The Film Daily (1938)

DAILY Monday, November 7, 193$ Vol. 74, No. 99 Mon., Nov. 7, 1938 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor Published daily except Saturdays, 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, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., undethe 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. f i n n n c i n l {QUOTATIONS NEW YORK Am. Seat Columbia Picts. vtc. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... East. Kodak do pfd Cen. Th. Eq Loew's, Inc Paramount Paramount 1st pfd.. . Paramount 2nd pfd.. Pathe Film RKO 20th Century-Fox . . . 20th Century-Fox pfd. Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros AS OF FRIDAY) STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. 22 20 'A 22 +2 183/8 18 18 — 1/4 2 2 2 — l/8 11 1/8 10% " — Vs 18234 182 1823A — 3A 171 171 171 + 1 153/4 151/z 153/4 — 3/8 60% 59 593A — % 121/8 11% 115/g _ 3/8 98i/2 98i/2 98l/2 — 1 121/s 113/4 12 — I/4 133/s 123/4 12% 2% 26i/4 253/4 26 — % 343A 341/2 341/2 — 1/4 60 7% 60 6% 60 7 — % NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s46.... 95 95 95 + V2 Loew 6s 41-ww 101% 101% 101% — % Para. B'way 3s55... 61 61 61 Para. Picts. 6s55. . . 99 99 99—1 Para. Picts. cv. 3 V4s47 861/4 86'/4 86 1/4 — '/2 RKO 6s41 78i/2 78 78 — 1/2 Warner's 6s39 91 1/2 91 91 Warner's 6s39 ctfs... 89i/2 89y2 89V2 — 1/2 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Grand National 3/8 5-16 % Monogram Picts. ... 1 1/2 1 3/8 1 3/8 — i/8 Technicolor 22 21 1/2 21 1/2 — % Trans-Lux 2% 2l/2 2l/2 Pizor Improves Oklahoma City — Attendants at St. Anthony's Hospital report that Lewen Pizor, MPTO prexy, stricken with a stomach ailment while attending the MPTOA convention here, is improving. SAFETY LLOYDS FILM STORAGE CORP. Storage fey Reel or Vault 729 Seventh Ave. New York City BRyant 9-5600 SECURITY ® The Broadway Parade SI Picture and Distributor Theater Men With Wings (Paramount Pictures) — 2nr" week Paramount The Citadel (Metro-Coldwyn-Mayer) Capitol The Young in Heart (United Artists-Selznick) Music Hall That Certain Age (Universal Pictures) Roxy A Man to Remember (RKO Radio Pictures) Rivoli Girls' School (Columbia Pictures) Criterion Brother Rat (Warner Bros. Pictures) Strand Mars Attacks the World (Universal Pictures) Rialto Gangster's Boy (Monogram Pictures) (a) Globe Gun-Packer (Monogram Pictures) (a) Globe Titans of the Deep (Grand National Pictures) (a) Central Crime Afloat (Treo Pictures) (a) Central Room Service (RKO Radio Pictures) (a-b) Palace Always in Trouble (20th Century-Fox) (a) Palace ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUN ♦ Marie Antoinette (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — 11th week Astor ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURES ♦ Crand Illusion (World Pictures) — 8th week Filmarte The Story of a Cheat (Gallic Films) — 7th week 5th Ave. Playhouse The Singing Blacksmith (Yiddish picture) Continental Professor Mamlock ( Amkino) Cameo Irish and Proud of It (Guaranteed Pictures) — 2nd week Belmont Life Dances On (Un Carnet de Bal) (Empress Pictures) — 2nd week (a-b) World Adventures of Chico (Woodard Productions) — 2nd week (a-b) World Lily of Killarney (William Alexander) — 3rd week Squire ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Vacation from Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — Nov. 10 Criterion Arkansas Traveler (Paramount Pictures) — Nov. 16 Paramount The Shining Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (c) Capitol Angels With Dirty Faces (Warner Bros. Pictures) — Nov. 25 Strand Submarine Patrol (20th Century-Fox) (c) Roxy Suez (20th Century-Fox) — Nov. 10 (a-b) Palace Swing That Cheer (Universal Pictures) — Nov. 10 (a) Palace Wild Innocents (Herman Garfield) — Nov. 10 (a) Belmont A Waltz — by Strauss (Arthur Ziehm) — Nov. 10 (a) Belmont Ballerina (Mayer-Burstyn) — Nov. 14 Little Carnegie (a) Dual bill. (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill. Slow Progress at Copyright Confab; Meet Again Nov. 18 Third confab, aimed at ironing out the unsatisfactory and involved international copyright situation as it affects motion pictures, radio, authors, composers and other channels of kindred commerce, was held on Friday morning in the Bar Building, 36 West 44th St., with the various factions making only slow progress toward a solution of the current difficulties confronting them. Further study of the groups' inter-related problems will be made during the approximately two-week jeriod which will elapse before the next session is held on Nov. 18, next. Columbia's Business Up 28%, Declares Montague Chicago — Columbia's business is 28 per cent ahead of the same period a year ago, the company's sales chief said here Friday. Montague was here to participate in the trade reform conferences and remained Saturday and yesterday for the divisional managers' meetings. Televise Pix Premiere London (By Cable)— A "first" for television: Opening of Charles Laugh ton's "St. Martin's Lane" was televised from the Carlton theater, Haymarket, with Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Laughton) as the camera-reporter. Warner Film Sales Run 12% Ahead, Says Sears Chicago — Warner film sales are running 12 per cent ahead of the comparable period last year, Grad L. Sears, sales chief, disclosed here Friday. Enthusiastic over the results of Motion Pictures' Greatest Year, he urged that the good will developed by the Movie Quiz be utilized in a permanent organization to help stimulate theater attendance ail year. RKO Pathe News Will Be Serviced by Trans-Radio RKO Pathe News has signed a contract with Trans-Radio, and is realigning its cameramen to follow through without loss of time on spot news breaks. Contract also provides for checking of news rumors and development of feature newsreel stories. Chi. Censor Rejects Nine Out of 1,360 Pictures Chicago — Lieut. Harry M. Costello, in charge of Chicago Police Department motion picture bureau and head censor, reports 1,360 films censored to Nov. 1, with a total footage of 5,792,000 ft. Nine films were rejected and 374 cuts were made in the films accepted. cominG aim Goanc WILL H. HAYS, film industry administrator returns to New York at mid-week from f brief trip to his home in Sullivan, Ind. H. M. WARNER was scheduled to t ouf for the Coast yesterday. GEORGE J. SCHAEFER and NED E. DEP1NE1 are expected to leave for the RKO Radio stu' dios within the week. WILLIAM F. RODGERS, CRADWELL L. SEAR! and ABE MONTAGUE, sales chiefs respective!; for Metro, Warners and Columbia, return ti their desks from Chicago today. JULES LEVY, RKO general sales manager left for Atlanta over the week-end to confe with field execs. ED KUYKENDALL arrives in New York today PAT O'BRIEN, Warner star, who has beer vacationing in the East, leaves with his wife the middle of the week for Hollywood. PAUL OSBORN, scenarist, has returned tc New York from Hollywood after completing his first Coast assignment, "The Young ir Heart." JANET MARTIN of Disney's West Coast publicity department, left New York over the weekend for Hollywood. ALLEN USHER, Para, branch manager ir Chicago, has returned from his New York busi ness trip. S. ERNEST PELSON, formerly with CN, has gone to Boston to become office manager and city salesman for Imperial Pictures. GROUCHO and HARPO MARX arrived in Hollywood from New York over the week-end. AL STEEN of THE FILM DAILY returned yesterday from Oklahoma City. Cowdin, Reisman, Wilcox, Howard on the Normandie London (By Cable) — J. Cheever Cowdin, "U" board chairman; Phil Reisman, RKO's foreign sales chief; Herbert Wilcox, producer, and Anna1 Neagle, star of the latter's "60 Glorious Years"; Leslie Howard, Vivien Leigh and Berton Churchill are aboard the Normandie, due in New York Thursday. Cowdin is understood to have participated in the Odeon-GB-General Theaters merger discussions during his stay here. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthday: NOVEMBER 7 Edward Sedgwick Alice Day Mona Maris Margaret Morris Herman J. Mankiewicz Joe Cobb