The Film Daily (1936)

THE <^ DAILV Tuesday, Sept. 1, 1936 DELAY IN SIGNING SOUND POOLING PACT Short Shots from Eastern Studios BT CHARLES ALICOATE (Continued from Page 1 ) which was to have formalized the Paris pact of 1929, is off, will be learned definitely with the arrival here within the next few weeks of Milton Diamond, counsel for the German companies. Columbia Business Up In Newly Started Year (Continued from Page 1) financial statement revealing net earnings for the past year of $1,568,860.92, equal to $4.95 a share on the common stock, compared with $1,815,266.72 or $5.81 a share in the previous year. Balance sheet as of June 27 shows current assets of $10,433.150.18 and current liabilities of $1,542,838.84, with working capital of $8,890,311.34. New sound contracts recently signed with RCA and Erpi will result in substantial savings, Schneider says. PRODUCTION on the one-reeler featuring the Louisiana Kings, collegiate musical group of 26 talented musicians, and tentatively titled "Swanee Cruise," will be completed today the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio. Joseph Henabery is directing, with Ray Foster in charge of the cameras. Waiter Craig has just completed a scries of industrial one-reelers at the Biograph studios. Kenneth Burton assisted ov the direction. BOSTON Barney Hoffman, Warner general manager from New Haven, is a visitor to the film district. The Park Theater, Woonsocket, R. I., will be opened on Sept. 5 by the Blanchard and Safner circuit. Vaudeville and pictures. Charles Hodgdon of Wakefield has recovered from a serious illness. Independent Exhibitors, Allied affiliate, has added three new members: Al Somerby, owner of the Bowdoin Square and the Old Howard; Mark Marcoux, owner of Baylies Square Theater, New Bedford; and Leon Trask of Keith's Theater, Kampello, Mass. Sam "Old Man" Merchant, the first film salesman in New England and now running the Lyric in Manchester, N. H., visited the film district this week. Other exhibitors seen in the district were: Harry J. Blanchard. Maurice Safner, Eddie Reed of Providence, Jack Kelly of Oak Bluffs, Buddy Warr of Onset, Thomas Caruso of Jamestown, R. I., Harry Annoti of Providence, Al Gould of Mount Pleasant, R. I., and Abe Goodside of Portland. LINCOLN Jerry Zigmond, city manager of the Lincoln Theaters Corp., is off on a business-pleasure jaunt to Dallas. Setting date of the Kiva opening here for Sept. 3, Milton Overman, manager of Westland Theaters, said it would assume the Varsity's policy and the latter jump to the big picture attack for patronage. Price changes are expected in the advance direction. Jack Laughlin, late stage show producer with the Tabor, Denver, is being pulled in here in like capacity. Vogel Gettier, late attache with A. H. Blank houses in Grand Island, has dropped the show business and is going for oil now. Ben K. Blake will start work next week on the second of the series of "Court of Human Relations" shorts tentatively titled "Kept Husbands" for release through Columbia Pictures. .4// stttdio work on the WPA shorts, which are being produced by Pat he, will be done at the Biograph plant, with the first unit expected to get under way there this week. A two-reel musical, as yet untitled and now being cast, is going into work at the Warner Vitaphone plant under the direction of Roy Mack. ^4 one-reel short titled "Crazy Inventions", with Dudley Clements, Eddie Hall, Rose Ressner, Jinvmie Fox and Earl Gilbert, and directed by William. Watson, has been completed at the West Coast Service studio for release in Educational's Treasure Chest series. Milton Schwarzwald, Mentone production head, is putting the finishing touches on the script for his next vaudeville short, which he plans to put into production in about two weeks at the Biograph studio for Universal release. Al Christie, producing and directing for Educational, is starting work at the General Service studio on a two-reeler featuring Bert Lahr. Charles Kemper, comic seen in several Educational's recent two-reel pictures, including the Jefferson Machamer "Gags and Gals" musical just completed, has joined the stage revue ,"New Faces", in a featured part. Jefferson Machamer is designing svecial accessories for the first of his two-reel "Gags and Gals" musical comedies for Educational. INDIANAPOLIS Fred Greenberg, Kansas City, has succeeded Oscar Kuschner, as manager of the Warner exchange. Had Hull has resigned from Universal and will manage the new Grand National exchange. Earl Herndon, head booker at MG-M, has been promoted to manager of the St. Louis exchange. Milton Ettinger, head booker at Paramount, has resigned to become a salesman for Grand National. He is succeeded bv Wilford Embach of Paramount's Detroit office. J. M. Allison, former operator of the Grand, Guthrie, Ky., has acquired the Strand, Ft. Branch, Ind. The Granada has reopened with a double feature policy. The Orpheum, Terre Haute, reopened Fridav after remodeling. Jack Van Borrsun, operator of the ^avoy, Terre Haute, has acquired the Grace Theater, West Terre Haute. The Variety Club gave a farewell dinner for Oscar Kuschner on Fridav night in the Claynool Hotel. Visitors, Griff Head, Greenville, Tv.; Frank Forrest. Boonville: John 0=born. Culver; S. W. Neall. Kokomo; True Rembusch, Shelbyville: TVte Mailers. Fort Wayne; Ed. Friedman. Indiana Harbor; A. E. Bennett, Muncie. 5,000-Seater for Argentine A 5.000-seat de luxe theater, eostine about $900,000. is to be built in B"«*io A ii"s shortlv. according to ••dvi ,.s received bv the Department -f Commerce from its representative in Argentine. OKLAHOMA CITY Pat McGee and Manager Frank McCabe of the Criterion Theater have returned from a business trip to New York City. Paul Townsend of the Liberty Theater and Joe Hill of Standarr' Theaters have returned from their vacations. Charles Zears. secretary of the; Film Board of Trade, is expected back next week from a two-months sojourn in Veteran's Hospital at Fayetteville, Ark. SAN FRANCISCO United Artists Theater, closed during the summer, opened last week with "Girls' Dormitory." House is under the direction of Herman Cohen. With bank night, screeno, grocery and china night fast losing local appeal, those exhibitors who have been using trade stimulators to attract patronage are wondering what to do next. Newest wrinkles are beano, keeno and roulette. Savo Gets Settlement Under settlement of contract differences with the producers of "White Horse Inn", musical scheduled for the Center, Jimmie Savo will receive 55 per cent of his salary during the run of the show under certain conditions. Savo goes to Chicago on Sept. 17 to fulfill a night club engagement. SAENGERS TAKE OVER A. H. YOEMANS CIRCUIT (Continued from Page 1) vestigation under the NRA code, even before the code machinery was put up, by appealing to President Roosevelt, said he would remain in the theater business and is now negotiating for a circuit in smaller Mississippi towns. CLEVELAND Julius Lamm, manager of Warner's Uptown Theater, was elected president of the Warner Club. _ Nate Scott, 20th Century-Fox assistant ad sales manager, has been promoted to manager of the department. He succeeds Ted Scheinbere, who was promoted to the sales division with headquarters in Albany. Myer Fine, president of Associated Theaters, and his wife and son have returned from a cruise to Nova Scotia and Labrador. M. B. Horwitz, local circuit owner, will reopen the Globe. Woodland Ave. near East 55th St., with a full time picture policy starting Labor Day. Herman Smith, owner of the Ridge Theater, has acquired the Main, 1000-seat house that has been closed many years. He will renovize before reopening it. Ed Cole opened the U. S. Theater last week. The house has been ^losed about seven years. The young son of Everett Steinbuck, manager of Loew's State, died suddenly last week of pneumonia. Maurice Lebensbureer, former manager of the local First Division exchange, is recuperatine at home following a recent operation at the Cleveland Clinic. Nate Rosenthal of Iowa had come here to succeed Cliff Schauffele as manager of the Garden, Associated Theaters circuit house. Nate Schultz, president of Selected Pictures and distributor of the Chesterfield-Invincible product, closed a contract this week with Maurice Conn and Edward Halnerin to distribute the 20 feature pictures which the are producing under the name of Television Pictures. Schultz will handle northern Ohio, with Lee Goldberg of Big Features Rights, Cincinnati, taking the southern Ohio territory. Leona, daughter of Morris Berkowitz, of the Ambassador and Ritz ^heaters, has chosen Sunday the date of her marriage to Ben Lessem. Lew Wasserman, former exhibitor and now w'tb the Mayfair Casino, and his bride of a few weeks, are bark from a honeymoon. I. J. Schmertz. 20th Century-Fox branch manager, renorts product •leals closed with Associated circuit, Community circuit, and all independent theaters in the city. Frank Phelns. Warner's ambassador of labor, arrived in town Thursday for a few day's visit.