Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures Today (Jan-Jun 1930)

Reg. U. S. Pat. OfT. — Formerly Exhibitors Trade Review VCL. 27 NC. 13 NEW rCCE, TEERSEAT, JANEACT 16, 1936 TEN CENT! SECURITIES CORP. FINANCES FOX A SENATOR’S ODD POSITION By II II NOW that it has been estab' Hshed by the law firm which I represents Ivan Abramson that Senator Brookhart is not only in the litigation against the producers of the motion picture industry but j that he heads the list of trial r lawyers in the case, a few ques' i tions naturally spring to the minds II of the observant. ii * » « j OEANTOR Brookhart has for = several years been fonxenting ;; and promoting legislaiton against i! the motion picture industry. Even f at the present time he is trying f to put the yoke of federal control i; on its neck. He is the author of the ingenious bill which makes wholesaling illegal and in various other ways, he has sought to harass and hamper the progress of the business, cloaking his activi' ties as something for the public good. • • • ("^AN a public servant litigate and legislate at one and the (Continued on page 2) WOMAH FOUND DEAD IN DIRECTOR’S HOME A negro maid found the body of Mrs. Harriet Adler, a woman of 38, in the penthouse apartment of Dudley Murphy, Paramount motion picture director, at 18 East Fortyfirst Street at 9:40 o’clock yesterday morning. She had apparently been choked to death by her pearl necklace. Mr. Murphy said the woman had come to his apartment in a state of intoxication while he was at the theatre. She refused to leave and was permitted to remain in the living room. ❖ WESTERN NOW HAS 4466 INSTALLATIONS World wide installations of Western Electric Sound Systems total 4466. Of this number 3322 are in the United States and 1144 in the foreign field. Fortyfour foreign countries are represented in the list of foreign installations. Jules Brulatour Elected Head of Company Floating ^35,000,000 Notes Protected by ^70,000,000 Collateral From Film Corporation With the organization of the Fox Securities Corporation, William Fox is in the clear and his pressing financial difficulties are at an end. The Fox Securities Cori)oration has been organized to sell $35,000,000 in notes. This money is to be loaned to the Fox Film Corporation, and the Securities company will receive from the Fox Film Corporation, collateral in the form of securities at the rate of two for one, or in total $70,000,000. New Chemical Turns Out Better and Cheaper Discs <■ The picture industry is directly interested in the discovery of a new chemical composition announced yesterday by Dr. Hal T. Beans, professor of chemistry at Columbia University. It is called “durium”, and a thin film of it is described as so hard it cannot be scratched and “can scarcely be broken with an ordinary hammer, while being almost as flexible as a piece of paper.’’ The picture discs and phonograph records made of the new substance are as light as cardboard, flexible, more durable and easier to handle than the old type, and much cheaper. It is stated that a group of well 'known financiers have paid over LOS ANGELES WOULD PADLOCK THEATRES LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 — The Police Commission here has proposed an ordinance which if adopted by the City Council will place all theatres under police control and permit the commission to padlock any theatre giving exhibitions which it considers indecent or immoral. Action on the proposed measure is expected. $1,000,000 for an interest in the corporation which will commercialize the discovery. In the world of music, three celebrated figures — Eddie Cantor, Florenz Ziegfeld (Continued on page 2) FIRST NAT’L BUYS HERBERT OPERAS The screen rights to the late Victor Herbert’s light operas, “The Fortune Teller” and “Mademoiselle Modiste” have been purchased by First National. The productions, recently revived at the Jolson theatre, will be made into sound films. Ufa officials yesterday confirmed a report that six Ufatone productions have just been shipped from the German studios and are due to reach here some time next week. They make up the first group of talking pictures made in Germany by Ufa, being preceded only by a recent shipment of shorts. The productions now on the way to America are: “Blue Angel”, an Emil Jannings production directed (Continued on page 2) -Y* Jules Brulatour was elected President and director of the Fox Securities Company at a meeting on Monday, and David Brown, of the Broadway Bank, was elected treasurer. As Brulatour is going out of the country very soon, he tendered his resignation yesterday as president of the new corporation, but stated that he was enthusiastically in favor of the plan, and his suc (Continued on page 2) WILLIAM SISTROM GOES WITH RADIO William Sistrom, for five years ranking executive with the Metropolitan Studios, Cecil B. DeMille and Pathe, signed a contract by which he becomes an associate producer at the Radio Pictures Studios. BIG PROFIT GAIN REPORTED BY LOEW Loew’s, Incorporated reports a net profit for tlie twelve weeks ended Nov. 22, 1929, of $3,151,954. This is an increase of $1,049,921 over the net profits for the same period of 1928. Operating profits of the corporation, before depreciation and taxes totaling $1,008,789, were $4,240,743 for the twelve weeks last year, as compared with operating profit of $2,997,276 for the same period of 1928. First German Talkies On Way to America »