The Film Daily (1937)

THE ■c&Zk DAILY Saturday, Jan. 16, 1937 Vol. 71, No. 13 Sat., Jan. 16, 1937 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1501 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; Chester B. Bahn, 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, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone, BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin— Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Am. Seat 25% 25 25 — Columbia Picts. vtc. 373/8 37 37 + Columbia Picts. pfd. 45% 45% 45% Con. Fm. Ind 5% 5'/8 5% • Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. 18% 173/4 18% + East. Kodak 173% 172 173% -f do pfd 160 160 160 — Gen. Th. Eq 32% 31 % 32 + Loew's, Inc 7014 69% 69% ■ do pfd Paramount 26% 24% 26% + Paramount 1st pfd. .185% 174 18514 + Paramount 2nd pfd.. 23% 22% 23% -j Pathe Film 10%. 9% 9% . RKO 8% 8% 8% — 20th Century-Fox .. 37% 36 37% + 20th Century-Fox pfd. 46% 46 46% + Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 17% 17 17% + do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s46 Loew 6s41ww 1005/8 100% 1005/8 + Para. B'way 3s55.. 73% 7334 733/4 — Para. Picts. 6s55. . . 100% 1003/8 1003/8 — RKO 6s41 123% 123 123'/8 + Warner's 6s39 993/8 99 993/8 -f NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Picts. vtc Grand Nat'l Films... 33/8 31/4 33/8 + Sonotone Corp 2 1% 1% — Technicolor 21 % 21 % 21 % + Trans-Lux 4% 4% 4% . . Net Chg. % % 1% 12% 1% '% 1% 1% '% JANUARY 16 Harry Carey Katherine Stewart Diana Wynyard Elmer G. Leterman JANUARY 17 Carl Laemmle Patsy Ruth Miller Noah Beery NilsAsther Grant Withers Mack Sennett Harmon Yaffa • • • A UNIQUE telephone broadcast across the nation took place yesterday afternoon in the home offices of Columbia the occasion being the inauguration of the company's sales drive in honor of general sales manager A. Montague hooking up branch offices in 31 cities simultaneously so Columbia has the distinction of having held the first "transcontinental meeting" ever arranged by direct telephone hook-up ▼ ▼ T • • • AT EVERY Columbia branch office the salesmen and entire office staffs as well as invited guests among the local exhibitors assembled at 5 o'clock before loudspeakers the assembled staffs heard in turn the addresses made from the board room in the home office by Jack Cohn, A. Montague, Joe McConville and Rube Jackter the telephone company's engineers handled the broadcast efficiently, and the entire proceeding consumed about 10 minutes quite a stunt talking to a staff of some 1,500 scattered in 31 spots all over the United States T T T • • • SOME SORT of a new record has been set by Milton Overman city manager for L. L. Dent's theaters in Lincoln, Nebraska he held over a picture for an extra week because nobody came to see it during the first week Milt figured it was as good as new for the second week T T T • • • TO DATE 70,000 of "How Talkies Are Made" have been distributed written by Barrett C. Kiesling of the Metro studio as a guide to visiting newspaper editors on the technical angles, it has been taken up by colleges, clubs, newspapers, libraries, Better Films Councils and has been translated into many foreign languages Russell Hadley Dies in Los Angeles Hospital West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Russell Hadley, 34, died yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital. Funeral services and burial will be in Los Angeles. Russell Hadley was a brother of Hap Hadley, widely known artist, and in association with his brother will be remembered for his work in the early days of the talkies. His immediate survivors include his wife and two daughters. Plagiarism Trial Deferred Trial of "The Scoundrel" plagiarism suit against Paramount yesterday was put off to the March term of the New York State Supreme Court. Schwartzman Convalescing Attorney Samuel Schwartzman is at his home recuperating from a recent appendicitis operation. Picketed Theater Closes Detroit — The Brooklyn Theater, operated by Chester B. Brown, Jr., and Charles Lightner, has closed. House had been picketed for several weeks by Projectionists' Local, I. A. T. S. E. Reade Group Will Build Morristown, N. J. House American Community Theaters Corp., through President Walter Reade, yesterday announced the purchase of a theater site at Morristown, N. J., for $125,000 from the Henry C. Pitney estate. Thomas W. Lamb will be the architect for the house which, it was said, will cost approximately $500,000. Work will start March 1 and the house is to be completed by July 1. Rites for Mrs. Atwell Funeral services for Mrs. Ben H. Atwell, wife of the theatrical publicity man, who died Wednesday of a heart ailment in the Mt. Sinai Hospital, will be held at Cooke's Funeral Home, 117 W. 72nd Street at noon today. Professionally known as Marcella Albus, she had sung in opera and concert. In addition to her husband, surviving is a sister, Mrs. Lillian Stevens, of Kansas City. Gaston Services Monday Last rites will be held Monday for George Gaston, 93, oldest actor residing at the Actors Fund of America Home in Englewood, N. J., whose death occurred there Thursday. Services will be held at Walter B. Cooke Funeral Home, 117 W. 72nd Street, at 11 A. M. Coming and Going VINCENTE MINNELLI, designer and stager of musicals and film theater presentation programs, arrives in Hollywood this week-end from New York to join Paramount studio staff. Company recently awarded him a 40-week contract. BUDD ROGERS on Monday leaves New York on a brief trip to Philadelphia and Washington. OLIVER GARRETT, Coast writer, goes to England late this month. LESTER COHEN leaves Hollywood next month for England via New York. E. E. BLAKE, managing director of Kodak Limited, London, and HARRY SHILTON, managing director of the Kodak-Pathe company in Paris, have arrived in New York on a short business trip. KAY FRANCIS is staying at Ritz Tower Hotel before returning to the coast. BOYCE DeGAW and ISABEL DAWN, Universal screen writers, arrive today in New York from Washington where they have been in consultation with Navy Department officials regarding scenes in "Wings Over Honolulu." ANTON WALBROOK, continental stage and film star who will be introduced to American audiences in RKO Radio's production of "Michael Strogoff," arrives Monday in New York from Hollywood. BARNEY BALABAN, president of Paramount and STANTON GRIFFIS, chairman of the company's executive committee, left Hollywood yesterday for New York City. LILLI PALMER, Viennese actress under contract to GB, will sail shortly for Hollywood under a loan arrangement now being concluded. VLADIMIR SOKOLOFF, Russian actor, is on board the liner Champlain, which will arrive in New York next Thursday. Under contract to Warner Bros., he will after a few days in this city, proceed to Hollywood. FERNAND GRAVET, star of Mervyn LeRoy's "The King and the Chorus Girl," sails today for Europe on the liner Paris. He will return to the United States next September. EDWARD ALPERSON has delayed his departure for Hollywood from New York until Thursday. IAN KEITH is in New York from the coast, rehearsing in a new show. CHARLES C. PETTIJOHN goes to Washington Monday to attend the inauguration. Will Redeem Loew Issue Announcement was made yesterday by Dillon, Read & Co. as paying agent, that it has selected by lot for redemption on Feb. 15, out of moneys in the sinking fund, $260,000 principal amount of Loew's, 3J/2 per cent sinking fund debentures, due Feb. 14, 1946. BIG NEWS AS SEEN BY THE PRESS A6ENT Instead of a mahogany trimmed, plush-upholstered trailer, Gene Autry carries a portable stable for his two cow-ponies. — REPUBLIC.