The Film Daily (1936)

THE Saturday, Jan. 4, 1936 -3&H DAILY 170 STATIONS LINE UP FOR WARNER MUSIC {Continued from Page 1) they were ready to sign contracts if the temporary licensing agreements were modified in one or two particulars. This matter is being taken up by the Warner office. The discontinuance of Warner music by the broadcast chains has affected the programs of the chains to a not inconsiderable degree. While the hope was expressed that a speedy settlement of the difficulties between Ascap, Warners and the broadcasters might be reached, there were no signs of such an outcome yesterday. Joint Parley Planned On Film Legislation {Continued from Page 1) ti-block booking measure on the fire. Pettengill said he would confer with Chairman Rayburn of the House interstate and foreign commerce committee as soon as possible after the session's opening to arrange for the joint hearing on all bills. "We have decided a general hearing on the motion picture bills will provide the best means for early enactment of specific motion picture legislation," Pettengill said, besides his bill, several others including the Culkin and Sirovich measures will be analyzed then. Eddie Cantor Sees Radio Crowding Out the Theater (Continued from Page 1) his latest Samuel Goldwyn-United Artists film, "Strike Me Pink". Because a few actors can carry the entire load of radio entertainment, unemployment among artists is on the increase, the star said. Despite his views about radio crowding out the theater, Cantor is set to make another Goldwyn production next year and it is expected to cost even more than his latest million-dollar picture. Fourth Week for Jannings Film "Making of a King," starring Emil Jannings, completes its fourth and final week at the Bijou Tuesday. FACTS AIOUT FILMS A movement' is on foot in Buddhist countries to film the life and teachings of Buddha for Buddhistic propaganda throughout the world. A LITTLE from "LOTS" By RALPH WILE HOLLYWOOD J^AY FRANCIS' next starring vehicle for First National will be "The Dream Princese," based on a story by Michael Arlen entitled "The Golden Arrow." The leading masculine role opposite Kay will be played by George Brent, and the film will be directed by Alfred E. Green. The Arlen story has been adapted for the screen by Charles Kenyon. Production will begin in about ten days. T T ▼ Benny Baker, comedian, and Margery Chapin, former wife of William Wellman, director, were married in Yuma, Ariz., this week. ▼ ▼ ▼ Busby Berkeley has settled out of court, for $95,000, the seven suits aggregating $370,000 that grew out of an auto smashup last September. ▼ ▼ T Lillian Kay, San Salvador beauty who arrived in Hollywood recently from Denver, is hailed as a new film find. T T T One of the strangest clauses that a screen star ever had inserted in her contract has been added to Anne Shirley's "ticket" with RKO Radio — and at her own request! The clause provides that the 17-yearold star shall neither have a romance nor marry during the life of the contract, which has five years to run. And now that all parties have put their signatures to the paper, the flame-haired Anne must fight against Tnve and reject matrimony until she is 22. » V V Louis Prima and his well-known band have been signed bv RKO Radio, and will appear in the comnanv's "Headliner" comedies. The band made a great reputation in New York as entertainers at the Famous Door night club. ▼ ▼ T The dramatic story of the famous Jonkers diamond is to be featured as a Pete Smith short subject. The cutting1 of the mammoth gem, done in New York next month, is to be another hiehlight in the film, titled, "Jonkers Diamond." ▼ ▼ ▼ Hollywood's "youngest old actor" — a veteran though still in his twenties — has been signed for the leading role in "Jig-Saw," a "Crime Does Not Pay" featurette. He is George Walcott, who started his acting career at the age of two with his parents, William and Florence Walcott, in vaudeville. ▼ ▼ ▼ A strong cast is being lined up to support Marion Davies in her next Cosmopolitan starring picture. "Hearts Divided," which will be filmed at the Warner Burbank studios under the direction of Frank Borzage. Walter Kinesford and Etienne Girardot are the two latest players to be signed for the film, in which Dick Powell, Edward Everett Horton, Arthur Treacher, Charles Ruggles, Henry Stephenson and many other well known screen personalities are to appear. t ▼ ▼ Ian Keith and Irving Pichel have been engaged by Columbia for "Money Mad." An article in "The Mirror," European literary publication devoted to pro and con discussions of contemporary works by the authors themselves, pays particular recognition to a recent book written by Richard Boleslawski, M-G-M author-director. In the article, Georg van der Vring, internationally known poet, but a stranger to Boleslawski, praises the director's book, "The Way of a Lancer," for its authenticity in detailing life in the Polish army. Boleslawski, who is now directing "The Three Godfathers," for M-G-M, based the book on his own experiences as a defender of Poland in the World War. Roy Del Ruth has become a Tammany Hall historian since he started direction of "It Had To Happen," a story of New York political life, for 20th Century-Fox and starring George Raft. The picture is speedily nearing completion. T ▼ ▼ RKO studio's short subject program has proved a rich "testing ground" for developing feature directors. Mark Sandrich, who is now directing Astaire and Rogers in "Follow the Fleet," and George Stevens, who recently directed "Alice Adams," and "Annie Oakley," are both graduates of the comedy ranks. So, too, are Ben Holmes, who will direct Fred Stone's forth-coming starrer, "Farmer in the Dell"; Fred Guiol, currently directing Wheeler and Woolsey's "The Wild West," and Leigh Jason, who is making Gene Raymond's starrer, "Don't Bet On Love." Edward H. Griffith, directing "Next Time We Love," promises romantic fans the screen's newest lovers in the persons of Margaret Sullavan and James Stuart, co-starring in the picture. Griffith believes the Sullavan-Stuart combination among the best he has directed. Douglass Dumbrille, who recently completed a feature assignment In "Rolling Along," starring Harry Richman and Rochelle Hudson, has an important role in "Opera Hat," the Frank Capra production now in work, with Gary Cooper in the stellar role and Jean Arthur as the feminine lead. CONFER NEXT WEEK ON DRAMATIST PACT (Continued from Page 1) pointed a committee to act in the | matter. Comprising the committee ■ are: Marcus Heiman, Lawrence * Langner, Lee Shubert, Gilbert Miller and Max Gordon. Attending the Governors' meeting were: Martin Beck, Marcus Heiman, Herman Shumlin, Lawrence Langner, Brock Pemberton, Lawrence Schwab, Chas. Stewart and Lee Shubert. A change in connection with the film rights to plays is one of the chief objectives sought by the playwrights. The committee handling the matter for the Dramatists' Guild will meet next week to develop its proposals. Biz in Canton District 15 Per Cent Improved (Continued from Page 1) cording to opinions of leading exhibitors in the territory. With steel mills operating at their peak in almost five years and retail trade showing substantial improvement, theater owners are confident that business in 1936 will be better than last year. In Canton, for the first time in about five years, all nine theaters are operating. Only one has stage shows, the old Grand Opera House offering a repertoire company. A. T. & T. Seeks to Limit Coaxial Line Hearing (Continued from Page 1) which there has been no decision. The rehearing will continue Monday in Washington. Ralph Vatner, counsel for the Society for the Protection of the M. P. Theater, said yesterday that he would insist, as he has heretofore, that anyone wishing to conduct television experiments should be permitted to use the coaxial cable, if A. T. & T. is granted permission to lay the cable. Shirley Grey Married London — Shirley Grey, American film actress, and Arthur Margetson, British Actor, were married here yesterday. Neither frost nor high water is keeping Larry Crabbe from his daily swim in the ocean these days.— PARAMOUNT.