender in Burgaw. Wilmer & Vincent's Embassy theater in Johnstown, former presentation policy house, switched to double bills. Charlie Rich, Bert Stearn and Jim Maloney, local heads of the Warner, United Artists and M-G-M exchanges, respectively, testified in the Sam Friedman anti-trust case now in progress in the U. S. District Court here. Art Farrar, local band leader, left for New York to make screen tests for Columbia. Ed Lowry and Fifi D'Orsay will appear with Stepin Fetchit in the Stanley stage show next Friday. Harry Kalmine, Warner zone manager, off to New York to attend home office conferences. L. Leonardo, former assistant manager at the Sheridan Square, is now Harry Thomas' assistant at Warners' Schenley, succeeding "King" Cupples, who was killed in an auto accident. In conjunction with the showing of "Mister Hobo" at the Alvin, Mayor McNair was made "Tenth Supreme Knight of the Road" by Jeff Davis, king of the hoboes. George Arliss is the "Ninth Supreme Knight." The pre-Christmas trade lull ushered in a week of revivals into the Cinema, Bill Davis' Liberty theater and Joe StoweM's Pitt. B. & K, BRING BACK 'DREAM' FOR 2-A-DAYS Mike Connelly Quits Agency Mike Connelly has resigned from the Jenie Jacobs-Paule Cook Associates, agency, after being associated with the firm for the past four years. He completes his duties on Jan. 1. George Orth Arthur W. Kelly Lee Leventhai Fred Quimby Leopold Friedman S. S. Braunberg William A. Downs Sam Dembow, Jr. Lester Ketner A. C. Snyder James P. Clark A. J. Dash Sam Shain Paul Benjamin Benjamin H. Serkowich Walter Reade G L. Sears Dewey D. Bloom Lester Pollock Eugene Picker Benjamin H. Serkowich Jos. A. McConville i Budd Rogers W. A. Scully Al Christie Arnold Rittenberg Arthur Eddy Herbert T. Silverberg i Harry C. Arthur Irving Lesser Kenneth A. O'Brien Samuel Cohen A. Fishman Victor J. Morris Charles M. Mersereau Norman C. Nicholson Phil Scheib E. C. Grainger John L. Franconi L. D. Netter A-Mike Vogel Marvin H. Schenck Cosmo-Sileo Co. K. K. Hansen Gaumont-British tures Corp. Mark Ostrer Michael Balcon Pete Harrison Hugo Mayer Will H. Hays E. H. Goldstein Ralph Cokain Sack Amusement terprises Frank C. Walker Joseph R. Fliesler pie San Francisco Squibs San Francisco — Sid Blumenthal, distributor for Liberty Films, reports west coast exhibitors are showing a renewed interest in westerns. Matt Abbott, Universal salesman, will visit Portland during a two-week vacation at Christmas time. Charles Harford is the new owner of the Port of Chicago, Cal., theater. Stewart Theaters, Inc., Chicago interests, are said to have taken over the National theater, Stockton. It will have a second-run policy. Henry Haber, formerly of the Mission theater, has opened the Colfax theater in Colfax. Aran Soskin, public accountant, has been employed by the Harvey Theaters, Inc. Wally Feehan, formerly manager of the Uptown, Berkeley and the Rialto, Oakland, will open the Majestic on Third St., San Francisco, after the first of the year. R. Wing of the Napa theater is now managing the Crystal theater in Salinas. Joe Enos, former manager of the California, is now managing the Davies theater here. R. Degener has left the El Rey, Salinas, and taken up managerial duties at the State, South San Francisco. Sam Berkowitz, president of the Far West Exchange, has returned from the northwest where he visited Joe Merrick, Seattle, and George Jackson, Portland, managers of the offices the Far West opened in that territory only a month ago. Paul Smith, formerly with United Artists, has joined the S. F. Sales force of the Far West Exchange. Bob Lippert, manager of the Uptown theater, Oakland, is recovering from slight injuries received in an auto mishap. Louis Hyman, in charge of distribution of Chesterfield Invincible films, spent last week in San Francisco conferring with Mel Hulling, Far West Exchange manager. {Continued from Page 1) ban & Katz for an additional two weeks starting Monday. The Warner production will again play twoa-day at advanced prices on its repeat. Indianapolis Items Indianapolis — Col. Roy Churchill, manager of RKO, spent the week in the southern part of the state. Conly Theater at Frankfort has been taken over by the Gregory Circuit of Chicago. Carl Shalitz, district manager of Columbia, and Marty Solomon, manager of the local exchange, spent the week in southern Indiana and Kentucky on business. Dudley Williston, operator of the Walker Theater, spent the week at his Lyric Theater, Louisville. Mrs. Helen Keeler, acting manager of Associated Theater Owners )f Indiana, will vacation in Florida >ver the holidays. The New Flora, Flora, Ind., will open on Christmas Day with "Millions In The Air." Oscar Kueschner, Warner exchange manager, was in New York on business last week. Mrs. E. L. Outland is remodeling the front of her Royal Theater in Newcastle. Abe Kaufman, manager of Big Feature Rights, spent the week in eastern Indiana on business. Laddie Hancock, Fox representative in southern Indiana, will take a two-week vacation in Florida. En Des Moines News Cincinnati Chatter Des Moines — Virginia Molseed, secretary of the Omaha film board, flew to Des Moines Dec. 12 to check the mailing list for the Iowa theater directory. Weekly Saturday night late shows have been started by the Orpheum, the last show beginning at 10:30. The plan was inaugurated by the new manager, Emil Franke. Flesh shows are to be given periodically through the winter. The first is to be a Major Bowes show scheduled for Jan. 10. Cincinnati — Variety Club will stage a New Year Eve dinner and dance at the Netherland Plaza. Ralph Kinsler is ballyhooing the event. Levitt Bugie, Fox salesman, is reported becoming a benedict this week. W. R. Shafer has opened the Shirley Ann at Ravenna. E. M. Booth will be host to the M-G-M personnel at the Christmas party in the Kemper Lane Hotel to celebrate the division's attaining fourth place in the sales drive. Max Stahl and his bride, the former Estelle Goldberg, have departed for a Florida honeymoon. Fred Gross is rebuilding the Majestic, Cooksville. Ed Burkhardt and family will -pend the holidays in Florida. 'Thanks a Million" is playing a return engagement at the RKO Grand. Recent visitors: Bill Pancake, Bob Harmon, Phil Chakeres. Harry Harris Acquires House Harry Harris is taking over the Jackson in the Bronx. House was formerly the Louis. Study Guide on "Scrooge" A photoplay study guide for school use has been issued by Educational & Recreational Guides, Newark, on "Scrooge," British production being released by Paramount.