The Film Daily (1934)

THE -3&*i DAILY <l THE (K NEWSPAPER Ot HUM DOM VoI.LXV. No. 18 Mon., Jan. 22, 1934 Price 5 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid'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 New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879 Terms (Postage free) United Statei 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, 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, 89-9] Wardour St., W. I. Berlin— Lichtbijdbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courlei-Nouei. 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET TAT IONS AS OF SATURDAY) Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 4% 45/8 45/8 Columbia Picts. vtc. 27% 263/8 26% + Vs Con. Fm. Ind 33,4 3'/2 3% + Vi Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 13% 13% 13% + l/2 East. Kodak 8634 8614 8634 -f 14 East. Kodak pfd 120% 120i/4 120i/4 + l/4 Fox Fm. "A" 1534 15 15 — 1/4 Loew's, Inc 30y2 29% 29% + % Paramount ctfs 3% 3 3% + % Pathe Exch 2 1% do "A" 125/g 123/8 RKO 3% 27/8 Univ. Pict. pfd 24 24 Warner Bros 73/8 6% do pfd 23 22 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Technicolor 9'/2 9% 9% + % Trans-Lux 23,4 234 23^ — % NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 . . 734 71/4 7'/4 + % Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 ctfs. 7'/2 6% 6% + Vi Loew 6s 41ww 92 90 92+3 Paramount 6s 47 filed 39 38 38—1 Par. By. 5%s51.... 38 37% 38 Par. 5%s50 ctfs 373,4 373^ 373/4 — 1% Pathe 7s37 87 87 87 Warner's 6s39 50% 49% 50% + 1% NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE Para. Publix 3% 3% 3% 1% 12% 3 24 7% + % 23 + 2% NOW PLAYING 3rd WEEK AT GRAND CENTRAL, ST. LOUIS Ford often For Dates and State Rights JEWEL PROD. Inc., 723 7th Ave., N. Y. City • The Broadway Parade • Picture Distributor Theater Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen Paramount Paramount Gallant Lady United Artists Rivoli Eskimo" M-G-M Capitol Let's Fall in Love Columbia Rialto I Am Suzanne Fox Music Hall Sitting Pretty** Paramount Center Fashions of 1934 Warner Bros Hollywood Cross County Cruise Universal Roxy 16 Fathoms Deep Monogram Mayfair Massacre Warner Bros Strand Sitting Pretty** Paramount Cameo Design for Living** Paramount Palace She Done Him Wrong (revival) Paramount Little Carnegie Sweden, Land of the Vikings (3rd week) .... John W. Boyle F5th St. Playhouse * After Astor two-a-day run. **Subsequent runs. * TWO-A-DAY-RUN ♦ .Astor Queen Christina (5th week) M-G-M <j> FOREIGN PICTURES ♦ Thunder Over Mexico (2nd week; revival) .. Principal 5th Ave. Playhouse Le Sang d'un Poete (2nd week; revival) .... Edward T. Ricci. ... 5th Ave. Playhouse Enemies of Progress (2nd week) Amkino Acme Girls in Uniform (Jan. White Woman (Jan. 24) As Husbands Go (Jan. 25) Four Frightened People (Jan. 26) Women in His Life (Jan. 26)... Beloved (Jan. 26) ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ 24) Krimsky-Cochran . . . Criterion Paramount Center Fox Music Hall Paramount Paramount M-G-M Capitol Universal Roxy Picture Brides (Jan. 26) Allied Mayfair Nana (Feb. 1 ) United Artists Music Hal Appointing Committee On Vaudeville Demands Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — The Motion Picture Code Authority, at its meeting tomorrow in New York, will apoint a committee to examine demands of a vaudeville group that code provisions affecting them be modified. This faction objects to certain provisions incorporated in Act. 4, Part 2, of the document. Some agitation for a vaudeville representative on the Code Authority has been heard, but no such addition is expected to be made. Dick Powell for Radio Series West Coast Bureau of THE FILM' DAILY Hollywood — Dick Powell has received permission from Warners, who have him under contract, for 13 weekly appearances on the Old Gold radio program over WABC. Warners Get "Dark Tower" Warners have acquired "Dark Tower," Broadway play by Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman. Geo. Schaefer Finds Improvement in South A general improvement in business in the south, evident in virtually all lines, is perceptible in that territory, George J. Schaefer, Paramount general manager, told The Film Daily Saturday following his return to New York. Business in that area, he stated, is better than in the north. Visual Instruction Group Meets in Cleve. Feb. 26-27 Cleveland — -Winter meeting of the National Education Association's visual instruction department will be held at the Carter Hotel here Feb. 26-27. Subjects include "Educational Influence of Motion Pictures Upon Children and Youth," by Dr. W. W. Charters; "A Comprehensive Program for the Teaching of Motion Picture Appreciation," by Dr. Edgar Dale; "Popularizing Critical Appreciation of Photoplays Among Adolescents," by Dr. William R. Lewin, and other topics. Ui.Mek k TWO LITTLE WORDS THAT MEAN A GOLD MINE FROM WARNER BROS. Monday, Jan. 22, 1934 JOHN BARRYMORE in "20TH | CENTURY" with Carole Lombard. A Howard Hawks production from I the Broadway success by Ben Hecht 1 and Charles MacArthur. One of • the prize plums of any year! j Almost ready! Frank Borzage's ' production "NO GREATER I GLORY," based on FerencMoInar's t world famous novel is hailed by • Hollywood as the screen's supreme * dramatic triumph. .} 'production, "RED SQUARE," » ,ji adapted by Laurence Stallings from j . " J a great Russian novel. A treinen J . / dously moving kaleidoscope of life t I and love. /^