The Film Daily (1935)

THE M 12 m -%*H DAILY Friday, May 10, 1935 BANK NIGHTS BANNED IN 32 CODE APPEALS Virtually all banning "bank nights" or similar schemes on the grounds that they violate the code by having the effect of reducing admission prices, the Code Authority yesterday announced determinations on 32 appeals dealing with these practices. They indicate that the policies are particularly in vogue in the northwest. The following theaters were ordered to cease the schemes: Victory, Hibbing, Minn. ; Mounds, St. Paul Arcade, St. Paul; Edina, Edina, Minn.; De Luxe, St. Paul; Roxy, St. Paul; Strand, St. Paul; Park and Princess, Urbana, 111.; American, Chicago; Paramount, Hammond; Lindy,' Chicago; Princess, Fort Dodge; Strand, Rialto and Iowa, Fort Dodge; Casino, Sac City; Haight, Parkside, Uptown. Daly City, Granada and Amazon, San Francisco; American, New Mission and New Fillmore, San Francisco; Coliseum, El Rey; Harding, Lincoln and Metropolitan, San Francisco; Sequoia, Mill Valley, Cal.; Lyceum, San Francisco; Hollywood, Milwaukee; Mainstreet,, Racine; Ritz, Memphis, Texas; Ritz, Broadway and Yale, Muskogee, Okla. : Palace and Oneonta, Oneonta, N. Y. ; Gem. Alton, 111.; Broadway. Butte; Carolina, Mooresville, N. C. ; Ritz, McPherson, Kan.; Ridgely, Ridgely, Md. ; New Ponton, Crewe, Va. A complaint against the Butler, Butler, Ind., was dismissed. Overbuying appeals were decided as follows: against New Carolina and Playhouse, Winnsboro, S. C, guilty; Rialto and Hiart theaters, Lockport, N. Y., dismissed; United Artists, Strand and Pasadena, Pasadena, dismissed; Wilson, State and Kinema, Fresno, Cal., dismissed. Ban on premiums which was ordered by the Indianapolis grievance board for a zone including the city of Marion, Ind., and adjoining territory within 10 miles was nullified on grounds that the vote was improper. In the action of the Strand and Leroy theaters, Pawtucket, R. I., vs. the Imperial and Broadway theaters, Pawtucket, the Code Authority affirmed the ban on reduced admission tickets but dismissed the ban on giveaways on the ground that proper procedure has not been followed. The Philadelphia grievance board is instructed to hold a hearing on a complaint brought by the Palace, Atlantic City, charging that the Lyric, that town, is delaying pictures for an unreasonable period. Clearance and zoning appeals were decided as follows: affirms decision of New York board in case of Parkway, Mt. Vernon, vs. Plaza, Mt. Vernon, and Bronxville, Bron.xville; Plaza, Linden, vs. Ritz and Regent, Elizabeth, and Rahway, Rahway, decides Rahway and Plaza shall have same availability and both houses follow seven days after the Elizabeth first run ; Granada, Pearl River, N. Y., vs. Pascack, Westwood, N. J. ; Oritani, Hackensack; Fox, Hackensack and Plaza, Englewood, decides Granada, West wood and Pascack are in competition and that a maximum of seven days' clearance between Park River and Westwood is reasonable; Rialto, Newark, vs. Goodwin, Newark, established 14 days' maximum clearance under certain conditions; Ambassador, Cleveland, Liberty and Ritz, Cleveland, decides seven days' clearance is reasonable; Rosevillc, Roseville, Mich., vs. Ramona, Detroit, decides houses are not competitive; Marcal, Los Angeles, vs. theaters in zone eight and nine under Los Angeles clearance and zoning schedule, sustains decision not to change schedule; Egleston, Boston, vs. Rivoli. Koxbury, and Jamaica, Jamaica Plains, decides 28 days' clearance of first-run Boston over Rivoli is not unreasonable; Strand, Windsor, \'t, vs. Latchis, Claremont, N. H.. and M-G-M, supports ruling theaters are noncompetitive; Fairy, Nappanee, Ind., vs. Granada, South Bend, Ind., and Colfax and Palace, South Bend, eliminates present 14 days' clearance between two towns; Gem, St. John's Station, Mo., vs. Mikado, St. Louis, affirms decision dismissing complaint that clearance of 42 days on pictures exhibited at 15 cents is unfair; Gem, St. John's Station, Mo., vs. Mikado, St. Louis, supports decision dismissing charge that 42 days' clearance on films shown at 15 cents is unreason A LITTLE from "LOTS ►// By RALPH WILK; HOLLYWOOD "NTORMAN TAUROG will direct Eddie Cantor in Samuel Goldwyn's tentativelv titled "Dreamland". AAA Katharine Hepburn, due to pressure of work at RKO Radio, will not be able to appear in stock at Saybrook, Conn., this summer, as she had hoped to do. Her next picture, "Alice Adams," goes in work May 14. T T T Constance Cummings has been signed by Reliance for "Amateur Lady", by Elmer Harris and Lynn Starling. T T T Peverell Marlev has been loaned by Edward Small of Reliance pictures to RKO for the photographing of "Three Musketeers," which Rowland V. Lee will direct. T T T Aubrey Scotto will start the direction of "Smart Girl" about May 20. A strong cast is being assembled by the Walter Wanger production, which will be distributed by Paramount. T ▼ T Charles Kenyon, Warner scenarist, spent a week in Boulder City, Nev., as a lineman's helper on the electric transmission wires from Boulder Dam, to secure color and detail for the screenplay for "Slim," the William Wister Haines novel which Warners are shortly to produce. T ▼ T Bryan Foy, signed as a supervisor at Warners, will have "The Real McCoy," based on an original by George Bricker, as his first assignment. T T T Ian Hunter has been loaned by Warners to RKO for "Jalna." T T T Dore Schary, who recently wrote the screenplays for "Storm Over the Andes" and "Chinatown Squad", for Universal, has joined Fox and is writing the script for "Uncle Dudley", which will star Edward Everett Horton. T ▼ T George Archainbaud will soon start the direction of "Thunder in the Night" for Fox. Edmund Lowe, Karen Morley and Paul Cavanaugh have already been cast. T T T Howard Ellis Smith is writing the screenplay and dialogue for "Professional Soldier", which will be made by Twentieth Century. T T T "A Perfect Gentleman," unproduced play by Edward Childs Carpenter, has been bought by M-G-M. T T T When Bing Crosby heard that Richard Dix was the father of twins, the crooning star remarked that it's always that way in Hollywood — just as soon as somebody does something good, somebody else has to copy it. "Mad Love," first M-G-M picture in which Peter Lorre is to be starred, has gone into production. Supporting cast includes Colin Clive, Frances Drake, Ted Healy, Isabel Jewell, Ian Wolfe and Edward Brophy. T T T Warner-First National cast assignments: Genevieve Tobin for the feminine lead in "Little Big Shot"; Donald Woods, Phil Regan, Hobart Cavanaugh, Warren Hymer, for "We're in the Money"; Henry Armetta for "Romance of the Rockies", two-reel Vitaphone musical; Arthur Byron, Phillip Reed for "Not on Your Life"; Huntley Gordon for "Front Page Woman". T T T Erie Kenton is director on Columbia's "Grand Exit," adapted by Bruce Manning from an original by Gene Towne and Graham Baker. Fourteen-year-old Mickey Rooney, who is an all-around athlete, is a protege of Alice Marble, ranking woman tennis player in the United States, now a coach at the Los Angeles club. He has played with Fred Perry, Bill Tilden, Lester Stoeffen, Frank Shields and other racquet greats. ▼ T T George Nicholls, Jr., is directing "The Return of Peter Grimm," at RKO. The cast includes Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, James Bush, Donald Meek, George Breakston, Greta Meyer, Edward Ellis and Constance Purdy. Francis Edwards Faragoh wrote the screenplay. T T T John Wayne's initial Western on the new Republic program will be "Westward Ho." Paul Malvern, producer of the Monogram-Wayne series, will handle the new series. When Dave Gould completed rehearsals on the "Broadway Rhythm" number in "Broadway Melody of 1935." it marked the finishing of his eight-thousandth dance creation. During his career, he has hired more than 20,000 chorus girls. Al Woods, the stage producer, and Harry Carr, Los Angeles "Times" columnist, who has been associated with D. W. Griffith and Mack Sennett, are the latest to predict stardom for Rosalind Russell, M-G-M actress. Other observers believe that Robert Taylor, of the MG-M roster, will also attain stardom. ▼ T ▼ Allen Rivkin flies to New York to attend the premiere of his new play, "Knock on Wood." A. Weinstock is producing in association with the Shuberts. CHARACTER FILMS OPENING TOMORROW Initial step in a country-wide edu cational movement in which schoo authorities and motion picture pro ducers are cooperating will be takei here tomorrow morning when thi first of a series of 20 pictures de signed to emphasize character train ing will be shown to selected group, of New York public school children These pictures, which have just beei completed, will be given national dis tribution following the additional showing of the film to grade pupil throughout New York. The introductory demonstration o :| this series of pictures to publi> school pupils was arranged througl the cooperation of Dr. Harold G Campbell, Superintendent of Schools and Will H. Hays, President of thi Motion Picture Producers and Dis tributors of America. Subject mat ,er of the films to be shown has beer culled from distinctive feature pho toplays, and portrays through well known actors such character prob lems as that of one boy snubbing an other, the difficulties of a child ir getting his parents to understanc him, helpfulness and consideratioi of one's less fortunate playmates and truthfulness, honesty and patriotism. After viewing the films the children will discuss the prob lems portrayed among themselves with their teachers, and later witr their parents. Rosamond Pinchot will appear ir RKO's "Three Musketeers." Harry Ruby, the song writer, spends his spare moments working ut with the Los Angeles Coast eague team. Benny Rubin also likes to work out with the same club Ben Stoloff and Fred Newmeyer art former professionals, the former be ing a shortstop and the latter a pitcher. T T T Sam Wood makes a far jump frorr directing the Reliance picture, "Lei 'Em Have It", dealing with Department of Justice agents, to piloting the merry and mad Marx Brothers in their M-G-M production. John Miljan says Mae West is such a talented actress that the camera is unable to do justice to her many subtleties of characteriza tion and depths of feeling. Major R. V. C. Boadley is now at M-G-M writing the screenplay on John Monk Saunders' untitled original, which is laid at Oxford. Boadley is the author of such books m "Indiscretions of Young Man", "OH ficial Biography of Admiral Toko , "Algeria from Within," "Drama of the Pacific" and "Indiscreet Trav els East". ^amm