The Film Daily (1933)

THE -c&a DAILY Monday, July 24, VoL LX1II, Ho. 19 Mm., July 7.4, 1933 Price 5 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE \ \ \ Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wids's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President, Editor and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager; Arthur W. Eddy, Associate Editor; Don Carle Gillette, Managing Editor. Entered as second class matter, May 21, 1918, at the post-office at N«w York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, M50 Broadway, New York, N. Y., Phone, Circle 7-4736, 7-4737, 7-4738, 7-4739. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Karl Wolffsohn, Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Cour-des-Noues. 19. FINANCIAL (QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close dig. 3 3'/2 171/s 18 33/4 33/4 — 1/8 8 8 V4 — Va 651/2 671/2 — 3 23/4 3 21 1/4 — 1 3/4 1 1/2 — Va 11/2 + Va 51/2 21/2 — Va 1V4 43/g 21/2 41/4 -1-16 '/a 52% 53 76 76 22 25 Am. Seat 3% Columbia Picts. vtc. 18 Con. Fm. Ind 4!a Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. . 9 East. Kodak 72 Fox Fm. "A" 3 Loews, Inc 22V4 20 Paramount ctfs l5/s 1 V2 Pathe Exch 1% do "A" 51/2 RKO 3 Warner Bros 5 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. pfd. ...11-16 9-16 11-16 Technicolor 7l/2 V/s T>A Trans-Lux 2V4 2'/8 2i/8 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 ctfs. 6 5 5 Keith A-0 6s46 55 Loew 6s 41 ww 81 Vi Paramount 6s 47. .25 Par. By. 5i/2s51 33 Vi 33 Vi 33 Vi + Vi Par. 5'/2s50 263/8 24S/8 263/8 +31/4 Par. 5!is50 ctfs. . . 22Vi 22Vi 22Vi — 7 Warner's 6s39 31 28Vi 30 —2 Coming and Going JANET GAYNOR leaves Hollywood on Wednesday with her mother for a vacation auto trip to New York, stooping over at the Century of Progress in Chicago. She returns to the Fox studios in about six weeks. HARRY H. THOMAS has returned to New York from Washington. COLLEEN MOORE, who recently arrived in New York after finishing work in Fox's "Power and the Glory," returns tomorrow from a short yachting trip with her husband. Al Scott. BUDD ROGERS has left on a business trip to various First Division Exchanges in Washington. Buffalo, Albany, etc. He will be away two weeks. VERA ALLEN, who played opposite Will Rogers in Fox's "Doctor Bull," arrived from the coast Saturday. WILLIAM FRAWLEY left for the Paramount coast studios Saturday. LOU SMITH of the Paramount publicity staff left Saturday for a two-weeks' vacation in Vermont. • The Broadway Parade • 4 FIRST RUNS ♦ Picture Distributor Theater Double Harness RKO Music Hall Bed of Roses" RKO RKO Roxy Private Detective 62* Warner Bros Palace Heroes for Sale First National Strand Sleepless Nights Remington Pictures Rialto Mama Loves Papa Paramount Paramount Arizona to Broadway Fox 7th Ave. Roxy This Is America Beekman Rivoli Storm at Daybreak M-G-M Capitol Gold Diggers of 1933 (8th weekl Warner Bros Hollywood Shriek in the Night First Division Cameo Hell's Holiday (2nd week) Superb Pictures Mayfair Subsequent runs. ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUN ♦ Pilgrimage (2nd week) Fox Song of Songs Paramount. Gaiety Criterion ♦ FOREIGN PICTURES ♦ Soir de Raf le Unknown Little Carnegie The Big Attraction Bavaria Film Co Vanderbilt Born Anew Amkino Acme "Savage Gold" Opening De Luxe at the Mayfair "Savage Gold," Commander Dyott's picture of the head hunters and head shrinkers of the Amazon, will be given a de luxe premiere at the Mayfair tonight with all the fanfare and trimmings of a Hollywood presentation. A display of real human heads, shrunken to the size of oranges, will be part of the lobby ballyhoo. U. A. CONVENTIONEERS BACK Hal Home, Ed Finney, Harry Gold, Monroe Greenthal and Leon Lee returned to New York yesterday by plane from Chicago, where they attended the United Artists convention last week. Walt Disney also arrived. Sam Cohen got in Saturday, while Joseph M. Schenck, Al Lichtman and William Phillips arrived Friday. SELLING TWO WEEKS AHEAD Advance sale of reserved seats for Paramount's "Song of Songs," starring Marlene Dietrich, was extended to two weeks ahead on Saturday in response to demands for tickets at the Criterion box-office. The feature, which opened Wednesday, has played to capacity since the pre M-G-M STARTS TWO West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Two new productions, "Stage Mother," with Frank Morgan, Alice Brady, Maureen O'Sullivan and Franchot Tone, and "Penthouse," with Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy and Phillips Holmes, have just gone in work at M-G-M. Lee Tracy's new picture, "Turn Back the Clock," has been finished. R. F. BRANON RKO WINNER Charlotte — R. F. Branon, local representative of RKO, has just been announced as one of the company's six representatives in the United States and Canada who made a record of 100 per cent in his sales last year to theaters. Film Cartoon Talent In New Vaudeville Act James Rodgers has placed in rehearsal a new vaudeville unit featuring Little Ann Little, the Voice of Betty Boop, and Pauline Comanor, the artist responsible for some of the antics of Max Fleischer's Betty Boop. The unit, built around the cartoon studio idea, opens this week. PARA. SIGNS WM. FRAWLEY William Frawley, who played the press agent in the stage play. "Twentieth Century," was signed Saturday by Paramount and left immediately for the coast. THE INDUSTRY'S DATE BOOK July 25: Meeting of Allied Theaters o I Jersey at 2 P. M. July 28-29: Monogram western sales m San Francisco. July 28-31 : Meeting of Independent 7| Supply Dealers' Association at Si Hotel, Chicago. July 31 -Aug. 1: Federation of Motion II Industry of America, Inc., conferer I Hotel Astor, New York. July 31 -Aug. 1: Warner sales meeting, W. Astoria Hotel, New York. Aug. 2: Outing at Bear Mountain uncle j pices of Motion Picture Club. Aug. 2-3: Monogram Canadian sales ml Toronto. Aug. 3: Adjourned meeting of Fox Metroi] Playhouses' creditors. Aug. 3-4: Warner sales meeting, Drake j Chicago. Aug. 7-8: Warner sales meeting, Royal Hotel, Toronto. Aug. 8: Third Annual Film Golf Tour of New England industry at Pine I Valley Country Club, Weston, Mass [ Aug. 10: Adjourned meeting of Publi>! terprises creditors at office of R Henry K. Davis. Aug. 23-24: First annual convention of pendent Motion Picture Owners Asscm j of Delaware and Eastern Shore of Ma at Hotel Henelopen, Rehoboth, Del. I Sept. 5-6-7: Allied Mew Jersey conv at Atlantic City. Sept. 13: A. M. P. A. holds annual elect officers BEAUTY CONTEST AT RO Elimination contest for the s tion of Miss New York for the anuual International Beauty test will be held at the orij Roxy. Celebrated artists will ap as judges. * * * BUILDING BIGGER BUSINESS EXTRA GOES EVERYWHERE LONDON HOLLYWOOD NEW YORK PARIS PRESCRIPTION If you are becoming dizzy from being carried along too swiftly in merry whirl of this ever changing motion picture industry I we suggest the following treatment: Plenty of sleep, work hard, keep t feet on the ground and read THE FILM DAILY from cover to c« first thing every morning. By doing this you will never be cai^ napping with what's going on in your industry. ■J Old Doc Experience