The Film Daily (1936)

THE Vol. 69, No. 18 Wed., Jan. 22, 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. Alicoate, 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, 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 Net High Low Close Chg Columbia Picts. vte. 42'/2 42% 42'/2 — yA Con. Fm. Ind., . . . 5% 5'/8 5% — Vb Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 18'/2 18V4 I8V2 + Va East. Kodak 160 1/4 160 160 Loew's. Inc 51% 51 51% + % Paramount 10'/8 9?/8 10 — Vb Paramount 1st pfd. . 80 79% 79% — % Paramount 2nd pfd.. 11% 11 Vi 11 Vi — Vb Pathe Film V/b 73^ 7% — % RKO 7% 6% 6% — 'A 20th Century-Fox .25 25 25 — % 20th Century-Fox pfd. 34 33% 33% — Va Univ. Pict. pfd 80 75 75 — 1 Warner Bros 10'/4 10% 10% — 1/4 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40. . 23'/2 23% 23% + % Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 ctfs. 23% 23% 23%— % Keith A-0 6s46 .... 95 95 95 — % Loew 6s 41ww 104'/4 104 104 — % Paramount Picts. 6s55 93 92% 92% + % Warner's 6s39 .... 89% 89 89'/4 + % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Sonotone Corp 2% 2% 2% — % Technicolor 21% 21 21 Vi + % Trans-Lux 3% 3% 3% — % D. W. Griffith Conrad Veidt Coming and Going CONSTANCE and JOAN BENNETT arrived in New Yo.k yesterday from the coast to visit their father, Richard Bennett, who is seriously ill in Harbor Sanitarium. HARRY RATHNER, general sales manager of Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures, arrived in Hol.ywood y^sterdjy from New York to confer with Ben S. Cohen, president of the company, on the 18 features and two serials to be released. Rathner will visit exchanges on his way back east. GILBERT MILLER sails Friday for London, where his stage hit, "Tovarich," has attracted the interest of Warners, M-G-M, Paramount and 20th Century-Fox. DON HANCOCK, production supervisor for Van Beuren Corp., leaves New York shortly for Florida to shoot some film on fishing. aquaMc sports and baseball training, after which he goes to New Orleans for some clips of the Mardi Gras. He will be gone about four weeks. MARY CARLISLE. IVOR NOVELLO, CLIFFORD WHITE and EDMUND GWENN sail today on the Majestic for England. ANDRE RANDALL, leading comic of the Folies Bergere of Paris, arrives in New York today with a troupe of 80 artists for the new revue at the French Casino. GUNTHER LESSING, attorney for Walt Disney, arrived in New York yesterday from the coast and is staying at the Waldorf-Astoria. PAUL MUNI is expected in New York early next month from the coast for the premiere of his First National picture, "Story of Louis Pasteur," at the Strand. Josephine Hutchinson and Anita Louise may also come. JOSEPH D. BASSON returns from Miami in a few days. ARTHUR WILLI. RKO Radio's eastern talent scout with headquarters at the company's home office, leaves Friday on the Twentieth Century Limited for Hollywood to confer with RKO studio officials on matters pertaining to player personnel. Joseph Simmons Gets Stories by Jack London West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Joseph Simmons has acquired "The Road," a series of short stories by Jack London, and will film them in feature form for the independent market. Allied Operator Union Wins Contract Action Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a lower court decision to compel the Tiffany Theater in the Bronx to employ Allied M. P. Operators' Union men in accordance with a 10year agreement with the I. T. O. A. Local 306 defended the action for the theater. Under the verdict, Allied men are to be reinstated immediately. Spikes Television Rumor Printed report yesterday that RCA had perfected a $200 television set and would soon put it on the market was characterized as "completely untrue" by Col. Manton Davis, RCA vice president and general counsel. "King of Burlesque" at Center "King of Burlesque," 20th Century-Fox picture with Warner Baxter, goes into its second week at the Center Theater today. NED DEPINET is b^ck from St. Louis. ED McEVOY, RKO Radio short subject sales manager, left yesterday on a two-week tour of he eastern exchanges. M J. KANDEL sails Saturday for London. CLAUDE EZELL left New York last night (or Atlanta. CHARLES SONIN leaves New York next week for a trip to Havana. E. B. HATRICK has returned to New York from Florida. JOHN D. CLARK returns to New York next week from Florida. WILLIAM BRANDT leaves New York Friday for Fiorida, to further recuperate from his recent illness. MARCUS HEIMAN has returned to New York from the South. JEANNE COHEN, who recently resigned as Columbia story editor, is in Florida. JACK GOLDSTEIN of United Artists and "ARKYAKARKUS went to Boston last night from New York preliminary to opening of "Strike Me Pink" at Loew's State and the Orpheum Friday. TOM PETTY gets back Tuesday from a Bermuda vacation. FAY WRAY, signed by Columbia for the romantic lead opposite Ralph Bellamy in "Roaming Lady," arrives in New York from abroad tomorrow on the Manhattan. EDDIE FARLEY and MIKE RILEY, co-authors of "Music Goes 'Round and 'Round," and the Onyx Club band, who last week were signed by Columbia, leave for the company's Hollywood Studios today. SI FABIAN returned yesterday from a Miami sojourn. 38 More Radio Stations Sign for Warner Music Thirty-eight additional radio stations have signed to use Warner music, bringing the total to 230 stations, and every mail brings in new contracts, it was said yesterday by A. M. Wattenberg, Warner counsel. Re-seating 7 RKO Houses Seven RKO houses in the New York territory are to undergo reseating. Theaters thus being improved are: Bushwick, RKO Albee, Colonial, Empire, Hamilton, Coliseum and Jefferson. Lyons Signs John Littel Sam Lyons of A. & S. Lyons has signed John Littel, actor, to a contract. DATE BOOK Today: New York Film Board of Trade annual installation and dinner party. New York. JAN. 24: M.P.T.O. of Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware annual election, Philadelphia. Jan. 24: Press Photographers' Ball, Hotel Commodore, New York. Jan. 25: Motion Picture Salesmen, Inc., installation of officers, Park Central Hotel, New York. Jan. 25-26: Columbia Pictures regional sales meeting, San Francisco. Jan. 26: Testimonial dinner in honor of Harry Hershfie!d, sponsored by the Broadway Cheese Club, Hotel Astor, New York. Feb. 3: A'lied States Ass'n eastern directors' meeting, Baltimore. Feb. 4-6: Allied States Ass'n board of directors' annual meeting, and meeting of the Produce Committee, Washington, D. C. Feb. 5-8: National Board of Review's twelfth annual conference, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. Feb. 8: Albany Variety Club Movie Ball, Ten Eyck Hotel, Albany, N. Y. April 20-21 : Annual convention of Northwest Allied, Minneapolis. Feb. 22: Warner Club annual ball, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, New York. April 27-30: S. M. P. E. spring convention, Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. Ray Johnston Going South W. Ray Johnston, president of Republic Pictures, who has been confined to the Warwick Hotel for the past three weeks with bronchial pneumonia, will leave today with Mrs. Johnston for St. Petersburg, Florida. He will spend a few weeks there recuperating and expects to return to New York about Feb. 7. James Seebach Dead West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Los Angeles — James Seebach, 36, veteran Fox Movietone News staff cameraman, died here Monday after a relapse following a major operation two months ago. Seebach was one of the original group of cameramen who started the old silent Fox News in 1919. He formerly was on the New York staff and achieved a reputation as a daredevil. He also had served in the Orient and on the Pacific Coast, where he was last stationed. Truman Talley, general manager of Fox Movietone News, wired condolences to the widow. EPISODE 3 FIRES OF VENGEANCE ** #A0*eRS IS LAST STAND A WEISS SERIAL