The Film Daily (1931)

-. &m DAILY Tuesday, January 6, 1931 STHE UB NIKMiUfb Of HIM DOM VoUVNb. 4 Tuesday, Jan. 6, 1931 Prici S Cuts I0HN W. ALICOATE Editor aad Publisher Published daily except Saturdays and holidays at 1650 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. Entered as second class matter, May 21, 1918, at the post-office 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. Subscnbers should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1650 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 Hollywoo Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin— Karl Wolff sohn, Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris p. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Fran caise, Rue de la Cour-des-Noues, 19. Fin ancia NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Con. Fm. Ind.... 12)4 12 12 + V* Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. 17^ 16H 17J4 + XA East. Kodak ....153^ 150 152J4 — % Fox Fm. "A".... 28 26J4 27% — % Gen. Thea. Equ. .754 6J4 7 Loew's, Inc 50^ 48 48M — V* Para. F-L 42%, 40 42 + 1% Pathe Exch 1% 1% 1% + J4 do "A" 4 3% 4 R-K-0 "A" 17 J* 16& 17J4 — 'A Warner Bros 16J4 15 Ji 1554 — ZA NEW YORK CURB MARKET Fox Thea. "A"... 4J4 4J4 \Vz + % Loew do deb rts.. 12 12 12 +1 Loew, Inc., war... 2% 2% 2H + l/% Technicolor 8J4 8 8 — Y\ NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 58 57 57 Loew 6s 41ww ...103 103 103 + 1% do 6s 41 x-war... 98 98 98+1 Paramount 6s 47. 9454 94 K 9454 + 1?4 Par. By. 55^s51 .10154 10154 10154 Par. 554s50 86 8454 8534 Pathe 7s37 59 5254 57 +6 Warners 6s39 ... 70 6954 69% + % Cantor Breaks Palace Records In his first week at the R-K-O Palace, Eddie Cantor broke ?M previous attendance records at this vaudeville theater. Gross receipts for the week were $45,625. The Yokel —and other things (Continued from Page 1) over the reproducing needle or sound beam, for we find 1931 being seated to the tune of unadulterated music direct from the orchestra pits. Stage presentations, too, have come back with a bang. After all, stage door Johnnies can't make dates with screen chorus girls, and sentimental janes find it hard to romance even mentally with celluloid saxophone players. A judicious mixture of screen and living personalities seems to be the accepted formula for the coming season. !>♦*♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ *'#♦*♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ * ♦ ♦'♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦;♦ ♦•* Vf it *•* New York Long Island City »» J'X 1540 Broadvay 154 Crescent St. J.t i't BRYant ',M STIllwell 7940 g it *.* a $ g it | Eastman Films I * * * i J. E. Brulatour, Inc. $ it Hollywood |.f if Chicago 6700 Santa Monica ti :.: 1727 Indiana Ave. Blvd. K :.: CALumet 2691 HOLlywood 4121 « • it Micheaux Film Corp. To Make Negro Feature The Metropolitan Studios at Fort Lee, N. J. have been leased by the reorganized Micheaux Film Corp. for the purpose of making an allnegro picture "The Exile." Several all-negro short subjects will also be produced and a complete negro program prepared for Broadway showing. The officers of the newly reorganized company are, Oscar Micheaux, president, Frank Schiffman, vice president and secretary and Leo Brecher, treasurer. Newark House Robbed of $2,300 Newark, N. J. — The Tivoli was held up by bandits Sunday night and $2,300 taken from the safe. Henry Lowry, manager and Matthew Mutnick, assistant, were bound and gagged. The robbers escaped. In Brooklyn, the Stadium was robbed of $35 by a lone thief who held up a clerk in the manager's office. Vallee to Record Screen Song Rudy Vallee will record another screen song for Paramount. Ine number is "Betty Co-Ed," of which he is co-author. Vallee previously made "The Stein Song." $20,642 for "Devil to Pay" Surpassing its Christmas week business, Samuel Goldwyn's "The Devil to Pay," starring Ronald Colman, grossed $20,642 last week at the Gaiety. Consolidated Film Net Up in Last Quarter Net earnings of Consolidated Film Industries for the final quarter of 1930 was $555,464, after all charges, against $489,722 in the preceding quarter. Net for the full year was $2,306,543. Sunday Concerts at Roxy For Unemployed Benefit Sunday morning concerts by an orchestra of 200 will be given at the Roxy starting Jan. 11 for the benefit of unemployed musicians, under arrangements made by S. L. Rothafel, on behalf of the Roxy, with the American Federation of Musicians. The nucleus of the performing orchestra will be supplied by the Roxy Symphony Orchestra of 125 and the remaining 75 will be from the ranks of unemployed musicians. Erno Rapee will direct and the concert is to be broadcast. COMING & GOING ALBERT LEWIS, chief of the Fox writing staff on the coast, arrives in New York next Monday, instead of Monday of this week as previously reported, to close contracts for material. MAJOR C. COURT TREATT, F. R. G. S., noted English big-game hunter and who has been connected with several film productions, arrived yesterday on the Carmania. After a short stay in New York he will proceed to Hollywood. BOBBY CLARK and PAUL McCUL LOUGH have sailed for Europe. JOHN STONE, who has been in Paris arranging for production of French and Italian talkers by Fox, is due back at Movietone City this month to report results to Winfield Sheehan. NATHAN BURKAN has returned from a 10-day vacation in Florida. MAURICE CHEVALIER sails from Harve tomorrow on the Paris for New York. TALLULAH BANKHEAD sails tomorrow from England on the Aquitania. SYLVIA SIDNEY is en route to the coast to work for Paramount. JESSE LASKY will leave for the coast at the end of the week. HARRY ARTHUR is expected to arrive from the coast today. N. BREWSTER MORSE, screen writer, leaves tomorrow for Hollywood after an extended visit in New York. LARRY KENT, head of Paramount's short subject production, has returned from a trip to Chicago. MAX HAYES, Paramount dialogue director, returns Friday after six weeks at the Joinville studio directing foreign language shorts. Are you sure you are INSURED ? Let us look over your POLICIES — It may prevent a heavy loss! INSURANCE of every description Motion Picture Insurance a Specialty JOHN J. KEMP Established since 1910 551 Fifth Avenue New York City Phones: Murray Hill 7838-& THE INDUSTRY'S date ccor\ Jan. 7 "Kiss Me Again," First Nationa production, opens at the Warner New York. Jan. 15 "One Heavenly Night", Samue Goldwyn picture, opens at thi Rialto, New York. Jan. 17 Dinner and Dance (17th Anni versary) of M. P. Machine Op erators' Union, Hotel Astor, New York. Jan. 22 M. P. T. O. of Eastern Penn sylvania 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 Light*" 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. Jannings Joining Warners Emil Jannings is understood to be joining Warner Bros, for a series of talkers. He is expected to arrive in New York from Germany in about one month. Jannings' American picture debut was under the Paramount banner. Art Acord Dead Mexico City — Art Acord, former Western player, is dead from swallowing poison, according to dispatches from Chihuahua. He had been working lately as a miner. Quinn Martin Joins Fox Jan. 20 Quinn Martin, who resigned recently from the motion picture de< partment of the New York "World" to join the Fox scenario staff in Hollywood, will end his newspaper connection nqxt Saturday and report at Movietone City on Jan. 20. For Scripts and Scribes Go to Viola Irene Cooper 9 E. 59th St. New York Volunteer 5543 ♦ ANYTHING THAT CAN BE SOLD TO THE FILM INDUSTRY, CAN BE SOLD BY ADVERTISING IN THE FILM DAILY AND THE FILM DAILY YEAR BOOK ♦