The Film Daily (1933)

THE Wednesday, April 12, 1933 RKO DISTRIBUTING CORP. IS FOUND "IN FINE SHAPE (Continued from Page 1) Theaters or Radio Pictures investigation, McCausland said. Studio operating costs are to be examined by Walter Brown, one of McCausland's assistants, who is now en route to the coast, where he will compile complete data on all activities and expenditures. McCausland will submit his second RKO report to Judge Bondy next month. Restrictions on Selling Eased by Albany Measure (Continued from Page 1) of delivery, but allows the making of an executory contract for the sale or leasing of films for advance exhibition. The amendments, considered of great importance to the industry, has been passed by the Legislature and sent to Governor Lehman for approval. Six Houses Reopened In Seattle Territory (Continued from Page 1) N. A. Rhodes will put the Woodland in Woodland back in operation, the Olvmpian in Port Angeles has been lighted again by Elwha Theater Co., and new equipment is being installed in the Black Diamond, Black Diamond, for early opening. Five More Theaters Turned Back by Publix (Continued from Page 1) Sandler, former Pathe branch manager in Des Moines; World, Kearney, Neb., leased by Harry Weinberg; Rialto, Beatrice, Neb., leased by F. E. Hollingsworth. 3 NEW INDIANA COMPANIES Indianapolis — Montgomery Theater Corp., Monroe Theater Corp. and Henry Theater Corp., all of this city, have filed incorporation papers. P. E. Goodrich, Leslie Colvin and V. TJ. Young are listed as incorporators of all three companies. "JUNGLE BRIDE" FOR ROXY Monogram's "Jungle Bride," with Anita Page, Charles Starrett and Kenneth Thomson, has been booked for the original Roxy. Deal was closed by First Division. SEEK 25% CUT IN CINCINNATI Cincinnati — A meeting will be held Friday by the operators' union and Allied Theaters Owners to discuss the 25 per cent cut in scale asked by the exhibitors. Fred Streif is business manager of the association. Ampa Resumes Tomorrow Weekly luncheon meetings of the A.M. P. A. will be resumed tomorrow at Sardi's, with guests of honor including Wclford Beaton, editor of the Hollywood "Spectator"; Edward Anthony, associate editor of "Collier's"; Fanchon Roycr. only woman producer, and Clyde Bcatty, animal trainer. -StUk DAILY • • • IT IS a pleasure to record that Jesse L. Lasky's first personally supervised pix for Fox is over with plenty to spare "Zoo In Budapest" is an unusual and entrancing combination of a beautiful love story and legitimate wild animal thrills and the beauty of it is that these two vastly con trasting themes are moulded together with fine artistry and perfect naturalness in the story structure it apes no other motion picture ever screened it is that rare delight a refreshingly novel motion picture with a wide popular appeal. • • • IN THOSE two young lovers Loretta Young and Gene Raymond we have a team easily comparable to the early work of Charlie Farrell and Janet Gaynor the simple, artless love story has the same quality of poignant appeal as "Seventh Heaven" and that's the highest praise one can give to any idyllic love theme which this "Zoo In Budapest" certainly possesses • • • THE ENTIRE action takes place in the Budapest Zoo and climaxes with some of the most remarkable and sensational wild animal scenes ever screened a Bengal tiger breaks loose sets a trumpeting bull elephant on a rampage and the latter literally tears the Zoo apart releasing animals all over the set then a grand stand finish as Gene Raymond performs a sensational rescue of a little boy in a cage of snarling, battling lions with the tiger leaping through space at him as he hangs dangling with the kid from a rope zowie! a picture for the entire family Mister Lasky you have done everything Fox expected you would • • • A LI'L private soiree was staged for Warner execs and the trade press to hear Harry Warren give a recital of the musical numbers he has written for "Gold Diggers of 1933" Harry did the music and Al Dubin the lyrics it was Mister Warren's harmonies that helped make "42nd Street" the popular production it has proved • • • AFTER LISTENING to the five numbers we can state that three of them at least bid fair to prove real pop numbers "Pettin' In the Park" will have all the tfirls era-zee humming it "Remember My Forgotten Man" is a dramatic blues with timely appeal "In the Shadows" is a shadow waltz with a haunting melody that is surefire for radio and dance programs if we had space we would like to tell you of the new method Warners have developed for working these musical numbers into the story structure so they do not appear to be thrown in they are a part of the warp and woof of the theme but mebbe it is a Warner secret and we better keep our trap shut • • • AT LAST the stork has fallen down the Ed DuPar chimney leaving a nine-pound boy so Ed and Ray Foster where the same stork also slipped recently are gonna celebrate over at Vitaphone in the Modern Manner next Thursday after work hours they are treat ing the studio personnel to all the beer they can inhale and ain't that somethin'? • • • AND NOW Sid Weiss is engaged to marry Susan Mari hi the Hollywood Restaurant show roupe so mebbe this time nexl year Sid will be throwin' a Wine Tarty for the gang « « « » » » I REMEMBER WHEN By PAUL TERRY as told to PHIL M. DALY of The Film Daily Editorial Staff HAUL TERRY, pioneer in the animated ' cartoon field, chuckles over it now, "remembering when" most distributors thought he was a fit subject for the psychopathic ward when he tried to interest them in his "brain child." "For three months," Terry relates, "I toiled laboriously in a dinky studio on 42nd Street, struggling with the mechanics of making an animated cartoon, and then, with the finished reel under my arm, I tried unsuccessfully to peddle my first Aesop's Fable all over town. My last hope was in the late Edwin Thanhouser whose studio was in New Rochelle. With fear in my heart, I took the long trek to the Westchester wilderness, and after waiting in the outer office for a number of hours. I was informed that Mr. Thanhouser would show the reel in the projection room. "He called in several members of his staff, who sat silently through the running of the reel. My little ray of hope died an instantaneous death. Mr. Thanhouser, however, asked me to come back after lunch, and 'when I returned, found he had picked up a number of kids from the street and packed them into the projection room. The reel was run off again, and the youngsters howled with glee, and the men who hadn' cracked a smile before, laughed loudly with them. And cartoon comedies were born." ! LAUSTE AT MIAMI BEACH Miami Beach, Fla. — Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Lauste are spending a couple of weeks here recovering from the effects of their recent automobile accident. "BIG DRIVE" IN SECOND MONTH Philadelphia — "The Big Drive." war film, has entered its second month at the Europa. SYRACUSE REOPENING Syracuse — All theaters here will reopen Friday. The unions agreed to a 25 per cent cut until Aug. 1. MANY HAPPY RLTITO Best wishes are eitcnded by THE FILM DAILY to the following members of the industry, who are celebrating their birthdays: April 12 Frank Borzag* Virginia Cherrill Maurlco Spencer