The Film Daily (1931)

DAILY Monday, April 13, 1931 :the Of HIMDOJM Vol. LV No. 86 Monday, April 13, 1931 Price 5 Cents I0HN 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. Aliooate, 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, 1,5.00; 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 CIrcl 7-4736, 7-4737, 7-4738, 7-4739. Cable ad dress: Filmday, New York. Hollywood California — Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernes W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin— Karl Wolffsohn Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Pans p. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Fran caise. Rue de la Cour-des-Noues, 19. Fin ancia NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) Net High Lev. Close Lng. Con. Fm. Ind 17 16M 17+54 East. Kodak 161 159-4 159J4 + H Fox Fm. "A" 26 25 'A 26 Gen. Th. Eq. (new) 10*6 9Ya, 9Ji — Yi Loew's, Inc 5354 53 53 do pfd. (6Y2) 96Ys 96 96 — y2 Paramount 43-54 43 43 % — Ya, Pathe Exch 2J4 2'A 2Ys do "A" 6 55^ 5Vs — Vi RKO "A" 22Yt 2\Y2 22Yt + J* Warner Bros 12 11-54 HM — Yi NEW YORK CURB MARKET Fox Thea. "A' 4^ 4'/5 4 J* Gen. Th. Eq. pfd. 23^4 22 U 23 — 15-S Technicolor 10y» 10}4 10?i Trans-Lux 9'A 8 8 — IK NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 6054 S9?4 59A — lrA Par. By. 5K-S51 . .102*4 102*4 102*4 Par. 5Ks50 85*4 85*4 85*4— -54 Warner's 6s39 ..55 55 55+94 Pat O'Brien With Nancy Carroll Pat O'Brien, who makes his talker debut in "The Front Page," will play opposite Nancy Carroll in "Personal Maid" at the Paramount New York studio. Monta Bell will direct. O'Brien is under contract to Howard Hughes. The Broadway Parade (Current Extended Run Attractions) THEATER OPENING DATE PICTURE DISTRIBUTOR "Zwei Herzen im 34 Takt" Asso. Cine, of Amer. Europa Sept. 12 "Trader Horn" M-G-M Astor Feb. 3 "City Lights" United Artists Geo. M. Cohan Feb. 6 "Tabu" Paramount Central Park Mar .18 "Wien, Du Stadt der . Lieder" Leo Brecher Little Carnegie Mar. 19 "Front Page" United Artists Rivoli Mar. 19 "The Finger Points" . .First National Strand Mar. 27 "Reaching for the . Moon" United Artists Rialto April 'Cimarron" RKO Mayfair April "Dirigible" Columbia Central April "Skippy" Paramount Paramount April "Cracked Nuts" RKO Globe April "Cities and Years". . . .Amkino Cameo April "The Millionaire". . . . Warner Winter Garden April. 2* 3* 3 3 3 3 THE INDUSTRY'S DATE DCCr 'Pop. price engagement. Musical Shorts Series In Work at Atlas Studio A series of musical shorts for foreign distribution and the independent market is being made at the Atlas Soundfilm Recording Studios by S. Edwin Graham, formerly of Bristolphone, Vocafilm and M-G-M. For the last two weeks the Atlas plant has been busy on its own product, a color film series of 12, and the production of an all-Arabic dialogue feature, directed by Jack Cameron, for Syrian American Talking Picture Co., whose producers are Edward Gillett and Edward Dibe. George S. Gullette is sales manager of the Atlas Studios. Edgar Wallace's Agent in New York Edgar Wallace, British author and playwright, has sent over one of his representatives who iwll act as his agent in negotiations for the screen presentation of "On the Spot," which may be D. W. Griffith's next production for United Artists. It had been reported that Wallace came over here himself. 9 •• ♦*>♦.♦♦.**.♦♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦♦>♦.**>*.♦*.♦•.**.*♦.*♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦*•**•£?£!•'£ ♦>♦♦♦#♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦%#»v» ♦*♦*•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ New York Long Island City }{ 1540 Broadway 154 Crescent St. it BRyant 9-4712 STillwell 4-7940 i\ H Eastman Films I ♦V *.* Brulatour, IncJf Ij-e. :: 5 },{ Chicago it 1727 Indiana Ave it CALumet 3692 Hollywood t-J 6700 Santa Monica H Blvd. « HOLlywOod 4121 l\ McDonough on RCA-Victor Board At a meeting of the board of directors of RCA-Victor, J. R. McDonough was elected executive vice president of the company, according to an announcement by E. E. Shumaker, president of the company. McDonough, in addition to his new duties, will continue as assistant to David Sarnoff, president of RCA. 10 Artists Awarded Contracts by M-G-M (Continued from Page 1) gerald, author; Zion Myers, Tod Browning, Jules White and Paul Fejos, directors; Charlotte Greenwood, actress; Robert Young, actor, and Ulrich Steindorff, translator. Options on contracts with William "Bill" Tilden and Bayard Veiller will not be continued. Veiller's present contract expired April 7. Apr. 15-17: Paramount eastern sales convention, Hotel Ambassador, Atlantic City. Apr. 19: Lambs Gambol. Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Apr. 20-22 : Warner Bros. Eastern sales convention, Traymore, Atlantic City. RKO Pathe sales convention, Drake Hotel, Chicago. Apr. 22-24 : Paramount western sales convention, Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Apr. 23-24: State Convention of Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays, Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis. Apr. 25 : Laemmle Anniversary Dinner Dance of Universal Club, Hotel Edison, New York. Apr. 29-May 1 : Warner Bros. Western sales convention, Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco. May 18-22: International Exhibitors' Congress, Rome. May 25-29: Spring meeting of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, Hotel Roosevelt, Hollywood, Cal. Apr. 27 : Fox Film sales convention, New York. Arrested for Selling Screen Space Pittsburgh — Two men, listed as Richard Carroll and J. J. Hayes, both of Philadelphia, are being held by police here, accused of selling advertising space on the screen of the Triangle in East Liberty, and assuring merchants that photographs of stars would be provided for their customers. John Davis, manager of the theater, told police the men were not authorized to sell space on the theater's screen. Roxy Alters Admission Scale Admission price for Saturday, Sunday ond holiday mornings at the Roxy has been reduced to the regular week-day morning scale of 50 cents for balcony and orchestra. This price will prevail until 1 P. M. Admission for the midnight show has been made 65 cents throughout the house on week days and 73 cents on Saturday, Sunday and holidays. Kravetz in Kansas City Kansas City — Max Kravetz of Hughes-Franklin real estate department will be in Kansas City this week. Schorgle Joins Pathe Kansas City — James Schorgle, formerly booker for Hughes-Franklin here, has gone with Pathe. '%*>*>♦.♦♦>♦.**>♦>♦.♦♦.♦♦.*♦>♦>*.♦♦.♦♦♦♦>♦.♦♦.♦♦.♦♦.•♦.•♦>♦.**'• *k* Studio and Location Sound on Film Recording Low Daily or Weekly Rates Powers Clnephone Equipment Corporation 723-7TH AVE., N. Y. BRYANT 9-6067 Johnny Farrell on Radio Johnny Farrell, golf champ, will make his first appearance on the air at the RKO Stage and Screen noonday period tomorrow. He will be interviewed by Mrs. Ruth King Owen on women goiters. "Roxy" Heads NVA Pageant S. L. ("Roxy") Rothafel has been] appointed chairman of the stage committee in charge of presenting the pageant of stars for the NVA Fund at the Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday evening, April 26. The program will be a joint performance contributed by all the motion picture ' and vaudeville interests in America. Ann Harding Buys Plane Ann Harding leaves Chicago this morning with her husband, Harry Bannister, en route to Detroit to receive their new Bellanca plane at the Air Show there. The screen star expects to fly to New York before returning to Hollywood to start her ■ next feature for RKO Pathe. COMING & GOING WM. ANTHONY McGUIRE has left for Hollywood to write originals for Fox. JOHN L. MURPHY, production manager for Harold Lloyd, arrived in New York yesterday from the coast. J. C. GRAHAM and IKE BLUMENTHAL arrived in New York last week from the other side. HOWARD PHILLIPS, stage actor, signed in New York for the leading male role in Fox's "Over the Hill," is on his way to Hollywood. 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