The Film Daily (1931)

DAILY Monday, January 12, 1931 Vol LV Ni. 9 Monday, Ian. 12, 1931 Price 5 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : Editor and 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; L>on 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; months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all com munitions 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. 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By. 5*4s51. .. 103*4 103 103*4 + U Pathe 7s37 56*6 56 56 — 1 Warners 6s39 .... 74 73*4 74 + *4 Par. 5*4s50 »7% 87*4 87*4 — ?4 Flu Gets Harry Cohn Harry Cohn of Columbia is confined to his rooms at the Ambassador, suffering from a severe attacfc of influenza. •mmmwm*#.HM>*.HH»*M**.Hm.m.*VV#.»V!W*J ».*•♦'♦♦'♦♦'♦♦♦*♦♦♦*♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦*♦♦♦*♦*♦*♦•* The Broadway Parade ONLY two premieres on the program for the Broadway run houses this week. "The Bat Whispers," a Roland West production for United Artists, with Chester Morris in the leading role, opens Thursday at the Rivoli, and "Illicit " Warner production opens Friday at the Winter Garden. No openings for the following week have been announced thus far. An unusual number of Broadway week-stand houses are holding over their attractions. Among them is "Charles's Aunt" playing its third week at the Globe; "Right to Love" at the Paramount, "Criminal Code" at the Mayfair, "Man Who Came Back" at the Roxy, and "Paid" at the Capitol. The current Broadway run list follows: PICTURE "Devil To Pay"... "The Royal Family of Broadway"i Paramount DISTRIBUTOR United Artists THEATER . Gaiety OPENING DATE Dec. 18 "New Moon" "Reaching for the Moon" "The Lash" "Jaws of Hell"... "Kiss Me Again'* . .M-G-M. Rivoli ' Dec. 22 , Astor Dec. 23 One Heaveiuy Night" United Artists. .United Artists Criterion Dec. 29 , .First National Winter Garden Dec. 30 . .Sono Art Central Jan. 3 . .First National Warner Jan. 7 Rialto .Jan. 9 A. C. Oranges Invents Home Talkie System A. C. Oranges, New York inventor and recording engineer, has developed a new combination home set that can be used for recording of voice and sound in making home talkies, reproduce the synchronized pictures, play phonograph records as well as tune in broadcasting stations. According to Chas. Capehart, of the Glee-Hart Record Co., who is handling the project, the set will sell for about $300 and plans for manufacturing same are now in progress. Ann Harding's Father Dies San Francisco — Colonel George C. Gatley, father of Ann Harding, died last Friday after a lingering illness at the Letterman General Hospital. Austria Bans "All Quiet" Vienna — Culminating a hot political discussion, Minister of the Interior Winkler has forbidden all showings of "All "Quiet on the Western Front" in Austria. This followed the action of Herr Seitz, Socialist mayor of Vienna, in refusing to prohibit its showing. Nationalistic circles in Budapest have opened a campaign against "All Quiet," calling on the film censor to forbid the showing in Hungary as damaging to the national honor. COMING & GOING W. E. Buys 16 MM. Rights for B.I.F. Educationals London— H. Bruce Woolfe, managing director of British Instructional, announces that Western Electric of America has acquired the 16 mm. rights in B.I.F. educational short subjects, which include the "Secrets of Nature" series, for a period of 10 years for the Continent of America. The contract, which was signed by J. E. Otterson, provides for Western Electric to take twenty-four subjects during 1931, and thereafter thirty subjects a year. B.I.F. has already sold the 35 mm. rights in America to Hollywood Pictures, Inc. The deal with W.E. was negotiated by Capt. Harold Auten, the B.I.F. representative in New York. THE INDUSTRY'S DATE D€Or Sande in Vitaphone Jockey Earl Sande will soon start work for Vitaphone in a short to be produced in the East. Murray Roth, director in chief, and Casey Robinson, scenarist, are conferring on the story. "Illicit" Miami at $5 Premiere of "Illicit," Warner production with Barbara Stanwyck, at the Fairfax in Miami on Jan. 16 will be at $5 top. The picture opens at the start of the big social festivities of the season there. "Illicit" also opens at the Winter Garden, New York, and the Chicago, in Chicago, on Jan. 16. g H if if 8 if New York Long Island City tf 1540 Broadway 154 Crescent St. » BRYant 4712 STIUweU 7940 *.* I H Eastman. Films jj if if % J. E. Brulatour, Inc. H If if Hollywood ;•} Chicago 6700 Santa Monica K 8 1727 Indiana Ave. Blvd. it if CALumet 2691 HOLlywood 4121 }5 ♦*•.-♦♦>♦>♦>•.♦*.♦♦>♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦•.♦♦.*♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦♦>♦>♦>♦>♦.♦♦.♦♦♦•*♦ GRETA NISSEN, Fox player, left for the coast on Saturday. JACK CONNELLY, Trans-Lux production chief, returned from a New England trip, Saturday. ALBERT LEWIS, head of the Fox story department, arrives today from the coast to line up material. SAMUEL GOLDWYN returns to New York from Europe late this month. J. R. WEST of Electrical Research Products has arrived in New York from Los Angeles. 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Machine Operators' 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. Feb. 1 Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" opens at the George M. Cohan, New York. Feb. 10-11 National convention' of in pendent exhibitors called Allied States Ass'n to be h in Chicago. Mar. 7 Annual midnight theater party by the Kaplan Projection Society for the benefit of the Sick Fund, at the Hippodrome, New York. April 4-11 Players' and Patrons' Jubilee Week, national benefit for N. V. A. Club. April 23-24 State Convention of Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays, Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis. May 25-28 Spring meeting of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers to be held in Hollywood. Publix Nebraska Houses Trying Out Vaudeville; Under the recently instituted Publix policy oi local and regional stage shows, Publix houses in Nebraska towns of 10,000 to 20,000 population are now trying out vaudeville in conjunction with pictures: The units, of a band show nature, will be assembled in Omaha by Division Manager Evert Cummings and George Woods. The plan is to route the shows so that each house will have vaudeville one or two days every other week. Nine cities in the southwest also start playing Publix state shows this week and the shows are expected tc be booked into smaller stands aftei playing these cities. ♦ ANYTHING THAT CAN BE SOLD TC THE FILM INDUSTRY CAN BE SOLD BY ADVERTISING IN THE FILtv DAILY AND THE FILiV DAILY YEAR BOOK <