The Film Daily (1930)

— ,%g*s DA1LV Wednesday, December 24, 1930 30% REDUCTION IN COSTS PLANNED BY PRODUCERS (Continued from Page 1) of production will not be allowed to lessen the quality of features, according to Darmour, who also stated that the knowledge gained by producers during the past year, regarding sound and its possibilities, has made the plan possible. $1,875 Prizes for Exhibs In Columbia Film Contest (Continued from Pane 1) tion contest on "Dirigible," the Jack Holt-Ralph Graves him. The contest is divided into five classes, each with $375 in prize money, and includes newspaper advertising campaigns, newspaper publicity, lobby and front decoration, window displays and merchandise tieups, and suggestions for catch-lines, slogans and heralds. Judges are Joe Brandt. J. H. Goldberg, J. H. Gallagher, for Columbia, and W. Livingston Lamed, advertising counsel. A LITTLE from "LOTS ►// By RALPH Wll.K Warner Bros. Releasing German Version in U. S. "Die Tanz Geit Weiter," German version of "Those Who Dance," will be released by Warner Bros, in a number of American cities. William Dieterle plays the role in which Monte Blue starred. British Expansion for W. E. Manchester, Eng. — Western Electric is enlarging its local offices to meet the growing demands of thir territory, which is next to London in importance in England. A staff of 51 service engineers, 11 service supervisors, 20 installation engineers and four installation supervisors, under E. A. Sabine, division superintendent, and L. F. Morris, northern division installation superintendent, is maintained here, and 600 W. E equipped houses are served from Manchester. COMING & GOING C. C. PETTIJOHN left yesterday for Rermuda. HOT? KROESCHELL of Canier Engineering Corp., theater division, sails Jan. 3 nn ill. Bremen for Europe. W. E. CALLAWAY, southern district manaper for Patlie, lias returned to Dallas by Motor following conferences with E. J. O'Leary in the home office. LARRY DARMOUR is in town from the coast. MR. and MRS. MESSMORE KENDALL i e turned from Europe yesterday. CART. MICHAEL DASSEVILLE, vicepresident of the acoustical engineering firm of Kendall and Dasseville. lias left for Oslo, Norway, to join an expedition to the North Pole. JOSKPII L SCHNITZER will leave the coast for the east Jan. 4. BEN GOETZ lias returned from a trip abroad, ami is now in New York. ELMER LF.TERMAN has returned from Hollywood. Hollywood DICARDO CORTEZ has been cast by First National in Loret ta Young's next starring vehicle, "Big Business Girl." * * * Jackie Cooper has been borrowed by Paramount from Hal Roach to ■play the title role in "Skippy." * * * Paul Fix and Katherine Clare Ward have been cast by Fox for "Three Girls Lost." * * * Arthur Houseman will be in the Pathe comedy, "Help Wanted Female" which features Daphne Pollard. Marian Lord will also be in the cast. * * * Jack Robinson has been added to Paramount's next Ruth Chatterton picture, as yet untitled. Others in the picture will be Juliette Compton and Donald Cook. John Cromwell is directing. * * * Ken Maynard's second Tiffany picture, "The Two-Gun Man," will go into production next month. Jack Natteford is the author. * * * Paul Porcasi will have a talking part in Fox's "Doctors' Wives." Loii'se Mackintosh has also been added to the cast, which is headed by Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett and Victor Varconi. * * * Bette Davis, stage actress, has been signed by Carl T^aemmle. Jr., for a principal part in "Gambling Daughters" with Sidney Fox, also a stage actress. * * * Henry Johnson, writer, formerly with Fox, is finishing his first Pathe f-omedy, "Stage Si ruck," in which Walter Catlett will be featured. Nat Carr w'll be starred in a comedy by "Chuck" Callahan and Harry Frazer. Mauri Grashin has finished the story of "Big Business" for Pathe. * * * Sylvia Sidney, who played the title role in "Bad Girl" on Broadway, has signed a contract with Paramount. She will play opposite Phillips Holmes in "Confessions of a Co-Ed." * * * Joe E. Brown will divide Christmas Day between his appearances in the stage version of "Elmer the Great" at the El Capitan theater here, and the new Brown daughter, also having her initial Christmas, and the two Brown sons. * * * M. M. Paggi, veteran Paramount sound man, is handling the sound on "Neiv Morals." T'other day, Bill Conselman gave "Nevada Gold" to a military school "Nevada Gold" is a horse, but Bill did not have time to rise early in the morning and go out riding. Bill offered the horse to friends, but they did not care to feed the animal. * * * Wallace MacDonald, playing the role of a Russian prince in Tiffany's "Drums of Jeopardy," has directed five sketches at the Writers' Club in Hollywood during a year's time and in most cases p'ayed in them Right in the midst of prodrc'ion on "Drums of Jeopardy," he finds time to direct another, handling rehearsals every evening after work in the studio. % * # Bob Lee, assistant director at Paramount, flew from New York to Hollywood piloting his own plane. While in New York he visited many former associates, who are now working at Paramount's Eastern studio. German Film Year Book Has 1,000 Pages of Data "Tahrbuch der Film Industrie 1930" ("Year Book of the Film Industry for 1930"). published bv "Lichtbildbuhne," leading German film trade paper, of which Karl Wolffsohn is editor, has come off the press and is now being distributed. It is a cotnnrehensive and thoroughly informative compilation attractively comniled and embracine more than 1,000 pages of data on the motion nicture business in Germany, as well as imoortant farts r-oncernino; film activities in th° IT. S. Pathe for 28 Southern Situations Bay St. Louis. Miss. — Pathe features and shorts have been booked bv the Ruoert Richards Circuit for 28 situations. 11 Educational Shorts On January Release List Educational has 11 shorts on its release chart for January. They include: "No, No Lady," Mack Sennett comedy with Andy Clyde, Dorothy Christy and Frank Eastman"Three Hollywood Girls." Ideal comedv with Leota Lane, Rita Flynn and Phyllis Crane; a Sennett Brevities: "The Ulrich Case," in the Wm. T. Burns detective series; "The Love Bargain," Mermaid comedv with Alberta Vaughn, Tyler Brooks and Bobby Agnew; Sennett's "Dance Hah Marge." with Harrv Gribbon, Marjorie Beebe and Frank Eastman: "Marriage Rows," with Llovd Hamilton, A1 St. Tohn and Addie McPbail: "Girls Will Be Boys." Tuxedo comedv witb Charlotte Greenwood and Vernon Dent, another Burns detective mystery and two TerryToons. WARNERS AND HEARST PEAN NAT'E RADIO TIEUP (Continued from Page 1) Warner and First National product and also in connection with a Hearst newspapers' merchandising plan. Hearst at present is operating a number of radio stations, including one in Chicago and another in Atlanta. Warner Bros, own one station located in Los Angeles. Fox Six Months' Sales Up 57%, Says Grainger (Continued from Page 1) pictures for the six months to Dec. 15 were 57 per cent ahead of the corresponding period in any previous year. Bonuses amounting to $75,000 have been distributed to the sales force by Harley L. Clarke, president of the company. Grainger is here to confer with Winfield R. Sheehan on production. The Fox studios are going at top speed, with nine companies at work, four pictures in the cutting room and two just completed. Scott Made District Mgr. For Chicago W. B. Houses Chicago — Max Scott has been made district manager of Warner Bros.' theaters with seven south side houses under his supervision. Al Sobler, midwest publicity representative for Warners, is now managing the Orpheum, which Warner; have turned into a first-run. Several Warner houses here are now boosting attendances w i 1 1 vaudeville and radio personalities. W. E. Replaces 53 in Canada Toronto — Out of 326 installation made by the Northern Electric Co. Canadian associate of Western Electric, 53 were replacements of othei types of equipment. 50th Wired in Wales Cardiff, Wales — Western Elec trie has completed wiring its 50tl house in Wales. The installation^ cover 31 towns. Cardiff leads witl seven theaters wired by W. E. Boston 100 Per Cent Sound Boston — With the wiring of the Cobb by DeForest, this city is IOC per cent wired. Break for Newcomer We t Coast Bureau, The Fi'm Daily Hollywood — Using portable reproducing equipment, John Barrymore, from his sickbed, yesterday inspected 60 tests and selected Marion Marsh, comparatively unknown, as his feminine lead in "Svengali," for Warners. Miss Marsh, who resembles Dolores Costello, will play Trilby. She originally was cast in "The Devil Was Sick."