The Film Daily (1934)

THE P AR AMOUNTFWC DEAL APPROVED BY REFEREE (Continued from Page 1) ment, which also covers contracts for exhibition of Paramount films, must now be approved by the court where the Fox West Coast bankruptcy proceedings are pending. The theaters involved are the Paramount, California, and St. Francis, San Francisco; Portland, Oakland; Portland and Rialto, Portland; and the Paramount, Seattle. New 10-year leases approved for the San Francisco theaters provide that Wesco shall pay $87,500 yearly rental on the Paramount retroactive to May 1st and extending to July 1, 1936, and between $105,000 and $112,750 to June 30, 1941; rental on the California is placed at $35,000 from May 1, 1933 to Sept. 1, 1935, and at $42,500 thereafter; lease on the St. Francis which runs from Jan. 1, 1934, is for $75,000 yearly. A ten-year film rental agreement is also provided for the San Francisco situation with the further stipulation that Paramount shall receive 37 Vz per cent of the net earnings from Fox West Coast operation of all downtown theaters. Lease on the Paramount, Oakland runs for 15 years from May 1, 1933, with a minimum rental of $70,000 vearly or 15 per cent of the gross receipts. Payment of $390,000 to Paramount in ten-year notes is also provided. The Paramount, Portland, is to be leased to a corporation of which Fox West Coast owns 75 per cent of the stock and Paramount 25 per cent. Agreement is for a ten year term from Aug. 1, 1933 at a minimum yearly rental of $35,000. A further clause in the agreement provides for renewal by Fox of $693,000 in outstanding notes of the Famous Players Canadian Corp. Negotiations are pending for a lease on the Paramount, Seattle. The Rialto, Portland, is being operated by its owner. SILK— TRANSPARENT VALANCE RENTAL also FLAGS and BANNERS PENNANT STREAMERS MORRIS LIBERMAN 729 BROADWAY NEW YORK • The Broadway Parade # Picture Distributor Theater Sadie McKee M-G-M Capitol Little Miss Marker Paramount Paramount Stingaree RKO Radio Music Hall The Black Cat Universal Roxy Murder at the Vanities Paramount Rivoli He Was Her Man Warner Bros Strand Beyond Bengal Showmen's Pictures Gaiety Crime Doctor (2nd week) RKO Radio Rialto Murder in Trinidad Fox Mayfair Friday the Thirteenth Gainsborough Westminster Change of Hearts* Fox Palace 20th Century* Columbia Center Hitler's Reign of Terror (4th week) ... Jewel Prods Columbia The War's End Globe It Happened One Night" Columbia Little Carnegie ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUN ♦ House of Rothschild (10th week) United Artists. . Astor ♦ FOREIGN DIALOGUE PICTURES ♦ Romance in Budapest (2nd week) DuWorld 55th St. Playhouse ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS 4 Unknown Soldier Speaks (May 22) The Man Trailer (May 22) Channel Crossing (May 23) Hollywood Party ( May 24) Where Sinners Meet (May 24)... Many Happy Returns (May 25) . . Lincoln Pictures Mayfair . Columbia Criterion . Gaumont 55th St. Playhouse . M-G-M Rialto . RKO Radio Music Hall . Paramount Paramount Now I'll Teli (May 25) Fox Roxy Upperworld ( May 30) Warner Bros Strand Viva Villa (June 1)** M-G-M Capitol Such Women Are Dangerous (June 1 ) . . Fox Roxy Subsequent run. After Astor two-a-day run. ITO of D. C. Opposes MPTOA Duals Stand (Continued from Page 1) lowing a meeting Friday night at which dual bills, zoning and clearance was discussed. C. H. Olive, I.T.O. secretary, who had attended the Los Angeles convention as a delegate, reported that "he discussion of double features at the regular scheduled meetings at the Ambassador Hotel were limited to a few remarks by Kuykendall, who in his annual report stated that he question of double features should be left up to the exhibitors in the various territories. After the Executive Committee had set in session with the committee representing the producers, Olive said, Kuykendall authorized the statement that his organization had gone on record as being opposed to double features. Olive then stated that while this probably represented the opinion of the Executive Committee, it was not his belief that it was the consensus of opinion of the majority of the independent members present at the regular meetings. A meeting of the M.P.T.O. of the District of Columbia has been called for today to discuss double features in the Washington territory. Members of the I.T.O. of the District of Columbia unanimously adopted a resolution supporting double features and will "attend today's M.P. T.O. meeting to make a report on the two resolutions adopted at the special meeting Friday. DeForest Tube Patents Upheld by High Court (Continued from Page 1) controlled the patents, against Radio Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Effect of the decision sustains a decree of the lower court in Wilmington, Del., and will result in huge back royalties to DeForest. CODE AUTH'Y EXTENDS TIME FOR ASSESSMENT (Continued from Page 1) secretary, today mails to grievance boards lists of theaters which an still in arrears so they may be checked. Expiration date for the period in| which assessments must be made vary as the dates on which bills were mailed vary. Deadlines approximate a week or 10 days. Schine Loses 17 Films In Buffalo Board Ruling! (Continued from Page 1) tA ed a lengthy hearing of complaints by Reliance's Palace against Schine's Rialto and HiArt, charging overbuy ing and making too frequent changes. Neither charge was mentioned in the decision, which directed these distributors to supply pil tures between June 1 and Sept. 1 as noted; Paramount, 3; MetroGoldwyn-Mayer, 3; Warner-First National, 3; RKO-Radio, 3; Fox, 2 Columbia, 2; United Artists, 1. The decision states that there shall be no loss to the distributors and that they shall relieve the Schine Com pany of responsibility on the as sumption of contracts by Reliance. Schine Theatrical Co. was the only defendant mentioned in the ruling, all others named in the complaint <[\\ having been eliminated. imr *MDB% ! T^t U I OR 7 PERSONS Above the 8th Floor $6.00 and up Enjoy the comforts of a parlor and bedroom suite. . . . All rooms equipped with radio, combination tub and shower bath, and running ice water. 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