The Film Daily (1931)

m =THE nKNEKMra Ot f IIMI'OJH Vol. LV No. 5 Wednesday, Jan. 7. 1931 Price 5 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Saturdays and holidays »t 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., 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, $15.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone Circle 7-4736, 7-4737, 7-4738, 7-4739. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood California — Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywoo Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin— Karl Wolffsohn, Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Fran caise, Rue de la Cour-des-Noues, 19. Fin ancia ' NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Con. Fm. Ind... . 1254 12 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. 1754 16% East. Kndnk ....155*4 152 w-y rrffi "A" .. . 2854 27'A Gen. Thea. Equ. . 7 6Vs Loew's, Inc 50% 4854 Para. F-L 42% 41 Yt Pathe Exch 1% do "A" 4 R-K-O "A" 18 Warner Bm 1% 37/6 16% 15 54 39 1254 + 54 17% + li 155 + 254 28% + % 7 495/6 + Vt, 42% + % 1% 4 17f$ + % 16% + 1% 39 + 2 17 do pfd. . 39 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Pets. Vu 1854 18% 1854 + 1 Fox Thea. "A"... 4% 4% 4% Technicolor 8 8 8 ... NEW YORK BOND MARKET 60% + 3% 103 98 Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40. 61 Loew 6s 41ww ...103 do 6s 41 x-war 98 Paramount 6s 47. . 94% Par. Bv. 5%s50.. 86 Pathe 7s37 59% 57 Warners 6s39 ... 74 69% 103 9754 94 85% 94% — 54 86 -f % 59% + 4 73% + 3% Warner Earns 50 Cents in Quarter Xet earnings of Warner Bros, for the quarter ended Nov. 30 amounted to approximately $2,000,000 or 50 cents a share on the common, it was estimated yesterday. THE •e^mk DAILY Wednesday, January 7, 1931 Vitacolor Process Sold To British Producers Georges Musaphia, now on his way to the coast, has disposed of the English rights to Vitacolor to the Bromhead interests. Musaphia controls all foreign rights to the process, which is controlled by Consolidated Film Industries in the U. S. Laboratories for Vitacolor developing and printing will be built immediately with British International Pictures as the first to contract for the color process in England. Screen Training School Started by Warner Bros. West Coast Bureau. THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — A training academy for young actors and actresses has been started by Warner Bros, at their studios here, with Ivan Simpson as director. Tests for candidates are now under way. Production executives will supervise the course of training with a view to assigning parts to the most capable. Buy Warner's Atlantic City Atlantic City ■ — Complete title to Warner's here, together with stores and apartments fronting on the boardwalk, has been purchased by Warner Bros. The entire parcel was sold for approximately $3,500,000. Film Industry Chiefs Get Behind N. V. A. Week (Continued from Page 1) motion picture chiefs headed by Sam Katz, who is now president of the Club. Will H. Hays, Harley L. Clarke, H. M. Warner and Hiram S. Brown also are on the executive committee, while the national campaign committee includes Major L. E. Thompson, A. M. Botsford, Louis R. Brager, Oscar A. Doob, L. L. Edwards, Mark A. Luescher, Joel Swensen, A. P. Waxman, Frank Whitbeck and G. S. Yorke. April 4-11 has been set for the drive, which will be known as Players' and Patrons' Jubilee Week, and collections will be conducted at all performances. Special midnight benefit shows will be held only in New York, Hollywood and a few other places. "Illicit" for Winter Garden "Illicit," with Barbara Stanwyck, is slated to follow "The Lash" at the Winter Garden. No date has been set for the opening. COMING & GOING ^•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* ♦*♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦******************* ♦> :: ♦♦ New York }*♦ 1 540 Broadway Jfj BRYant 4712 Long Island City 154 Crescent St. STIllwell 7940 L. M. ASH, treasurer of the Saengef circuit and now theater relations manager for Theater Service Corp., arrived in New York yesterday from the south. JOSEPH M. SCHENCK is en route east from the coast. CARMEL MYERS left New York yesterday for Hollywood to report at Warner Bros. JOHN McCORMACK and GERTRUDE LAWRENCE arrived yesterday from Europe. TED CURTIS of Eastman Kodak leaves for the Coast Sunday. SALLY EILERS yesterday left New York for the Coast to work in a Fox production opposite Spencer Tracy. PAT GARYN of National Screen Service arrives back in New York tomorrow from a trip. JOSEPH I. SCHNITZER is due from Pittsburgh todav. LEE MARCUS arrives today from the coast. Advance Century. PHIL HODES, assistant to Charles Rosenzweig, returned from the West Indies yesterday. Stephen Spear Dies New Rochelle, N. Y. — Stephen Spear, manager of the Mainstreet, died following an appendicitis operation on Sunday. "Criminal Code" Holding Over Columbia's "The Criminal Code" will be held for a second week at the Mayfair. THE INDUSTRY'S DATE DOOr "Heavenly Night" Opening Jan. 9 Opening of Samuel Goldwyn's "One Heavenly Night" at the Rialto has been changed from Jan. 15 to Jan. 19. Warner 'Frisco House Opening San Francisco — Opening of the new Warner is set for Friday night with "Illicit" as the feature attraction. A contingent of Warner and First National celebrities are expected to come up from Hollywood for the dedication, which has been arranged under the supervision of J. L. Warner and Moe Silver. Lasker Joins Keystone Engraving Myles F. Lasker has joined the sales force of Keystone Photo-Engraving Corp. FOR LEASE— Theatre of two thousand seats in a town of over 175,000 near New York. Box 177B c-o Film Daily 1650 Broadway N. Y. C. § Eastman Films 1 8 T. E. Brulatour, Inc. \\ h a Hollywood Chicago 6700 Santa Monica Blvd. ♦,t 1727 Indiana Ave. H CALumet 2691 HOLlywood 4121 W a Let Us Solve Your Problems! Over 2 1 Years of Experience Qualifies Us as Specialistsin MOTION PICTURE INSURANCE Stebbins, Leterman & Gates INCORPORATED 1540 B'WAY N.Y.C. TELEPHONE BRYANT 3040 Today: "Kiss Me Again," First National production, opens at the Warner, New York. Jan. 9 "One Heavenly Night", Samuel Goldwyn picture, opens at the Rialto, New York. Jan. 17 Dinner and Dance (17th Anniversary) of M. P. Machine Operators' Union, Hotel Astor, New York. Jan. 22 M. P. T. O. of Eastern Pemv 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 Pennsyk vania. 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. Feb. 10-11 National convention' of independent exhibitors called by Allied States Ass'n to be held in Chicago. April 4-11 Players* and Patrons' Jubilee Week, national benefit for N. V. A. Club. May 25-28 Spring meeting of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers to be | held in Hollywood. Austria Bans "Quiet' Vienna (By Cable) — Universale ( "All Quiet on the Western Front" j will be prohibited here by the Aus' trian Government, according to lat • est advices. 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