The Film Daily (1930)

THE HIE NEWSPAPER OF FILM DOM AND WEEKLY FILM DIGEST VOL. LIII No. 28 Sunday, August 3, 1930 Price 25 Cents United Artists Sells Product To Warner Houses MOMAND CIRCUIT MERGED WITH GRIFFITH National Film Cleaning -Processing Firm Started Earl Denison Forms Organization with Plants in Key Cities Inauguration of the first national film cleaning and processing organization is planned by Earl Denison, who has formed the Earl Denison Film Processing Co., with headquarters in New York City. Plants will -it established in at least 12 key cities under the supervision of Denison, who on Aug. 9 ends his association ,vith United Artists where he has jeen in charge of the prints department for the past two years. The company's New York plant las already been equipped and the Los Angeles branch will be ready ->y Aug. 16. Territories in which slants are not located will be served >y men working with portable machinery. Representatives of the comaany will conduct a free advisory (Continued on Page 2) BELL & HOWELTgETS 120 If AHjNL FILMS Bell & Howell has acquired more than 120 super-educational 16 mm. films from Ufa for addition to its I'ilmo Library. The pictures cover practically every field in the scientific and educational world, and 52 »f them have sound-on-disc accompaniment in the form of lectures by American educators. The pictures are suited for the Project-O-Phone, portable sound film projector recently announced by Bell & Howell. Too Hot in Alaska nasi Bur. THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — RKO's unit making "The Silver Horde" has returned from Alaska, where it went to make some sequences, and it is reported the company was unable to fulfill its purpose because it was too hot to make pictures in Alaska! Reisman Dined Coming and Going Phil Reisman, ultra-popular sales manager, who has just joined Universal from Pathe, was given a farewell dinner by his Pathe associates Thursday night, at which time he was presented with a swell golf equipment and a welcome dinner by the Universal boys on Friday. The Pr.the testimonial was attended by J. F. McAloon, toastmaster; C. J. Scollard, Lewis Innerarity, E. J. O'Leary, T. S. Delehanty, Arthur B. Poole, Stuart T. Webb, E. J. McEvoy, Harry Graham, Harry Lorch, J. H. Mclntyre, Tom Gorman, E. W. Ballentine, Ray L. Hall, Donn McElwaine, G. R. O'Neill. Joseph O'Sullivan, A. A. Schubart, William McShea, Frank Drumm, Jack de Wall, Jack Kennedy, Carlos Jiminez, Lou Miller, Emmett Cashman, Jack Level, Charles K. Ulrich and Rutgers Neilson. R. R. Cochrane presided at the Universal affair, other honorary guests being P. D. Cochrane, C. B. Paine, Ted Schlanger, Harry Taylor-, Fred McConnell, Ralph Williams, Sig Wittman and about 20 others. Both events took place at the New York Athletic Club. PHILADELPHIA WINS M.P.T.O.A. CONVENTION Philadelphia has been chosen as the place for the 11th annual convention of the M.P.T.O.A. next fall, according to word sent by National President M. A. Lightman on Friday to Secretary M. J. O'Toole in New York. Dates and headquarters will be announced later. There had been some spirited bidding for the convention between Philadelphia and Pinehurst, N. C, home of National Vice-President Charles W. Picquet. A vote of the directors, taken by letter by Lightman, decided the issue. National directors of the organization are: William Benton, Samuel Dembow, Moe Silver and Maj. L. E. Thompson, New York; M. E. Comerford, Pennsylvania; Fred Desberg, Ohio; Edward M. Fay, Rhode Island; Harold Franklin, California; Jack Miller, Illinois; Fred Wehrenberg, Missouri. Di Lorenzo to Manage Two Greenwich Houses Greenwich, Conn. — Joseph di Lorenzo, recently manager of the Procter in Mount Vernon, N. Y., has been appointed manager of the Pickwick and the Greenwich, which R-K-O has acquired from Bratter & Pollak. 6,000 Have Stood up to See "All Quiet" During the three months' run of 'All Quiet at the Western Front" at the Central, New York, Universal figures that approximately 6,000 persmis have stood up to see the picture. The picture is entering its 15th week at that house. 700 Houses in Warner Chain Will Play U. A. Productions Negotiations were closed Friday between Al Lichtman and Spyros Skouras for the showing of the full 1930-31 program of United Artist-, pictures in 700 houses of the Warner Bros, circuit. The U.A. product also has been booked for the Publix and Loew houses, in addition to pl.i tin U. A. Theater Circuit, and Lichtman says that deals are under way with other important theater groups. 26 Okla. Houses Brought Together — Universal Retains Interest Negotiations for the merging of the Momand Theaters, Inc., and Griffith Amusement Co., Oklahoma circuits, were completed on Friday. The deal brings into one fold 26 theaters representing 17 towns and 20,000 seats. The new company will be known as the Momand-Griffith Theaters, Inc., and will be headed by A. B. Momand with headquarters in Oklahoma City. Nearly $2,000,000 was involved in the deal. A. B. Momand, president of the chain bearing his name; Jack Pickens, Jr., of the Griffith Circuit, and Charles D. Paine of Universal negotiated the combine. Universal retains its 50 per cent interest in {Continued on Page 2) SOLE RIGHT TO NAME IS WON BY PARAMOUNT Exclusive right to use the name Paramount has been won by the Paramount Publix Corp. through a decision in the Superior Court of the State of Washington. The cou dismissed a suit brought by W. F. Code, exhibitor, who operated a Seattle house since 1921 under the name of Paramount Theater. In March of this year Publix changed the name of the Seattle to the Paramount, whereupon Code sought an injunction to restrain the company from using the name, and the court has decided against him. Henry Ford Speaks Henry Ford, in the current Movietone News, makes one of the shortest and keenest formal speeches ever recorded by the mike. He says: "All I want to say is that there is no such thing as 'no chance.' "