The Film Daily (1935)

THE ■ -aZZH DAILY Saturday, May 25, 1935 NRA AGREEMENT TO „ REVIEWS of the NEW FILMS » EXTEND FILM CODE (.Continued from Page 1) that only industries "substantial!, affecting" interstate commerce wi~ have the effect of eliminating exhibition and production from the motion picture code could not be determined last night. It is expected that after public hearings at Washington, scope of the provisions will be established. Opponents of the code within the film industry have repeatedly claime that exhibition is an intrastate busi ness and therefore beyond the juri: diction of the present NRA. Fox Met. Stock Setup In Plan Modifications (.Continued from Page 1) plan giving added protection to bondholders and on which there will be a hearing June 3 before Federal Judge Mack. Fifty per cent of the Class A stock will go to Milton C. Weisman as receiver for Fox Theaters Corp., if he pays in an additional $2,75,000 to the company; 40 per cent to United Artists Theater Circuit, and 10 per cent to KeithAlbee-Orpheum. Herbert Bayard Swope is named to the new company board instead of Harry D. Buckley. Each bondholder will receive four shares of Class B stock, valued at $62.50 par, for each $1,000 principal amount of bonds. The Class B stock will bear interest at five per cent and will receive dividends at the same rate per share as the Class A stock and at the same time. New modification provides that bondholders shall have two instead of three directors after 80 per cent of the bonds are redeemed, and one director after all the bonds are redeemed, but while some of the Class B stock is outstanding. Debenture holder? will have one representative on the executive committee while they still have two directors. Payment of dividends is restricted until 50 per cent of the debentures are paid off and a reserve for obsolescence, depreciation and amortization will be set up until 90 per cent instead of 80 per cent of the bonds are paid off. The amendments also permit Weisman to request compensatior for his services as proponent of the plan. Cleveland Clips Harry Horwitz has installed new lighting fixtures in his New Broadway and Olympia theaters as parr of his spring house-cleaning program . Marty Seamon, manager of Warner's Columbia, Portsmouth, died last week from pneumonia. Harry Goldstein, Paramount district manager, is proudly displaying hi? newly acquired commission of Kentucky Colonel. Bette Davis in "THE GIRL FROM 10TH AVENUE" with Ian Hunter, Colin Clive First Nat'l 69 mins, ARTIFICIAL AND UNCONVINCING ROMANCE OF POOR GIRL MARRYING INTO SOCIETY. The effect of this drama designed for pep appeal with a poor girl marrying a socially prominent young lawyer is that of a straining for the sympathies of the audience in the girl's plight as the marriage starts to go on the rocks. But you can have little sympathy for her, nor for the husband who has married outside his class and realizes he is more or less ostracised, and then starts to play around with the society girl who ditched him for a richer swain. Lacking sincerity, the attempt at creating a sympathetic appeal falls flat. Bette Davis is the poor girl who rescues Ian Hunter from an awful drunk to drown his sorrows as the girl he loved marries his rich rival. Circumstances lead to their marriage, and a new life for both. Then the married love returns, starts playing up to him, and he starts to slip. The dramatic punch is developed in the successful fijht of the wife to hold her erring hubby. Cast: Bette Davis, Jchn Eldredge, Aliscn Skipvvorth, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive, Gordon Ellio't, Andre Chercn, Phillip Reed, Katherine Alexander, Helen Jercme Eddy, Adrian Rosley. Director, Alfred E. Green; Author, Hubert Henry Davies; Screenplay, Charles Kenycn; Editor, Owen Marks; Cameraman, James Van Trees. Direction, Fair Photography, Gccd. "MISTER DYNAMITE" with Edmund Lowe, Jean Dixon, Esther Ralston Universal 69 mins. HAS THE POP APPEAL WITH SUSPENSEFUL MURDER MYSTERY, NICE ROMANCE AND COMEDY. From the workshop of Dashiell Hammett who gave us "The Thin Man," this modern murder mystery moves along at a breezy clip, wilh Edmund Lowe as the private detective of none too good rep with the police coming through in great style with the solution of the murders when the police find themselves stopped. Lowe has plenty of the smart and flip mannerisms and business that keep the action pepped up with laughs. He is the Mr. Dynamite who has been practically escorted out of several towns by the police ior his shady parctices. But in this case he uses his knowledge of underworld tricks !o the advantage of the law and love, and provides a nice love interest along with the thrills, suspense and light comedy touches. It will go well in the pop houses with its smart treatment and breezy style that dcesn't let the murder phase get too meller. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Jean Dixon, Esther Raiston, Victor Varconi, Verna Hide, Miner Watscn, Robert Gleckler, Jameson Thomas, Matt McHugh, G. Pat Collins, Greta Meyer, Bradley Page, James Burtis. Producer, E. M. Asher; Director, Alan Crcsland; Author, Dashiell Hammett; Screenplay, Doris Malloy, Harry Clark; Cameraman, George Robin: en. Direction, Gccd Photography, Gccd. FOREIGN "IGLOI DIAKOK," a musical romance in Hungarian, with Marica Gervay, Paul Javor, et al. An Eco Film Production, at the Tobis. A humorous film with some catchy musical bits, with Marica Gervay as the daughter of a professor at a school fo, boys. She falls for one of the students who is expelled for a harmless prank. He returns from the war a hero and the couple is re-united. "HEROES OF THE ARCTIC," a Soyuzfilm production, distributed by Amkino. At the Cameo. Forceful newsreel-clip drama of a group of over 100 Russian technicians and workers who attempt to blaze a trail to America through the Arctic. Their ship, 1 he Chelyuskin, is crushed by ice floes and they are forced to radio for assistance. The cameraman did a grand job and the scenes of the fight for existence have the effectiveness of a theatrical production. SHORTS "Memories and Melodies" M-G-M 16 mins. Pleasing Produced in Technicolor by Jame; A. FitzPatrick, this subject relate? how the poverty-stricken Stephen Collins Foster, who died in a charity ward, gave away his famous song, "My Old Kentucky Home," to a girl he admired. Bathed in attractive color and pitched in a romantic mood throughout with some good singing and a lively visual accompaniment, this short should satisfy screen audiences. "Good Little Monkeys" (Harman-Ising Cartoon) M-G-M 9 mins Very Funny That the Harman-Ising combina tion is going places, is amply dem onstrated by this subject which ii spots is as good as almost anything previously done in the cartoon field. Subject shows three little monkeys who are lured by the devil to the brink of hell where they are rescuec by the emergence of a Boy Scout brigade and other rescuers from e group of story books of Napoleon Technicolor is excellent and the ac tion swiftly-paced. Charley Chase in "Southern Exposure" M-G-M 21 mins. Very Amusing This subject crowds in a lot of laughs for the Chase fans and others. Charley's frau learns that he is a descendant of the founder of Chaseville, Ky., so they decide to see the ancestral home on their vacation. The place turns out to be a backwoods settlement of the crudest type with much mirth resulting from Charlie's encounters with his hillbilly relatives. Hal Roach produced. PITTSBURGH BANNII^' ALL SUNDAY SHOWS Pittsburgh — Beginning June 2, al Sunday movies, held for charity o otherwise, will be banned, Publh Safety Director Thomas A. Dum announced. Director Dunn statec that if the shows were not stoppec soon all ward political organization! would "muscle in" on Sunday show.' and establish a new racket. Foi the last several months, over 60 pei cent of neighborhood houses have been operating on Sundays with so called benefit shows. Chicago Board to Hear Coercion Complainl (Continued from Page 1) that threats were made to buile competitive theaters in the neigh borhood of the Sheridan, Essanes: house, and that Jones offered bond holders of the Sheridan a large; guarantee than Essaness in orde to obtain a lease on the house. Salt Lake Briefs It has just been reported here that films of Utah's scenic wonder and, Bryce Canyon and Zion Na tional Park, will be shown through out the country during the next sb months, according to Ford Moto: officials. The parks will be photo graphed during the next five day: as part of a national travelogu sponsored by the Ford Motor Co Charles I. Glett, director of the filn company, conferred this week wit! the local branch manager of Ford Eddie Diamond, manager at th< Orpheum, has arranged another ef fective tieup with a local news shee1 through which 10 pairs of ticket: will be given away to those answer ing most accurately a few question regarding the whereabouts of wan ad items. The Intermountain Theater Own ers' Association will hold a meeting here at the Newhouse Hotel withii the next few days, it is announced Maurice Saffle is expected bacl daily to his managerial duties at th< 'ocal M-G-M exchange after attend ing the sales conference at Kansa City. San Antonio Items V. H. Scholl, former Alamo Cit;' theater manager, is back in towi from Houston where he was hea< man at the Kirby. Vinton look several pounds heavier since hi: stay in the Gulf Coastal City. H. W. Kier, prexy of Nation Pictures Co., has received many<£ bookings on "Tubal-Cain," Cinec*.' I Bible story. Palace had the picture "Cash1 showing during the Wednesdaj night "Bank Night" which served as a good plug for each. m