The Film Daily (1931)

— ,%fr* Friday, January 2, 1931 :the !■ M*MUfk 01 HLMDOJM Vol. IV IU. I Frill), Jan. 2, 1931 Pnci 5 Cuts I0HN «. ALICOATE Editor iid PiUisiii Published daily except Saturdays and holidays tt 16S0 Broadway, New York, N. Y., and copyright (1931) by Wid's Films and Film Folk, 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. En tered as second class matter. May 21, 1918, at the post-orhce at New York, N. Y., undei 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 communications to THE FILM DAILY, 165U Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone Circle 7-4736, 7-4737, 7-4738, 7-4739. 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., VV. I. Berlin— Karl Wolffsohn, Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Cour-des-Noues, 19. Fin ancia NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg Am. Seat 7 7 7 +1 Con. Fm. Ind. . . 9'A 9% 9/2 + *s Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. 15% UH 1S% + 1% East. Kodak 149% 146J4 147 + J4 Fox Fm. "A" ... 28 27% 27"^ + % Gen. Thea. Equ. .6% 6% 6% + Vi Loew's, Inc 47% 46 46% — % Para. F-L 38% 37% 37% + 1 Pathe Exch 1% 1% 1% do "A" 3% 3% 3% — % R-K-O "A" 16% 15% 16 + % Warner Bros. ... 14 13 13% + % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Pets Vtc. 17 17 17 + % Fox Ttvv ," .. 4% 4 4% + % Loew, -..c., war.. 2 1% 2 + % Nit. Scr. Ser... 20% 20% 20% + 2 Tec'inicolor 7% 7 7 +1% NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 51% 50% 51 — 1 Keith AO 6s 4.6. 75% 75% 75% Loew 6s 41 ww.100% 100% 100% + H do 6s 41 x-war.. 96% 96% 96% — % Par. By. 5%s 50. 85 83% 85 -f 1% Pathe 7s 37 .... 50% 50% 50% + % Warners 6s 39 . . 45 45 45—1 "Birth of a Nation" Stopped St. Paul— Showing of "The Birth of a Nation", synchronized version, was stopped by the city council here after a delegation of Negroes protested against it. New York Long Island City 1540 Broadway 154 Crescent St. BRYant 4712 STIllwell 7940 Eastiman Films i ]. E. Brulatour, Inc* Hollywood § Chicago 6700 Santa Monica K 1727 Indiana Ave. Blvd CALumet 2691 HOLlywood 4121 g DERR URGES KEEPING PAGE WITH IMPROVING TASTES Producers who keep a step in advance of the graduallv improving public tastes are the ones who will benefit most in 1931, says E. B. Derr, in his outlook statement for the year. The Pathe president declares the new year will see a still further development of the motion picture as an essential form of entertainment for the cognoscenti as well as the masses. In arranging the 1931 schedule, Derr states, Pathe production resources will be concentrated on following up the company's highly successful "Holiday," "Her Man," "Big Money" and "Sin Takes a Holiday." Five features and as many two-reel comedies are to be in work by Jan. 10. The features include Constance Bennett in "Lost Love," Ann Harding in "Rebound," Helen Twelvetrees in "The House of Glass," and "Lonely Wives." "The Painted Desert" and "Beyond Victory," both starring Bill Boyd, have already been completed for 1931. The story department is now reading scripts for Eddie Quillan. NEW RECORDING Technical Vocabulary Issued by M. P. Academy West Coast Bureau. THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — A booklet containing the extensive vocabulary of sound motion pictures has been issued by the technical bureau of the Academy of M. P. Arts and Sciences. It is called "A Selected Glossary for the Motion Picture Technician" and its chief purpose is to help the sound engineers, cameramen, laboratory workers and theater projectionists to understand each other, also for the guidance of directors and others in related crafts. ERPI Sales Changes J. M. Ridge, formerly of the Dallas territory, has been appointed Western Division sales manager of Electrical Research Products with headquarters in Hollywood. He succeeds J. R. West, promoted to special representative to handle assignments directly from the New York office. Soldiers Protest "All Quiet" Ban Berlin — Placards protesting the ban on Universal's "All Quiet on the Western Front" are being posted throughout the city by the Union of War Wounded Soldiers at the Front and Those Left Behind by Dead Soldiers. Citizens are urged to advocate the showing of the film so that "the youth of Germany will learn the way to peaceful understanding." '.♦•.♦♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦tS WMW**Vtw*»w«*w**w»*vv««w«*v«#ftW*»w**v*v i 723-7TH AVE., N. Y. Studio and Location Sound on Film Recording Low Daily or Weekly Rates Powers Clnephone Equipment Corporation SYSTEM BY WHITMAN (Continued from Pane 1) man to carry the recording unit. The results of recording with this system, using a separate source of electrical energy, is jet black and half tones. No mechanical means is used for recording on film, but a special optical system is employed. A combination of double peaked variable area and variable density are the results. Only recording the impulses makes it impossible for the film to be over developed, there being no exposure only when there are impulses. The device does not have to be mounted on springs or cushions and rough handling will not interfere with recording the sound on the film. The system uses a light source that is declared ideal for photographic reproduction. There is no lag 01 smudging of the film due to this light source in recording. The power used in this device is very low and the life of the recording light source is unusually long. Equipment is now being made for sound trucks to operate in the metropolitan area undei the Whitman Process. Studio channels under the same process are also being manufactured. 116 Sound Set Firms Put Out of Business (Continued from Page 1) the new standards in sound reproduction, there is no prospect of lower prices for Western Electric system in 1931. C. J. Ross of RCA Photophone also has announced that equipment prices will not materially change this year. Harry Fields Appointed 'IP Manager in Portland Portland, Ore. — Harry Fields, who started in the film business as a salesman in 1920 with Harry Crandall of Washington, D. C, and has since been associated with various companies in the east and west, is now managing the local Universal exchange. Fields recently married. Dick Sears Recovering Boston — Richard W. (Dick). Sears, chief of Pathe News in New England, is recovering satisfactorily from his attack of pneumonia. bryant eorr !■ BROADWAY & 47th ST., N. Y. PI r i WILLIAM MORRIS ft a < M 1— c ft > tu Call-Board o MARX BROTHERS o < Palace Theater, London r Cu 4 weeks commencing Jan. 5th r IB LOS ANGELES, CAL. « THE INDUSTRY'S DATE BOCK Jan. 3 Meeting of board of directors. Allied States Ass'n, Stevens Hotel Chicago, 10:30 A.M. Jan. 5 Meeting of Pathe stockholders to ratify sale of Pathe interests to RKO. Jan. 7 "Kiss Me Again," First National production, opens at the Warner, New York. Jan. 17 Dinner and Dance (17th Anniversary) of M. P: Machine Op. erators' Union, Hotel Astor, New York. Jan. 22 M. P. T. O. of Eastern Pennsylvania will hold annual election meeting in Philadelphia. Jan. 19-24 Fox Anniversary Week. Jan. 22-24 Annual conference of National Board of Review, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. Jan. 28-30 National Conference on Screen Advertising, Hotel Roosevelt, New York. Feb. 1 Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" opens at the George M. Cohan. New York. May 25-28 Spring meeting of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers to be held in Hollywood. No Terriss Features for Futter West Coast Bureau. THE FILM DAILV Hollywood — Walter Futter states no arrangements have been made for the making of two feature travelogues by Tom Terriss, "vagabond director," for Wafilms. COMING & GOING MAJOR ALBERT WARNER expects Xa leave for the coast, via the Panama Canal, in about two weeks. CARROLL DUNNING, accompanied by his wife and daughter, sails on the Bremen this week-end to arrange for foreign ver sions of "Beau Ideal" to be made in Ber lin with the Dunning Process. B. B. BUCHANAN of Publix, F. A. MAJOR of Major Equipment Co.. and BOB KROESCHELL of Carrier Engineering Corp. sails on the Bremen for Europe. Buchanan is to remain abroad three or four months. ALTZMANS Louis H. 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