Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Monday, February 19, 193 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 February 19, 1934 No. 41 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN 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 CHICAGO AN. Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union Life Building, Vine and Yucca Streets, Victor M. Shapiro, Manager; Chicago Bureau: 407 South Dearborn Street, Edwin S. 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"Bowery" Prize Winners Carter Baron and Lew Brown of the Palace, Washington, were awarded first prize of $50 in the United Artists contest for the best exploitation campaigns on 20th Century's "The Bowery" staged by Loew's theatre managers, Hal Home, U. A. advertising manager, said Saturday. Second and third prizes of $25 each were awarded to Lester Pollock of Loew's Rochester and H. M. Addison of Loew's State, Cleveland. Sigmund Weltner Dead Sigmund Weltner, 72, father of George Weltner who is assistant to John W. Hicks, vice-president of Paramount International, and a friend of Adolph Zukor's of many years' standing, died Saturday morning of a fractured skull at the Harbor Sanitarium. Weltner slipped on the ice Thursday. Funeral services will be held today. Petition to Wait Dover, Del, Feb. 18. — Decision was reserved yesterday on a petition filed by Vitaphone before the State Supreme Court asking modification of the_ court's order in the litigation against Erpi. "Trouble" — Tomorrow Trade showings of "Looking for Trouble," 20th Century-United Artists latest, will be held in all key cities tomorrow, with the local showing at the Astor at 11 o'clock. Laemmle Due on Coast Hollywood, Feb. 18. — Carl Laemmle arrives here from New York tomorrow. Insiders' Outlook 'TP HE history of the code and all exchange centers, the prob* how it works depends largely lem of trying to dope out how to on those 32 grievance boards and fairly represent the territory the same number of clearance served out of Cleveland as well and zoning boards. This is as the city itself. Chicago is B. widely recognized and conceded. & K. -dominated, troubled with a Yesterday Code Authority re revival of double features. There leased the official personnel of 42 independents are squawking of the 64, set up the clearing about stage show competition in house for complaints for most of circuit houses which sell 'em at the country and gave the men in prices the subsequents cannot the field their most eagerly meet. How to take care of matawaited yarn. Notably absent is ters there? You tell us what New York. Runners-up. are board can do it. . . . Cleveland and Chicago. There is y a story behind each. . . . Publicity departments are in,T ,r , . , , . censed over the practice of some New York, the nation s biggest forei fan magazines which city, is an extremely complex and use b Hnes on important piayers dl^™Sltuatl°n >^yith L°eW who don't know a thing about the and RKO the town s largest cir text until ifa cracks in int The cmts, there enter into a commit usual procedure; of coursej is for tee-naming job like this many the publicity blurbers to write other factors. Randtorce is the requested copy. Fan editors, spread expansively throughout however, have developed the Brooklyn. There are the Skou habit of slapping on byIines hav. rases also independent circuits ■ nothi tQ do with the like Bolognino Ochs Springer thereb making well-known and Cocahs. Not only is the names ta]k about k Qther T.O.C X. active for its mdepen than themselves. An actual indent theatre membership, but also stance has tQ do with Garbo and the Independent Theatre Own Mamoulian. Two different foreign ers Ass n headed by Harry magazines used stories on Garbo Brandt. There is Greater New and made the djrector the author York and upstate to Peekskill to as wdl The text had Mamoulian consider; also northern Jersey, ddvi intQ Greta>s iyate H{e which angled for, but won t get, He>s ed and has protested. . a board of its own. In other words, it's a man-sized task to ^ name impartial boards that also The old Hollywood custom is will keep the yells down to some in the swing again. Current sort of a minimum. . . . difficulties — some call it a feud— « between Fox and Lilian Harvey In Cleveland, producer circuits results in a studio order to shut are on deck, with the exception down on all Harvey publicity, of Paramount. The Cleveland That contract hasn't much more M. P. Exhibitors' Ass'n, stan to go. Probably two additional dard-bearer of the independents, pictures, maybe only one includes members very difficult to F°ur sticks out of Hollywood hold in line. There are evidences over trie A P on plans to make of phoney buying combinations "Peck's Bad Boy" in sound. in the city, petty jealousies and Good Job on someone's part big ones and, as in the case of KANN Eastman Rises 1% on Big Board Net High Low Close Change Sales Columbia Pictures, vtc 2554 25% 2554 —1 100 Consolidated Film Industries 554 5% 554 +54 40Q Consolidated Film Industries, pfd \7\i 16% 16% -1 54 800 Eastman Kodak 9354 92 9354 +154 300 Fox Film "A" 17 16% 16% — % 800 Loew's, Inc 3354 3354 — 54 8,400 M-G-M pfd 24% 24% 24% + % 100 Paramount cts 5% 5% 5% — % 4,900 Pathe Exchange 35^ 3% 354 — % 1,900 Pa the Exchange "A" 18 17% 18 + % 500 RKO 454 4 4% + % 23,500 Warner Bros 7)4 754 7% — Vs 5,200 Columbia Up 4% on Curb Net High Low Close Change Sales Columbia Pictures 29 29 29 +454 100 Technicolor 10 9% 10 200 Trans Lux 2% 2% 2% + % 200 Bond Market Advances Net High Low Close Change Sales General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 1154 10% 1154 +1 131 General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 ctf 10% 10 10% + % 46 Keith B. F. 6s '46 6154 6154 6154 + % 1 Loew's 6s '41 ww deb rights 9654 96% 9654 2 Paramount Publix 5%s, '50 49% 4956 49% + % 7 Warner Bros. 6s '39 wd 58% 58 58J4 +54 8 Coast Production Shows Slight Gaii (Continued from page 1) eight cutting. Fox follows clos<^ with four, four and five; Radio h four, two and three; Universal t three and three ; Columbia two, fi and two ; Century one, two and oi while the independent group repot five, seven and three. In the short subject field, M-Greports three in work, none prepari: and five in the cutting rooms ; Roa has one, three and three; Univers zero, one and one ; Columbia or zero and three ; Radio one, zero ai^ three, while the combined independe: group of studios report seven in wor five preparing and eight in the cuttir rooms. Two RKO Sales Test Scheduled This Wee Chicago, Feb. 18. — A Radio ho: office sales contingent headed Cresson E. Smith, western and souO ern sales manager, and A. A. Sh bart, head of the contract departmen arrive here Monday for a two-d sales conference of mid-western mat) agers at the Drake. Smith will preside at the meetinl with the following in attendance : Waj ter Branson, mid-western district man ager; J. Osserman, Chicago brand manager ; B. J. McCarthy, Da Moines ; T. R. Thompson, Kansa City; A. N. Schmitz, Milwaukee; 1] E. Goldhammer, Minneapolis ; A. M Avery, Omaha ; L. Elman, St. Louil and S. W. Fitch, Sioux Falls. Memphis, Feb. 18. — A Radio sale conference will be held at the Pea body here, Wednesday and Thursda; This will be the third of a series o conferences, the first of which wa held in New York and the second i Chicago. A fourth meeting may b held in the west, dependent on whethe Jules Levy, Radio general sales man ager, completes plans for a studio visi Managers' Party Drawt Washington, Feb. 18. — A larg turn-out of theatre managers an operators of this zone crowded Clu Michel for the Managers' Roun Table party last night. 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