The Film Daily (1934)

DAILY Monday, June 11, 1934 Vol. LXV, No. 135 Mon, June 11, 1934 5 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : : Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holiday> at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y . by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W \licoate, President, Editor and Publisher. Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurei ind General Manager; Arthur W. Eddy, Associate Editor; Don Carle Gillette, Managing tditor. Entered as second class matter. May 21, 1918, at the post-office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Verms (Postage free) United States outsidiof Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, S5.00; 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. ("able Address: Filmday, New York. Hollv wood, California— Ralph Wilk. 6425 Holly wood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 VVardour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne. Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Tinematographie Francaise, Rue de la Cour Irs-Noues. 19. • FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) Net High Low Close Chg. Con. Fm. Ind 3% 3'/2 3V4+ Vs East. Kodak 98 97% 98 + Vi Fox Fm. "A" 14% 14% 14%— % Loew's, Inc 33% 323/4 32% — 3/4 Paramount 5 4% 4% Pathe Exch 2% 2% 2% do "A" 24 233/4 24 RKO "A" 3 23/4 23/4 — l/4 Warner Bros 6l/2 6% 63/s NEW YORK CURB MARKET Technicolor 11% 11 11% + % NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 . 9V4 9i/4 9'/4 + V4 Loew 6s 41ww 101 V4 100% 101 1/4 Paramount 6s 47 ... 53 53 53 -4 % Par. By. 5'/2s51 . . . 453/4 45% 45% 4 % Par. 5V2s50 52'/2 52 52 Warner's 6s39 . . 61 !2 61 61 Virginia Valli Dorothy Farnum Leopold Friedman Wesley Ruggles John Holland Walter Byron Bernice Stern The Broadway Parade Picture Distributor Men in White M-G-M Many Happy Returns Paramount . Love Captive Universal Fog Over Frisco First National Lost Jungle Mascot Theater Capitol Paramount Mayfair Strand Criterion It's a Boy Gainsborough Westminster Sisters Under the Skin Columbia Music Hall Such Women Are Dangerous Fox Roxy World in Revolt Mentone Rialto Born to Be Bad United Artists Rivoli Little Man, What Now?" Universal Palace 30 Day Princess* Paramount Center Twentieth Century* Columbia Little Carnegie ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUN ♦ House of Rothschild (13th week) United Artists Astor 4 FOREIGN DIALOGUE PICTURE ♦ Mother-1905 Amkino Acme ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Crime Doctor (June 13)* Are We Civilized (June 13) Life of Vergie Winters (June 14) Operator 13f Here Comes the Groom (June 15) RKO Center Raspin Rivoli RKO Music Hall M-G-M Capitol Paramount Paramount Let's Talk It Over (June 15) Universal Roxy Black Moon,; Dr. Monica" Subsequent runs. Follows World in Revolt. Columbia Rialto Warner Bros Strand ■'Follows Fog Over Frisco. •fFollows Men in White. Code Auth'y Not Attending Confab to Define 'Employe' Members of the Code Authority will not attend the hearing to be held by the NBA tomorrow at Washington preliminary to inserting in the motion picture code a new and broader definition of the word "employe." Re-defining of the word is planned to stop a practice under which certain theaters, in order to evade paying wage standards specified by the code for maintenance men, including cleaners, have arranged td have their work done by outside corporations. Await Rosenblatt Action On Code Agency Protest Division Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt up to last night had not acted on protest wired him by the Code agency committee on appointment of Major Joseph O'Donovan as permanent secretary at the coast. The committee had recommended Campbell McCullough. E. W. Butcher Producing West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — E. W. Butcher, Who is now an associate producer at Fox as well as holding the post of production manager, will handle the next Shirley Temple film, "Angel Face," with James Dunn and Alice Faye. Butcher also will produce several Will Rogers pictures, including George Ade's "County Chairman." Overseating in England Spurs Studios, Says Fried Overseating in England has resulted in British film companies increasing their production budgets to compete more effectively with one another, it was stated Saturday to The Film Daily by Adolph Fried, sales representative outside the United Kingdom for several prominent British independent producers. Fried is here to arrange for distribution of eight features. Exploration Pictures Planning Some More West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Having just completed shooting its initial feature, Exploration Pictures Corp., of which Jesse J. Goldburg is president, plans to embark on additional films along similar lines. The first picture was photographed in the Philippines, with a story by James Gilbert and native cast. In addition to the feature, Goldburg filmed enough material for a series of single-reelers. Roger Pryor to Be Starred West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Roger Pryor is slated for stardom at Universal. Carl Laemmle, Jr., has given instructions to the scenario department to hunt up a suitable vehicle. Pryor has just appeared with Mae West in "It Ain't No Sin" for Paramount. Keaton French Film Titled Paris — Buster Keaton's first French picture has been titled "King of the Champs Elysees." It will have 300 Broadway Girls, with Max Nosseck directing. .oming an dG Olid Ef 01 ng KAY FRANCIS, Warner star, is expected ir New York the latter part of this week fron the coast, with plans to sail about June 20 foi . 1 Naples. See will remain abroad until September., -ntiol FAY WRAY, who recently finished work ir Columbia's "Black Moon," arrives in New Yort today from the coast for a vacation. DAVID SELZNICK and party, including GEORGE CUKOR, HOWARD ESTABROOK, HUGH WALPOLE and FRITZ LANG, arrive in New York tomorrow from England on the Me d( France. LESLIE HOWARD, having finished "British Agent" for First National, sails June 19 foi England, returning in the fall. JOE E. BROWN returned to Hollywood yester day from the Orient. PAT O'BRIEN, HENRY O'NEILL, JOHN ELDREDGE, ROSS ALEXANDER and JOHN BOLES have arrived at West Point to take part ir Warner's "Flirtation Walk" for which Frank Borzage is making scenes at the military acad emy. Amity with Catholics Seen St. Louis — Basis for a better un derstanding between the Catholic Church and the movies in working mutually toward elimination of ob jectionable matter in films was reached at an audience granted late last week by Archbishop John J Glennon to a delegation of exhibi tors headed by Fred H. Wehrenberg president of the regional M.P.T.O Louis Ansell of the Ritz and Harold W. Evans of Loew's State also were present. Wehrenberg suggested that the Catholic Church appoint a spe cial committee to cooperate with the Better Films Council in passing on pictures. The Archbishop indicated this would have consideration and that Wehrenberg would hear from him later. COVERS EVERYTHING mer lers ati tli th An ra ictii fed iti ■up hi ■as tar, Mi ay, It's a great job. Arch Reeve Fotr F'ilm Corp. 1,000 Pages - Free to Film Daily Subscribers. A I'fji