The Film Daily (1934)

THE fu^fey, June 19, 1934 I 22,500,000 SOUGHT IN ELECTRIC SUITS {Continued from Page 1) ment field including the recording, reproducing, replacement of parts and servicing of the equipment. In a $9,000,000 damage suit, Standard Sound Recording Corp., which operated a motion picture studio on West 38th St. alleges that the first William Rowland-Monte Brice short with Texas Guinan and Louis Sobol was made on credit in their studio on condition that if a major release was obtained for a series based on that short, Standard studio was to get the work. Universal Pictures Corp., undertook to release the Rowland-Brice product, but their contract stated the shorts had to be made on Erpi-Wesern Electric equipment in the east. As a result Standard Sound lost the work,! the complainant states. Complainants in the other suits are Service On Sound Corp., manufacturer and dealer, which is suing for $4,500,000; Macy Manufacturing Cor.p., manufacturer and dealer in parts, asking $3,000,000; Grainger Mfg. Co., makers of vacuum tubes, seeking $1,500,000; Standard Sound Service, sound film engineers, and Audio Equipment Maintenance, Inc., service repair firms, each suing for $1,500,000. Three other suits were recently filed against the same defendants by Biophone Corp., Henry D. Baer and Ninth Ave. / Making Five Commercials Detroit — Wilding Picture Productions has five commercial films in work, including one each for Plymouth Motor Co., Hudson Motor Co., Firestone Tire Co., Socony and one for Wagner's Vichy Water, directed to doctors. Australian House Installs The New Embassy, a Hoyt and Union house in Sydney, Australia, has been equipped with Photophone High Fidelity sound. RCA High Fidelity apparatus is also installed in the Redonda Theater, Brookvale. Bruce Gallup Edmund Breese Ivan B. Lebedeff Jeanette MacDonald H. Pergament Mildred Webber To Meet on Clearance Plan New Orleans — Claiming that the clearance and zoning board's proposed zoning plan is unfair, a group oi local independent exhibitors have filed a protest and will meet today and tomorrow with Allied leaders to discuss further action. The independents believe that the plan favors United Theaters. Paramount Sales Policies Discussed by Schaefer {Continued from Page 1) president of Paramount International Corp., spoke for the foreign department and Neil F. Agnew, Lou Diamond and Mav Fleischer reviewed the short subjects product. Today, Emanuel Cohen will discuss production. In the afternoon, Schaefer will make formal announcement of the 1934-35 lineup. Gillooly Files Suits For $500,000 Damages Atlanta — Civil suits totalling $500,000 in damages have been filed here by John J. Gillooly, operator of an independent motion picture theater in St. Petersburg, against E. J. Sparks, Florida, circuit operator, and nine distributors. In a suit for $450,000, filed in the Federal District Court, Gillooly alleges that he was damaged by reason of restraint of trade and a monopoly against contracting in business, all of which is contrary tc/an act of congress approved on July 2, 1890. He charges that Sparks and the distributors caused him to abandon his theater. In a second suit for $50,000, Gillooly alleges that he was "held up to ridicule and charged with the crime of false swearing." This suit, filed in the city court of Atlanta, asks damages of Sparks, the Universal Film Exchange, and John T. Ezell, branch manager of the latter organization. The suits come as a climax to a controversy of some months standing between the Sparks theater interests in Florida and independent theaters over protection. Gillooly took the matter first to the Florida courts, but the claim was thrown out. He then took his claim before the regional zoning and clearance board in Atlanta. No decision has yet been rendered by the board. Study Ways to Speed Up C. A. Appeal Hearings A meeting of the Code Authority legal committee has been called for this afternoon to study the problem of expediting the regular weekly appeal hearings. J. Robert Rubin who has been investigating the appeal from the Chicago grievance board's ruling on the United Artists' 10 per cent cancellation case will likely make known his findings at today's meeting. On the committee are, in addition to Rubin, Austin C. Keough, Willard McKay and Nathan Yamins. DAILY Nowhere will you FIND INFORMATION COVERING PRODUCTION IN ALL ITS BRANCHES AS IN THE COMING FILM DAILY // GUIDE TO PRODUCTION // Out in July