The Film Daily (1936)

THE &ti DAILY Monday, Jan. 6, 1936 Vol. 69, No. 4 Mon., Jan. 6. 1936 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid't Films and Film Folk. Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President, Editor and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treaiurer and General Manager; Arthur W. Eddy. Associate Editor; Don Carle Gillette, Managing Editor. Entered as second class matter, May 21, 1918, 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. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 24V4 23'/2 233/4 — V4 Columbia Picts. vtc. 44l/4 44 44 — Vs Con. Fm. Ind 5% 5% 5% + Vs Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. 18% 18'/8 18'/8 — V4 Loew's, Inc 54 53% 53% + % Paramount 10% 10'/2 10V2— 14 Paramount 1st pfd. 82 81 81 % — Vl Paramount 2nd pfd. 12% 12V4 12% — % Pathe Film 7% 1*A 7% RKO 5% 5% 5% 20th Century-Fox... 24 24 24 + % 20th Century-Fox pfd. 32i/2 313/4 31%— % Warner Bros 10l/2 10% 10% — Vs NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40. . 21 '/2 21 21 — % Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 ctfs. 21 20% 21 + % Loew 6s 41ww 104 104 104 + Vs Para. Picts. 6s 55.. 93% 93% 93%— % RKO 6s41 78 77 78 +1 Warner-s 6s39 87 Vi 863/4 863/4 — % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Sonotone Corp 2 2 2 Technicolor 18 173/4 173/4 — Vl Trans-Lux 3ft 3ft 3ft M The Broadway Parade il Picture and Distributor Theater Ah, Wilderness! (M-G-M)— 2nd week Centet The Bride Comes Home (Paramount) — 2nd week Paramount Magnificent Obsession ( Universal) Music Hall A Tale of Two Cities (M-G-M) — 2nd week Capitol Captain Blood (First National) — 2nd week Strand Dangerous (Warner Bros.) — 2nd wesk Rivoli First A Girl (6B Pictures) Roxy Fang and Claw (RKO Radio) — 2nd week Rialto Annie Oakley (RKO Radio) — 3rd week Astor The Old Curiosity Shop (Alliance) — 3rd week World Navy Wife (20th Century-Fox) Globe ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUN ♦ A Midsummer Night's Dream (Warner Bros.) — 13th week Hollywood ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS ♦ The Making of a King — 4th week Bijou Frontier ( Amkino) — 2nd week Cameo La Maternelle (Tapernoux-Metropolis) — 13th week 55th St. Playhouse The New Gulliver (Amkino) (d) — 2nd week Acme Ungkarls Pappan Cinema de Paris ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Rose of the Rancho (Paramount) — Jan. 7 Paramount Last of the Pagans (M-G-M) — Jan. 8 Astor The Ghost Goes West (U. A.-Korda)— Jan. 10 Rivoli The Invisible Ray (Universal) — Jan. 10 Roxy King of Burlesque (20th Century-Fox) — Jan. 15 Center Strike Me Pink (U. A.)— Jan. 16 Music Hall Ceiling Zero (Warner Bros.) (a) Strand The Petrified Forest (Warner Bros.) (b) Strand Modern Times (United Artists) (c) Rivoli (a) Follows present bill. (b) Follows "Ceiling Zero". (c) Follows "The Ghost Goes West". (d) Subsequent run. Coming and Going HERMAN G. WEINBERG arrives in New York today from Baltimore to look over the foreign film situation. JAMES A. FITZ PATRICK sails from New York today on the Franconia for South America. SI SEADLER returns to New York this week from the coast. JACK ALICOATE sailed Saturday on the Champlain for a quick round-trip to London. MOIRA LYND, British singer and film actress, arrives in New York today on the Franconia. TOSE QUONG, actress born in Australia of Chinese parents, also is on the passenger list of the Franconia. Leichter Adding Music Bruce Merman to Direct In Two Feature Series Two Series for Carewe West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Novelty musical entertainment, along with comedy and light melodrama, will be injected in the forthcoming Conway Tearle and Black King releases being made by Mitchell Leichter of Beaumont Pictures. This policy was decided upon by Leichter following his recent cross-country trip during which he was advised by exchanges that independent product is now getting into better class houses and more money can be spent on negatives. In the third Black King production, "Breed of the Border," being put in work Jan. 15 with Margaret Morris and Black King featured, more than 120 extras are being used in a big barn dance scene. The fourth Tearle feature starts Feb. 5. West Coast Bureau of THE bILM DAILY Hollywood — Bruce Merman, veteran producer and director of short subjects, has been signed by Edwin Carewe to produce and direct two series of short subjects for the Carewe program of instructional entertainment for schools, churches and civic auditoriums. One of the series is called "Timely Topics," which will re-enact and provide visualization of current events. The other will be "See America First," a series of National Parks and other scenic wonders of America, which will be filmed in color. Production will begin on Feb. 1st. Twelve of each subject for release, one each month. Baxter Film at Center Jan. 15 "King of Burlesque," 20th Century-Fox's newest Warner Baxter picture, opens Jan. 15 at the Center Theater. Jack Oakie, Gregory Ratoff, Arline Judge, Andrew Tombes, Mona Barrie and Alice Faye also are in it. lowing on their birthday: Loretta Young Ruth Hiatt Ludwig Berger Tom Mix Fred Niblo Stanley Smith New German Film for Bijou "Frauen um den Sonnenkonig" ("The Private Life of Louis XIV"), German historical production with Carl Froehlich, Renate Muller, Dorothea Wieck and Michael Bohnen, opens Wednesday at the Bijou Theater. It is a General Foreign Sales release. Diana Ward for Hollywood Diana Ward, young American singing and dancing actress, discovered recently in London by Roger Marchetti, Hollywood attorney and counsellor to film stars, and signed by him to a seven-year contract, is expected to head for Hollywood shortly. Marchetti will negotiate for her screen appearance on his return to the coast. He left New York on Saturday. Filmack Trailer Co. Moving Chicago — Filmack Trailer Co., headed by Irving Mack, is moving to the second and third floors of the Vitagraph Bldg., 843 South Wabash Ave., where it will have the last word in modern laboratories. Eastman Taxes Rising Rochester — Taxes of Eastman Kodak Co. for 1936 will amount to more than $600,000 in excess of 1935, and "for several years more our taxes will steadily increase even under existing laws," says Frank W. Lovejoy, president. "It must be apparent," he said, "that unless business increases sufficiently to offset these growing governmental requirements, the additional cost will eventually have to be borne by stockholders and employees. "There is a limit to the number of encumbrances that business can withstand and still move forward, and I, for one, feel that we have about reached that limit. "These constantly increasing obligations not only tend to reduce dividends and payrolls, but also destroy business confidence. Any further increase in such operating hurdles may, in my opinion, completely arrest the progress that appears to be accelerating at present." Divided on Coaxial Hearing Five of the seven members of the Federal Communications Commission are reported split on the motion to confine the hearing on the Amer. Tel. & Tel.'s application to lay a coaxial cable between New York and Philadelphia to the experimental phases of television, so decision will not be made until today when the two remaining members of the commission arrive in Washington. A. T. & T. maintains that laying of the cable has no commercial significance at this time. The hearing on the application will get under way today in Washington whether decision is made on the motion or not, it is said. SHOWMAN'S REMINDER Keep hinges of doors well oiled. See that all doors are unlocked before first performance starts.