The Film Daily (1933)

THE -3&* DAILY Tuesday, Jan. 10, 1933 ■DC Of FIIMDQM flL LXI. Hi. 7 Tits.. Jan. 10, 1933 Prici 5 Cmls I01N W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays »nd Holiday! at 16S0 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Int. J. W. Alicoate, 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 outsido of Greater New York $10.00 one year, 6 month*, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., Phone, Circle 7-4736, 7-4737. 7-4738, 7-4739. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood. California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. LondonErnest W. 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Warner's 6s39 10 — 5/g 25* + l/s 8% 56l/2 58 + U/4 2l/4 21/4 10 25/8 83/4 10 31/8 95/g 59 2% 20 V2 197/s 19% — % I8V2 18 18 + % 21/i 2% 23/8 — i/g % % % + % 21/4 21/4 2i/4 -f i/g 6 53/4 5% 1 1 34 11 1 1 14 — % 35/8 m 31/2 + 1/4 222 CURB MARKET % % % 4 3% 37/g lVi IVi ha BOND MARKET 21/4 2 2+V4 81% 815^ 81 5/g — % I6I/4 143/4 i43/4_iy4 373/4 37% 37% + % 14% 133/4 143/g + ifc 68 68 68 — % 1 1 1 19% 19 19 + % CITY FILM TAX IN PARIS Paris — In a move to increase revenue, the city council has decided to levy a tax of 150 francs daily on motion picture films taken here. Actors and animals used also will be taxed. Claremonr Sound Film Studios, Inc. All Facilities Available for FEATURES— SHORTS— TESTSSYNCHRONIZING Electrical Recording and Transcriptions Educational — Industrial Prod. LATEST EQUIPMENT— LOWEST RATES Tel. UNiversity 4-3915 138 W. 124th St. New York 111,325,817 Attend Business Film Shows (Continued from Page 1) were shown in schools, clubs, theaters, general meetings, conventions, churches, colleges, factories, offices, stores, etc. M. P. Division Issuing Monthly Non-Theat. List A new monthly service for all branches of the non-theatrical film industry has been inaugurated by the Motion Picture Division of the Department of Commerce, which hereafter will issue the only monthly bulletin of current non-theatrical releases. To start off the service, which will be part of the Non-Theatrical Film Notes already being supplied, a chart of about 100 releases of the past six months has just been prepared. All non-theatrical producers have been contacted to send notices of their releases to the Department for inclusion in this monthly service. Foreign as well as domestic non-theatrical activities are covered. Subscription to the service will be $1 a year. SAENGER CIRCUIT SHIFTS Shreveport, La. — A. R. Cunningham, manager of the Strand here, is to take over the Saenger and Paramount in Alexandria, in accordance with new arrangements made by the Saenger headquarters in New Orleans. He will be succeeded at the Strand by Jack Meredith. The new arrangement is to be in effect by Jan. 14. COLUMBIA CLAIMS TITLE Priority to the title, "The Public Be Damned," is claimed by Columbia on the strength of announcement made last August that a picture under this name will be made on the 1932-33 program. The production is to start in a few weeks ONE MORE FOR LA CAVA West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Gregory La Cava completes his RKO contract after one more directorial assignment, probably "Three Came Unarmed." Negotiations for his services by other studios are understood to have already started. ED ROBINSON'S NEXT West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — "Little Giant." an original by Robert Lord, will be the next Edward G. Robinson vehicle for Warners. Roy Del Ruth will direct. REOPENING CINCY HOUSE Cincinnati — George Dresselhouse, president of Cincinnati Theater Corp., is in Cincinnati to complete arrangements for reopening the Walnut St. Strand theater as a firstrun. HARRY COHN EAST IN FEB. Harry Cohn is scheduled to come to New York from the Coast in February. Alexander S. Aronson Files World Wide Suit Charging mismanagement and waste, Alexander S. Aronson, one of the three organizers of World Wide and currently a stockholder, has filed an action in the Supreme Court, New York, through his attorneys, Sutton & Linet. The suit seeks to recover for World Wide funds which are alleged to have gone to other companies and individuals through deals which, the complaint says, are not to the best interests of World Wide. Suit is brought against World Wide, Educational, Earl Hammons, Bruno Weyers, Sam Machnovitch, Norman C. Nicholson and others. Allegation is made that World Wide directors, also on the Educational board, have not acted for the best interests of World Wide. ROXY BOOKS W. W. PICTURE "The Death Kiss," a KBS production released by World Wide, has been booked for the original Roxy the week of Jan. 27. It is an Ed Marin production with Adrienne Ames, David Manners, John Wray and Bela Lugosi. BACKS "BUY AMERICAN" PLAN Chicago — As a result of a resolution adopted by Allied Theaters of Illinois, of which Aaron Saperstein is president, about 150 independent houses here will run trailer messages boosting the "Buy American" movement. EDDIE SUTHERLAND MARRIES Yuma, Ariz. — Eddie Sutherland, director, and Audree Henderson were married here Sunday. They made the trip between here and Hollywood by airplane. SUNDAY SHOWS IN CHEROKEE Cherokee, Okla. — City council here has repealed the anti-Sunday show law after a long fight between business men and city officials. MONTICELLO HOUSE BURNS Monticello, Ind. — Fire last week destroyed the Strand, owned by John and Frank Alexander of Lebanon. SIMONE JOINING COLUMBIA Ralph Simone, stage director, is en route to the Coast to join Columbia as a dialogue coach and director. MONOGRAM PICTURES CORP. Announces the purchase of the stories, "CABARET", by Paul Schofield, and "16 FATHOMS DEEP", by Eustace Adams All rights reserved and protected roc /ALE 2 late Bell & Howell sound cameras complete with traveling trunks. Box 970, THE FILM DAILY 1650 Broadway New York City Today: Allied Theaters of New Jersey meeting, Hotel Lincoln, New York. 1:15 P. M. Jan. 11: Special meeting of Westinghouse Electric to consider action on distribution of the company's holdings of RCA stock. Jan. 16: Special Meeting for Allied exhibitors of South New Jersey, Hotel Hlldebrecht, Trenton. 1 P. M. Jan. 17: Open meeting of independent exhibitors of the northwest, with President Al Steffes of Allied States Ass'n presiding. Minneapolis. Jan 28: Warner Club Ball. Grand Ballroom Hotel Commodore. New York. Feb. 5: Benefit performance for Temple Ezrath Israel, with Eddie Cantor and George Jessel as honorary chairman, Casino Theater, New York. Feb. 21: Motion Picture Club Ball. WaldorfAstoria Hotel, New York. April 24-28: Meeting of Society of Motion Picture Engineers, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. HORACE JACKSON LAID UP West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Horace Jackson, RKO scenarist, will be in bed about another week due to an attack of pneumonia. As a result, he had to call off his trip to New York to meet his wife on her return from Europe. PAUL DICKEY BURIAL TODAY Services for Paul Dickey, scenario writer, draonatist and actor, who died Sunday, will be held today at 2 P. M. in the Funeral Church, Sixty-sixth St. and Broadway. Exhibitors Screen Service