Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1934
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000634
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE DAI LY Friday, March 23, 19; MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 March 23, 1934 No. 68 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 Quigleyj 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, Victor M. Shapiro, Manager; Chicago Bureau; 407 South Dearborn Street, Edwin S. Clifford, manager: London Bureau: 6 Brookland Close, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Bernard Charman, Representative; Berlin Bureau: Berlin Tempelhof, Kaiserin-Augustastrasse 28, Joachim K. Rutenberg, Representative; Paris Bureau: 19, Rue de la Cour-desNoues, 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. Named to Directorate Herbert J. Yates, Sr., president, and R. I. Poucher, W. W. Vincent, A. D. Farwell and W. P. Stevens were elected to the directorate of Consolidated Film Industries for three years at the annual stockholders' meeting yesterday. Yates' report for the past year was approved and the opinion was voiced that prospects for the coming year looked favorable. Home Returns Monday Hal Home, director of advertising and publicity for United Artists, who has been recuperating from an illness in Miami, is scheduled to return to the home office on Monday. MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1934-35 NOW /A/ MIMAA r/O/V WHERE THE WORLD LOOKS FOR MOTION PICTURE MUCi »5 facb Insiders' Outlook T^HE most innocent of stories ■*• may have a real yarn behind them these days. You can't tell. Take that KAO realignment which breezed out of the RKO office late? yesterday afternoon. When J. R. McDonough has it explained for him that the purpose is unification of corporate entities in the major company, it all sounds pretty good and reasonable enough. But McDonough didn't get into the Mike Meehan hold in KAO and that's where to look for interesting developments, perhaps and maybe. The KAO string, backbone of the RKO circuit, is an extremely valuable property. Its earnings have averaged $60,000 each week in the year — depression years and better kinds — for so long RKO-ites are shocked when the profit dips lower. What's wrong with RKO theatres certainly cannot be traced to KAO. The trouble has been in the Southwest, the Middle West and other territories. . . . T Interesting enough on the surface as well is the Warner bid for what's left of Fox Metropolitan. The approximate 79 houses proceeding under court control, although George Skouras operates, would constitute a sizable gulp for any major to swallow. But while you're reading, reflect for a moment on the balance of power in this, the richest territory in the country, and how the scales gently rocking now between RKO and Loew's may he tipped toward the brothers if the Warners close that deal. Joe Bernhard couldn't be tapped for a statement last night. It doesn't matter. He would have denied it as he probably will today. ... T Scramble note : Jimmy Grain ger, ex-general sales manager of Fox and now general sales manager of Universal, lunching with Lou Metzger, ex-general sales manager of Universal and Columbia, at the Plaza grill yesterday with John Clark, exdivisional manager of Paramount and now general sales manager of Fox, sitting in for a few minutes. Case of distributors selling ex-distributor, for Metzger now operates the first-run Spreckles in San Diego. . . . CagneyWarner trouble seems to be in the air again. . . . T All quiet on the HepburnRadio front, by the way. Morning Glory's salary is $1,500 per week. She thinks she deserves much, much more. Especially is this true after "Little Women." Radio has offered a flat $50,000 to make another picture, extracontract. Miss Hepburn's answer was a quick exit from the country for Europe. . . . Clarence Darrow, eminent lawyer, whose retainers have been large and handsome, gets $25 a day as head of the National Recovery Board of Review. . . . ▼ The newsreel situation is very interesting and will get more so as the days get warmer, if they ever do. . . . Some of the talent contracts recently signed by Paramount would indicate star salaries are rising, not falling. . . . "What's a Hollywood scribe ?" was the question. "A Hollywood scribe is a writer who takes a germ of an idea and turns it into a disease," was the reply. . . . KANN Warners Change Title Hollywood, March 22. — Warners' "Rhythm in the Air" has been changed to "Twenty Million Sweethearts." M-G-M Rises 1 on Big Board High Low Close Columbia Pictures, vtc...; 26J^ 26J4 TffA Consolidated Film Industries 4 4 4 Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 15J4 1554 15^4 Eastman Kodak 8854 8754 8854 Fox Film "A" 1554 IS 15J4 Loew's, Inc 3254 30J4 32 M-G-M, pfd 24 24 24 Paramount, cts 55-6 454 5 Pathe Exchange 354 354 3J4 Pathe Exchange "A" ./ 1954 18^4 1954 RKO 354 354 PA Warner Bros 6Ys &A 6j£ Net Change % % + u + % + 54 + y* +i + 54 + 54 + 54 Trans Lux Up XA on Curb High Low Sentry Safety Control Yt H Trans Lux 2J4 2 Net Close Change Si 254 +54 Warner Bonds Gain Point High Low Close General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 %i 9 9$i General Theatre Equipment 6s '40, ctf 854 &Vi 854 Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights 9854 98 98 Paramount Broadway 554s '51 3254 3254 3254 Paramount Publix 554s '50 4954 4854 4954 Pathe 7s '37, ww 92 92 92 Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd 55 53J4 55 Net Change + Vf. 54 + 54 —m + 54 —1 +1 Sales 100 100 100 700 100 5,700 100 4,600 900 700 800 3,200 Sales 100 600 Sales 2 2 3 5 36 16 20 4 Purely Personal HOWARD S. CULLMAN is sent uled to appear before a Senj sub-committee in Washington today I testify on behalf of the Wagner-Le»T bill for employment insurance. Felix Feist, Ben RosenboI Harry H. Thomas, Louis Nizh Louis Phillips, Lee Ochs, Has Shiffman, Harry Brandt, Milk C. Weisman, David Blum, Mort> Spring, Joe Brandt and Eddie A person were M. P. Club luncheonit yesterday. Joel McCrea and the missFrances Dee, will be heard on Hollywood on the Air program o\ WEAF from the coast on Monday 9 P. M. Mike Simmons, former pr< agent, and now writer on the coa is in New York for the first ti since his trek to Hollywood. Evelyn Laye, Gaumont-Brit star, left for London yesterday on Berengaria after a five weeks' va tion in America. Al Scott, Colleen Moore's h band, is in town. Al Jolson will do a version "Emperor Jones" on the air shor| Billy Wilkerson is in town. British Benefit Set Plans are all set for the Me politan Opera House benefit of A ciated British Charities Sunday ni April IS. Talent lined up incl Walter Houston, Gladys Coo Dennis King, Ruth Etting, i Brothers, Boswell Sisters, Raym Massey, Adrienne Allen. Ar Tracy, Annette Hanshaw, E Boreo, Irene Taylor, the Westche Hill Billies, Chester Hale girls Lee Wilev. Pick "Thomas Month' First Division has decided to May "Harry Thomas Month" fo drive for new contracts and playdai Fourteen offices will participate i bonuses will be awarded for the i showing. Disney in Magazine Walt Disney's "Silly Symphon in color are being used as the b of full page illustrations for chile in "Good Housekeeping." The I of the series, out today, is "' Grasshopper and the Ants." Robert Harris West Robert Harris, Universal's easil production manager, departed for versal City yesterday by plane manuscripts to be considered for f^ ing. He expects to return by Monday or Tuesdav. Pickford Tour Resumi] Alary Pickford will resume her sonal appearance tour on March 3 | the Michigan Theatre in Detroit I condensed version of "The Chi I Mouse." On April 13 she will api| at the Earle in Philadelphia. Maurice Ostrer a FatH London, March 22. — Maurice trer, president of Gaulmont-Britisl ( the proud father of a son. fill