The Film Daily (1934)

THE , 1934 'iij h oat '■■ Union England. fflxiiieji tint ' He * ■«! !!l,(yt »< M III rt tnFifr. wing an, W for n if. ij Friday. * in an as hip to jerties ropolitad he prop! Tuesday, June 26, 1934 ■c^k DAILY BI-WEEKLY MEETINGS FOR CODE AUTHORITY (Continued from Page 1) and grievance boards will hold a joint session this morning at 11 o'clock. First meeting of committees named to hear appeals in behalf of the Authority will be held Monday. Personnel of the 10 committees will be determined by the Authority on Thursday. seekinc its vm normal ions, tin erests of ., jld her r York i in Nee F. Feiste -iing' ilas i for i United I t becan boy yi ire doii Para. Regional Confabs Get Under Way Today (Continued from Paae 1) land, Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco offices attending. Divisional Sales Manager Charles Reagan will preside. Following the San Francisco meeting, Reagan will depart for Chicago to hold the second meeting, the date of which is yet to be announced. Exchanges will be gathered at Chicago from Milwaukee, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, Des Moines, Minneapolis and Sioux Falls. In the Eastern and Southern Divisions Joseph J. Unger will preside at Atlanta on June 29-30, with New Orleans, Atlanta, Memphis, Jacksonville and Charlotte offices attending. On July 2-3 they will convene at Washington. Attending will be Washington, Philadelphia, Cleveland. Columbus, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh branches. The last will be held at New York City on July 6-7, with New York, New Jersey, Brooklyn, Albany, Buffalo, Boston, Maine and New Haven. These regional conventions will be attended by all district and branch managers, salesmen, bookers and ad sales managers. Zaharoff Inspires RKO Film West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Incidents in the life of Sir Basil Zaharoff, noted munitions man, form the basis of "To the Victor," which Larry Bachmann, assistant to Pandro S. Bermian, has written for the new RKO program. Berman will produce it. Duals at Brown, Louisville Louisville — A double feature policy has been instituted at the Brown theater. BIG NEWS AS SEEN BY THE PRESS AGENT Warner Baxter bought a city map in L. A. in order to find his way back to Beverly Hills. MONG THE nsM^^^f&kLESSjaAb. PHIL M. DALY • • • CHALK UP a swell stunt for the dep't of United Artists which negotiated tieup on a mass scale never equalled in the plan was worked with Cine-Mundial fan mag that circulates in practically all the countries with the current issue carrying ad section pushing over Sam Goldwyn's " starring Eddie Cantor foreign publicity a merchandising the foreign field the Spanish Spanish-speaking a special 13-page Roman Scandals" • • • RIGHT HERE in New York the foreign publicity dep't contacted the advertisers in the foreign mag and sold them the idea of a "Keep Young and Beautiful" co-op section 11 big manufacturers took full page ads dressed up with specially posed stills of the Goldwyn Girls the section started off with an introductory page dedicated to woman's desire for youth and beauty. ... .and explaining that the "Keep Young and Beautiful" sequence in "Roman Scandals" is the inspiration for the tieup T T ▼ • • • WHAT WE are trying to figure out is was this sequence worked into the Goldwyn pix with the idea of exploiting it so magnificently as outlined above or did the foreign publicity dep't develop a natural? either way it's a darb ▼ T T • • • IN ANSWER to our recent plea for film accessories for the leper colony in the Virgin Islands Jack Sichelman of Fox is forwarding 13 prints to the organization in charge of this worthy charity the prints were loaned to the Navy and on their return the Fox boys decided this was the one spot to place them nice work, fellers any more of you guys have anythin'? T T T • • • ALL ENTRIES in Warner's exploitation contest on "The Circus Clown" must be in the mails not later than midnight of Sept. 1 this is the Joe E. Brown pix that offers opportunities for a regular circus ballyhoo The Roxy theater baseball team will play the Radio City Music Hall this morn ... in the ball grounds at Central Park • • • ALL THOSE who appreciate good music will find interest in "Musical Moods" produced by Audio Productions musical shorts that are so designed that they appeal to the masses as well as the classes the music is furnished by such famous artists as Hans Lange and his 76-piece symphony orch. ...... .Rosario Bourdon and Gustave Haen schen and their orchestras these Technicolor subjects are filmed out of doors the subjects give an idea of the wide range "In A Monastery Garden," "Fingal's Cave," "Mexican Idyl," "Hymn to the Sun," "Waters of Minnetonka," "Italian Caprice," "Irish Melody." • • • THE SCREEN tests taken on the Steel Pier at Atlantic City by Falcon Pictures for roles in "Convention Girl" resulted in choosing Mrs. Natalie Tyson granddaughter of E. T. Stotesbury, Philly financier for one of the parts Luther Reed took the test pix • • • A NEW way to crash the Hollywood studios has been discovered Sally McKee a lab worker at M-G-M was chosen to play the femme lead in Pete Smith's new sport short, "Strikes and Spares," Sally bowls 228 and she's just right for this bowling pix « « « » » » 12 TWICKENHAM FILMS FOR RELEASE IN U. S. Adolph Fried of Film Sales Ltd., London, will distribute 12 features produced by Twickenham Studios, releasing them in this country next year. First will be "Bella Donna," with Conrad Veidt. Fried is at present distributing eight features. Fried sails for England on Friday after making several deals and looking over the product situation here. He has appointed Morris Kandel as his American representative. Empire Pictures Plans 7 Frozen North Films West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Empire Pictures has signed John Preston, socialite whose real name is Andrew Jackson Rylee and who is a descendant of "Stonewall" Jackson, for seven pictures of the frozen Northwest. First will be titled "Courage of the North." Preston recently appeared in Bryan Foy's "Tomorrow's Children" and the Far East Productions effort, "Beast of Borneo." Scheduled German Imports Higher for Next Season Berlin — Release plans of the various German distributing agencies for 1934-35 show a total of 233 features, an increase of 40 over 193334, with foreign pictures, mostly from the U. S., being increased to 67 from 54 the year before. Reopen B'way Hollywood For "DuBarry" Roadshow Warner's Hollywood Theater will be reopened about the middle of next month for the first of the comany's projected roadshow runs of "Madame DuBarry", starring Dolores Del Rio. Halt City Auditorium Lease Hickory, N. C. — Local city councilmen were restrained by Judge Wilson Warlick from leasing to the Criterion Amusement Co. of Charlotte the city auditorium here. A hearing to make the restraining order permanent has been set for July 2. Stanzler Adds Providence Casino Providence — The Casino has been opened under the direction of Abraham Stanzler, who operates the Community theaters in both Wakefield and Centerdale, R. I. Shorts Become Juniors Now it's "junior features," not shorts, in M-G-M parlance. Formerly the company's house organ referred to them as short features.