The Film Daily (1939)

= uesday, January 17, 1939 IK iXHIBS. IN 5 STATES AID REFUGEE RELIEF utinued from Fane 1) rial chairman, a committee com»osed of A. Berenson, Gretna, exlih^cr, as Louisiana chairman, Ar h^™Lehman, of Jackson, Missisippi, as Mississippi chairman, and Louis Rosen, New Orleans attorney, treasurer, has enlisted the co■peration of every theater in the wo states and has received voluniary requests from theaters in Floida and Alabama to participate. The theaters plan to exhibit no pecial bills on the benefit day, runting the regular show, and turning iver all receipts without deductions "or operating costs or otherwise, to he committee. Tickets bought in advance to be ised Jan. 26 will cost the purchasers he top price of the individual theiter, while tickets bought the day « the performance will sell for the ndinary admission price. For in■tance, an advance ticket for a first ■lass theater in New Orleans will . ost 41c while tickets purchased Jan. tfi will cost 26c. fri-States Backs Drive for Nazi Refugee Relief Oxford, Miss.— MPTO of Arkan;as, Mississippi and Tennessee is ining up behind the Jan. 26 observance of Nazi Refugee Funds Day, •insuring a further extension of the 4tope of the move. Prexy R. X. Williams in a letter (i Tri-States members says: "Those of you who do not have •Sunday shows could take the matter up with your local authorities »nd secure their permission to opjrate shows on the following Sunday afternoon, Jan. 29 at any time not conflicting with the churches. This will eliminate your losing a ;how day. It may be that some of he exchanges will furnish a featilre ind short without any charge. If lot, the rental could be deducted Yom your receipts." Among those co-operating-, accordng to Williams, are: Saenger Theaters, Inc., Sudekum Circuit. Paranount-Richards Theaters, Inc., Jnited Theaters, Inc., Southern Amusement Company, Dixie Theaters Corp., Malco Theaters, Inc., and Saenger, Lightman Theaters, 'nc. Would Ban Pass Issuance to Georgia's Legislators Atlanta — Rep. Ed Wohlwender, of •Muscogee County, has introduced a neasure in the Georgia General Assembly making it a misdemeanor for any theater owner to offer a pass :o a member of the legislature while t is in session. Wohlwender's con:ention is that such passes are "subversive" if they do not actually constitute indirect bribery. 46 Pix Shooting West Coast Bur., THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Forty-six pictures are in production with M-G-M and Paramount heading the list with eight each. Columbia and Universal, five each. Warners and Republic, tour each. 20th Century-Fox and RKO, three each. Monogram, two. Coldwyn, Roach. Fine Arts and Arcadia are making one each. North Dakota Divorcement Law 'Unconstitutional' — Para. (.Continued from Page 1) torneys for Paramount, Minnesota Amusement Co., and American Amusement Co. declared in a statement to the U. S. Supreme Court n jurisdiction argument. George W. Thorp and Judge Thomas D. Thacher filed the statement for Paramount and its two subsidiaries. They stated the case is within the jurisdiction of the high court under sections 266 and 238 of the judicial code, as amended, which provides for a direct review by the Supreme Court of an interlocutory of final judgment or decree of a district court composed of three judges in a suit brought to enjoin the enforcement, operation or execution of a statute of a state. The statement declared that the North Dakota law violates the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution, the commerce clause of the Constitution and the copyright laws. Producers to Nominate Five for Thalberg Award West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood— Major change by rules committee on Academy awards is that President Frank Capra is to appoint a nominating committee of 12 producers who will name 5 nominees for the Irving G. Thalberg award for most consistent high quality of production achievement by an individual producer. From this list of 5, the senior members of Screen Actors Guild, members of Screen Writers and Directors Guilds, producers and technicians will select the winning producer. The rules committee also is providing awards for best scoring and best original score. The Academy will open the nominations for the best picture, performance, story and other factors on Jan. 26. The annual dinner at which the awards are made probably will be held on March 9. 'ffU DAILY Double "Frankenstein" Prints The biggest box-office business in the history of horror pictures has been recorded by "Son of Frankenstein" in key city openings spanning the country, it was stated yesterday at the Universal home office. With holdovers chalked up in every date and rush bookings being received by the hundreds, the company has placed orders for twice as many prints as originally ordered. «REVI€UJS» "Arrest Bulldog Drummond" with John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive Paramount 57 Mins. AVERAGE BULLDOG DRUMMOND FILM WILL HOLD INTEREST OF THE MYSTERY ADDICTS. Bulldog Drummond in the person of John Howard again gets in the hair of Scotland Yard in this continuation of the adventures of "Sapper's" hero, and is twice arrested on a charge of murder for being discovered with the corpse on each occasion. But Colonel Neilson (H. B. Warner) of the Yard knows that Howard would not kill anybody and frees him. In this case, however, the murdered man is Howard's friend, Leonard Mudie, discoverer of a ray that will detonate explosives at a distance of half a mile. A mysterious message from Mudie sends Howard and Reginald Denny to Mudie's apartment the night of Howard's bachelor dinner the evening before he is to be married (for the fifth or sixth time) to Heather Angel, his long-suffering fiancee. Howard sets out to discover the murderer of his friend, and mixes with an espionage agent and a woman aide. Warned that if he doesn't quit his investigations someone dear to him will be harmed, Howard lets Heather Angel leave alone on the voyage around the world that was to have been their honeymoon trip. At the dock to wave farewell to her, he discovers that the murderer is aboard. Warner decides to let Howard work with the police and gives him a commission to discover the man who murdered Mudie and stole his explosive ray machine. Howard, Denny and Clive, the inimitable man-servant, fly after the ship and after some thrilling incidents on the island of St. Arthur, turn the murderer over to the police. Howard gives his usual suave and debonnaire performance. Miss Angel is sweetly unresentful as the girl of the many postponed weddings, and Denny, Clive and Warner contribute some comedy bits. The film will hold Mie interest of the "Sapper" fans and the mystery addicts, being capably directed and acted. CAST: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive, Jean Fenwick, Zeffie Tilbury, George Zucco, Leonard Mudie, Evan Thomas, Clyde Cook, George Regas, Neil Fitzgerald, Claud Allister, John Sutton, Ferdinand Munier, John Rogers, Frank Baker and John Davidson. CREDITS: Producer, Adolph Zukor; Director, James Hogan; Author, "Sapper" (H. C. McNeile); Screenplay by Stuart Palmer; Art Directors, Hans Dreier and Franz Bachelin; Cameraman, Ted Tetzlaff, ASC; Editor, Stewart Gilmore. DIRECTION, Good. 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