The Film Daily (1934)

DAILY Thursday, June 7, 1934J I THE « FILM DOM Vol. LXV, No. 132 Thurs., June 7, 1934 5 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President, Editor and Publisher ; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager; Arthur W. Eddy, Associate Editor; Don Carle Gillette, Managing Editor. Entered as second class matter. May 21, 1918, at the post-office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y.. Phone, Circle 7-4736, 7-4737, 7-4738, 7-4739. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California— Ralph Wilk. 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest \V. Fredman, The Film Renter. 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Couries-Noues, 19. FINANCIAL Columbia Picts Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. East. Kodak Fox Fm. "A" Loew's, Inc do pfd M-G-M pfd Paramount ctfs Pathe Exch do "A" RKO "A" Warner Bros NEW YORK Technicolor Trans-Lux High 34% NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net Low Close Chg. 33 % 34 -f Vi 31/2 35/8 + 1/4 16 I61/4 96 96+1 141/4 Hi/4 — % 35/s 16i/4 96i/2 14% 33% 96 261/z 43/4 3 23% 2% 63/8 CURB 10% 15/ 321/4 32% 96 96 26l/2 26% 4% 4% 23/4 22% 2% 6'/8 2% 223/4 — 3/8 2% 6 1/4 + 'A MARKET IOI/2 10% 8 1% 1% Va, NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 9 8l/2 8l/2 Keith A-0 6s46 68 68 68 Loew 6s 41ww 10034 100% 100% + % Paramount 6s47 ctfs. 49'/4 49V4 49'/4 + Vi Par. 5V2s50 49% 49% 495/8 + % Pathe 7s37 100 99% 100 + 1 Warner's 6s39 61 60 60 +1/4 N. Y. PRODUCE EXCHANGE SECURITIES Para. Publix 4% 4% *Vi — Va Ralph Wilk Jacob Wilk 200 Out Playing Golf Today Two hundred golf enthusiasts will gather this morning at the Glen Oaks Golf and Country Club, Great Neck, L. I., to take part in the 22nd Film Golf Tournament. The entry list is one of the largest ever registered in the 15 years of these events. Many players airived at the clubhouse yesterday and after a round of golf, spent the night there in anticipation of an early start. Highlight of the day will be the team play between the A.M. P. A. and the Motion Picture Club for the Albee Memorial Cup and the Jules Brulatour medals. Tonight will be the annual dinner and awarding of prizes. Those who are prevented from partaking in the day's activities are invited to attend the evening banquet which will start about 7:30 o'clock. Charge for the evening meal and jollification will be $5. Want Indies Represented On New K. C. Zoning Plan Kansas City — Jay Means, president of the I. T. O., and W. D. Fulton, independent exhibitor, have been asked by the local clearance and zoning board to appoint representatives to work with the board on the proposed new clearance schedule. The board presumably wants all local independent interests represented in preparing the second schedule. Re-Opening Denver Zoning Denver -Because of numerous complaints the entire zoning of the city of Denver will be opened at a meeting of the clearance and zoning board next Tuesday. Signers of the code as well as non-signers will be heard. Discuss Trailer Situation The trailer situation, especially from the angle of M-G-M's decision to make its own advance notices, was discussed by the I. T. O A. at a meeting yesterday with President Harry Brandt in the chair. Plans were launched for a boat ride and outing to be held July 25. Rosenblatt Back on Job Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington ■ — Division Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt returned to his office yesterday after a week's absence due to a severe cold. He leaves today for New York to attend the Code Authority meeting tomorrow. Erpi Supplies Equipment Electrical Research Products has provided the equipment along with the technical staff for the broadcasting of the Golf Tournament highlights at the banquet in the evening. The equipment was secured through Bert Sanfoi'd of Erpi. Wanger Signs French Actress Paris — Walter Wanger, now on this side acquiring material for his new independent producing venture, has signed Gigi Diderot, French film star. It is also learned that Wanger has acquired screen rights to one of England's best sellers, "Silver Threads," by Glane Binson. Lightman to Para. Convention Memphis — M. A. Lightman leaves Memphis June 14 to attend the Paramount convention on the coast. Al Lichtman On Coast Conferring With Goldwyn West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Al Lichtman, vicepresident and general manager in charge of distribution for United Artists, is here by plane from Chicago, where he attended the U. A. convention. After a few days conferring with Samuel Goldwyn on his coming product, Lichtman will return to New York, where he is due on Monday. Dubinsky Union Case Settled Kansas City — Dispute between Ed Dubinsky of the Liberty and Regent theaters and the operators union has been practically settled, according to A. W. DeBirney, special U. S. assistant attorney general from Washington, who acted as arbitrator. New agreement calls for three operators in each house, working 35 hours instead of 40, with total salary of $199.50 at the Liberty and $185 at the Regent, against $250 and $195, formerly. Newsreel Boys at A. C. Party Atlantic City — Claude R. Collins, Harold E. Wondsel and Stuyvesant B. Wright, all of Pathe News, and Lowell Thomas, John B. Kennedy, Ted Husing, E. V. Kaltenborn and others will be here for the Saturday night banquet of the Headliners Frolic being staged as part of the city's publicity and promotion campaign. .oming an dG oi ng J. WALTER RUBEN arrives in New Yor board the lie de France on Tuesday froi England and will depart Wednesday for th coast to resume directing at the RKO studio: A. E. MATTHEWS sailed yesterday on th Carinthia for England. HERBERT T. SILVERBERG, film attorney, ar rived in town yesterday from Buffalo. CARL LAEMMLE, who sails June 16 fc Europe after attending the Universal conven tion in New York, will be accompanied b JOE WEIL, assistant, and JACK ROSS, secrc tary. DOROTHEA WIECK is en route from f coast to England. E. M. LOEW of Boston was in New Yor! yesterday. AL ZIMBALIST of the Warner Theaters ex ploitation forces in St. Louis arrived in Nev York yesterday for a vacation. He will visi Pittsburgh on his way back. SAM GALANTY was in New York yesterda; from Washington, returning last night. LESTER MARTIN of Omaha has arrived ii New York. SAM FOX of Movietone Music leaves in . few days for the coast. HERBERT WILCOX arrived from Europe Tues day on the Olympic. CARL LAEMMLE, JAMES R. GRAINGER, E T. GOMMERSAL, SIDNEY SINGERMAN, EDDII BONNS and JOHN LEROY JOHNSON leave fo Chicago on Sunday. Kilt ill M New Book for Film Writers "Film Writing Forms," new bool showing how to prepare stories fo the screen, will be published tomor row by the Gotham Book Mart. I was edited with notes by Lewi: Jacobs, co-editor of "Experiments Cinema," and includes various meth ods of screen preparation from synopsis to a shooting script. Expect Memphis Zoning Protests Memphis — Plenty of protests against the original draft of the new zoning plan are expected to be registered at a meeting of the clearance board Monday. So far only a few cases have been filed with the local grievance board. "Bengal" for RKO Houses Phil Meyer, who is distributing "Beyond Bengal" locally, has booked the film to play the RKO metropolitan circuit. The picture closes its run at the Gaiety on June 13 and reopens at the Cameo on June 15 for an indefinite run. Lawton to Improve Bronx House Stanley Lawton has closed the Prospect theater in the Bronx and will reopen it in the fall after extensive renovation and installation of RCA sound equipment. Building New Florida House Leesburg, Fla. — E. M. Fain, proprietor of the Palace theater, is building a second house on Main St. Non-Union House Bombed Kansas City — A dynamite boml tossed on the roof of the Murra theater tore a large hole in the to] of the building. E. C. 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