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

6 Exhibitors DAILY REVIEW and Motion Pictures TODAY, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1930 FRISCO THEATRE OWNERS PRESS . FIGHT WITH MUSICIANS’ UNION ❖ — SAN FRANCISCO, May 14— That the ruling of the District Court of Appeals is not accepted a settling the legal battle between the Musicians’ Union and San Francisco theatre owners is declared by Nat Schmulowitz, representing Nasser Brothers and other owners in the San Francisco Bay area. Schmulowitz says that the fight is just beginning. He has filed a petition for a rehearsing on the ruling that the Union is entitled to a hearing in court on its convention that the theatre owners violated the terms of a two year contract with them when the services of musicians were no longer needed because of the perfection of sound devices. The fight between the musicians and theatre owners, while centering in San Francisco, is national in scope. Schmulowitz said that, if necessary, his olients would take their case to the United States supreme court. H. S. BROWN WINS, NOW RKO GOLF CHAMP Hiram S. Brown, by defeating James H. Turner in the final round in the first flight of the RKO Golf Tournament, was awarded the championship trophy. The annual tournament of the RKO Golf Club was held at the WestchesterBiltmore Club at Rye on Thursday and Friday, with forty contestant divided into five flights. The winner of the other trophies in the various divisions were Joseph I. Schnitzer, Frank O’Brien, Jesse Freeman, Harry Fitzgerald, Jeff Davis, Louis Moseley, Jack Dempsey and B. B. Kahane. FOX AND WARNERS BORROW LEW AYRES Although Lew Ayres, featured In “All Quiet on the Western Front’’, has been signed tor a lead with Warner Bros., it will not interfere with his recentlysigned five-year contract with Universal. Ayres has also been borrowed from Universal by Fox Films for the lead in “Common Clay,” following completion of his Warner role. He will start work after these on “St. Johnson” for Universal, the first of his starring pictures for the latter company. GERMAN EDITOR LAUDS “LOST ZEPPELIN’’ High praise for the synchronization in Tiffany’s all-talking special, “The Lost Zeppelin,” is contained in a cable to the Tiffany home office from H. Oswald, Editor of the German daily film paper, Lichtbildbuhne. Mr. Oswald’s message read: “Congratulations. ‘Lost Zeppa!in’ so ffh.r best synchronization.” DOT KNAPP’S CURVES FOR GOLDWYN FILM Dorothy Knapp, star of several Earl Carroll extravaganzas and one of America’s most famous beauties, was signed yesterday by Samuel Goldwyn as the Indian Princess in “Whoopee.” IS ZAT SOI Marion Talley, former opera star, will go into talkies, warble from movie and vaudeville houses, and do other tricks for $10,000 a week. So said Gene Dennis, “the girl who remembers the futnre” yesterday. Not only that, but the erudite N. Y. Evening Post printed it on page one. GERMAN ACTORS HERE FOR M-G-M’S “OLYMPIA” The five German actors and actresses arriving in New York aboard the Europe Monday left for Los Angeles yesterday afternoon. At the coast they will appear in the all-dialogue German adaptation of Molnar’s “Olympia,” which will be produced by Metro-Goldw’yn-Mayer. These players are Nora Gregor, star of Reinhardt’s Vienna company; Hans Junkerman and his wife; Eugene von Jordan and Karl Ettlinger. All of them are prominent on German and central European stages. M-G-M is making a French as well as German adaptation of “Olympia.” “DU BARRY,” NORMA TALMADGE’S NEXT “Du Barry, Woman of Passion” is the title of Norma Talmadge’s next all-talking picture for United Artists. Hitherto identified variously as “Flame of the Flesh” and “’Deception”, the film has in its cast Conrad Nagel, William Farnum, Ullrich Haupt, Hobart Bosworth, Allison Skipworth, Blanche Friderici, and Cissy Fitzgerald. FOX BUILDING 16 IN NORTHWEST SECTION SEATTLE, May 14— At a meeting of West Coast theatre managers at which Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho were represented, Howard Sheehan, vice president, reported the company’s plans to build during the coming year about sixteen new houses in the Pacific Northwest territory. Three of the houses on this list are now under construction in Spokane, Centralia and Wenatchee, and another Fox theatre in this city is among the probabilities. LEVINE WILL MAKE 4 TALKIE SERIALS Nat Levine, head of Mascot Pictures, and prominent among independent producers, will make four talking serials during 'the next season. Levine believes the talkies have not injured the popularity of serials in the least. ALICE WHITE’S SUPPORT The complete cast of “The Widow from Chicago,” Alice White’s starring picture which is now in production at the First National Studios, comprises Miss White, Neil Hamilton, Edward G. Robinson, Frank McHugh, Lee Shumway, Brooks Benedict, John Elliott, Dorothy Mathews, Ann Cornwall, E. H. Calvert and Betty Francisco. ENDORSED BY MPPDA Ten feature length Vitaphone productions pre-viewed by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, have been endorsed as suitable for showing to any type of audience. GORDON STILES KILLED MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., May 14— Gordon Stiles of Bellvale, N. Y. magazine writer, and Hortense Pellew of Warwick, were almost instantly killed when the coupe which Stiles was driving left the highway on a curve and crashed against a tree. After the war Stiles was Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. Upon retiring from that post he returned to the United States and was for a time associated with the Fox Films Corporation in New York City. Retiring from this work he devoted himself to magazine writing. EQUITY’S NEW MOVE (Continued from page 1) dent of Equity, stated last night that any definite announcement of further plans would be premature at the present time, he admitted that “something about Hollywood may be said at our next meeting.” Gillmore, when ordering Equity’s retreat frOm California last August, said that the association had not abandoned its attempts to establish itself in the film Industry, but had merely declared an armistice. Ask The Man Who Plays Themi We Want More! SCREEN SNAPSHOTS No. 4 (One Reel Columbia.) Everyone liked this. Recording fine and natural. We want more of these. Sun., yes. Film, good. — A. C. Russell, Iris Theatre. Velva, N. D. toons. Recording on disc good. Parkside theatre, Clinton, la. Darn Good Short MY WIFE, 1. — Darn good short, one reel. Plenty laughs on this one. A little song helps out in this one. (J. B. Carter, Orpheum Theatre, Grenora, N. D.) SKEIPETON DANCE, 1. — A knockout. Try these “Silly Symphonies.” (.V. F. Botsford, Royal theatre, Ainsworth, Neb.) They Get a Kick KRAZY K.\T COMEDIES* 1 — “Canned Music.” Our patrons get quite a kick out of these sound car We Are Sitting Jake SKELETON DANCE. — This is our first of the “Silly Symphonies" and if the rest are as good we are sitting jake, this little thing only about 500 feet had more laughs than any two reel comdey we ever saw. sure good and the sound perfectly. C. A. Spainhour, Twilight theatre, Greensburg, Kan.