The Film Daily (1938)

Friday, December 2, 1938 W "\. DAILY ASGAP WRIT BLOCKS TENN.'S "ANTI" LAW (Continued from Page 1) ney General and his assistants. Attorneys Louis Frohlich and Hernia, ^jfinkelstein, of New York, and Cornelius, McKinney and Gilbert of this city represented the society. Finkelstein told The Film Daily that the action here probably would rest with the temporary injunction pending outcome of appeals by both sides in other states. Finkelstein argued before Judge Taylor that the law in question prohibits combining to sell use of copyright music unless each piece of sheet music is licensed on an individual rate. He declared this practically prohibited licensing through the society. Legislation more or less prohibiting combine license-selling has been passed in five states. Yesterday's court picture was that in three states, Tennessee, Florida and Nebraska, Ascap had obtained temporary injunctions to prevent enforcement. In Montana, after a year, a decision on the injunction petition has not yet been delivered. In the fifth state, Washington, the injunction proceedings has been thrown out on the grounds less than $3,000 was involved. The society has an appeal from that decision pending. Defendant attorney-general were represented here today by Edwin F. Hunt, of the State's Attorney-General's office at Nashville. To Improve the Circle Indianapolis — The Circle Theater, one of the first de luxe motion picture houses in the United States, I will close tonight for a three-week period of redecoration and renovation. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthday: DECEMBER 2 Earle W. Hammons Julian Arthur Alfred Louis Werker Alfred Reeves Frank Reicher Otto Brower Gertrude Pyser DECEMBER 3 Monty Collins Marion Shilling Basil Smith DECEMBER 4 Lloyd F. Bacon Jack Sullivan John Doran • • • ANOTHER theater in Rockefeller Center the gala opening occurred last night, with a distinguished invited list of socialites, financiers and industrialists for you see, this new Newsreel Theater, the fourth in the Newsreel Theaters, Inc. chain, headed by W. French Githens, is a pet baby of the Rockefeller interests Bill Githens has been working on the plan for three years here is without question the bon ton spot for a newsreel theater getting the play from the tourist trade that daily visits Rockefeller Center by the thousands the swarms of office workers who want to kill an hour at lunch time and the Fifth Avenue dilettantes who can take it in on the shopping tour it can't miss those 450 Bodi form seats should be filled all the time (this is a swell free ad for Bodiform why not? they're swell seals) T T T • • • IT'S the Last Word in modern equipment, this modern newsreel palace a completely silent projection booth lounge furniture of a rare native Finnish birch designed by the famous Finnish architect, Aalto. . . .old rose carpets patterned with replicas of a film unwinding from a reel a new type of auditorium chair, with maximum comfort provided by special back curves and flat suspension springs instead of spring coils solid bronze doors and an ultra-modern air-cooling and air-filtering plant a reception and preview in the afternoon for the press and in the evening the preview for the specially invited guests among whom were Nelson A. Rockefeller, Winthrop Rockefeller, Lowell Thomas, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Herbert B. Swope, Gen. James G. Harbord, David Sarnoff Ford Frick, Merle Crowell, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Will Hays, Major Paul Devlin, Elsa Maxwell, Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, Col. Julius Ochs Adler Truman T alley, Lew Lehr, Fred Ullman, Louis de Rochemont, Ned Depinet, Henry Luce all the newsreels kicked in with a Special Welcome reel wishing Githens and his partners the best of luck in their new house UA Closes Product Deals with B & K, Great States (Continued from Page 1) important runs in the Chicago territory. L. J. Schlaifer, western division sales manager, represented UA in the B & K negotiations, with Walter Immerman acting for the circuit. Jules Rubens represented Great States. Scophony U. S. Financing May be Set Next Week (Continued from Page 1) learned yesterday. Solomon Sagall, founder and managing director of the company, and Arthur Levey, a director, expect to sail Dec. 10 on the Normandie. Plans for an exhibit at the World's Fair are also nearing completion, it was said. Premium Biz Picks Up Detroit — Hal Burriss, distributor for Coulter Premiums, has just opened a new display room, designed in a moderne Gothic style. Burriss reports pickup in the business. Mandell to Succeed Dowd as RKO Theaters Ad Head URGE CLOSER U.S.-S.A. RELATIONS VIA FILMS (Continued from Page 1) 000 be made available for sound tracking in Spanish and Portugese the six governmental pictures depicting the activities of the U. S. Government. A further sum of $18,500 is recommended for the distribution, exploitation and promotional advancement of these films, including a film exchange. The committee also recommends that the U. S. embassies in South America be supplied with projection equipment, the sum of $38,000 being recommended for this purpose. The report also recommends increased exchange of radio programs between the U. S. and the South American republics. GFD Exec. Here to Talk "Mikado" Distribution Deal (Continued from Page 1) Gilbert & Sullivan works. Those under immediate contemplation are "The Gondolier" and "Yeomen of the Guard." He expects to remain in New York for some two weeks and to spend the Christmas holidays in Hollywood. (Continued from Page 1) come associated with the World's Fair in the promotion department. Harry Mandell, a division publicity representative, moves into Dowd's post, effective next Friday. Dowd has spent all of his years with the company in the advertising department and handled vaudeville when Keith-Orpheum shows were in their hey-dey. C. J. Dickinson Appointed Para. Sales Chief in U. K. (Continued from Page 1) John W. Hicks, vice-president in charge of the foreign department, who, accompanied by David Rose, sails for the U. S. tomorrow. Dickinson has been with Paramount for several years as supervisor of branch sales. U. S. Would Distribute Biz Campaign's Short The U. S. Department of Commerce is seeking to distribute "The World is Ours," short produced for the industry pep drive, as part of its program to exhibit American industries throughout the world. It is the aim of the Department to distribute pictures of U. S. business and "The World is Ours" probably will be the film industry's contribution. A decision on the matter will await the return of George J. Schaefer, campaign chairman, from the Coast. STORKS! The stork has paid a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon N. Trent at Harrison. Trent is an Altec service engineer covering theaters in part of the Bronx and Westchester County. Baby's name is Richard Louis. Martin Schiff of the Warner home office foreign department is passing out cigars this week on the occasion of the birth of a baby son, born to Mrs. Schiff at the French Hospital. The boy will be named Martin, Jr.