The Film Daily (1939)

&k DAILY Monday, July 10, 1939 Vol. 76, No. 5 Mon., July 10, 1939 10 Cents JOHN W. AL1COATE : : : : Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU CHESTER B. BAHN : : General Manager : : : Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alienate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary -Treasurer; Entered as second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, 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 FfLM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable Address: Filtnday, 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. Paris— P. A. Harle, La Cinematograplu'e Francaise, 29 Rue Marsoulan (12). Mexico City — Marco-Aurelio Galindo, Depto. 19, 5A, Dr. Lucio No. 102, Mexico, D.F. Buenos Aires — Chas. de Cruz, Ileraldo Del Cinematografista, Corrientes 130^. m m nnnnci al NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (QUOTATIONS AS OF FRIDAY) Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat Col. Picts. Vtc. (21/2%) 87/8 87/8 87/8+ l/4 Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind 1% 1 1/4 1 1/4 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd 10 9Vi 9 V2 — 1/2 Eastman Kodak 164 1633/4 ^63% — 1/4 do pfd 1741/s 174 174 — 1 Cen. Th. Eq 11 1/4 11V4 11 1/4 + % Loew's, Inc 41 1/4 41 1/4 41 1/4 — 1/4 do pfd Paramount 8V2 8% 8% — 1/4 Paramount 1st pfd Paramount 2nd pfd.. 97/8 97/8 97/8 + % Pathe Film 9V4 9'/4 91/4 — 1/4 RKO 1% 1% 1% + Vs 20th Cent.-Fox 187/8 183/4 18% — Vs 20th Cent.-Fox pfd. 293/4 293/4 293/4 — 1/4 Univ. Picts. pfd Warner Bros 41/4 4V8 *Vi — Vs do pfd 45 45 45 — 1 Vs NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith B. F. ref. 6s 46 Loew's deb. 3 Vis 46.103 103 103 + l/2 Par. B'way 3s55 50 50 50 Par. Picts. 6s 55 100 3/16 100 3/16 100 3/16—1/16 Par. Picts. cv. 3Vis47 RKO 6s41 Warner Bros.' cv. 6s39 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 91 90 91 -f 1% NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 1 1/2 1 1/2 1 Vi Sonofone Corp Technicolor 14% 14% 147/8 — l/8 Trans-Lux Universal Corp. vtc Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Pathe Film 7 pfd 100 103 Fox Thea. Office Bldg. 1st '46 3'/2 5 Loew's Thea. Realty 6s 1st '47 99 Vi 101 1/4 Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45... 68 70 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 653/8 675/8 SAFETY LLOYDS FILM STORAGE CORP. Storage by Reel or Vault 729 Seventh Ave. New York City BRyant 9-5600 SECURITY ■ The Broadway Parade B Picture and Distributor Theater Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — 9th week Astor Daughters Courageous (Warner Bros, pictures) — 3rd week Strand Man About Town (Paramount Pictures) — 2nd week Paramount Bachelor Mother (RKO Radio Pictures)— 2nd week Music Hall Second Fiddle (20th Century-Fox) — 2nd week Roxy Hell's Kitchen (Warner Bros. Pictures) — 2nd week Globe Five Came Back (RKO Radio Pictures) Rialto Mickey, the Kid (Republic Pictures) Criterion On Borrowed Time (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Capitol Western Caravan (Columbia Pictures) Central Juarez (Warner Bros. Pictures) (a-b) Palace The Zero Hour (Republic Pictures) (a) Falace ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURES ♦ Lenin in 1918 (Amkino) — 3rd week Cameo Alexander Nevsky (Amkino) — 5th week (b-d) World Crisis (Mayer & Burstyn) — 4th week (b-d) World Song of Youth (Amkino) — 3rd week (b-d) World ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Bulldog Drummond's Bride (Paramount Pictures) — July 13 Criterion The Magnificent Fraud (Paramount Pictures) — July 19 Paramount They Shall Have Music (United Artists-Coldwyn)— July 27 Rivoli The Man in the Iron Mask (United Artists-Small) (c) Music Hall Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (c) Capitol The Indianapolis Speedway (Warner Bros. Pictures) (c) Strand The Saint in London ( RKO Radio Pictures) (c) Rialto Wanted by Scotland Yard (Monogram Pictures) (c) ; Globe The Mikado (Universal Pictures) — July 12 (a-b) Palace News is Made at Night (20fh Century-Fox)— July 12 (a) Palace (a) Dual bil (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill, (d) Triple bill. AFL Mediation of AFA Row Spurned by AAAA's Board AAAA's international board, meeting Friday, rejected suggestion by prexy William Green of the A F of L that it submit its alleged grievances against the AFA to an impartial mediation board to be selected from the A F of L Executive Council. With the trial of the AFA set to open today in Room 313 of the Bar Ass'n Bldg., specific charges were leveled at the organization by Paul Turner, AAAA counsel, in a communication to the actors' union following its request for a bill of particulars. At the same time, the AFA submitted its answer to the charges, reiterated it would not accept the trial verdict, and said it was willing to accept any impartial body as arbiter. Hoblitzelle Escorting Potential Texas Find" West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Karl Hoblitzelle, president of Interstate, is here with Mike O'Daniel, son of Texas' Governor, who is being screen tested by a major. Asks Dionne Suit Ousting North Bay, Ont.— Dr. Allan Ray Dafoe at the week-end asked Judge J. A. S. Plouffe to dismiss action brought by Oliva Dionne seeking a court order to compel Dr. Dafoe to produce alleged Quints' contracts with 20th Century-Fox, Pathe, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Dafoe's attorney stated that all contracts made by Dafoe were passed on or rejected by Percy Wilson, Quints' special guardian. Ray Long-R. R. Smith Corp. Suit vs. 20th-Fox Settled Suit against 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Irvin S. Cobb brought by the late Ray Long, and R. R. Smith Corp., was settled and discontinued under a stipulation filed in Federal Court on Friday. Terms of the settlement were not available. Defendants had been named on a charge that the film "Judge Priest" used as its plot a story "A Tree Full of Hoot Owls," and that Cobb in 1932 had sold this story to the plaintiff in a collection called "Down Yonder With Judge Priest and Irvin S. Cobb." Plaintiffs contended that the motion picture rights of the story had been sold with publication rights. Crites' Patent Suit vs. Warners et al, Dismissed 2 Weeks for Fashion Short The newest release in the Vyvyan Donner "Fashion Forecasts" series produced by Movietone News started a two-week run at the Roxy Friday. Federal Judge Mortimer W. Byers on Friday dismissed the suit brought by Vergil C. Crites against Albert A. Radtke, Radtke Patents Corp., Warner Brothers Pictures Corp., Leonard Day, Thomas J. Martin, and United Research Corp. in an opinion which ruled that charges of patent infringement were unfounded. Defendant Radtke had been employed by the plaintiff in 1917 and the suit charged that he and the other defendants had infringed a patent called "Methods of and Means for Optically Reproducing Sound." Injunction, accounting and damages had been sought. FOR SALE Two Victor model 24B 16 mm. SoundOn-Film Projectors with Auditorium speakers, converter and accessories. Excellent value for Roadshow operator. E. J. BARNES 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York City Circle 6-1488 COfflMG ADD GOinG JOSEPH M. SCHENCK, board chairman of 20th-Fox, flew to the Coast yesterday via TWA. CHARLES GLETT, vice-prexy of Eastern Service Studios, flew to the Coast Saturday via the American airliner Mercury. IRVING BERLIN flew to the Co-* yesterday via TWA. MICHAEL SHATHIN, Warner > ager in Japan, leaves for the Coast today after home office conferences en route to Tokio. MYRNA LOY and her husband, ARTHUR HORNBLOW, JR., arrive from England today on the Normandie. MARY PICKFORD, BUDDY ROGERS, HERBERT WILCOX, British producer, MRS. GILBERT MILLER and WILLIAM SAROYAN are other arrivals on the Normandie. BURGESS MEREDITH left at the week-end for the Coast to appear in a picture. ELSA LANCHESTER arrives from Europe today on the Normandie and will proceed to Hollywood where her husband, Charles Laughton, is working in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." AL DAFF, Universal foreign exec, left New York at the week-end and will return to the home office about July 20. ANDY DEVINE and his wife, after a week in New York, are spending a few days in Chicago en route back to the Coast. Y. FRANK FREEMAN, JR., son of Para.'s viceprexy in charge of studio operations, visited the home office en route to Hollywood from Atlanta. MAY ROBSON, veteran stage and screen player, leaves for Hollywood tomorrow after two weeks' vacation in New York. HAL B. WALLIS, associate exec, in charge of production at the Warner studios, and his wife, LOUISE FAZENDA, return from Europe today on the Normandie, following an extensive tour abroad. VINCENT McFAUL of Buffalo Theater, Inc., HARRY NACE of Phoenix, and JEROME WINSBERG of the Lakeside Theater, Chicago, were visitors at Paramount's World's Fair headquarters. BERT REISMAN, RKO manager in Peru, and MRS. REISMAN were passengers sailing Saturday on the Grace liner Santa Rita for South America. WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES, production designer on "Gone With the Wind," left the Coast on Friday for New York from where he sails on Wednesday for London to direct trick and magic sequences for Alexander Korda's "Thief of Bagdad." HENRY GORDON, Paramount manager in Central America, with headquarters at Ancon, has arrived in New York by plane after spending several weeks in Mexico City. He will be here for some weeks. BRUCE CABOT has returned to the Towers of the Waldorf-Astoria after spending a week in Philadelphia. Out of town visitors recently seen at RKO's World's Fair lounge for exhibs. include MR. and MRS. ROY E. HARROLD and daughters of Princess Castle Theaters, Rushville, Ind., stopping at the McAlpin; M. KENNEDY of the Kenworthy Theater, Moscow, Ida., stopping at the Maurice; CLEMENTI LOCOCO, Cran Teatro Opera, Buenos Aires, and GUY P. MORGAN, UA representative at Buenos Aires, both guests at the Maurice. THE THEATRE Walter inchell "A MUST, GO ENJOY IT"-? 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