The Film Daily (1937)

H* THE Vol. 71, No. 115 Mon., May 17, 1937 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : Publisher CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor DONALD M. MERSEREAU : 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 — Lichthildbuehne. 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 do pfd Paramount Paramount 1st pfd. Paramount 2nd pfd. Pathe Film RKO 20th Cent.-Fox 20th Cent.-Fox pfd. Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros do pfd 33/8 125/8 164y2 150 233/4 77 !/8 33/g 33/g .... 121/2 121/2 .... 164 164 + 3 150 150 — 2 233/4 233/4 — 1/4 76 77i/8 + 5/8 20 181/4 65/8 8</2 363/8 i8y8 19% + 3/4 17% 1814 +"% 6 1/2 65/g + i/g 8 8 1/4 + 14 36 363/8 + S/a 123/s IP/4 I2I/4 + 5/8 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s 46 Loew 6s 41ww 98y4 98y4 98 1/4 — Vs Par. B'way 3s 55 Par. Picts. 6s 55. . .TOOVs lOOVs 100i/8 — 1/4 RKO 6s41 Warner's 6s39 95 95 95 .... NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Picts. vtc Grand National 2i/4 2i/4 2y4 Sonotone Corp 1 1/2 IV2 1 Vi Technicolor 23 1/4 22i/2 23% + % Trans-Lux Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER STOCK MARKET Bid Asked Pathe Film 7 pfd 95 98 Fox Thea. Bldg. 6i/2s 1st '36 13 14l/4 Loew's Thea. Bldg. 6s 1st '47.... 953/4 97 1/4 Met. Playhouse, Inc. 5s '43 67 70 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 6I/4S 1st '43... 56i/8 573/4 Arkansas ITO to Convene At Little Rock May 23-24 Little Rock, Ark. — The annual convention of the I. T. O. of Arkansas will be held at the Hotel Marion here May 23-24, J. F. Norman, secretary of the association has announced. Louis Haven, of Forrest City, is president. H The Broadway Parade H Picture and Distributor Theater Cafe Metropole (20th Century-Fox) — 3rd week Rivoli Internes Can't Take Money (Paramount) — 2nd week Paramount The Prince and the Pauper (Warner Bros.) — 2nd week Strand Make Way for Tomorrow (Paramount) — 2nd week Criterion The King's People (Mike Mindlin) — 2nd week Belmont They Gave Him a Gun (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Capitol Shall We Dance (RKO Radio) Music Hall Talk of the Devil (Gaumont British Pictures) Roxy Mountain Justice (Warner Bros. Pictures) Rialto 231/2 Hours' Leave (Grand National Pictures) Central Marked Woman (Warner Bros.) (a-b) Palace You Can't Buy Luck (RKO Radio) (a) Palace ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUNS ♦ Lost Horizon (Columbia Pictures) — 11th week Globe Captains Courageous (M-G-M) — 2nd week Astor ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURES ♦ The Last Night (Amkino) — 3rd week Cameo Amore e Dolore (Nuovo Mondo) B'way Cine Roma Dr. Knock (French Film) — 3rd week Cinema de Paris Episode (Metropolis Pictures) 55th St. Playhouse ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ The World's in Love (Austrian Film) — May 18 Filmarte Dreaming Lips (United Artists) — May 19 Rivoli Turn Off the Moon (Paramount Pictures) — May 19 Paramount Nobody's Baby (M-G-M Pictures) — May 19 Rialto As Good as Married (Universal) — May 21 Roxy The Family that was Merry-Go-Round (Scand. Talking Pict.) — May 21. Cinema de Paris This is My Affair (20th Century-Fox)— May 27 Music Hall Kid Galahad (Warner Bros.) (c) Strand Pick a Star (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (c) Capitol (a) Dual bill, (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill. Boston Exchange Workers Get 10-35 P.C. Increases Boston — Wage increases ranging from 10 to 35 per cent are provided in the contract just negotiated by the newly organized Boston Film Exchange Workers' Union, it is said. Head shippers will receive $38, while others will receive $23. Head inspectresses will receive $24, and all others $20. Poster clerks will receive $23, while head poster clerk will get $28 per week. Organizing of ushers, doormen, cashier's and night cleaners is proceeding, and it is reported about 10 local houses have signed up. Madison, Wis. — John R. Boyum has been elected president of the theater employes union just formed here by employes of all seven local houses. Other officers of the union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, are: Joseph A. Hogan, vice-president; Helen Olstadt, secretary treasurer; Arthur Goddard, business agent; Gerald Lacy, assistant business agent, and H. J. Rupp, William Jackett and James Nelson, trustees. Neb.-lowa MPTOA Rallies Exhibs. to Talk Problems Omaha— All independent exhibitors of this territory have been asked by Charles E. Williams, president of M. P. T. O. A. of Nebraska and Western Iowa, to attend a meeting at Hotel Loyal here at 11 a. m. May 25. Topics to be discussed include theater divorcement, short subjects with their numerical requirement and score charge, unfair competition of five cent admissions, percentage pictures and designated playdates. J. R. Grainger Presiding At "U" Sales Convention West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — New Universal sales convention opens this morning at the Hotel Ambassador, Los Angeles, with J. R. Grainger, General Manager of Distribution, presiding. After the roll call by Sidney Singerman and welcome by Grainger, high spot of the morning session will be a speech by R. H. Cochrane, President. The afternoon session will be taken up with speeches by J. Cheever Cowdin, Chairman of the Board, Gustave Schaefer, newly appointed Export Manager, and an official welcome by Charles R. Rogers. With two exceptions, every one of the candidates to the convention arrived last night. One of these exceptions is Here Mclntyre, General Manager for Universal in Australia, who is coming in on the Monterey, which will dock late Tuesday or early Wednesday. The other late comer will be Charles Ford, who will fly from New York tomorrow night, after cuttin<r the coronation scenes for Universal Newsreel. Friedlander Rites Held With various industry executives present, funeral services for Al Friedlander, former vice-president of First Division, were held last evening in the Flatbush Memorial Chapel, Brooklyn. Tax Extension Bill Signed Albany — Governor Lehman has approved the Buckley bill extending until July 1, 1938, power of New York City to impose special emergency taxes for unemployment relief purposes. Coming and Going MILTON KRASNER arrived in New York yesterday morning from the coast for a short vacation. EDWARD G. ROBINSON, film actor who has , been spending two weeks in New York, is en route to Hollywood. MISCHA ELMAN, violinist, sailed for Italy on Saturday aboard the Conte di Savoia. ALEXANDER LEFTWICH, stage and film director, returned to the coast over the weekend. EARLE LARIMORE, actor, leaves for Cincinnati tomorrow to fulfill an engagement there. HOPE HAMPTON arrives from the coast tomorrow. MAURICE CONN, president of Ambassador Pictures, is here from the coast. SIDNEY R. KENT, JOHN D. CLARK and CHARLES E. McCARTHY depart for the Coast today. STANLEY S. CRICK, R. SUTTON DAWES, T. ISDAHL, A. PAUCKER and LUIGI GIORDANA arrive from Europe today en route to the 20th Century-Fox Coast convention. NAT ROSS leaves for the Coast Thursday. JOE BERNE is on the Conte di Savoia bound for Italy. GEORGETTE DEON, private secretary to William LeBaron, flew to the Coast Saturday. Grand National's Sales Meeting Opens on Coast West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Grand National's sales meet swings into action at the Ambassador this morning, with Edward J. Peskay scheduled to bang the gavel at 9 o'clock. Business sessions will be held both morning and afternoon, and a formal dinner at 6:30 will be followed by a screening of "Small Town Boy," starring Stuart Erwin, at the GN Studio theater. The third and fourth general business sessions will be held tomorrow, with product to be announced at the fourth. At 8 p. m. the studios will play host at a banquet on Stage No. 3, at which GN producers, directors and stars will be present. Conrad Nagel will be emcee. Final business session will be held Wednesday, at which time there will be a recapitulation of the selling program and establishment of sales quotas. Winners of the Managers' Billing Drive will be announced. MAY 17 Lillian Gordon Conway Tearle Malcolm St. Claire Ned Marin Maureen O'Sullivan