The Film Daily (1935)

Vol. LXVII, No. 124 Mon., May 27, 1935 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President, Editor and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager; Arthur W. Eddy, Associate Editor; Don Carle Gillette, Managing Editor. Entered as second class matter. May 21, 1918, at the post-office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign $15.00. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone, Circle 7-4736, 7-4737, 7-4738, 7-4739. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne. Friedrichstrasse. 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, L. Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. CODE FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK (QUOTATIONS AS OF High Am. Seat 7% Columbia Picts 59V2 Con Fm. Ind 3y8 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. . 15 East. Kodak 145 1 Fox Fm. "A" 143A Loew's, Inc 41 % Paramount ctfs 3% Pathe Exch. "A".. . . 8Vi RKO 1% Warner Bros 3% NEW YORK BOND Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40. . 12y2 Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 ctfs. 12% Keith A-0 6s46.. . . 78 Loew 6s 41 ww 104Vi 1 Paramount 6s 47 filed 89 Par. 5'/2s50 filed... 90y4 Par. 5'/2s50 ctfs.. .. 91 Warner's 6s39 64 NEW YORK CURB Technicolor 20% Trans-Lux 2% MARKET SATURDAY) Ne! Close Chg Low % 58% 33/4 14% 7% — 59V2 _ 3% — 15 + 441/2 145 H1/4 14% 41 31/4 8 1/2 13/4 3% 41 31/4 8 1/2 13/4 3% MARKET 12% 12% I21/4 78 04% 89 90% 903/4 631/4 12% 78 1043/8 89 90% 90% 64 MARKET 203/8 20% 2% 2% Al Jolson John Wiyns Viola Brothers Shore Paul Lukas Andy M. Roy Norma Talmadge Joseph yon Sternberg M. H. Hoffman. Jr. E. Lloyd Sheldon THE aa DAILY Monday, May 27, 193 • The Broadway Parade • Picture and Distributor Theater The Girl from Tenth Avenue (Warner Bros.) Capitol Escape Me Never (United Artists) Music Hall My Song for You (GB Productions) 55th St. Playhouse A Shot in the Dark (Chesterfield) Mayfair Mister Dynamite (Universal) Roxy Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (GB Productions) Criterion Thunder in the East (United Artists) — 2nd week* Globe Goin' to Town ( Paramount) — 3rd week Paramount G-Men (Warner Bros.) — 4th week Strand Les Miserables (United Artists) — 6th week Rivoli Unfinished Symphony (GB Productions) — -2nd week (a-b) Westminster Man of Aran (GB Productions)— 2nd week (a-b) Westminster The Informer (RKO Radio) (b) Palace ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS ♦ Heroes of the Arctic ( Amkino) Cameo Tovarishi (Amkino) Acme ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Under the Pampas Moon (Fox) — May 30 Music Hall Loves of a Dictator (GB Productions) — May 31 Roxy The Flame Within (M-G-M)— May 31 Capitol Oil for the Lamps of China (Warner Bros.) (c) Strand The Glass Key (Paramount) (d) Paramount Let 'Em Have It (United Artists) (e) Rivoli * Formerly The Battle. (c) Follows G-Men. (a) Dual bill. Id) Follows Goin' to Town. (b) Subsequent runs. (e) Follows Les Miserables. Gene Curtis Is Quitting Famous Players Canadian Gene Curtis, sales promotion director for Famous Players Canadian Corp., has resigned effective June 1. He will take two months' vacation before announcing his new plans. It is reported that he has acquired an interest in another theater operating company in Canada and is slated for the board of directors as managing director of this company. Curtis was formerly with Publix in New York State theaters and in their home office and later operated for them in New England until brought to Canada by Famous Players, for whom he operated several key houses until his appointment as sales promotion director last fall. Brandt Abandons Plan On Duals and Prices Plan to organize New York exhibitors for pui-pose of eliminating double features and raising admission prices has been abandoned, Harry Brandt stated Saturday, owing to failure of theatermen to support the move. He said that when he called a meeting to consider the matter "those exhibitors who shouted the loudest" failed to respond. More Names for Forum In addition to Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus of Technicolor as guest of honor and chief speaker, notables for tomorrow's "Color Forum" luncheon at the Motion Picture Club will include M. H. Aylesworth, Ned E. Depinet, Felix Feist, C. C. Pettijohn, Mrs. Natalie Kalmus, J. A. Ball, John Hay Whitney, Robert Edmond Jones, Rouben Mamoulian, Miriam Hopkins and Billie Burke, with Louis Nizer as toastmaster and Jack Alicoate as chairman. ■^^ Republic Pictures Is Set in Pittsburgh Republic Pictures, Inc., with Jim Alexander in charge, takes over the Monogram Exchange in Pittsburgh. "April in Paris" New Title Olympic Pictures has changed the title of "It Happened in Paris" to "April in Paris." U yv Coming and Going < . DICK HALLIDAY, story editor of Paramoun arrives at the Warwick today from London. HENRY DE LA FALAISE, who is now New York, sails Monday on the Champlain f abroad to arrange distribution of a picture I produced at the Coast. E. H. GRIFFITH sailed from New York < Saturday for Europe. PAUL WING, who was in a Macon, Mo., ho pital for over two weeks as a result of ii juries received in a plane crash, returned the coast last week. BOB LIVINGSTON, manager of the Capit< Lincoln, Neb., and his attorney arrive in N« York this week to discuss the State Theate suit with New York defendants. DOLORES DEL RIO plans to come east for t premiere of her First National picture, " Caliente." PAUL GRAETZ. representative of Toepli Productions and Paris Export Film, sails tod on the Champlain for Europe. M. L. STERN of Capital Pictures of Oma and Nebraska is enroute from New York Chicago, where he will visit a few days befc returning to Omaha. TED CURTIS, who is on a trip to Englar France and Germany, returns to New Yc about June 20. Harris Theaters 100% High Fidelil With installation of new Phot phone High Fidelity sound in tl Columbia and Central theaters, tl houses operated by Harry Harr became 100 per cent RCA Vict High Fidelity equipped. COLOR— use standard negative—develop it yourself. CINECOLOR Hollywood California MM