The Film Daily (1937)

Monday, March 22, 1937 Vol. 71, No. 67 Mon., Mar. 22, 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; Don•ld 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 Wariour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographie Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. F INANCIAL {QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chge. Am. Seat 255/g 255/8 255/8 — Vs Columbia Picts. vtc. 34 34 34 Columbia Picts. pfd. 42 42 42 Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. 16y8 16'/8 16i/8 — 1/4 East. Kodak 160'/2 159 159 do pfd Gen. Th. Eq 30'/8 30V8 30V8 + W& Loew's, Inc 77i/2 77i/4 77J4 + % do pfd Paramount 24>/8 23% 24'/8 + V4 Paramount 1st pfd Paramount 2nd pfd.. 2iy8 213/8 21% — 1/4 Pathe Film SVz 8% 8!/2 RKO 8i/4 8'/8 8i/4 20th Century-Fox . 38y4 37% 373/4 — >/2 20th Century-Fox pfd Univ. Pict. pfd.. Warner Bros 14% 14% 14% do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s 46.... 98 98 98 Loew 6s 41ww 98 98 98 + y4 Par. B'way 3s 55.. 743^ 74% 74% Par. Picts. 6s 55 RKO 6s41 Warner's 6s39 .... 95 95 95 — '/2 NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE Columbia Picts. vtc Grand National .... 3 3 3 Sonotone Corp 1% 1% 1% Technicolor 21 '/2 21 Vz 21 '/2 — y8 Trans-Lux 4% 43,4 4% MARCH 22 Henry Hobart Bernice Claire Carmelita Geraghty Joseph Schildkraut H The Broadway Parade SI Picture and Distributor Theater Maid of Salem (Paramount) — 3rd week Paramount Nancy Steele Is Missing — 3rd week Rivoli Ready, Willing and Able (Warner Bros.) — 2nd week Strand Maytime ( Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Capitol When's Your Birthday? (RKO Radio) Music Hall Breezing Home (Universal Pictures) Roxy Her Husband Lies (Paramount) Criterion Sea Devils (RKO Radio) Rialto Navy Spy (Grand National) Central The Great O'Malley (Warner Bros.) (a-b) Palace Her Husband's Secretary (First Nat'l) (a) Palace ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUNS ♦ The Good Earth (M-G-M)— 8th week Astor Lost Horizon (Columbia) — 3rd week Globe ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURES ♦ Razumov (Garrison Film Co.) — 2nd week Cameo Tsar to Lenin (Lenauer Internat'l) — 3rd week Filmarte The Golem (Metropolis) 55th St. Playhouse South of the Highway (Scand. Talking Films) — 2nd week Cinema de Paris ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Beethoven Concerto (Amkino) — March 23 Cameo Waikiki Wedding (Paramount) — March 24... Paramount Silent Barriers (GB Pictures) — March 25 (d) Criterion Top of the Town (Universal) — March 26 Roxy Seventh Heaven (20th Century-Fox) — March 25 Music Hall Amphytrion (French film) — March 25 Belmont The King and the Chorus Girl (Warner Bros.) — March 27 Strand History Is Made at Night (United Artists)— March 27 Rivoli I Promise to Pay (Columbia Pictures) — March 27 Central Campodi Maggio (Nuovo Mondo) — March 27 Broadway Elephant Boy (United Artists) <c) Rialto Kimiki (Lenauer International) (c) Filmarte Barber of Seville (Franco-American) — (a-c) Cinema de Paris Monte Carlo (Franco-American) (a-c) Cinema de Paris (a) Dual bill, (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill, (d) Two-a-day run. Hearing on Fairness of Roxy Plan Starts Today United Artists, Laemmle, Jr. Talk a Releasing Deal West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — United Artists is dickering with Carl Laemmle, Jr., for the relea'se of the pictures he is planning to produce, it is reliably reported here. The deal, if it goes through, is not expected to be consummated for about 10 days or two weeks, however. U. A.-Laemmle, Jr., negotiations on the West Coast involve the question of how much financing the former shall do, it was understood in New York yesterday. Conn. Allied to Elect New Officers Tomorrow New Haven — Allied Theaters of Connecticut will elect officers at a luncheon-meeting at the Hotel Garde, 1:30 P.M., tomorrow, Mar. 23. Legislation will also be discussed, and arrangements will be made for the Eastern Regional Conference of Allied, scheduled for the Garde Hotel here on Apr. 5. Harry L. Lavietes will preside at the meeting. NPC Increases Capital Wilmington. — National Pictures Corp. increased its capital at Dover from $100,000 to $1,000,000. Corporation Fiscal Company, Inc., is agent for concern. Coming and Going KEITH FALKNER, British singer and film actor, arrives in New York today on the Queen Mary to appear in pictures for Warner Bros.First National immediately following a scheduled concert tour here. MONTE PROSER arrived in New York from the coast over the week-end to gather story material for Walter Wanger's "Fifty-Second Street" and scout for talent. CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND is motoring to New Yoik after conferring on the coast with Edward L. Alperson, president of Grand National about filming his story "Face the Facts." EDWARD ALPERSON will remain in Hollywood until April 1 to approve casting for GN pictures scheduled to start in April and May. GEO. W. WEEKS, GB general sales manager, returns to his desk today after a sojourn at Miami Beach where he attended the M.P.T.O.A. convention. BUDDY MARCUS and HALSEY RAINES are due back at Loew GHQ today, the former from Bermuda, the latter from Florida. CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, her husband, BENN W. LEVY, and other members of the "Young Madame Conti" company from the Savoy Theater, London, arrive today on the Queen Mary. WILLIAM K. HOWARD, film producer, and LOUIS BOVELL, screen actor, are also arriving aboard the Queen Mary. KETTI GALLIAN has arrived from Hollywood and is stopping at the Savoy-Plaza. NAT KARSON, artist and scenic designer, left New York over the week-end for Chicago, accompanied by Mrs. Karson. RUSSELL PATTERSON arrives in Hollywood today from New York. EUGENE FRENKE arrives today on the Queen Mary from England where he set a production deal. Hearing on the fairness of the Roxy reorganization plan is slated to get under way today before Special Master Addison S. Pratt in Federal Court with determination of whether the company is insolvent or not, one of the chief matters to be settled. If it is found that the Roxy Corp. is not insolvent, the reorganization plan would be automatically thrown out. Federal Judge Caffey, who has jurisdiction over the Roxy reorganization, has stated that he might call in the S.E.C. to determine whether stockholders had an equity. There is much other opposition to the plan, presaging lively hearings. The plan provides for acquisition of the theater by 20th Century-Fox, which would pay in $650,000 cash. Charles Heywood Dead Newark — Charles Heywood, 89, actor, singer and female impersonator of the last century, is dead here. Heywood's real name was Frank Haffner. For a time during his long stage career he operated a theater here. Survivors include a niece, Mrs. H. V. Bernhardy of Maplewood. When Walter Wanger makes it we can expect something outstanding. He is aware of box-office value. WELFORD BEATON Hollywood Spectator WALTER WANGER ,,«■««/, CHARLES BOYER „f) JEAN ARTHUR u mnDEfn LEO CARILL0 ■ COLIN clive $„.,<,.> «„ FRANK BOBZ»Ct0..v../ ■'•■* Retcoscd thru UNITED ARTISTS