The Film Daily (1940)

-iday, April 19, 1940 11 DAILY: 10N0. ANNOUNCES TOTAL OF 50 PIX (Conliiiucd from Page 1) les conclave which opens tomorw _at_ the Baker Hotel. T,f ^production budgets will be loc.-*,-jd to "The Pioneers," based the James Fenimore Cooper novel; 'he Ape," Broadway play by Adam all Shirk which will star Boris u-loff ; "Land of the Sky Blue Wai'," to include two songs by Charles akefield Cadman — the title number id "At Dawning"; "The King and e Cowboy," a Graustarkian roance. Two Jack London Stories Listed "Under Northern Skies" and jand of the Long Shadows" are two ck London novels which figure eminently on the program. The te Earl Derr Biggers' Satevepost Dry "Dollar Chasers" is also scheded. Gene Stratton-Porter's novel "Her other's Daughter" and a sequel "Freckles"" entitled "Freckles )mes Home" by Jeannette Stratton irter will be made. Marcia Mae nes and Jackie Moran will be en in a filmization of "The Old i'immin' Hole," suggested by the mes Whitcomb Riley poem, as '11 as in "Sweet Sixteen" and "Day ■eams." Four for Frankie Darro I Other properties on the list in ide "College Sweetheart" by Leona ilrymple which appeared in the Oman's Home Companion; "Mil ■n Dollar Mystery," Collier's Mag -ine story by Hugh Wiley; "I )ver the Town," "You're Out of ick," "The Sky's The Limit" and (ly Home Town" with Frankie ^{irro; "Boys of the City" and "That mg of Mine" with the East Side ,ds; "While Frisco Sleeps," "Phan jm of Chinatown" and "Alias Jim y Hogan" stories by Hugh Wiley; pne Glorious Adventure" by Dor l,hy Reid and Betty Burbridge and i Orphans of the North," A Norman nvn production. Tex Ritter again will star in a pup of musical westerns and Fred |ott in another series of outdoor ]amas. King and Corrigan will be 'own as "The Two Pals." Informal reunions and conferences ,'■ franchise holders are scheduled ^th Johnston, Scott R. Dunlap, :e-president in charge of producm; and Edward A. Golden, general les manager. A reception and I'cktail party is to be held at the j;illas exchange headquarters, with hn Franconi and Ed Blumenthal as sts. Democracy At . . . Play Lincoln, Neb. — Cracie Allen and Charlie McCarthy polled 45 and one votes, respectively, in the Douglas County primary election for president. Cracie also got 20 votes for vice-president, one for the Omaha Board of Education. Others who were listed, thanks to [ the write-in privileges, were Leon Trotsky, Fibber McCee and Tony Galento, National Liquor Dealers Would Banish Scotch from Pix, End Ascap "fiteqMittcs" Chicago— National Council of State Liquor Dealers' Associations meeting here went on record as demanding repeal of the Federal amusement tax, rapping Ascap tor its "arbitrary and unreasonable fees" and protesting scenario writers "invariable use of the phrase, 'Scotch and Soda'." Committee will be named to fomulate plans to remedy Ascap "inequities" and all producers will be requested to employ only references to American products in scripts. Meaning rye and bourbon would replace Scotch on the screen. Bondy Sets May 14 as Date for RKO Allowance Hearing (Continued from Page 1) interested under the provisions of the order. Schedules annexed to the notice itemize all applications and show that the total runs closely to $2,500,000. Previous allowances totaled the sum of $955,000. Schine Merit Contest Prizes to Total $4,100 Gloversville — A contest starting April 28 in which $4,100 in prizes will be awarded theater managers of the Schine circuit was announced here at a meeting of all Schine district and zone executives. Called the "Schine Showmen's Merit Contest," it will extend over 14 weeks through the Summer theater season, closing Aug. 3. Prizes will be awarded on a merit point system, merits to be given for exploitation ideas, campaigns, special services and increases in gross over the same months of last year. Any manager who creates and engineers an original, money-making stunt, for instance, will be given 15 merit points. District managers will get 25 per cent of all prize money won by men under them as an incentive to co-operation and encouragement. First prize is $500; second, $300; third, $200; fourth, $100 and fifth to thirtieth, one week's salary. The contest is different in that it is not based entirely on results. Stunts and campaigns, even though they don't raise grosses above last year, will win merit points. J. Myer Schine, president of Schine Entei-prises, Inc., welcomed the men to the Spring executives' meeting and discussed current theater problems. Louis W. Schine, vice-president in charge of theater operation, also spoke, as did department heads. District and zone managers present included: Lou Lazar, Belief ontaine, Ohio Zone; Pat McGee, Cleveland, Ohio State district; Frank M. Boucher, Washington, Maryland and Delaware; Lew Hensler, Lexington, Ky.; William Tubbert, Watertown, Northern N. Y. district; Clint Young, Western N. Y. zone; Harvey Goldsmith, Western N. Y. district; Jerry Fowler, Chenango Valley district; Bud Silverman, Rochester, N. Y.; David Britton, Tiffin, Ohio; and Sidney Holland, Mohawk Valley district. Top Billing for "Navy" Des Moines — RKO will give top billing for Monogram's "Son of the Navy" at the Iowa, Cedar Rapids, and the Orpheum, Davenport. Freshman Heads Benearl, New Music Publishing Co. Syracuse, N. Y. — With Earl I. Freshman, for 23 years Ascap associate counsel here, as prexy, and Milt Davidson, professionally Jay Milton, song writer, foi'merly with several majors, as general manager, Benearl Publishing Co. has been organized here. Company will be active in the music field, and has made tieups with all local radio stations. Others associated with the new firm are Benjamin Kline, vice-prexy; Richard Aronson, treasurer, and Nothan I. Share, secretary. Mrs. Lou Machat Dies Chicago — Mrs. Lou Machat, wife of the manager of the B & K Maryland Theater, is dead. EASTMAN EMPLOYM'T HITS ALL-TIME MARK (Continued from Page 1) creased $19,300,000 over the earlier period. Current assets totaled $114,646,010 on Dec. 30, 1939, compared with current liabilities of $25,056,925, the current position being bolstered during 1939 by the sale of 225,092 shares of common stock at $12'7.50 per share. In reporting improvement in business over the past 10 years, the company officials referred to the big expansion in Eastman Kodak products, indicating particulaiiy the growth in the Cine-Kodak line following the introduction of motion pictures to the amateur trade. Sales gains were also augmented by the company's color photography known as Kodachrome and the development of new fabrics at its Kingston, Tenn., plant. Rites for Mrs. Miles Milford, Conn. — Funeral rites were held here for Mrs. Anita Hendrie Miles, 72, pioneer scenarist and foi'mer actress. She was the widow of William David Miles, early director for Biograph.