The Film Daily (1929)

THE ■a£22k DAILY Friday. September 20. 19?g GOLFERS, ATTENTION! Sign this and forward to The Film Daily, 1650 Broadway! Here is my entry and Ten Dollars for the Fall Film Golf Tournament, to be held on Tuesday, Oct. 1 at Gedney Farms Country Club, White Plains. The Committee Bruce Gallup, United Artists Corp. William Brandt Al Lichtman, United Artists Corp. Wm. A. Johnston, "M. P. News" Don Mersereau, "The Film Daily" Arthur Stebbins, Stebbins, Leterman & Gates Jack Alicoate, "The Film Daily" ACCORD BREAKS FRANCOAMERICAN QUOTA DEADLOCK (.Continued from Page 1) the 7 to 1 quota restored, until October 1930. Meantime, both sides will seek to provide a solution to the quota problem. The Franco-American dispute arose when French producers, sponsored a 3 to 1 ratio, requiring American distributors to buy one French film for each three American pictures imported. The agreement signed yesterday must be ratified by Minister Poincet and the French Cinema Control Commission, but their acceptance is considered a foregone conclusion. It is considered likely, that a permanent solution will be found within six months. Since American distributors ceased activity in the French market, declaring they could not operate profitably under the 3 to 1 system, theaters have been hard pressed for product, with grosses dropping accordingly. Many houses were threatened with closing when they could not meet the public's demand for American films. It is estimated that 3,000 oersons were thrown out of work by the American counter-move. Continental Closes Two Zones Nat Steinberg of Premier Pictures, St. Louis has closed for the distribution rights to the series of Continental eight talking features. American Film Corp. of Seattle will handle the Continental series for Washington, Oregon, Montana and northern Idaho. The RCA Photophone system of recording is used for the eight features. GLUCKSMAN GETS PACENT EOR SOUTH AMERICA Max Glucksman, New York, with offices at Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, has been appoitned distributor of the Pacent Reproducer in those South American countries. Nine Pacent devices have arrived in South America and James Cullen, Pacent engineer now is at work installing four of the machines in Montevideo with the remaining five scheduled for Buenos Aires. Warners Reported After Jersey "Indie" Houses With Fox buying small theaters in Stanley situations, Warners are again reported to be after independent houses in Bergen and Hudson counties. There are about four to five independent theaters left in each countv. Komstadt at Tomah, Wis. Tomah, Wis. — Oscar Komstadt now is manager of the Tomah. Sound equipment is to be installed at the house shortly. Deal On For L. A. House Los Angeles — F. P. Fay announces a deal is on for sale of the Rialto theater property near Eighth and Broadway to a local buyer for $500,000. Hunter Heads Toronto Film Board Toronto — J. L. Hunter (FamousLasky) is new president of the Toronto Film Board. Other officers are: Harry Law (Univ.) vice president; W. J. Reid (Fox), honorary etary. G. O. Burnett was reappointed executive secretary. Courures Rebuild Crown Manchester, N. H. — Couture Bros.' Paramount-Crown has reopened after being dark two months for complete remodeling and redecorating. Arctic Nu-Air was installed. Sound for Hamilton, O. Hamilton, O. — Ed Keen is installing sound equipment at the Oxford. No opening date has been set as yet. Sound for Kuehling & Foster House Tomahawk, Wis. — A Continental reproducer has been installed at the Lyric, a Kuehling & Foster house. ENTRIES CLOSE TO 100 EOR FALL TOURNAMENT (Continued from Page 1) scheduled at the Gedney Farms Country Club, White Plains for Oct. 1 will be one of the biggest Fall tournaments ever held. Among the 70 prizes to be awarded, 25 consist of cups and trophies offered by various companies in the industry. All the cups and trophies will be on display next week at the new M. P. Club of New York. No red tape — fill the entry blank on this page— polish your war clubs — and get going for a glorious day. There'll be motion pictures of the event. Anglo-German Talker Deal Reaction Expected Soon (Continued from Page 1) tures here presages more extensive efforts to halt American talkers and equipment. W. E. Gains Decision Over Klangfilm in Hungarian Court Budapest — Western Electric won another legal battle here when the Hungarian court refused to grant an injunction sought by Klangfilm interests. Same situation obtained recently at Zurich when another Klangfilm injunction was refused against Western Electric. KLEIN NAMES COMMITTEES FOR AMPA ADMINISTRATION Xew committees have been nainefl by Edward L. Klein, newly-elected president of AMPA, as follows: Finance: Edward L. Klein, Martini Starr, George Bilson, Charles Bar rell, Vincent Trotta: membership. Bilson, Starr, Bert Perkins, JosepB Rivkin, Don Hancock, chairman; ad-1 visory: Bruce Gallup, Tom Wiley;! auditing: P. A. Parsons, Joe Fine,} Hopp Hadley, chairman: publicity:! Garland O'Neil, Fred Baer, Rutgers] Neilson, chairman; trustees: Walter j F. Eberhardt, C. L. Yearsley, Paul Gulick; entertainment: Glendon All-] vine, James Beecroft, Ed FinnejB Don Mersereau, Gordon White, Rayj Gallagher, Ed McNamee, chairman;] plan and scope: Charles Einfeld,] Charles McCarthy, Frank Wilstack,] Jim Loughbourgh, P. L. Thomson! Arthur James, Hopp Hadley, chair! man; house: Kelsey Allen, Lou Ry-I dell, Al Selig, Arthur Eddy, Paul I Benjamin, chairman; service: Marvin Kirsch, Lou Rydell, James Milligan John C. Flinn, Bruce Gallup, chair-, man; constitution: Paul Gulick, Hank] Linet, Julian Solomon, chairman. Theodore Jaediker, Karoly Grosz,] Armando Aranjo, Glen Cravath and Harry Lewis have been appointed art \ directors, while Jack Harrower and ' Mike Simmons have been named edi-' tor and business manager, respective-] ly of AMPA Bulletin. Sound Waves Screened With "Projection Osis" "Projection osis," a new electrical apparatus developed by C. Anderson, engineer of Westinghouse Electric Co., and William B. White of Ameriican Steel and Wire Co., was demonstrated recently at the Steinway Hall, New York, and proves that sound waves from violin, piano or other instruments may be screened. Sound waves from a musical instrument are caught by a microphone, which can be placed in any convenient location and are conveyed electrically to an osis, which consists of a delicately suspended mirror, oscillated in union with the sound waves received. A beam of light directed on the mirror is reflected by it to a system of small revolving mirrors which in turn project it upon a screen where it can be viewed by any number of spectators. "Since the instrument enables the eye to supplement the ear in the detection of errors in playing, singing or speaking, the error is more readily appreciated and its correction effected," said White. "Thus, obviously, the grosser errors can be overcome with the help of the instrument." B.I.P. Showing Today "Blackmail" a British International Picture, made at the Elstree studio in London will be screened for the press and an invited audience at the Selwyn, New York today. The picture, an all-talker, was recorded via RCA Photophone system and will be distributed by Sono Art-World Wide. William Beaudine Gets Vacation Wiliam Beaudine is en route to New York where he will embark for a vacation in Europe. Beaudine recently completed "The Dark Swan," for First National. Fire in Brooklyn House About 350 patrons orderly filed out of the Crystal, Brooklyn, last night when fire from a defective wire in a ventilating fan started in the ceiling near the screen. There was no confusion and the theater was emptied in a few minutes. No one was injured and damage was estimated at $2,000. Hiram S. Brown Returns Hiram S. Brown, president of Radio-Keith-Orpheum, has returned to his New York headquarters after a trip to the Coast.