The Film Daily (1939)

"3$ DAILY Monday, March 13, 1935' BANK NIGHT TICKET TAX LOOMS IN IOWA Des Moines, la. — A bill in the Iowa legislature to legalize Bank Night has been recommended for passage and another measure to outlaw Bank Night has been killed. The ways and means committee of the Iowa House recommended passage of the bill licensing Bank Night and other chance games. The bill assesses a 10-cent tax on every ticket sold on days when patrons are participating in Bank Night. The tax must be paid by exhibs. and not patrons. Sponsors of the proposal hope to garner votes for it by providing that the $3,000,000 thus raised shall go to old age assistance. All tickets on chance games, even church benefits, would be required to pay the 10-cent tax. The House police regulations committee killed a bill outlawing Bank Night by recommending indefinite postponement. The proposal would have made illegal all chance games by redefining the state lottery laws. Representative Heffner, sponsor of the "outlaw" bill, said he would not oppose the committee's action. The bill legalizing Bank Night now goes to the powerful House steering committee, which must pass on it favorably before it is brought on the floor for action. RKO Hearing Today Centers On Confirming Bill to Board Scheduled hearing on the RKO reorg. is certain to be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Federal Court, according to opinion expressed on the week-end by sources close to the proceedings. It was added confirmation of the plan cannot come until the hearing has been held. Today's session is expected to center chiefly on the substitution of Raymond Bill on the new RKO company's board for Ferdinand Eberstadt. Post is for representation of the independent interests holding RKO securities. Proponents formally notified Judge Bondy on Thursday that Bill is approved. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthday: MARCH 13 Charles L. Glett ALCNG THE with PHIL M. DALYi • • • IN OUR capacity as official reporter of the screen colony's '"littlest known" social organization the Pamperers Club we now make our annual report we were unanimously elected as the official reporter because we have never been to Hollywood never attended any meeting of the Club and so the charter members thought we were the ideal reporter for such an exclusive organization ▼ ▼ T • • • WE ARE glad to report that the Club after three years is still actively pursuing its program of doing nothing recently Si Seadler of M-G-M arrived for his annual visit it seems that three years ago Si and M. Lincoln Shuster who dabbles in book publications, organized the Pamperers Club at Lucien Hubbard's B-Bar-H Ranch near Palm Springs the one Club rule is to do nothing that requires any exertion whatsoever when a member is confronted with any proposition entailing labor of any sort, he must give within three days his definite answer which can be "maybe," "perhaps," or just a nod of the head, which is quickly turned to a shake meaning "no" charter members include some of the most celebrated do-nothings in Hollywood, who have in their organization people who do all the work, so they don't have to bother ▼ ▼ T • O • THIS YEAR Si Seadler arrived on schedule, but Schustei was detained in New York but true to the tradition of the Pamperers, Schuster sent Seadler a package it contained two dozen postcards, all self-addressed to Schuster, and each with a message purportedly written by Seadler all Si had to do was send for a boy to drop one in the mailbox daily to Schuster but Mister Seadler realized he would be breaking the Club's rule of non-exertion by sending for the boy so he returned to his siesta, using the postcards for a pillow this item will serve notice to Schuster that his trick to get Seadler to break his Club oath by doing something came to naught ...... T T T • • • FLIP slogan used by Francis Deering at Loeio's State in Houston, to plug a "breakfast matinee" to open M-G-M's "Let Freedom Ring" the slogan goes: "Oh, girls, can you see by the dawn's early light?" the business girls are invited to have breakfast on Nelson Eddy coffee and doughnuts ... • BIG time was had by all at the Warner Club annual dance and supper at the Waldorf-Astoria on Saturday nite overflow crowd, with all the Warner conventioneers in town T T T • • • CELEBRATING his 20th anniversary in the film biz today Sam Cohen, head of United Artists' foreign publicity dep't Sam was hired on March 13, 1919, as an assistant shipping clerk for Paramount Morris Wilcox, then Paramount office manager and now head of personnel at UA, was the man who hired him according to Sam this office was unable to reach Wilcox to permit him to affirm or deny the accusation ▼ T T • • • FIRST offenders who appear before Judge J. Weiner of the City Court of New Haven this week will receive a novel sentence they will be ordered to see Columbia's "First Offenders" showing at the College Theater in that city the feature was adapted from a radio series by the same name, dramatized from County Jail records by Sheriff Slavin, who will be present at the premiere 20TH-F0X SALES MEET WILL CALL TOP EXECS Attendance at the 20th-Fox na tional sales convention, which wil be held in Chicago at the Congres Hotel March 30-31 and Apr j-wil be larger than any convention* h\ re cent years. Attending from the New Yorl offices will be Sidney R. Kent, prexy who speaks on Apr. 1; Hermai Wobber, general manager of distri bution, who will preside, Spyro Skouras, National Theaters head and Felix A. Jenkins, William Suss man, William C. Gehring and Wil liam J. Kupper, division managers William J. Clark, short subject sales manager, Martin Moskowitz Jack Sichelman, Edwin H. Collins Jack Bloom, Clarence A. Hill, Theo dore A. Shaw, and Harry Mersa; will attend from the home offic sales department. Movietone News will be represent ed by Truman Talley, Edmund Reel* Vyvyan Donner, Lowell Thomas Lew Lehr and Ed Thorgersen. Rog er Ferri, editor of New Dynamc the company's domestic house orgar I. Lincer, traffic manager, Miss E G. Baker, censorship departmenl and Percy Heiliger, legal depart ment, will also attend. Charles E. McCarthy, director o advertising and publicity, Arc Reeve, advertising manager, Rod ney Bush, Christy Wilbert and Moi ris Kinzler will go from the adver tising and publicity department. Th adsales department will be repre sented by Lee Balsly, national mar ager, Edward Hollander, Jerry Nc vat, Don Reed and W. W. Caldwel Paul Terry, producer of Terrytoons and Harvey Day, his business mar ager, will attend. Walter J. Hutchinson, director o foreign distribution, Irving A. Maai his assistant, Leslie F. Whalen, edi tor of the company's foreign hous organ, Clay V. Hake, managing di rector of Australia, Arthur Ruscics manager of Chile, and Arthur C Doyle, manager of Japan, will at tend from the foreign department. Studio contingent has not bee I announced as yet. Billboard Bill Stalled Oklahoma City — Action on a anti-billboard measure has been de f erred by the House roads an highways committee after labo representatives testified it woul harm 3,000 skilled workers in th billboard business. I wedding bells;: Miami — Jack Mercer, who speak for Popeye the Sailor in film cai toons, and Margie Hines, wb speaks the words for Olive Oy were married some 10 days ago i Fort Lauderdale, it was announce on the week-end by the Fleische Studios, where the animated film are produced.