The Film Daily (1935)

THE Monday, June 3, 1935 $0 CUTTING VAUDE TO THREE THEATERS Going into straight film policies for the summer months, RKO theaters are understood cutting their vaudeville playing time from 20 to three weeks. Shows will be retained in New York, Chicago and Detroit. Loew is expected to maintain the policy generally throughout the hotweather season. Warner-First Nat'l Set Releases to September (Continued from Page 1) Martel and Edward Everett Horton, July 6; a Warner picture, not titled as yet, with Warren William, Claire Dodd and Guy Kibbee, July 13; "Broadway Gondolier," co-starring Dick Powell and Joan Blondell, with kdolphe Menjou, July 20; "The Irish in Us," starring James Cagney, with Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh, Aug. 3; "We're in the Money," with Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell and Hugh Herbert, Aug. 10; "Broadway Joe," starring Joe E. Brown, with Ann Dvorak and William Gargan, Aug. 17, and "Front Page Woman," !with Bette Davis and George Brent, i\.ug. 24. have Loew-RKO Again to Get Para. Product in N. Y. Paramount product will again be split between Loew and RKO droits in New York territory during he 1935-36 season in event negotiaions currently in progress are dosed. Indications are that the leal will be consummated within a ew days. ip the ailr)' k " MLY K Salt Lake City Squibs Salt Lake City — Harry David, eneral manager of Famous theaers in Utah and Idaho, was called o Frisco last week by the death of is brother Charles. Andy Floar is putting in summer aude at the Roxy, formerly the 'layhouse. J. S. McLeod left for Seattle afiv several days at the M-G-M exhange here. Fox West Coast offices are being loved to the First National Bank Udg. Max Goldstein, local manaer, and Will Steege and Rick Ricktson returned last week from the mst convention. Thomas Walsh, RKO branch manger, is back from a Montana trek. S. Clark of the home office vised here. R. D. Thomson, Paramount branch \K~-\scer, is now a benedict. Jacobs, is district manager here, with A. K. Shepherd t charge of the office and C. F. ose as additional sales representa ve. A. R. Brake of National Thea t Supply is on a Montana trip. >i GB h -2&* DAILV MONGthe V MAKTO PHIL M. DALY • • • A NEW and classy Decorative Development looks as if it is about to revolutionize the manner of dressing up the motion picture theater in so far as lobbies and foyers and lounges are concerned a striking example of the new Technique is to be found in the gorgeous 21-foot Scarlet Bar and the 50-foot Marionette Bar in the lobby and on the mezzanine of the French Casino in New York City • • • THE DECORATIVE material employed is Catalin a composition that lends itself admirably to the architectural structure of the theater lobby and foyer after months of service in the French Casino the product has proved admirably suited to all the requirements of a Show Place it has Eye Appeal Class Distinction Serviceability and harmonizes perfectly with decorative and lighting schemes employing Neon lighting, chromium stripes and glass decorations the famous Marionette Bar is one of the sights of New York with the Neon lighting displaying the handsome construction to full advantage, it literally takes your breath away when you see it for the first time and the beauty of it is that its installation is reasonable compared with the advantages in eyeappeal, serviceability and novelty attained • • © ITS ADAPTABILITY to motion picture theaters is evidenced in the Catalin Lobby of the Oritani theater in Hackensack, N. J. the Catalin company is prepared to furnish original decorative plans to harmonize with the architectural scheme of any theater practically any shading of color can be secured it will pay any theater management to look into it • • • STAGE ATTRACTION at the Capitol beginning Friday will be Sophie Tucker and her WHN Music Hall Revue featuring a cast of radio and stage artists including the tenor, Donal Novis Rouletta, comedienne the Eight Capitol Serenaders the Danny Dare Girls T T T • • • TRAVELING IN state in a private compartment with eight trunks of clothes and 12 hand bags in the baggage car is Daniel Haynes, colored actor en route to Hollywood for a featured role in "So Red the Rose" Haynes made a big hit in the Broadway production, "Green Pastures" T T T • • • IN THIS day of elaborate pressbooks the RKO Radio publicity lads realized they had to step out to make the book on "Becky Sharp" something to talk about and they succeeded admirably it has one of the most elaborate and comprehensive sections on newspaper ads we have ever lamped T T T • • • THERE IS an organization in Hollywood with Arthur Guy Empey listed as "Colonel, Commander" known as the Hollywood Hussars Gary Cooper wishes it known that he has withdrawn his support on learning that instead of a purely social group that the men behind the promotion wera urging it as a national organization of a semi-military-political nature T T T • • • A LINE from your ole pal Bert Perkins who is now jaunting through Turkey on a Cruise proposition and applying pix exploitation methods in this new field « €« « » » » EDUCATIONAL MAKING 98 OF FOH SHORTS (Continued from Page 1) tures on the new season's schedule, and other stars will be signed up for one or more pictures as the season progresses. Joe Cook, Buster Keaton and Ernest Truex, who topped Educational^ big star list last season, will be seen in these two-reel featurettes again during the coming year. Buster West and Tom Patricola have recently been signed up for six pictures. Warren Hull, who attracted attention as co-star in the Young Romance series during the past season, has been signed to continue in this group of comedies with music. Tom Howard and George Shelton also will be seen again on the new program. The ,six series of comedies will include twelve Star Personality comedies, in which Keaton, Cook and Truex will be seen; twelve Musical comedies, eight Coronet comedies, eight Frolics of Youth, six Tuxedo comedies and six Young Romance. Twenty six Paul Terry Toons, produced for Educational by Frank Moser and Paul Terry, will head the schedule of one-reel pictures. Philip A. Scheib is musical director for this cartoon series. Educational's two other series of single-reel subjects will be ten Song and Comedy Hits, featuring a large number of comedians and musical stars from the stage, screen and radio, and ten Treasure Chest productions, a novelty series offering a wide variety of entertainment. The Movietone one-reel series will consist of six Adventures of the Newsreel Cameraman and six Along the Road to Romance on the Magic Carpet of Movietone. Both series are produced by Truman Talley and edited by Lew Lehr. Ed Thorgersen will be narrator for the Road to Romance travel pictures. In discussing his production plans before the Fox convention, E. W. Hammons, president of Educational, announced that Educational would continue its system of dividing its comedy production between New York and Hollywood, giving it the advantage of selecting from screen, radio and stage talent available for short subject work on both coasts. Goldwyn Story Dept. Moves Samuel Goldwyn's Eastern story department, in the charge of William Fadiman, has moved from the sixth to the eighth floor at United Artists. Para. Buys Pertwee Novel Paramount has placed on the production schedule for immediate filming "Without Regret", from a play by Roland Pertwee and Harold Deardan and a screen play by Doris Anderson. Tentative plans call for Kent Taylor and Elissa Landi to be featured, under the direction of Harold Young. _ .