The Film Daily (1937)

rwn DAILY Saturday, Mar. 20, 1937 THE' 1HE NflKMKIl OF HlMDOMi lAUTHtlOWS 'AUTUEIIMl *bT— %-DAILY Vol. 71, No. 66 Sat., Mar. 20, 1937 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary Treasurer; Arthur W. Eddy, Associate Editor. Entered as second class matter, May 21, 1918, at the post-office at New York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone, BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris— P. A. Harle, La Cinematographie Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. F IN AN CIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 26 Vi 25% 25% — % Columbia Picts. vtc. 34 33 '/2 34 + 1 Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind 45/8 4i/2 4'/2 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 16y8 163/8 163/8 + i/3 East. Kodak 160'/2 159 159 — 2'/2 do pfd Gen. Th. Eq Loew's, Inc 77'/2 765/8 765/8 — 1% do pfd Paramount 24'/2 23% 23% Paramount 1st pfd..l67y4 16714 167 1/4 + % Paramount 2nd pfd.. 22'/4 21 y2 21% + % Pathe Film 8i/2 8% 8%— % RKO 8% 81/4 814— % 20th Century-Fox . 38'/2 38 3814 + 14 20th Century-Fox pfd. 475/8 47% 47% — % Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 15 14% 14%— % do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s46 Loew 6s41ww 79% 79% 79%— 14 Para. B'way 3s55.. . 75 743,4 74 % — 1/4 Para. Picts. 6s55. .. 10014 100% 100% — % RKO 6s41 Warner's 6s39 9514 95 95 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Picts. vtc Grand Naf'l 3 3 3 — % Sonotone Corp 2 1% 1% Technicolor 21 7/8 21 % 21 % — % Trans-Lux 4% 4% 4% + % MARCH 20 Edmund Goulding M. H. Joseph H. Seidelman MARCH 21 Hoffman Edward Cronjager Minna Stieglitz W. Sid S. ney Van Dyke Franklin ▼ T T • • • SPRING IS here appropriately heralded by that Warner Club bunch, who are always a step ahead on everything so they held their Spring Dance and card party at the home office club quarters last nite with $50 in prizes for the best ballroom dancing and tapping, also the highest ranking players in cards there was also a door prize of a season bath-house at Manhattan Beach Norman Heckler and his ork supplied the dance music T T T • • • BACK FROM his coast trip Monroe Greenthai had a lively experience getting through by air delivery an official of United Airlines who is his pal held a plane for 45 minutes when Monroe decided the last minute that he had to get back to New York all other planes were grounded on account of dirty weather the passengers had to transfer to a couple of other planes before they finally reached New York other planes that had started about the same time were turned back, the weather was so tuff ▼ TV • • • AS A model Sim script Warners' "The Story of Louis Pasteur" was selected by Professor Sawyer Falk of the Civic University Theater of Syracuse University, for use in the scenario writing course a print of the film was made available to the class during its studies ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • THE BLIND will "see" a showing of Korda's "Elephant Boy" 250 blind children and adults from several institutions in the metropolis wiii attend the Rialto theater to morrow morn thru courtesy of Arthur Mayer Bide Dudley will give an explanatory introduction and running commentary on the action so that the guests will be able to follow it satisfactorily Para. Theater Partners Hold Closed Meetings Miami Beach, Fla. — Paramount theater partners' session today will be closed, as was the afternoon session yesterday, no announcements being forthcoming at its conclusion. A morning session yesterday was given over to a number of screenings at the Sheridan Theater; films shown included three reels of "Souls at Sea," now in production. 7,415 Amusement Places in Mid-Atlantic States Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington— Director William L. Austin, of the Bureau of Census, announced yesterday that during 1936 there were in operation in three Middle Atlantic States— New lork, New Jersey, Pennsylvania — . 7,415 places of amusement, includ I ing motion picture theaters, etc , | reporting $222,799,000 total operating receipts. The 7,415 places of amusement employed an average of I 42,512 persons during year, and I they received $53,268,000 annual I pay-roll of which $5,561,000 was | paid part time employees. Club Opening Today Denver — The newly organized Rocky Mountain Screen Club, of which Harry Golub is president, will formally open its club rooms in the Cosmopolitan Hotel today. M. P. Salesmen to Dance Boston — The Motion Picture Salesmen's Club will hold an entertainment and dance at the Hotel Bradford on April 2. Carl Rhode's orchestra will furnish the music. Admission Taxes Up $68,516 Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Internal Revenue collections derived from admissions taxes for February, 1937, jumped to $1,473,352.91, an increase of $68. 516.01 over the same month in 1936, j according to statistics released by the Treasury Department's Bureau of Internal Revenue. Coming and Going CHARLES R. ROGERS, Universal production head, MRS. ROGERS, and WILLIAM PIERCE, his executive secretary, leave today for the coast. WILLIAM LUNDIGAN, Syracuse announcer, leaves today for Hollywood from Syracuse to join the Universal staff. WILLIAM FITEUSON, film attorney, left last night for Hollywood. JAMES GRAINGER, Universal sales chief, returns Wednesday from a Southern trip that included the MPTOA convention. NORMAN H. MORAY, Vitaphone executive in charge of shorts and trailers, is in Los Angeles today conferring with branch personnel. He will also meet with Jack L. Warner, WB production head. RICHARD JAECKEL left New York for the coast yesterday to supervise fashions for "Walter Wanger's Vogues of 1928." BEATRICE KAUFMAN, Goldwyn's eastern story editor, leaves by plane today for Tucson to confer with Samuel Goldwyn on story properties. JANET GAYNOR is en route to Hollywood following a vacation in New York. FRANK TUTTLE, director of "Waikiki Wedding," which opens at the New York Para mount Theater next Wednesday, will arrive in New York Monday morning en route to France for a vacation. FRITZ LANG, director, leaves New York this afternoon for U. A. studios on the coast. JEAN ARTHUR, who has been on vacation in New York, is en route to Hollywood to take starring role in Paramount's "Easy Living." BERNARD WALDMAN, exploitation consultant for Walter Wanger's "Vogues of 1938," is en route to New York from Hollywood. SOL CITRIN of Metropolitan Playhouses, Inc.. returns to New York next Monday from his honeymoon at Ferndale, N. Y. JOSEPH I. BREEN, production code administrator for M.P.P.D.A., is en route to Europe for a three weeks' vacation which he will spend in Paris and London. MRS. PETER LORRE, wife of the screen actor, sails from New York for California today on the Pennsylvania. ODILON AZAVEDO, Brazilian comedian and playright, and his wife, DULCINA MORAES, comedienne, have arrived in New York en route to Hollywood to study motion picture making there. BOB MOCHRIE arrives in Atlanta today to take up his new duties there as United Artists' southern district manager. 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