The Film Daily (1936)

DAILY Monday, Aug. 31, 1936 FDAILY Vol. 70, No. 52 Mon., Aug. 31. 1936 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York. N. Y. by Wid's Films and Film Folk. Inc. J. W. Aliconte, 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, 1018, 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 Hollywood Blvd.. Phone Granite 6607. LondonErnest \V. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St.. W. I. Berlin— Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris— P. A. Harle, La Cinematographie Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 24V4 24 Vi 245/8 + Vt Columbia Picts. vtc. 39'/4 39 39'/4 + >/4 Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd East. Kodak do. pfd ■ • Gen. Th. Eq 243/4 245/8 24%— Vs Loew's, Inc 59 58% 59 + </8 do. pfd Paramount 8'/8 8'/s 8Vs Paramount 1st pfd. 72 711/4 72 + V* Paramount 2nd pfd.. 9l/4 8% 9V4 + \'i Pathe Film 7'/2 7'/2 7'/2 — 14 RKO 67/s 6% 6% + Vs 20th Cert.-Fox 30% 30y2 30% + 'A 20th Cent. -Fox pfd Univ. Fict. pfd 108 108 108 +1 Warner Bros 13% 13'/4 13V4 — % do. pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s 46 Loew 3 Vis 46 99</4 99 99% + % Par. B'way 3s 55 Para. Picts. 6s 55 89 88 89 +1 RKO 6s41 Warner's 6s39 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Picts. vtc Grand Nat'l 4% 4 4% + % Sonotone Corp 2% 2% 2% -j Vs Technicolor 27% 273/4 27% + % Trans-Lux 4 3% 4 + Va Si Seadler Hugh Harman Fredric March John Garrick Frank Marsales Frances Gross m The Broadway Parade m Picture and Distributor Theater Road to Glory (20th Century-Fox) — 4th week Rivoli Anthony Adverse (Warner Bros.) Strand To Mary— With Love (20th Century-Fox) Paramount Swing Time (RKO RADIO Pictures) ,.. Music Hall Piccadilly Jim (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Capitol Girls' Dormitory (20th Century-Fox) Roxy Case of the Velvet Claws (First National) Rialto Tostal Inspector (Universal Pictures) Globe Mary of Scotland (RKO Radio Pictures) (a-b) Palace Second Wife (RKO Radio Pictures) (a) Palace Murder in the Red Barn (Olympic Pictures) — 2nd week (a) World Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Columbia) — 2nd week (a-b) World ♦ TWO A DAY RUN ♦ Romeo and Juliet (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — 2nd week Astor ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURES ♦ Gypsies ( Amkino) — 5th week Cameo ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ The Last of the Mohicans (U. A. -Reliance) — Sept. 2 Rivoli The General Died at Dawn (Paramount) — <c) Paramount The Gorgeous Hussy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — Sept. 4 Capitot A Son Comes Home (Paramount Pictures) — Sept. 4 Rialto They Met in a Taxi (Columbia Pictures) — Sept. 5 Globe My Man Godfrey (Universal Pictures) — Sept. 17 Music Hall Pa Solsidan (Scandinavian Films) Cinema de Paris Passporto Rosso ( Nuovo Mondo) Cine Roma The Great Ziegfeld (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) . .Capitol Sing, Baby, Sing (20th Century-Fox) (c) Roxy Der Kampf (Amkino) (c) Cameo Stage Struck (Warner Bros.) (c) Strand (a) Dual bill. (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill. Italian Production Booms Under Gov't (Continued from Page 1) tries. The nine new studios in Rome are expected to turn out 100 pictures annually. Among productions now in work or about ready to start production are: "Coeur Vagabond", in Italian and French; "The Woman Between Two Worlds", also in both Italian and French; "The White Squadron" in Italian and German; "Black Bands", in Italian and German; "Scipion d'Africain," for which a budget of 5,000,000 lires has been set. A similar amount will be spent on Italian and French versions of Pirandello's "Feu Mathias Pascal". 51 Million for Radio Talent Radio networks will pay out some $51,000,000 for talent this year, according to a summary in the Aug. 31 issue of Time Magazine. Advertisers will pay $100,000,000 for radio time in the year, the article states. It is estimated that there are 26,000,000 loudspeakers throughout the land. The article also points out the extensive signing of Hollywood star talent for the new season's air programs. Sax Signs Elaine Arden Elaine Arden, popular radio comedienne, has been signed by Sam Sax, head of the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio, for a series of six shorts featuring Ken Murray and "Oswald." Brooklyn Vitaphone Studio Resumes Production Today (Continued from Page 1) "Melody Master" band series, featuring the Louisiana Kings, college band of Louisiana State University. The studio has already completed the first three months' schedule of the new season, and is now augmented by a new sound stage making it the largest plant in the east. Sales Heads Defend Extended Film Runs (Continued from Page 1) business of subsequent run houses, it was asserted, as a few days' delay in getting a picture will not influence prospective customers to switch their patronage to first-run houses at a higher admission price. Mirrophonic Prices Prices on the new Erpi Mirrophonic sound will range from $1,265 to about $5,500 compared to the Wide Range prices of $1,265 to $6,000, it is learned. Change from Wide Range to Mirrophonic can be made with some adjustments. Mirrophonic will not be cheaper than Wide Range in all instances. In some cases it will be slightly higher, it is stated. Tom Cochrane a Papa Again Tom D. Cochrane, Paramount's general manager in the Orient, is passing the cigars celebrating the advent of another son, his second. Coming and Going MR. and MRS. WILLIAM COLLIER, SR., arrive in New York today on the Panama Pacific liner California from the west coast. MARGARET SULLAVAN has arrived in New York to rehearse for the new legit play, "Stage Door," with Onslow Stevens and Frances Fuller. NINO MARTINI, who recently finished his role in "The Gay Desperado," Pickford-Lasky production for United Artists, arrives in New York on Oct. 15 after a vacation in Yosemite Park. ONA MUNSON arrives in New York today from abroad on the Normandie. ROBERT NEWMAN, head of the Newman Travel Talks of Chicago, and JOE ZELLI, Paris night club owner, are other passengers on the Normandie, which gets in today from abroad. ROBERT MONTGOMERY, M-G-M star whose latest picture is "Piccadilly Jim," arrived in New York last week and proceeded to Pawling, N. Y., where he will rest for three weeks. MRS. MONTGOMERY is with him. MARGOT GRAHAME, who recently finished work in "The Thousand Windows" for Criterion Films in England, is en route back to Hollywood. HENRY HERZBURN, who has arrived in New York from the coast, goes to New England this week for a vacation at Cape Cod and in the White Mountains. LEO PILLOT has returned to New York from Columbus, O., where he handled the campaign on "Last of the Mohicans." ANDRE KOSTELANETZ left by plane Saturday for Chicago. STANLEY HAND, Erpi midwest division head, left Saturday for Chicago. Bans Bank Night New Rochelle, N. 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