The Film Daily (1936)

Thursday, Jan. 2, 1936 DAILY FRENCH FILM INDUSTRY HAD BAD YEAR IN 1935 (Continued from Page 1) year, about the same as in 1934. Some were made in both French and English versions, due to London producers finding French production costs lower. Dubbing of imported films did not make much progress, it being found difficult to put a dubbed picture over unless it is an outstanding attraction. The fall of Gaumont-Franco FilmAubert and Pathe-Cinema led to an increase in small enterprises, with numerous disputes arising among the little traders. Test Case Is Imminent On Warners' Ascap Exit (Continued from Page 1) cause of the Warner firms withdrawal and has advised broadcasters that it will not recognize any license obtained from others with respect to compositions that the society is exclusively privileged to license. This puts broadcasters who may desire to deal with the Warner music firms in the position of not only having to pay Ascap the same rates as when the Warner firms were in the society, but of having to pay an additional license fee to Warner Bros. Columbia and the National Broadcasting Systems have refused to be put in this position and stopped using Warner music on commercial and sustaining programs yesterday in preparation for a legal test, it is believed. The possibility of a suit by the chains against Warner Bros, on the theory that Warners is estopped from licensing compositions independently of Ascap because it approved the recent five-year agreements between the broadcast systems and Ascap is being discussed. The issue of whether a music publisher such as a Warner-owned firm has the right to act as agent for the sale of public performance rights is basic in the present controversy. The songwriters and Ascap hold that Warner does not possess such right because of the industry custom vesting such rights in Ascap. "Bernard Schubert, who wrote the screen play of 'Kind Lady', gave a tea at his home for the company". — M-G-M. ^f>_J "PHIL M.DALY • • • UPSTATE FANDOM has spoken and registered its Ten Best selections for the year just closed Chester Bahn, motion picture editor of the powerful Syracuse "Herald," conducted his most successful poll for Central New York Fandom (Chester was the Bright Bird who grabbed The Film Daily annual poll idea first of all the motion picture editors of the United States. He started it years ago, and today there are over 40 newspaper editors that are making their big annual motion picture feature a Ten Best poll of their readers. SOME ballyhoo for The Film Daily papa poll that every one of 'em acknowledges in his columns and ties up with in the local poll) ▼ T T • • • HERE IS the final result of the Upstate public opinion of the Ten Best for 1935 Metro leads with four out of ten and cops First Place with "Mutiny on the Bounty" (this picture was not included in our own Film Daily Poll, as it had not been generally released by Oct. 31, the closing date) RKO Radio is second with three winners Paramount cops two and United Artists one. T T T • • • THE SELECTIONS in the order of the Syracuse "Herald" poll "Mutiny on the Bounty" "David Copperfield"! "Les Miserabtes" "The Informer" "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" "Naughty Marietta" "Alice Adams" "Roberta" "Rug gles of Red Gap" "Sequoia" now watch for The Film Daily Official Industry Poll soon to be released . . and see how darn close this important section of the nation's fans approximate the expert selections of the professional crits it's the Old Story "The customer is always right." and in this case, they prove that the public knows its Pictures as well as the experts whose business it is to pick 'em T T T • • • IN RESPONSE to an inquiry from a sales manager of one of the producers as to why one of his men had changed his hotel in a Southern city the mugg wrote back "The service was so damned good that I couldn't get much sleep. Wimmen kept knocking on my door all nite." ▼ T ▼ • • • STARTING THE New Year off with Showmanship Snap the Sales Promotion Dep't of RKO Radio have sent a checkerboard novelty game to 5,000 exhibs the back of the checkerboard carries a scene layout of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in "Follow the Fleet" nifty the idea of this checkerboard game is for the showman to keep his markers off the Red Spots on the board they should prove experts T T T • • • A RAVE notice in the N. Y. "Times" for George Britt's new book "Forty Years — Forty Millions" which deals with Frank Munsey, the late publisher George is a former Paramount studio publicity director he is now with the "World-Telegram" as a member of its Editorial Board of feature writers George has also collaborated with Heywood Broun on a novel William W. Hawkins, formerly assistant to Katharine Brown of Selznick International Pictures, is the new Samuel Goldwyn eastern story representative T T T • • • PICTURE SCOUTS have an eye on Lillian Bronson a beautiful blonde with exceptional talent and oodles of Personality Lillian has been appearing in "Entre Nous" at the Provincetown Playhouse in the Village and goaling the cash customers of that Sophisticated Settlement an achievement 143 RADIO STATIONS SIGN WARNER MUSIC (Continued from Page 1) WLS, Chicago; WHEC, Rochester; KOMO and KJR, Seattle; WMBD, Peoria; WDZ, Tuscola, 111.; KDON, Monterey, Calif.; KFAB, Lincoln; KFOR, Longview, Tex.; KOIL, Council Bluffs; WKBZ, Muskegon; WGES and WSBC, Chicago; VVCAZ, Carthage, 111.; KIEV, Glendale, Calif.; KGFK, Moorhead, Minn.; WMBC, Detroit; WPAX, Thomasville, Ga.; WEXL, Royal Oak, Mich.; WLBF, Kansas City, Mo.; KGCU, Mandan, N. D.; KFXR, Oklahoma City; KSUN, Lowell, Ariz.; KFJZ, Ft. Worth; KWK, St. Louis; KFJB, Marshalltown, la.; KMMJ. Clay Center, Neb. KFDM, Beaumont, Tex.; KUMA. Yuma; KWBG, Hutchinson, Kans.; KIUJ, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; KIDO, Boise; KSL, Salt Lake City; KFPW, Ft. Smith; KHSL, Chico, Calif.; KGHL, Billing, Mo.; KFSD, San Diego; KDYL, Salt Lake City; KFJI, Klamath Falls; WEED, Rocky Mt., N. C; WMSD, Detroit; WJBC, Bloomington, 111.; WCBD, Zion, 111.; WHAT, Philadelphia; WMBH, Joplin; WIBG, Glenside, Pa.; WTAG, Worcester; KIUL, Garden City, Kans.; WDAS, Philadelphia; WWJ, Detroit; WNBF, Binghamton; KVOA, Tucson; WIL, St. Louis; WHO, Des Moines; WJMS, Ironwood, Mich.; WSMK, Dayton, O.; WGBI, Scranton; WKBH, LaCrosse; WNBC, New Britain, Conn.; WROK, Rockford, 111.; WRGA, Rome, Ga.; WJAC, Johnstown, Pa.; WIBA, Madison, Wis.; WEBC, Superior, Wis. WCAX, Burlington, Vt.; KGEZ, Kalispell, Mo.; KVOD, Denver; WTAX, Springfield. Mass.; WOC, Davenport; WEHC, Charlottesville, Va.; WSAR, Fall River, Mass.; KMAC, San Antonio; WMAZ, Macon, Ga.; KRGV, Weslaco, Tex.; KFXD, Nampa, la.; WKBZ, Muskegon, Mich.; WDAY, Fargo, N. D.; WBSO, Wellesley, Mass.; WMFR, High Point, N. C; WSYB, Rutland, Vt.; WJBK, Detroit; WHBC, Canton, O.; WAAW, Omaha; WHDF, Calumet, Mich.; WAAF, Chicago; KMBC, Kansas City; WSFA, Montgomery; WRBL, Columbus; WGPC, Albany; WATL, Atlanta; KBTM, Jonesboro, Ark.; KRMD, Shreveport; WHB, Kansas City; WHDL, Olean, N. Y.; WHAT. Philadelphia; WTML Milwaukee; Selma Broadcasting Company, Selma, Ala.; WLVA, Lynchburg, Va. ; WEMP, Milwaukee; WJJD, Chicago; WIND, Gary, Ind. ; KJBS and KQW, San Francisco; KDFN, Casper, Wyo.; KFOX, Long Beach, Calif.; WMBO, Auburn, N. Y.; KWJJ, Portland, Ore. WCLO, Janesville, Wis.; WSVA, Harrisonburg, Va.; KGFW, Kearney. Neb.; KORE, Eugene, Ore.; KAST, Portland, Ore.; KIUP, Durango, Colo.; KMPC, Los Angeles; WJAG, Norfolk, Neb.; WDAY, Fargo, N. D.; KGFK, Moorhead, Minn.; WIBG, Glenside, Penna.; KIDO, Boise, Idaho; KFWB. Hollywood; WNBR, Memphis; WSFA, Montgomery; WHBU, Anderson, Ind.; WKY, Oklahoma City; KLZ, Denver; WSVA, Harrisonburg. Va.; WJAY and WHK, Cleveland; WAIU. Columbus; WDZ, Peoria, 111.; WHBU, An derson, Ind.: WOAI. San Antonio; WTRC. Elkhart, Ind.; WMFO, Decatur, Ala.; WJBK. Detroit; WHO, Des Moines; WHBC, Canton; WLW, Cincinnati; WGH, Newport News, Va.; WLEW, Erie; NIBU, Paynetti, Wis.; KMLB. Monroe, La.; KKXM, San Bernardino; KFJR, Portland, Ore. (4 e* « » » »