The Film Daily (1939)

THE' WfU DAILY Wednesday, April 26, 1939 STUDIO UNIONS PLAN M. P. TRADE COUNCIL {Continued from Page 1) seek a basic agreement with the producers without requesting IATSE aid, it is understood. This action is believed prompted by the fact that the IA was reported to have prepared a notice informing producers that technical workers need not belong to IA to obtain studio employment. The program formulated by Electricians, Carpenters, Studio Utility Employes, Machinists, Plasterers, Painters and Studio Technicians unions provides for minimum six hour day, five-day week, with sixday pay, six hours a day hourly rate and daily rate pro-rated accordingly, Monday to Friday inclusive; overtime from midnight Friday to 6 A.M. Monday, and in excess of six hours in any one day; time and one-half between six P.M. and 12 P.M.; double time between midnight and 6 A.M Program also provides no hourly rate men shall work for more than 40 hours a week except on location and regular employment list shall be established at each studio. These men are to be guaranteed not less than 40 weeks per year, and all other men to be called through unions at 10 per cent additional wage. All men on regular employment list who have worked 2 years or more are to receive two weeks annual vacation with pay. All travel time except to distant locations shall be computed as regular working time. Hours of key and fiat salary men are to be limited to coincide with wage and hour bill. 20th-Fox to Spend $400,000 Advertising May-July Films (Continued from Page 1) the same months last year, more than $400,000 is being expended in advertising and exploiting these films by Charles E. McCarthy's department, it was learned over the week-end. Several of company's most important pix will be released during these three months. laPP*M V R T II JJ Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthday: APRIL 26 Guinn Williams Dorothy Sebastian Noel Madison Jerome E. Olenick 4LCNG THE with PHIL A4. D/lLYi • • • AMID swank and splendor such as has seldom been seen at a picture premiere in New York Warners launched their much vaunted "Juarez" at the Hollywood theater amid the glare of flood lights on Broadway as a continuous line of cars pulled up to the entrance for over an hour disgorging expensively gowned women and their escorts in tails or tux it was SWANK in caps and Charles Einfeld must be given credit for staging one of the most impressive world premieres that the industry has ever known T T T • • • A LISTING of the celebrated guests is the best way we know to convey the importance of the occasion the picture is reviewed elsewhere, so this chronicle is being confined to the opening itself the running time is over two hours and the audience set enthralled as the magnificent spectacle of the tragedy of Maximilan unfolded in all its regal splendor and the star of the Indian patriot Juarez rose to bathe his beloved country in its effulgent glow for this, you must remember, was before the days when in Texas they were shouting "Remember the Alamo!" • • • NAMES Names Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Aidrich, Alvarez del Vayo, Mr. and Mrs. Jules S. Bache, Miss Diana Barrymore, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Baragwanath, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Brulatour George Gordon Battle, Howard C. Brokaw, Count and Countess Bouet Willaumez, Wm. A. Brady Ely Culbertson, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Drexel Cassett, Madame Alma Clayburgh, Mr. and Mrs. Waddill Cachings, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Davis Alfred De Liagre, Jr., Mrs. James P. Donahue, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T. Dewart, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Irene Delroy Cobina Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Byron G. Foy, Mrs. Frances Gallatin, Jules Glaenzer, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Gerard Mrs. Dorothy Gallatin, Prince Gourielli, Mrs. Olivier Harriman, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, W. H. Harkness Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Randolph Hearst, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hoving, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harding, Frazier Jelke Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Young, Dr. and Mrs. Truman L. Saunders Mrs. Alfred A. Knopf, Mr. and Mrs. Messmore Kendall, Prince Vladimir Koudachoff, Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, Mrs. Philip Kip Rhinelander, Mrs. Leonore Warner Mr. and Mrs. John L. Lewis, Prince Hubertus Von Loewenstein, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. McCosker, Raymond Moley, Count and Countess Momer Ira Nelson Morris, Conde Nasi, Prince Alexis Obolensky, Brock Pemberton, Mr. and Mrs. Clendenin Ryan, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Rinehart, Jr Grantland Rice, Gen. and Mrs. Lewis Stotesbury, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Mrs. Wm. Dick Sporberg, Deems Taylor Frank Tannenbaum, Lady Suzanne Wilkins T T T • • • THE ENTIRE Mexican delegation, headed by Dr. Ramon Beteta, undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, came from Washington a group of almost 50 persons Industry names included Major Albert Warner, Gradwell L. Sears, S. Charles Einfeld, Joseph Bernhard, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Leserman, Sam Morris Joseph Hummel, Doris Warner LeRoy, Jack Alicoate, B. S. Moss, Sidney R. Kent, Jack Cohn Major Edward Bowes, George Skouras, Lya Lys, Moe Silver, J. J. Hoffman, Harold Rodner, Mort Blumenstock and Willard Patterson ARBITRATION SETUP READY IN A WEEK? « « « » » » (Continued from Page 1) over to Rodgers, and will be dis cussed at the meeting. ^ The distrib. committee wassi^p -. resented yesterday as exceedingly anxious to complete its job at the earliest possible date, although ad mitting it was one that could no1 be high-pressured. The committee at its coming meeting will alsc tackle specific objections and criticisms voiced bv exhib. groups, including the ITOA. In the latter respect, it was saic that if any individual or organization can submit alternate phraseology that will make for greatei clarity, the distrib. interests will be ready to consider it. However, there will be no general reopening of negotiations, if was re-emphasized, and in the matter of concessions, the code embodies the maximum that the organized industry can give. While certain of the concessions find expression in 1939-40 sales policies, others, contingent upon arbitration, are not now included in the license agreements for the new season. In all probability, the license agreements will be permitted tc stand, code signature being deemed sufficient to make the concessions applicable and effective. While the code pledges each distrib. to "use its best efforts to simplify" its license agreement, and these efforts will be made, it was said yesterday that radical simplification was very unlikely, and anything approaching uniformity out of the question. It was pointed out that when simplification has beer sought in the past, longer, not shorter, agreements usually have been suggested by the legal framers. As for uniformity, it is ruled out by the conspiracy factor. Question of extending the code tc Canada has not as yet been tackled formally by the distribs., it was learned yesterday. If and when it is adopted on this side, it will be time enough to consider the Dominion situation, is the general view. Schroeder Rites Held Detroit — Carl Schroeder, 63, vicepresident and secretary of the Majestic Theater, Wyandotte, and its active manager for a decade, prior to 1929, was buried yesterday at Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit. His widow and four children survive. Fair Helps "Juarez" First reported instance of an attraction benefiting from the New York World's Fair is Warners' "Juarez," which had its world premiere last night at the Hollywood. With advance sale for the $2 roadshow pix double the previous advance of "The Life of Emile Zola" at the theater for a similar period, buys by those planning early Fair visits are rated an important factor.