The Film Daily (1937)

THE DAILV Monday, April 19, 1937 nKNEWRUra orniMDOM I au mi raws AUTHinMl ?DAILY Vol. 71, No. 91 Mon., Apr. 19, 1937 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : Publisher CHESTER B. BAHN : DONALD M. MERSEREAU : : : Editor General Manager Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y, by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W Alicoate, President and Publisher; Don aid M. Mersereau, Secretary Treasurer Arthur W. Eddy, Associate Editor. En tered as second class matter, May 21, 1918, at the post-office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone, BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris— P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) Net High Low Close Chg Am. Seat Columbia Picts. vtc Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. East. Kodak do pfd Gen. Th. Eq Loew's, Inc 843/8 825/8 843/8 + 2% do pfd Paramount 25 24% 25 + '/g Paramount 1st pfd... 174% 174V4 174i/4 — 2'/2 Paramount 2nd pfd Pathe Film 8% 83/8 83/8 -f i/4 RKO 9% 93/4 93/4 .... 20th Cent.-Fox ... 393/4 39«/2 39'/, + 'A 20th Cent.-Fox pfd. .... ... .... ... Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 15 14% 15 do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s 46... 97!/2 97 '/2 97 '/2 Loew 6s 41ww Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. 6s 55...100'/4 100'/4 100'/4 + % RKO 6s41 121 1/2 121 121 — i/2 Warner's 6s39 97 '/2 97 '/4 79 '/4 — 5/8 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Picts. vtc Grand National 2% 23/4 23/4 — Sonotone Corp 13/4 1 s/8 13/4 Technicolor 22% 22% 22% Trans-Lux 4% 4% 4% — Vs '4 ^ "THE KING and the CHORUS GIRL" (Fernand Gravet, Joan Blondell, Edw. Ev. Horton) H The Broadway Parade H Picture and Distributor Theater Marked Woman (Warner Bros.) — 2nd week Strand Elephant Boy (United Artists) — 3rd week Rialto Personal Property (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Capitol The Woman I Love (RKO Radio) Music Hall Love from a Stranger ( United Artists ) Rivoli Swing High, Swing Low (Paramount Pictures) Paramount When Love Is Young (Universal) Roxy You're in the Army Now (GB Pictures) Criterion Night Key (Universal) Centra! Seventh Heaven (20th Century-Fox) (a-b) Palace China Passage (RKO Radio) (a) Palace ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUNS ♦ The Good Earth (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — 12th week Astor Lost Horizon (Columbia Pictures) — 7th week Globe ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURES ♦ Beethoven Concerto (Amkino) — 2nd week Cameo The Golem (Metropolis) — 5th week 55th St. Playhouse Sun Over Denmark (Scandinavian Talk. Picts.) Cinema de Paris The Smiling Gentleman (Nuovo Mondo) Broadway Carnival in Flanders (Amer. Tobis) — 2nd week (b) Little Carnegie Kimiko (International Film Bureau) Filmarte The Red Head (Auten) (a-b) Belmont Le Million (Tobis) (a-b) Belmont Thank You, Madame (Viennese Film) Esquire The Eternal Mask (Mayer-Burstyn) — 6th week (a-b) World Slalom (Kraska-World)— 6th week (a-b) World ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ A Family Affair (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — April 19 Rialto Sous les Yeux d'Occident (Garrison Film) — April 20 (a) Cinema de Paris Le Barbier de Seville (Franco-American) — April 20 (a) Cinema de Paris The Wave (Garrison Film) — April 20 Filmarte A Star Is Born (United Artists)— April 22 Music Hall Thunder in the City (Columbia) — April 22 Criterion Wake Up and Live <20th Century-Fox) — April 23 Roxy Internes Can't Take Money (Paramount) (c) Paramount Call It a Day (Warner Bros.) (c) Strand The Good Old Soak (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (c) Capitol The Last Night (Amkino) (c) Cameo (a) Dual bill. (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill. Moray Back After Annual Tour of Warner Exchanges Norman H. Moray, Vitaphone executive in charge of short subjects and trailers, arrives in New York today completing his annual swing around the country preparatory to setting up next year's Vitaphone line-up. On his tour he also stopped at the Warner Bros. Burbank studios to discuss Technicolor short production with Jack L. Warner, as well as cartoon production with Leon Schlesinger, producer of Vitaphone's "Looney Tune" and "Merrie Melody" series. He will shortly confer with Sam Sax, production executive of the Brooklyn Vitaphone studios, on plans for the coming Vitaphone product. 12 Denver Fox Theaters Sponsor Radio Programs Denver — Twelve Denver Fox theaters are sponsoring "Theater Harmonies," half-hour radio program three times weekly from WLZ here. Broadcast originates at the Paramount Theater Sunday, Monday and Wednesday. Kent, Talley to Parley On Coronation Coverage London (By Cable) — Truman H. Talley, Movietone News' vice prexy, who arrives here today, will work out details of the Coronation coverage at a conference early this week with President Sidney R. Kent of 20th-Fox. Ground work has already been done by Gerald Sanger, producer of British Movietone News, and Sir Malcolm Campbell, editor. With movietone mulling over the use of planes to speed prints to the U. S. A., General Film Distributors announces it will fly the GB newsreels to Tokyo. Masaaki Inuma and Kenji Tsukagoshi, Jap aviators, expect to turn the trick in 94 hours. Tallulah as Scarlett? St. Louis— Tallulah Bankhead, ending her "Reflected Glory" road tour at Atlanta, Ga., May 5, will return to New York to talk a film deal with Selznick. Role in prospect is that of Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind." Bank Night Case Docketed Windsor Locks, Conn. — The appeal of the case of State of Connecticut vs. David Magliora, operator of the Rialto Theater, et al, is on the April criminal docket of the Superior Court in Hartford. The Windsor Locks Town Court fined Maglioria and the other defendants in February, and enjoined them from running Bank Night in the theater, because of the proxy card system used, which, though not part of Bank Night, was considered a lottery by the State. Ray Flynn Dead at 44 West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Ray Flynn, 44, production manager at 20th-Fox studios, is dead. Coming and Goin GEORGE W. WEEKS returned to New York yesterday from Atlantic City. SAMUEL CUMMINGS, distributor of feature, "Ecstasy," is in Washington where the film opened yesterday at the Belasco. He returns to New York in two weeks via Florida. CHARLES MUNRO of Hoyts Theaters arrived in Los Angeles Saturday from Australia, en route to New York. NORMAN H. MORAY, Vitaphone executive in charge of shorts and trailers, arrives in New York today after completing his annual tour of key and other cities. CLIFFORD W. SMITH, assistant export manager for Erpi, is en route to Central and South America where he will inspect company's LatinAmerican offices. ALFRED SANTELL. film director, accompanied by MRS. SANTELL, sailed from New York for Los Angeles on Saturday on the liner California. ERROL FLYNN, film actor, arrives today from Europe on the Queen Mary and heads immediately for the coast. MRS. EDMUND BREESE is at the Beverly. REG WILSON, special sales representative for GB, is in Dallas. MISHEL PIASTRO, concert master of the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, sails next Saturday from Vancouver to give a series of concerts in Japan. Detroit Area Exhibitors Increase Use of Premiums Test Singles in Lincoln Lincoln, Neb. — Varsity here, ace house of the local Westland Theaters, Inc. string, is going to single features for a try. City Manager Milton Overman has made the move because of the increase of calls to the boxoffice asking time of the main feature, which is always accompanied by the statement that two features are too many to sit through. APRIL 19 Herbert Wilcox Constance Talmadge George O'Brien May Robson David Palfreyman Detroit — Twenty per cent more exhibs in this territory are using premiums than a year ago, according to Arthur C. Robinson of Price Theater Premiums. Games and giveaways in the zone are also rampant. Every variety of cash giveaway is represented, despite pending court actions to restrain several as lotteries, unfair competition and the like. UUllii