The Film Daily (1938)

Wk DAILY Friday, September 23, 193£| ALLIED, ITOA JOINING FOR GAMES DEFENSE (Continued from Page It represented by David Weinstock at an Allied meeting at the Hotel Astor. It was asserted that the SPC allegedly hoped to cash in on the publicity accorded the James Hines trial in its efforts to abolish money games. A course of action in fighting the "crusade" will be left up; to the joint decisions of counsels for both organizations. Max A. Cohen, head of the New York Allied unit, in describing reported unethical trade practices in the state, told the members that the organziation intended to battle against these so-called oppressions "if it takes every cent in the treasury." Harry Kosch, attorney for the New York group, asked that all independents prepare complaints so that they can be submitted to the Government for use in the anti-trust suit against the major companies. He said that the Government does not intend to wait until the case comes to trial before relief can be obtained, indicating that a tenir porary injunction might give the desired relief prior to a possible permanent injunction. Other discussions centered on theater divorcement, adverse propaganda, prospective state legislative measures, and radio compettiion. Paul Krumanacker to Head Warners' Albany Exchange (Continued from Page 1) Warners, effective Sept. 26, replacing Norman Ayers. Robert Dunbar, West Virginia salesman for Warners, will succeed Krumanacker here. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthday: SEPTEMBER 23 Albert Lewin M. van Traag SEPTEMBER 24 A. L. Rockett Winfield R. Sheehan Julia Faye Harvey B. Day 3en Blake SEPTEMBER 25 Robert Wyler Fay Wray Aibert Kaufman Paul Gulick Arthur James Al Cooke 4LCNG THE with PHIL At. DALY T T T © 9 0 PARADES in celebration of Motion Pictures' Greatest Year have been held up by inclement weather around New York they were scheduled by community groups one for upper Broadway, another for the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, and the third in Bensonhurst and Borough Park, Brooklyn ▼ T T • • • THE UPPER Broadway parade will be held tonite and will feature the NVA Legion Post band, representatives from the police, fire and sanitation departments a fleet of decorated automobiles and floats from the participating theaters, and a division of 300 ushers in uniform Eric Van Dyke is chairman of the committee in charge of the Upper Broadway drive assisted by Monty Salmon, Millard Ochs, Rudolph Kramer, James Dunn and Joseph Salmon participating theaters include Loew's 83rd Street, Beacon, Yorktown, Midtown, RKO 81st Street, Riverside. Nemo, Schuyler, Edison, Symphony, Carlton and Olympia T T ▼ • • • THEATER Managers in the Fordham, Highbridge and University Heights sections will stage a huge parade tomorrow along the Grand Concourse, starting at 11 a.m the lineup includes over 2,000 marchers, numerous floats, the V.F.W. Post 95 band the drum and bugle corps of the American Patrol, Bronx Division the Mt. Carmel Naval Cadets, Public School 71 band and numerous others The Bensonhurst and Borough Park parades will also be staged in Brooklyn tomorrow, with numerous bands and floats, and the co-operation of local business men T ▼ T • • • MARKING the site of the first showing of a movie in a public theater a tablet will be unveiled on Oct. 4th on the 34th Street side of Macy's department store under the auspices of Motion Pictures' Greatest Year with appropriate ceremonies attended by leading film officials and stars, representatives of the Edison family and the Edison Foundation ▼ V T • • • THE TABLET will read: "At this site on the night of April 23, 1896 at Koster & Bial's Music Ball, Thomas A. Edison's Motion Pictures were projected" Howard Diefz will be master of ceremonies speeches of dedication will be made by Percy Strauss for the dep't store, and Will Hays for the industry ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • SURVEYING the past year as far as the short subject goes Fred C. Quimby, General Manager of the M-G-M shorts dep't. notes the intensive effort of the company to build the short up to a dignified place on the program and is entirely satisfied that the effort has not been in vain as attested, --by the reaction of the nation's critics for our forthcoming Shorts Subjects Annual, this expert lines up comments form the firstline movie commentators of the important newspapers from coast to coast after perusing these comments we go+hrr that the experts are convinced that the only thing that has been wrong with the short subject is that it has never been given the careful treatment that is its due. . . .that is, till M-G-M started their policy of building shorts with the same efficiency as they place behind their features Society note: Paramount is tossing a cocktail party in the Le Perroquet suite of the Waldorf-Astoria at 5 o'clock this afternoon in honor of Ellen Drew and Basil Rathbone who appear in "If I Were King." $2,500,000 STORM LOSS TO THEATERS « « « » » » (Continued from Page 1) perts, because few exhibition interests affected carry hurricane or flood policies. Some 300 film houses in tb/^ ',ve boroughs and Long Island a'io'ne were forced to curtail their programs, with many houses shutting down entirely from about 3:30 p.m. until the end of the day. In the Bronx, houses were subjected to a long delay through power failure of the a.c. current supply, and a considerable number were damaged by water. The Fordham, Midtown and Colonial theaters of RKO weref dark for almost two hours. Parts of Brooklyn suffered heavily, but New York's Great White Way experienced only minor damage, the1 most costly item, aside from generally ruined grosses, be | ing the destruction of the new mar quee on the Apollo Theater in East 42nd st. But in Long Island, it was a different and tragic story. There the storm took a huge toll from exhibition interests, the :climax of which was the complete destruction of Prudential Playhouses' Greenport (L. I.) Theater, representing a loss, according to Joseph M. Seider, circuit's head, of $200,000. At 3 p.m. the management dismissed the audience, and two hours later, at the storm's height, the rear wall of the theater fell, making the rest of the structure easy prey. Long Island's South shore towns were severely battered, pix houses being darkened and flooded, plus undergoing damage, and the midisland and North shore were also subjected to losses. All but a few of the New Haven, Conn, nabes closed when power failed, although current was uninterrupted in the downtown houses. Latter, however, clocked virtually no business. The skylight of the Loew-Poli roof was blown off and crashed in the street, while display cases in the lobby and about the box office at the Loew-College were also smashed by the power of the wind. Loew's received the report that the cellar of the Loew-Palace in Meriden, Conn., was flooded with seven feet of water. Bulletins from Hartford did not indicate any extensive damage to theaters, although business dropped out of sight. Survey in Providence disclosed I that Loew and Fay houses were j water-damaged, as was RKO's Al bee, in which the entire orchestra floor was inundated. Boston houses came out of the j super-gale with virtually no scars, it is reported, but business was ; down. New York film exchanges and those in the New England territory declared that shipment of films to some localities was facing difficulties because of tie-ups of roads and transportation lines.