The Film Daily (1935)

Intimate in Character international in Scope /independent in Thought The Daily Newspaper Of M otion Pictures Now Seventeen Years Old -1FDAILY VOL. 67, NO. 151 NEW YORK. FRIDAY, JUNE 28. 1935 TEN CENTS 600 Exhibs Have Applied for Improvement Funds C0"1T ASKS NEW FOX MET. BOARD RESIGNATIONS Skouras and Warner to Talk New Jersey Pooling Deal Viewing . . . the passing parade By DON CARLE GILLETTE : MAYBE we're cross-eyed on 'rithmetic, but after trying everything from simple addition to algebra we still can't seem to figure out how a certain exhibitor leader, in addressing one of his regional units this week, arrived at the conclusion that I there will be a shortage of major company X product next season. Without wishing to deprive any exhib i organization generalissimo of one of his I battle cries, this much is known about '■■ 1935-36 film prospects: Nearly all companies are planning more pictures than they did the past season — \ and since they are delivering their schedules quite fully this semester there is rea[' son to believe they will do so in the next. There also will be a large number of rer issues of outstanding films which still have plenty of life in them. Then the British producers are sending I over bigger quantities of pictures — and I they are being designed more and more to i; hit American audience fancy. Finally, the independents, though numerically smaller at this writing, will very [ likely turn out more of the better grade films than they ever did before. If all this adds up to a product shortage, . then we're going to throw away our books I and go fishing. I 00KING over product charts of the ■" past years, it appears that the law of supply and demand has done pretty good 1 yeoman service in regulating film output. Producers are quite sensitive to fluctua | tions in the product market, whether ■ caused by general or intra-trade conditions, ' and are quick to adjust studio activities I accordingly. All that exhibitors need to do is to i register the demand. r~~ Hollywood will answer with supply. -• DOCKEFELLER money, which gave the *» world its biggest and most magnificent de luxe cinema, is now providing a museum l' devoted to the motion picture. You would have to know something (Continued on Page 2) Arrangements Sought in Spots Where Circuits are Competing George Skouras said yesterday that he expected to talk to Warner Bros, in the near future about a pooling deal covering some of the Jersey spots where Warner Bros, theaters and some of the Fox Metropolitan theaters are in competition. ATTENDANCE OF 250 FOR COLUMBIA MEET An attendance of more than 250 is expected at the Columbia sales meeting which will run for a week starting July 1 at the Medinah Club, Chicago. The national confab this year will take the place of the usual regional meetings. East and west coast executives, as well as division and branch managers, salesmen and office managers, will attend. Announcement of sales policies on the 1935-36 lineup will be made July 2. Aaron Fox is Appointed Manager for New Circuit Aaron Fox, former treasurer of Fox Film Corp. and who operated his own circuit of theaters, has been appointed general manager of the (Continued on Page 7) S. R. 0. at Music Hall They were standing ten deep along the foyer at the Music Hall before the first show was half over yesterday at the opening of Columbia's new Grace Moore picture, "Love Me Forever," with Leo Carrillo and Michael Bartlett. An impressive advertising campaign preceded the opening. LICHTMAN HONORED BY RECORD TURNOUT A crowd of industry executives and members of the A. M. P. A. wbich overflowed from tbe Motion Picture Club dining room into its lobby and corridors yesterday gathered to pay tribute to Al Lichtman on his step-up to the presidency of United Artists. From the stand(Continued on Page 7) Kans.-Mo. Theaters Set Up Arbitration Board Kansas City — -Establishment of a grievance board was authorized by the Kansas-Missouri Theater Ass'n at the final session of its annual convention yesterday when it was decided to affiliate with the M. P. T. O. A. The board will weigh merits of various complaints and forward its findings to each member of the association. The committee com (Continued on Page 7) Funds Asked by 600 Exhibs From Federal Housing Unit Re-elect Hyman Prexy Of West Va. Association White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. — S. J. Hyman of Huntington was reelected president of the West Virginia Theater Managers' Ass'n at its closing meeting here yesterday. W. H. Hope of Richwood was named as secretary-treasurer, and James C. Shanklin of Charleston was (Continued on Page 7) Six hundred exhibitors have applied to the Federal Housing Administration for funds to renovate and modernize their theaters. Jim Loughborough of that body said yesterday in New York. Speaking at the Al Lichtman luncheon at the Motion Picture Club (Continued on Page 7) Complete Production Schedules of all companies will be one of the most important features of the 1935 Production Guide — out July 15 — Advt. Fox Met. Plan Confirmed — Will Hear Charges of Irregularity Federal Judge Julian M. Mack yesterday confirmed the WeismanSchenck reorganization plan for the Fox Met. circuit over the objection of counsel for the Sabath Congressional Committee investigating real estate reorganizations who asked that an adjournment be taken for one week. Judge Mack said, however, that he wanted the resignations of all directors of the new company to be formed under the WeismanSchenck plan so that if any impropriety is brought out in the public hearings on the Fox Met. reorganization to be conducted beginning (Continued on Page 7) ETTLEMENTREPORTED IN CHI. FILM ACTION Settlement of the Chicago court action of the Astor theater, neighborhood house, testing right of distributors to ban playing of their pictures on 10-cent admission policies, was pending yesterday. The case had been filed in the U. S. District Court in that city. Major company attorneys in New York yesterday admitted that a settlement was imminent. Terms were not made known. British Censor Urges Letup in Horror Films London (By Cable) — Attacking horror films as pandering to the morbid, Edward Shortt, head of the British censor board, in a speech before the exhibitor conference at Cardiff, called upon Hollywood not to proceed with this type of picture. He (Continued on Page 7) The Huey Long Touch New Orleans — The Coliseum is advertising its cash prize nights as "Share the Wealth Nights." **T