Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Tuesday, March 20, 19 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 March 20, 1934 No. 65 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN mr 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 CIcle 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, Victo? M. Shapiro, Manager; Chicago Bureau; 407 South Dearborn Street, Edwin S. 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Gulf States Shifts Date to April 3-4 New Orleans, March 19. — The date of the proposed convention of the Gulf States Theatre Owners' Ass'n., has been changed from April 10 and 11 to April 3 and 4, so delegates to the M.T.O.A. convention passing through this city may attend, if they wish. franklin Reaches Coast Hollywood, March 19. — Harold B. Franklin arrived in Hollywood yesterday on his first visit in more than a year. While here he will probably settle one of the many production deals he has under negotiation. MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1954-35 A/O W /A/ PA£PAAA T/OA/ WHERE THE WORLD LOOKS FOR MOTION PICTURE PRICE »CS2 Purely Personal UP and down the generous stretches of The Tavern for luncheon yesterday ; but not all in one party, were: Leslie Thompson, J. R. McDonough, Nate Blumberg, Joe Plunkett, Arnold Van Leer, £en Rosenberg, Ralph Voucher, Frank Seltzer, Sam Jacobson, Harry Buckley, Paul Lazarus, Harry Ascher of Boston, Eddie Dowling, Capt. Baynes, Harry Brandt, Bob Wolff, Joe Moskowitz, Arthur Friend, Amedee Van Beuren, Frank Buck, Bob Goldstein, Jim Alexander of Pittsburgh, Jack Jossey of Cleveland, Eddie Golden and George Batcheller. Jean Hersholt and Mrs. Hersholt and their son, Allen ; Gregory LaCava and Florence and Arthur Lake arrived in town yesterday and are at the Warwick. Sol M. Wurtzel, Fox producer, will reach New York tomorrow on a search for story material. He will return March 30 with Hamilton MacFadden, director. Ralph Staub, Vitaphone director, has been offered a directorial job in Russia, but can't accept because his Warner contract runs to September. Grover Jones, Paramount scenario writer, will sail for England Wednesday on the President Harding for a a vacation. Joseph Bernard, head of Warner theaares, returned yesterday for a three-week trip to the coast. Sam E. Morris accompanied H. M. Warner and Sam Sax on that European trip. Sidney Samuelson is on a Southern cruise. Has a bad cold he wants to get rid of. Sol A. Rosenblatt was in town over the week-end, but very few knew it. Morris Gest and Natika Balieff are slated as Cheese Club guests today. Max Hayes and Charles W. ueall on Saturday held a cocktail party inaugurating tneir new oinces m the .f aiace i neatre building. Hayes and Beall are head oi iNovelty Pictures, inc., producing a number ot commercial shorts at Uceanside, L. I. Lou B. Metzger's trip to Europe will last two months during which time he will arrange distribution of "Jilysia," the foreign rights to which he owns. While abroad he may acquire product tor domestic handling, .tie sails tomorrow. Miriam Hopkins will return to the coast Friday. During her stay here she has purchased the home of the late Elisabeth Marbury at 13 Sutton Place. Joseph Quittner, former theatre operator at l orrington, Conn, (not the Middletown, N. Y, Quittners), is the new burlesque magnate at the Central and in Atlantic City. Joseph Schnitzer's new company is named Mutual Prod., inc., which last week completed a commercial short at the Oceanside, L. L, studios. Richard Arlen and Mrs. Arlen (Jobyna Ralston) and their 10-monthold son are on the high seas bound for Europe. Agnes de Mille's measles subsided Saturday, so she has left for the coast. Charlie Perry, manager of the U. A. Aldine in Philadelphia, spent the week-end in New York. Barney Pitkin, New Haven RKO exchange manager, has been in town the last few days. Jean Muir will arrive in town shortly to attend the premiers of "As the Earth Turns." Neil Agnew and Milt Kusell return tomorrow from a cruise in southern waters. Oscar Hanson did his strolling up Broadway slowly yesterday morning. Helen Kane gets in from the coast today on the Santa Paula. Most Issues Off on Big Board Net High Low Close Change Columbia Pictures, vtc 27% 26% 27 — % Consolidated Film Industries 4% 43^ 4% Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 15'/, 1514 Eastman Kodak 89 88 88J4 154 Eastman Kodak, pfd 132 13VA 132 + % Fox Film "A" lS'/2 14% 14% —1 Loew's, Inc 31% 30^ 30% — H Paramount Publix 5 4% 4% — j£ Pathe Exchange 3yz 3& — & Pa the Exchange "A" 19%. 18% 18% — y2 RKO 3J4 3Va. 3J4 — % Warner Bros 6% 6% 6J4 — H Technicolor Off % on Curb Net High Low Close Change Technicolor 8% 8% 8% — % Trans Lux 2 2 2 Warner Bonds Drop One Net High Low Close Change General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 10 9J4 9J4 — y2 General Theatre Equipment 6s '40, ctf SJ4 8% 8%. — % Keith B. F. 6s '46 63^ 63% 63^ — Yz Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights 98J4 98^ 98J4 Paramount Broadway 5^s '51 32% 32 32% — % Paramount F. L. 6s '47 50 49 49 —1 Paramount Publix 5^s '50 50 49% 49% — % Pathe 7s '37, ww 93% 93% 93% — % RKO 6s '41, pp 36 36 36 —5 Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd 56 55 55 —1 Sales 300 200 100 800 4,000 400 10,300 6,200 1,600 1,800 2,400 2,400 Sales 2 10 Sales 12 Well Known Names On Club List No\ Many of the best known names the New York film fraternity 1 members of the reorganized Mot: Picture Club, which to date has roster of 225. The roll call includ' William Alexander, Jack Alicoate, Har Auten, J. Bray, David Bernstein, Joe £ nat, Joseph Bernhard, David Blum, L^ Blumenthal, Milton Blumberg, Lawre Bolognino, Richard Brady, Leo Brecl Colvin Brown, Henry Brown, Joe Brar: Jules Brulatour, Harry Buckley, Sam B ger. Nathan Burkan, Irving Chidnoff, Lc Cohen, Harry Cohn, Jack Cohn, M. Comerford, Ed Curtis. Meyer Davis, George Dembow, Sam D< bow, Howard Dietz, S. Dornbusch, Herl Ebenstein, Sam Eckman, S. C. Einfeld, Emanuel, Si Fabian, Felix Feist, Leon F; William Ferguson, A. E. Fiegel, Dor Flamm, William Frankel, W. J. Germ H. Glucksman, Jacob Glucksman, Goetz, Charles Goetz, Morris GoodnJ. R. Grainger, Will Hays, J. A. Hir J. Hoffberg, Gabriel Hess, M. H. Hoffrr Hal Home, J. C. Hornstein. William Jacobs, Emil Jensen, Al Jol: Kay Kamen, M. J. Kandel, Maurice Ke Sam Katz, Leo Klebanow, M. A. Kr. A. A. Lee, Jack Leo, Sol Lesser, L Leventhal, Jack Levin, Nathan Levy, Lichtman, Arthur Loew, David Loew. Austin Keough, Leo Lubin, J. A. McC ville, Fally Markus, William Massce, ^ chell May, Jr., A. Montague, Borros & ros, Charles C. Moskowitz, Louis Ni Lee A. Ochs, L. N. Olmsted, A. Pelter C. C. Pettijohn, Louis Phillips, Ma Quigley, Phil Reisman, Henry Reston, Roach, Herman Robbins, Harold Rod M. Rosenbluh, James L. Ryan, Lou Ry E. A. Schiller, A. Schneider, A. Schw; Si Seadler, Jack Shapiro, Ben Sherr M. A. Silver, Sid Silverman, Sp Skouras, William Small, C. J. Sonin, 1 1 B. Spingold, Henry Siegel. Morton Spi William Tenney, Harry Thomas, W; Trumball, Arnold Van Leer, M. Van Pr William Vogel, Louis Vorhaus. Frank C. Walker, Walter Wanger, H M. Warner, Sidney Weil, Milton Weis George Weltur, Herman Wiener, Ir Wormser, Robert Wolff, Herbert J. Y; C. Zenker, H. Zenker, Tom Wiley, Ad Zukor and Eugene Zukor. Farewell Dinner fo Jos. Nolan Tonig RKO Radio executives and empk 100 strong, will tender a farewell ner tonight at the Park Centra Joseph Nolan, for the past five y assistant secretary of the RKO tributing Corp., who leaves for coast Thursday to become assis to B. B. Kahane, president of P Studios. Among those present will be : J. R. McDonough. Ned Depinet, Js L. E. Thompson, Herman Zohbel, Blumberg, Frank Snell, Phil Reis Robert F. Sisk, William C. Clark, Wi Mallard, Cresson Smith, Gordon E. Yc man, E. L. McEvoy, S. Barrett M mick. A. J. Mertz, Bob Wolff, y Poller, A. A. Schubart, Leon J. berger. W. V. Derham, John Dowd. gers Xeilson, Robert Hawkinson, H Hendee. Harry Gittelson, Lou Gau Amos Hiatt, E. A. Home, Frank Ken Milton Maier, Fred Meyers, Lou A J. P. Skelly, David Thompson, M. F man, D. P. Canavan, William Dahler. Ellis and Henry Holmes. Weir Funeral Toda Interment in Peo Funeral services for Hugh C. "\ editorial director of Tower W zines, Inc., who died Friday ir 50th year, will be held at 2:30 F today at the Funeral Church, Bi way and 66th St. Interment wi in Peoria, 111., once the home of ^ who was also widely known as a elist and a writer of short st magazine articles and scenarios. Weir began his career as a r paperman, switching at 20 to see writing for Universal. In 1923 h turned to editorial work. Surviving are his widow and 3 '■