The Film Daily (1937)

STRIKE SETTLEMENT SEEN AS NEARER (Continued from Page 1) of J. W. Buzzell of the Los Angeles Central Labor Council the long afternoon session took place. Five more producers yesterday granted the Screen Actors' Guild demands for a Guild shop. Firms which joined major companies which had previously acceded to the players' proposal were: B. P. Schulberg, Republic, Harry Sherman, Grand National and David L. Loew. Another of the day's developments was decision of the Carpenters' Union to continue work and pass ' through the picket lines thrown around the studios involved in the dispute. Pat Casey, chairman of the producers' labor committee, announced that the Costumers' Union, one of the original 11 striking groups which was expelled from the federation when it undertook private negotiations with the employers, has just signed a new four-year agreement with the studios. Stars yesterday hired armed bodyguards to escort them through the picket lines. Louis Weinstock, executive secretary of Painters and Decorators Union, District Council No. 9, has sent a letter to James Quinn, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council, requesting that he call a city wide conference of affiliated unions to take concerted action in aid of the Federated M. P. Crafts, now on strike at coast studios, it was s^id yesterday by Irving Schnurman, Weinstock's assistant. Schnurman said pickets from District Council No. 9 had been assigned for picket duty from 7 to 9 p. m. last night at Broadway houses, but that the union realized that its single-handed efforts could not effectively aid the Federated M. P. Crafts. Detroit — Despite published reports that picketing of 11 Detroit theaters by United Automobile Workers would start yesterday morn'ng as a gesture of sympathy for Hollywood's FMPC, pickets failed to put in an appearance, according to statements by executives of Fox Theater, United Detroit Theaters and Allied Theaters of Michigan. Chicago — Anticipated sympathetic picketing of local film theaters in support of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts walkout in Hollywood had failed to materialize up to a late hour yesterday. THE usical Murder Being the Best Remembered Experience of Don Adler of the Lathrop Co., Operating the Empress Theater Circuit, Fairbanks, Alaska As Told to Film Daily I.A.T.S.E. is Ready for Radio Organizing Drive — Browne I.A.T.S.E. will shortly begin a drive to organize radio, Film Daily was advised by George E. Browne, LA.T.S.E. president, just before his departure for the coast. Browne said that a number of radio groups have applied for I.A.T.S.E. affiliation. My best remembered — and most harrowing, too — experience dates back to my first days in the show business. I was 16 at the time and had been studying music for only two years but had made some remarkable ( ? ) strides in my piano work and felt that I was capable of break ng out into the professional field. So I approached the manager of one of the theaters on 125th St. in New York as I had heard that he had need for a pianist. He asked me if I had ever played manuscript and I told him that I had been doing so for the past five years! He gave me a chance and we took to rehearsal. There were four other musicians and through them I managed to pull through the rehearsal okay. But, when the time for the performance came, the other musicians quit. The manager told me that as long as I had had so much experience reading manuscr'pt that I wouldn't have any trouble reading the show. I murdered the first act, wrecked the second, killed the third, slaughtered the fourth and. massacred the fifth. After that was over I kept on playing for the silent picture which followed. The manager shortly came down to me and said that all the acts had complained about the accompaniment. I told him that I was disgusted with such ham acting and that I had never played for such a bunch before and that I resigned right there. To this day I am confident that the manager doesn't know whose fault it was, the actors' or Editor's Note: This is the tenth of a feature series. Watch for the next in an early issue. Whitney Managing Houses Denver — Gerald Whitney, who resigned his position as district manager of the northern district for Fox Intermountain, has been made manager of the Webber and Hiawatha theaters in Denver. Both are Fox houses. Ray Davis, Cheyenne city manager for Fox, will replace Whitney as district manager. Theater Site Purchased Little Rock— Site at 211-21 West Capitol Ave., formerly occupied by the Kroger Grocery Co. building which was destroyed by fire recently, has been purchased by the Arkansas Amusement Corp., operating the Arkansas, Capitol, Pulaski, and Royal theaters here. German Films in Detroit Detroit — German Kino, Inc., has been incorporated to operate the Europa Theater, East Side house devoted to German films exclusively, incorporators are Andrew Klein, Frank Scheuer, and Otto Marx. Matty Radin Heads J. B. C. Matty Radin, operator of the Cameo Theater, has been named chairman of the Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee for the film industry. Van Piper in Detroit Detroit — E. S. Van Piper, formerly connected with theaters in Brooklyn, has returned to show business with the acquisition of the Ray Theater, North End house, from William 0. Grey. He will manage the house personally. Dick Halloran Transferred St. Louis — Dick Halloran, who has been manager of the Hi-Pointe Theater will succeed N. E. Packwood as manager of the Mikado Theater in the St. Louis Amusement Co. Circuit, while Jack Rosenzweig, chief accountant for Fanchon & Marco here has been transferred to the Hi-Pointe post. His duties as accountant have been taken over by his assistant, M. J. Riordan. Packwood resigned recently to become general manager of the Crittenden Theater Co. at West Memphis, Ark. He assumes his new duties today. Reich Goes to Milwaukee Chicago — C. R. Reich, for the past six years with Balaban & Katz as assistant manager of the Granada Theater, has resigned to become manager of the Milwaukee Strand Theater of the Wisconsin Amusement Circuit. Stanley Johnson, treasurer at the Loop Roosevelt Theater, has been named assistant to Roy McMullen, manager of the Granada Theater. New Grand Coulee Dam Site Seattle — Another 500-seat film theater for workers on Grand Coulee dam and those drawn to the dam site will be erected at Electric City, fastest growing of the group of communities clustered around the gigantic federal-spending project. The State Land Co. owners of the Roosevelt house in Grand Coulee, have purchased the site. Chi. Lab. Plans Addition Chicago — The Chicago Film Laboratory will build an addition to its plant. CARL LEVI, DISTRICT^ MGR.FORJJJEWS,DB (Continued from Page 1) o'clock at Mt. Sinai Hospital, at the age of 57. He had been ill one week with an intestinal disorder having' been stricken in the lobby of Loew's State. Levi had been associated wfth Loew's for 30 years, having started as a doorman and gradually been promoted to his present post, which he had occupied the past 10 years. Fourteen houses were under his jurisdiction. The deceased was a native of Germany. He is survived by his widow, Rachel H, a daughter, Mrs. Jennie Goodman; two sisters, Mrs. Amelia Blumenfield and Mrs. Henni Voehl; two brothers, Jacob and Salli Levi, the latter the manager of Loew's 46th St. theater in Brooklyn. The deceased resided at 395 Riverside Drive. The funeral will be held Monday. M-G-M Expects Accounts Jump of 1,000 Next Year (Continue i from Page 1) ers, general sales manager, to New York yesterday from the coast, sales activit'es of the company, concentrated on new season product. went forward with increased force. Caplan Estate to Widow Detroit— Will of Maurice J. Caplan, president of Metropolitan Motion Picture Co., who died recently leaves the entire estate to the widow, Mrs. Louise Caplan, and appoints her executrix. Meighan Theater Sold New Port Richey, Fla. — Morris Legendre, who heads a circuit of southern theaters with headquarters at Summerville, S. C, has purchased the Meighan Theater Building in New Port Richey, and will open as soon as remodeling is completed. The Meighan Theater was named in honor of the late Thomas Meighan. 1 Hensler Heads Bowlers Kansas City, Mo. — Frank Hensler, MGM exchange manager and for the past three years has sponsored the Variety Club'a Charity Bowling tournament, was re-elected president of the Kansas City Bowling association, at the association's annual spring meeting at the Pla Mor Recreation. Family Pix Lead, 4 — 1 Forty family audience pictures were released during April to 10 rated for mature audiences, according to th» monthly index of the National Boa,' ha of Review of Motion Pictures. Curr^f^ weekly guide gives family rating to"-' "Cafe Metropole," "Man in Blue," "The Thirteenth Chair," "Wings Over Honolulu" while only "Two Who Dared" draws mature classification.