The Film Daily (1934)

THE ■%2H DAILY Tuesday, June b, Wi COLLECTIONS PLANNED FOR FILM TRADE BDS. (Continued from Page 1) been reached on any plan. The committee assigned to the job of developing a plan has not as yet held a meeting, various of its members being occupied w^th annual sales meetings. Bigger Hollywood Layout At Century of Progress (Continued from Page 1) two sons, Tommy and Stephen; Arthur Lake, George Lewis, Virginia Sale, Johnny Harron, Shirley Densted, Audrene Briar, Helen Mann, Billy Taft, Edna Sinclair, Betty Egan, Mary Lou Allen; Warren Burke, writer; Lincoln Stedman and Vic Lewis, directors, and Charles Bonney, cameraman. The group calls itself the Thalians. Theater where the demonstrations are to be made has been greatly enlarged. Extend Assessment Period Cleveland — A 30-day extension from May 29 on payment of code assessments has been granted to all exhibitors in Greater Cleveland on recommendation of the grievance board. The extension followed protests of G. E. Erdmann, secretary of the exhibitor association, that the assessments on houses in the suburbs should be based on the population of those suburbs and not on the population of Greater Cleveland. Andy Devine at St. Paul Frolic St. Paul — Andy Devine was master of ceremonies at the first annual press frolic last night at' the Orpheum in connection with the National Newspaper Guild convention. Raymond Cavanagh With Majestic Raymond Cavanagh has been engaged by Majestic Pictures as advertising and publicity director. Cavanagh was formerly associated with Universal for many years. Paramount Signs Stage Player Lloyd Nolan, who appeared in the Broadway production of "One Sunday Afternoon", has been signed by Paramount and leaves next month for the coast. Open New Monogram Cincy Offices Cincinnati — In conjunction with the Monogram regional sales convention here, the new local branch offices of the company, at 1635 Central Parkway, were opened to visitors. New Era Gets "Lone Defender" New Era Exchange has acquired local distribution rights from Mascot to "Lone Defender," feature starring Rin-Tin-Tin. MONG the ion PHIL M. DALY • • • A RECENT poll taken by the Ohio Valley Exhibitors' League constituting practically a poll of the midwest territory covered 204 current major releases the idea being to determine what were the best B.O. Bets AFTER they played the theaters which makes a helluva difference than BEFORE if you follow us ever so closely and ya can't begin to guess what the results were ... .>. . lissen' T T T • • • THE POLL divided the pix into four classes A, B, C and D Big Box Office Smashes Good B. 0. Fair Lousy and in the A class 21 qualified out of 204 and of these Class A 21 there were exactly 7 Fox pix pretty swell eh, wot ? but wait 3 of the 7 were Janet Gaynors 3 were Will Rogers the other was "Bottoms Up" but what we're getting at is this fact the six Gaynor and Rogers were Winnie Sheehan supervised pix does that mean anythin' to youse guys? • • • FOR FALL release Al Mannon is getting ready to produce a new type of serial .... an air war drama for grown-ups Al figures a serial can attract the adult trade if properly done Those Roxy theater programs of last week are selling at a premium because of one of those typographical errors that made a certain Hollywood item a Classic Irving Kaye Davis, playwright, has decided to hold his play, "The Naked Woman," for presentation on B'way next fall London censors have just passed the play, which will be produced there soon • • • TWO GOOD bets for pictures as we see 'em J. Harold Murray who was with Fox some time ago a young lad with a most pleasing personality good looker a grand voice and a real actor can any producer ask more ? Then there is that sweet comedienne of the New York stage Betty Starbuck who has never received the recognition due her it's a sheer delight to watch her fine handling of comedy she appeared on the Paramount eastern lot in "The Sap from Syracuse" with Jack Oakie besides Betty's outstanding comedy personality she photographs like a million dollars after discovering Jimmy Savo whom we plugged for the past two years before Hecht-Mac Arthur smart fellers grabbed him for a 5-year pix contract mebbe we can help these other two "bets" to get a break • • • IN THE good ole days a Director and a former Cameraman made 35 westerns they used the same star, the same story, and the same crew in all of 'em all they changed were the titles and the locale and they admit it these two are now working together again Director Edward Sedgwick, and Virgil Miller, the one-time cameraman ......now head of Paramount's camera dep't they are working on "Here Comes the Groom" for Charles R. Rogers and comparing notes on their old association on the westerns Sedgwick sez to Miller "Well, all those westerns went well at the box office" and Miller replies "Sure they did. No one wrote in to complain of their similarity." so they must have been good • • • ON THE stage of the Roxy for the week of June 8 the Columbia University Band the band of 50 is under direction of Howard Simmons « « « » » » FAMILY TYPE PICTURE! IS AIM OF MONOGRAM (Continued from Page 1) throughout the country, Presider W. Ray Johnston said yesterday £ the closing session of the company three day regional sales meeting. A unqualified vote of confidence wa given Johnston and producer Trei Carr by the sales organization. No Monogram picture has bee turned down by any censor boar in the four years of the company1 existence, Johnston said. About 7 persons attended the meet. Johi ston returns to New York tomorrow Ed Golden, sales manager, and « P. Friedhoff, treasurer, left for Ne' York yesterday. nil. I lie Bin? for; Is ', ! I? . se « tali \U Censorship is Tightened By Latin-Amer. Countrie Latin American countries hav tightened censorship as regarc racketeer pictures, John Day, Sout American managing director fc Paramount, said yesterday in a Ne' York interview. Pictures with dn matic themes, big in production, fin the best response from South Ame: ican audiences, declared Day. Bus ness in Brazil and Chile shows in provement as compared with la: year, he stated. Day goes to tr. Paramount convention at the Coa: [ and on July 7 sails for Brazil, whei he headquarters. Theater Manager Gets Prize, Wi Denver — Irving Simpson, managi of the Fox at Montrose, Colo., wc the $250 first prize in the Opporti nity contest run off in the pa: twelve weeks by the Fox Intermoui tain division. He promptly got ma ried. Dan McAuliffe, managing tl Mayan here, won the watch for th ater maintenance. E. K. Taylor < the Wilma, Missoula, Mont., copp< the cup for the best advertising car paign. Mike Zalensey won $50 f< the best four-week's record. Salt Lake City Notes Salt Lake City — Stetson and Fe; ley have reopened the Studio Th ater after remodeling. New poli< will be four changes weekly. Harry Maizlish, Warner-Fir National exploiteer, has been he on the campaign for "20 Millie Sweethearts", opening June 14 the Capitol. Hugh Braley, Paramount distri manager, arrived here last we< from Denver for a brief look aroun Allied Meeting Routine Routine business was transact! at a meeting of Allied Theaters New Jersey yesterday with Sidn E. Samuelson presiding. Plans w soon be announced for the uni' annual convention, which takes pla this summer.