The Film Daily (1935)

Monday, June 24,1935 —JX0^i DAILY MERE & THERE Ireen Bay, Wis. — W. V. Geehan has been named manager of Wisconsin Amusement Enterprises' Orpheum, succeeding Stanley Segelbaum, who has been granted a leave of absence. Geehan formerly managed the Strand. Milwaukee — Henry Toilette, formerly manager of the Riviera, neighborhood house, has been named manager of the Tower, succeeding Jack LeVoy, who has been named i| manager of the Fox and Odeon the!: aters in Beaver Dam. All houses are operated by Fox. Milwaukee — Irving Stein has succeeded Harry Miller, who has secured the state rights for "Tango," as manager of Standard Theater Corp.'s Strand. Columbiana, O. — Extensive improvements are being made by M. Berryman at his Globe, which he ! plans to open about July 1. Carrollton, O.— Ralph Bishop is entirely reconditioning his Virginia theater. Massillon, O. — Irving Soloman, . manager of Warner's Lincoln theater, was married recently to Maxine Treeter of Fremont. New Milton, O.— A. R. Boyd of St. Paris, announces he is opening the opera house here shortly with Ja straight film policy. Improvements are being made to the house. Lincoln, Neb. — The Lincoln here, since the Lincoln Theater Corp. string which controls it has so much I available product, will run split week for a time through the sum.mer. Also to eat into the available » list the Orpheum is on dual split weeks. German Film Banned Albany — A license has been denied in this state to the German picture, "The Last Will of Dr. Ma' buse." The State Department of 'Education, under which the censorship division operates, contended that the picture would tend "to incite crime, chaos and overthrow of civilization." Earlier last week the department rejected the Hungarian film, "Spring Shower." SHOWMAN'S REMINDER Make plans for Fourth of July Celebration. MM RIMJ • • • THERE SEEMS to be no end to the fables growing up around Mickey Mouse now comes one from London about an advertisement inserted by a pet store owner in the personal columns of newspapers there seeking 10,000 pet mice and explaining that the demand had been created by the increasing popularity of Mickey Mouse word also comes that the prize-winning mouse in a recent pet show in London was sold for $125 and incidentally, Walt Disney, creator of Mickey, is now in London. • • • BETWEEN WORK in "Jalna" on the RKO Radio Pictures lot in Hollywood Peggy Wood is working on the book of a romantic operetta for which Robert A. Simon, music critic of "The New Yorker," is supplying the lyrics Miss Wood, as you may or may not remember, besides being a stage and screen luminary, is the author of two books "A Splendid Gypsy" and "Actors Are People" and it runs in the family her father, the late Eugene Wood, was a fiction writer and her husband, John V. A. Weaver, is a playwright, poet, critic, et al • • • AT THE 39th annual convention of the General Assembly of Spiritualists in the Park Central Hotel the GB production, "The Clairvoyant," was chosen for showing to the membership of about 500 May Robson renewed acquaintances with many of her old fellow stage players last week when she visited the old actors' home in Englewood the former stage star, now an M-G-M contract player, returns shortly to the coast to resume work under her contract with M-G-M • • • AFTER RENTING Jesse Lasky's beach house at Malibu, Harry M. Warner found that on one side his neighbor is Sam Goldwyn and on the other, it's Louis Mayer The Warner chieftain is remaining at the coast for some time before returning to New York Bert Mayers, one of the industry's ablest attorneys, is increasing the list of stars he personally represents Latest addition is Anna Sten, who is now abroad Andy Smith is justly proud of a star sapphire ring presented to him by the members of his Warner sales division A token of good will, it seems e • • A FAREWELL party is being given by Sam Lyons for Beatrice Lillie at the Hotel Delmonico on Wednesday might A flock of celebs will be present to bid her farewell as she is sailing the following Saturday for a vacation abroad Upon her return in about two weeks, she goes into a new Shubert show With more than 30 screen personalities signed by "Screenland Fashions," it looks as though this enterprising outfit will soon have every important manufacturer publicizing Hollywood film stars thus making it easier for the publicity directors Arthur Dent, B. I. P. managing director, is well satisfied with American audience reaction to the pictures he has previewed at the Waldorf-Astoria and Chanin Auditorium Several distributing deals with American companies are now under way T T T • • • THE DEATH of Karl K. Kitchen in New York last week is being mourned by many film folk Karl was one of the first writers to cover Hollywood for the papers back in the days when the movie industry was still in short pants among his close friends were Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Piekford he made a trip to the Far East with Fairbanks some years ago and made a special trip to Europe last year to see him in an effort to effect a domestic reconciliation Words & Wisdom "^S SURE as fate, Hollywood is going to go overboard on the classics."— DAVID O. SELZNICK. "I'm too normal a person to make good copy."— KATHARINE ALEXANDER. "We will make the new Rialto Theater as uncompromisingly masculine as a turbine and as offensively unfeminine as a sailor's pipe. It is our haunting dread that in spite of all our efforts the women will adore it."— ARTHUR L. MAYER. "I like restraint — if it doesn't go too far."— MAE WEST. "Color progression, dramatic progression— it's all the same. The colors strike and excite you just by themselves."— ROUBEN IMAMOULIAN. "I have been four times in Hollywood and I find, each time I return, that the actors I liked and admired are going slowly down; they exhause themselves instead of refreshing themselves with new experience, new technique."— CHARLES BOYER. "Motion picture audiences are anxious for enlightenment. They are thirsting for something controversial."—GREGORY LA CAVA. "Temperament, as it develops on a set during the course of a picture, is invariably merely the inability of a director and his players to understand each other's problems." —IRVING CUMMINGS. "After one has played a 'heavy' role over a period of years his mechanism for being a rascal is apt to run down."— JOHN MILJAN. "The new trend in Hollywood night life is to an intellectual atmosphere in which scintillating minds and personalities gather for mutual enjoyment of each other's artistic achievements, ideas and opinions."— BETTE DAVIS. m « <t » » » BIG NEWS AS SEEN BY THE PRESS AGENT Greta Garbo, on her only vsit to a Hollywood club, requested Frances Langford, M-G-M featured player, to repeat a song.