The Film Daily (1930)

THE * 2 a :tme ihi MEMMfa Of FILIMDQM DAILY Thursday, August 28, Vol. Llll No. 50 Thursday, Aug. 28. 1930 Price 5 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Saturday and holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., and copyright (1930) 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 com munications 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 Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Cour-des-Noues. 19. Financial NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net Hisdi Low Close Chge. Con. Fm. Ind. . . . 1854 Ws 17% — Vi Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. 20 'A 20"4 20'A + Vs East. Kodak 219^4 215 219% + 5!4 Fox Fm. "A" .. 48<4 47% 48 + Vi Gen. Thea. Equ. . . . 35 'A HlA 34% + Vi Loew's, Inc 76% 74% 75'/2 + 'A Ht nfd. ww (6"/;).106 106 106 + % M-G-M pfd 25'/2 25^ 25^ — 1 1'ara. F-L 60J4 59% 60 + % Pathe Exch 4J4 4^8 4^ . do "A" 8% 854 8*4 + V* R-K-O 36^ 34/, 35*4 + 1*8 Warner Bros 28*4 27-4 28% + 1% do pfd 47*4 47*4 47*4 Warner rts 2J4 1*4 2% + 'A NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Pets. ... 41% 397/8 40*4 + 1*4 Fox Thea. "A" .. 1054 10 1054 + % Loew do deb rts. 3854 3854 3854 — 1*4 Loew. Inc.. war... 10% 9% 10% + % Technicolor 28% 27'/, 28% + 1% NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 95 93/ 95 + 1% Loew 6s 41' xwar. 98*4 98% 98*4 Paramount 6s 47 .10054 100 100/ + % Pa,'. Bv 5/s50... 94/ 94/ 94/ — % Pathe 7s37 58 57/ 58 — 54 Warner 89/ 89 89% + 54 "Holiday" Third Week in Chicago Chicago — "Holiday" is now in its third week at the Publix United Artists theater, a record attained by only one other picture in the last five months. ^♦♦•♦♦•♦♦•^♦^♦♦♦'♦♦•♦^•♦♦'♦♦•♦♦'♦♦'♦♦•♦♦•♦v»v*v#*v*>^ ♦♦♦♦♦> ft New York Long Island City ?*t J.J 1540 Broadway 154 Crescent St. i,t BRYant 4712 STIllwell 7940 U § j Eastniam Films fj U J. E. Brulatour, Inc. jf •.♦ Chicago Hollywood V> g 1727 Indian. Ave. 6700 ^ M°n'Ca M CALumet 2691 HOLlywood 4121 H About Face — back to personalities (Continued from Page 1) breeze of picture progress. Pointing once more to the important part that pictures will play in the future of the world and its peoples. When the next bull market decides to get going we predict tlmt the recognized motion picture stocks will be right up there leading the parade. * * * We have always Percentage been a bul1 on the in Fannr percentage arrange in t avor ment of piayjng p;c_ tures. All things being equal, it is a definite, just and equitable way of dividing, share and share alike, the rewards of a good production and the ^mistakes of the bad. Now comes the hustling and irrepressible Jimmy Grainger with the direct statement that over 40 per cent of Fox bookings for the coming year are on a strict percentage arrangement. He further observes that the idea is gaining in favor all along the line. Percentage, as we see it, properly applied, would cure three-fourths of the exhibitor-distributor-producer conflicts now of constant occurrence. COMING & GOING The Industry's Date Book J.OSEPH CAWTHORNE has returned to Hollywood after a visit in New York. CHARLES C. PETTIJOHN is back from attending the Government "anti-trust" case on the Coast. NATHAN BURKAN is arriving today on the Europa from Paris. AMBROSE S. DOWLING sails from England today on the Leviathan for New York. BERT WHEELER is en route to New York from the coast. HARRY TIERNEY arrived in New York from Hollywood, yesterday. HARRY ARTHUR and J. J. SULLIVAN arrive today from the coast, where they attended the anti-trust trial. Phone Stillwell 7932 for NEGATIVES DEVELOPED and Positive Prints Made on standard or 16 mm. stock INTER-CONTINENTAL Film Laboratories Inc. 74 Sherman St. Long Island City AMALGAMATED VAUDEVILLE AGENCY Attractions for Picture Theatres Standard Vaudeville Acts [ 1600 Broadway, New York City i Phone Perm. 3580 Today: "Animal Crackers," Paramount picture, with Four Marx Brothers opens at the Rialto. Carnival and dance to be held by the Film Players' Club in the grand ballroom of Starlight Park, East 177th St. Sept. 9-10 Annual convention of M.P.T.O. of Wisconsin at Big Cedar Lake Wis. Sept. 10 Academy of M. P. Arts and Sciences meet to discuss wide film problems. Sept. 15-16 Ninth annual convention of M. P. T. O. of St. Louis, Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois will be held in St. Louis. Sept. 17 Second meeting of Academy of M P. Arts and Sciences for discussion of production problems and wide film. Film Golf Tournament to be held by "The Exhibitor" of Philadelphia. Sept. 27 Entertainment and dance given bj Pathe employees at the Hote' Astor, New York. Oct. 20-21 Tenth Annual Convention o M.P.T.O. of Western Pennsylvf nia and West Virginia. Pittsburg! Oct. 20-23 Fall meeting of the Society o' M. P Engineers, Pennsylvania Hotel. New York. Nov. 1 Second annual dinner-dance to be held by Universal club at the Hotel Astor, New York. Nov. 10, 11, 12 Annual M.P.T.O. A. con vention to be held in Philadelphia Chaney's Funeral Today West Coast Bureau, THE FILM DAILY Los Angeles — Funeral services for Lon Chaney will take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Cunningham and O'Connor Chapel, with Father Michael J. Mullins officiating. Interment will be at Forest Lawn, where the late actor's father is buried. MADISON Illinois Avtnut Overlooking Boardwalk and Ocean "A Hotel Distinctively Different" UNEXCELLED COLONIAL HOSPITALITY JUST COMPLETED IN ATLANTIC CITY Now Ready for YOU! Fireproof — Showers and Baths Throughout From $4.00 Daily. European Plan From $7.00 Daily. American Plan FETTER & HOLLINGER. Inc. EUGENE C. FETTER. ManagingDirector The Big Trai Filmed Entirely on Location Exeter, Sequoia National P;|;; July 30, 1930. Winfield Sheehan, Vice President, Fox Film Corporation, Hollywood, Calif. Today we finished the I scene of THE BIG TRl though we are not yet finae with production. Have the culmination of the ' mance between John and Marguerite Churchill the end of the Trail, final contingent of th< pany heads for the Grai, yon tonight where we wiljB pose of Red Flack who ha.a come to the end of his tr villainy. The scenes we will the Grand Canyon will o tribute. largely to the flfl value of the production, already selected sites for. ing and this awe-inspirir place of America will be br right into every theater has never been before. The Grand Canyon the scene of operations I haps a week and this will 31 plete THE BIG TRAI1 is nothing to be done studios but cut the pn footage. RAOUL W7 (Advt.)