Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

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The Leading Newspaper of the Motion Picture Industry MOTION PICTURE DAILY Alert, Intelligent and' Faithful Service to the Industry in All Branches L. 35. NO. 31 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1934 TEN CENTS nqualified ode Assents Reach 6,934 '.port 717 More Come In Within 5 Days ;i the last five days, Code Authorityreceived a total of 717 unqualified :nts, increasing the former figure 5,217 to 6,934. <"ith more than three weeks to go >re the extended deadline of Feb. is reached, there is a possibility : the final assent number will apach 8,000. Many independent units ">ughout the country, notably Allied iates, are withholding compliances '1 the issue of qualification is set. by the court. The legal issue is ed to be decided on Feb. 20 when (Continued on page 3) ew Code Board List In, Despite Deadline iecommendations for posts on cleare and zoning and grievance boards still being received at the office of Code Authority despite expiration the deadline on Jan. 20. All sugtions are being submitted to Code thority for disposal. Most of the 1 proposals are duplications of nes previously submitted. olds Criterion for Another Six Months 'aramount will retain the Criterion 'perty, which includes Loew's New rk, an additional six months as the ult of issuance of an order by Refe Henry K. Davis yesterday authorig Paramount Publix trustees to r $170,000 in taxes and penalties on property. ["he payment is part of a plan by (Continued on page 7) apitol to Use Name Acts as New Policy rhe Capitol is undergoing a change stage show policy under which the jse again will splurge on name atctions. As the first, Buddy Rogers 1 his orchestra and Lionel Barry(Continued on page 6) . S. Starts Probe Of K. C. Labor War Kansas City, Mo., Feb. S. — Federal estigation into the theatre labor war "e has been launched, with the iniry promising to delve into operator(Continued on page 3) Check on Outside Men May Hold Up Board Personnel Investigation of impartial representatives to be named to clearance and zoning and grievance boards by Division Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt may hold up official announcement of the rest of the personnel on Friday, following a meeting of Code Authority. With four boards yet to be tentatively named, the committee on selections meets Thursday to complete the 32 cities. However, the committee has nothing to do with outside personalities. About 125 recommendations for the 64 posts were mailed last night by Executive Secretary John C. Flinn to Rosenblatt, so that the latter could send out wires to government representatives for a complete background on the men mentioned. Columbia Again Stays at 32; Cohn Denies Any Friction Columbia will stick to its current output of 32 features and a program of shorts in 1934-35, declared jack Cohn, vice-president, upon his return to New York from Hollywood yesterday. Once again he came to the defense against rumors of friction between distribution and production when he stated emphatically such was not the case. "To the contrary," he said, "both departments are functioning as harmoniously as it is physically possible to do. Too many people in this business want to see internal clashes of companies. We are too busy making and selling pictures. As a matter of fact we're giving more than promised. We didn't promise Clark Gable or Claudette Colbert, but we are giving (Continued on page 7) Believe More Loew's Stock Sold by Banks Hayden, Stone and Dillon, Read & Co., Wall St. financial houses, are believed to have disposed of their block of 165,000 shares of Loew's, Inc., in the open market within the past week, during which 190,300 shares have changed hands. Seven days' trading in the issue reached a peak yesterday with a turnover of 102,100 shares. The closing price was 32%, a gain of two points (Continued on page 6) Para. Helped By Voiding of Rental Claims Wa shington, Feb. 5. — Paramount Publix and its bankrupt theatre subsidiary are saved more than $14,000,000 in future rent claims by a decision handed down today by the U. S. Supreme Court which held that future rent claims filed against a bankrupt are not provable. The ruling clears away one of the major obstacles to the further progress of a plan of reorganization for (Continued on page 6) Zero Weather Hits Takes In East and Middle West Zero weather on the eastern seaboard and in the middle west held down grosses somewhat, except in Boston, last week. San Francisco, which was unaffected by the freezeup, was also slow. "Carolina" made an excellent show ing with $15,000 in Cleveland. ".Gallant Lady" had several good grosses, as did "House on 56th Street." "Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen" and "Eskimo" were spotty. Minneapolis and St. Paul had noth(Continued on page 6) No Decisions Arrived at by Administrator Salaries and Ratings to Await Data Study Washington, Feb. 5. — Division Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt is back with no decisions made regarding his attitude on salaries, ratings and other subjects. He will have to study his data, he says, before he can reach any conclusions. Everybody on the coast was "entirely cooperative" at all times, he said. By holding conferences, he stated, he had been able to secure information procurable in no other way. "Executives in the west have an entirely different viewpoint from those in the east, and their approach to a problem also is different," he said. He will get into the pounds of documents he brought back with him as soon as he has disposed of an accumulation of work on his desk. Discussing developments in Wash(Continued on page 3) Operators' Merger In Court Tomorrow Hearing on the contemplated merger by Local 306 of Empire State Operators' Union comes up tomorrow before Justice Riegelman of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Recently, Springer & Cocalis obtained an injunction against the combination and decision is expected to be made whether Empire can be absorbed. Samuel Birnbaum and Charles H. Tuttle will represent Local 306. Massachusetts Has State Censor Bill Boston, Feb. 5. — Creation of a state board of picture censorship, to consist of five members, of whom one should be a woman and one a clergyman, is proposed by Representative William P. Dolan of Jamaica Plain in a bill presented to the Legislature today. Showing of crime pictures was severely scored by Representative Dolan in submitting his bill. Mayer Again Heads Producers on Coast Hollywood, Feb. 5. — Louis B. Mayer today was re-elected president of the Ass'n. of M. P. Producers for the third term. Jack Warner was chosen to succeed himself as first vice(Continued on page 7)