The Film Daily (1936)

THK Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1936 V 7 MORE PENNA HOUSE GO TO MANOS GROUP (Continued from Page 1) in Blairsville and E. M. Dock will be moved from Vandergrift to manage the Paramount here. Charles Jim, present manager of the Olympic, remains at his present post. Manos stated that his plans for the erection of a new 175,000 theater here will not be halted by his new interests. Four Broadway Houses Holding Over Films (Continued from Page 1) sibly a fourth. "Piccadilly Jim" at the Capitol and "Girls' Dormitory" start their second weeks on Friday. The Music Hall figures an attendance of 175,000 in the first week of "Swing Time." Universal Closes Deal With Wilby-Kincey Group (Continued from Page 1) product to play the 121 houses of the Wilby-Kincey circuit. F. J. A. McCarty, eastern sales manager; Harry Graham, southern district manager, and John Ezell, James Hobbs and Edward Heiber, respective managers of the Atlanta, Charlotte and Washington exchanges, represented Universal. Robert B. Wilby and M. E. Wyman acted for the circuit. 100 "Swing Time" Openings About 100 day-and-date bookings of "Swing Time", RKO's AstaireRogers picture, get under way Friday and this number could have been increased to 500 if prints were available, it was stated yesterdav. "Swing Time", opened last Friday at the Mayfair Theater, Asbury Park, and has been beating the "Top Hat" record there, it was said. Para. Meeting Routine Routine business was taken up at a brief meeting of the Paramount executive committee yesterday. Regular monthly meeting of the board was again adjourned, this time until tomorrow. SHOWMAN'S REMINDER Have you dated strong attractions to offset the opening of-the-schools slump? ■zm DAILY ifUUL • • • THE BIG effort of Columbia for this season known as "Lost Horizon" has been given its first whirl in a gigantic exploitation campaign with the opening at Atlantic City on the Garden Pier of a unique exhibit consisting of water color sketches and art camera studies representing the preliminary research work and technical planning for this elaborate production T ▼ T • • • THE EXHIBITION is known as "The Making of a Famous Motion Picture" it will remain in Atlantic City for three weeks and then start a woi'ld tour covering all the key cities before opening in London January 15, 1937 after touring the British Isles, the exhibit will go to Australia next June • • • THE HUGE sign outside the exhibit, illuminated at night, is gigantic it is the equivalent of four 96-sheet boards, and can be read a quarter-mile away the Columbia exhibit marks the first time that the public has had opportunity to view material of this nature from the Hollywood studios • • • A MARQUEE on a theater in Marion, Indiana, bore this legend "Next Time We Love — Below the Deadline" . . . • Shep Fields and his band, with Sylvia Froos, Lucille Paige and Sid Gary, will supply the "in person" entertainment at the Pai*amount starting today, when "The General Died At Dawn" opens on the screen ... • Nino Martini, appearing in the Pickford-Lasky film, "The Gay Desperado," has filed his first naturalization papers • • • AFTER A round trip across the country the arrival of the Louis K. Liggett Rexall Train "The Million Dollar Streamline" was capitalized niftily by RKO Radio with a tieup in the Liggett magazine, Hollywood Review with over a million circulation, the publicity boys got over a errand plucr for three current pix, "Mary of Scotland," "Swing Time," "The Big Game" ▼ T T • • • NICE BREAK for Jeanne Madden of the cast of the First National "Stage Struck" when the mayor of Scranton, Pa. proclaimed the day of the picture's showing in the city as "Jeanne Madden Day" this being Jeanne's home town and the Scrantonites vastly proud of her Hollywood suc • • • THAT DEMON gagman, Irving Brecher is writing Milton Berle's scripts for the 94-station coast-to-coast program that starts on the air Sunday the slogan for the show will be, of course: "Never a dull moment!" being a Gillette program, all Irving's gags will cut keen and clean if they don't, you can just bet that Milton will see that he is berled in erl • • • FROM AMATEUR to Arkayo studio Bill Corson appeared recently on Benny Rubin's amateur hour over WOR, and while doing his stint was spotted by Arthur Willi, talent scout for RKO Radio . given a screen test, he came thru handsomely he now has a contract and is on the way to the studio ... • Billy ("Anthony Adverse") Mauch and his twin brother, young Warner players, will be interviewed over WOR on Saturday at 7:15 P. M. by Sam Taylor, movie commentator T T T • • • IT IS a dirty dig without any basis in fact that report that the chorines in a certain studio are able without any difficulty to play Knock-Knock with their knees U.A. INCREASING FOREIGN TIE-UPS (Continued from Page 1) come," said Kelly, "when we can no longer dump 40, 50 or 60 Hollywood pictures into a foreign country, grab our money, and run. It's a put-andtake proposition today. We must give some of that money back." In line with this policy, U. A. already has concluded or is in the process of arranging tieups with producers in England, France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Mexico and Argentina. More internationalization of films was urged by Kelly. As proof of the strides made by British producers in this direction, he stated that of the 57 pictures U.A. will distribute in the foreign field in the next year, more than half will be British. Monty Salmon Quits Para. For Post With Skouras (Continued from Page 1) duties. Royster remains on that job at least until completion of the management deal involving eight Paramount and Stanley-Warner houses in that city. The deal was ex-lusively reported in The Film Daily cf Aug. 27. Disney Music Deal Walt Disney has signed a contract with E. B. Marks, music publisher, giving Disney reproduction rights to the Marks catalogue of more than 11,000 titles, and like access to more than 60 catalogues affiliated with or controlled by Mai-ks. Dailey Pask™an represented the music company in negotiations. Disney will use the music in his cartoon comedies. Mirrophonic for Mexico Among the first foreign installations of the new Western Electric Mirrophonic Sound are six theaters of the First Circuit in Mexico City. The new systems in the Cines Granat Teresa, Goya, Odeon, Rialto and Venecia, together with previous installations in the Cines Palaccio, Eden and Monumental, will make this circuit 100 per cent Western Electric. « « « » » » FACTS ABOUT FILMS Seventy-two per cent of all films «»hibited in Greece during the past year were American, compared with 58 per cent the previous year.