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Intimate in Character international in Scope Independent in Thought
The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Now Eighteen Years Old
-1FDAILY'
VOL. 70, NO. 34
NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1936
TEN CENTS
Notional Circuits Will Go Easy on Admission Increases
9M MATURE RELEASESlpilNCED F0RJ936-37
First Quarter of Warner 1936-37 Schedule Completed
16 Pictures Are Finished
— 14 More Currently
Under Way
West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY
Hollywood — Maintaining highspeed production activity, the Warner First National Cosmopolitan studios have completed the first three months' schedule of features for the 1936-37 season. In addition to these, 14 features are currently in work — nine before the cameras and five in preparation.
The 16 features completed and awaiting national release are:
"Bengal Tiger," with Barton MacLane,
: Wane" Hull, directed 1j;>
Louis Kin^; "Trailin' West," with Dick
I'. .ran and Paula Stone, directed bj Noel
Smith; "Stage Struck," with Dick Powell,
Joan Blondell and Warren William, directed
by Busby Berkeley; "Down the Stretch." with
Patricia Ellis. Dennis Moore and Mickey
Rooney, directed by William Clemens; "Cain
Mabel," starring Marion Davie and
Clark Gable, din I bj Lloyd Bacon; "The
: Cat," with Ricardo Cortez
June Travis, directed by William Mc
with Barton
16 HOUSES IN YEAR IS
Doubling of the present size of his circuit during the next year is planned by Edward J. Peskay, who recently resigned from the Skouras Theaters as chief film buyer. His houses now number eight. Peskay will confine his circuit to the East.
Chevalier, Robinson Films Head Columbia British List
"Beloved Vagabond," starring Maurice Chevalier, and "Thunder Over the City," with Edward G. Robinson, will be the first two of the eight pictures on Columbia's British production program of the new season, according to Jack Cohn. Atlantis Pictures will produce the Robinson vehicle, which will be written by Robert E. Sherwood.
"Time" Officials Hold $250,000 RKO Notes
Roy Larson, vice-president of Time, Inc., and Charles Stillman, treasurer, together own $250,000 of the RKO Pathe notes, in addition to the $1,200,000 of these notes held by Time, Stillman said yesterday.
AUSTRIAN AND BURNS RE PROMOTED BY RCA
Ralph B. Austrian and M. F. Burns, widely known motion picture and radio executives, have been elected assistant vice-presidents of RCA Manufacturing Co., it is announced by G. K. Throckmorton, executive vice-president. Austrian, whose headquarters are at the company's 411 Fifth Avenue studios in New York, will maintain close con
Retaining Full Length
For "Ziegfeld" Release
M-G-M has definitely decided to place "The Great Ziegfeld" in general release in its original Broadway footage, running three hours, a spokesman stated Saturday in New York.
"It's impossible to cut the picture," he said, "as every foot means
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THEATERS OETS LOW COST FINANCING
Approximately $3,750,000 of refinancing for Greater Union Theaters, obtained on the London market and enabling the Australian theater interests to substitute longterm low rate debentures for bank finance, has been arranged by Stuart Doyle, managing director of G.U.T., as the chief mission of his trip to England and America. The new financing will involve a reorganiza
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Lightman, R. & R. Circuits Sign for Columbia Product
Columbia closed product deals last week with the M. A. Lightman circuit, through Jimmy Rogers, manager of the Memphis branch, and with the Robb & Rowley circuit, through Jack Underwood, manager of the Dallas branch, it is announced by
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Record Number of Releases
Planned for Next Season
—Shorts Set at 943
Feature releases scheduled for 1936-37, including American productions and foreign pictures to be imported, total up to a new record figure of 933, according to a tabulation of the official announcements compiled and checked as of late last week for inclusion in Film Daily's 1936 Production Guide and Directors' Annual, which conies off the press in a few days. Short subjects announced, totaling 943, also show a slight increase over the past season, while serials number 18 against 20 contemplated last year.
If present plans materialize, the number of foreign films brought into the country will set a new high ; mark well in excess of 250, although a big majority of these pictures I will have only limited showings in metropolitan centers.
Major companies will make 429
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UNIVERSALSIGNS DEAL
WITH F, P. CANADIAN
Local Revisions, Not Blanket Action, Circuits1 Policy on Admission Scales
Hammerstein Theater
For Broadcasting Shows
Columbia Broadcasting System has leased the Hammerstein Theater at Broadway and 53rd St., and will • lien it next month for free radio shows. Initial attraction will be the Major Bowes amateur show. CBS plans to close down the Little Theater on 44th St. as a result of acquisition of the Hammerstein.
Although deploring increased operating costs, national circuits will not make a concerted effort to raise prices next season, according to theater executives in New York on Sat uiday. In some situations throughout the country, however, scales will be readjusted to bring their, i the local price level, it was stated.
At the present time, circuits do not plan to extend the new York ban on "early bird matinees" into other key spots, it was declared.
Universal's new season lineup will play the Famous Players Canadian ne 187 theaters under 1 closed last week in Toronto by J. R. Grainger, general manager of distribution for Universal, and N. T . Nathanson, head of the circuit. Clair Hague, U's Canadian general manager, sat in on the negotiations. Grainger has returned to New York.
Pittsburgh Indie Exhibs
Discuss Admission Boost
Pittsburgh — While no official action has yd been taken, many independent exhibitors have been discussing the possibility of raising admission prices beginning next month. Leading neighborhood house operators feel that the time is ripe for a hike in the box-office scales.