The Film Daily (1934)

fr<%£* DAILY Wednesday, May 23, 193 COMMITTEE TO MAP FILM BOARD PLANS (Continued from Page \~> Gradwell L. Sears and Abe Montague. No definite date was selected for filing of the report. Charles C. Pettijohn presided at the meeting, attended by about 20 executives, in eluding Hays office officials. Vitaphone Sets Final Releases for 1933-34 (Continued from Page 1) Niesen, Weldon Heyburn and Roscoe Ails; Bernice Claire with J. Harold Murray in "Who is That Girl?", and Bill Robinson in "King For a Day," all musicals; George Givot and Charles Judels in "Salted Seanuts" ; Harry Gribbon in "Art Trouble," with Shemp Howard; Lulu McConnell in "Just Concentrate"; "Rambling 'Round Radio Row," No. 2, with Baby Rose Marie, George Givot, Jack Arthur, Harriet Lee, Roy Atwell and Frank Novak, Jr.; "Penny a Peep," a novelty reel; Abe Lyman and his Band in "Tin Hat Harmony"; "Central America," a "Musical World Journey" by E. M. Newman; "Why Do I Dream Those Dreams?" and "How Do I Know It's Sunday ", song cartoons, and "Buddy's Bearcats," cartoon. July — Ruth Etting in "The Song of Fame"; "The Winnah," with Arthur and Florence Lake; Leon Errol in a Technicolor "Service with a Smile," with Maxine Doyle and Phil Regan; Ben Blue in "The Prize Sap"; Harry Gribbon in "My Mummy's Arms." with Shemp Howard; "Dad Minds the Baby"; Edgar Bergen in "At the Races"; Sigmund Spaeth in "The Stolen Melody"; B. A. Rolfe with the "Men About Town" in "Jolly Good Fellow", and "A Visit to the South Seas" and E. M. Newman "Musical World Journey." August — "The Mysterious Kiss," with Jeanne Aubert; an untitled number with Mitzi Mayfair and Roscoe Ails, two-reel musical comedies ; Ben Blue in "Daredevil 0' Dare"; Ben Pollack and His Orchestra in a "Melody Masters" single reel band number; "Dark Africa" E. M. Newman "Musical World Journey", and "Camera Speaks," novelty reel. New Dave Thomas Firm Making First in East (Continued from Page 1) a national newspaper and radio search for four distinct types of feminine pulchritude who will be picked from 100 finalists at the Steel Pier, Atlantic City, the week of June 14. Shooting will start June 25 in A.C., with interiors to be made at Irvington, N. Y., and world premiere of the film will be staged at the Steel Pier. Complete casting of the picture will be handled by Joe Rivkin of the Leo Morrison office. Al Thomas has resigned his exploitation post with First Division to join the new firm as director of publicity. Export Refunds Held Up Drawback payments, or duty refunds on exported film, have been temporarily held up by the Government due to overrun of the budget allowance granted ths customs bureau. No payments have been made for about two weeks and the bureau will be unable to say when it will be resumed until word is received from the Budget Committee at Washington. • • • A SHORT Biog of a Real Creative Artist in the Film Biz referring to "Hap" Hadley a gent who does not work by rule-of-thumb whose best is only an incentive to go out and do better the next time an artist who shuns the routine the obvious the trite he is constantly endeavoring to create new techniques original slants for putting over the Message of Motion Pictures ...... a gent who has studied a dozen branches of the film biz intimately just so that he can better express himself in his chosen medium in a word a Showman Artist © • • BACK IN 1917 Mister Hadley started his artistic career while in the Marine Corps service he sold a cartoon strip to the "Herald" and one to the "Telegraph" and got a special dispensation from Washington to collect dough for 'era then he sold John Murray Anderson on a novelty act for his Greenwich Village Follies the Cartoon Girlies with the chorus dressed like sandwich men displaying a cartoon front and rear of course "Hap" drew the cartoons and appeared in the act • • • WHEN THE "Follies" hit the road "Hap" drew cartoons and illustrations for the newspapers in the cities where they played plugging the show, of course the idea went over big his next job was with D. W. Griffith at the Mamaroneck stude making "America" where he adapted his newspaper idea to advantage acting as the Studio Artist covering studio atmosphere with newsy slants in illustrations and the newspapers ate 'em up ...... the idea is still good for any studio and could be made a knockout feature wonder why no studio has grabbed It? it just shows that this lad "Hap" has creative showmanship ideas • • • IT WAS in 1925 Mister Hadley started hitting his stride in the film art field today he is doing special art work for practically all the major producers "Hap" says that up till the present year nothing was so static in the biz as the Art Work now the producers are snapping away from the formula stuff and doing some fine creative things but what impressed us most about "Hap" Hadley is his attitude toward his achievements he talks as if he was just starting out modestly to TRY and do things when the guy has long since set the Art Pace in many showmanship innovations just a Doer not a Talker • • • A NICE tribute from Jack Berkowitz of the Standard Film Exchanges of Buffalo on the industry's loss in the death of Michael Shea we're going to run it in full when we have more space The Jewish Theatrical Guild will hold a luncheon today at the Astor with Rev. Dr. Randolph Ray of the "Little Church Around the Corner" as principal speaker Last night as a gesture of welcome to the incoming fleet, the Rivoli was host to 50 Navy officers at the 8:30 showing of "Murder At the Vanities" Bert Mayers, who won the Tiffany suit and got Mae Murray peeved at him in court for whispering something in her ear is ready to tell what he actually said to Mae at the AMPA luncheon how about it, Bill Ferguson? here is a Real Sensay-shu-nal act for your Thursday show In the "Photoplay" issue of June, Jim Tully has sold a story about Victor McLaglen titled "A Whale of A Man" in the "New Movie" issue of June, 1932 two years ago Tully sold a story "A Whale of A Man" about McLaglen oops « « « » » » RKO MAKING PROFIT, RECEIVER REPORT! J in lion 17 K lliai ■lie Pan (Continued from Page 1) of 1934 resulted in a profit of $498, 131, against loss for the same perio in 1933 of $1,098,447. Of the $498, 131, a profit of $308,602 was show; by the picture company, whic'. showed a loss of $603,293 durinj the same period in 1933. Combined operations of RK( Radio Pictures and RKO Pathe Pic tures for 1933 show a loss of $1, 290,685, compared with loss of $5, 381,051 for 1932. Under a lease signed Sept. 1| 1933, between Rockefeller Cente and subsidiary corporations oper ating the Radio City Music Hall an< the RKO Center Theater, there ha: been a profit for the seven month; of operation of $58,282. In th< same period the RKO Service Corp. has received $45,000 for manage ment services and RKO Radio Pictures "has received substantial pay ments for the motion pictures ex hibited in the two theaters." The report also gives status o. 85 claims against the company rep resenting $35,413,733. Seventeer » have been withdrawn, aggregating $2,031,000. Hearings have been con eluded before a special master or claims aggregating $24,000,000. Since August 31, 1933, monthly savings in rent, electricity, cleaning etc., for the RKO Service Corp. havt been reduced about $6,500. Income from the distribution oJ pictures for the first quarter o: 1934 increased approximately $900, 000 over the same period of 1933 The increase was divided about evenly between domestic and foreigr business. The combined cash bal ances of the RKO Radio Pictures increased from approximately $681, 000 on Dec. 31, 1933 to $1,864,000 on March 31, 1934. The improvement? were brought about largely by reduction in negative costs and "improvement in the quality of pictures produced," according to the report. The Irving Trust states in the concluding paragraph that no plan of reorganization has been formu-i lated to date and recommends that the receivership be continued. The report was officially filed by Wil liam J. Donovan, attorney for Irv ing Trust, receiver. klty HI IU Service Union Future in Doubt General meeting of the members of Local 118, service union, will be called within the next few days to determine whether the union will continue, with present indications that the organization is slated to become inactive. Continuation depends on the members' willingness to finance the organization, necessitating a weekly budget of around $200. The organization has been financed principally to date by Chas. C. Levey, its organizer. Members have contributed only slight support. It is understood that the union is now $8,000 in the "red."