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Intimate in Character
-"^ternational in Scope
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The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Now Nineteen Years Old
VOL. 71, NO. 1
NEW YORK. SATURDAY. MAY 29. 1937
TEN CENTS
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$60,000 Budget for Six "4" Features
ALLIED TO ASK MAJORS TO CIRCUIT CURB PARLEY
Sees Television Giving Films Production Short Cuts
R. C. Beal of RCA Tells SMPE
Compensating Technical
Aids Certain
By RALPH WILK
West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY
Hollywood — Television will compensate the motion picture industry for its borrowings from film technique by developing devices and methods which will offer the movies technical short cuts to production, Ralph C. Beal, supervisor of research of RCA observed yesterday in an address at the S. M. P. E. convention.
Beal described the present status
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BUENO HEADS MEXICAN PRODUCERS' ASS'N
Bv MARCO-AURELIO GALINDO FILM DAILY Staff Correspondent
Mexico, D. F. — Native producers have formed the Asociacion Mexicana de Productores Cinematograficos (Mexican Association of Motion Picture Producers), with Jose Luis Bueno, of Producciones Bueno, as president, Juan Pezet, of Cinematografica Excelsior, as secretary,
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FMPC Sees Early Peace
on Studio Labor Front
West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY
Hollywood — Satisfactory settlement of the technicians' strike within "a few days" is confidently expected by FMPC executives.
William Cullen, who laid the
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Films Hurt the Drama!
Sale of the film rights to "Having Wonderful Time" to RKO for a reported $100,000 has an aftermath in the announcement by Marc Connelly that the cast of 40 appearing in the Broadway production will get salary boosts of from 5 to 10 p.c, effective next week.
More Prizes Pour in for FILM DAILY Golf Tournament
Decoration Day, — like a skilled golfer, — made a swell approach as far as additional trophies for the 25th Annual (Silver Jubilee) FILM DAILY Tournament are concerned. Consolidated Film Industries literally "decorated" the already heavily-laden trophy table with a gold putter, which will be awarded to the fortunate winner of the freefor-all putting contest, — a high spot of the fun-filled day awaiting you at the Elmsford Country Club, White Plains, on Wednesday, June 9. Runner-up prizes (there will be two, — one for second place and the other for third place) have also been received respectively from Eastman, which is giving a Kodak, and RCA, which is posting a pippin of a radio.
SETTLEMENT OF TWO RKO CLAIMS FAVORED
Settlement of the Hoblitzelle claims against RKO for $750,000 and of the Walter Reade claim arising out of the disaffirmance of the Mayfair Theater lease for $500,000 will be proposed in a petition to be submitted in Federal Court by the Irving Trust Co., RKO trustee.
The Hoblitzelle claims had been allowed by Federal Judge Bondy for $492,417 and the Reade claim, in
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"Paris" Detroit Opening
Gets Record Radio Plug
Detroit — Opening of Para's "I Met Him in Paris" at the Michigan Theater here tomorrow will be the beneficiary of what is termed the most extensive radio hookup in film exploitation in this area.
All local stations in the Detroit
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KORDA IN U. A
Capital to be used by Alexander Korda in acquiring the shares of Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in United Artists will be supplied partly by British and partly by American interests, Korda told The Film Daily yesterday. The sale price is $6,000,000 and the option runs until the end of the year, he stated. Kor
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Max A. Cohen Purchases
New Amsterdam Theater
Max A. Cohen has purchased the New Amsterdam Theater, legitimate playhouse, from The Drydock Savings Bank. The theater, long famous as the home of Flo Ziegfeld productions, will probably go into pictures. Kosch, Lewin & Reuben acted as attorneys for Cohen in the transaction.
Hal Roach Plans to Spend $3,500,000 On Six "A" Pix for 1937-38 Release
Pratt Induced 20th-Fox
To Better Its Roxy Offer
It was the insistence of Special Master Addison Pratt that won 20th Century-Fox over to making an offer of $1 a share to Roxy stockholders which will cost the film
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Six features to be produced by Hal Roach for M-G-M release next season will all be "A" pictures and will cost a total of $3,500,000, Roach said yesterday on arriving from the West Coast. First of the group will be "Road Show," by Eric Hatch, author of "My Man Godfrey."
Roach is considering making
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Steffes Committee Action
Move Toward Allied
MPTOA Merger
By ARTHUR W. EDDY
Milwaukee — Extending the olive branch in the direction of the producers with theater affiliations, Allied, at its closing convention session yesterday, authorized its Special Defense Committee to decide as to whether or not an effort will be made to confer with the major company heads on plans for curbing the affiliated circuits.
Appearing as an apostle of peace, Al Steffes, chairman of the committee, urged that the circuits be asked to give up their houses which are in competition with independents, particularly in small towns, and to discard their "spite theaters." Steffes also demanded that the ma
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. TO GET FIRST CIRCUIT TAX MEASURE
Milwaukee — First circuit tax bill to be sponsored by Allied will be introduced in the Minnesota legislature which soon plans to hold a special session to pass a revenue measure.
Model bill drafted by the Defense
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'J. S. Distribs. Battling
Italian Dubbing Fee Jump
American producing companies are conferring with Italian authorities at Rome over a proposed raise in dubbing fees which would increase the cost to American firms
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Memorial Day Observance
Due to the observance of Memorial Day, there will be no edition of THE FILM DAILY published on Monday.