Exhibitors Daily Review (Jul-Dec 1928)

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Wisconsin Exhibitor Threatens Suit on "Lilac Time" DAIW-^fVIEW Keg L. v Put. oil. — i out in in nu I A liiliiiurs Trade Review Devoted to the fostering and developing of the Motion Picture Industry. VOL. 24 No. 110 .Vow York, Monday, November 12, 102H I l\ I. CENTS Monday A.M. By ARTHUR JAMES Good old New Jersey has come out of the bal cellars of superstition and has kicked intolerance where the kicking would do the most good. It now is no crime to run or to see motion pictures On Sunday. With all the blue laws and the blue nose statutes on the books how was this miracle accomplished} By the sane processes of a grand jury which gave the blue laws full consideration and examination and then decided that changing conditions had rendered the old time laws obsolete. • • • One Isidore Segal of Newark insisted on keeping his motion picture theatre In Koselle Park open on Sundays. Twice he was fined a dollar and on the third violation was held for the grand jury. This body refused to indict and in its presentment asked that the matter be brought to the attention of the legislature and the governor for permanent remedial action. • * * In this presentment the grand jury set forth: "These places of business, amusement and recreation, could not be operated on Sundays unless there was a demand for and patronage of them, due, we believe, to the wishes of a large proportion of our people. Under these conditions we do not deem it wise or proper to vote indictments against hundreds of our citizens or to discriminate against some in favor of others, but rather deem it our duty to present this matter to the court and public and especially to the Legislature of this State." And the presentment added that it Mas not believed that non-observance of some of the laws is due to any desire on the part of persons to violate the law but rather to a change in the conditions and customs which make present law governing moral life on the Sabbath more or less obsolete. • • • This indeed is progress along the lines of sanity and intelligence! EXHIBITORS IN ARMS AGAINST TALKIES STRANGULATION Synchronizing Devices and How They Line Up for Installation MovietoneVitaphone (VV.E.) As rapidly as possible. Present rate (Film and Disc Systems) about 20 installations per week, but are giving no guarantees of delivery in less than 6 months. RCA Fhotophone Several already installed, but not (Film and Disc System) prepared to talk immediate or quantity delivery, although rapidly getting under way. Sonora-Bristolphone Available immediately upon accep (Disc System) tance of order. Installation imme diate, depending on length of time necessary to wire house. Biophone Taking orders immediately. Instal (Disc System) lation within 30 days after accept ance of order. Cinephone Immediate delivery. Installation in (Film and Disc System) side theatre guaranteed within 30 days after order. Fhototoiie Won't be in position to deliver, until (Disc System) receipt of first batch of machines. within week or two. Phonofilm -Initial installations will be completed (Film and Disc System) about November 25. Han-A-Phone About 110 machines already instal (Disc System) led throughout country. Accepting all orders. Filmtoiie Taking orders immediately and deli (Disc System) very within 4 weeks. Film subjects also available immediately. Kathanson Keeltone Taking orders immediately. Delivery and installations within one week. M-G-M Puts O.K. on Bristolphone ratus for "White Shadows" Appai REICHENBACH SIGNS LONG-TERM 'U' CONTRACT -O Harry Reichenbach on Saturday became a permanency at Universal Pictures Corporation. On September 20th he was engaged for eight weeks to preside over the publicity destinies of the new policy at the Colony Theatre. On Saturday, Reichenbach signed a long time contract to stay with the Universal and to relinquish the other publicity enterprises in which he has for a number of years been engaged. (Continued on pae« 2) llj SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT "White Shadows of the South Seas" a Metro-Goldwyn Mayer production opened at the Strand Theatre. Madison. Wis.. Friday night, perfectly synchronized by means of a Sonora-Bristolphone machine, and opened to the greatest business ever known in the history of Madison. It might be recalled that this M-G-M production was recorded by the Victor Talking Machine Company who holds a recording lease through Western Electric, it should be mentioned also that it is understood that W. E. frowns upon its licensee's issuing discs on one of their re(Onntinued on pace 4) In Desperate Straights Theatre Owners Sponsor Interchange Tests Exhibitors throughout the country are in a panic regarding sound. Those that have their houses equipped are doing business or they are not doing it. Some theatres are standing them out, other doing fair and still some not making expenses. The exhibitor that has no equipment is attributing his bad business, if this is the case, to his inability to get sound in his theatre and finds that, in the case of Western Electric, It will take from six to eight months to get an installation. They figure, business or no business, in order to get the full benefits of pictures being made today, for today and tomorrow, they have to have a sound apparatus in their houses, for every producer of any note is only thinking in sound. True, they are advertising pictures both sound and silent, but the further they go, the more concentrated they become on the talking idea solely. Their story purchases are made with a "talkie" in view and maybe the picture done silently will not be so good, even if they do (Continued on page 2) P-F-L SEMI-ANNUAL SALES MEET TODAY Paramount home office executives, district and branch managers start a four day sales conference today at the Paramount home office, for the purpose of checking up on activities during the first half of the film year and formulating sales policies for the balance of the 1928-29 season. Visiting executives are staying at the Paramount Hotel, New York City, About T."i persons are in attendance. "Awakening" Has Coast Opening "The Awakening", Vilma Banky's first individual starring picture for Samuel Goldwyn, opened last night at the Tnited Artists Theatre, Los Angeles. "The Awakening" is expected to come to New York around tlie first of December.