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Tuesday, April 11, 1933
DISTRIBUTORS IN DARK ON STATUS IN GERMANY
(Continued from Page 1) films is at a standstill, but word has been received from Joe Hummel, who cabled the Warner home office from Paris complete details regardng conditions in Germany. It is expected that Clayton Sheehan, who arrives Friday from Europe on the Bremen, will have some plan for handling the present situation with regard to future sales and deliveries. Other companies reported no correspondence from German representatives.
John Balaban Acquiring Publix Detroit Houses
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group, which approximates 14 theaters, from his headquarters in Chicago.
Theaters reported in the deal are: Michigan, United Artists, Fisher, Madison, State, Adams, Redford, Birmingham, Grand Riviera, Annex, Centurv, Tuxedo, Eastown and Royal Oak.
MAE MURRAY IN COL. FILM
Mae Murray leaves New York today for Hollywood to star in a Bryan Foy feature for Columbia release. She plans to return in September to appear in a play by Austin Strong.
MARTIN SCHIFF BACK ON ROAD
Martin Schiff, lately at the Big U exchange in New York, has been transferred back on the road as traveling auditor for Universal.
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THOMAS MEIGHAN and wife have returned to New York from their winter home in New Port Richey. Fla., where they have been since January. They expect to remain in New York for a month or two before returning to Hollywood.
BLANCHE MONTEL. French actress who appears in "The Three Musketeers." arrives in New York today for the American premiere of the picture.
DOROTHEA WIECK, German player recently placed under contract by Paramount, is on her way to the coast following a short stay in New York.
JERRY HORWIN arrives in New York today on the Empress of Britain from the Coast, en route to England.
SAMSON RAPHAELSON arrives today on the Empress of Britain and sails at noon Wednesday on the same boat for London to do the Jeancttc MacDonald screen story for British International. Two plays by Raphaelson are scheduled for production in New York next season. "The Wooden Slipper." which John Golden will produce while Charles Hopkins will do "The Magnificent Heel."
CARL LESERMAN. Chicago manager for Warners, left New York yesterday on his return home.
MAE MURRAY leaves New York today for the Coast.
IRVING CUMMINGS leaves New York Friday for Hollywood.
MARI COLMAN. young Boston actress signed by Paramount, entrained yesterday for Hollywood.
RUBY KEELER, Warner star, is now in Honolulu on a vacation with husband. Al Jolson
IRENE LEE, story scout for Sol Wurtzcl. producing for Fox, leaves New York Thursday for Pittsburgh, en route to the Coast.
• • • ONE OF the sweetest B. O. Babies we have lamped
this year George Arliss in "The Working Man"
it's the best thing Mister Arliss has done on the screen
if you ask us because it approximates that much-abused
term, Universal Appeal more than any pix we can think
of off-hand
• • • AND JUST to cash in on one single angle of this
production Charlie Einfeld engineered a coup
at a special projection room showing he invited advertising and
newspaper authorities to impress upon them what the
motion picture industry is doing to stimulate advertising and sales for business in general
• • • IT IS the type of pix that is bound to build goodwill for the industry among the nation's leaders in the advertising and newspaper fields so among those present to
get this vital message were Allan B. Sikes and Mr. Pastore of
the American Newspaper Publishers Association Don
Bridges of the N. Y. "Times" Messrs. Steele, Brooks
and Pitman of the Scripps-Howard papers W. F. Brooks
of the Associated Press Mr. Peterson of "Printers Ink"
Joe Bolton and D. Morris Jones of the Advertisers
Club Herbert Stevens of the N. Y. "Post" and
representatives of the N. Y. "Sun," "Sales Management," "Advertising and Selling," "Herald-Tribune," the N. Y. "Journal," "World-Telegram" and "Business Week"
• • • ROUNDING OUT his first year of service as general manager for RKO Radio Pictures Jules Levy was
presented with a parchment testimonial by members of the home
office and branch office sales personnel in appreciation of
his work with them they proclaimed the period from April
1 to May 12 as Jules Levy Anniversary Testimonial Cash Collection drive it took three months for the Testimonial
to make the rounds of the branch offices so all the boys could affix their signatures
• • • AT THE 7th Avenue Roxy tonite Ruth Etting will appear on the stage as guest star with Nick Kenny and his Radio Scandals A lady competes for theater management honors with Miss Chelle Janis taking charge of
the Ziegfeld theater when it opens as a Loew picture house on
April 21 Miss Janis at present is manager of Loew's
Hillside and has an enviable record in several houses.
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• • • THE ANNUAL "Gardens' Varieties of 1933" will be staged in Forest Hills on the nights of April 21st and 22nd
. . receipts will go to the Family Welfare of Queens,
Forest Hills branch the show has been compiled and
directed by Albert S. Howson of Warners' Censorship Department
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• • • WE THOUGHT we had settled the honors for originating the "Cuckoo Week" shows by handing it to
Mister La Falce in Washington for his show last August
now comes Ken Hallam of Radio to gently chide us he
sez that the Wheeler and Woolsey pix, "The Cuckoos," was launched two years ago at the Mayfair with the FIRST "Cuckoo Week" and bygawsh, come to think of it ....
he's right now can anybody go back still further and
make a cuckoo outa us?
REMEMBER WHEN
By HARRY J. COHEN
as told to
DON HANCOCK
of The Film Daily Editorial Staff
"I REMEMBER when exhibitors could run five or six shows an hour, open their theaters at 8 A. M. and be satisfied with a gross business of from $25 to $35 a day." said Mr. Cohen, representative of B. I. P. in this country.
"This story dates back to 1906 when I was working in Pittsburgh for Harry Davis, a real estate operator. Davis had a row of stores, all rented except one. This vacant store suffered badly from the chalk pictures drawn by street urchins and the activities of bill posters. Finally Davis ordered me to erect a large sign in front of the store reading 'Wait For Developments.' Davis had previously spent some time in a sanitarium for a mental disarrangement, so I had a suspicion that the 'development' he predicted was a wild thought. Newspapers started kidding Davis about the sign after it had been up for about a week. Then Davis called me into his office. 'How long since you've been over to the vacant church where we store extra restaurant furniture?' he demanded. 'How many chairs are there? What else is there that we can use?' 'Use for what?' I asked. I surely thought Davis was going to have a 'spell.'
"It ended up by Davis having over a 100 chairs moved to the store and engaging a carpenter to build a proscenium and paint the wall white for a screen. He was planning to open the first nickelodeon. I still thought he should be sent back to the sanitarium. Finally we opened. It was the day following Thanksgiving and the picture was 'The Great Train Robbery' and ran 650 feet. With the 'One Moment Please' slide for rewinding and re-threading the reel, we showed the picture about five times an hour.
"We went along swimmingly, making daily grosses of from $22 to $68. At the height of our success we were forced to close. In two weeks, running the print about 75 times a day, we had used up five prints and there were no more prints available, AND NO OTHER MOTION PICTURE."
MANY PAPPY RETUPNS
Best wishes are extended by THE FILM OAILY to the following members of the industry, who are celebrating their birthdays:
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