The Film Daily (1933)

10 Wednesday, Jan. 11, 1933 ALLIED TO NAP PLANS FOR CUTTING OVERHEAD (Continued from Page 1) dustry, with "Keep the Theaters Open" as its slogan, says Myers. In many cases the seriousness of the exhibitor's plight is due largely to his lack of initiative, energy or courage to fight for and obtain the reductions in expense to which he is entitled as a result of changed conditions, Myers states. He urges independent exhibitors to follow the example of the circuits in obtaining rent adjustments. Better deals with the unions, sound equipment firms and distributors also must be made, he says. N. J. Head Urges Rent Cuts Declaring that theater business has struck a new economical level, President Sidney E. Samuelson of the Allied Theaters of New Jersey yesterday urged his members to seek rent reductions to help alleviate their burdens. At a regular meeting in the Hotel Lincoln he stressed the need of cuts in costs of equipment and film. Next session of the unit is scheduled for Tuesday at the Hotel Hildebrecht, Trenton. Smoking, Lower Prices Spreading in First-Runs (Continued from Page 1) and balcony. Admission scale, except for divans, will be : Monday to Friday, opening to 1 _ P. M.. 35 cents: matinees, 55 cents; evenings, 75 cents. Saturday matinees will be 65 cents, with Saturday, Sunday and Holiday evenings at 83 cents for balcony seats and 99 cents for orchestra. Sunday and Holidays from opening to 1 P. M., 55 cents, and matinees 75 cents. Paramount has already reduced prices to SS-cent top. hut the "No Smoking" signs have not been removed. According to s> Paramount official there has been no demand of Paramount patrons for the smoking privilege and until the demand is voiced, the matter will not" be considered. Warner's Strand has not reduced prices, but since Friday has permitted smoking in the balcony. Under the new policy at the Radio City Music Hall, the entire orchestra has been priced at 35 cents for morning performances with slight advances during the day and evening. Smoking will be permitted in all three mezzanines. The original Roxy has also reduced balcony prices and is now permitting smoking there as well as in the loges. RKO Chicago Exchange Wins Hays Safety Award (Continued from Page 1) the year 1932. Presentation of the trophy was made yesterday by Will H. Hays, with Ned E. Depinet, RKO vice-president in charge of distribution, receiving it on behalf of Jack Osserman, manager of the Chicago exchange. Lederer. Colbert at Ampa Francis Lederer, foreign matinee idol under contract to RKO. and Claudette Colbert, Paramount leading woman, will be the chief guests at tomorrow's Ampa luncheon at Sardi's. Hal Home, prexy, also will be back in the chair with a new line of gags. GRAND HOTEL Producer M-G-M Distributor M-G-M Director Edmund Goulding Assistant Director Charles Dorian Author Vicki Baum American Play Version .... William A. Drake Photographer William Daniels Film Editor Blanche Sewell Recording Engineer Douglas Shearer Gowns Adrian Art Director Cedric Gibbons General Press Agent Howard Dietz CAST: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt, Robert McWade. Purnell B. Pratt, Ferdinand Gottschalk. Rafaela Ottiano, Morgan Wallace, Tully Marshall. Frank Conroy, Murray Kinnell, Edwin Maxwell. Produced in M-G-M Studios. Culver City. Cal Recording System Western Electric Premiere Astor Theater, N. Y., April 12, 1932 Released Sept. 10. 1932 • THE CHAMP Producer M-G-M Distributor M-G-M Director King Vidor Assistant Director Robert Golden Story Frances Marion Dialogue Continuity Leonard Praskins Additional Dialogue Wanda Tuchock Photographer Gordon Avil Recording Engineer Douglas Shearer Film Editor Hugh Wynn Art Director Cedric Gibbons General Press Agent Howard Dietz CAST: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Rosco Ates, Edward Brophy, Hale Hamilton, Jesse Scott, Marcia Mae Jones. Produced in M-G-M Studios, Culver City, Cal. Recording System Western Electric Premiere Astor Theater, N. Y., Nov. 9. 1931 Released Dec. 5. 1931 • ARROWSMITH Producer Samuel Goldwyn Distributor United Artists Director John Ford Author Sinclair Lewis Adaptor and Dialoguer Sidney Howard Film Editor Hugh Bennett Photographer Ray June Recording Engineer Jack Noyes Art Director Richard Day General Press Representative. .. Lynn Farnol CAST: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes. A. E. Anson. Richard Bennett, Beulah Bondi, Alec B. Francis, Myrna Loy, Raymond Hatton, Bert Roach. Produced in United Artists Studio, Hollywood Recording System Western Electric Premiere Gaiety Theater, N. Y., December 1, 1931 Released January 1, 1932 • THE GUARDSMAN Producer M-G-M Distributor M-G-M Director Sidney Franklin Assistant Director Harry Bucquet Author Ferenc Molnar Screen Play Ernest Vajda Continuity Claudine West Photographer Robert Brodine Film Editor Conrad A. Nervig Recording Engineer Douglas Shearer Gowns Adrian Art Director Cedric Gibbons General Press Agent Howard Dietz CAST: Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young. ZaSu Pitts, Maude Eburne, Herman Bing. Produced in M-G-M Studios, Culver City, Cal. Recording System Western Electric Premiere Astor Theater, N. Y., Sept. 9. 1931 Released Nov. 7, 1931 SMILIN' THROUGH Producer M-G-M Distributor M-G-M Director Sidney Franklin Assistant Director Harry Bucquet Authors Jane Cowl, Jane Murfin Screen Play. ... Ernest Vajda, Claudine West Dialogue Donald Ogden Stewart, James Bernard Fagan Photographer Lee Garmes Film Editor Margaret Booth Recording Engineer Douglas Shearer Gowns Adrian Art Director Cedric Gibbons General Press Agent Howard Dietz CAST: Norma Shearer. Fredric March. Leslie Howard, O. P. Heggie, Ralph Forbes. Beryl Mercer, Margaret Seddon, Forrester Harvey. Produced in M-G-M Studios, Culver City, Cal. Recording System Western Electric Premiere Strand Theater, Atlantic City, N. J.. Sept. 27, 1932 Released Sept. 24, 1932 DR.JEKYLLANDMR.HYDE Producer Paramount Distributor Paramount Director Rouben Mamoulian Assistant Director Bob Lee Author Robert Louis Stevenson Adaptors and Dialoguers. .. .Samuel Hoffen stein, Percy Heath Film Editor William Shea Photographer Karl Struss Recording Engineer Martin Paggi Costume Designer Travis Banton Art Director Hans Dreier CAST: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert. Halliwell Hobbs, Edgar Norton, Arnold Lucy, Col. MacDonnell, Temple Pigott. Produced in Paramount Studios, Hollywood Recording System Western Electric Premiere Rivoli Theater, N. Y., Dec 31. 1931 Released Jan. 2, 1932 o SUNDAY GROSS TAX PROPOSED IN OKU. BILL EMMA Producer M-G-M Distributor M-G-M Director Clarence Brown Assistant Director Charles Dorian Story Frances Marion Adaptation and Dialogue. .. Leonard Praskins Additional Dialogue Zelda Sears Photographer Oliver T. Marsh Film Editor William Levanway Recording Director Douglas Shearer Gowns Adrian Art Director Cedric Gibbons General Press Agent Howard Dietz CAST: Marie Dressier. Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy, John Miljan. Purnell B. Pratt, Lola Bennett, Barbara Kent, Kathryn Crawford. George Meeker, Dale Fuller, Wilfred Noy, Andre Cheron. Produced in M-G-M Studios, Culver City, Cal. Recording System Western Electric Premiere Released simultaneouly in Loew houses in Syracuse, Rochester, Providence, Pittsburgh, Memphis, Louisville, Kansas City, Houston, Baltimore, Jan. 8, 1932. Released Jan. 30, 1932 BILL OF DIVORCEMENT — Producer RKO Radio Pictures Distributor RKO Distributing Corp. Executive Producer David O. Selznick Director George Cukor Assistant Director Dewey Starkey Author Clemence Dane Screen Play Howard Estabrook, Harry Wagstaff Gribble Dialogue and Adaptation Howard Estabrook, Harry Wagstaff Gribble. Film Editor Arthur Roberts Photographer Sid Hickox Recording Engineer George Ellis Costume Designer Josette De Lima Art Director Carroll Clark General Press Representative .. Robert F. Sisk CAST: John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, (Continued from Page 1) sonal lectures are excluded. The measure calls for reports to be made monthly to the state treasurer, and a fine of $10 to $50 is provided for each violation. Governor Murray told newspapermen last week that he was opposed to a general tax on admissions, except in high-priced theaters, on the ground that entertainment is at all times necessary to working people and particularly so during difficult times. He did not, however, refer to the proposed tax ' on Sunday showings. Billie Burke, David Manners, Bramwell Fletcher, Henry Stephenson, Paul Cavanagh, Elizabeth Patterson, Gayle Evers. Produced in RKO Studios, Hollywood Recording System RCA Photophone Premiere RKO Mayfair Theater, N. Y., Sept. 30, 1932 Released Sept. 30, 1932 BACK STREET Producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. Distributor Universal Pictures Associate Producer E. M. Asher Director John M. Stahl Assistant Director Scott R. Beal Author Fannie Hurst Screen Play and Continuity. .Gladys Lehman Dialoguer Lynn Starling Film Editor Milton CarVuth Photographer Karl Freiind Recording Supervisor C. Roy Hunter Costume Designer Vera Art Director Charles D. Hall CAST: Irene Dunn, John Boles. George Meeker, June Clyde, Walter Catlett, Paul Weigel, James Donlan, James Farley, Virginia Pearson, Mahlon Hamilton, Tom Kerrigan. Jane Darwell, Doris Lloyd, William Bakewell, Arietta Duncan, Robert McWade, ZaSu Pitts, Shirley Grey, Paul Fix, Beulah Hutton, Rosalie Roy, Caryl Lincoln. Produced in Universal Studio, Universal City, Cal. Recording System Western Electric Premiere Carthay Circle, Los Angeles. Aug. 4. 1932 Released Sept. 3, 1932 SCARFACE Producer Howard Hughes Distributor United Artists Supervisor Howard Hughes Director Howard Hawks Assistant Director Richard Rosson Author Armitage Trail Screen Play Ben Hecht Adaptors Seton I. Miller, Fred Pasley Film Editor Edward Curtiss Dialoguer Ben Hecht Photographer Lee Garmes Sound Technician William Snyder General Press Representative Lincoln Quarberg CAST : Paul Muni, Osgood Perkins, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, George Raft. Vincent Barnett, C. Henry Gordon, Henry Armetta. Inez Palange, Harry Vejar, Edwin Maxwell, Tully Marshall. Boris Karloff. Bert Starkey, Maurice Black. Produced in United Artists Studio. Hollywood Recording System Western Electric Premiere New Orleans. March 31, 1932 Released April 9, 1932 Erpi-Ultraphone Settlement Minneapolis — Prosecution of a patent infringement by Erpi against Ultraphone of this city has been averted through settlement of the case.