The Film Daily (1935)

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THE Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1935 ■s&n DAILY ould Extend Makeup of Local Boards to Code Auth'y PLAN NO INVASIONS, I SAYS EDWARD G. LEVY {.Continued from Page 1) Levy in his report as acting secretary of the M. P. T. 0. A. at yesterday's session of the annual convention. Due to the recent resignation of Fred S. Meyer, now with Carl Laemmle, Sr., in Hollywood, Levy delivered a report to fill the requirements of the agenda for a secretary's report. Outlining the constitutional set-up of the M. P. T. 0. A. and its three classes of membership — regional units, affiliated national circuits, and unaffiliated circuits and a board of directors which at present consists of 23 men, 17 representing regional units, five representing affiliated national circuits and one representing those unaffiliated circuits or theaters which are associate members — Levy said that the organization is being operated at a minimum of expense. Officers all serve without salary, he pointed out, and the only paid employee is the young lady in charge of the national headquarters in New York. He attacked "self-seeking professional exhibitor organizers" and urged "all of the honest, representative local associations to band together on national matters, with a representation of their own choosing as a qualified director of the M. P. T. 0. A., particularly those with a willingness to work with others for the good of the exhibitor and the motion picture industry." M.P.T.O. A. Convention Sidelights By ARTHUR EDDY TVTEW ORLEANS — Bill Johnson of "Screen Broadcasts" fame is one of the convention's better hosts. Illness has prevented W. S. Butterfield from attending the pow-wow. Brylawski Says Ascap Takes 5 Million Yearly New Orleans — American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers is taking approximately $5,000,000 annually out of the motion picture business, A. Julian Brylawski of Washington will tell M. P. T. O. A. conventioneers in an address on the copyright situation. According to his computations, Ascap gets about $3,500,000 a year through its assessment of $500 per reel. In 1931 the society was paid $900,000 by theaters under the seat tax, according to Brylawski, and now the rates have been increased through new schedules effected last fall. ii M. P. Club Forum Clicks At the M. P. Club Forum yesterday le Hauptmann trial was discussed by Sam Leibowitz, Jack Lait and Alexander Kaminsky, the assistant district attorney at the Flemington proceedings. All three speakers were well received by a large turnout. Ben Shylen drove here from his Middle Western home and has plenty of nasty things to say about the roads en route. That inseparable pair, Claude Ezell and Bill Underwood, are prominently on hand. That Lightman-for-president gag caused a lot of conversation. A report is current to the effect that the convention may adjourn from the Gold Room to the bar. Arthur Higginbotham supervised the golf tournament Monday afternoon. A LTHOUGH his re-election had been a foregone conclusion for some time, Prexy Ed Kuykendall and various other M.P.T.O.A. officers were receiving congratulations yesterday on their continuance in office. Incidentally, Kuykendall's reelection was predicted in The Film Daily of Dec. 28. Morris Lowenstein, newly-elected secretary of the organization to succeed Fred S. Meyer, has long been an active leader in the Oklahoma City territory. Other officers who will serve additional terms include Walter Vincent, treasurer; M. E. Comerford, M. A. Lightman, B. N. Berinstein and W. S. Butterfield, vice-presidents, and Ed. G. Levy, general counsel. Fred Wehrenberg is chairman of the board. Ed. G. Levy Endorses Code Changes Proposed By Kuykendall New Orleans — Endorsing the ninepoint code amendment plan recently proposed by President Ed Kuykendall of the M. P. T. O. A., the M. P. T. O. of Connecticut, through Edward G. Levy, is urging that the makeup of clearance and zoning boards be extended to the Code Authority itself and the local grievance boards as well. The clearance and zoning board setup is as follows: one first run independent exhibitor, two subsequent run independent exhibitors, one first run affiliated exhibitor, two distributors, one operating theaters and the other without theater-holdings. The nine-point proposals endorsed are: 20 per cent outright cancellation clause, territorial determination of the double feature issue, elimination of score charges, elimination of competitive non-theatricals, a 50 per cent territorial vote for determination of the premiums' question, instead of 75 per cent as at present^ no designated play dates, compulsory arbitration and fair clearance and zoning schedules. Major L. E. Thompson was another Florida-to-New Orleans passenger. Jimmy Grainger played golf the other a. m. — on the fairway, he sez. Jeanette MacDonald and Hunt Stromberg are expected here Saturday from the coast in connection with the opening of M-G-M's "Naughty Marietta" at Loew's State. Nelson Eddy also has been reported as coming here for the premiere. Jack Edwards, who is on hand from Hollywood in a newspaper capacity, was a former theater manager here and one time reporter for the "Item." Samuel Cummings of Jewel and Eureka 'productions, producer of "Forgotten Men," is here to negotiate deals for his films. Somebody started a rumor about gambling being illegal in Louisiana but it was only a rumor. Eating spots getting a play from the visiting firemen include Antoine's, Galatoire's and Kolb's. Charley Williams from Omaha seldom, if ever, misses an M. P. T. O. A. convention. Reg Wilson, chief field representative, is on hand as aide to George Weeks, head of Gaumont British' s sales activities. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Griffith joined up with the conventioneers at Charlotte. Missing his first M. P. T. O. A. convention in years, Charles Picquet, Carolina exhib leader, sent his secretary, Ruth Hardin, as his proxy. Those film delivery boys, Jim Clark and Clint Weyer, are contributing generously to the festivities. Lester Tobias, the demon premium man, was formerly in vaudeville with Walter Winchell, who made good as a columnist. "Screen Broadcasts" Is Well Represented New Orleans — Distributors for "Screen Broadcasts," headed by William Johnson, are here in force for the M. P. T. O. A. convention. The _ Motion Picture Advertising Service Co., New Orleans, has an attractive booth on the Roosevelt's mezzanine. Distributors attending the meeting are: W. H. Henderson, Jr., United Film Advertising Service, Inc., Kansas City; A. V. Cauger, A. V. Cauger Service Inc., Independence, Mo., Al M. Smith, Al M. Smith Service Co., Minneapolis; Elmer Home, Screen Broadcasts, Inc., Dallas; R. V. Stambaugh, Art Film Studios, Inc., Cleveland. Charles Segal of Philly is giving plenty of discussion to exhibitor problems. Lou Nizer is receiving deserved compliments on his book dealing principally with the motion picture code. Plenty of big shots in the sales ranks are present, including Felix Feist, Jimmie Grainger, John D. Clark, Jules Levy, to mention only a few. Announcement of a series of shorts to be based on "The Voice of Experience," radio headliner, is causing considerable exhib interest. Eddie Selette to Albany Boston — Edward Selette, former manager of the Columbia theater here, now closed, has been named resident head of the Regent in Albany, N. Y., acquired by the Morse and Rothenberg circuit. Protest Church Showings Des Moines — Protests have been sent to producers by local theater interests against the showing of Russian films at the First Unitarian Church here as unfair competition. Premiums Increase 25% New Orleans — Use of premiums has increased approximately 25 per cent throughout the country as compared with a year ago, declared Lester Tobias, premium dealer, yesterday, while here to attend the M. P. T. O. A. convention. He estimates that about 3,500 houses 'are now using giveaways.