Exhibitors Daily Review and Motion Pictures Today (Jul-Dec 1930)

H R. DAI LY^RE V I EW M O T I O PICTURES ir Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. — Formerly Exhibitors Trade Review V€L. 2S NC. 89 NEW rccr, TLlEXEAr, CCTCBEK 14, 193C TEN CENTT Prepare for a Sensation! A RECENT survey of the mo' tion picture theatres of the United States demonstrated the heavy preponderance of indepen^ dent or unafEliated houses over the theatres included in the circuits, and farther evidenced the falsity of the year’s old legend of monopoly. « * • The monopoly story began when the old Patents Com' pany entertained the idea that it had the picture industry by the neck. Then came the pay'off on that situation and the Patents Company dissolved in the mists and was gone. « * * rpHE next monopoly story ar' rived when producers and distributors began to acquire the' atres. The basic reason was a determined effort to avoid a hold'' up and lock'out policy foolishly entered into by an exhibitor minority. Once they began to buy theatres they began to like the idea, but with all their pur' chases they never approached a thirty percent ownership or ci'H' trol, near or remote of the the' atres of the country. * * * ^T^HEN blossomed the story of the Monopoly and Domina' tion by the Electrics. The sound device groups were to swallow up the art and industry and all would be in tune with a mechani' cal age. We are not concerned with the ambitions, real or rumor^ ed, of any group or combination in this regard because only yeS' terday we saw a new recording and reproducing device that is so amazing, so overwhelming in its character, quality and scope, that it will make any sound monopoly (Continued on page 2) KATZ CITES HOOVER SPEECH AS POINTING REASON FOR INDUSTRY TO RE OPTIMISTIC HARTFORD MAJESTIC WINS “RESTRAINT” PRODUCER SUIT HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 13.— Judge Warren Burroughs of the United States District Court has; tiled his opinion upholding the restraint of trade charge in the suit of the Majestic Theatre against the Pox Corporation, the United Artists Corporation, the Vitagraph (Continued on page 2) BRUNET RETURNS FROM EUROPEAN TOUR Henry P. Brunet, manager of exchange operations, returned this week from a two months tour of Columbia’s European offices where he adapted to foreign use, the accounting and distributing system used by the company in America. Brunet’s visit to London, Paris and Berlin to install the company’s systems was brought about through the rapid expansion of Columbia Pictures in foreign fields. Publix Executive Asserts Para’s Organization Has Divested Itself of All Superficialities and Accentuates Fact That Company Sees Only Bright Future Ahead CLARA BOW ON WAY A large consignment of Hollywood talent under contract to Paramount is now en route to the East. Clara Bow and Stuart Erwin are aboard a train taking them to New York, where they are to appear in Manhattan scenes (Continued on page 2) TALKIES 00 DEMOCRATIC The Democratic campaign manag'ers are using tile talking picture to a wide extent tliis year. The organization has several sound equipped trucks which are playing short stands all over the city every evening, showing sound pictures of various candidates presenting their political issues to whomever is within the range of the loud speakers. ’’v" Sam Katz, Paramount-Publix executive, sees encouragement in President Hoover’s address, made recently, at the American Bankers’ meeting in Cleveland. Katz said: “In the addresses made by Tresident Hoover before the American Bankers’ Association and the American Federation of Labor, he presented the reasons and facts of world and national economics as they exist today. From the facts he offered, the conclusion is that is every reason for optimism. Especially is this time in Publix. “What has happened is that from a tempo of over-expansion and over production, the world is assuming the steady, progressive pace of normalcy. Just as the (Continued on page 10) PUBLIX WILL OPEN 27 THEATRES BETWEEN NOW AND XMAS HOLIDAYS COLLEEN MOORE OFF ON STAGE TOUR Colleen Moore has gone on the road with a legitimate play, “On the Loose,” produced under the direction of Arch Selwyn. Colleen plays the role of an entertainer who wants to get away from it all and finds her escape in a romance with a rich youth. WORK UNDERWAY ON AMUSEMENT CENTER Work on the huge RCA-Rockefeller amusement center in the area bounded by Fifth and Sixth Aves., and Forty-eighth and Fiftyfirst Sts., is well under way. Wrecking crews are exceptionally busy razing buildings in the territory and to date about forty oldfashioned private homes have been (Continued on page 7) SINGER SUES PATHE HOLLYWOOD BUREAU.— Mary Lewis, opera star, has filed suit for $22,.‘i00 against Pathe, claiming that the company, after paying her $2,500 on her sound recorded picture contract df la‘st spring, has refused to go ahead with the making of the film. B. B. Buchanan, of ParamountPublix construction department, announces that between now and the Christmas Holidays, 27 theatres now under construction for Publix will be in operation. The current month will find two openings — Arcadia, in Enid, Okla., which opened Friday, last; Oriental, Mattapan. Openings of a Paramount in Nashville, Tenn., and Lynchburg, Va., are tentatively set for Nov. 15, and of the Paramount in Helena, Ark., for Dec. 24. Of theatres under construction (Continued on page 6) EARLE THEATRE TESTS VAUDEVILLE ACTS Tiiree and four-unit acts of vaudeville are being featured at Warner Bros. Earle Theatre, Washington, D. C., in conjunction with the regular Vitaphone specials shown. This is an innova (Continued on page 6)