The Film Daily (1937)

U*\ DAILY Thursday, Dec. 16, 193 MPTOA BOARD MEETING DEFERRED TO JANUARY ittinued from Page 1) was reported yesterday by Kuykendall in a wire to The Film Daily from Columbus, Miss. The conference of exhib organization leaders is expected to be held in January and it is possible that Kuykendall will call his directors for a meeting immediately following the trade practice confab. It is expected that the MPTOA chief will make his report on his western tour at the directors' meeting. Norman Alley, "U" Lenser, Safe After Panay Sinking Norman Alley, Universal Newsreel cameraman in the Far East, for whose safety considerable anxiety had been felt since his presence aboard the U. S. gunboat Panay was reported, following the attack last Sunday on that vessel by Japanese airmen, radioed Charles Ford, editor of Universal's Newsreel, yesterday stating that he is en route to Shanghai aboard the gunboat Oahu, and expects to arrive there today. Alley's dispatch declared, Ford stated, that he is in possession of considerable footage which he made of the storming of Nanking; the attack on the Panay, and other scenes in the current "undeclared" war. Ford, upon receipt of the message made immediate arrangements for Alley to leave Hong Kong on the China Clipper, Dec. 21, which arrives on the West Coast on either Dec. 24 or Christmas Day. At the same time, Truman Talley, head of Fox Movietone News, announced that cameraman Eric Mayele, whose safety was also a matter of doubt since he, too, was aboard the Panay, was uninjured and proceeding to Shanghai on the American gunboat Oahu. There was nothing in Mayele's message, it was said, to indicate what footage he had succeeded in saving. ■est wishes from The Film Daily to the following on their birthday: DECEMBER 16 Barbara Kent i. M. Kerrigan Clyde Cook with miLM. DAi_y The Time is Short — Mail Your Relief Fund Check TODAY • • • SNOOP that is the title of the latest candid camera mag touted as a pictorial preview of Paramount productions to be published every once in a while Bob Gillham's ad and pub dep't have turned out a highly original and viewable journal we coin the word "viewable." seeing that the mag is practically all pictures and what pictures! exclusive, and specially posed intimate shots of Paramount stars if placed on the newsstands for public consumption it should give all those other look-see mags a merry ride Snoop is a Scoop, Mister Gillham as a fellow-publisher, we greet you ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • THE DRIVE is on meaning the annual Federation of Jewish Charities as represented by the motion picture and theatrical division which organized their drive at a meeting at the Astor theater yesterday with several hundred theater managers in attendance guest speakers were Judge Algernon I. Nova and Paul Moss other speakers v5ere Harry Brandt, Charles Moscowitz and David Bernstein vice-chairmen of the division are Jack Cohn, Joseph Schenck and Leo Spitz Mail Your Relief Fund Check TODAY • • • EMBARRASSING Moments Bob Livingston, manager of the Capitol theater at Lincoln, Nebraska, has just experienced his most embarrassing moment his annual practice has been to buy shoes at this Holiday season for 100 needy kids picked for him by the social welfare society he did the stunt this year the following night he was standing in front of the theater watching with satisfaction a holdout crowd a colored mammy came along, leading a pickaninny by the hand the kid knocked Bob's composure for a loop as he sang out to the giggling crowd: "Mammy, dere's dat man what buys mah shoes!" ▼ TV • • • AT THE AMP A luncheon tomorrow Mike Vogel will be the guest of honor by way of saluting an old member who has moved up to the editorship of the M. P. Daily Lily Pons will be on hand, in the event that she gets in town in time for the luncheon Harriet Hoctor is another celeb who will be there Help the Relief Fund to Take Care of Our Own Needy • • • THOSE FELLERS in the picture biz tell us that things are booming over at the Metro home office they are yelling their heads off that Joan Crawford in "Mannequin" is the ultra-ultra in allure and makes her last three pictures look like nothing at 20th CenturyFox they have flashed 'In Old Chicago" and "Love and Hisses" and want to stack 'em up against any two pictures from any other studio while the boys at Paramount are yelping that Mae West comes through bigger and better than ever in a B. O. manner of speaking, with her latest come-hither peep-show on celluloid s — o it looks as if the Holiday Season will be quite bright for these three major picture peddlers ▼ T T • • • THE GANG is still talking about that engagement dinner given recently to Aaron Shusterman's son Leon Aaron is the oldtimer who runs the Roxy at Perth Amboy, N. J. i* seems the father of the girl that Leon is marrying dug down in the ole sock and threw a party at the Ambassador to show these picture fellers what a Real Party looks like « « « » » » ALLIED MAKES FIDLER BROADCAST SQUAW' (Continued f>vm Page 1) counsel. Myers indicated in his le ter that Allied plans to lodge pr tests with all companies employir "experts" in their broadcasts, i well as with the broadcasting cor, panies. However, before doing: 'h Myers wrote, Allied would like ' have the advertisers' side of the a gument so that the reply could 11 incorporated in a bulletin sent to A lied members. Declaring that it would be unetlj ical if motion pictures competed fi public favor with the product? ■' another industry, Myers asked th; the P & G president give serioil consideration to the question ■ whether it is fair for one indu* seeking public good will, to sponsd a program which often reflect r the product of another industry. \ To illustrate his point, Myers drel a comparison which, according many exhibitors, best describes tl situation. Myers asked what ti' P & G president would think if tl theater owners of the country e gaged a "name" commentator n the air to rate the products of othr companies sponsoring picture cor, mentators. "Thus," Myers wrote, "we j imagine Billie Bazooka sayinjj 'Ivory soap, (bang!) a one-bell soa said to be pure but it comes in clumsy size and shape, has an ui, pleasant odor and washes aws rapidly.' Or Crisco, (bang! bang a two-bell shortening, not nearly < good, etc." Explaining that exhibitors mui contract for their pictures far advance, Myers pointed out that " is a hardship to have a man pr tending to great expertness go ci the air before the pictures are playt and give them a low rating, tin disparaging them in the minds i prospective patrons. When he giv pictures one bell or two bells, 1 virtually tells the public to rema away." A picture that Fidler thinl is bad, Myers declared, might be a). predated by a vast number of pe> pie. Myers' letter was the result of ii1 dignation expressed by exhibito attending the recent meeting of tl ITO of Ohio. SICK REPORT New Haven, Conn. — Mauric Bailey, of the Whalley Theater ii terests, will be transferred to h' home this week after a stay i Grace Hospital for sciatica trea" ment. West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILy Hollywood — Sick report has force William Lundigan out of the cas of Universal's "The Black Doll. Jack Ridgely subs. M