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

Exhibitors DAILY REVIEW and Motion Pictures TODAY, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1930 3 NEWS ASKEW By Lotta B. Loney Marion Davies’s golden beauty will be seen for the first time au naturel in the Technicolor scenes in “The Gay Nineties,” her new M-G-M starring picture . . . What: ! ! ! * » * The million cuckoo clocks are to be used for the exploitation of “The Cuckoos,” to be distributed among exhibitors throughout the country. Radio Pictures aims to make all America cuckoo-minded and to accomplish this they plan on having exhibitors place a cuckoo clock io every home. * * !!t “Butch” is Lon Chaney’s Newest pal. He is a large gray cat, who wandered in the star’s dressing room and made friends. Every day Chaney has scraps from the studio commissary placed in his room for his new pet, and “Butch” watches over the place like a watchdog. He even chased Lew Cody’s bulldog “Rookie” away from the place the other day. St. Charles Bickford, stage and screen actor, is perfectly in accord with any and all of the newfangled diets the doctors bring out, as long as they let folks eat oacon or ham. While the burly Bickford is working in a new marine melodrama, a big hog farm near Dover, Mass, is turning him out Alice profits. Bickford sold for the market last year over 4000 porkers. He has a farm of 88 acres. The average tenancy of which is 700 pigs. Ooh, what a lot of bologna. SILENT TRAILER FOR GARBO IN 1ST TALKIE National Screen Service has put out a silent trailer advertising Greta Garbo in “Anna Christie,” which opens today at the Capitol. The trailer is said to stimulate considerable business. “Anna Christie” is Greta’s first talkie and the exhibitors are tradng in on her standii g in the silents. ANNA RECOVERING LOS ANGELES, March 1.3— Anna Q. Nilsson, screen star, was reported nearing recovery today from the hip injury which has kept her in a hospital bed since she was thrown from a horse twenty-two months ago. of Philadelphia of Washington of New York. Albany and Buffalo ^*The Pride of ihe East Coast” The “Home Town Papers” of 4,600 theatre owners. The most intensively read jouinals in the industry — Keeping everlastingly at it for the 12th successive year. 100% coverage of a 35% territory! iMANUEL-GOODWIN PUBLICATIONS New York — Philadelphia — Washington dain Office, 219 N. BROAD ST., PHILA. PARAMOUNT WINS SUITS OVER STUDIO INSURANCE M.P. HEADS SEEK WOMENS’ OPINION LOS ANGELES, March 13— Woj men throughout the country are being asked to report on motion pictures which they think offend good taste, and to explain why they think so. Mrs. Thomas G. Winter was selected by motion picture producers to come to Hollywood as a representative of all organized women of the country. She seeks to harmonize ideas of the women and the producers as far as possible. Women pre-viewers, representing five large women’s organizations, see films before they are released as part of their plans. These women represent the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Parent-Teachers’ Association, the Interational Federation of Catholic Alumnae and the American Association of University Women. SUGK ANB BUBBLES COMEDY READY Buck and Bubbles are featured in Pathe’s “Honest Crooks,” released on thjg Fathe Short Subject Schedule for March 23. Other subjects on this program are Father Review No. 13, Pathe News No. 28 and No. 29, “Big Top Champions,” a Grantlaiid Rice Sound Sportlight; Talking Topics of the Day, Pathe Sound News No. 28 and No. 29, Pathe Audio Review No. 13, Pathe Disc Review No. 13 and Pathe Disc News No. 27. “LA MARSEILLAISE” TO OPEN AT “ROXY” “La Marseillaise,” Universal’s special with Laura La Plante and John Boles, will have its Broadway pre-release at the Roxy Theatre. The run will probably start the week of March 28. AWAIT MISS LILLIE Fox Movietone studios in Hollywood expect Beatrice Lillie to arrive tomorrow to begin work on her picture, “Are You There?” which David Butler will direct. HUGE THEATRE BOOM (Continued from page 1) and Berlin to confer with heads of the German sound film group and perhaps negotiate a settlement of the patent dispute between the Klangfilm-Tobis group and the Radio Corporation, Mr. Bucher announced an important change in his company’s European organization. Acting in concert with E. 0. Heyl, vice president of RCA Photophone, a deal has been closed in Paris whereby Pathe Cinemas will be the sales and service agents of RCA Photophone apparatus in France, Belgium and Switzerland. ^ LONDON HEARS M-G-M TO PRODUCE THERE LONDON, March 13 — The report that Arthur Loew of M-G-M will visit Europe, arriving in London about April 11, is confirmed by S. Eckman, Jr., managing director of Jury-Metro-Gold wyn in London. It is considered pi-obable in film circles that M-G-M will start production in Europe this year, making a large part of its foreign product here, and may possibly establish a studio in the South of France and draw on European capitals for talking film talent. PATHE COLOR BEAT (Continued from page 1) a company cl U. S. sailors headed by a tagbearer, whose colors are perfect in their reproduction, marching Into "ho camera Spotted at the end of the reel it brings a realism to the scene never before registered in a black and white reel. Pathe wants to use this natural color from now on in all sub; jects where the magnitude of a gathering, or costuming will make the scenes more impressive. A Fast Process For some time past this new process, owned by Pathe, and lgabw,j|^as “Pathe-Coloratura” has been' experimented with by Mr. Ramsaye' and his camera men and laboratory experts. Its coloring which is as natural as that in the majority of specials featuring natural color, is done with a camera that is as easily handled as a regular sound news outfit, and which needs no special filters or lenses to operate. The process requires the use of a special Pathe-Dupont negative stock, the emulsion of which acts as a filter in registering the values of red and green. In printing, special equipment is needed, which, however, enables a negative to be developed and a print to be obtained within three hours after the negative is received from tile cameraman in the field. It is this speed of processing, which can be made still faster, that has convinced Pathe executives of the practicability of using natural color “stories”, when the subject warrants it, in all reels in the near future. Orders for special processing equipment have been placed that will enable Patlie to include such subjects in its regular issues as fast as it can make up regular prints in black and white. “Pathe-Coloratura” is in no way similar in process to the “Pathe Chrome” methods of tinting film. SAN FRANCISCO, March 13 — United States District Attorney Judge Kerrigan has awarded the Paramount-Famous Lasky Corporation a judgment of $74,450 against three insurance companies for damages growing out of a studio fire January 16, 1929. The decision is of extreme importance, attorneys said, in the question of “binder” or “covering” notes given prior to issuance fo actual policies. The decision holds that these notes insure complete coverage from the moment they are issued, and are as operative as the policies. The fire broke out three hours after the notes had been signed. The judgments were for $29,780 each against the Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, and the Allied Underwriters of the Union Society of Canton and for $14,890 against the Commercial Union Assurance Company, Ltd., of London. REAL PRINCE PEEVED ('Continued from page 1) damages against the producers, Metro-Goldwyn. The case came before the Paris courts yesterday with Joseph Paul-Boncour, Socialist leader, representing the Prince and Henri Robert, representing the producers. The Prince’s counsel insisted no doubt was possible as to the actual identity of the country referred to in the film as “Montebianco,” the scenery used being absolutely typical of that in Montenegro. Royalty Aot Ruiiiiiiies The Prince particularly resented what was described as the offensive, ludicrous maimer in which he and other Princess were portrayed, notably in an episode in which the Prince dances on a table before collapsing, dead drunk. The defense claimed that the personages in the film were types, not copies, of individuals and that theatrical tradition justified the amiable, picturesque presentation of such types in Daiiubian principalities. The Court reserved judgment. AD-VANCE-AD “Wish to say that your trailer service lias been very satisfactory. A(I-Vaiiee trailers help our business a threat deal.” PLAZA THEATRE, BROOKFIELD, MO.