Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Thursday, March 29, 1934 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 March 29, 1934 No. 73 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 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 Hevcsi, 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. Texas Border Show Planned for MPTO A El Paso, _ March 28— A Texas border reception is to be given to M. P. T. O. A. delegates on their way to the coast convention when their special trains converge on this city Sunday, April 8. John Paxton, manager of the Plaza, is chairman of the reception committee and exhibitors are getting together in an effort to put on a real show. Arrangements are being made for the visitors to cross the border into Juarez on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, as the trains will stop here for more than two hours. St. Louis MPTO to Pick Its Delegates St. Louis, March 28. — Delegates to the M. P. T. O. A. convention in Los Angeles will be chosen tomorrow at a meeting of the M. P. T. O. of St. Louis, Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois at the Fox projection room. Fred Wehrenberg will preside. Working of the grievance and zoning and clearance boards will also be discussed. Personnel of Jhe boards is satisfactory to the M. P. T. O. unit here. BEN BLUE Under Contract WARNER BROS. VITAPHONE STUDIO Now Making Personal Appearances in England Direction of JOE RIVKIN — Leo Morrison Agency See Tri-State Meet as Guide To the MPTO A (Continued from page 1) threat of censorship and other industrial problems will be thrashed out, with a view to national action later. Much of the work to be done at the national board meeting will probably be outlined here in private conferences. Ed Kuykendall, national president; M. A. Lightman, tri-state president and former M.P.T.O.A. president ; Dave Palfreyman, contact man for the Hays organization, will do considerable conferring outside the regular meeting. Palfreyman and Kuykendall have agreed to speak. Invitations have also been extended to Sol Rosenblatt and Red Kann, Motion Picture Daily editor. Rosenblatt has said he may come. Kann has accepted. Sunday will be devoted almost entirely to screenings of new product at the Strand and Linden Circle. Vice-Mayor Cliff Davis will welcome the visitors Monday morning at the Chisca. The convention will close with the annual banquet Monday night. That exhibitors are taking an interest in what is going on in the industry as never before is clearly indicated by the fact that the tri-state M.P.T.O. has more paid-up members today than has been the case in several years, despite a custom that most members do not pay their dues until arrival here for the convention. Many members of the newly-formed Independent Theatre Owners of Arkansas will also attend. Wisconsin's MPTO Selects Delegates Milwaukee, March 28. — Fred S. Meyer, president of the M.P.T.O. of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, Inc., and W. L. Ainsworth, Fond du Lac, secretary of the association, have been picked as delegates-at-large to the M.P.T.O.A. convention. Delegates named include B. K. Fischer, R. J. Baldwin, Bernhard Lassack, C. W. Trampe and D. E. Weshner, all of Milwaukee. Meyer has also been named as a member of the national board by the local unit. One of the problems to be pre sented to the convention by the delegation is the matter of walkathons. This form of entertainment has raised considerable havoc in this territory but has been brought under control by the passage of ordinances prohibiting them in practically all of the leading cities in the state. Texas Association Joins with MPTO A Dallas, March 28. — Affiliation with the M. P. T. O. A. has been voted by the Theatre Owners' Protective Ass'n. of Texas. Ed Kuyken dall suggested the move. Kuykendall urged the members to use common sense in solving the buyer-seller problems of the industry and promised as much help in Washington as possible for those who deserve it, but not for the over-buyer or contract welcher. The association went on record against score charges, the Patman bill, indecent pictures, indecent spots in pictures, and declared that stars had no right to behave in a way to bring discredit to the industry. Block buying and percentage deals are characterized as "the big evils" of the day. Carolinas to Have 15 at MPTO A Meet Charlotte, March 28. — The North and South Carolina branch of M. P. T. O. A. is planning to have about 15 representatives at the coast convention. A special Pullman has been chartered to leave Charlotte April 5. Those who have already made reservations are H. R. Barry, Hartsville, S. C. ; M. F. Schniffe. Florence, S. C. ; Alfred Sottile, Charleston, S. C. : S. W. Craver, Charlotte : Frank Falls, Danville, Va. ; Frank Bennvhfield, Charlotte: T. A. Little, Raleigh; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Griffith, Charlotte; J. E. Simpson, Gastonia; H. V. Wynne, Greenville ; H. H. Anderson, Cheraw, S. C. ; Charles W. Picquet, Pinehurst ; H. F. Kincey, Charlotte. It is expected several other members of the association will also make the trip. Takes Warner House Hollywood, March 28. — Ben Berinstein is taking over the lease on Warners' Western, deluxe neighborhood, and will establish a double feature policy. The house reopens within 10 days after being dark 10 months. Trading Light on Big Board High Low Close Columbia Pictures, vtc 26% 2654 2654 Consolidated Film Industries 4*A 4lA 4'A Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 1534 1534 1534 Eastman Kodak 86 8534 86 Fox Film "A" 1436 143s 1436 Loew's, Inc 313-6 3034 31% Paramount, cts 434 436 Pathe Exchange 3 2^ 3 Pathe Exchange "A" 17*6 17'A 17'/4 RKO 356 3 3 Warner Bros 636 656 654 Technicolor Up % on Curb High Low Close Sentry Safety Control 36 36 36 Technicolor 854 8 8 Warner Bonds Off V2 High Low Close General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 834 8'/2 834 Keith B. F. 6s '46 6436 6436 6436 Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights 9854 98 9854 Paramount Publix S'/Ss '50 4936 49 4936 Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd 5334 53 5355 Net Change Sales + 36 100 + 56 200 + 54 100 700 100 + 36 1,400 1,700 + 56 1,400 800 — 56 300 + 56 2,000 Net Change + 36 Net Change 54 + 54 + 'A + 36 55 Sales 100 700 Sales 4 1 1 4 17 i Purely Personal ► TACK COHN, Nat Spingold, Abe «J Montague, Nat Cohn, Phil Reisman, Howard Dietz, Davil Loew, David Blum, Mort Spring, Ben Sherman, Jack Steinman, Jim Ryan, Gabriel Hess, Louis Phillips and Edward Davidow were among those at the M. P. Club yesterday. Bernard Gottlieb, head of the MG-M branch in Mexico, arrived yesterday for a short stay. Ruth Channing, M-G-M player, is in from the coast and leaves tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Jean Hersholt anc their son, Allen, check out of the Warwick for the coast today. S. Charles Einfeld leaves tomor row for a visit to the Warner coast studios. Paul Whiteman will start week's engagement at the Capitol tomorrow. Polly Moran is slated to leave for Hollywood tomorrow. Harry Buxbaum leaves for Florida today for a brief vacation. Sylvia Dorlen of Motion Pictun Herald tonight weds Sol Barsky. Wampas Winners Hollywood, March 28. — Judith Ar len, Betty Bryson, Jean Carmen Dorothy Drake, Jean Gale, Haze Hayes, Ann Hovey, Lucille Lund, Li Ann Meredith, Gigi Parrish, Jacque line Wells, Katherine Williams anc Helene Cohan were the winners toda; in the Wampas polling on baby stare Elected alternates were Jean Chatburr Dorothy Grainger, Neoma Judge Leonore Keefe, Mary Kornman an Irene Ware. Diamond on Way East Hollywood, March 28. — Lou Dia mond was eastbound tonight to line ul talent for Paramount's "The Bil Broadcast of 1934." Radio is alsj planning a picture containing big radi| names, with M. H. Aylesworth har dling arrangements in the east an| Pandro Berman on this end. MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1954-35 NOW/A/ PACPA/iA T/OM WHERE THE WORLD LOOKS FOR MOTION PICTURE ■ ICS fact*