The Film Daily (1937)

THE -<^s DAILV ■ Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1937 Vol. 71, No. 16 Wed., Jan. 20, 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, Asso ciate 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 Net High Lo>" Close Chg. Am. Seat 26 2534 25% — i/4 Columbia Picts. vtc. 37i/2 36 37l/2 + 3/4 ^lumb;d Picts. pfd. 45'/2 45'/8 45]/2 + Vi Con. Fm. Ind 5'/4 5V8 5'/s — Vs Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 17l/2 17l/2 17'/2 East. Kodak 174 174 174 do pfd 161l/2 160'/2 161 1/2 + V/z Gen. Th. Eq 32 31 1/4 313/8 + i/8 Loew's, Inc 74 7iy2 733/8 + 17/8 do pfd .... Paramount 275/8 25% 27% -f 1% Paramount 1st pfd..l92y2 1833/4 192y2 + 7% Paramount 2nd pfd.. 24% 23 Vz 24% + 1% Pathe Film 10% 9% 9% + % RKO 83/4 8% 834 + 1/4 20th Century-Fox . . 373/8 36 Vi 37 + % 20th Century-Fox pfd. 44% 44% 44% — 1 % Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 17'/4 16% 17 do pfd 65% 65% 65% — % NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s46... 98 97% 97%— % Loew 6s41ww 101 1003/4 101 + % Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. 6s55. . . . 10O3/8 1003/8 1003/8 RKO 6s41 122% 122% 122% — 1/4 Warner's 6s39 993/8 99 993/8 + % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Picts. vtc Grand National .... 4% 33,4 4 + 1/4 Sonotone Corp 2% 2'/4 2'/4 -j % Technicolor 22% 21 1/4 22% + 1 Trans-Lux 43/8 4% 4y4 JANUARY 20 Dennis F. O'Brien Hugo Mayer Joseph Adam Viscount Julius De Morales Coming and Going ADOLPH ZUKOR, AUSTIN C. KEOUGH, RUSSELL HOLMAN and CHRIS DUNPHY arrive in New York this morning from Hollywood. NEIL F. AGNEW goes to Washington Thursday from New York. JOE UNGER, now on a key city tour, returns to New York late next week. CHARLES REAGAN, toufning Paramount exchanges in his western division, is due back in New York in two weeks. ARTHUR A. LEE, GB Vice-President, left yesterday for Philadelphia. He will return to his office today. MONTA BELL who for the past few weeks has been at the Lombardy, has returned to Hollywood. LEO CARRILLO is at the Hotel Warwick for an indefinite stay. ARCHIE L. MAYO arrived in New York yesterday for a brief vacation. GRAD L. SEARS left yesterday for New Orleans. MR. and MRS. WILLIAM MORRIS, JR., left for Washington last night where today they are guests of Jack Lait, editor of the N. Y. Mirror, at the inauguration. CONSTANCE BENNETT is at the Towers of the Waldorf-Astoria. MRS. HOWARD W. HAWKS is at the Towers of the Waldorf. WILLIAM COLLIER, JR., screen player, accompanied by MRS. COLLIER; and LEON GORDON, associated with M-G-M, sail for Europe today on the Berengaria. Arriving on the Berengaria today are COL. W. STEWART-RODDIE, British author and lecturer, and SARA ALLGOOD, Irish actress. FRANK FORREST, film actor, is at the Warwick. COL. E. A. SCHILLER and ALLAN CUMMINGS leave New York Friday for Chicago and the coast. WILLARD VANDER VEER goes to the coast next week from New York. ADMIRAL BYRD, who is now in Boston, plans a trip to Hollywood next month. WILLIAM S. HART is in New York from the coast. MARGO leaves New York about April 1 to work in "Hurricane" for Samuel Goldwyn in Hollywood. GERTRUDE SMITH of GB has returned to New York from Akron after attending the funeral of her father. WILLIAM HAADE, signed by Warner Bros, for a picture, left New York yesterday for Hollywood. TOM WALLER of the Paramount publicity department has gone to Washington to assist the Paramount newsreel in covering the President's inauguration. ANDY SMITH, U. A. general sales manager, is in Pittsburgh. FRITZ LANG, left the west coast yesterday for a holiday visit to New York, and will arrive here on the Century Friday morning. MARTIN STARR of WMCA is in Washington today to catch movie celebs at the inaugural for a 30-minute broadcast. HARRY COHEN, head of the Cohen circuit, and MRS. COHEN have returned from New York to Boston. Pathe News Signs Pact for Improved RCA Sound Pathe News, Inc., has signed a recording license agreement with RCA Photophone which calls for the replacement of the sound equipment in its entire fleet of newsreel cars with radically improved apparatus recently developed in the RCA laboratories in collaboration with Pathe's own sound engineers, it was announced yesterday by Edwin M. Hartley, RCA Photophone head. The new field equipment incorporates technical advances which, besides improving the sound quality, permit a much more compact design with a consequent reduction of weight and bulk that make for much greater portability, and flexibility in operation. Pathe has also leased one of the new RCA ultra-violet light re-recording systems for use in the New York office. High fidelity sound projection has been provided for the screening room with the installation of rotary stabilizer sound-heads and the new RCA cellular-type of speakers. Warner Appeal to Ascap Board Continues Thursday Appeal of the Warner Bros, music firms from the Ascan reclassification committee rulings was heard yesterday by the society's board of directors. The case was not completed, necessitating a further hearing on Thursday. Andy Smith in Pittsburgh On U. A. Schaefer Campaign As one of the first steps in the launching of the "George Schaefer Sales Drive," the first national campaign in the history of United Artists, Andy Smith, general sales manager, left yesterday for a meeting in Pittsburgh with Harry Gold, eastern sales manager, Haskell Masters, Canadian sales manager, and Charles Stern and Bert Stearn, district managers. Smith will then go to Chicago on Thursday where he will confer with Jack Schlaifer, western sales manager, Ben Fish and Jack Goldhar, district managers. He is expected to return to New York on Friday morning to approve final plans for the 14-week drive which will open officially on Jan. 24 and continue until May 1. The entire United Artists product for the current season will serve as the basis of the campaign. To alleviate any shortage of prints, each exchange will be furnished with its full quota immediately. Mrs. Maurice 'Straus Dead Cincinnati — Mrs. Maurice Straus, wife of Maurice Straus, and mother of Constance Straus, formerly and for many years connected with Universal, died here. Peggy Spargo Rejoins GB Peggy Spargo has rejoined GB at its New York office. "Bank Night" Operator's Restraint Suit Dismisses Indianapolis — Action by Affiliate Enterprises, Inc., of Denver, Colo operators of motion picture theate "bank nights", to restrain severa Indianapolis theaters from using "cash night", was dismissed in Fed eral court here. Max M. Plesser, counsel for th theaters, pleaded that the scheme was a lottery and because of that Affiliated Enterprises was not com ing into court with "clean hands." The action followed closely on decision in the United States circui court of appeals at Denver in whic the court held that "bank night" wa a lottery, and, further, that even i the scheme was not a lottery thi' plaintiff would not be entitled to ai injunction against the users of simi lar schemes. Springfield, 111. — Bank nights arc off here until the courts decide th» case now before the Supreme Court! State's Attorney William P. Rob erts proposed to seize the $1,70( bank night prize offered by the Or pheum theater under M. K. Bermai management, but with the abandon ment of the drawings until the lega status of the bank night plan i; settled, this move was droppec Manager Berman has retained Ail torney D. Logan Griffin. Bingen, Wash. — When Sheriff C R. House says no "Bank Night" h means just that in this section. Man ager-owner Mel Reid of the Neil Gorge Theater, although he had bee:; warned several times to desis thought the Sheriff was just "kic ding" until he closed his house an ordered him to post $500 bail befoi he was released. Sears Off for New Orleans On First of Circuit Visit Gradwell L. Sears, Warners vio president and general sales manage left by train yesterday for New O: leans to confer with major circu heads in the South on impendir productions from his company. Th is the first of a series of such trii announced by Sears last week. In his confabs with circuit chief the Warner executive will discu; distribution and merchandising plai for "Black Legion", "The Gre: O'Malley", "Stolen Holiday", "Gre| Light" and "Penrod and Sam". SHOWMAN'S REMINDER Check on your heating system; overheating means a shrinkage in your income.