The Film Daily (1935)

THE Wednesday,Junel9,1935 BRANDT IN LAW FIRM AS INDUSTRY COUNSEL (Continued from Page 1) not say whether these investments would involve existing companies or the creation of a new organization. Though Brandt is himself a lawyer, he will not engage in the practice of law in his new affiliation. His negotiations with officials of Pathe are still in progress and his new connection will not interfere with various proposals he now has under advisement for financing and participating in production on a major scale, he said. On his return from the coast, Brandt will make his headquarters at the offices of the law firm, 285 Madison Ave. N. Y. City Seeks to Collect Sales Tax from Exchanges (Continued from Page 1) Artists and other branches have been approached for payments. Distributors point out that they do not come within jurisdiction of the ordinance as films are leased, not sold. New Para. Securities Available After July 1 Holders of outstanding securities of Paramount-Publix Corp. and of Paramount Broadway Corp., and holders of claims allowed in the Paramount reorganization proceedings can receive the new securities of the company on and after July 1. Commercial Bank and Trust Co. is agent for the old Paramount stock, and the New York Trust Co. is agent for the 6 per cent 20-year gold bonds, the Paramount Broadway bonds and for the forms of request to be made by holders of allowed claims. New Celebrity Series Celebrity Productions, in addition to making a third series of ComiColor Cartoons for 1935-36, is considering a new line of cartoons by UB Iwerks. The character to be featured in the new group has already been tried out in other mediums. Start New Gastonia House Gastonia, N. C. — Work started this week on the construction of a large modern theater to open here about Oct. 1. J. E. Simpson, local theater operator, is the builder of the new house, which will seat about 1,000. TBj Little Theater Staying Open (j^ ^Baltimore — For the first time in its history, the Little Theater will continue open throughout the summer, Herman G. Weinberg announces. House is now playing "Waltz Time in Vienna," with "Man Who Knew Too Much" following. MM MALI • • • OVER IN Berlin they have gone the American shoe-string producers one better they've found a way to make pictures without capital investment or risk and in amazingly quick time the scheme was evolved by a new film concern, Presto-Films and here's the way it works before activity is started on a picture, the company launches a big publicity campaign together with an advance sale of tickets in all theaters which wlill show the picture in question during the first three days of the advance sale, a 30 per cent discount is allowed on tickets of admission which is an inducement for lots of the movie fans to buy in advance and the sums received through these advance sales are turned over to the producer immediately • • • FIVE DAYS after the start of the publicity campaign, studio work begins on the picture which is to be finished in a week an additional two days are provided for cutting and making the necessary number of prints then on the morning of the fourteenth day the picture is to be submitted to the censors and that same night it will be shown in all the theaters which made the production possible through the advance ticket sales voila ! if the results of the advance sales for an announced picture are not satisfactory, production will be dropped and the money paid for tickets will be refunded on the other hand, if public interest and advance sales run high more stars and production values will be put in the film anyway, that's the way the story comes to us from abroad • • • REVIVAL ENGAGEMENT of the Elisabeth Berg ner film, "Ariane" originally intended to run only four days at the 55th St. Playhouse has met with such response that it will be continued indefinitely some of the executive offices at Paramount are being air-conditioned "Struggle for Life," English production filmed in Central Sudan with a native Arab cast, opened yesterday at the Cameo Tom Terriss is going over nicely with his adventure broadcast on the WOR network Tuesday nights Joaquin Garay, Mexican singer, is being held over for a fourth week on the Roxy stage. • . • • IN RECOGNITION of his work in connection with the Hospital for Joint Diseases during the past ten years Jack H. Levin of the Copyright Protection Bureau is being given a testimonial at the hospital's Breezy Point Estate Levin is honorary president of the League for the Welfare of Crippled Children Buddy Cantor, Film City Reporter, has been signed for 13 weeks by the Hearst Radio Corp he will be heard twice weekly, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 9 P. M over station WINS • • • TODAY ON the good ship Peter Stuyvesant about 1,200 members of the Warner Club and their guests will hold their annual boat ride and outing up the Hudson to Bear Mountain Countess Olga Albani, the radio and stage songbird, starts work today in a Vitaphone short at the Brooklyn studio it's titled "Escapade," with Oliver Wakefield, the Rainbow Room monologist, in support and Joseph Henabery directling Director Frank Borzage and his unit filming "Anchors Aweigh" in Annapolis expect to start back for the Warner coast studios next week the M-G-M story department has moved to the 14th floor at 1540 Broadway to allow expansion of the legal department quarters Jay, Virginia and Marya Cocalis, children of S. D Cocalis, sail today on the Berengaria for a European tour €< « » » » PRODUCTION SPURTS AT M-G-M STUDIOS (Continued from Page 1) "Bonnie Scotland," "Broadway Melody of 1936," "Glitter," "Here Comes the Band," "Mutiny on the Bounty," "Night at the Opera," "O'Shaughnessy's Boy," and an untitled picture being directed by Richard Thorpe. S. M. P. E. to Nominate At Meeting on July 19 (Continued from Page 1) nounced at the fall convention in Washington. Officers whose terms expire on Dec. 31 are: president, Homer G. Tasker; executive vice-president, E. Huse; engineering vice-president, L. A. Jones; financial vice-president, O. M. Glunt; treasurer, T. E. Shea; secretary, J. H. Kurlander; governors, Arthur S. Dickinson, Herbert Griffin and W. B. Rayton. Florida Flashes Miami, Fla. — Mitchell Wolfson, president of Wometco Theaters, and Mrs. Wolfson went by plane to Mexico City for the International Rotary Convention. Several shifts in Sparks circuit house managers have been made recently. Howard Jaudon, assistant at the Tampa, is now at the Seminole as manager. Vincent Wade left the Beaucham, Orlando, to handle publicity in Tampa. William Hart was shifted from Fort Myers to manage the Edwards and Ritz in Sarasota. Charles Kirkconnel went from the Edwards to the Fort Myers theater Kirkconnel had gone to the Edwards from Tampa to fill the vacancy created by the death of James T. Newman, killed in an auto crash. J. A. Burts of Plant City has leased part of the Bank of Mulberry building, Mulberry, and will convert it into a theater. B. E Gore has opened the new Columbia theater, formerly the Grand, Lake City. He also operates the DeSoto. Pittsburgh Briefs Pittsburgh — Warner theater boxoffice receipts increased over 40 per cent since the switch from double to single feature programs. A Better Film Council was formed in Erie. Its weekly picture ratings are published in the town's dailies. Sam Stern of the Warner office is vacationing in Atlantic City. "No More Ladies" broke a fourmonth box-office record at Loew's Penn.