The Film Daily (1936)

THE -c&H DAILY COPYRIGHT HEARINGS START IN FEW WEEKS ntinutd from Page 1) the Senate last session and is now before the Patents committee. Congressman Bloom, who has his own copyright measure before the Patents Committee, told Film Daily the designed copyright amendment, if allowed to pass, would raise havoc with the movie industry, requiring multiple copyright negotiations before the picture could be released. "I am not against designed copyright itself, but believe it should constitute a separate bill, especially drawn," he said. Meanwhile Senator Copeland presented before the Senate a letter signed by Harvey F. Hambur, endorsing a joint statement of the Motion Picture Theater Owners of America, National Association of Broadcasters and American Hotels Association, favoring enactment of the Duffy bill. Zanuck Setting Record For Production Speed (Continued from Page 1) sonally produced by Zanuck. Five of the most important of the year's pictures are now before the cameras: "The Prisoner of Shark Island," "The Country Doctor," starring the Dionne Quintuplets, "A Message to Garcia," "Everybody's Old Man," Irvin S. Cobb's first starring picture, and "Under Two Flags." Shirley Temple's latest, "Captain January," is being edited, as are "Every Saturday Night," "Song and Dance Man," "Champagne Charlie," "It Had to Happen" and "Here Comes Trouble." Local 306-Allied Merger Awaits IATSE Approval (Continued from Page 1) ing the Allied and Empire Operators' unions with Local 306. It is understood that details of the merger have been fully worked out. Basson is expected back in a few days. Supreme Court Justice Steuer yesterday denied the application of the Allied Operators Union for an injunction to restrain Screen Theaters, Inc., operator of the Garden Theater, Richmond Hill, from employing Local 306 men on the ground that Screen Theater as a member of the I.T.O.A. has a 10-year contract with Allied. Justice Steuer said he saw no need for an injunction in view of the fact that Allied had not acted to oust 306 men for two years. Matthew Levy represented Local 306 in the action. Son for Fred Astaire West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Fred Astaire, RKO Radio star, became the father of a 6' --pound boy yesterday. Mrs. Astaire, the former Phyllis Potter, and child are doing nicely in the Good Samaritan Hospital. Aq<V<J ^PH,LM.DAIY° iJfe^ • • • WE PROMISED further data on that "March of Time" exploitation folder which has been sent out to all the principal theaters playing the feature short the contest is for managers and publicity men of the theaters the aters have been divided into sectional groups so that the contestants find their opponents are theater men in like situations who know one another ... • • • THE CONTEST started Jan. 1 and ends April 1 the prizes are Tune-o-matic nine-tube radio sets which is so expensive that the manufacturers have not yet placed it on the market it is too high priced for the general trade . . . . this magic radio is Automatic you pick out your favorite programs for the evening, set the "automatic" gadget, and you get your selections and nothing else, without going near the dials is that a gift to a theater man or anybody else? • • • TWO OF these prizes will go to each regional group Contest will be judged as follows 1. Best and most consistent tie-up on regular advertising 2. Best lobby display 3. Best general publicity. 4. Best special stunt or tie-up the National judges are Bruce Barton, Jules Levy, S. Barret McCormick the Exploitation Folder plugging this Contest contains over one dozen loose-leaf pages each giving different slants on "March of Time" together with four pages of exploitation and selling aids one of the most comprehensive and intelligently presented contests this biz has produced to date and what a sucker a theater man would be NOT to try for those darb radio sets! • • • EVERYBODY who knows him in the film biz and he has a legion of friends will be interested to learn that Lewen Pizor is celebrating an Event it is the Golden Anniversary of his parents his dad is 76, and his mother 69 they have four children, all connected with the industry you all know of Lew prexy of the M. P. Theater Owners of Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware an indie exhib through and through the guy who does things for exhibs without the accompaniment of a brass band Lew is always ready, day or night, to go to bat for any gent in the biz who needs his help and can we say more about any man than that ? well, Lew, felicitations and congrats to your parents that they have lived to see their son reach such an honored place in the industry this should make their Anniversary a source of genuine happiness • • • ONE OF the Broadway columnists recently ran a critique on trailers in general he said that he personally disliked 'em so the manager of the Ormont theater in East Orange, N. J. decided to put it to a vote of his patrons fair enough he distributed printed cards for an entire week, asking patrons to record their personal reactions to trailers and the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of them with some very interesting comments showing just how much pleasure they derived from this advance dope on the features it was an eye-opener to the manager and this happened in a very conservative house in an exclusive section where the customers are very fussy about their screen so it seems that the Broadway columnist is wrong again . as he has been so often before he dislikes trailers and a lot of the public dislike some of the cracks he has made in his column about folks in the film biz so what? Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1936 m « <i » » » WOULD GRANT PAY HIKE IN MEX. SETTLEMENT Mexico City — Under the proposed settlement of the strike of employes of American film exchanges in Mexico, in effect since last September, the American firms would grant their employes an increase in wages and also pay a portion of the back wages since last September. If this settlement can be worked out and the government agrees to reduce existing taxes and fees on American films, as it has previously indicated it would, the American films will resume distributing operations in Mexico. Newsreels Score Beat on King George's Death (Continued from Page 1) on a Paramount News special on the story, together with a Pathe News special on the King. The newsreels not only beat the newspaper extras in New York by about half an hour, but also were ahead of radio announcements, according to William Montague, assignment editor of Paramount News. Official announcement of the death was made in England at 6:55 P.M. New York Time. At 7:18 Paramount News presenting an obituary on the King in the Broadway theaters, and at the same time the special was being put on in theaters throughout the country following receipt of telephonic flashes from New York. The news was announced over the radio at about 7:45 P.M. and newspaper extras did not come out until after 8 o'clock. New Disney-U. A. Deal Is Under Negotiation (Continued from Page 1) was said yesterday by Gunther Lessing, counsel for Disney, who is here from Hollywood. Lessing said Disney expects to get together with U. A. on a new deal. Disney's first feature will not be ready for a year, Lessing declared. Close Midwest Deal Chesterfield and Invincible have concluded a distribution deal for their twelve 1935-36 pictures with C. W. Trampe of Midwest Film, Milwaukee, covering the Wisconsin territory. The first three pictures of the program, "Tango," "Ring Around the Moon" and "The Dark Hour," will be released by Mid-West immediately. 20th-Fox Signs Dance Director Ralph Cooper, former dancing partner of Edward Rector and Florence Mills, has been signed by 20th Century-Fox to stage the dancing in future pictures for Shirley Temple. Negotiations for the colored actor's new post were handled by Lou Irwin.