The Film Daily (1934)

THE -a&n DAILY Monday, Jan. 15,1934 fol.LXV. No. 12 Mon., Jan. 15, 1934 i Price 5 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays it 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., >y Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Micoate, President, Editor and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Tr»asurer ind General Manager; Arthur W. Eddy, Asso ciate Editor; Don Carle Gillette, Managing Editor. Entered as second class matter. May 21, 1918, at the post-office at New York S. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 Terms (Postage free) United States outsid< of Greater New York $10.00 one year; c months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign $15.00. Subscriber should remit with order Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y.. Phone, Circle 7-4736, 7-4737, 7-4738, 7-4739 Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Holly wood, California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Holly wood Blvd.. Phone Granite 6607. LondonErnest W Fredman. The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne. Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris— P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise. Rue de la Cour l«-i Nouet. 19. K" FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET {QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) Net High Low Close Chg. Con. Fm. Ind 3% 3l/4 31,4 — V4 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 13Vg 13 13 — V4 East. Kodak 80 Vi 80% 80y8 — % Fox Fm. "A" 133A 13l/2 13l/r— V4 Loew's, Inc 27 1/4 265/8 26% — Vs Metro-Goldwyn pfd. 21 V2 21 Vi 21 1/2 Paramount ctfs 2% 2% 2% — Vs Pathe Exch 1% 1% 15/s do "A" UVi ioy8 10%— Vz RKO 21/2 21/z 2% + % Univ. Pier, pfd 19}4 19% 193/4 + 2% Warner Bros 51/2 5y4 5Vi NEW YORK CURB MARKET Technicolor 8 8 8 — % NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 ctfs. 5 5 5 + % Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40. . 5 5 5 — Vi Keith A-0 6s 46.. 523,4 52Vi 52Vi — % Loew 6s 41 ww 89'/8 87% 89% + 1% Paramount 6s 47 ctfs. 35 33% 35 + 1 Par. By. 5Vis51 . . . . 35% 34% 34% + % Par. By. 5%s51 ctfs. 34 34 34+1 Par. 5%s50 ctfs.... 35% 34S/8 35% + 1% Warner's 6s39 43% 42% 43%— % N. Y. PRODUCE EXCHANGE SECURITIES Para. Publix 23/4 2% 234 Increase Seating Capacity Waterville Me. —The State has been rebuilt by H. H. Paul and its seating capacity increased to 800. Citzens to Rate Films Minneapolis, Minn. — A Citizens' Film Board has been formed to let the public know what pictures are worth seeing and to rate them for adults or children or both. Dr. Ray Knight, physician, is president. Neighborhood theater operators will be urged to show the better pictures. • The Broadway Parade • Picture Distributor Theater Eight Girls in a Boat Paramount Paramount 1 Was a Spy... Fox Roxy Fugitive Lovers M-G-M Capitol Man of Two Worlds RKO Music Hall Easy to Love Warner Bros Strand Sons of the Desert M-G-M .Rialto Myrt and Marge RKO. ..'. Mayfair Roman Scandals (4th week) United Artists Rivoli Disraeli (revival) Warner Bros Hollywood Emperor Jones (3rd week; revival) United Artists Criterion Flying Down to Rio* RKO Center Rasputin and the Empress (revival) .. .M-G-M Little Carnegie If I Were Free RKO Palace Little Women (2nd week)* RKO Cameo Sweden, Land of the Vikings (2nd week) John W. Boyle 55th St. Playhouse * Subsequent runs. ♦ TWO-A-DAY-RUN ♦ Queen Christina (4th week) M-G-M Astor ♦ FOREIGN PICTURES ♦ Thunder Over Mexico (revival) Principal 5th Ave. Playhouse Le Sang d'un Poete (revival) Protex 5th Ave. Playhouse ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Let's Fall in Love (Jan. 17) Columbia Rialto I Am Suzanne (Jan. 18) Fox Music Hall Fashions of 1934 (Jan. 18) First National Hollywood Massacre (Jan. 18) First National Strand Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (Jan. 19) . Paramount Paramount Cross Country Cruise (Jan. 19) Universal Roxy Eskimo (Jan. 19)* M-G-M Capitol Gallant Lady (Jan. 20) United Artists Rivoli After Astor two-a-day run. Not Selecting Secretaries Until Code Boards are Set Paid secretaries of local zoning and grievance boards will not be selected until the boards themselves are named and set up shortly after the first of next month, the Code Authority has decided. Appointments will be made by the Code Authority upon recommendations of the boards. The Code Authority office in the Paramount building is being flooded with applications for board secretarial posts. Series of Color Shorts For New Para. Program Paramount's 1934-35 short subiect program will include a new series of color cartoons known as "Color Classics," produced by Max Fleischer. A minimum of six subjects is planned and the group may run as high as 12 pictures. Lou Diamond, in charee of short subject production, will go to the Coast late this month to confer with Emanuel Cohen, company's production head, on next year's shorts program. New Accessory Frey Mayer, accessory manager of the Big U Exchange, announces his first personal accessory. He was born yesterday in the Park West Hospital. Weighs six pounds. Mother and baby doing nicely, thank vou. Will be called Jon Stephen Mayer. Eddie Bonns Improved Edward Bonns, Universal's short subiect sales manager, is expected back at his desk today after being laid up on account of a bad cold contracted on a tour of exchanges. Holding Code Meeting For Western Michigan Grand Rapids — Allied Theater Owners of Michigan is sponsoring a meeting at the Pantlind Hotel here, Jan. 18, to discuss the code and members of its zoning and grievance boards. H. M. Richey, Allied general manager, will be present. Meeting is open to all exhibitors, whether or not they are members of Allied. Similar confabs were set for Detroit and Flint. New Virginia Theater Unit Salem, Va. — Virginia Theater Management Corp., a Maryland corporation, has just been domesticated in Virginia to do a theater and amusement business. Principal office of the corporation in this state is to be located here, with Bernard Depkin, Jr., in charge of business. First Holdover in Years Grand Rapids — Mae West in "I'm No Angel" was the first picture to run a full week at the Our theater since "All Quiet." Business was up 40 per cent, according to Allen Johnson, manager. THE INDUSTRY'S DATE BOOK Jan. 16: Allied Theater Owners of New Jersey meeting in screening room of Stacy theater, Trenton, N. J.. 12:30 P. M. Jan. 18: Western Michigan exhibitors meet to. discuss code, Hotel Pantlind, Grand Rapids, Mich. Jan. 19: Meeting of S.M.P.E. board of directors, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. Jan. 20: Fifth Annual Banquet and Bali of the Warner Club, Inc., Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. New York University Adopts Film Course A course devoted to consideration of the screen from the standpoint of its social and educational importance will be given at New York University for the academic year of 1934-35. Course to be directed by Dr. Frederic M. Thrasher under the joint auspices of the School of Education and the National Board of Review, will include lectures by film executives, directors, stars, etc., visits to studios and theaters, a study of exhibitor problems, and other activities. Cleveland Managers Club Cleveland — Local theater managers met last week to form a ManagersClub. It is to be a social organization exclusively. The following officers were elected: Louis Swee, Knickerbocker, president; Stuart Cagney, Windameer, vice-president; Dave Polster, Lyric, treasurer; Julius Lamm, Uptown, secretary. "Beast of Borneo" Booked West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — "Beast of Borneo," jungle picture made by Far East Productions, has been booked for an indefinite run at the Strand, San Francisco, starting next Saturday, it is announced by Donald K. Lawyer, in charge of exploitation. Cast includes Mae Stuart, John Preston, Eugene Sigaloff, Doris Brook and natives of Borneo. N. Y. Theater Directory Ready Copies of the annual theater directory of the New York metropolitan territory, compiled by the New York Film Board of Trade, are now ready for distribution at the board's office. TASHMAN L ,N Wine, Women i=zzJ£9 LEW CODY With Hit Songs by CONRAD, MITCHELL AND GOTTLER Distributed Thru Independent Exchanges By Ghadwick Productions, Inc. 6080 Sunset Bvld., Hollywood, Calif.