The Film Daily (1931)

THE m 2 m DAILV Friday, February 13, 1931 !THE IH NEVSMm Of HLMDOM Vol. LV No. 37 Friday, Feb. 13, 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 U930) 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., W. I. Berlin— Karl Wolffsohn, Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Cour-des-Noues, 19. Paramount Stage Unit Starting Next Month (Continued from Page 1) tives identified with the organization are Whittaker Ray, formerly with Erlanger, and Worthington Miner, stage director. Arthur Lubin, stage producer and actor, is also associated with the project. The company's first play is now being selected. Through the project stage players may be developed for screen work and screen players given stage training. Jenner Succeeds Peters West Coast Bureau, THE FILM DAILY Los Angeles — William Jenner has succeeded Hank Peters as Van Beuren sales and studio representative here. Three for Frye in Danville Danville, 111. — Nels Frye, operating the Empress and Colonial, will open his third local house tomorrow. It is the Tivoli, formerly the Central. New House for Gainesville Gainesville, Ga. — A theater is being erected here at a cost of $60,000 by C. G. Plaginos, owner of the State. ERPI FIELD FORCES BEING CONSOLIDATED In the interest of greater flexibility, all field forces of Electrical Research Products are being consolidated, according to H. M. Wilcox, vice-president in charge of operation. The first step in the merging of departments was effected Feb. 1 when the installation and service departments were consolidated. Now the two departments become the operating department with J. S. Ward, formerly service manager, as director of operations, and L. W. Conrow, formerly installation manager, as operating manager. The 4 Installation and 13 Service Divisions will be consolidated into five operating divisions headed by a local manager in each. Divisions, headquarters and managers will be as follows; Eastern, New York, A. J. Hodges; Southern, Washington, D. C, T. K. Glennan; Central, Chicago, W. W. Simons; Southwestern, Kansas City, G. L. Carrington; Western, Los Angeles, N. A. Robinson. Divisional managers will meet in New York on Monday to formulate plans which will set the Operating Department in motion April 1. Laemmle, Jr., Retains 'U' Production Reins (Continued from Page 1) all Universal production. Phil Reisman also continues under his longterm contract as general sales manager. Szekler, who has been with the company for 17 years, latelv as European general manager, takes over the post formerly held by Lou B. Metzger. He joined the Laemmle organization as an assistant to Maurice Fleckles in Chicago and later served in the Los Angeles, then as South American manager for nine years, afterward as Berlin manager, and then as continental director of 'U' activities. Mr. and Mrs. Szekler, now visiting here, leave in a few days for San Francisco, Chicago and New York. SEEK TEMPORARY CHANGE IN OPERATORS' HOURS (Continued from Page 1) vided their total period oi work during the week does not exceed 4b hours, the number of hours that constitute the six-day week. Due to current conditions, many operators are working only lour or five nours a day, so that their total time in a week is under the 48 allowed in the recently passed law, which goes into effect Sept. 1. 1 New York ft 1540 Broadway f$ BRYant 9-4712 Long Island City 154 Crescent St. STIUwell 4-7940 I I Eastman Filitins | J. E. Bralatour, Inc. « ft Chicago ft 1727 Indiana Ave. ft CALumet 2691 Hollywood 6700 Santa Monica Blvd. HOLlywood 4121 ^^^.^^^^♦♦■^.^^^■^.♦♦.♦♦■♦^♦fflfrf-n-T^ Norman Phillips Drops Dead West Coast Bureau, THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Norman Phillips, of the widely known stage team of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Phillips and Norman Phillips, Jr., who came west last year to enter pictures, dropped dead of heart trouble on the M-G-M lot where he was working in "Torch Song." Metropolitan Theater Shifts Louis Liss, former assistant manager and treasurer of the Walker, Brooklyn, is now managing the Duffield, Brooklyn. Irving Silverman replaces Liss at the Walker. Don Williams, who has been awav on sick leave, has returned as assistant manager of the Marlboro, Brooklyn. Louis Fishkin is now managing the Beverly, Brooklyn. Monte Salmon, formerly manager of the State, Jersey City, is now managing the De Luxe in Brooklyn. Scrutiny of 'Ad' Films Urged by M.P.T.O. Group (Continued from Page 1) Delaware at its meeting yesterday. The board urged that extreme caution be used to prevent the screen irom being turned into a "billboard" and causing unfavorable reaction at the box-otnee. It is also planned to watch features for anything in the way of advertising matter that may be either subtly or openly inserted. Jay Emanuel was re-elected chairman of the board of managers. No Merger With MPTOA, Says Abram F. Myers (Continued from Page 1) a Film Daily representative yesterday morning at the conclusion of the Allied confab here. Ti-t INlJtSICT'* DATE CC€I\ Authors' Club President Denounces Censorship Dr. John Erskine, president of the Authors Club, in an address before the Advertising Club, denounced the censorship of motion pictures as "a national scandal" and claimed that the recognized classics would have to be seriously deleted to pass the present censorship board. Wrestler in Series West Coast Bureau, THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Brown and Nagel will star Gus Sonnenberg, the wrestler, in a series of shorts to be released by Educational. Serkowich on Sick List Ben Serkowich, R-K-O theater exploitation man, is ill at his apartment in the Park Central Hotel. Burns Joins Pathe Cincy Staff Cincinnati — Stanley Jacques, local Pathe branch manager, has added William Burns to his staff as assistant booker. COMING & GOING CLEVE ADAMS, sails tomorrow for a South American cruise. HERBERT FIELDS and LORENZ HART, sail for the coast tomorrow on the California. WALTER HUSTON leaves for the coast Sunday. CHESTER MORRIS and SUE KILBORN (Mrs. Morris) sail Monday from Los Angeles for Europe via the Panama Canal. DICK BRADY of Eastman Kodak has gone to Rochester for a few days. 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 executive 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. 14 First Annual Writers-Wampas Roast, Biltmore Hotel, Hollywood. 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. Para. New York Studio To Play Bigger Role (Continued from Page 1) will be made at the plant, as compared with 12 produced in 1930-31. With the studio and its personnel geared high, productions to be made are of a more elaborate and pretentious nature than those included in i the current year program. 'U' Spending $1,500,000 For Shorts Next Year (Continued from Page 1) it is announced by Carl Laemmle. This figure, which does not include serials or newsreels, is the largest ever appropriated by 'U' for shorts. The program will include at least 26 sport reels, the Slim Summerville comedies, the "Strange As It Seems" series, the Oswald cartoons and the Sidney and Murray comedies. Harold Dunn in Philly Philadelphia — Harold S. Dunn, former Warner branch manager in Pittsburgh, is now assisting Bill Wilson, booker, and William Goldman of the Stanley-Warner houses here. COLOR PRINTS Color sound cameras available for short subjects, or advertising films. Color prints from Bi-pack negatives. BREWSTER COLOR FILM CORPORATION 58 First Street, Newark, N. J. Humboldt 2-4228 Studio and Location Sound on Film Recording Low Dally or Weekly Rates Powers Clnephone Equipment Corporation 723-7TH AVE.. N. Y. BRYANT O-eOeT