The Film Daily (1934)

THE Friday, June 15, 1934 CODE CASES Activities of Local Grievance and Zoning and Clearance Boards RULE ON FORT LEE CASE New York clearance and zoning board yesterday ruled on the clearance, complaint . of the Grant Lee Theater, Fort Lee, N. J., against eleven Jersey theaters, and adjourned the two other cases pending before it until Thursday. The unfair clearance complaint of the Port Jefferson Theater, Port Jefferson, L. I. vs. Smithtown, Smithtown; Sayville, Sayville; Patchogue and Granada, Patchogue; and Riverhead. Riverhead, was adjourned to permit exhibitors in Glen Cove, Huntington. Huntington Station, Smithtown, Port Jefferson, Patchogue, Sayville and Riverhead to appear before the board because a decision might affect existing clearance sched ules. The complaint of the Ellwood Theater, Newark, sponsored by the Allied Theaters of New Jersey, vs. Warner Bros. Regent in Newark and the Capitol in Belleville was put off because David P. Wilentz, Attorney General of New Jersey^ was unable to appear before the board for a scheduled summation on behalf of the Ellwood. The . board ruled in the complaint of the Grant Lee, Fort Lee, N. J. vs. Fox, Hackensack; United States Theater, Paterson; State Capitol, Union City; Park Lane. Palisades Park; Plaza, Englewood; Stanley, Jersey City; Fabian, Paterson; Oritani. Hackensack; Lincoln, Union City; Embassy. North Bergen; Jersey, Jersey City; that "the Park Lane. Palisades Park, and the Grant Lee, Fort Lee, are competitive; that both these theaters are entitled to 7 days clearance on each other; both these theaters are to follow 14 days after the Embassy. North Bergen; State Capitol, Union City; Lincoln, Union City; seven days after Englewood and in no event less than 14 days after Hackensack. On pictures that these two theaters may elect to follow each other, the theaters having the prior right must play such pictures within 21 days after availability to avail itself of the seven days clearance. In no event are such pictures to become available to the repeating run more than 28 days after the availabi'ity of the prior run. The Queen Anne, Bogota, js not to have any clearance over the Grant Lee or Park Lane Theaters. All theaters in Paterson and Jersey City have no bearing on this case." DISMISS TWO FWC CASES Kansas City, Mo. — Of the three cases filed by Mrs. Baer (Lindberirh) tor Kansas City exhibitors against Fox West Coast theaters, two were dismissed by the grievance board yesterday. One, decided against Fox, involved a 25 cent admission price scale in a 15 cent spot. The board ordered Fox to cease the practice. The picture involved was "Sons of the Desert." The two other complaints involved the Gladstone and Lin wood and concerned price reductions. In the case of I. W. Maple, operator of the Cozy, Bethany. Mo., who charged L. M. Robinson, operator of the Rigney at A' bany, who is opening a new theater in Bethany, with overbuying and interference with lease negotiations, the board held that Robinson was not . overbought, hut that he was guilty of interference. The latter case goes to the Code Authority on appeal. Distributors named by Maple in complaint were Metro, RKO, Warner Bros, and Paramount. THREE APPEALS FROM N. Y. Three appeals were made yesterday to the Code Authority from decisions of the New York grievance board. Skouras Theaters appealed fromi the decision awarding the Orient Theater, Jersey City, half of the RKO, Lfniversal and Vitagraph product received by the Apollo Theater. The Empire ind Marvin Theaters, Brooklyn appealed from the decision, made on complaint of Loew's Gates, that the theaters had been reducing admissions through giveaways. THE 1934 FILM DAILY PRODUCTION GUIDE WILL SOON BE SEEN EVERYWHERE Short Shots From Eastern Studios !By CHARLES ALICOATE ^/ALTER SHERIDAN has been engaged by Dave Thomas of Falcon Productions to serve as assistant director to^ Luther Reed on "Convention Girl." Sheridan leaves for Atlantic City Sunday to select locations. • Shooting on the polo short, which ivas photographed at Westbury, L. I., by Vincent Farrar for Columbia release, has been completed. Ben Schwab was in charge of the production. • Hal LeRoy, who recently completed work on the coast in "Wonder Bar" and "Harold Teen," and Dorothy Dare, who is soon to leave for a career in feature pictures under the Warner banner, will complete work tomorrow in a two-reel musical comedy titled "Syncopated City" at the Vitaphone studio Brooklyn. The short will be released in Vitaphone's series of "Broadway Brevities." • Melvyn Douglas, of the legitimate stage, currently seen on Broadway in "No More Ladies," has been signed by Select Productions for a featured part in Dashiell Ham mett's novel, "Dangerous Romance", which goes into production Monday at the Biograph studio. • A new Tow Howard comedy, the fifth in Educational's current season, will go into production Monday at the Eastern Service studio in Astoria. Al Christy will personally direct the short which will feature George Shelton with Tom Howard. e Vincent Farrar, Bergi Contner, Frank Zucker and Jack Reiger were behind the cameras at the BaerCarnera heavyiveight fight last night in the Madison Square Long Island Bowl. The equipment for the taking of the pictures including the slow motion camera was supplied by the Motion Picture Camera Supply with Cineglow sound system being used for recording . • Florence Heller, young Park Avenue society girl, who appeared in "Chrysalis," "Late One Evening," "Mismates" and several other Broadway productions, is on her way to the coast where additional screen tests will be given her. IT WILL CONTAIN 400 PAGES AND WILL COVER PRODUCTION THOROUGHLY FILM DAILY REFERENCE BOOKS ARE CONSIDERED STANDARD BY THE INDUSTRY * THE ANNUAL YEAR BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE FILM DAILY IS FILMDOM'S ENCYCLOPEDIA NOW COMES ItLE PRODUCTION GUIDE EACH JULY AS PART OF FILM DAILY SERVICE