The Film Daily (1932)

THE ■S&& 40 GAUMONT PICTURES FOR U. 8. NEXT YEAR (Continued from Page 1) Gaumont-British will distribute 42 American made films throughout the United Kingdom. The list is comprised of 23 World Wide, six Golden Arrow productions made by George Weeks, five Invincible .pictures and eight Allied. Gaumont-British operates 357 theaters in the United Kingdom with a total gross business yearly of one-third the entire amount taken in by all other theaters combined, according to Ostrer. Subsidiai'y companies are Gainsborough, Ideal, Gaumont and Gaumont-British laboratories. National Screen Animation Used in Dietz Stage Revue A National Screen Service animated trailer is used in connection with a song number by Clifton Webb in the Howard Dietz stage revue, "Flying Colors." As the tempo of Webb's song, "Day After Day," becomes too fast for him to keep up with the music, the screen animation picks up the action and the events described are projected in amusing rapid-fire animation. THIRD MASCOT SERIAL West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Production has started on Nat Levine's third serial, "The Devil Horse," with Harry Carey. Noah Beery, Frankie Darro and Greta Granstedt in the cast. MEYER SYNCHRONIZING 4 W est Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Abe Meyer of the Abe Meyer Synchronizing Service is supervising the musical score for "Trailing the Killer," which B. F. Zeidman is producing for World Wide release. Meyer is also supervising the scores for Pat Dowling': "The Iceless Arctic," for Educational; "The Cowboy Counsellor," a Hoot GibsonAllied production; "The Big Flash," starring Harry Langdon, for Educational. STANLEY RELEASING THREE First three subjects in the Cine log series of six shorts to be distributed by Stanley Distributing Corp. are now being placed in re lease. They include a two-reeler "An Old City Speaks," with narrative by Irvin S. Cobb, and two one reelers, "The Sponge Divers of Tar pon" and "Isles of Romance — th Dry Tortugas." Society for Premiere Social registcrites who have purchased tickets for the world premiere of RKO's "A Bill of Divorcement" which opens at the Mayfair on Friday night are General Cornelius Vandcrbilt. Mrs. E. F. Hutton, Mr. George Macdonald. Mrs. Walter C. Teagle, Miss Ruth Vandcrbilt Twombly, Mrs. Charles M. Amory and Mrs. Lucius M. Boomer, as well as numerous names from the roster of debutantes. Local 306 Hearing Set For First Week in Oct. Conspiracy charges brought against officers of Local 306, operators' union, will be tried in the Supreme Court. New York County, the first week in October. It is expected that the report being compiled for the I. A. T. S. E. & M. P. O. concerning the Sam Kaplan administration will not be made public until after the conspiracy trial. Officials of 306 are gratified by the fact that the Socialist .party is swinging its support to the local in its dispute with Empire State M. P. Operators. A statement issued by the party calls upon all workers to give their "moral support" to the Kaplan outfit. NEW HAVANA EXCHANGE Havana — R. A. Brea of New York has opened Independent Films, a distributing company for independent producers. It is the largest independent distributor to be established in Cuba. Brea is handling the product of J. H. Hoffberg Co., which includes Peerless, Big Four, Chesterfield and Willis Kent films. Maria M. Garrett has been appointed manager of Independent by Brea. CROWDS BRING POLICE Cleveland — Greta Garbo in "Streets of Sorrow" and the stage presentation, "The Truth About Married Love," being roadshown by Public Welfare Pictures Corp., attracted such clamoring crowds at the Engineers Auditorium that police had to help maintain order. SHILKRET IN RADIO FIRM Nathaniel Shilkret, musical director, and David W. White, director of the Mobiloil Hour on the radio, have formed a company to serve radio sponsors. AL ALTMAN ON THE AIR "Talent Requirements" will be discussed by Al Altman of M-G-M over the radio from the St. Moritz Hotel station Tuesday night. BRUCE POWELL BACK AT RKO Bruce Powell is returning to RKO as a member of Herschel Stuart's staff. He is assigned to assist B. J. Hynes in handling personnel, theater concessions and theater inspection. GOLDSTONE STARTS FOURTH West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Phil Goldstone has started production on "The Betrayal," his fourth Majestic release. Greta Nissen, Skeets Gallagher, Mary Brian, Lew Cody and Louise Fazenda head the cast under the direction of Christy Cabanne. "The Betrayal" is an original by John KrafFt. HOFFMAN BUYS STORY West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — M. H. Hoffman, president of Allied Pictures, has bought Brandon Fleming's "The Pillory." which was produced as a play under the title of "The Eleventh Commandment," and will produce the picture under the latter title. Oor New York and Hollwood plant* ere especially equipped to devolop negatives — to render a COMPLETE film laboratory service. lever during the entire depression did Consolidated lose its faith in the future of our industry. We did all in our power to help it through the lean years. We lowered our prices to bedrock. We've .been liberal with credit and terms. And when called upon, we lent our customers huge sums of money at a time when it was difficult to get money elsewhere. We have lent millions and are willing to lend more millions. Right now we are financing independent productions on a larger scale than ever before, believing it our duty to exert every effort to relieve the present shortage of productions. Not only by loans are we demonstrating our faith but also by the establishment of Consolidated Park— world's greatest film laboratory with a capacity of over one billion feet of "Certified Prints" per year, and by dedicating it to-furnishing a COMPLETE laboratory service to the industry. Our organization is trained to cooperate. It knows the importance of speed ... is accustomed to meet the instant demands characteristic of the industry. When overnight service is required, our plants can operate 24 hours a day. Every precaution is taken to guard your negatives against all possible dangers. And the utmost secrecy is maintained to provide the same measure of safety for the originality of your ideas. Only by sending your negatives to Consolidated can you realize the countless advantages in quality, cooperation and speedy service of an institution with 20 years' experience that has proved its faith in the industry. ff NEW YORK rJIn^ll.'I.IILHiJrlK-imi HOLLYWOOD