The Film Daily (1938)

Monday, August 29, 1938 jfnu DAILY "GONE WITH WIND" TO START IN DEC. (Continued from Page 1) fore he left for the Coast over the weekend. fl^tock said that David O. SelznicK still hoped to get an unknown girl to play the role of Scarlet O'Hara, and an intensive talent hunt will get under way shortly to find the right girl for the part. Clark Gable is the only player definitely set for a lead role to date. Altstock expects to be on the Coast about two weeks. Distribution deal with M-G-M was closed by SI last week after months of negotiations between the two companies, with other companies also bidding for release of the Selznick production. Warner Theater Zone Mgrs. To Meet in New York Today (Continued from Page 1) office. Joseph Bernhard, general manager of the theaters, presides. This meeting follows a number of similar sessions held by the theater exec, during recent weeks. Among those present at the meeting will be zone managers: James Coston, Chicago; Nat Wolf, Cleveland; I. J. Hoffman, New Haven; Don Jacocks Newark; Moe Silver, Albany; Ted Schlanger, Philadelphia; Harry Kalmine, Pittsburgh; John Payette, Washington; Herb Copelan, Atlantic City. Bookers: Saul Bragin, Cleveland; A. Halperin, Chicago; Max Hoffman, New Haven; Max Friedman, Albany; George Crouch, Washington; Frank Damis, Newark; Harry Feinstein, Pittsburgh; Lester Kreiger, Philadelphia. Among the Home Office Executives who will participate in the conference on new season's policies are: Clayton Bond, Ed Hinchy Leonard Schlesinger, Frank Phelps, Nat Fellman, Abel Vigard, W. Stewart McDonald, Harry Rosenquest, Louis Kaufman, Frank Cahill, Herman Maier, Harry Goldberg. Chicago Allied to Enter Clearance Suit This Week (Continued from Page 1) have been negotiating with B & K for the elimination of double features, or as an alternative, a reduction in the present clearance requirements. 2C YEAOX AGC IN PICTURE* From THE FILM DAILY for Thursday, Aug. 29, 1918: NEW YORK— Col. William N. Selig to produce series in association with E. Lanning Wasters and Sidney Carrett. NEW YORK— G. M. ("Broncho Billy") Anderson sets releasing deal with William L. Sherry Service. NEW YORK — Theaters as war measure to standardize use of current, saving 2,000 tons sf coal weekly. Yes, 20 Years is a Long Time in Pictures! with PHIL M. DAI_y T T T • • • SWEET SIXTEEN 16 pages in that Publicity Pressbook lor the Motion Pictures' Greatest Year we call 'em sweet, lor here is the greatest assembling of concrete, interesting facts and slants on the film biz ever collated to help sweeten the box-office here is the model on which all future pressbooks will be based sans blatant ballyhoo, lurid phraseology, cheap hoorah an amazing compilation of enormously entertaining and intriguing data for presentation direct to the public through the columns of the nation's newspapers everywhere T V T • • • RIGHT AT the start the editor-in-chief of this Massive Tome of Boiled-Down Movie Facts wants it stated that hundreds of film folk working in home offices, studios, exchanges, theaters, did yeoman service in helping his editorial staff compile this beaucoup biography of film material without their assistance, Barret McCormick says it would have been impossible for his staff to turn out this campaign book of herculean scope in a little less than three weeks but the staff had to work nights after their regular office jobs to do it the Gents Who Did the Work are Fred Schaefer, Ben Grimm, Ralph Rolan, Vivian Moses, Hal Green, Al Selig now, on with the story T T T • • • IT OPENS up on the first page with a knockout composite sketch of a studio, with a key to all the studio departments vastly intriguing, this, to all movie fans a page of scenes from Distinguished Productions, one each from films of the nine participating producers (McCormick said the toughest part of the job was balancing company-mentions, to give every producer an even break, and by gawd, they did it!) then by-line snappy articles by Producers and Directors, they being Cecil B. De Mille, Frank Lloyd, George Stevens, Bryan Foy, Robert Sisk, William Keighley, Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang, W. S. Van Dyke, Wesley Ruggles T T T • • • A special feature page article with illustrations by Terry Ramsaye on Progress of the Cinema Art and a special article that will go big wherever folks are interested in film production— Steps in Movie Making, which will run in six instalments in the papers and then Interviews with Stars and a Glossary of Studio Slang, something folks will cut out and keep, it's that interesting ▼ T T • • • NOW WE work up to the big crescendo as we bring in the Main Attraction on the show "The Chief Execs Air Their Views" Adolph Zukor, Joe Schenck, Leo Spitz, W. Ray Johnston (h'w'y'r, Ray, ya got in at last, eh, kid?), Murray Silverstone, Harry Warner, Nick Schenck, Jack Conn, Darryl Zanuck, Jack Warner, Harry Cohn, William Le Baron, Scott Dunlap, Pandro Herman anything following these Brilliant Names would be superfluous and perfuming the rose, as an intelligent guy like you can see some day YOU may be in That List and as the centuries roll by before you are, this Publicity Pressbook will stand as the Last Word in Film Biz Ballyhoo oh, we dam near overlooked some BIG By-Lines, and wouldn't we of ketched hell they aTe Will Hays, Frank Capra, Walt Disney, Busby Berkley, Herbert Stothart, Julian Johnson, the Duke of Kent a royal ending to a Regal Subject « « « » » » GOV'T FILM MAY HAVE UNEMP'MENT THEME (Continued from Page 1) gency Council and other agencies, including the WPA, PWA and RFC, was declared here over the week-end. Production, it is reported, will be a sequel to "The Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River," and its preparation and direction will be allocated to Pare Lorenz who popularized the ideas of soil conservation and flood control in these pictures. If undertaken, the new feature film will be made under the banner of the National Emergency Council, which was slated for extinction at the end of the last fiscal year until the President decided to revive it as an agency for the co-ordination of emergency activities and obtained a new appropriation from Congress to keep it in operation. "Dinty" Moore to Oklahoma City As Standard Manager (Continued from Page 1) be general manager of Standard Theaters Corp. Zeb Epstein has been appointed acting manager to replace him. At a farewell dinner for Moore at the Hotel Lincoln, the following attended: Joseph Bernhard, Clayton Bond, Harry Goldberg, Mort Blumenstock, Willard Patterson, Leonard Schlesinger, E. E. Hinchey, L. J. Kaufman, Jules Levey, Stewart McDonald, Frank Marshall, Frank Gates, Harry Rosenquest, Herman Maier, Ray Hewlett Frank Phelps, I. Levenson, H. Kaplowitz, Phil Abrahams, Jim Brennan, Nat D. Fellman, Lee Blumberg, Al Schwalberg, Don Sherwood, Jack Davies, Mike Ingalls, Phil Solomon, Ben Kalmenson, Zeb Epstein, Marty Bennett, Saul Immerman, Abel Vigard, Carl Leserman, Saul Berk, J. V. Peppe, J. Roberts, Harold Rodner, Al Wilson, Harry Levine, Sy Devore, Marty Mullen, Irving Windisch, Rudy Weiss, Harry Mayer, Harry Garfein, Frank Cahill, Barney Klawans, Harry Kalmine and A. Sachson. Lincoln, Chicago, Sold Chicago — The Lincoln theater, seating 1200, has been sold to the Van Nomikos circuit. The house will be modernized and operated by the Rex Theater Co., a subsidiary. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthday: AUGUST 29 ,R. M. Savini Hanah Kass