The Film Daily (1931)

THE Monday, March 16, 1931 DAILY KINOGRAMS AND ALLIED IN AD NEWSREEL PROJECT (Continued from Pane 1> wide staff. Industrial material to be included in the reel will be subject to approval by a committee representing Allied tbcaters. Contracts for showing Kinograms will be obtained through the joint efforts of Allied leaders and Hanson. Allied and its affiliated units will be reimbursed in proportion to the number of contracts secured. The formal announcement made Saturday said, in part: "The new arrangement is the result of the action of Allied at its recent convention in Chicago, when Oscar Hanson was designated as agent to represent the members in the matter of advertising reels. It represents a determination by the exhibitors that their screens shall not be used for advertising without compensation, and that all advertising shown in their theaters shall be subject to their control." Branson Taking Over Pathe's Chicago Office (Continued from Pane I ) Depinet. Branson, who replaces John Clark, resigned, was instrumental in bringing the St. Louis office to the front ranks of business getters for Pathe. He formerly was ace salesman in Des Moines and later manager of that branch. New Pathe Branch Mgrs. In Portland and Seattle Ned Depinet, general .sales manager of RKO Pathe, has transferred H. L. Percv from the branch managership of Portland to the Seattle office, succeeding C. L. Theuerkauf, resigned. L. E. Hoss, salesman at Salt hake City, has been promoted to managership of the Portland office. Percy joined the organization as a salesman in 1923 and became branch manager in Portland in the fall of 1929. Hoss has been with the company since 1927. Farewell Party to Mertz Cleveland — Frank Drew, president of the local Film Board of Trade, presided over a farewell luncheon held last week in honor of Al Mertz, who has been transferred from the management of the Cleveland RKO branch to the management of the Cincinnati branch office. The board presented him with an engraved wrist watch. Mertz was president of the P.oard preceding Drew. Stone Tells 'Em George Stone, the Jew in "Cimarron," having made the rounds of Broadwav night clubs until 5 o'clock Saturday morning, went to his hotel and remained up the rest of the nieht so as to be on time to address R-K-O's children's party at the Globe on Saturday morning. In his ta'k, George told the youngsters to be good kiddies and "to go to bed early nights." The Broadwav Parailt* OPENING DATE (Current Extended Run Attractions) PICTURE DISTRIBUTOR THEATER "Zwei Herzen im 3A Takt" Asso. Cine, of Amer. 55th St. Cinema Sept. 12 "Cimarron" RKO Globe . Jan 26 'Trader Horn".. ..M-G-M Astor Feb 3 "City Lights" United Artists Geo. M. Cohan Feb. 6 "Pagliacci" Audio Cinema ..Central Park Feb. 20 "Nacht-bummler". .. .Columbia Princess Mar. 4 "Dishonored" Paramount Rialto Mar. 6 "Kiki" United Artists Rivoli Mar. 6 "My Past" Warner Bros Winter Garden Mar. 10 "Ingagi" Congo Pictures. . .. Central Mar. 13 13 "Way Down East' "La Canzone dell' Amore" . A. Griffith Grey Cameo Mar. . J. V. Crcmonim . . . . Belmont Mar. OPENING THIS WEEK 14 "La Vacanza del Diavolo" Paramount President Mar. 17 "Tabu" Paramount Central Park Mar .18 "Wien, Du Stadt der L:eder" Leo Brecher Little Carnegie Mar 19 "Front Page" ...... United Artists Rivoli Mar. 19 New Stage-Talker Combination Called 'Third Dimension' in Sound Open'ng of the Theater Guild production. "The Miracle of Verdun," at the Martin Beck tonight, will introduce for the first time in stage historj a new technique combining the possibilities of the stage with talking pictures. To accentuate the sweeping dramatic possibilities of the stage script the director, Herbert Hibernian, is introducing talking piclure sequences and sound reproduction in a good part of the action. The idea which the director had Tor enhancing the vivid action of the ii'.'u crystallized into material form after several conferences with John F. Otterson, president of Electrical Research Products. ERPI's staff of engineers helped work out details oi i plan to fully develop Hibernian's ideas and Audio-Cinema produced the seven talking picture sequences that will he used in the production. ERPI has installed three -eparate reproducers in the Martin Beck theater, all elcctricallv interlocked so that sounds and scenes reproduced by each will synchronize perfectly with one another and with the action on the stage. Two of the projectors are mounted on 1 1 1 e turntables s,. that their projected sounds may he merged into each other producing an entirely new effect for talkies. Seventeen loud speakers are used. 11 of them hack-stage, three of which are used entirely for sound effects. and two iii the nroscenium arch and four in the auditorium. The effect that ihcse speakers arc expected to introduce is alreadv being referred to as a complete innovation even for ta'king pictures— a "third dimension" in sound. Western Electric equipment provides both recording and reproduction. J. Harold Murray 111 | I 1 ■irold Murrav. hilled to open al the Palace on Saturday, was fori < I to cancel the 1 king '\\u to a severe attack o) laryngitis. Zukor Goes West Adolph Zukor has left for the Coast on his annual spring trip, during which he plans to combine inspection of production conditions with a slmrt vacation. M-G-M PASSING UP ORIGINAL MATERIAL i ( ontinued from Page I I he published in "Saturday Evening Post," and also for "Bridge vs. Bridge" by Edward McKenna, which has alreadv appeared in "Liberty." \uithi r contract was the signing of Mal'"!ii Stuart Boylan, author, to write a Scenario based mi the novel "Politics." Pictures now in production on the M-C-M lot are: "A Tailor-Made Man." "Stepping Out," "The Secret Six," "The Torch Song." "Shipmates." "Never the Twain Shall Meet." "Se i Eagles," "The Squaw Man," "Five and Tin." "A Free Soul." "Dancing Partler," "Flying High." "(.iris Together," 'Man in Possession." Writeoffs Bring Down Universal's 1930 Net Due to heavy writeoffs on several pictures released in the final quarter and not on the market long enough to be reflected in income account. Universal's earnings statement for the vear ended Nov. 1 showed a loss of $2,047,821, against a profit of $491.358 in the preceding year. The company has declared the regular dividend of $2 on the first preferred stock, payable April 1 to stockholders of record March 24. t ■■■■ , ■JAM 1 ^^^^B» Wf W0^ "GEE, BUT I'M HAPPY!"— says SLIM SUMMERVILLE the man with the bugle "Exhibitors everywhere say that me and my comedies* bring the blush of health to their box-offices! . . How about giving us a crack at yours?" MO tworeelers Produced under supervision of M. Stanley Bergerman NOTHING BUT BOX-OFFICE IN UNIVERSAL SHORT SUBJECTSI