Film Daily (1931)

DAILY BROADWAY TO GET FIRST AIL-NIGHT MOVIE HOUSE ( i ,mii»ucd from Page 1 ) ... , ater that the all-night plan will be put into effect. For the first week or two the house will be open from 10 \ m to IP M The larger house, seating -'OH. will keep to the 15-hoin schedule. Program, will run 50 minutes and. in addition to newsreels, contain the best portions ol short subjects spotted between news flashes. Fox Amateur Productions Success in New Jersey ntinued from Pane 1) lord, Nvack and Nutley, and two more pictures arc now in work at Englewood and Bound Brook. Prior to start of actual production, contests are held to select leads from among patrons of the theaters. Tieups affording high-powered exploitation are effected with local newspapers Two cameramen, Ed C ooper and Dan Dorn, are associated with the making of these pictures. M-G-M Switching Execs Between N. Y. and Coast (Continued from Pape 1 > of familiarizing them with each other's problems and slants. Al Altman has just returned to New York after a brief but intensive visit to the coast. Recently Ben Piazza was brought on to New York for a similar purpose. Betram Block and Sam Marks, eastern and western story heads, have also made similar switches. Treasurer and $3,420 Vanish Detroit — Following disappearance of Dennis Kane, treasurer of the Michigan, leading Publix house here, an audit of his books bv Bernard S. Kilbride, circuit auditor, shows a shortage of $3,420. COMING & GOING BENJAMIN' BLUMENTHAL, president nf Export &• Import Film Co., sails tonight ■ hi the Majestic for Europe. HERMAN R1KKIX of Boston, a director of Monogram Pictures, is in New York on business. LAURA HOPE CREWS of Samuel Goldwyn's staff in Hollywood arrives in New York this morning; for a short business visit. BETTY ROBERTS. Radio Pictures' westcm story editor, and JANE MTJRFIX. author, have left Hollywood for a month's vacation in the east. BEX HECHT and CHARLES MacARTHUR arrive in New York tomorrow morning from Hollywood. COL, SAMUEL REBER of RCA is sailing for Europe tonight on the Majestic. J. J. MCCARTHY, Fox executive, sails tonight on the Leviathan, for a three months' vacation abroad. CLAUDE C. EZELL and JOSEPH HUMMEL, 'if Warner Bros., are due back in New York tomorrow. GRADWELL I.. SEARS is expected Monday morning. TONY LUCCHESE of the Gold Medal Film. Washington and Philadelphia, is in New York consulting with Thomas McConnell, general sales manager of Mascot Pictures. VICTOR M. SHAPIRO, of Fox, leaves tomorrow for the coast. RI/VIT • • • HOPPED ABOARD that luxurious Isotta Fraschini owned by the big Trailer Man, Maury Asher, and he whirled us out to the Paramount luncheon at the Longisle stude for the A.M. P. A. lads before the gigantic trailer merger, Maury owned a Chevrolet which proves that mergers DO help some people arrived across the bridge and made inquiries as to just where the Paramount factory was located the traffic cop, noting the snappy bus, gave us the once over "Well, if it ain't Maurice Cheevalyay!" he exclaimed, mitting us so he insisted on accompanying us right to the stude as he rode on the running board arrived there, Maurice Chevalier was outside having his photograph taken with Mike Simmons and Tallulah Bankhead the traffic cop gave us a dirty look, and walked back to his post, a disillusioned man. * * * * • • • INTO THE dining room as the pressagey muggs dashed in in their breezy manner, the players at luncheon ducked under tables and a platinum blonde screamed and fainted a studio official then assured them everything was all right they had mistaken the Amperites for Gunmen's Long Island Local No. 7 then the pressageys were in line for a shock Mister Lasky and Mister Wanger were the only two gents to talk after luncheon they spoke briefly, modestly Maurice Chevalier, Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins merely took a bow a pressagey near us gasped: "Can ya beat it! A million-dollar lineup — and no ballyhoo!" that's typical of the way everything is conducted at Walter Wanger's 35 Millimeter Mill we have heard tell of some Hollywood studios that are conducted on the lo millimeter principle just the difference between professional stock and amateur • • • AFTER LUNCHEON they conducted the Gang through the studio we crawled cautiously over cables, call boys and cameramen strewn about everywhere gongs rang hushed silence a "take" another gong clatter everything hubbub again perspiring players worried assistant directors electricians crawling overhead adjusting gimcracks a colored maid waiting between scenes beside a dresser, absorbed in a love note from her beau as she finished, she picked up a powder puff and absentmindedly daubed a white spot of powder on her nose then sat with eyes closed dreamily, with a white spot on her black nose while a director on the set alongside was saying: "We've got to get some comedy in here, somehow" and 16 players, grips and script gals held bated breath while the director concentrated in his chair on Comedy and the cullud gal sat dreamily with eyes closed a white spot of powder on her shining ebony schnozzle • • • ON THE main stage the charming Claudette Colbert and luscious Betty Lawford playing a hallway scene on the lower stage Charlie Ruggles on a modiste set waiting while director Eddie Cline instructs an assistant to blunt the edges of pins in a hat which had made a scene too realistic when Charlie's femme companion sat on it and on the other set nearby the director was concentrating on a comedy bit. ...... .Yezzir it was a great party Paramount' s stude is full of human interest on and off the sets • • • AND DIDN'T that editorial on "Gangster Films" Btart something... and Editor Alicoate kicks in with the thought that there is really nothing new about gangster pix this biz started with one "The Great Train Robbery" so why all the fuss, at this late date. Mister Paul Block? Friday, May 8, 193 BIG SAVING ON SILVER SEEN WITH NEW PROCESS (.Continued from Pane 1) the developing process. As it is dil ticult to absolutely duplicate to thf last degree the qualities of succeed] ing batches of hypo, frequently, i a normal group of 150 release prints there would be several different quali ties of light and shade in the phoj tography. In the new silver plat ing process there can be no chai such as these, M-G-M officials saj for the same hypo solution may bi used, not for two days, but tor year or more. The center of the invention is process whereby used hypo fluid which has become impregnated witl silver nitrate, actuating chemical o film, is run through a series of sul cessive filters, and then a contrivanq which, by electrical current, removJ the silver from the hypo, restoring it to its original state. From the tanks, by the silver plating method $200,000 in raw silver will be rl claimed each year as the "used" hyp] passes through them. Silver has iT ways been reclaimed from used h\pd but under the old, chemical precipl tation method the waste was ver heavy. The new method also meaa approximately 1,000,000 gallons o hypo less per year than the ol method, while giving 90 per eel more unvarying quality in releas] prints. U's First Quarter Net Up Under New Write-off Pla< (Continued from Pane 1) which had already been written ol Under the old system, the net prol for the period would have been $9(1 432.86, and surplus at the beginnin; of that quarter would have been ii| creased by $1,165,342.65. 8 More "Dirigible" Roadshows Eight additional roadshows hav been set by Columbia for "Dirigible. They will plav the following towrJ shortly: Charlotte, N. C; Dallas, Dd Moines, Memphis, Xew Haven, Orleans, Oklahoma City, and Porj land, Ore., and Omaha. « « « » » » Many Happy Returns Best wishes and congratulations are extended by THE FILM DAILY to the following members of the industry, who are celebrating their birthdays: May 8 George Archainbaud James T. Kri'.ing Gene Lucas