The Film Daily (1940)

Ifflft Tuesday, January 2, 1940 ( \ Vol. 77, No. 1 Tues., Ja(i. 2, 1940 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: 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. Alicoate, 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 FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD, Calif.— 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 Cinematographie Francaise, 29 Rue Marsoulan (12). MEXICO CITY — Marco-Aurelio Galindo, Av. Coyoacan No. 100B, Mexico, D. F. BUENOS AIRES— Chas de Cruz, Heraldo Del Cinematografista, Corrientes 1309. m, « FinnnciDL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (Quotations as of Saturday, Dec. 30) Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 10V4 10 Vi 10y4 + Vs Col. Picts. vtc. (2'/2%) 6% 6% 6Vz — Vs Columbia Picts. pfd.. I8V2 I8V2 I8V2 + Vi Con. Fm. Ind 1 1 1 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 8% 8% 83,4 + % East. Kodak 167 166% 166% — % do pfd Cen. Th. Eq 12'/2 12% 12y2 + 'A Loew's, Inc 35% 35'/2 35% + 1/4 do pfd .Paramount 7% 7 1/2 7% + % Paramount 1st pfd... 85 Vi 85/2 85/2 + 1 Paramount 2nd pfd. 9V4 9 9 Pathe Film 10% 10 10 — % RKO l'/4 IV4 1V4— Vs 20th Cent.-Fox . ... 12% 11% 12 — % 20th Cent.-Fox pfd Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 3% 3'/2 3% do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith B. F. ref. 6s46 68 1/4 68'/4 68V4 + 1/4 Loew's deb. 3'/2s46 . 102'/4 102% 1021/4 + V4 Par. B'way 3s55 48 48 48 + l/2 Par. Picts. 6s55 Par. Picts. cv. 3%s47 RKO 6s41 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 843/8 843/8 843/8 + % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts Sonotone Corp Technicolor 121/2 12l/2 12'/2 — % Trans-Lux 1 % 1% 1% Universal Corp. vtc Universal Picts 8% 85/8 8% — % N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER MARKET Bid Asked Pathe 7 Film pfd 100'/2 104 Fox Thea. Office Bldg. 1st '46 Loew's Thea. Realty 6s 1st '47 Met. Playhouse. Inc., 2nd deb. *45. . 70 72 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 64l/4 66'/4 SAFETY LLOYDS FILM STORAGE CORP. Storage by Reel or Vault 729 Seventh Ave. New York City BRyant 9-5600 SECURITY is The Broadway Parade H Picture and Distributor Theater Cone With the Wind (Meiro-Coldwyn-Mayer-Selznick) — 3rd week Capitol Gulliver's Travels (Paramount Pictures-Fleischer) — 2nd week Paramount Four Wives (Warner Bros. Pictures) — 2nd week Strand The Light that Failed (Paramount Pictures) — 2nd week Rivoli The Hunchback of Notre Dame (RKO Radio Pictures) Music Hall Night of Nights ( Paramount Pictures) Criterion Swanee Rive^j^^th Century-Fox) ..Roxy The Big Gitt^Bniversal Pictures) Globe Marshal of Mesa City (RKO Radio Pictures) (a) Central North Sea Patrol (Principal Pictures) (a) Central We Are Not Alone (Warner Bros. Pictures) (a-b) Palace Barricade (20th Century-Fox) (a) Palace ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUN ♦ Gone With the Wind (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Selznick) — 3rd week Astor ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURES ♦ Harvest (French Cinema Center) — 14th week World Entente Cordiale (Concord Films) — 2nd week (d) 55th St. Playhouse Entente Cordiale (Concord Films) — 2nd week (d) 5th Ave. Playhouse Katia (Mayer-Burstyn) — 2nd week Little Carnegie Last Desire (Transatlantic Films) — 2nd week Belmont Tevya (Maymon Films) — 2nd week Continental Re di Dinari (Esperia Films) — 2nd week Cinecitta SOS Mediterranean (Vedis Films) Cameo Frun Tilhanda (Servant Girls) (Scandinavian Talking Pictures) 48th St. Theater That They May Live (Mayer & Burstyn) Rialto ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (M-G-M) — Jan. 4 Criterion Remember the Night (Paramount Pictures) — Jan. 10 Paramount Invisible Stripes (Warner Bros. Pictues) — Jan. 11 Strand Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Warner Bros) — Jan. 4 (a-b) Palace High School (20th Century-Fox) — Jan. 4 (a) Palace I Condottieri (Esperia Films) — Jan. 23 Cinecitta Kalle pa Spangen (Charlie the Inn-keeper) (Scand. Talk. Pictures) — Jan. 26 48th St. Theater (a) Dual bill. (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill. (d) Dual run. Charles Laughton on Tour of Four Southern Cities Charles Laughton leaves this afternoon on a Southern tour of personal appearances in conjunction with "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Current dates include the Fox, Atlanta, tomorrow; Malco, Memphis, Friday; RKO Orpheum, New Orleans, Saturday, and the Majestic, Houston, next Monday. At the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Laughton will be a guest at the Twelfth Night Revelers ball, the opening event of the social season. Critics from various cities will interview Laughton en route. Sociological Magazine to Devote Jan. Issue to Pix Forthcoming January issue of The Journal of Educational Sociology will be entirely devoted to the subject, "Some Educational Aspects of Motion Pictures," under the issueeditorship of Dr. Frederick M. Thrasher of New York University. Six articles by various authorities, including that written by Dr. Thrasher under the heading of "Education Versus Censorship," will make up the volume. Darmour to Make Three More Columbia Serials West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Larry Darmour has been signed by Columbia to make three more serials during the year, in addition to his Jack Holts for Columbia. Darmour has purchased the rights to the cartoon strip, "Terry and the Pirates," by Milton Caniff. Para.'s Release Schedule For 5 Months is Complete Paramount will release 22 pictures during the next five months, Neil Agnew, vice-president in charge of sales, announced over the week-end. Of the 22, Agnew said, all but two are completed, indicating an enviable position for the company in getting an early start on the 1940-41 program. Pictures to be released this month include "Emergency Squad," "Geronimo," "Santa Fe Marshal," and "Remember the Night." Release dates through May 31 have been definitely set, with Jack Benny's "Buck Benny Rides Again" winding up the five-month period of pictures. $300,000 De Luxe Theater Planned for Baton Rouge Baton Rouge, La. — Louisiana's state capital will have a new deluxer ready for next Labor Day as A. J. (Slim) Higgenbotham announced construction of a 2,200 seater here. The house, to be named the Hart, in honor of a relative, will cost, according to official announcements $300,000. It is to be constructed by Higgenbotham's Columbia Amusement Co., leased by Saenger Theaters Corp., and operated by Paramount-Richards. ROBERT T. KANE, British production chief for 20th-Fox, is in Hollywood. CLIFF REID, RKO Radio associate producer, arrived in New York on Friday from the Coast. DON AMECHE returned to Hollywood at the week-end from New York. WILLIAM LA VARRE, accompanied his wife and daughter, sailed from New YorV. on Friday for Venezuela. AL JOLSON is scheduled to leave New York next week-end for the Coast. P. E. FURBER, president of Trans-Lux Corp., sailed from New York last Friday for South America, accompanied by his wife. NANCY KELLY, who has been visiting New York, plans to leave late this week for Hollywood. THE THREE STOOCES, film comics, leave Hollywood shortly for a p. a. tour. BASIL BLECK, of UA Corp., is en route to Italy from New York aboard the Manhattan which sailed on •Thursday. FRANKIE DARRO arrives in Detroit Jan. 7 from the Coast to commence a p. a. swing of key houses in the Midwest. LEO ROBIN, songwriter, has returned to Hollywood following a business stay in the East. LEONARD GOLDENSON has returned to Paramount's h.o. from Detroit. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL PAUL WILLIAMS is expected to arrive in New York this week from Washington. Will Induct Hersholt Jean Hersholt will be inducted as a "fall guy" at a luncheon of Dexter Fellows Tent, Circus Saints and Sinners Club of America, to be held in the grand ballroom of Hotel Astor on Jan. 10. More than 1,000 are to attend. Photographic-Projection Exports Continue to Drop Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Exports of photographic and projection goods during November decreased by $335,000 compared to November, 1938, it was reported today by the Department of Commerce. The November figure for this year is reported at $1,332,000 while November, 1938 was given as $1,667,000. The eleven-month period ending in November also shows a drop from $18,338,000 for 1938 to $17,252,000 for 1939. This is a decrease of $1,086,000. New Brazilian Censorship Dept. Will Include Films Rio de Janeiro (By Cable) — Empowered to act as censor for films, theater, radio, etc., a new Department of Press and Propaganda has been established by Presidential decree. \ Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthdays: JANUARY 2 W. Ray Johnston Walter A. Futter Moe Silver