The Film Daily (1936)

THE •cE£l DAILY Friday, Jan. 31, 1936 PROBE IN PHILLY DENIED BY COURT (.Continued from Page 1) friend of the court, to investigate block booking systems and any alleged unfair trade practices on the part of the distributors. Golder's scope covers any violations of the Sherman anti-trust laws by the majors. Golder will receive no compensation. He will make an unofficial report to the court after he completes his investigation and Judge Welsh then will determine whether the matter will be taken to the Grand Jury. Golder has been active in the affairs of the I. E. P. A. and is generally believed to have been selected for the job owing to his work on the recent double feature case which resulted in the Circuit Court of Appeals upholding a lower court opinion to the effect that contract clauses banning the practice are illegal. U. S. Firms Await Data In Mexican Settlement (Continued from Page 1) tion in fees and duties on imports of films. American companies are especially interested in the clause fixing the duty on film imports in excess of 100,000 meters. Under existing statutes the duties on imports in excess of 100,000 meters are doubled, and where a company imports more than 100,000 meters of film it must also pay double duties on the first 100,000 meters. Under the proposed settlement the double duties would apply only to those imports in excess of 100,000 meters. The 100,000 meter rule has restricted American companies to the import of about 35 films yearly into Mexico. Baltimore Briefs Baltimore — Thieves early Monday morning broke into the office of the Avalon Theater and made a futile attempt to batter the hinges from a safe. Morris Ellin, manager, said nothing was stolen. Radio Theaters, Inc., 512-14 West Baltimore Street, has been incorporated by Benjamin and Morris Flaks, M. William Adelson and others, all of Baltimore. "The Informer" will be revived at the Little Theater on Saturday following a two-week run of "The Passing of the Third Floor Back." John A. Schultz in Plane Crash Denton, Tex. — John A. Schultz, eastern associate and in charge of the Fanchon & Marco New York office, was among the passengers in an airplane crash here, three miles outside of Dallas, yesterday. The pilot of the plane was killed while Schultz and four other passengers suffered minor jolts. Schultz leaves today in another plane from Dallas for Hollywood. wcr, • • • A CROWDED house greeted the first assembly of AMPA for luncheon at the Hotel Astor the accommoda tions in the spacious dining room on the mezzanine floor were appreciated by the cash customers and the tariff is only $1 for members and guests the service was efficient the food worth the price and Prexy Gordon White and the Committee lined up a snappy and diversified show • • • A BUNCH of the pressageys are suffering from sprained necks trying to follow the undulations and gyrations of those two seductive senoritas from Spain Consuelo Moreno and Pilar Caluo who did their can-can cantina calisthenics with Castillian class so cleverly that their cacophonous castanets sounded like a celestial chorus or, to grovel in film language Consuelo and Pilar shook their curves and wowed the house we're simply trying to tell you that the intellectuals got the spiritual significance of the dance movements and the muggs got an eye-full so for once an AMPA audience voiced unanimous approval smart salesmen, these Spanish senoritas T T T • • • PRECEDING THE girls' dancing Professor Fernandez traced the background of the Flamenco music that accompanies them and we gathered that this music traced its origins to the mixed influence of Arabic, Semitic, Moorish, Andalusian, Gypsy and Red Peppers but, as the Prof, intimated, it has been gummed up by lousy interpretations of the modern jazz and hot-cha schools of hoofing his talk was most illuminating musicians from the El Chico nite spot interpreted the Flamenco dance music very colorfully T T T • • • THE LAMENT of the poor dance hall gal was sung by Peggy Calvert known as Sweetheart of the Blues a number written by George Walsh, who obliged at the piano her frankly revealing song of what a guy gets for his 10-cent ticket from a dance hall gal made several of the economical members of AMPA determine to look into this dance hall situation at an early date they've been missing something Peggy put into her song all those things the dancehall films had to leave out that's why the films didn't work into a pop cycle will there ever be freedom of speech and movement in movies ? it's in the U. S. Constitution, and those nine old men on the Supreme Court should be told about it they sure would have enjoyed Peggy it would have given 'em some young ideas • • • THE CONSTRUCTIVE side of film biz was not forgotten that AMPA Committee thinks of everything Hettie Gray Baker, the censor specialist for 20th Century-Fox, hit the highlights of the work of the important censor bodies she was grand and finished with a warm word of praise for the National Board of Review for their constructive work in solving the censor problems everywhere • • • BY WAY of celebrating the first birthday of "Three Men On A Horse" on Broadway William Lynn, star of the cast, told a swell yarn about the company wowing that critical Sing Sing audience with a special performance recently if they don't allow Bill to play the part in the screen version, they're missing a bet oh, yes the chicken pie at the lunch FILLED our plate imagine! ALL-UNIT SYSTEM FOR PARA. STUDIO (Continued from Page 1) tive sources. Ernst Lubtisch wil\l concentrate on a group of special! pictures which he will direct him-' self. The Walter Wanger unit will continue its activity under the Paramount banner, and among other unit heads will be William LeBaron, Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Benjamin Glazer, Lloyd Sheldon. 50 Added in Past Year To Para. Contract List (t €€ « » » » West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — About 50 players,! writers and directors were added to the Paramount contract roster in the past year in line with the policy of Ernst Lubitsch, managing director of production, a survey shows. Players included Gladys Swarthout, Frank Forest, Jan Kiepura, John Halliday, Helen Jepson, Joe Penner, Akim Tamiroff, Fred MacMurray, Eleanor Whitney, Fred Stone and Johnny Downs. Directors who joined Paramount's staff during the year were Frank Borzage, Ray McCarey, Lewis Milestone, Raoul Walsh and King Vidor. Conductors and song writers included Frederick Hollander, Girard Carbonere, Victor Young, Boris, Morros, who heads the studio mu-| sic department, and Erich Wolf-i gang Korngold. Writers signed on long term contracts for coming productions include Stuart Anthony, Frederick Hazlett Brennan, Niven Busch, Frank Butler, C. S. Forrester, Eve Greene, Don Hartman, Norman Krasna, Harold Lamb, Melchior Lengyel, Philip MacDonald, Brian Marlow, Edwin Justus Mayer, John C. Moffitt, Laura Perelman, S. J. Perelman, Dore Schary, Michael L. Simmons, Wanda Tuchock and Harlan Ware. Buffalo Bits Buffalo — Jack H. Kaplan has resigned as Buffalo manager for United Artists. He has been succeeded by Carlos Moore, formerly with D. W. Griffith and for six years manager for U. A. in Pittsburgh. A. Charles Hayman of the Lafayette is on his annual vacation in Florida. Nicholas J. Basil, president of Basil Brothers Theaters, has returned from an eight-week trip to Europe. He passed Christmas in Athens. Benjamin Goldsmith, father of Harry H., manager of Schine's Granada Theater here, died after a short illness. Homer J. Sibley, former New York showman and now Western New York Townsend plan executive, addressed Buffalo Variety Club at its first 1936 luncheon meeting.