Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Wednesday, February 14 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 February 14, 1934 No. 37 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE ICANN Editor JAMES A. CRON Advertising Manager Published daily except Sunday and holidays by Motion Picture Daily, Inc., subsidiary of Quigley Publications, Inc., Martin Quigley, President; Colvin Brown, Vice-President and Treasurer. Publication Office: 1790 Broadway, New York. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address "Quigpubco, New York." All contents copyrighted 1934 by Motion Picture Daily, Inc. Address all correspondence to the New York Office. Other Quigley publications: MOTION PICTURE HERALD, BETTER THEATRES, THE MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC and THE CHICAGOAN. Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union Life Building, Vine and Yucca Streets, Victor M. Shapiro, Manager; Chicago Bureau: 407 South Dearborn Street, Edwin S. Clifford, manager; London Bureau: 6 Brookland Close, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Bernard Char man, Representative; Berlin Bureau: Berlin-Tempelnof, Kaiserin-Augustastrasse 28, Joachim K. Rutenberg, Representative; Paris 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. Warners Will Trade Show Six Features Warners will hold a national trade showing of six forthcoming releases on March 6. The company has 16 features finished. The showings will be held in all the Warner branches in the United States and Canada. The pictures will be : 'Wonder Bar," "As the Earth Turns," "Journal of a Crime," "Harold Teen," "Jimmy, the Gent," and "Gambling Lady." S trickling Plans Trip Hollywood, Feb. 13. — Howard Strickling is planning to join Howard Dietz on the latter's return to the east shortly. Strickling's trip would be to pay the M-G-M home office a short visit. Charnow Pinch Hits Because Sidney E. Samuelson, president, was home with a cold, Julius Charnow, vice-president, acted as chairman at the meeting of Allied of New Jersey yesterday. It was a routine session. Emanuel Returns Philadelphia, Feb. 13. — Jay Emanuel, regional trade paper publisher, and Mrs. Emanuel returned from their Hollywood visit yesterday, via the Canal and New York. Coast Group In Harry M. Warner, Will H. Hays, Jake Wilk and Watterson Rothacker arrived in New York from Hollywood yesterday. Insiders' Outlook ATTORNEY GENERAL CUMMINGS has been facing Washington criticism for his "do-nothing" attitude. From down Potomac way, therefore, come stories he is about to go investigating and may start with Fox West Coast. Through the Department of Justice, of course. . . . The big Fox house in San Francisco from which FWC originally walked may revert to the latter again. The deal's been on. . . . Inside figure on last week's gross at the Capitol places the business at $14,000 with "You Can't Buy Everything" as the picture and May Robson on the stage. It's unbelievable. . . . T There are some who maintain the talk about cutting major programs for next season is mere talk. Tentative plans of important majors would indicate it was just that. Programs currently are pegged for next season where they stand now. . . . The initial excitement over "Nana" and its Chicago run is nowblamed for the released story that the review of the Sten picture made the first page of the Chicago Tribune. It did not. It was the first page of the second news section where reviews run anyway. Bad stuff, fooling the press. Bad editors, the gullible ones, including this one. . . . " T Part of the deal whereby the former Moe Mark houses went into the Warner outfit, via the Stanley Company of America, provided for demolition of the Strand and replacement by a new theatre housed in a $5^000,000 office building. This was to be a fact by 1935. It would have been if the procession of the years had skipped 1929. . . . Rewriting of bond issues by the bankers is proving a good business for the bankers. They are getting their commissions for the handling exactly as if the flotations were entirely new. . . . T The verbal joust between Sam Jaffe, actor, and Joe Von Sternberg, director, on the "Scarlet Empress" set is gorgeous. The other players thought so much of it they presented Jaffe with a scroll emblazoned : "The Prince of Good Fellows.". . . Will Dietrich pick up where Elizabeth Bergner left off on Catherine, the Great? . . . George Kaufman is off to the coast to confer on a new play. Hollywood has planned several parties for the co-author of "Once in a Lifetime." Who says there's no sense of humor on the Gold Coast? . . . Loads and loads of theatre deals being talked about. Many of them die when cash enters the discussions. . . . Ed Schiller is doing very well, sickroom reports have it. So much so, he's now receiving a limited number of visitors. Word from him. but not directly, is he's ready to put on the gloves to demonstrate the report about being away from active work for six months is the bunk. That's one bit of gossip we're glad to admit we were 'wrong on. . . . The existence of "Devil Tiger" on the Fox program is directly traceable to Sidney Kent who likes that type of picture. Therefore, be prepared for one a year like it. . . . T The MPTOA move against radio broadcasters is not aimed Eastman Pfd. Up 2Y2 on Big Board Net High Low Close Change Columbia Pictures, vtc 25 25 25 + 54 Consolidated Film Industries 554 454 5 Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 1654 16/ 1654 + 54 Eastman Kodak 88/ 88/ 88/ — / Eastman Kodak, pfd 128 128 128 +2/ Fox Film "A" 1654 16 1654 + 54 Loew's, Inc 33 3154 3254 +1/ Loew's, Inc., pfd , 86/ 86/ 86/ + / M-G-M. pfd 22% 22% 22% A % Paramount, cts 4$4 4/ 454 + 54 Pa the Exchange 3/ 3 3 — 54 Pathe Exchange "A" 1854 17/ 17/ + / RKO 3% 3 3/ + 54 Universal Pictures, pfd 28 27 27 +1 Warner Bros 754 654 754 + 54 Warner Bros., pfd 20/ 20'/ 20/ —2 Technicolor Up % on Curb Net High Low Close Change Technicolor 9/ 9 9/ + J4 All Bonds Show Gain Net High Low Close Change General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 854 8 8/ + / General Theatre Equipment 6s '40, ctf 8j4 754 8/ + / Keith B. F. 6s '46 6054 60 6054 + 54 Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights 96/ 95 95/ + 54 Paramount F. L. 6s '47 44 4254 44 +2 Paramount Publix 5/s '50 44 42/ 44 +254 Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd 5554 54 55 -fl/ Sales 200 600 3.000 600 1.000 1,200 19.600 100 100 27.300 4.800 12.000 1.700 5.000 13.800 100 Sales 400 Sales 18 10 4 21 5 22 28 at ether appearances of pkt stars, for the exhibitor or^ ization realizes it can do litti< nothing on that score. The c; paign is aimed at stations hand out passes and thus b up audiences which ordin;i might be parting with quarter the box-office. . . . The expl< tion director of one of the < panies does a good job for product, but a punk one for 1 self. After three months of ing for a typewriter, he got the other day. It was a sec hand affair. . . . Y. Have you noticed the and Metro-Goldwyn finai dopesheets for the first qua of the new fiscal year? The ent company went to a ne $1,594,608 as compared $741,910 in the identical pe last year. That's sometl Naturally, Metro-Goldwyn. subsidiary company, must contributed to this, but on own score showed an amazinj covery what with an increas $1,070,696 to a total net $1,164,507, as compared wit paltrv $93,911 for the same od in 1932. . . . Isn't Aylesw doing considerable denying o reports he and Radio are a to part ?. . . K. Jolson, Gable Wil Attend ITOA Da Talent lineups for the Indep Theatre Owners' Ass'n., ball W aldorf Astoria Feb. 21 inch Jolson and Clark Gable and sortment of Broadway talent. Music will be furnished by Hopkins and his Roseland ore and Eli Danzig and his Hot George band. Others who have to attend for short periods the night are : N. T. G. and his dise show, Rudy Vallee and his a bunch of vaudeville acts, the "I company with Fannie Brice. ] Marshall, Eugene and Willie ard and Patricia Bowman, ai high spots of the New Yor Brooklvn Paramount shows. Seidelman in Pari Paris, Feb. 13. — Joseph H. man, foreign general sales m for Columbia, is here from for a survey of the company' branch. From here he is expe go to Spain. Harry Langdon Mai Hollywood, Feb. 13. — Langdon is on a honeymoon i zona with the third Mrs. La who, until yesterday, wa: Sheldon. Ostrer to Honolull Hollywood, Feb. 13. — Isidor rer, of the Ostrer brothers, fij backers of British Gaumonl sailed on a pleasure trip to Ho Bernstein Arrive Sidney Bernstein, well know | don exhibitor, arrived in New from the other side yesterday.