The Film Daily (1933)

DAILY Thursday, July 20 NOWADAYS "NEW DEAL" STANDS FOR PLENTY AND THAT'S WHY FILM DAILY HAS CHOSEN "NEW DEAL" AS A NAME FOR ITS DIG FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION N-U-M-B-E-R N-E-W-S O-F T-H-E D-A-Y Boston — Harry Spingler, manager of the Warner exchange, is on vacation. Thomas Spry, district manager, is in charge. Freeport, Me. — The Mordica has closed. Denver — William Rosenfeldt, formerly booker for Sheffield, is handling the booking of Tiffany features and shorts for Amity. Birmingham — The Homewood has been reopened after being closed many months and is being operated by Steve Fundenberg. Davenport, la. — James J. Lamb, receiver for the Columbia, has turned over the house to Mrs. Gabriella Walsh, owner. Boston — Arthur L. Tuohey, publicity contact man and assistant manager at Loew's Orpheum, has left for a sojourn in North Conway, N. H. Boston — Charles Stern, manager of United Artists here, has returned after a month's illness. Greensburg, Pa. — Joe Freeman, formerly with Loew has been named manager of the Warner's Manos Theater here. Denver — J. K. Powell, owner of the Oliver, Palisades, Neb., has bought the Wray Theater, Wray, Colo., from Mrs. Myrtle Blanchard. Prairie du Chien, Wis. — George Panka, operator of the Metropolitan, also has taken over operation of the Regent. Neenah, Wis. — Remodeling work has started on the Neenah preparatory to opening Sept. 1. Gilbert Courshon of the Drake Theaters Corp., Chicago, will act as resident manager. Cleveland — Jack Greenbaum, once with Loew's Ohio Theaters, is now with Manley and Brown, Inc., new company formed to distribute independent product. Their first release is "The Face on the Bar Room Floor." Zanesville, O.— The Weller theater, formerly in Caldwell Brown's circuit, has been acquired by M. A. Shea. Sandusky, 0. — Receivership for the State theater, asked by George B. Seitz, was withdrawn pending new action to be taken by Seitz to repossess the house, now operated by Warners. Delphos, 0. — Roger Scherer of Fort Wayne has notified exchanges that he has acquired the Star from Leo Jones and will reopen it. North Attleboro, Mass.— The Community has been closed by Publix. Leipsig, O. — C. J. Stechschulte has been appointed receiver for the Mys U. A. Will Share Prosperity With Personnel (.Continued from Page 1) of the idealist. When I was a pro I are very fortunate in acquiring ducer I operated with partners or | Darryl Zanuck as associate.^ Zanuck associates and paid better salaries than any other producer. When conditions were such that I could not afford to operate on this basis, I stopped producing. Your future depends on yourself. We will supply good product, sparing nothing. It will require great effort on your part to realize a .proper return. Mr. Lichtman and I hope to pay you handsomely. There is no desire to keep you down. As my brother Nick Schenck said last year, 'there is no ill in this industry that good pictures cannot cure.' " Schenck flew in from the coast and his stirring talk was greeted with enthusiasm. Speaking of production plans, he soid: ' "We don't have to talk about the Samuel Goldwyn and Charles Chaplin pictures. They don't know how to produce in any other way than the way they do. Goldwyn is only interested in getting great pictures. I have pleaded with him to save money, but he feels he knows bet .iow has the capital to produce just as he pleases. He doesn't have to make as many pictures as on the Warner schedule. He formerly made 65 in a year. Now he has only 12. Mathematically, the pictures should be five times as good. If he does three times as well, we will be satisfied." Schenck reiterated his earlier statement that the policy of selling pictures on their merit would be continued. He left unexpectedly by plane yesterday for New York. Al Lichtman reviewed the entire lineup to much applause. Harry Goetz of Reliance arrived from New York by Twentieth Century, while John Krimsky came in his own plane with a party of two. Walt Disney announced that he would produce 13 "Mickey Mouse" cartoons and 13 "Silly Symphonies." For "Mickey Mouse" material he will delve into old Greek tales and old fairy stories. At the banquet last night at the Drake Hotel, closing the convention, Disney distributed Mickey Mouse watches to the ter how to make his pictures. We I delegates as souvenirs. tic. Under the management of Wanamaker, the house is beinj erated three days a week with changes. Minneapolis — St. Paul To* which Joe Friedman has taken I has reopened after being dark some time. Delphos, 0. — A receiver has appointed to operate the Star and the house is dark until fui notice. Leo Jones and Ted Ye had been operating the theater. New Salem, O. — Norman Br previously identified with the 0 House here, is now in charge ol Ohio in Belleville, 0. C. E. was its former owner. Akron, O.— 0. F. Ellser, for r years manager of the old Grand era House, here, is now idem with Springfield Lake Park, s of here, in an executive capacity Dallas — Louis Charninsky, manager of the Capitol, has arr to take over his duties. Charr.ii has been manager of the Quec Austin. Columbus, O.— The Ohio has augurated an hour concert on i days starting at 12:30 previou; the first showing for a period o: weeks. Boston — Tom Donaldson has r. appointed local M-G-M city sa man. Boston — Nathan Oderman, merly head shipper for the M-( branch, has been elevated to boo Tabloid Reviews of FOREIGN FILMS "MAMA," in Spanish, with Catalina rena, Rafael Rivelles, Jose Nieto, Andre Segurola, Julio Pena, Maria Luz Callejo Enriqueta Soler; directed by Benito Per distributed by Fox. A goad performance by Catalina Bjt and the supporting cast put over th:s 5ish romance which moves briskly along, cept for some moralizing at the end. Si tells of the designs of the villain on daughter of a matron who has borrot money after losing at roulette, but is foi when his money is returned. "ISLAND OF DOOM." Russian talk directed by Semen Timoshenko; with < lina Kravchenko, Peter Solobevski, Vl» mir Kruegar. Distributed by Amkino. Plenty of old-fashioned thriller actii combined with excellent photograp marks this production as somewhat diff' ent from the usual run of Soviet pro» ganda films. Story is about three politi' enemies, two men and a woman, maroon; on an island with only four hours to Ifl