The Film Daily (1935)

THE DAILY Thursday, June 20, 1935 BEN SHEARER HEADS SUPPLY MEN'S ASS'N (Continued from Page 1) proval of both exhibitors and theater patrons. E. A. Williford of National Carbon and E. S. Clifford gave pointers on merchandising at a profit through the printed word. Problems of mutual interest were discussed at a joint meeting of manufacturers and dealers. The annual banquet was a gala affair. Place of the next convention will be chosen later. Enforcing is Problem in Voluntary Codes (Continued from Page 1) among trade leaders contacted by The Film Daily. Even NRA officials, although the new administrator James L. O'Neill has invited industries to submit voluntary codes, are in doubt about their value due to the lack of enforcement machinery and penalties. Intention to continue the NRA v ages and hours, however, is expressed in nearly all quarters. $500,000 Yearly Saving Seen in Film Speed Change (Continued from Page 1) change. Considerable agitation has developed in behalf of the move, merits of which are being investigated by the S. M. P. E. Proponents of the change claim that neither sound nor picture will suffer by the increased speed. Foreign Flashes Berlin — Foreign actors making pictures in Germany will hereafter have to pay an income tax of 40 per cent. Paris — The government is expected to appoint General Tage as general manager for Gaumont-FrancoFilm-Aubert. The government is said to be offering a subsidy of $4,000,000 for the reorganization. Brussels — Two new studios, the V. M. G. and the Studio British Gaumont for dubbing in French, are being built here. Paris — Leonce Perret has signed Elissa Landi for "Koenigsmark." Pierre Fresnay will be leading man. Paramount will distribute the picture. Lili Damita Married West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Lili Damita and EtoII Flynn flew to Yuma, Ariz., yesterday and were married. First House in 12 Years New Orleans — When G. Carey opens his house at Atchison, Miss., it will be the first film theater there in 12 years. msai • • • THE GRAND old lady of the screen ..May Robson fetched columns of publicity on her arrival in New York this week via the Panama Canal for a short vacation and she got it mostly by talking about another actress Greta Garbo and saying nice things about her revealing that the glamorous younger star is a "shy glirl, a frightened faun" and a genuine human being like the other 121 or more millions in this Youessay ▼ T ▼ • • • A SPECIAL edition of "Time," the weekly newsmagazine, was published and distributed at the RKO convention in Chi it was a replica of the regular weekly issue .sixteen pages in size with Ned Everett Depinet pictured on the front cover as Number One Man inside on the first page of editorial matter was the likeness of No. 2 Man Levy Jules Levy to youse muggs and then followed more pictures and data dealing particularly with "March of Time". a neat piece of work T T T • • • THAT CLASS A press agent, Monte Prosser, is working out a picture preview plan for the French Casino which, by the way, has a capacity of 1,500 cash customers If the plan clicks, he'll make it a regular feature of the cafe-theater's program Irving Kaye Davis is hiding away whilst he knocks out a play Wayne Pierson will tell you that double features are keeping children out of the theaters Parents, he sez, don't want their youngsters kept inside, out of the more or less fresh air, for two hours and a half or longer Furthermore, he points out, a show that long strains their eyes ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • DOWN IN Asbury Park, N. J., tonight at 7 o'clock Walter Reade will open his reconstructed New St. James Theater there will be cocktails from 5 to 6 P. M. and at 7 o'clock the opening performance will get under way with "Les Miserables" as the opening feature Guy Robertson, who sang the star role in "The Great Waltz" on the New York stage the past season and also is a Monogram-Republic screen star appears in person at the RKO Palace for the week starting tomorrow William A. Brady, who celebrated his 72nd birthday yesterday, said that besides his stage and radio activities he still has several offers from Hollywood and may accept one of them P. D. Cochrane is on jury duty in Westchester County T T T • • • WHAT IS said to be the first natural-color film of a Bird of Paradise ever made will be brought back alive by Frank Buck, the camera adventurer and wild game hunter who returns shortly from his film-making sojourn in the Malayan jungle this color sequence is to be the highlight of his third adventure feature for Van Beuren RKO release adoption of a resolution by the Board of Aldermen to legalize Sunday legitimate shows on Broadway leaves only the Mayor's signature needed to make the Sabbath performances permissible then the Equity members' vote will determine if the actor group care to work on Sundays Mrs. Garhard Filipi the former Winifred Godde until recently secretary to Advertising-Publicity Director Edward Finney of Republic Pictures is the mother of a boy weighing seven and a half pounds the mother also formerly was secretary to Carroll Trowbridge of the PickfordFairbanks organization and to F. Wynne-Jones when he was president of Ufa so maybe the newcomer will become a supervisor some day Freddy Mack returns to the Roxy stage tomorrow after a week's vacation Mills Music Company will publish in this country all the musical numbers from "Sanders of the River," London Films production for U. A. release <€ €t « » » » EXPECT BIG TURNOIf FOR SOUTHEAST NIEE1 (Continued from Page 1) assisted by Col. Sam H. Borisky oi Chattanooga and Oscar Lam ol Rome, Ga. Nat Williams of Thomasville, Ga., is chairman of publicity, with Mitchell Wolfson of Wometco Theaters, Miami, vice-chairman. Schiller to Handle Loew Chi. Expansion (Continued from Page 1) nearing completion with the Essaness circuit of 24 theaters, no let up in the Loew expansion move is contemplated, circuit executives said yesterday. The house being built at Oak Park, Chicago, will seat 1,600. Republic Regional Meet Under Way in Hollywood (Continued from Page 1) Francisco. Attending from Los Angeles are: Howard Stubbins, sales manager; R. J. Cadman, C. E. Clement, Norman Bosley and C. E. Buchanan, salesmen. Headed by Trem Carr, production manager, the following executives from the studios will attend the meeting: Robert E. Welsh, executive producer; Herman Schlom, production manager; Paul Malvern, associate producer in charge of the western unit; and Dorothy Reid, story editor. Exhibitors have been invited to attend the social session which is to follow the business meetings. Cite Kuhn, Loeb Profits In Para. Underwriting (Continued from Page 1) suggest recommendations for changes in the reorganization laws. No charges against the company are involved. Sir William Wiseman and Austin C. Keough were among witnesses at the initial hearing Tuesday. Herman Paley at WOR Herman Paley, formerly connected with various major studios at the Coast, is now with Station WOR in charge of its artists' bureau. GB Film Opens at Globe "Princess Charming," GB romantic musical starring Evelyn Laye and Henry Wilcoxon, opens today at the Globe on Broadway. V! "Loves Of A Dictator" in Hartford Hartford — "Loves of a Dictator," Toeplitz production which GB is releasing, opens Saturday at the E. M. Loew Theater for a week's run.