The Film Daily (1931)

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THE IE NEWSPAPER IF HIM DOM 411 THE NEWS ALL THE TIME VCL. LV NC. 3€ NEW yCEtt, THURSDAY, fEBKLARy i, 1931 3 II SIN Providence Goes Whole Year Without Censor Cuts FOREIGNTALKERS MAKE INROADS 0N~B'WAY Wholesale Return of Silents Unlikely, /Says Chaplin The Parade — just looking on -By JACK ALICOATE^= Next week will National be the tenth annual Drama Week National Drama Week sponsored by the Drama League oi America. The program is comprehensive as well as nation-wide. Every available means will be used to build interest for the stage. Plays will be broadcast. Open forums will be held7 Special productions given. Little theater activities will reach their height. Pageants, sacred interludes, children's performances and play readings by clubs are part of the program. The idea is indeed interesting. Picture folk who believe the theater is dead might well peek around the curtain during National Drama Week. * * * The coming of Chaplin's "City Lights" to the Cohan theater tomorrow night again opens up the old question. Is there still room for the silent picture? The safest answer we know is the simplest one. Yes. PROVIDED that your star is the master pantomimist of all time. And Mons. Chaplin is that, if nothing else. Pantomime, by an artist, has ever had a definite spot on the stage. There is no reason why it should be different on the screen. * * * . This industry al DynanilC ways rewards aggresMr. Daab -ive advertising. Its very nature and showmanship complex makes this a rather established conclusion. The returns are in and again the energetic Mr. Daab rings the bell with his spectacular campaign to the trade on "Cimarron." Sales managers and executives will do well to remember that now is a buyer's market and thousands of live accounts properly told are half sold. The Argument Is on Again Star-Producer May Direct Talker, But Not Appear in It, He Declares Charlie Chaplin, interviewed as he arrived at Pennsylvania Station yesterday morning from the Coast, said that although he believes silent pictures will never return to any major degree, he feels that a certain number will be made without dia(Continued on Page 11) DU ART LABORATORIES Du-Art Film Laboratories, of which Arthur Gottlieb is president, will soon open an additional unit in Toronto. Work on the branch is now nearing completion. Xat Cherin, formerly treasurer 01 National Studios, Inc., has joined Du-Art as vice-president, succeeding George M. Dillon. The company ha taken possession of an additional floor at 245 West 55th St. and the entire plant is under the supervision (if Al Young. Will Evans Resigns From Gaumont British London (By Cable)— Will Evans ha resigned as joint managing director of Gaumont British Corp. His resignation is to take effect in six months. Mark Ostrer with C. M. Wool:' will fill the Evans post. "Lights" Release General release of "City Lights," Charlie Chaplin picture which world premiered at the Coast last Friday and has its New York opening tomorrow night, will take place with in three weeks. MICHALOVE TAKES CHARGE OF WARNER BROS. HOUSES Dan Michalove has officially been placed in charge of all Warner Bros, theaters, succeeding Spyros Skouras, resigned. As indicated in Th& Film Daily of Jan. 29, he will have the aid of the current committee comprising department heads. Films in Various Tongues Finding Big Audiences in New York Foreign dialogue talkers of the better class have drawn such encouraging support in New York, principally among the small class houses, that several sponsors of these showings now have plans under way to gradually invade the Broadway sector on a bigger scale. The present wave of popularity for the sound pictures of other countries started with the success of "Zwei Herzen im $i Takt," German operetta, now in its fifth month at the 55th St. Playhouse, where it is planned to keep it running indefinitely. "Sous Le Toits de Paris," French talker, has had a run of more than a month at the Carnegie Playhouse, and will be succeeded tomorrow by an (Continucd on Page 11) Producer Circuits Now Cover All States and 1,500 Cities Producer-owned circuits now have representation in every state in the union and are in approximately 1,500 towns, according tola checkup just completed. West Virginia has a minimum of affiliated! h.-u es, with only one theater, o*ned by Universal, in Charleston. 'iHje most (Continued on Pcuic 1 1 ) hot A Single Film Cut Made By Providence Censors in '30 Courtland Smith Confirms Pathe News Appointments Courtland Smith, in charge of Pathe News and Pathe Review, yesterda> confirmed reports of the appointment of Jack S. Connolly as bis assistant, Smith also announced that Edward Percy Howard would be editor of Pathe News and Terry Ramsave editor of Pathe Review. Providence — For the first time on record, this city has gone for a whole year without a single cut l>eing ordered by the censors in pictures shown here. Co-operation beI u i en the producers and tin i I n soring agencies is given credit During 1930 a total of 29,560.000 feet of (ihn was exhibited here. Ibis is an increase of nearly half a million feet over 1929. CANADIAN GOV'T PROBE COVERS EXCHANGES NEXT Toron'o — The gove: nmental mission investigating .b Canad.an motion picture industry, especially as regards American domination, has completed Is examination of the activities of the Famous Players Canadian Corp. and now is giving similar attention to tin Canadian M. I'. Distributors and Exhibitors Ass'n. Investigation of exchange operations will follow. Akron Theaters Guarded Against Stench-Bombers Akron, O. — Guards are being placed at all theaters to catch stenchbomb throwers, who have invaded the downtown section after numer(Continned on Pag* U)