The Film Daily (1935)

THE AL LICHTMAN IS SET FOR II. A. PRESIDENCY (Continued from Parte 1) nine and a half years as vice-president in charge of distribution and general manager of sales. Silverstone for 12 years has been managing director of the British U. A. organization. It is understood Lichtman will continue to supervise distribution and sales activities. Silverstone and Nicholas M. Schenck will arrive in New York on board the Normandie on June 20. United Artists plans to release about 20 pictures nert season. Mary Pickford will make two in association with a prominent producer. Samuel Goldwyn will make six and Alexander Korda six. United Artists will buy Joseph M. Schenck's interest and also that of Fox Cinema Corp. Charles Chaplin's picture is not to be released until February. No merger of United Artists with any other company is planned. Allied Chiefs May Discuss Arbitration by Industry (Continued from Page 1) yesterday preliminary to the session included: Abram F. Myers, Al Steffes, H. M. Richey, Nathan Yamins, Sidney E. Samuelson and Benny Berger. Most of them plan to attend the Baer-Braddock championship bout tonight. Steffes Hopeful But Doubtful Hope that the industry will set up a "fair and equitable" arbitration system was expressed by Al Steffes, Allied leader, upon his arrival in New York yestei'day from Minneapolis to attend a meeting of the exhibitor association executive committee today and tomorrow. But Steffes pessimistically viewed possibilities of materialization of this hope, declaring that "producers have always wanted to control 90 per cent of everything." The Allied leader said that "bank nights" are increasing in the Minneapolis zone, but the territory continues to be anti-double feature. FACTS ABOUT W^^^ FILMS (||f Japanese studios turned out 475 pi<tures. including 315 silcnts. during rfce p:sr year. ■e&a DAILY TnTrsda^unn^9?j' A LITTLE from "LOTS" — By RALPH WILK ~ HOLLYWOOD t-JENRY KING, Fox director, has moved his "Way Down East" company to location at Santa Cruz for five days of exterior shooting. Among the principals of the cast making the trip are Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Edward Trevor, Andy Devine, Slim Summerville, Russell Simpson and Margaret Hamilton. T V T Isabell Jewell is taking a Honolulu vacation with her parents. She has been quite busy for the last three years, during which time she appeared in 22 pictures. T ▼ T Teddy McDonald, leaving Universal, returns to the theater field. T T T Benita Hume, British star, will have the feminine lead in Fox's "Gay Deception," with Francis Lederer. Others assigned to this picture include Paul Irving, George Hassell and Spencer Charters. T T T Jessie Ralph, now appearing in RKO's "Jalna," has been placed under term contract by the studio. T T T Edmund North and James Gow have been given a year's writing contract by RKO. They are now at work on "Love Song" for Lily Pons. John Cromwell is scheduled to direct. Grant Garrett has been signed by RKO to work on the script of "Rainmakers," Wheeler-Woolsey vehicle to be directed by Fred Guiol. T T V Charles Bickford has been signed by Universal to star in a Gouverneur Morris adventure picture which will be released under the title of "East of Java." George Melford will place it in production next week when the full cast is chosen. The adaptation was made by Paul Perez. T T T Ferde Grofe has been engaged by Edmund Grainger to write the musical score for "Diamond Jim." T ▼ T Director Al Green has signed Mathilde Comont for a featured part in "Here's to Romance," the Jesse L. Lasky production for Fox. The picture, an operatic opus, stars Nino Martini, Maria Gambarelli and Mine. Ernestine Schumann-Heink. As a token of appreciation for his fine direction of "Les Miserables," Richard Boleslawski received a box of 500 cigars from Beaunvo Damirez, a film exhibitor of Havana. No smoker, Boleslawski parcelled the weeds out to friends. Boris Karloff, has been signed to play the leading role in a Warner picture soon to be produced at Burbank. T T T Fox cast assignments: Marcelle Corday, Wilson Millar, Paul Portonova and Rudolf Amendt for "Here's To Romance"; Ralf Harolde for "Silk Hat Kid." Warner cast assgnments: George Brent, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez for "Special Agent"; Alan Dinehart replacing Ricardo Cortez in "Real McCoy"; J. Farrell MacDonald for "The Irish in Us." Amateur theatricals furnished another potential star to motion pictures when June Storey, blonde and 17, signed a long term Fox contract. Miss Storey was seen by a studio talent scout while appearing in a little theater play at Laguna Beach, Calif., and a screen test followed. T T T Lieutenant Charles S. Stodter, who has been in Hollywood since last fall studying motion picture production under the cooperative AcademyWar Department officer training program, has left for Washington to assume command of the Signal Corps Photographic Laboratory and Studio. ▼ r t Ben Lucien Burman, writer of stories dealing with Mississippi River characters, currently authoring an original for Universal, has a unique method of working. After gathering material by months of association with the people he will portray, he goes to Africa to do the actual writing of his novels. RKO Studio Executives Depart for Convention (Continued from Page 1) R. McDonough, president of RKO Radio Pictures; B. B. Kahane, president of RKO Studios; Robert F. Sisk, McDonough's executive assistant, and Howard S. Benedict, the studio's director of publicity. All except Sisk will continue to New York after the Chicago convention closes on the 19th for conferences at the home office. Southwest Notes Oklahoma City — Rusk Graus, formerly with GB, is now selling film for M-G-M under Bill Zoellner, branch manager here. Homer Mulkey will open his second house in Clarendon this fall. James G. Tomlin opens his new theater in Granger, Tex., in the near future. East Texas Theaters has acquired the Victory, Henderson, Tex. Jack Kaufman is now city manager for the Capitol and Opera House, New Braunfels, Tex. SAYS ASCAP COiTO MOST POPULAR MUSI fflf Highspot of the testimony yesh day in the second day's trial of ti U. S. anti-trust action again Ascap and the Music Publishe Protective Ass'n was the attempt government counsel to establi; through examination of Thorn; Belviso, manager of the NBC m sic library and former Paramoui musical director in Boston, th; Ascap controlled most of the pop lar music used in broadcasting Belviso stated that musical pr> grams in the past have contained large part of Ascap music, but w; not permitted to conjecture as the future. He stated also that mu ical programs were the most popi lar item of radio fare. C. B. Jo liffe, chief engineer of the Feder; Communications Commission, test fied on the coverage of radio sti tions in the government's effort 1 controvert Ascap's assertion thi broadcasting is not interstate con merce. W. P. Robinson, chief ( the catalogue and index division < the U. S. Copyright Bureau, test fied that 682,525 musical compos tions had been copyrighted froi July 1, 1909 to Dec.* 31, 1934, ari "* that of this number 484,618 wei| published. Nathan Burkan, Asca counsel, introduced in evidence es cerpts from several annual reporl of the Federal Radio Commission. Andrew W. Bennett and Mac Ai bill conducted the questioning fc the government yesterday. A cor siderable controversy raged on th attempt of the government throug testimony of Wm. P. Siegfried, clerk in the U. S. copyright offici to show the number of musical corr positions copyrighted by the defer dant publishers. 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