The Film Daily (1930)

THE mn DAILY Thursday, September 4, 193C :THE or niMEQM Vol. Llll No. 55 Thursday, Sapt 4. 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 High Low Close Chg. Con. Fm. Ind 18 18 18 — 34 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. 20 20 20 East. Kodak 219^ 213J4 213J4 — 4lA Fox Fm. "A".... 51/2 49*6 50J4 — IVe, Gen. Thea. Equ... 37'A 35^ 36 — y2 Loew's, Inc 7854 T^Vt 7Wi — 2H do pfd. ww (654). 107J4 10654 10654 — H do pfd. xw (6'A). 9754 9654 9654 — Va Para. F-L 61-54 6054 6054 — 1*4 Pathe Exch 454 454 454 — 54 do "A" 10 10 10 — 54 R-K-.0 3654 3454 35 — 1 Warner Bros 3254 30*4 30^4 — 154 do rts 3 254 254— H NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Pets. .. 4254 42 42+1 Fox Thea. "A" ... 11*4 10*4 10*4 + H l.oew, Inc., war... 11*4 H H — 34 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40. 95^4 9554 9554 — 54 Keith A-O 6s46... 8154 8154 8154 Loew 6s 41 x-war. 99 98*4 98*4 Paramount 6s 47.. 10054 10054 10054 — 54 Par. By 554s51 102 102 102 + 54 Pathe 7s37 5754 57 57—1 Warner Pet. 6s39. 90*4 9054 9054 — 54 Red Star May Form Subsidiary To Handle Growing Business With branch offices operating in five cities in addition to the New York headquarters, Fox Red Star Music Publishing Co. has completed the first lap of its expansion program, states Pat Flaherty, vicepresident and general manager. A subsidiary company may be formed to handle Red Star's heavy volume of business, it is understood. Red Star offices are now functioning a.. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit and Boston. With the exception of Germany and Central Europe, representative companies are handling the Red Sta. catalogue. Deals in these two sections art now pending and will be closed as soon as film industry conditions there are readjusted. The three best-selling numbers on the Red Star list at present are : "Where Can You Be," from "Cheer Up and Smile," "I'm on the Market for You," from "High Society Blues" and "Song o' My Heart" from the John McCormick picture of the same title. COMING & GOING Garfinkle Given Assignment Harold Garfinkle, relief manager, has been given a permanent assignment by Consolidated Amusements and is now in charge of the Luxor. He succeeds H. Stravitz. »♦,♦♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦♦.*♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦♦.*♦.♦♦.♦».♦♦,♦♦.♦♦,♦♦>♦.♦*.♦♦.♦•.*♦.*♦.*«.**.♦* Tf ft M New York Long Island City }"t Ji 1540 Broadway 154 Crescent St. ft & BRYant 4712 STIllwell 7940 « I • I 1 Eastman Films | § J. E. Brulatour, Inc. y 8 $ 4 ft K Chicago Hollywood it g 1727 IndUn. Ave. 6700 S£nt* Mq"}c« 3 *> Blvd. ♦♦ g CALumet 2691 HOLlywood 4121 ft ft «** OSCAR HANSON of Tiffany is back from Toronto where he conferred with Harold Pfaff, Canadian general manager for Gau mont-Tiffany. Hanson leaves again next week for a trip around the country, with Milwaukee as his first stop. BEN BODEC, who last week wound up his connection as special representative for Columbia in the middle west, is bac'; in New York. He formerly was with Pathe in a similar capacity, coming from the Publix New England division under the regime of J. J. Ford. MILTON DIAMOND is due in New York from abroad today aboard the Bremen. SAM KATZ left Paris yesterday to return to New York on the Olympic. MR. AND MRS. DAVID SARNOFF are due to sail from the other side today on the He de France for New York. GIOVANNI MARTINELLI, opera star who has appeared in Vitaphone shorts, sailed yesterday on the Mauretania for Southampton. ' JOSEPH A. JACKSON, scenarist for Warner Bros., is on his way to Europe for a vacation. JOE E. BROWN will fly from St. Louis to Toledo tomorrow to attend a midnight preview of his First National picture, "Top Speed," at the Pantheon. OLIVE BORDEN is reported due in New York next week with a view to appearing in an A. H. Woods stage play this fall. HAL B. WALLIS, LOUISE FAZENDA (Mrs. Wallis) and C. GRAHAM BAKER, First Nationftl production executives, are coming to New York from the coast via the Panama Canal. ■11560 BROADWAY, N.Y. ■ W William Morris n < <A (X •ejj 500K Call-Board See GLORIA GRAFTON Little Show N.Y. > o o r r i s LOS ANGELES, CAL. Los Angeles Legit. Boom Killed Off by Talkers {Continued from Page 1) a rival of New York as legitimate producing center. Up to the arnvai of the talkers there were times when this city had as many as 10 to 12 dramas and musical comedies running currently. Now it is all the town can dj to support three or four such productions. The experience of Henry Duffy, who two year.-> ago had about a dozen dramatic swick companies in operation along the coast, but went bankrupt this year, is another sign o. the times which showmen regard as concrete proof that the public prefers talkers as popuiar-priced entertainment. RKO is now planning to use the Mason for the staging oi le_itimate productions, which will later be turned into talkers. The subsidiary handling this work for RKO is known as .Metropolitan Productions, Ltd., with Frederick G. Latham as general stagedirector and Charles Harris as business manager. Plays proving successuil may be brought to the New York stage also. Mrs. Canavan Buried St. Louis — Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Canavan, mother of W. F. Canavan, international president of the stage hands and projectionists, also mother of Thomas J. and Leo C. Canavan of the Paramount Film Enterprises, were held here Monday. Mrs. Canavan, who was 69, died Friday following a paralytic stroke the week before. "Squealer" Reopens Hippodrome Columbia's "The Squealer," with Jack Holt and Matt Moore, will be the film bill for the reopening of the R-K-O Hippodrome on Sept. 6. Demolition of the house has been postponed indefinitely. Policy again will be pictures and vaudeville. School Uses Talkers To Teach Atlantic City — Talkers are now being used for instruction purposes in the schools of Ventnor, exclusive residential section of Atlantic City. Phone Stillwell 7932 for NEGATIVES DEVELOPED and Positive Prints Made on standard or 16 mm. stock INTER-CON1INENTAL Film Laboratories Inc. 74 Sherman St. Long Island City The Industry's Date Book 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 Sci ences meet to discuss wide filrr problems. Sept. 15-16 Ninth annual convention of M P. T. O. of St. Louis, Eastert Missouri and Southern Illinois wil be held in St. Louis. Sept. 17 Second meeting of Academy of M P. Arts and Sciences for discussior of production problems and widil film. Film Golf Tournament to be helc by "The Exhibitor" of Philadel phia. Sept. 27 Entertainment and dance given by Pathe employees at the Hotel Astor, New York. Oct. 3 Opening of "The Big Trail" at the Roxy. Oct. 20-21 Tenth Annual Convention o. M.P.T.O. of Western Pennsylv. nia and West Virginia, Pittsburgh Oct. 20-23 Fall meeting of the Society ol 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. convention to be held in Philadelphia. 10 Columbia Features Are Now Under Way (Continued from Page 1) Fathoms Deep," "Tennessee's Part-' ner" and "Roseland." Columbia's schedule of 104 shorts will include the Disney "Mickey Mouse" cartoons and the "Silly Symphonies," "Curiosities," "The Rambling Reporter," "Specialties," "Krazy Kat Kartoons," "Talking Screen Snapshots" and a series with Eddie Buzzell to be known as "Bedtime Stories for Grownups." COMING AMALGAMATED 1 VAUDEVILLE AGENCY Attractions for Picture Theatres Standard Vaudeville Acts 1 1600 Broadway, New York City | Phone Penn. 3580 With the virtues of vice and the sins of love