The Film Daily (1930)

THE [IE NEWSPAPER )' FILM DOM AND WEEKLY FILM DIGEST (,. LIII No. 52 Sunday, August 31, 1930 Price 25 Cents Paramount Lines Up New Philadelphia Outlets OfSTARS ARE INSURED BY PRODUCERS Earner Bros. Earns Year's Dividend in 9 Months .( Profit of $4.03 Per Share is Reported for Period tlistanding the decline to 56 in the 13 weeks ended this year, against $4,703,190 e same period of 1929, or a roi of 55 per cent for the three final report of Warner Bros. nine months of the current ear shows a consolidated net • $11,765,265 after interest deon and federal taxes, equiva r preferred dividend requireto $4.27 a share on 2,673,927 number of common shares (Continued on Page 9) RlflTH WwiDE FILM E NEW TECHNIQUE film will not be generally id until a new technique for r has been evolved, said D. W. in an interview yesterday. :>es not believe that enlarged I will have any particularly mg effect upon theater at id,ice, as in the instance of ar afct sound. Color, Griffith thinks, "■■■ from perfection. ri?-Slashing Battle Fired by Jersey Exhibs »< h Bergen, N. J. — Exhibitors I gen and Hudson counties are •uld over the admission prices I are to mark the policy of the \ ty, opening on Sept. 6 with *■ t pictures. The house is ad•' i« a top of 30 cents, while {Continued oh Pane 9) Idea Men :age hands and carpenters h e given D. W. Griffith n iy a good idea for a picx} , the director said in an ii rview yesterday in illus» ing his point that it takes n e than one person to make a roduction. "Cleanup" Lifts Houses Out of Red Detroit — H. M. Richey, talking to indie exhibs on the subject of keeping theaters pleasant and comfortable as an aid to winning and holding customers, cited the instance of how one live-wire theater man, now an important executive in the east, demonstrated the efficacy of this principle. The executive asked his company to assign him to the five worst houses in the chain. He spruced them up, inside and out, and in a short time the theaters were out of the red. The moral is obvious. 22 TELEVISION STATIONS NOW BEING OPERATED Washington Bureau of Washington — Twenty-two stations experimenting with radio television are now being operated in this country by 18 companies. In licensing applicants for frequency assignments for television transmission the Federal Radio Commission insists that they must produce evidence that their work is legitimate research. THE FILM DAILY The main purpose of the regulation is to encourage and foster technical progress in television in order that the public may be better served. Because of the scarcity of available channels, the Commission has been forced to deny a large number of requests for television stations from applicants who were not interested (Continued on Pane 2) Operators' Union in Agreement With Greater New York Indies While there will be no reduction of men in booths. Greater New York indcpenclenfs are understood to have reached an agreement with the operators' locals whereby projectionists will get from 20 to 25 per cent less in wages for the next two years. Those Crooks! Wash. Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — While a daring jail break scene was being flashed on the screen at a suburban theater, two men in the audience took this as their key to rob the manager of $265. New Philadelphia Outlets Are Signed by Paramount Companies Protect Selves Against Death of Name Players Forty per cent of the "big names" known to the public have their life insured by the producers employing them, it is estimated by Arthur W. Stebbins. At least two major producers carry policies on all their stars. Death of Rudolph Valentino several years ago, with a subsequent heavy loss to United Artists, induced producing organizations to protect themselves against similar experiences with their big-money players. U. S. COMPANIES HIT BACK AT HIGH NEW ZEALAND TAX Wellington, N. Z. (By Cable)— In retaliation against the 25 per cent tax imposed by the Government of this country on the profits from exhibiting pictures made abroad, representatives of U. S. film companies are advised that they are to cease selling product in New Zealand. Exclusive M. P. Academy Formed by French Group Paris (By Cable) — L'Academie du Cinema Francais, an exclusive group with only 12 members, lias been formed here. The organization includes Louis Luiniere. Maurice Chev(Contimted on Page 9) Philadelphia ' (wing to booking differences with Warner Bros., who control the first run situation here, Paramount has found new outlets. It will split its product between the Fox, Keith's, a former legit house which will be a >n> erted into a picture theater, and the .Arcadia, a 2, house which was formerly a secondrun and which will play pictures for more than a week. Extra Shows An extra Saturday night showing at 11:30 p.m. and three performances on Sunday and Labor Day have been set for D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln," which is playing a two-dollar engagement at the Central on Broadway. Big demand for tickets warrants the extra presentations, sez Ben H. Atwell, special exploiteer for the attraction.