The Film Daily (1937)

THE iu 1ZJW DAILY Friday, Oct. 1,1937 100 THEATERS JOIN PARA. BUYING COMBINE {Continued from Pa , ing Paramount product in the now n. Total of mo theaters were represented at the meeting This makes the third unit to use a similar plan, Jersey Allied acting last week. AJarons also announced thai reports from Los Angeles, Boston and Milwaukee indicated the Indies were there sticking 100 per cent in the fight Reviews o% View T'dUns English Public's Reaction to Television Disappoints (Continued from Page 1) the Normandie after a vacation abroad. He devoted much time to studying developments in the television field, he stated. Paley stated that only 2,000 television sets have been sold in England, despite broadcasting of this type for more than a year. Sets are selling from $350 to $400, he said. He reported that the usual television image, 8 x 10, is too small and too indistinct. CBS, which has leased the top of the Chrysler Building in New York for regular television broacasts, Paley announced, will disclose plans in two weeks. A new CBS London office is planned. He goes to the Coast in two months. Electrics File General Denial in 6 Million Suit {Continued from Page 1) brought by Stanley Koldden as assignee of the creditors of Pacent Electric Co., former sound equipment manufacturing firm which claims to have been put out of business. The defendants state that the suit was filed six years after the alleged damages occurred and that it is outlawed by the statute of limitations. Dismissal of the action is asked. "Wine, Women and Horses" with Barton MacLanc, Ann Sheridan Warners 70 mins. RAMBLING RACE TRACK YARN GETS NO PARTICUIAR PLACE WITH VERY MEDIOCRE STORY. This one rambles all over the place with Barton MacLane as a gent with horse racing in his blood and an urge to gamble on his convictions. It is a rather disappointing story in that the ending has the gambler separating from his wife, who just can't stand race horse betting or anything to do with horse races. If the story was intended to point the moral that once a gambler, always a gambler, it makes a very ooor case of it. MacLane marries the nice quite little home-loving woman, played by Peggy Bates, but is soon back at his old 'ricks of hanging around the race track Through an old pal, a siren, played by Ann Sheridan, he collects a bankroll on a lucky win, and later goes off on a party with the racetrack dame to celebrate his winn:ngs. When he comes home the next morn, his wife has gone back to mother. Months later the gambler is a bum, and he stops by at the home of mother-in-law to get a peep at the baby that was on the wav when mother beat it. The baby has died, the forgiving wife agrees to give him another chance, and he gets a job attending a cigar counter. But soon the old urge comes back, and he acquires a brokendown race horse, and starts to doctor him uo and put him back in the monev class. Here the wife decides they can't make a <»o of it, and they separate for good. Sounds like something knocked off by a writer over the week-end. Cast: Barton MacLane, Ann Sheridan, Dick Purcell. Peggv Bates, Walter Cassell, Lottie Williams, Kenneth Harlan. Eugene Jackson, Charley Foy, James Robbins Director, Louis King; Author, W R Burnett; Screenplay, Roy Chanslor Direction, Weak. Photography, Okay Congressional Party Will be Guests of Hal Wallis SCREEN WRITER MIXUP DECISION IS DEFERRED SICK REPORT Detroit — Stanley Fisher, salesman for M-G-M, is now in the U. S. Marine Hospital here, where he is reported convalescing satisfactorily from prolonged illness. Newark, N. J. — Arnold Eisen, assistant contact manager for Warner Bros., New Jersey zone, is in Beth Israel Hospital here recovering from a severely sprained leg, sustained when he slipped and fell while watching the Legion parade. Omaha — Miss Mary Hansen, secretary to Branch Manager Al Avery of RKO, has completely recovered from an appendicitis operation. West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Los Angeles — Ten U. S. Senators and 12 Congressmen and their wives, comprising-a special committee on their way to visit Hawaii, will be eruests today at the Warner Studios here, at a luncheon given by Hal Wallis, associate executive in charge of production. At the luncheon, which will be held in the Orchid Room of the "Hollywood Hotel" set, a half hour broadcast will take place over station KFWB and the Mutual network. George Jessel will emcee and Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane. Johnnie Davis and the 35 piece Vitaphone orchestra will take part. SHORTS The March Of Time (Vol. 4. No. 2) RKO Radio 19 mins. Interesting And Timely Three lively, interesting and timely topics are presented in this issue, -^lunk and War, England's DORA, and Piorello H. La Guardia. The initial subject is a striking disclosure of the tremendous world demand for steel, and particularly for scrap iron destined for munition and armament factories in foreign lands. The reel's editors have used a New Jersey junk dealer as the symbol of the many engaged and currently prospering as the result of various nations, engaged in the armament race, demanding more and more junk metals. How the scrap is collected, reduced to blocks and subsequently shipped aboard vessels flying the flag's of leading world powers, is vividly portrayed Second subject deals with Britain's laws, enacted as emergency World War measures but never rescinded. These statutes have brought about many strange and nuisance-like trade practices and regulations, not the least of which is to produce in England a network of "speakeasies" such as existed in the United States before Repeal. With strong backing from reform groups, these laws show no evidence of being abrogated. Climactic sequences treat with New York City's Mayor La Guardia, principally with his accomplishments since taking office. Scenes show him campaigning in 1933: pledging to rid the city of evils of political privilege; eliminate bad housing conditions in the slums; warring on rackets, and bringing the metropolis back to a sound financial footing. How he "broke the power of the Tammany machine," appointed capable and efficient aides to head the police, fire and and health departments; provided modern equipment for the Department of Sanitation; and effected other praiseworthy public improvements. are other points in the sequences' exposition. Considerable accent is placed also on the crusade of Thomas E. Dewey aganst gangland. There are some amusing human interest shots of the the Mayor in both public and private life. {Continued from Page II advisement by trial examiner William R. Ringer and the heai'ing proceeded. McCarthy insisted that the Guild is not a separate or distinct organization but is a part of the Office League of America, that the League is also composed of members who do not write for the screen and that these members far outnumber the members who write for the screen and that the interest of such members in many ways are antagonistic to the interests of screen writers and that members of the Guild are not independent in their deliberations and can, without their consent, be made subject to a decision of the League members who are not screen writers. McCarthy also contended that members of the Screen Playwrights had contracts with studios and that NLRB has no authority to effect such contracts. He insisted that the Board does not have jurisdiction i: the matter, as no interstate co merce is involved and further th the petition does not describe a: employe, nor does it involve pe: sons now employed as writers. Attorneys for the members of the Association of Motion Picture Producers and Motion Picture Distributors, Inc., joined in the motion for dismissal. McCarthy further as-: serted that the work of writers is mental and not labor and that the board should deal only with laborers. B. P. Kahane was the first wilJ ness called by William Walsh, special attorney for the National Labor Relations Board and Kahane outlined the problems of the pro ducer. Major Levinson of Warner Bros will be called to testify on problem: of sound men while Henry King wil testify on problems of the director and John Arnold on those of a cameraman. Certain sections of the National Labor Relations Act were held to be unconstitutional and that hearing is also, because it would deprive members of Screen Playwrights of liberty and property. Duport Leaving on Trip Ray Duport, newly appointed sales manager of the Forest Manufacturing Corp. of Belleville, N. J., leaves Monday on an extended business trip. "Stand-In" Starts Oct. 28 Walter Wanger's "Stand-In." based on Clarence Budington Kelland's story of Hollywood, has been booked into the Radio City Music Hall for its New York premiere on Thursday, Oct. 28. WEDDING BELLS Syracuse, N. Y. — Engagement is announced here of Marge Ann Kaufman, Syracuse actress, and Edwin Lewis Phillips, film and stage actor, both now appearing in "Brothel Rat" in Chicago. Wedding will take place this month. Charlotte Take-over Today Wilby-Kincey today takes over the Warner theater in Charlotte, N. C. Omaha — Miss Elizabeth Jane Heaton, formerly a stenographer in Republic-Midwest's exchange here. became the bride of Eugene T. Al bright of Omaha at the home of ha parents, in Yankton, S. D.