Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Saturday, January 6, 1934 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 January 6, 1934 No. 5 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN Editor <CM»* JAMES A. CRON Advertising Manager Published daily except Sunday and holidays by Motion Picture Daily, Inc., subsidiary of Uuigley Publications, Inc., Martin Quigley, President; Colvin Brown, Vice-President and Treasurer. Publication Office: 1790 Broadway New York. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cab e address "Quigpubco, New Y-ork. All contents copyrighted 1934 by Motion Picture Daily inc. Address all correspondence to the New York Office. Other Quigley pubications* MOTION PICTURE HERALD, BETTER THEATRES, THE MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC and THE CH1CAGOAN. „ , tt • i t Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union Lite Building. Vine and * ucca Streets, Victor M. Shapiro. Manager; Chicago Bureau: 407 South Dearborn Street, Edwin S. Clifford. manager; London Bureau: 1021 A Finchley Road Golders Green, Bernard Charman. Representative; Berlin Bureau: Berlin-Tempelhof, Kaiserin-Augustastrasse 28, Joaclwm K Rutenberg. Representative; Pans Bureau: 19, Rue de la Cour-des-Noues, Pierre Autre Representative; Rome Bureau: Viale Gorizia, Vittorio Malpassuti, Representative; Sydney Bureau: 102 Sussex Street, Cliff Holt Representative; Mexico City Bureau: Apartado 269, James Lockhart. Representative; Glasgow Bureau: 86 Dundrennan Road, G. Holmes. Representative; Budapest Bureau: 11 Olaaz Fasor 17, Endre Hevesi. Representative. Entered as second class matter January 4. 1926 at the Post Office at New York City, N. Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year: $6 in the Americas, except Canada $15 and foreign $12. Single copies: 10 cents. Warner Plans Draw Editorial Comment Jack L. Warner's statement about making pictures with world appeal has stirred the Herald-Tribune to comment editorially that "it is apparent that the stereotyped tragedy and gayety of Hollywood are undergoing a sea change." After commenting on the wide appeal of Emil Ludwig's "Napoleon," "Anthony Adverse," "British Agent" and "The Key" the editorial continues : "This doesn't, obviously, mean that the 'movies' have suddenly and universally either gone highbrow or communist, or that ballroom sequences, Wild West six-gun dramas or Marie Dressier comedies are to disappear'. Heaven forfend that any of these, especially the last, ever should ! It would merely seem to indicate that Hollywood is in some measure aware of the interests of the times and at least willing to make a gesture in the direction of maturity and serious endeavor." Fox to Start Five Pictures Next Week Hollywood, Jan. 5. — Fox now has four in work with five set to start next week. Five others are in the cutting stages. Those in production are : "Fox Follies," "George White's Scandals," "Bottoms Up" and "David Harum." Three of these are musicals. Starting next week are : "Wife for Sale," "All Men Are Enemies," "Murder in Trinidad," "Three on a Honey moon" and "Odd Thursday." In the cutting rooms are : "Carolina," "Coming Out Party," "Ever Since Eve," "Hold That Girl" and "Disillusion." MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1934-35 NOW /A/ PR£PA/iA T/OA/ WHERE THE WORLD LOOKS FOR MOTION PICTURE i5. lack Schaefer, Waite Leave George J. Schaefer, Paramount general manager, and Stanley Waite, division sales manager, left yesterday for Atlanta for sales conferences with sales forces in that territory under the leadership of District Manager Oscar A. Morgan and Branch Manager Dave Prince on Monday and Tuesday. From there they will go to Dallas for a meeting with Interstate Theatre Circuit managers on Thursday. Schaefer expects to return directly from Dallas and Waite will probably go on to San Antonio and Oklahoma City. Paramount Reopens Kansas City Royal Kansas City, Jan. 5. — Overseating is increased in the downtown district and double bills receive an impetus by the decision of Publix to reopen the Royal as a subsequent run. This gives Kansas City four low-priced subsequent runs within an area of four blocks. The Royal opens Saturday on a "grind" schedule of twin features, changed three times weekly. The price scale is 15 cents any time, 10 cents for children. Capacity is 750. Paramount product is assured, and a deal is on for Warner-First National. Pictures from both companies are first run at the Publix Newman. Held under a long term lease by Publix, the Royal has been dark more than two years. A reorganization of local Publix holdings is said to be involved, as the house has been separated from the Kansas City Operating Co., the local Publix subsidiary also operating the Newman, and a new holding company has been formed under the name of the Roval Theatre Co. George Baker, manager of the Newman, will supervise the Royal in the capacity of Publix city manager. Thomas Howie, Jr., the Newman's assistant manager, goes to the Royal as manager. The house has been renovated. End Poll Insurance Hartford, Jan. 5. — Judge Edwin S. Thomas of the U. S. District Court today annulled an $8,000,000 fire insurance policy on Poli theatres taken out some time ago by the receivers. The receivership was ended recently following sale of the properties to Poll New England. Col. Borrows Lombard Hollywood, Jan. 5. — Columbia has borrowed Carole Lombard from Paramount for "20th Centurv." Famous Theatres Elects Directors of the newly organized Famous Theatres Corp. yesterday elected officers as follows: Chairman of the board, Adolph Zukor ; president, Ralph A. Kohn ; vice-president, Frank Freeman ; vice-president. Sam Dembow, Jr. ; treasurer, Walter B. Cokell : assistant treasurer. Paul A. Raibourn ; secretary, Austin C. Keough. P-P Meet Postponed A Paramount Publix creditors' meeting scheduled for yesterday before Referee Henry K. Davis was postponed to Jan. 12. 4 Purely Personal ► ARM AND DENIS, who returned from his chores with the Frank Buck "Wild Cargo" expedition in Southern Asia by way of the Pacific, arrived at Newark airport last night after a flight from San Francisco which was slowed by several snowstorms en route. W. Ray Johnston will have the nearest office to the Code Authority when it is set up in the RKO Bldg. Monogram is on the 20th floor and the authority will be either one floor below or three above. Joe Rivkin, eastern representative for the Leo Morrison agency, plans to trek to Hollywood early in February Ike Libson paid a visit to the Warnear home office yesterday and conferred with Jack L. Warner and Andy Smith. Jules Demaria, honorary president of the French Cinema Syndicate, sails today for France on the Lafayette. Alexander Gray, stage star, has been signed by Educational for a short. C. C. Moskowitz sailed yesterday on a West Indies cruise. Raspin Set to Start Hollywood, Jan. 5. — Edwin B. Raschbaum and Sidney T. Pink of Raspin Productions, Inc.. have arrived here to start work on "Are We Civilized?" Ewdin Carewe will direct. M-G-M Pfd. in One Point Rise Net High Low Close Change Columbia Pictures, vtc 2354 23'A 23A — V2 Consolidated Film Industries V/a 2% V/% + H Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 1VA 10^4 llVs + 'A Eastman Kodak 80}4 80 80 — $4 Fox Film "A" 12Vs 12J4 12% — l/2 Loew's, Inc 21% 26 26 — IV* M-G-M, pfd 21 21 21 +1 Paramount Publix V/s 154 Wa — Vs Pathe Exchange "A" WH i<%4 — 54 RKO 2A 2'A 2?A Warner Bros 5J4 5 5 — V% Trans Lux UpxAon Curb Net High Low Close Change Trans Lux 3 2% 3 +54 Bond Market Shows Slight Gain Net High Low Close Change General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 iVi ^Yi General Theatre Equipment 6s '40. ctf 3 3 3 Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights WA 86J4 86$4 + Va Paramount Publix 5/2s '5ft. cts 29*/2 29/2 29*5 + lA Pathe 7s '37', ww 88 88 88 +3 Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd 42 41 4V/2 + V2 Sales 100 1.500 1.800 400 500 3.600 100 1.800 400 400 4.000 Sales 300 Sales 1 Detroit Club Holds First Lunch Monday Detroit. Jan. 5. — First formal luncheon of the new Variety Club of Detroit will be held Monday noon in the Book-Cadillac, with John Harris of Pittsburgh as the principal speaker. Following the luncheon, the club will throw open its new club rooms in the hotel to friends and members, holding open house during the afternoon and evening. J. E. Flynn, divisional manager for M-G-M, is the first president. It was organized recently with a charter membership of sixty-one. Loew's N. Y. Switches Loew's New York will discard its present policy of showing new pictures ever}' day beginning next Friday in favor of thrice-weekly changes, on Monday, W ednesday and Friday. Double features will be show'n at all times, with the admission price from opening to 1 P. M. reduced to 15 cents for any seat in the house. It is understood a scarcity of good films prompted the switch. Rites for Mrs. E. L. Hehl St. Louis. Jan. 5. — Persons connected with all phases of the industry here attended the funeral of Airs. Emma L. Hehl, wife of Louis C. Hehl, secretary of the M. P. T. O. of St. Louis, eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. Thirteen of the 17 foster children raised by Mrs. Hehl were present. Burial w7as in the new St. Marcus Cemetery. Goldwyn Starts East Hollywood, Jan. 5. — Samuel Goldwvn left for New7 York tonisht.