The Film Daily (1938)

TW DAILY Wednesday, August 24, 193! Vol. 74, No. 45 Wed., Aug. 24, 1938 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor 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 and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer; 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, Raiaclistr, 4. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. f innnciRL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 14% 14% 14*4 + 3/8 Columbia Picts. vtc. 13% 133/4 133/4 ..... Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind 1 % 1 % 1 1/4 ... .". Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. 8'/2 8 8l/2 + Vz East. Kodak 176 175 176 + 2 do pfd Cen. Th. Eq 14'/2 14% 14'/2 + i/2 Loew's, Inc 483/8 47 483/8 + 13/8 do pfd Paramount 10 V/2 10 + l/2 Paramount 1st pfd Paramount 2nd pfd.. 10 9% 10 + % Pathe Film 9 8V2 9 + Vz RKO 20th Century-Fox . 253/i 25V4 25% + % 20th Century-Fox pfd. 33V2 33 1/2 33V2+ % Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 61/4 5% &/& + !4 do pfd 38 36i/2 38 +3 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s46 Loew 6s41ww 101 100'/4 101 + Vz Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. 6sJ55... Para. Picts. cv. 3 iAs47 RKO 6s41 Warner's 6s39 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Grand National Monogram Picts Sonotone Corp Technicolor 23V4 22]/2 23% + l/4 Trans-Lux 2% 2% 2% Universal Picts N .Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER STOCK MARKET Bid Asked Pathe Film 7 pfd 100 Fox Thea. Bldg. 6'/2s 1st '36.... 6% 7% Loew's Thea. Bldg. 6s 1st '47.... 91% 93'/2 Met. Playhouse, Inc. 5s '43 67 69 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 6'/4s 1st '43 54 56 SAFETY LLOYDS FILM STORAGE CORP. Storage by Reel or Vault 729 Seventh Ave. New York City BRyant 9-5600 SECURITY Daily In THE FILM DAILY "fllOTIOn PICTUR6S one yOUR B€ST CRTERTfllRRIERT" Campaign News From Everywhere New York Area Campaign Will Cover 850 Theaters {Continued from, Page 1) signed to committee meetings to be held in the various regions tomorrow and Friday, and were supplied at the meeting with ammunition for their tasks. Oscar Doob, chairman of the Theater Committee, John Dowd, and Eddie Dowden addressed them to outline the procedure to be followed. District chairman will be elected at the various meetings, and initiative taken in starting the community drives. Dowden emphasized the part to be played by the independent exhibitors, many of whom are already participating. Complete co-operation of the independents is expected to follow the ITOA meeting to be held in New York today. Doob stressed the value to the community theaters of the tremendous advertising campaign. He pointed out that all daily newspapers would get heavy advertising lineage, and in addition could be expected to give the widest possible publicity to the drive and the $250,000 contest. Brooklyn downtown exhibitors also met yesterday morning, and outlined their regional campaign. It was decided to open the drive in Brooklyn with a dinner, to be held the night of Aug. 30, to which would be invited Brooklyn exhibitors, borough officials, newspaper representatives, heads of civic organizations and others. Brooklyn neighborhood campaigns will be supplemented with an allborough parade, according to present plans. Organizers present at the New York meeting included: Arthur Hershman, Harold McMahon, Al Simon, Larry Greib, Harry Mandel, Herman Star, John Judge, Solly Schwartz, Eddie Dowden, Jerry De Rosa, Harry Weiss, Maurice Harris, Louis Goldberg, John Dowd, George Langbart, Harry Davey, Seymour Mayer, Fred Brunelle, Hugh Finnegan, Edward Sniderman, Charles Burns, Herb Jennings, Emanuel Freedman, Colby Harriman. Newark and Jersey City theaters have already met, and chairmen have been appointed in both towns. The Bergen County meeting is scheduled for tomorrow at 10:30 A.M., at the Skouras Fox Theater in Hackensack. All accessories in the Greater New York area, it was announced, will be handled through the Paramount Exchange. Press Book Publicity Section on the Presses The 16-page publicity section of the newspaper-size press book issued by "Motion Pictures' Greatest Year" is now on the presses, and is expected to be ready for shipment to the exchanges by the end of this week, the press book committee, comprising Howard Dietz, Monroe Greenthal and Barret McCormick, announced yesterday. This section, has been edited with careful consideration of the newspaper editor's point of view. The material is fresh, varied and informative, and represents the joint efforts of Hollywood's leading publicity men, ace writers and directors, of foremost stars. The press book contains a comprehensive amount of real feature material, on all phases of movie-making, with real inside dope on studio activities in all departments. These features include many by-line stories by nationally known screen writers, executives, directors and stars. Emphasis is on the intricacies and magnitude of movie-making, designed to show why "Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment." Scenarists discuss the problems of script-making, directors write informatively of their art, the development of the movies is reviewed from a score of interesting angles. The section is profusely illustrated, with numerous art layouts, featuring the general process of making a movie. It also includes photo features and cartoon features, for which mats can be obtained at a minimal price. Accessories Being Shipped Complete instructions on the handling of campaign accessories were sent out to branch headquarters of the Motion Pictures' Greatest Year industry drive Monday by James Clark, in charge of the physical distribution of materials and accessories. Order blanks and requisition forms were attached to facilitate the rapid handling of this material. Initial shipments of accessories has been made to all exchanges — posters, display cards, heralds, lobby accessories, etc. Pressbooks and movie quiz booklets will be shipped as they roll off the press. Hawaii Wants to Participate From far-off Honolulu to the headquarters of the Motion Pictures' Greatest Year committee comes the urgent request that the Hawaiian Islands be permitted to participate comma RRD GOIRC 1. CHEEVER COWDIN, Universale board chairman, arrived in New York yesterday from the Coast. SPYROS SKOURAS and WILLIAM POWER5 of National Theaters have returned frc^gct tending regional meetings in Kansas CirV^ind on the Coast. EDWARD STEVENSON, RKO-Radio's studic fashion designer, has arrived in New York from the Coast for a two weeks' vacation. W. RAY JOHNSTON, Monogram's president leaves the home office this week-end for Milwaukee. JOHN JOSEPH, publicity-advertising head for Universal, who has been spending several days j at the home office, heads for Hollywood on Sept. 3, and plans to stop over in Chicago en route. ARCHIE MAYO, having completed direction] of Universal's feature, "Youth Takes a Fling," arrives in New York today from Hollywood, en route to Europe. D. C. DOB IE, FN general sales manager in the U.K., and W. J. BROWN, WB exec, in a similar capacity, leave Hollywood Friday fo New York en route to London. WALTER BIBO and ECON KLEIN, president and secretary of Atlas Film Exchange of N. Y. are in Mexico City buying Mexican-made pictures. RAMOS COBIAN sails tomorrow on the Cuamo for Puerto Rico. He returns early in September. GLADYS GEORGE is stopping at the SherryNetherlands. TOM MIX, MRS. MIX and the film star's horse, Tony, sail for Europe today on board the Paris. RICHARD BLAYDON, manager of production for Paramount in London, sails today on the U. S. liner Washington for London. RUSSELL T. ERWIN and RODERICK M. WARREN of the Crantland Rice sports corporation, are also passengers sailing on the Washington, bound for Ireland to shoot sports pictures. Defer Para. Board Meeting Meeting of Paramount's board of directors, scheduled for tomorrow, has been postponed until Monday, due to the absence of a quorum Dividends are expected to be declared. and to share in the nation-wide industry drive. The request arrived here through Fred Williams, representative of the Consolidated Theaters, the largest group of theaters in Honolulu. The committee is seeking to comply with Williams' plea to the best of its ability. Campaign accessories will be supplied through the San Francisco exchange. Richey on Job Detroit — H. M. Richey, Michigan chairman of the industry advertisingf campaign, is contacting as many exhibitors of both Detroit and the State as possible, in a personal appeal to co-operate on the 10 cents a seat assessment. In addition, all theaters in the State are being circu | larized, where personal contact, is impossible. Personnel of the Mic'hi1 gan committee has not been completed yet. Jl