The Film Daily (1934)

>34 TH£ Tuesday, April 3, 1934 ■a&m DAILY ATTENDANCE OF 200 AT TRI-STATE CONFAB (Continued from Page 1) Cecil Cupt, W. L. Manders, L. F. Haven, W. P. Florence, W. El Elkins, Raymond Goodman, J. A. West, Roy Pearce, 0. C. Hauber, E. L. Drake, C. E. Vogel and Howard Waugh, directors. A committee on arrangements consisting of Page Baker, Jack Marshall, R. X. Williams, Mrs. Alma Walton and Tom Young was appointed. Local grievance and clearance boards were set up with Mrs. Alma Walton as secretary. Headquarters will be selected by a committee made up of M. A. Lightman, J. J. Rogers and W. E. Sipe. Among the speakers were Ed Kuykendall, M.P.T.O.A. president, who spoke on "Our National Organization," and Dave Palfreyman of the Hays Organization. A staff round-table talk followed the day's session, with a banquet at night closing the convention. Cliff Davis, vice mayor of Memphis, was the chief banquet speaker. The nomination of Alma Walton as secretary of the two boards was opposed by Howard Waugh, Warner theater zone manager, on the ground that she is secretary of the Tri-State association. The grievance board will meet the first and third Mondays in the month while the zoning-clearance beard me&ts on the second and fourth Mondays. Move to Counteract Catholic Film Campaign Cincinnati — Distributing companies and exhibitors here are quietly campaigning to counteract the rumble ot disapproval thundering through the Roman Catholic Church, in its recent edict against so-called "immoral" films, by giving a free sample of their wares. Jesuit fathers of St. Xavier College faculty were given a private showing ot "Cradle Song." Easter Monday all nuns in religious orders were shown this film at a tree performance. Paramount swept into the ranks of clubwomen wi;h a private showing of "Death Takes a Holiday." Clergy and haads of reform organizations were also invited. Sermons preached! in Catholic churches here were not all derogatory. Judge Dennis Ryan, head of the Diocesan Holy Name Society, and Father George Geer of Holy Name Church specially commended Fox in a sermon from the altar. RKO Radio Starting 9 Features in April (Continued from Page 1) Bondage" and "Cockeyed Cavaliers". Seven slated to go into production before April 9 are "Sour Grapes," "Great American Harem," "Vergie Williams," "Family Man," "Murder on the Blackboard," "Down to Their _iast Yacht" and "Green Mansions." Others to be started before May 1 are "Arabella" and "A Hat, a Coat and a Glove." Newsreeler for A. C. Pier Maybe Atlantic City— Buck Taylor, Philadelphia theatrical man, who goes back to Million Dollar Pier for second year this season, was down in the resort for Easter holidays and announced he was considering a newsreeler for the pier instead of the former straight film house in Hippodrome. It is also rumored that a concern is looking for a location for a newsreeler near new Union Terminal, now under construction. Naming of 15 Secretaries Expected at Friday Meet (Continued from Page 1) its meeting Friday. The committee on nominations meets tomorrow and s expected to reach an agreement on board memberships for New York and Philadelphia, the last of the boards to be set up. Its report will be submitted to the Code Authority Friday. Expectations are .hat the three-advisory-committee plan will be adopted for the New York territory. Cleveland Houses Spruce Up Cleveland — Loew's Stillman and Park are undergoing renovations that is putting many to work. The Knickerbocker, owned by Associated Theaters, is also being redecorated throughout. Johnny Green Joins WABC Johnny Green, composer of various hits and formerly with Paramount, has been named musical adviser to the WABC program department. ANOTHER PRICE WAR LOOMS IN ST. LOUIS St. Louis — Opening of the Shubert-Rialto Theater by Warners with "Wonder Bar" at a scale of 25 cents to 6 P.M. for adults and 40 cents at night, with a dime for kids at all times, has stirred rumblings of a new price war. The scale is little above that charged by smaller neighborhood houses for sluff piccures. Independent exhibitors held a meeting last week, after which Fred Wehrenberg, president of the M. P. T. 0., sent a vigorous protest against the Shubert-Rialto scale to Joseph Bernhard, general manager jf Warner theaters, and to Grad Sears, sales executive of Warner Jros. Some independent neighborhood houses are talking about going .o 10 cents for adults. See Savings Effected In Composite Cutting (Continued from Page 1) "Smoky" and "Lawless Valley." The composite system provides for the sound track being printed on each individual scene and results in a saving of three cents a foot. It eliminates the printing of all separate sound tracks. 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