The Film Daily (1931)

THE -3&"l DAILY Thursday, May 21, 193 62 PUBL1X THEATERS NOW DOUBLE FEATURING (Continued from Page 1) Belpark, Crystal, Alamo, Manor and Panthenon. The Alabama, Publix house at Birmingham, is also on a double feature policy. Similar policies have recently been dropped by Publix houses in Detroit, Toledo, Knoxville, Atlanta and Chattanooga. Fox Preparing to Start Educational Film Dept. (Continued from Page 1) made with the Federal Office of Education, Grisvvold has made several trips to Washington where the matter was freely discussed with Dr. W. J. Cooper, U. S. Commissioner of Education, with the view of supplying instructional and historical films to educational institutions of the country. Film will be selected from the Fox silcnt-newsreel library and from 'Magic Carpet of Movietone" releases. According to Griswold, it is planned to have descriptive talks composed by leading educators and historians, recorded in synchronization with the sequence of scenes. Films will be offered to schools, colleges and other institutions of learning at a low rental, the Fox officials believing that the circulation of the subjects will warrant the cost of preparation. Considering Campaign To Discourage Dual Bills (Continued from Page 1) the new season, there will not be sufficient feature product to permit carrying out of such policies. Executives of producer-owned circuits are carefully examining their situations in an attempt to wipe out this practice in whatever of their houses it exists. The contemplated educational campaign, however, will be concentrated on independent operators as houses which fall under this classification comprise the great bulk of double-featurers, with the affiliated circuits in most instances declaring that their adoption of the dual policy was necessitated by the widespread practice among indies. Musical Stock at Fay's Philly Philadelphia — Fay's, picture house, will run on a musical stock policy during the summer. Seasonal Stunt Tieing in with the opening of the straw hat season and the premiere of "The Smiling Lieutenant" tomorrow night at the Criterion, some score of summer derbies were tossed from the marquee of the house yesterday noon. A big cutout of Maurice Chevalier, wearing a sailor, meaning hat, adorns said marquee. • NEWS«»OF«»THE«»DAy • Charlotte, N. C. — Criterion Amusement Co. of this city will be shown preference by the Columbia, S. C, city council in its request for a lease on the theater owned by the community and adjacent to the city hall. The proposal was first made in a letter by representatives of Criterion, L. A. Gregg, president, L. G. Sipe, secretary and treasurer, and Walter Griffiths, requesting that they be permitted to open a 10-cent moving picture theater similar to the one recently opened in Spartanburg and patterned after the Criterion here. Bantam, Conn. — Frank Casciola has taken over and opened the Rivoli, formerly operated by Dominick Evangelisti. Kansas City — E. W. Green, M-GM salesman, has taken an indefinite leave of absence due to illness, and has been replaced by Ben Taylor, formerly with Universal on the West Coast. Charlotte, N. C. transfers reported are: the Broadway X. C, temporarily merly under the ma Andos, transferred to be opened June ville, S. C, opera Amusement Co., to S. W. Craver and — Recent theater in the Carolinas , Winston-Salem, closed and fornagement of John to George Nicols 1; State, Greented by the Trio be taken over by M. Merriwether. Seymour, Conn. — A. Jewell, who formerly managed the Alhambra, Waterbury, is now operating the Strand here, owned by E. H. Rolston. Portland, Me. — Management of the Elm here has closed the theater. Marcus, la. — The Lyric here has been sold by Robinson and Lehman to George Elfline of Creighton, Neb. New Haven, Conn. — Larry Germaine, booker for Warner theaters, will be married June 28 to Esther Kothbaum of the Paramount exchange. Cleveland — William Weiss is now assistant manager at Loew's Stillman. He was formerly manager of Warners' Alhambra, Canton. Seattle — The Pacific Institute of Seattle has reopened the Columbian, a Rainier Valley suburban house. William Kelso and H. Spangler will manage the house. Houston, Tex. — Yodek & Son are reported as having purchased the Idle Hour at Hempstead from C. J. McKenzie. Philadelphia — Columbia Stamper is now operating the Windsor and Tioga. 25 Playwrights Among Paramount's 52 Writers Twenty-five of the 52 writers now on Paramount's roster are wellknown playwrights, 15 gained reputations as novelists before entering motion picture work and the remainder are divided among those who have written other forms of literature or are experienced in writing directly for the screen. Besides the two new writers, the following are now under contract at the Paramount Hollywood studios: Zoe Akins, Bartlett Cormack, Samuel Hoffenstein, Vincent Lawrence, Herman Mankiewicz, Max Marcin, William Slavens McNutt, Madame Condes Neve, Edward Paramore, Jr., Viola Brothers Shore, Sam and Bella Spewack, Louis Weitzenkorn, John Wexley, Lajos Zilahy, Ernest Pascal, Guy Bolton, Lloyd Corrigan, Oliver H. P. Garrett, A. A. Kline, Brian Marlow, James K. McGuinness, Sam Mintz, Samson Raphaelson, Jose Carner-Ribalta, Paul Hervey Fox, Charles Furthmann, Percy Heath, Grover Jones, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Henry Myers, Arthur Kober, Agnes Brand Leahy, Marion Dix, Virginia Kellogg, Betty White and Erna Mankiewicz. At Paramount's New York studios are: John Colton, Donald Ogden Stewart, Ursula Parrott, Ben Hecht, Melville Baker, Owen Davis, Preston Sturges, Rudolf Kummer, Dwight Taylor, Edgar Neville, Gertrude Purceli, Alice D. G. Miller and Adelaide Heilbron. P. A. Powers Introducing New Sound Film System (Continued from Page 1) dios, N. J., to the Powers studio, and as soon as the installation is finished, a series of short subjects, using the organ as the theme in both song and picture, will be produced. Fox Theater Assignments Recent assignments in Fox theaters include the following: Louis Preston appointed manager of the Academy of Music, succeeding Frank Steffy, who goes to the Audubon, replacing J. Benjamin, transferred to the Park Plaza. M. Weiser, formerly manager of the Glenwood, is now at the Benson, and S. Champlin has taken over the Glenwood. John F. Mackenzie, lately assistant manager and treasurer of the Astoria Grand, is now manager of the Valley Stream, with Jack Goldstein succeeding him at the Astoria Grand. George King is the new assistant manager of the Lynbrook, replacing P. Hecht, transferred to the Ambassador as assistant manager and treasurer. Sam Fried has taken over the Terminal in Brooklyn, and I. J. Stein is now assistant manager of the Walker in that city. Armida at Palace Armida opens a week's engagement at the R-K-O Palace, Saturdav. GREAT ARRAY OE PRIZES FOR GOLF TOURNAMEN Trophies and prizes for the win] ners of the Film Golf Tournamenl to be held June 10 at the Fenimor'] Country Club, White Plains, prom^ ises to be the finest array ever of fered at the annual affair. Severa donors 'phoned The Film Daily gol editor yesterday, eager to assure thi contestants that special awards fo low scores would be waiting at tin nineteenth hole for the lucky, o clever players. Entry blanks (with the $10 fee continue to reach The Film Daili by each mail. Golf fans who hav« sent in their blanks and the necessary ten-spots to date include: GOLF ENTRIES Chas. A. Alicoate Jack Alicoate Winfield Andrus Paul Benjamin Herbert Berg Paul Berger George Blair Milton Blumberg Lou Blumenthal Richard Eiady S. S. Braumberg Leo Brechcr O. H. Briggs Colvin W. Brown C. W. Bunn Jack Cohn James Cron James Cunningham Ted Curtis Herbert Ebenstein George Folsey L. E. Frenseen Ray Gallagher Bruce Gallup Sidney Garrett Don Gillette Henry Ginsberg Jess Gourlay Paul Gulick Jack Guttfreund Earl W. Hammons Don Hancock Arthur Hirsch Joe Hornstein Don Hyndman Red Kann Morris Kutinsky Marvin Kirsch Leo Klebinow Charles E. Lewis Al Lichtman George McCarthy Jimmy Martin William Massce Mitchell May, Jr. H. W. Mayse Don Mersereau Lee Ochs Harold Rodner P. H. Rosenberg Ernest Rovelstadt Al Ruben Nat Saland Chester Sawyer G. A. Scanlan Henry Segal Al Selig Jack Shapiro Mort Spring Arthur Stebbins Max Stuart Ben Barondess Henry Eysmann Fulton Hardman Irving Stolzer Para. Cutting Overhead To Conform with Times Under its policy of readjustment to meet present conditions, Paramount on June 1 will effect reductions in: all salaries to an extent approximating 15 per cent. Warner Bros, is occupied with a general tightening, of its personnel, making eliminations at both the home office and Coast studios wherever such cuts can be* made without injuring the efficiency1 of its organizations. No reduction in salaries, it is understood, is con-i templated. TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY IN THE Of niMDQM New York City considering drastic fire ordinance. Would work hardship on exchanges, studios and theaters. * * * British First National reported under way by Lord Beaverbrook. ,