The Film Daily (1929)

New Theaters Connellsville, Pa.— C. A. Wagner announces that a new Paramount will be erected here next vear. Verdun, Quebec — A. 1.800-seat house is being erected here by the Fifth Avenue Amusement Corp. to cost about $360,000 Marion, O. — Ground has been broken tor the $250,000 theater and Moose Club here. Philadelphia— A one-story theater costing $20,000 is being erected at 28 Point Breeze Huntington Park, Cal — Plans have been completed for the $20,000 theater on Long Beach Blvd. „ .... Prescott, Ariz. — Homes & Sons are building a studio and theater here for Arthur Kiddle of Enterprise Park. Aberdeen, Wash. — Ed Dolan has been awarded the contract for the $250,000 theater building planned here by Fox Washington Theaters, Inc. Eagle Lake, Tex.— The Avalon, built at a cost of $30,000, was opened recently under the management of Carl A. Milentz and Mart Cole. Symposium Speakers See Lack of Enterprise Stage Weakness Everybody Silent on Probe at Pittsburgh (Continued from Page 1) ton to confer with Dept. of Justice agents. About 15 exhibitors as well as branches managers, bookers and salesmen appeared during the inquiry. The probe has been instigated by the M.P.T.O. of Western Pennsylvania and Western Virginia. Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington— Officials of the Dept. of Justice on Saturday refused to comment on the investigation going on at Pittsburgh. Camden to be Center of RCA Laboratory Work (Continued from Page 1) with the establishment of new laboratories here, to replace those located at Van Courtlandt Park, New York. This is a further step in the reor ganization of the Radio-Victor Corp., of which W. G. Baker has been named vice-president in charge of engineering. Benet, Poet to Prepare Lincoln Film for Griffith Stephen Vincent Benet, whose "John Brown's Body" won him the Pulitzer prize in poetry, has been engaged by United Artists to write the story and dialogue for the D. W. Griffith production based on the life of Lincoln. He leaves with Griffith shortly for the coast. (Continued f plying to the Actors' Equity report that the drop-off in dramatic stock activities has nothing to do with Sunday night, said there are 61 companies operating in cities where Sunday shows are legal, against 43 companies in blue towns. Commenting on this statement, Frank Gillmore, president of Equity, declared there are no facts to support the claim that Sunday night shows alone have affected the success of stocks generally. In a symposium held Sunday night at the American Woman's Ass'n, it was brought out that the chief trouble with the theater is its lack of rom Page 1 ) enterprise in combating the quick action of picture producers in signing up playwrights, directors and actors as fast as they attain a boxoffice value. The speakers at this meeting included Frank Gillmore, Herbert Rawlinson, Chrystal Heme, Horace Liveright, Burns Mantle, Theresa Helburn, Preston Sturges Dudley Field Malone and Horence Nash. Gillmore advocated giving the playwrights anything they ask in order to keep them from being attracted to Hollywood. Miss Helburn said the talkers would eventually benefit the stage by forcing it to better standards. BRITISH PLAYERS FORM EQUITY ASS^N LIKE U. S. {Continued from Page 1) sion at the Duke of York's. The question of affiliation with the other stage workers' unions was strenuously debated, but definite action on this point has been postponed until the new organization is launched. JOSEPH MOGLER SLAIN AT ST. LOUIS THEATER (Continued from Page 1) Phinny told the police that two men participated in the shooting after which they made their escape. Mogler was president of the St. Louis exhibitor organization and was formerly vice-president of the M. P. T. O. A. He was 58 vears' old. "Peacock Alley" For Gaiety Tiffany's "Peacock Alley," the new Mae Murray film in color, probably will open its New York run at the Gaiety beginning Jan. 1, when Tiffany takes over the house. Another Tiffany special, "The Lost Zeppelin,-' will be given an early Broadway showing, with negotiations now in progress for one of several houses. REMOVAL NOTICE Beginning Monday, Dec. 2nd, our business will be conducted at our new plant in the H. E. R. Building at 457 West 46th Street. Telephones: LONgacre 0894-5-6-7 H. E. R. LABORATORIES, Inc. TWO CLEVELAND THEATERS PLANNED BYWARNER BROS. (Continued from Page 1) partment of the Warner firm. Both houses will be located on Euclid Ave. between Ninth and Seventeenth. The 6,000-seater will be the largest in the city, while the smaller house is intended specially for long runs. BRANDT TOOPEN FIRST B'KLYN NEWSREEL HOUSE (Continued from Page 1) affiliations with Ira Haupt, Inc. Policy of the house will be the same as the Embassy with continuous shows at 25 cents admission at all times. While sound equipment is now being installed no decision has yet been made as to what newsreels will be shown. The Werba seats 2,000. Loew's Get Canal at Auction Through the Ludlow Operating Corp., Loew's has purchased at auction the Canal, Canal St., N. Y., for $677,000 in an action brought against the M & S Circuit, Inc. and other defendants. The sale was a foreclosure action for a judgment of about $651,021 and interest. Taxes, etc. amounted to about $17,850. Property was sold subject to mortg^es of $627,000 and the Loew's bid of $50,000 above the mortgages made a total bid of $677,000. Cut Shanghai Visit Shanghai — Owing to local agitation aroused because a Chinese sequence in '"The Thief of Bagdad" is said to be derogatory, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, who are due here Dec. 10, will cut their visit from four days to one. Doris Kenyon Back to Screen Doris Keny in, out of pictures since her husband, Milton Sills, had a nervous breakdown last year, is coming back to the screen opposite Rod La Rocque in "Strictly Business" for RKO. CHECKS START CONING IN FOR FILM RELIEF FUND (Continued from Page 1) come through are Ned E. Depinet First National; Robert F. Klingensmith, Exhibitors' Forum, Pittsburgh; t homas D. Goldberg, Walbrook and Harford Theaters, Baltimore; Harford Theater Co., Baltimore; Jack Alicoate, Don M. Merserau, Walbrook Amusement Co., Baltimore; William R. Ferguson; Associated Motion Picture Advertisers; Marvin M. Kirsch; Dave Miller, Big U Film Exchange, Inc.; Dave Bader, Universal; Hebert S. Berg, and Arthur W Eddy. A good boost was given the fund a "Exhibitors Daily Review" yeserday by Arthur James, who said n part: "We desire to call the attention >f every man and woman in the nioion picture business to this cause and o endorse it fully as a practical harity administered without a penny >eing charged for the expense of administration. Whether the sum be '. dollar, ten dollars or a hundred dollars, the gift should be sent promptly and the donor can be assured of a feeling of satisfaction which a similar outlay in any other direction could not .supply." FOX COAST EXPANSION 24 (Continued from Page 1) the cities that are to have new houses are; San Jose, Sacramento, Oakland, Santa Barbara,. Bakersfield, Berkley and Stockton, Cal. Technicolor Denies Infringement Charge Commenting on the patent suit filed in the U. S. District Court, Wilmington, by E. E. Berl, attorney for Daylight Film Corp., against Technicolor, Inc., New York, charging i Hat two patents granted to Robert John have been infringed. William Travers Jerome, chairman of Technicolor, made the following statement: "The success of the Technicolor process naturally draws such suits. We have known of the Robert John process for 10 years and in all that time, so far as we know, no color motion pictures have been commercially produced by this process." Stench Bomb Activities Resumed in Cleveland Cleveland — Resuming the stench bomb activities which have been at a standstill for the last few weeks, the Oriental and University, have now been attacked. No clue to the culprits or their motives could be ascertained.