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

Exhibitors DAILY REVIEW and Motion Pictures TODAY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1930 DAI LY^RE V I E W MOTION PICTURES TO DAY Reg. U. S. Rat. Otf. Published Daily Except Sunday Vol. 28 November 21, 1930 No. 121 ARTHUR JAMES, Editor and Publisher JAMES A. CRON, General Manager LEONARD MITCHILL, News Editor Executive and Editorial Offices, 25 West 43rd Street, New York, Telephone Bryant 5 224. West Coast Manager, Ray Murray, 1738 Garfield Place, Hollywood, California, Telephone 4673 Hempstead. London office and correspondent: Samuel Harris. "The Cinema", 80 Wardour Street, London, W. 1, Entered as second class matter January 4th, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N, Y, under Act of March 3, 1879. Published and copyright by Picture Publishers, Inc. Printed by Cline Printing Cotp., New York. Subscription rates including postage pet year. United States and Canada, $10; Foreign, $15; single copies, 10c, MpMEET Truman Talley, the big Fox Movietone shot, is due in these parts Sat. from the other side * * Hy Daah and Hiram Brown are on a rattler coming this way from sunny Calif. * * * AMPA luncheon yest was overflowing * * a big atl man at Ye Ed’s left remarked * * Harry Relchenbach is good box-office * * * Buddy Rogers is back * * *with his saxaphone * * * Matt Taylor who use to review empies with the old gang hit the Big Stem yest. * * * .Matt is knocking out talkers * * * Art Hoerl who p.a.’d Herb Brenon way back when Herb inegaplioned The Pall of the Romanoffs is headed west * * * Art, between talkers knocks out serials * * * Fred Ylctonnell, that high-powered sales manager of U. shorts, hit it off yest for the Bible Belt * * * first stop the Smoky City * * * Eddie (A.Y. Paramount) Hitchcock is glad Buddy Rogers is back * * * he can start another campaign to eliminate Buddy as a monicker * ♦ * Hell’s Angels runs on like that w.k, brook * * « Dick Cromwell that big Tol’able David boy hit the Big Stem yest, * * * Dick is disgustingly youthful * * * wonder where his coonskin coat jg * * * still want to know whatever became of Trader Horn * * * don’t the newsreelers shoot that Ethiopian Lindy who got the razz at King Whatyoumaycallit’s coronation * * * wonder why the movie palace magnates don’t tune in on Western Union and have ’em handle long run, seats * * see what Irving Berlin’s ))a-in-law is doin’ for the legit * * * * did you know Mack iSennett was going to slioot Bebe Daniels on his return to Calif * * * Bebe, by the bye, started her fillum career as one of Mack’s original bathing girls * * * Ed Hatrick is back among us * * Ed may ex plode one of those hot industrial news bombs any day now * * * that’s one of those stories we promised you a day or so back * sin has taken a holiday * * * gfufdy, goody, goody * * * whatever became of the states rights market * * * Harold Lloyd lost his legal tiff with H. C. YVitwer’s estate * ♦ ♦ SEEN AND HEARD IN DARK PLACES Bathe previewed yesterday one of its most prized offerings of the season, “Sin Takes a Holiday,’’ starring Constance Bennett — which wall have its premiere at the Mayfair Thanksgiving Day, Exhibitors are to be assured that nothing finer in the way of society comedy productions has come from the Bathe Studio, or. perhaps, from any other. All of the sets are rich and in the best of taste, with the photographers to be congratulated. For a comedy of manners which is a thick, juicy slice of life among the rich and unscrupulous, where manners are as exquisite as the costumes and motivation fashionably cynical without a flaw due to lack of “breeding,” “Sin Takes a Holiday” is a picture hardly to be improved upon. This is not a film calculated to reconcile old-fashioned folk in sleepy New Jersey towns to Sun day openings of the movies. Its title frankly disposes of that point. So does Constance Bennett with her discreet m.anagement of the role of a fashionable divorce lawyer’s secretary who secretly loves him and contracts a “limited” marriage with him to save liim from the clutches of a designing fair client. Miss Bennett is lovely. In the end she has no difficulty whatever in having the “limited” taken out of her marriage contract — wdiile the expectant candidate for a husband (in fact), who is very generous to her during her lonesome honeymoon in Baris, is forced to eliminate herself from the situation. The casting is as successful as all the rest. Special credit will be given to Kenneth McKenna, the husband Ltd.; to Basil Rathbone, the disappointed candidate; and to Zasu Bitts in the small part of the heroine’s woiking girl friend. C. D. REFORMERS WORRY BRITISH PRODUCERS (Continued from page 1) boys recently called a big meet ing at the Birmingham University and crowded the house. The members of the committee told the audience that the time had come for the Government to interfere with the exhibition “of indecent pictures and pictures stressing the sex problem.” Canon Blofield urged, that “a wide outlook must be adopted toward the films and they (the committee) must not strive to be killjoys.” The Vicar of Dudley, according to the British film paper, also came to the aid of the movies saying that ‘Hvhat pictures he has seen he has thoroughly enjoyed.” The representatives of the bench, bar and police also stood up for the films, while the majority of lay speakers put them on the pan and urged that the home secretary enquire into “the harmful and undesirable nature of many of the films shown in the picture houses. The Daily Film Renter of London, in presenting the news of the attack on films by the Birmingham committee, states that: “W. Gavazzi King, consulting secretary of the C.E.A., roundly challenged the knowledge of the facis displayed by members of the Birmingham Kinema Enquiry Committee which, at the instance of the local branch of the National Council of Women, is considering representations to the Home Secretary to make an enquiry into ‘undesirable’ films.” According to the Film Renter the committee wants to set up its own standards and to educate the people to these standards, pointing out that Sir Charles Grant Robinson of the University of Birmingham declared at the meeting. “If we can once really bring home to the public that it does not want this kind of film, then that kind of film will not be provided.” said Sir Charles. ENTHUSIASM IN PRINTER’S INK (Continued from page 1) the motion picture business to convince himself that this confidence, enthusiasm and will to win spirit is fully justified hy the situation. « « * TN the city of New York the unemployed are selling apples on the street corners and some wit remarked that “those who bought the lemons are now selling the apples.’’ The psychological effect on the public of this general apple campaign is depressing. It would almost convince the average man in the street that the country was on the verge of bankruptcy and that the American business structure was shot to pieces. This is so far from the fact that it is un fortunate that the unemployment situation could not have been handled in some other manner. Insofar as the picture business lo concerned, no one thing is necessary to bring the biggest possible result except enthusiastic hard work. There is nothing to be de^ pressed about. There is no justification for gloom. And, as has been said by men of wisdom, the fear which makes cowards of men and failures of everybody is entirely within the individual. This can be cast out, trampled upoii and destroyed by advertising, which raises the morale, builds the esprit and guarantees success. VITAPHONE COMPLETES MUSICAL COMEDY SHORT Marking the return of brief musical films after a long absence from the production schedule of the Brooklyn Vitapbone studio, “With Bleasure,” a two-reel musical comedy, has been completed under the direction of Roy Mack. Billy Wayne and Dolly Gilbert are featured, supported by a large cast of Broadway favorites, including three sister teams, the Bearl Twins, Corbitt Twins and Collete Sisters. Special music' and lyrics for “With Bleasure” were written by Herman Ruby and Harold Levey. A series of these musical comedies is planned for immediate production. FmOING THE ‘BIG’ FOR “BUSINESS GIRL” A question of avoirdupois among the personnel of the First National studios has risen to temporarily hold up production of “Big Business Girl” which is based upon a story recently appearing in College Humor by H. N. Swanson and Batricia Reilly. Whether Dorothy Mackaill or Loretta Young is the biggest business girl is the question which has so far stumped Mervyn LeRoy who will direct the picture. Miss Mackaill’s first starring vehicle when First National resumes production in December, will be “The Green Cat” from a German play by A. M. Willner and E. Rubious. STOCK MARKET Thursday, Nov. 20, 1930 Baramouut F-L 46|4 46% -| % Warner Bros IBi/g 19 1/4 ~ yg Pox Film “A” 3S% 34 Loew’s Inc 59 J4 59'% Loew’s Inc. Bre 971/2 971/7 0^41/2 Radio K-A-0 22% 22%' — Vs Bathe Exchange .. 31/2 3/2 — / Bathe “A” 7 7 — (4 Con. P. Ind 13% 13% — Vg Con. F. Ind. Bre 18 18 -| % Curb Market Columbia Blot 22 22% — % Fox Theatre “A”... 6 6 , — 4. 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