The Film Daily (1936)

Tuesday, June 9, 1936 -. ZiJK DAILY ST. LOUIS MPTO MOVE TO STOP OVERBUILDING (Continued from Page 1) fort will be made to discourage building of unnecessary houses and to prevent promoters from inducing misinformed persons to give financial backing to such projects. Wehrenberg recently advanced money to T. E. and H. E. Hulette of Ferguson for the immediate construction of a new theater to replace their present house there. When the Hulettes recently announced plans for a new house, another promoter entered the situation with a similar announcement. Starting of work on the Hulette house, however, is expected to result in abandonment of plans for the other new theater. KANSAS CITY E. A. Briles, operator of the Neuva Theater, Stafford, Kans., and representative in the Kansas State legislature, stopped off to visit along Film Row here while on his way to the Republican convention in Cleveland. Variety Club has suspended regular meetings until the first of September. The club rooms will be kept open, however, and luncheon will be served members every Monday noon. Max Roth, district manager for Columbia, is in the Ozarks for a ten-day vacation. Benny Benjamin, Universal manager, will leave next Saturday with four of his staff for New York to attend the convention. Bert E. Edwards of Security Pictures suffered a broken knee cap in an auto accident last week in St. Joseph, Mo. He is in the St. Joseph Hospital there. R. R. Biechele, secretary of the Kansas-Missouri Theater Owners Ass'n, is busy on preparations for the unit's annual convention to be held June 23-24 in the Variety Club quarters. Ed Kuykendall has been invited to address the meeting. PITTSBURGH Johnny Perkins, former master of ceremonies at the Alvin, left for Hollywood where he is being tested for picture work at Paramount. Donn Wermuth of the Warner publicity office goes on vacation June 19. He will rest in the East. The Alvin is returning to single features again on Friday. Alan Framer, brother of Walter Framer, "The Show Shopper," left the staff of Warner's Ritz. Dan Fenton is remaining in the city to be in charge of the dark Fulton Theater, which is expected to undergo extensive renovation work before reopening in August. Albert Cuthbert, assistant manager at the Ritz, will spend his vacation in Ligonier this month. A "JUtttc" ham. "£ots // By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD QEORGE O'BRIEN'S trip to New York this week will be for the combination of business and pleasure. The film star will attend the RKO convention and also witness the Louis-Schmeling fracas. O'Brien recently signed a long term contract with George Hirliman-RKO. Mrs. O'Brien, who is Marguerite Churchill, a star in her own name, will accompany George on the eastern trip. T T T Bernard Hyman's newest production for M-G-M, "San Francisco," | has been completed well within the I Hotted time and the estimated cost. I The associate producer expects to have it in shape for preview within he next few days. ▼ T T Henry King, directing Loretta Young and Don Ameche in "Ramona" for 20th Century-Fox, has his company on location in the mountain meadows 137 miles southeast of Los Angeles. T T T Our Passing Show: Adolph Zukor, William LeBaron, Helen Twelvetrees, Aileen Pringle, Paul Jones, Dario Faralla, George Arthur, Jack Cunningham, Mel Shauer, Gregory LaCava, Waldemar Young, Virginia Van Upp at preview of "Poppy." T T T William H. Wright, formerly at Paramount and Columbia, has joined David O. Selznick's production staff. He was associated with Selznick at M-G-M when he produced "The Tale of Two Cities" and "Anna Karenina." T T V "I Gave My Heart" is the new title for the Warner-Cosmopolitan picture starring Kay Francis formerly known as "Give Me Your Heart." ▼ T T Dorothy Arzner will direct "Craig's Wife," the George Kelly play, for Columbia. T T T Harry M. Goetz, president of Reliance, may follow up "Last of the Mohicans," his forthcoming United Artists release, with another James Fenimore Cooper story, "The Spy." ▼ T » Joel McCrea will have the male lead in Columbia's "Adventure in Manhattan." Edward Ludwig will direct. T T » Eddie Cantor has arrived in Hollywood to start on his seventh annual picture for Samuel GoldwynUnited Artists. It is "Pony Boy," by Henry Selby. t ▼ T With producer Edmund Grainger acting as pilot, John Blystone, who is preparing to direct the Liberty Magazine story "Big," for Universal, recently covered both southern and northern California by air, stop ping off in over eight cities in one day in quest of location points for the production. Blystone expects to start actual filming within the next two weeks, having already started selecting the cast which will support he star, Victor McLaglen. ▼ ▼ T In order to really thaw herself out, Isabel Jewell, accompanied by her mother and father, will take an extended vacation in Honolulu. For the past two months Miss Jewell, playing a featured role in "The Lost Horizon," which Frank Capra is directing for Columbia, has been working in an ice refrigerating plant, and despite precaution she contracted a severe cold. T t ▼ Columbia's feature which bore the early production title of "San Francisco Nights" will be released as "The Final Hour." Ralph Bellamy and Marguerite Churchill have the leading roles. T T T David Niven, under contract to Samuel Goldwyn, claims some sort of a record in that two years ago, he worked as a delivery boy for a Chinese laundry in New York and made his deliveries in a Rolls-Royce town car, which he borrowed from a friend. LEADERS WILL APPEAR AT TELEVISION HEARING (Continued from Page 1) ident of the American Federation of Labor; E. H. Hansen, representing 20th Century-Fox and the Academy of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Frank Jewett of A. T. & T.; Elisha Hanson, representing American Newspaper Publishers Ass'n; Robert Robins, and James W. Baldwin representing the National Ass'n of Broadcasters. The hearings are expected to last 10 days. Others slated to appear include Wm. S. Paley, president of Columbia Broadcasting System and representatives of Farnsworth Television, Inc., Hearst Radio, Inc., and Mackay Radio and of various aviation and coastal services. Nearly 2,500 I. A. T. S. Attending E. Convention (Continued from Page 1) nicipal Auditorium. J. R. Sanderson, introductory chairman and president of the Kansas City local, opened the proceedings, with President George E. Browne and First Vice-President John P. Nick among the principal speakers on the program. Election of officers takes place Thursday, with installation on Friday, and the confab closes Saturday. KiniA/ roiur tup jflUlk NOW COME THE a BLASTING A BARRAGE OF BOX-OFFICE BULLETS IN COUNTERFEIT Jf