The Film Daily (1935)

THE ■a&m DAILY Monday, Nov. 25, 1935 « THE H FILM DOM Vol. 68, No. 124 Mon., Nov. 25, 1935 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. V., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. 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 outside of Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, $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 Holly wood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) Net High Low Close Chg. 19!/g 19 19 + Vi 72 72 72 + V/i 5'/2 5% 53/8 18% 185/4 185/8 + y4 1691/2 1691/2 1691/2 + 2 54% 533/4 541/4 + 1 93/8 9% 9% 771/s 74% 74% — 21/4 113/g 11 11 _ % 6 1/4 6% 6% 5i/4 5 51/4 + 'A 24 225/8 23% + Vi 313/4 305/8 313/4 + 1% 72% 72 72% + 2% 91/4 8% 91/g + % 49% 49 49 + % Am. Seat Columbia Picts. vtc Con. Fm. Ind Con Fm. Ind. pfd. . East. Kodak Loew's, Inc Paramount Paramount 1st pfd.. Paramount 2nd pfd. Pathe Film RKO 20th Century-Fox . . 20th Century-Fox pfd. Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 . 18 17i/4 18 + 1 Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 ctfs. 18 17% 18 + 1 Keith A-0 6s46 ... 94% 94% 94% .... Para. Picts. 6s 55.. 90% 90i/4 90y2 .... RKO 6s41 80 80 80 Warner's 6s39 883/4 88 88 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Sonotone Corp 23/8 23/8 23/8 ..... Technicolor 18 1/4 17% 18 1/4 + % Trans-Lux 4 1/4 4% 4 1/4 + % Tobias Joins Celebrated Pictures Lester S. Tobias, formerly with Universal and Paramount, has been named sales manager of Celebrated Pictures. Vera Reynolds Lincoln Quarberg Louis D. Lighton Margaret Livingston 11 The Broadway Parade il Picture and Distributor Theater Splendor ( United Artists) Rivoli Frisco Kid (Warner Bros.) Strand Crime and Punishment (Columbia) Music Hall Remember Last Night (Universal) Roxy Escape from Devils Island (Columbia) Globe Land of Promise Astor To Beat the Band (RKO Radio) (a) Palace I Found Stella Parish (Warner Bros.) (a-b) Palace Thanks a Million (20th Century-Fox) — 2nd week Center Mary Burns, Fugitive (Paramount) — 2nd week Paramount Mutiny on the Bounty (M-G-M) — 3rd week Capitol Legong (DuWorld)— 8th week World ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUN ♦ A Midsummer Night's Dream (Warner Bros.) — 7th week Hollywood ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS ♦ La Follia del'Ore (Paramount) Ideal The New Gulliver (Amkino) Cameo La Maternelle (Tapernoux-Metropolis) 55th St. Playhouse Crime et Chatiment (Lenauer International) Cinema de Paris Mother (Amkino) (a) Acme July 14 (a) Acme ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ So Red the Rose ( Paramount) — Nov. 28 Paramount I Dream Too Much (RKO Radio)— Nov. 28 Music Hall In Old Kentucky (20th Century-Fox) — Nov. 28 Roxy Show Them No Mercy (20th Century-Fox) (c) Rivoli A Night at the Opera (M-G-M) (c) Capitol Frasquita (Universal) (c) World (a) Dual Bills, (b) Subsequent Run. (c> Follows Present Bill. Denver Theater Operators Organize Trailer Company Denver — A. P. Archer, president of the Amusement Enterprises, operators of the three Civic theaters in Denver, has announced a trailer company here to produce trailers, advertising films and other film specialties. Associated with him are P. E. Whitaker, as chief camera men, and R. S. Whitaker, factory production expert and statistician. P. E. Whitaker was formerly with Alexander Film Co. Macfadden Housewarming Macfadden Publications, publishers of "Liberty," "Photoplay," "Movie Mirror" and other popular magazines, held a housewarming last week in their new advertising headquarters, occupying the entire 16th floor of the Chanin Building. The guests included 400 executives, representing advertisers and advertising agencies, participating in the inauguration of the publisher's new location. First Zeidman Picture Going in Work Jan. 2 West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — B. F. Zeidman will place his initial independent production, "St. Elmo," before the cameras on Jan. 2. His scenario staff now consists of Earle Snell, Louis Stevens, Rex Taylor, Johnny Hines, James Knox Millen and Willard Keefe. L. J. Schlaifer has completed arrangements for the opening of Zeidman exchanges in the New England, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois territories. Third Week for "Thanks" at Center "Thanks a Million," 20th CenturyFox musical, will hold over for a third week at the Center Theater starting Wednesday. "Capt. Blood" as Cosmopolitan "Captain Blood" will be released nationally on Dec. 28 by Warners as a Cosmopolitan picture. Spitz to Make Home in New York Leo Spitz, RKO president and former Chicago lawyer, will make his permanent home in New York after he returns from the coast. Coming and Going J. D. TROP will go to Chicago as representee of Harry Sherman, producer of westerns for Paramount, to attend the Paramount sales conference to be held in the Windy City on Dec. 1 and 2. FLOYD CROSBY, who has been signed by Pioneer as a cameraman, left New York on Saturday for the coast to begin work. JACK WAUGH, JR., RCA Photophone representative in Detroit, arrived in New York last week. JOHN C. FLINN returns to New York from the coast within a few days. JOHN BYRAM of Paramount returned to New York yesterday following brief visits to catch shows in Wilmington and Washington. RALPH VATNER left Saturday for Washington. Apply for Interim Fees In Operation of Roxy Howard S. Cullman, trustee of the Roxy Theater, has made application in Federal Court for an interim allowance of $20,000 for his services from June 13, 1934, to June 13, 1935. Proskauer, Rose & Paskus, counsel for the receiver and trustee, ask $75,000 for their services as counsel to the receiver, and Barrow, Wade, Guthrie & Co., accountants, seek $1,769. Federal Judge Caffey has fixed Dec. 10 for hearing on the applications. In a financial report filed with the applications, Cullman states he is "very hopeful" of receiving the $850,000 loan applied for from the RFC to further a reorganization plan by the Roxy bondholders, and that the theater has paid $222,619 to the city on account of back taxes since June 13, 1935. Plan Study Guides on 10 More Films Ten forthcoming films considered of outstanding literary merit has led the Motion Picture Committee of the Department of Secondary Education of the National Education Ass'n to recommend preparation of photoplay study guides on these pictures. Guides will be published by Educational & Recreational Guides, Inc., Newark, and the films are "Romeo and Juliet," "A Tale of Two Cities," "Ivanhoe," "Captains Courageous," "Knights of the Round Table," "Mary of Scotland," "Marie Antoinette," "Little Lord Fauntleroy," "Quality Street" and "The Good Earth." Lenauer Gets New French Film Lenauer International Films has acquired American distribution rights to "La Porteuse de Pain" ("The Bread Bearer"), French picture from the story by Xavier de Montpin and Jules Dornay. Three More Circuits Sign For Columbia's Program Publix New England and M. & P. Theaters, comprising 59 situations in the Boston territory, and Cooperative Circuit, booking 53 houses in Michigan, have signed for the 1935-36 Columbia program. First to Raise Federation Quota First trade group to raise its quota for the 1935 campaign of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies is the Radio and Refrigeration Division, it was announced last night at the $100 a couple radio dinner held in the Waldorf-Astoria. The division subscribed $56,850, against a quota of $50,000. David Sarnoff was among the prominent guests at the dinner. 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