The Film Daily (1930)

•a 2 STHE IKNUSMffB Of HUMDOM Wednesday, June 11, 1930 Vol. Lll No. SI Wednesday, June 11, 1930 Price 5 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Saturday and holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President, Editor and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager; Arthur W. Eddy, Associate Editor; Don Carle Gillette, Managing Editor. Entered as second class matter. May 21, 1918, 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. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY 1650 Broadway, New York. N. Y. Phone Circle 4736-4737-4738-4739. Cable address : Filmday New York. Hollywood. California — Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. London— Ernest W. Fredman. The Film Renter. 89-91 Wardour St., W. I Berlin— Karl Wolffsohn, Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematogranhie Francaise. Rue de la Cour-des-Noues, 19. Financial NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chge. Con. Fm. Ind. ..22 21 22 + Vs Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. 22?4 2\'/» 22?4 + Vs East. Kodak ....23m 22054 231^ + 9 Fox Fm. "A" .. 4954 44S/6 49J| + 3% Gen. Thea. Equ. . 40 37*4 40 Keith do pfd 110 105 110 — 7 Loew's, Inc 81/2 7SA 81 + SYs do pfd. ww (6/2). 104^8 104 104/g — 2 do pfd. xw (6/2). 94 93/8 94 — % Para. F-L 66 (>W% 66 + VA Pathe Exch. ... 4 J* 4'/2 tys — A do "A" 9'A 8/2 9/2 + A RK-O 35!4 30^' 3SA + 5 54 Warner Bros. ... S5TA 50 S5Ys + Ws do pfd 52 50 50 — 3 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Pets. .. 39 3554 3554 — Ws For Thea. "A" .. 10?i 9V» WVs + Vs Loew do deb rts.. 55 55 55 — 554 Loew, Inc., war.. 13 10^ 13 +2 Nat. Scr. Ser. . 32 31/a 31/2 — Vs NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. 6s40.... 9854 9754 98 — V2 Keith A-O 6s 46. 8654 8654 8654 Loew 6s 41ww .. 9854 98>4 9854 Paramount 6s 47.. 101J4 101 10154 Pathe 7s 37 ... 71 6954 71 + A Warner 6s 39...103J4 103 10354 Fox Port Chester House Shifted to N. E. Division Port Chester, N. Y.— The FoxCapitol here has been transferred from the New York Division to the Fox-New England circuit, it is announced by Herschel Stuart, general manager of the N. E. houses. Geographical location of the house is the reason for the shift. William Michaelson is manager of the theater and there will be no personnel changes in connection with the transfer. Stuart now has 16 houses under his direction. Two of them, the Elm in Worcester and the Hyperion in New Haven, are closed for the summer to undergo remodeling. 16 All-Talkers From Syndicate Pictures (Continued from Page 1) sold on a special franchise plan through independent exchanges. The productions are: "Under Texas Skies," "The I.onesome Trail," "West of Cheyenne," "Beyond the Law," "Riders of the North," "Song of the Plains," "Westward Bound," "Rose of the Rio Grande," "Frontier Days," "Phantom of the Desert." "Last of the Pawnees," "Red Coats of Canada," "A Boy of the Plains." "The Texas Ranger," "God's Country and the Man," "The Code of Honor." Charles Delaney has been borrowed to star in the first picture, and other players signed include Virginia Brown Faire, Louise Lorraine, Tom Tyler. Buzz Barton, Bob Custer, Art Mix, Jimmy Aubrey, Al St. John and George Hackathorne. Harry Alexander Joins Bloom and Fine Circuit Toronto — Harry Alexander, owner of the Park and a leading independent for years, has joined with the Bloom and Fine circuit, a subsidiary of Famous Players Canadian. Ezell to Preside at Meets Claude C. Ezell, general sales manager for Warners, will attend the San Francisco regional meeting, June 14, and the New Orleans confab, June 21, presiding as chairman in both instances, J. V. Allan, southern and western sales manager, also will be present. l\ New York 8 1540 Broadway ft BRYant 4712 Long Island City ft 154 Crescent St. ft STIllwell 7940 ft is I Eastman Filmis | J. E. Brulatour, Inc. | it i> Hollywood $1 6700 Santa Monica It Blvd. *.* CALumet 2691 HOLlywood 4121 *.* ♦V . .»»•»»«««»«« %* ♦♦>»>♦>♦>•.*♦.*♦.*♦>♦.*•.••>♦>♦.*♦.♦♦.** I g 1 g I Chicago 1727 Indiana Ave. Paramount Signs 3 Writers Three additions have been made by Paramount to its writing staff. They are Keene Thompson, short story writer; Robert Terry Shannon, fiction writer; and Henry Meyers, stage author. Choo—Choo! Now that all the boys have been steamed up at the sales conventions, the sales managers will set back and wait for the exhausts. Police Guard Theaters After 'Frisco Bombing San Francisco — Following the bombing of the Royal, operated by the Nasser interests, who have been in difficulties with the musicians' union since replacing orchestras with mechanical music, police have been given special instructions to watch for further attempts at violence against picture houses. The recent explosion at the Royal is said to have been directed at the sound equipment, but caused little damage. Previously a stench bomb was set off at the Alhambra, another Nasser house. Australian Duty Figured At $1,500,000 for Year Canberra — Film duty totaling $1,500,000 is expected to be paid by distributors in Australia this year. This estimate is based on the fact that $875,000 was realized from this source in the seven months from August, 1929, when the rate of duty was raised to three pence a foot, to March of this year. COMING & GOING The Industry's Date Book Tune June 12 WILL ROGERS is sojourning in New York. SAILING on the Leviathan today are Will H. Hays, J. I. Schnitzer and Ambrose Dowling. ARTHUR LANDAU is in town from the Coast and making his headquarters with M. S. Bentham. RICHARD "DICK" SEARS, president of the Press Photographers' Assn. of Boston and Pathe Sound News chief-of-staff in the New England district, is in Manhattan for a confab with Terry Ramsaye and Ray Hall. GEORGE RONAN, paymaster at the Pathe home office, is back on the job after a honeymoon. Mrs. Ronan was formerly Grace Traverso of Pathe. FRED NEWMEYER has returned from a Hollywood vacation trip and is getting ready for his next directorial assignment at the Paramount New York Studios. LLOYD CORRIGAN, .Paramount director, returns to the Coast on Friday after a 10-day stay in New York. EMMA DUNN, who has been on a vacation in New York, goes back to Hollywood on Saturday. 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Opening of "With Byrd at the South Pole" at the Rialto, New York. 21-22 Joint sales regional confab of Warner and First National at New Orleans. 23-24-25 Tiffany Annual Sales Co* vention, Hotel Congress, Chicago. 24 25 Annual convention of M.P.T.O. of Kansas and Western Missouri, Topeka. Kan. 20 Chicago S.M.P.E. Elect Chicago — At the first meeting of the Chicago Section of the S.M.P.E., J. A. Dubray was elected chairman and J. Elliott Jenkins secretary. These two, with O. F. Spahr and 0. B. Depue were made governors, and Dubray, E. S. Pearsall, Jr. and Fred Kranz were made members of the paper and program committee. B. W. Depue was appointed to handle publicity. Cleveland and Denver will form the East and West boundaries of the Section. CINEMA Write For Trial Sample TALKING NEEDLES WALL-KANE NEEDLE MFG. CO., Inc. 3922 14th Ave. Brooklyn, N. Y. AD -VANCE -AD ife. 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