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 #:
000654
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 DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 March 26, 1934 No. 70 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN Editor JAMES A. CRON Advertising Manage) 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, 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 Malpassnti, 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. Garyn on Sales Trip W. P. ("Pat") Garyn, now identified with the United Newsreel Corp., left for a swing through the Middle West yesterday by auto. He plans to take in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Kansas City and St. Louis in the interest of "Broadway Gossip" and "The American Explorers" series. Kuykendall in St. Louis St. Louis, March 25. — Ed Kuykendall stopped over today en route from New York to Dallas. While here he conferred with Fred Wehrenberg and members of his M.P.T.O. unit in regard to the code and annual convention of the national organization. MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1954-35 NOW /A/ PMPA/iA T/OAf WHERE THE WORLD LOOKS FOR. MOTION PICTURE PRICt fact* MOTION PICTURE DAILY Monday, March 26. 193" IT was made and released as "Fashions of 1934." Then Warners did some inserting and the monicker became "Fashion Follies of 1934." Fox, with much invested in and much anticipated from its own "Fox Movietone Follies," objected through a Hays board of mediation and won out. "Follies" came out of the Warner picture, but "Frolics" went in. Fox publicized that case and advertised change of its "Follies" to "Stand Up and Cheer," hoping, no doubt, audiences will do just that. . . . T Nothing, however, has been said about another case of title similarity. Fox bought "Music in the Air," a successful Broadway musical, at a price lurking around the $50,000 mark. Fact that Warners are bouncing through with an opus called "Rhythm in the Air" made Fox no likee the idea and precipitated another protest to the Hays organization. Innocuous enough and sans any explanation comes the Warner change now to "Twenty Million Sweethearts." Maybe tying in with these two incidents, maybe not, is the understanding Fox1 either won't sell the Warner circuit next year or Warner won't buy. . . . T Row over the proposed code hearings in Washington today before the National Recovery Board of Review is no particular surprise. Campi — Code Authorit)' of the M. P. Industry to von — hadn't been notified by thp NRA of any specific cases of complaint scheduled to come un today. . . . House ad : Biogs of code board appointees, as per serial publication in Motion Picture Daily, are being filed regularly and carefully by Division Administrator Rosenblatt's staff in Washington. Ditto, by Campi in New York. . . . T Mort Shea still has a finger in the operating pie which is the Paramount, Brooklyn. The house officially is being managed by Extension Theatre Corp., of which Shea is president. However, Paramount is booking stage shows. Bill Raynor, as you may have noticed, has not been moved in all the talk of the house going back to Para. . . . Warners can keep the Shubert Rialto in St. Louis for 15 years if they like. They can also drop out in less than that many months if the squabble over the Ambassador, Missouri and Grand Central gets straightened out. It's that kind of a lease. . . . T Metro is chewing fingernails, it's so excited over releases in the immediate offing. Down there, they point with pride and no pardon to "Riptide." "Viva Villa." set for the Criterion soon at advanced prices : "Men in White." "Sadie McKee," "Tarzan and His Mate" and "Hollywood Party" as springtime revival hop for exhibitors. . . . Hostilities cracking on several fronts between RKO and Walter Reade are intensifying around the Lincoln theatre in Trenton. Bonds, leaseholds and the rest of it make up the ammunition. . . . ▼ Funny business at lunch the other day was the playful suggestion of Grad Sears that a checking organization to check checkers be formed. Warning Lou Metzger. now a first run operator in San Diego and constantly reminded of it by his former confreres in distribution in New York, that two checkers were being designated to accurately clock the Spreckels, Lou replied: (Continued on page 6) Pathe "A" Off i/2 on Big Board High 2634 Columbia Pictures, vtc Consolidated Film Industries Consolidated Film Industries, pfd \(,i/2 Eastman Kodak go' ~ "Fox Film "A" 1514 Loew's. Inc 3354 90 Loew's. Inc.. pfd Paramount, cts Pathe Exchange 314 Pathe Exchange "A" 10'^ *K° 3K Warner Bros est Low 2654 454 16 8854 155* 32 90 434 35* 1634 Close 2654 4'A 165* 89 155* 325* 90 454 35* IS 3*A 654 Net Change + 54 +1 + 5* + 3* 5* 54 + 54 Technicolor Up on Curb Teclinicolor g., High Low Close 8*4 Pathe Bonds Up % High General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 934 Loew's 6s Ml, ww deb rights 9854 Paramount Broadway 554s, '51 34 Pathe 7s '37, ww 9254 Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd 55J4 Low 9^ 9854 33^ 9254 5454 834 Close 934 9854 34 92?4 5454 Net Change + 54 Net Change + 54 +134 + 34 Sales 100 700 800 300 400 2.100 100 800 3,100 3.800 400 2.200 Sales 100 Sales 10 2 2 1 3 ' You've never seen anything like it j j before! It has the stamp of true , greatness! Frank Borzagc's "NO » I GREATER GLORY," based on | I Ferenc Molnar's world famous . I novel. Columbia took two great stars and made them greater stars! Hundreds of critics agreed on one fact — CLARK GABLE andCLAUDETTE COLBERT in Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night," were never better! The screen's greatest star in the screen's greatest comedy triumph! JOHN BARRYMORE in "20th Century," with Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly and Roscoe Karns. Screen play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. A Howard Hawks production. J ii