The Film Daily (1938)

Tuesday, May 31, 1938 Vol. 73, No. 125 Tues., May 31, 1938 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : : Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor 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; 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, Rauchstr, 4. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. MnonciflL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET {QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat Columbia Picts. vtc. llyi liyi \V/2 + i/2 Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd East. Kodak 147 146 147 + 1% do pfd 165 164% 165 Gen. Th. Eq Loew's, Inc 38% 38 38% + 1% do pfd Paramount 7 6% 7 + % Paramount 1st pfd... 75 75 75—1 Paramount 2nd pfd.. 8 8 8 Pathe Film 4i/2 4V2 4'/2 + % RKO 2% 2 2 20th Cent.-Fox .... 20 20 20 + 3A 20th Cent.-Fox pfd Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 4l/2 41,4 4% + V4 do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s46 Loew 6s 41 ww Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. 6s 55.. 90y2 90y2 90%— 1/4 Para. Picts. cv. 3 l/4s47 RKO 6s41 68% 68% 68% Warner's 6s39 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Grand National % % % Monogram Picts Sonotone Corp Technicolor 223^ 22% 22% + % Trans-Lux Universal Picts "Kidnapped" In 55 Keys Following the New York opening of "Kidnapped" at the Roxy, 20thFox screen version of the Stevenson classic started in 55 key cities over the week-end, it was announced by the company last night. SAFETY LLOYDS FILM STO Storage by RAGE CORP. Reel or Vault 729 Seventh Ave. New York City BRyant 9-S600 SECURITY H The Broadway Parade H Picture and Distributor Theater Crime School (Warner Bros. Pictures) — 4th week Strand Moonlight Sonata (Malmar Pictures) — 4th week Little Carnegie The Adventures of Robin Hood (Warner Bros. Pictures) — 3rd week Music Hall Yellow Jack (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures) — 2nd week Capitol Dr. Rhythm (Paramount Pictures) — 2nd week Paramount The Lone Wolf in Paris (Columbia Pictures) — 2nd week Globe Kidnapped (20th Century-Fox) Roxy The Saint in New York (RKO Radio Pictures) : Rialto Gangs of New York (Republic Pictures) Criterion Tarzan and the Green Goddess (Principal Pictures) (a) Central The Last Stand (Universal Pictures) (a) Central The Girl in the Street (Gaumont British Pictures Continental Four Men and a Prayer (20th Century-Fox) (a-b) Palace Rascals (20th Century-Fox) (a) Palace The Sheik (Paramount Pictures) (e) Gaiety The Son of the Sheik (Artcinema Associates) (d) Ceorge M. Cohan ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURES ♦ Un Carnet de Bal (Life Dances On) — 10th week Belmont Pearls of the Crown (Lenauer International) — 7th week Filmarte The Great John Ericsson (Scandanavian Film) — 3rd week 5th Ave. Playhouse The Slipper Episode (French Film Exchange) — 2nd week 55th St. Playhouse Moscow May Day 1938 (Amkino) — 2nd week Cameo ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ They Were Five (Lenauer International) — May 31 Filmarte The Three Mesquiteers (Republic Pictures) — May 31 (a) Central Ten Laps to Go (Treo) — May 31 (a) Central You and Me (Paramount Pictures) — June 1 Paramount Cold Diggers in Paris (Warner Bros. Pictures) — June 1 Strand The Courier of Lyons (Pax Films) — June 1 55th St. Playhouse Three on a Weekend (Gaumont British Pictures) — June 1 Continental Three Comrades (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures) — June 2 Capitol Kentucky Moonshine (20th Century-Fox) — June 2 (a-b) Palace One Wild Night (20th Century-Fox)— June 2 (a) .Palace Country Bride (Amkino) — June 2 Cameo The Sign of the Cross (Paramount-DeMille) — June 3 (d) Criterion Swiss Miss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Roach) — June 4 (e) Rialto Swiss Miss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures) — June 4 (e) Globe Vivacious Lady ( RKO Radio Pictures) (c) Music Hall Blockade (United Artists-Wanger) Music Hall Josette (20th Century-Fox) (c) Roxy (a) Dual bill, (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill, (d) Revival (e) Double Premiere Michaels Plans Theater to Play Class Pictures Buffalo — Mayfair Theater Corp., through Dewey Michaels, president, has announced plans for a 300seat theater to show "high-grade pictures of the sort theatergoers have been unable heretofore to see and no double features." House will be called the Esquire, and will be located in a now unoccupied business block downtown. Remodeling will be completed by Aug. 15. Michaels still has in abeyance plans for a 1,200-seater, the Colvin, in north section. 20th Century-Fox Will Release Four in June Appellate Division Stays Order in ULIA Labor Case Order to show cause was signed Saturday in the Appellate division staying enforcement of order handed down by the Supreme Court recently, which directed the United Long Island Amusement Corp. to rehire six projectionists as so ordered by the NLRB, until determination of the notice to appeal which was filed previously by Martin M. Alpert, attorney for ULIAC. It is expected that a brief will be filed immediately by Alpert and further action will materialize this week. Four features, including two comedies and one comedy-melodrama have been scheduled by 20th Century-Fox for release in June. "Josette," a comedy with Don Ameche, Simone Simon and Robert Young, is slated for June 3. "One Wild Night," with June Lang and Dick Baldwin, will be released June 10. Others are "Three Blind Mice," starring Loretta Young and Joel McCrea on June 17, and "Mr. Moto Takes a Chance" on June 24. Associates to Meet Final luncheon and business meeting of Motion Picture Associates for the spring season will be held at Braddock's Restaurant June 16, Jack Ellis, president, reported on Saturday. This year MPA deviates from its usual summer procedure of not holding sessions and will resume meetings early in August, Ellis said. Membership drive under old initiation fee basis will close with the next meeting, and routine business will be cleaned up, it was said. Ellis said that all the motion picture players in town have been invited to the meeting scheduled for Braddock's. cominc flno gomg DARRYL F. ZANUCK, vice-president and production head of 20th-Fox, MRS. ZANCK, their three children, RICHARD DARRYL, DARRYLIN and SUSAN, and WILLIAM DOVER, studio personnel manager, and MRS. DOVER, arrived from the Coast yesterday morning on the CCJjg'ify WALTER J. HUTCHINSON, 20th-Fox al&ctor of foreign distribution, arrived from Europe yesterday on the Normandie. BILLY WILKERSON, publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, was also an arrival on the French ship. JESSE LASKY returns to New York today. A. L. PRATCHETT, Paramount supervisor for sales in Latin-America, is on the Coast. SYDNEY, JACK and HENRY SLATE have arrived from the Coast where they worked in "College Swing." They are stopping at the Piccadilly. PAUL LEYSSAC, French actor, is en route to France on the Bremen. DR. HERBERT T. KALMUS, president of Technicolor, arrived in England yesterday. LEONARD SPIECELGASS, writer, has arrived from Hollywood after completing script of "Letter of Introduction" for Universal, and sails tomorrow for Europe on the George Washington. LEONARD G. ROSS, writer, left New York Saturday for the Coast after signing contracts with Harcourt Brace and the New Yorker. J. DON ALEXANDER, president of Alexander Film Co., is here from his headquarters in Colorado. PAT CASEY, producer labor contact, is expected to arrive in New York this week-end from the Coast. ARTHUR A. LEE, vice-president and general manager of Gaumont British, returns to the home office today from Toronto. CREASON E. SMITH, of RKO, returned to New York on Saturday from a trip through the south. GE Declares Dividend Directors of General Electric, it was announced on the week-end, have voted a dividend of 20 cents a share on the capital stock payable July 25 to stockholders of record June 24. This is a reduction of 10 cents from the last disbursements, on April 25, last, when a dividend of 30 cents was paid. At the board meeting on Friday, John P. Wilson of the Chicago law firm of Wilson & Mcllvaine was elected a director to fill a vacancy. Cartoons Films In Deal West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Officials of Cartoon films, Ltd., are negotiating with a major company for the release of a new series of cartoons. Carton Films is also producing a series based on Lawson Wood's character, "Gran' pop," which is being distributed by the British Independent ExhibitorsDistributors association. AN ADDED ATTRACTION OF EXCEPTIONAL I 28 Minute ol Actioo and SosfKKC . H. HOFFBERG CO. INC, IMMEDIATE BOOKINGS 729 SEKENTH ML. HEW TOM