The Film Daily (1931)

THE DAILY Thursday, February 12, 1931 Vol. LV No. 36 Thursday, Feb. 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 (1930) 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 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 Allied Wis. Unit To be Strictly Indie Chicago — Ousting of the Wisconsin unit of Allied to make room for a new unit composed strictly of independents is expected to be one of the results of the Allied confab here. The present head of the Wisconsin group is Freddy Meyers, Universal theater manager. This is one unit where affiliated theaters are admitted. Nat Levine Releasing New Talking Serial Nat Levine, president of Mascot, is in New York with a negative of "King of the Wild," all-talking serial of the African jungle to be released in 12 installments. Walter Miller and Nora Lane head the cast, which also includes Tom Santschi, Boris Karlorf, Dorothy Christy, Arthur McLaglen and Victor Potel. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Con. Km. Ind. pfd. 17J4 1794 17*4 + 'A East, Kodak 172% 167J4 170'A + y2 Fox ini. "A" 36^ 34/i 3534 + lA Gen. Th. Eq. (new) 14J4 UVz 14}4 + J4 Loew's, Inc 57J4 54% 55J4 + V\ M-G-M pfd 26 26 2d + 'A Parami unt 50 48% 49% — % Pathe Exch 2 1% 1% — % do "A" 3)4 3'A 3'A — H RKO "A" 21% 20% 20% Warner Bros. ... 18% 17% 18 — % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Pets. Vtc 21A 21 21A + % Fox Thea. "A"... 6 5% 5% Gen. Th. Eq. pfd.. 28% 26^ 28% + 1% Loew, Inc., war.. 1% % 1 — % Technicolor 12% 1 1 54 11J4 — 1% Trans-Lux 9'A 8% 9 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 72% 71 7154 — 1 Keith A-O 6s46.. 76J4 76 76—54 Loew 6s 41ww 107 106% 106% + 'A do 6s 41 x-war... 99 99 99 + % Paramount 6s 47. 97 9654 9654 — 54 Par. By. 5%s51...103 103 103 + A Par. 5%s50 88 87% 87% — % Pathe 7s37 67 66% 6654 — % Warner's 6s39 ... 70% 69 69 — 1% A.M.P.A. Luncheon Tomorrow Due to Lincoln's Birthday falling on Thursday of this week, the regular A.MiP.A. luncheon scheduled for this day will be held tomorrow at the Hotel Dixie. Leatrice Joy will be the chief guest. Others will include the Gloria Swanson contest prize beauties, Miss Belgium, Miss Holland, Miss Paris, Miss Marseilles and Miss Spain. Goldwyn Signs Shumlin Herman Shumlin, producer and director of the play "Grand Hotel" has been engaged as supervising executive on the production stajf of Samuel Goldwyn for United Artists. Shumlin has been signed for a number of years and will leave for the coast within a month. Two K. C. Houses Robbed Kansas City — In two theater robberies staged here this week the Waldo lost a safe containing $850, while at the Summit only $20 was obtained from a desk drawer. ♦ « * %• ♦♦ ♦> ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦«*♦*•*♦*♦ New York 1540 Broadway BRYant 9-4712 Long Island City 154 Crescent St. STIllwell 4-7940 B Eastman Filnisl y it jj J. E. Brulatour, Inc. % 1 B Chicago 1727 Indiana Ave. CALumet 2691 Hollywood 6700 Santa Monica Blvd. HOLlywood4121 $5.50 Opening for "Rango" Ernest Schoedsack's "Rango," Paramount release, "will have its premiere Feb. 18 at the Rivoli with a special $5.50 showing. 3,300-Seater for Forth Worth Fort Worth, Tex. — Plans have been drawn for an eight-story theater and hotel building here to cost $400,000. John R. Griffith is the owner. "Inspiration" Holding Over Greta Garbo in "Inspiration," MG-M production, will be held over at the Capitol. ■ ♦.• V •#* *.♦ ♦.♦ ♦.* ♦.* ♦,♦ ♦.♦♦.*♦.* ! m CHARLIE CHAPLIN sails on the Mauretania tomorrow for England. JACOB WILK, Warner Bros, story editor, leaves Hollywood today for New York ABE MEYERS of th. .Meyers Synchronizing Service is in New York from the coa^t. TOMMY CLIFFORD, youthful Irish screen player, arrives in New York tomorrow on his way to Ireland. RALPH PINCUS of the Columbia, San rrancisco, arrived in New York yesterday to arrange with the Erlanger office to take New \ork shows to the coast and produce them at the Columbia. Plunkett Going West To Confer with Brown Following the R-K-O theater division managers' conference to be held in Chicago on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Joseph K. Plunkett will go to the coast to confer with Hiram Brown, president of RKO. Plunkett expects to return to New York about March 15. Extensive changes and shifts in both RKO and RKO-Pathe departments are expected to be the main subject of the coast discussion with much action taking place upon Plunkett's return. Ontario Committee Demands British Films Cobourg, Ont. — A special committee has been appointed by the city councillors to get in touch with councils throughout central and eastern Ontario and endeavor to get them to join in, a movement to encourage establishment of independent theaters showing British films. Start Work on New Bronx House Construction has been started on the theater being erected on White Plains Road and Lydig Ave., Bronx, and completion is expected by Sept. 1. The Olinville Amusement Co., of which M. H. Kutinsky is president, has taken a 21-year lease on the house, which will seat 2,000. The lessee now operates the Allerton at White Plains and Allerton in the Rronx. "Sit Tight" for Winter Garden Warner's "Sit Tight," co-starring U mme Lightner and Joe E. Brown, opens at the Winter Garden on Tuesday. In the cast are Claudia Dell, Paul Gregory and Lotti Loder. Re-Examining Ontario Operators Toronto— All projectionists in Ontario will be re-examined as to their qualifications beginning May 1. El White Returns to Music Firm Elmore White has returned to De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, Inc., as general professional manager after an absence from the firm of several months. ^Caesar" Held in L. A. West Coast Bureau, THE FILM DAILY Los Angeles — Warner's "Little Caesar" which is being shown at both the Hollywood and the Downtown, will be held over for a second wc ek. I BKOADWAY & 47th ST.. nTT[M WILLIAM MORRIS m Call-Board SMITH and DALE Paramount, New York Friday, Feb, 13th LOS ANGELES, CAL~p THE INDUSTRY'S DATE C€Cr Feb. 17 "Sit Tight" opens at Winter Garden, New York. Feb. 16-18 Convention of R-K-O Theater Division Managers at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. Feb. 18 "Rango" opens at the Rivoli, New York. Feb. 20 Screen Advertisers' Ass'n execu I tive committee meets at Hotel . Roosevelt, New York. Feb. 22 "Warner Club Gaieties" presented by the Warner Club at the Hollywood Theater, New York. Feb. 23 Screen Advertisers Ass'n meeting, Hotel Roosevelt, New York. Feb. 28 Foxfilm Athletic Club fifth annual ball at the Commodore Hotel, N. Y. Mar. 7 Annual midnight theater party by the Kaplan Projection Society for the benefit of the Sick Fund, at the Hippodrome, New York. Mar. 21 Annual Ball of the Warner Club, 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, Hotel Roosevelt, Hollywood, Cal. Gen. Theaters Declares Dividend Initial dividend of 75 cents on the preferred stock was declared yesterday by General Theaters Equipment. Eastman Kodak declared the usual quarterly dividends of 75 cents on the common and $1.25 on the preferred. ANOTHER NOTE OF OPTIMISM . . . . The Girl from the West 'How is New York stand eprcssion?" Her bear-raided Escort "Famously, since Saltzman': opened. We dine on better food. We dance U peppier music — wait til you hear Smith Ballew— and when Tom Byrne send: the bad news, we look i squarely in the face with out worrying over to-mor row's breakfast." 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