The Film Daily (1930)

THE Wednesday, September 17, 1930 ■ !THE mi sum y it Or FI1MDQM Vol. Lill No. 66 Wednesday, Sept. 17.1930 Price 5 Cents I0HN W. ALICOATE : : : Editor and Publishei Published daily except Saturday and holiday; 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 (Postal?* 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. 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Paramount 6s 47.101 100.J4 100 Par, By 5$4s50... 94'A 94/ 94/ — / Pathe 7s37 56 56 56 — 2 r 6s39 89 88^ 89 "Office Wife" at Garden Sept. 25 "The Office Wife," First National picture with Dorothy Mackaill and Lewis Stone, opens Sept. 25 at the Winter Garden, succeeding Al Jolson's "Big Boy." * :.: :.: :.: :.: :.: :: :.: :.: :.t :.: :.: :.: :.: :.: :.: :.: 8* Long Island City •> 154 Crescent St. j> STUIwell 7940 W Advance Booking in England Cut from Nine to Six Months The Industry's Date Book London By Cable) — Beginning Oct. 1 the legal period of advance booking will be six months instead of nine. This cut, following the reduction from a year to nine months made two years ago is the last that will be made under the Films Act. Renters generally are jubilant over the move, which means an end to the long wait before a picture is shown and makes it possible to give an attraction to the public while it is new. Manhattan Playhouses Book Columbia Shorts Five series of Columbia shorts will be shown in the 22 houses comprising the Manhattan Playhouses chain in New York. The series booked are "Mickey Mouse," "Disney Silly Symphonies," "Snapshots," "Curiosities" and "Krazy Kat" cartoons. Six Warner Releases Release dates on six new Warner Bros, pictures have been set by Sam E. Morris. They are: George Arliss in "Old English," Sept. 27; "Maybe It's Love," Oct. 4; "Sinners' Holiday," Oct. 11; "Doorway to Hell," Oct. 18; "The Life of the Party," Oct. 25; "A Soldier's Plaything," Nov. 1. Earl D. Roebuck Dies West Coast Bureau, THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Earl D. Roebuck, former Eastern scenarist, is dead here of heart trouble. "Top Speed" Held Over in Toledo Toledo — First National's "Top Speed" has been held over for a second week at the Pantheon. Boston Premiere for F.N. Film Boston — First National's "Scarlet Pages," with Elsie Ferguson, Marian Nixon, Grant Withers and John Halliday, will have its eastern premiere Oct. 16 at the Metropolitan here. "Girl of Golden West" for Detroit Detroit — "The Girl of the Golden West," First National production based on the David Belasco play, will open Sept. 19 at the Fisher. 4 INTERNAT! ADDED TO DEFOREST BOARD Norrie Sellar, George Le Blanc, William Baxter and Robert Easton Saunders, international bankers, have been elected to the board of directors of General Talking Pictures Corp. (De Forest), according to an announcement by M. A. Schlessinger, president of the company. Baxter and Saunders are treasurer and secretary respectively of the corporation. Warner Bros. Stockholders Take New Stock Offering Warner Bros, stockholders have, taken up the offering of new shares made more than a month ago through rights to subscribe to one new share at $20 in ratio of one new for each four shares held, Harry M. Warner, announced yesterday. The rights expired Monday. The offering of new stock was underwritten by a syndicate formed by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Hayden, Stone & Co. Six Denver First-Runs Denver — With six first-run houses slated to hold forth here this winter, the Denham will not attempt to operate as a dramatic stock house. The theater tried to buck five firstrun picture houses last season and lost around $1,000 weekly. R-K-O Building in Schenectady R-K-O has a new theater under construction in Schenectady, N. Y., and not in Syracuse, as previously reported. The structure is expected to be ready by next May. , Increases Scale at Egyptian West Coast Bureau., THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Admission scale at Egyptian has been increased from 50 cents to 65 cents. The new prices were recently inaugurated with the showing of "Common Clay." Nr> York 1540 BroadwM RRYint 4712 Eastman Films J. E. Brulatour, Inc. 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