The Film Daily (1935)

MM DAILY Monday, Feb. 11, 193! Vol. LXVII, No. 35 Mon.,Feb. 11, 1935 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 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, 1650 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 — Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noue», 19. CODE FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (.QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY} Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 5 5 5 Columbia Picts. vtc. 38 37% 38 + % Con. Fm. Ind 6% 63/8 6'/2 + Ve Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 21 20% 21 + i/4 East. Kodak 1133/& 11234 1133/& -4 l/4 Fox Fm. '"A" 10i/2 10'/2 lOVi + Va Loew's, Inc 33 Vg 325^ 32% — % do pfd 1041/z 1041/z 104i/2 + 1/2 Paramount ctfs 3% 35/g 3% — l/g Pathe Exch 1 Vg 1% TVs RKO 2 1% 1% — Vg Warner Bros 3% 3% 33,4 do pfd 21% 21% 21% + 1 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40... 8 8 8 Keith A-0 6s 46.... 68% 68% 68% + % Loew 6s 41ww 104 104 104 Paramount 6s 47 filed 683/4 683^ 6&*A + % Paramount 6s 47 ctfs. 69 67}4 69 + % Par. By. 5i/2s51 48% 48% 48'/g — % Par. 5%s50 filed.... 69 68% 69 + 1/4 Par. 5!/2s50 ctfs... 69 681/4 69 + Vi Warner's 6s39 55% 55i/2 55% + % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Technicolor 13Vs W4 1 3 3/a Trans-Lux 3 2% 2% — '/g wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthday: Joseph Mankiewicz Anita Garvin Henri Brunet Rex Lease Mike Mindlin • The Broadway Parade • Picture Distributor Theater David Copperfield (4th week) M-G-M Capitol Clive of India (4fh week) U. A. -20th Century. .. Rivoli Wandering Jew (5th week) Olympic Pics Criterion Lives of a Bengal Lancer (a) Paramount Rialto Hei Tiki First Division Globe Winning Ticket M-G-M Astor Maybe It's Love First National Mayfair Gilded Lily Paramount Paramount Scarlet Pimpernel U. A. -London Films. .. Music Hall Jack Ahoy GB Productions Roxy Devil Dogs of the Air Warner Bros Strand Unfinished Symphony (b) GB Productions 55th St. Bordertown (c) Warner Bros Palace ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUN ♦ Man of Aran (17th week) GB Productions Westminster ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS ♦ Chapayey (4th week) Amkino Cameo Une Etoile Disparait Fifth Ave. ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Right to Live (Feb. 13) Warner Bros. Carnival (Feb. 14) Columbia.... Behold My Wife (Feb. 15) Paramount... One More Spring (Feb. 14) Fox Little Men (Feb. 15) Mascot Notorious Gentleman (Feb. 15) Universal... Grand Old Girl (Feb. 22) RKO Sequoia* M-G-M Rhumba* Paramount. . . . Rivoli . Rialto .Roxy ..Music Hall . .Astor . Mayfair . . Astor . Capitol . .Paramount (a) Fifth week, including 3 week at Paramount. (b) Second week of subsequent run. (c) Subsequent run. * Next attraction. Internal Strife . . . and legislative missteps {Continued from Page 1) unwarranted or senseless that they never get out of committee. But it takes a lot of time and money to keep fighting them. It is a high price to pay just to provide jobs for a few organizers and agitators. And who pays in the end? Moray on 10-Week Tour To Get Data on Shorts Preparatory to mapping; the Vitaphone short subject lineup for 193536, Norman H. Moray, Vitaphone sales executive, left yesterday on a 10-week tour of the company's exchanges in the U. S. and Canada, where he will check up current product and discuss future trends. On his return, Moray will confer with Sam Sax, production chief at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studios, on lining up the new schedule to conform with Moray's findings in the field. Charles Glett Joins Audio Charles Glett has joined the staff of Audio Productions, Inc., in a production capacity, it is announced by W. A. Bach, president. Frisco Bans Beer Parlors San Francisco — Local exhibitors scored another victory last week when five beer halls had their licenses revoked. Theater men had attempted a ban on the parlors because they ruined movie business, patrons of the theaters refusing to walk on the blocks where drunks frequently were seen. Actors' Group Asks Vaude Code Changes {Continued from Page 1) tors to work as many as 18 hours a day and six or seven shows daily, it is stated. It is also claimed that the code minimum wage has become the maximum. AFA urges that the code be amended as follows: A. Class A Theaters (having at least 1,500 seats and with a top admission price of 50 cents or over) must pay at least $10.00 net per day to principals and at least $50.00 net per week to specialty artists. B. Class B Theaters (having less than 1.500 seats and a top admission price of less than 40 cents) shall pay principals at least $7.50 net per day and specialty artists at least $40 net per week. AFA also urges that rehearsal periods be limited to two weeks, with two consecutive weeks of employment at the contract price. The employer shall pay the contract price for all rehearsals beyond two weeks, in addition to the two consecutive weeks' work guaranteed. AFA urges an amendment specifically forbidding an employer, manager or independent contractor to require an actor to render services gratis at any public place of amusement, whether designated as a public audition, break-in, try-out or otherwise. This shall not prohibit, however, the appearance of the actor at any benefit performances having the approval of the Theater Authority. Period of Employment — The code shall not fix a consecutive period of employment because of the peculiar nature of the business — the employment period to be as per contract between the actor and the employer. Transportation — Any actor ■ receiving less than $10 net per day who is required to travel, shall receive not less than the cost of railroad transportation, in addition to his salary. Wardrobe — Any actor receiving less than $10 net per day shall be furnished with all special costumes used in the act. Personal Representatives' Contracts — Any cmplover of theatrical talent who shall have been found guilty by the NRA of failing tc nay salary as per contract shall be licensed by the NRA and be required to furnish a surety bond as a guarantee of future payments. Sunday Performances — In towns where actors nr theaters are prohibited from giving Sunday performances, then six (6) days shall constitute a week's work, and the actor shall imt }\c required to play elsewhere for the seventh (7th) day. .oming an dG OTIS BARTON, inventor of the Bathysph and Dr. William Beebe's companion on the de sea exploration last summer, and EDWA EWER, cameraman, sail today on the Sa Cecilia for Panama, where they will do "Bring 'Em Back Alive" of the sea. NORMAN H. MORAY, Vitaphone execul in charge of shorts and trailers, left yester on a tour of all of the company's branch fices in the U. S. and Canada. JEROLD KRIMSKY has left New York Hollywood, where he will join his brother, Ji Krimsky, on the Fox lot. WALTER STRENGE is due back from coast this week. DOLORES COSTELLO'S contemplated trip fr Hollywood to New York to meet her husb John Barrymore, has been intercepted as a suit of her illness. ALINE MacMAHON, who has just finis work in First National's "Wanderlust" on coast, will make a trip to New York n month. WILLIAM COWEN and LENORE COFFEE leaving the coast for a three-month vacat in Europe. GARY COOPER, coming by train instead by plane as first reported, has arrived in N York from Hollywood. GRETA GARBO is now figuring on leaving that visit to Sweden by next June. ALLAN GLENN of the Warner home of! has been in San Antonio exploiting "Devil D of the Air." SIDNEY R. KENT leaves New York on Thi day for Florida. Launch School Movemem For Movie Appreciatiu First step in a nation-wide mo\ment to extend movie appreciatii in the schools was taken last wet in the adoption of a plan submittl at a meeting of the committee 1 motion pictures of the departmet , of secondary education of the iNtional Education Ass'n. The nd step will be taken at the assocj tion's convention in Atlantic Cf on Feb. 25, according to Willi?! Lewin, chairman of the committi. The plan includes cooperation w:i theaters, libraries and the public, s well as classroom studies in fii evaluation and standards. Effois will be made to discourage doubfeaturing and "mixed-billing," whe family night programs and juvene matinees will be encouraged. Leglation "which attempts to solve_ te cinema problem by artificial legistion" will be opposed. Mrs. Wilkerson Robbed of Jewel West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAIW Hollywood — An unmasked bi| glar, posing as a messenger, on S:l urday held up Mrs. William R. Wkerson and her maid and, at ti point of a gun, got away wi^ $24,000 in jewels. Fox Met. Group Seeks Delay Hearing will be held today before Federal Judge Mack on application^ of the Fox Met. bondholders' proterT* committee, which is represented^ Morton G. Bogue as counsel, for a 7* ther extension of time within which to file a reorganization plan for Fox Metropolitan Theaters. This is the fifth or sixth such application.