The Film Daily (1937)

fr<530"S DAILV 'Friday, Jan. 8, 1937 596 PIX RELEASED IN CANADA DURING 1936 (Continued from Page 1) with the M. P. D. and E. of Canada were as follows: Regal (handling MG-M), 57, including 14 British productions; Paramount, 69; 20th Century-Fox, 58; Universal, 33; United Artists, 22; Empire, 59, including 19 British films; Columbia, 55, including two Canadian pictures; Warner Bros., 57; RKO, 50. These companies distributed a total of 460 features, as compared with 449 in 1935. U. S. May Negotiate New Trade Part With Ecuador Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — With exports of motion picture and sound equipment, together with projection materials, amounting to $13,901 for the year 1935, the Acting Secretary of State yesterday announced that this government contemplates the negotiation of a trade agreement with Ecuador. Meanwhile, observers were quick to sense a new system of negotiating trade agreements in the future which will give representatives of motion picture and other industries opportunity to come to Washington and confer with government experts in their own field on the best way to approach proposed negotiations, before formal hearings are held. Representatives of industry are given opportunity to confer privately with the Committee of Reciprocity Information, thereby allowing considerably more freedom of speech which it was found a public hearing did not permit. Motion Picture Industry Pays High Tribute to Zukor at Silver Jubilee (Continued from Page 1) De Mille's "Plainsmen" Showing B. 0. Strength First 15 engagements of "The Plainsman", Cecil B. DeMille production indicate the picture running far above house records with substantial increase in attendance shown on the part of female trade, Paramount home office said yesterday. In Texas at the Majestic Theaters in Houston and San Antonio, "The Plainsman" is topping records established by "The Big Broadcast" and "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" by substantial margins. In 13 other first-run engagements the picture has already doubled the house average and is heading for new records. Goldberg Holds Confabs Harry Goldberg, director of advertising for Warner Bros. Theaters, is holding special advertising meetings this week in Washington, D. C. and Lancaster, Pa., on the foi-thcoming showings of Warner's "Black Legion." standing producers, exhibitors and distributors. Opening the event was a dinnerattended by more than 400 persons, including various executives who have been associated with the guest of honor in the past. Will H. Hays was toastmaster and presented Zukor with a massive autograph book, pages of which had been circulated in almost every country in the world. Speeches made traced the Zukor career beginning in the early days of motion pictures up to the present time. The chairman of the Paramount board was eulogized as a man who has contributed greatly to the development of the industry as well as to the company he serves. Program Broadcast Following the banquet an entertainment and dance took place in the studio's huge assembly stage which had been attractively decorated and which allowed attendance of several hundred additional guests. The program was broadcast over a national hookup with Jack Benny as master-of-ceremonies and Cecil B. De Mille, long associated with Zukor, making the introductory remarks. Headliners included Leopold Stokowski and his orchestra, Bob Burns, Charles Butterworth, Johnny Downes, Frank Forest, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, Gladys Swarthout and Eleanor Whitney. A highlight was a parade before the microphone of Paramount stars, past, present and future. Committee in charge of arrangements for the party consisted of Christopher Dunphy, chairman; George L. Bagnall, Eugene Zukor and Ted Lesser. The radio program was under supervision of Boris Morros, studio musical director, who had rehearsed an orchestra of 100 pieces and a chorus of 50 voices for musical backgrounds. Notables Among Guests Guests at the affair included: Barney Balaban, Dr. A. H. Giannini, Jesse L. Lasky, Ernst Lubitsch, Harold Lloyd, Frank C. Walker, Harry Warner, Jack Warner, Darryl Zanuck, Neil F. Agnew, Harry Cohn, Emanuel Cohen, Y. Frank Freeman, Stanton Griffis, Austin C. Keough, John W. Hicks, David Loew, William LeBaron, E. V. Richards, B. P. Schulberg, King Vidor, Henry Herzbrun, Cecil B. De Mille, Edward Arnold, George Archainbaud, A. H. Blank, Geo. L. Bagnall, A. M. Botsford, Jack Benny, George Barbier, Ben Blue, Benny Baker, Charles Bickford, W. B. Cokell, Frank Chapman, Gladys Swarthout, Robt. Cobb, Gail Patrick, Eddie Cantor, Larry Crabbe, Edward Dubinsky, Louis Dapron, J. Fitzgibbons, William Farnham, Leif Erikson, Frances Farmer, Frank Forest, Samuel Goldstein, C. Gilmour, L. E. Gensler, Benjamin Glazer, Keith Glennan, Harold Hurley, Henry Hathaway, Arthur Hornblow, John Hammell, Porter Hall, Aaron Jones, Sidney Justin, Jacob Karp, Ralph Kohn, Roscoe Karns, Joseph Levenson, Paul Lukas, Ted Lesser, Jeff Lazarus, Frank Lloyd, Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Harry Nace, M. Haify, George Nasser, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Oakie, Sam Pinanski, Judge A. E. and Mrs. Pinanski, Ben Piazza, Purnell Pratt, Bogart Rogers, Charles Rogers, Mel Shauer, Frank Tuttle, Harlan Thompson, Akim Tamiroff, Herman Wobber, Bryant Washburn, Mildred Zukor, L. M. Rubens, Neil F. Agnew, George Arthur, Lew Ayres, Barney Blank, Raymond Blank, Joe Berg, Travis Banton, Bob Burns, Harry David, Albert Deane, John Danz, Lou Diamond, C. B. DeMille, Johnny Downes, Howard Estabrook, Danny E. Field, K. Fitzpatrick, William Frawley, Robert M. Gillham, Charles Gartner, John Cecil Graham, Cary Grant, Karl Hoblitzelle, Russell Holman, Alexander Hall, John Howard, Milton Kusell, Charles Krebs, Al Kaufman, M. A. Lightman, Myke H. Lewis, Mitchell Leisen, Fred Leahy, Nick Lukats, Frank Meyer, Mike Marco, Victor Moore, Rouben Mamoulian, Fred Mercy Sr., Groucho Marx, R. McNeil, Anthony Nace, Carroll Peacock, Charles Reagan, Ted Reed, G. A. Rasdall, Grantland Rice, George Raft, Charles Ruggles, M. Schlesinger, Edwin Silverman, Harry Sherman, Mort Singer, Edward Sutherland, Leopold Stokowski, Randolph Scott, Sir Guy Standing, Harvey Stephens, Colin Tapley, J. J. Unger, R. B. Wilby, George Weltner, Morgan Walsh, Fred Williams, Manny Wolfe, Mary Boland, Olympe Bradna, Helen Burgess, Mary Carlisle, Ruth Colman, Fanchon Belle Goldstein, Marsha Hunt, Matilda Kass, Dorothy Lamour, Priscilla Lawson, Jane Constance Loew, Priscilla Moran, June Martel, Elizabeth Patterson, Martha Raye, Terry Raye and Eleanore Whitney. Zukor Tour Cancelled Due to the heavy press of the production schedule, Zukor has cancelled plans for a tour of all large cities in connection with the Silver Jubilee celebration. He leaves Hollywood in 10 days for Washington to attend premiere of "Champagne Waltz" and later goes to New York for a brief visit. FED. REGULATION CAN'T HELP THEAS -ALLIED "Cloistered" Clicking "Cloistered," the only film ever shown depicting the life inside the walls of a cloistered convent, continues to click. The picture is in its second week in Pittsburgh at the Art Cinema Theater where it played to SRO the first week. In its first week at the Penn Square Theater, Cleveland, a 600-seat house, it has been doing capacity. (.Continued from Page 1) hours, and wages and the elimination of child labor," states the bulletin, in referring to the legislation to be proposed by the National Council for Industrial Progress, headed by Major George L. Berry. A report concerning the conference recently sponsored by the council at Washington, and attended by President Nathan Yamins of Allied and Myers, will be presented at the association's annual board meeting at the Emerson Hotel, Baltimore, Jan. 21 and 22. "The President's coordinator was snubbed by other branches of the motion picture industry," asserts Allied, referring to the council's conference at Washington. Appropos of the Patman bill, which would divorce manufacturing from retailing, the bulletin points out that Congressman Wright Patman, its author, has eliminated all reference to the film industry. "This legislation will have to be watched carefully and if it appears that it has a chance of going through in a form that would be beneficial to the theater owners, an effort should be made to have motion pictures reinstated," it is stated. In connection with the annual election of officers slated for the board meeting, Yamins, Al Steffes, James Ritter and Sidney E. Samuelson have been appointed a nominating committee. In addition to directors, each affiliated unit is asked to send from two to six representatives to attend the session. Need of an "expert public relations counsel" for the film industry is stressed in the bulletin, which points to the Standard Oil Company's success through the late Ivy Lee. Attacking a recent M. P. T. O. A. bulletin, Allied describes results of that organization's trade practice campaign as "shadow boxing between Haysite exhibitors and Haysite distributors." "Not a single concession was made which has the slightest bearing on any of the major abuses aimed at by the Allied program," declares the bulletin. ! a Higgins Addresses Women Boston — Herbert Higgins, head booker for Warner Brothers, will be the guest speaker at the Southbridge Women's Club tonight. Higgins' subject will be, "Let's Talk about the Movies." I n : "Mask" to Play Filmarte The N. Y. Filmarte Theater has booked the Swiss film, "The Eternal Mask," to open next Tuesday. Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn are the distributors of "The Eternal Mask," which was a prize-winning film at the Biennial Exposition of Films in Vienna.