The Film Daily (1936)

Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1936 CONTEND NEELY BILL WON'T HELP EXHIBS (Continued from Page 1) embrace cancellation clauses which allow a theater to eliminate a picture considered unsuitable, it will be pointed out, or, on the other tiand, an exhibitor can pay for, but not play, a picture he considers objectionable. From an economic point of view, it may be stressed, an exhibitor saves approximately 20 per cent in film costs by buying pictures in groups. President Ed Kuykendall of the M. P. T. 0. A. will be present at the hearing, which will also be attended by a delegation representing Allied and supporting the Neely Dill. Charles C. Pettijohn has gone to Washington and David Palfreynan arrives there this morning to ae present at the heading. Indiana Items Indianapolis — "Rose Marie" movjd to the Circle, from Loew's for a second week's run. J. B. Green, operator of the Prin:eton (Ind.) Theater, is back from Florida. Variety Club will hold its annual Presidents' Dinner and entertainnent at the Claypool Hotel, March 2. Frank Walters and wife, operatng the Colonial and Orpheum, Elartford City, will spend a month n Florida. T. C. Baker has formed a bookng combine for 22 theaters in Inliana. Carl Kemp, formerly booker at Paramount, has joined Warners. Visitors along Film Row: Bruce Xixmiller, Bicknell; S.W. Neall, Kocomo; A. M. Lyons, Vincennes; 3arl Shalit, Columbia district mantger; Jack Rose, Chicago and True !lembush, Shelbyville. Kansas City Chatter Kansas City — At a luncheon in ;he Hotel Muehlbach last week, a :ommittee of 46 prominent Kansas jitians was organized to sponsor 'A Midsummer Night's Dream" at he Apollo Theater for a week be;inning March 6. The Orpheum Theater is again lark after reopening for one week, rhe Mainstreet Theater continues vith stage shows. Variety Club Ball early last week vas attended by more than 1,000. Stanbury Theater at Stanbury, A.O., operated by John Huston, has eopened after being dark nearly wo weeks due to a fuel shortage. Chase Bank Awarded Para. Fee Federal Judge Coxe yesterday warded $20,454 to the Chase Naional Bank for its services to Parmount as trustee under three inentures. ▼ T T ** *^ .*. GETTING SET for the opening of the Motion Picture Exhibit at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City . June first Eddie Corcoran runs this National Show . he started it slix summers ago planned it for one season only 2t wen* over so big with the picture fans visiting the resort from all over the nation, that Eddie has made it a permanent affair ▼ T T • • • THIS YEAR he is adding a Hollywood Hall of * ame in which will appear special displays symbolic of the work of the most noted stars and directors other objects that will be in the Hall will include costumes worn by Rudolph Valentino in "The Sheik" Lon Chaney's make-up D0X Charley Chaplin's complete costume worn in all his early pictures Wallace Reid's gold-headed cane some of Marie Dressler's personal wardrobe the exhibit will be the most complete of its kind ever assembled ▼ T T • • • REPRESENTED IN this season's exhibit will be the studios of M-G-M, 20th Century-Fox, United Artists, Warners, RKO Radio, Columbia Universal Mister Corcoran's Show is also a grand medium for putting over current productions of the majors just goes to show what one gent can do STICKING to a fine idea T T T • • • WHAT WAS voted by the trade press gents present as THE finest social affair ever given in the industry in the East the Warner Club Annual Banquet and Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria on Washington's Birthday eve that's SOME vote from these hardboiled judges but ask Roy Chartier, Jerry Jerauld, Eli Sugarman, Mike Vogel, Arthur Eddy, Jimmy Cunningham they stuck it out till the show closed just before daylight and a show has got to be good to hold that gang for seven solid hours T ▼ T • • • THE CLUB members and their guests packed the grand ballroom 1500 strong the most genial and orderly crowd we have ever lamped at a film affair nobody got stinko but everybody was blotto or thereabouts and o-o-h so-o hap-p-pie your correspondent was the only person present cold sober dam the doctor who so ordered and was he envious! T T T • • • AND WHAT a Show! that feller Rudy Vallee moved up into first place as a Master of the Revels in our book of dope charts on Shows and Showmanship Rudy practically never left the stage for five hours he was out there before the mike introducing talent that streamed in through the evening and early morn handling his grand dance orch singing personally with his quartet and interspering with his own pop solo numbers signing his autograph by the score on ladies' programs on bended knee while he swung his baton and kept the dance music going the guy is a Marvel he was so popular that when he sang a number solo the dancers rushed by the hundreds as near as they could crowd to the platform Perfect System marked the banquet the dancing, the show thanks to the various committees who worked for weeks to insure grand entertainment for their guests and the souvenir program was worth taking home which we did T T T • • • IN CONJUNCTION with the McCreery dep't store old-time movie program, Bert Ennis' famous collection of old stills is on display in one of the windows The Government has loaned its collection of "criminal" radio sets for the display in the Globe lobby for Columbia's "You May Be Next" A special detective squad working in evening clothes will guard the diamond show which will feature the swanky showing of GB's "Rhodes" at the Ritz-Carlton this eve Three national air plugs lined up for Selznick's "Little Lord Fauntleroy" . . Five separate nominations for awards of the Academy of M. P. Arts have been received for Metro's "Mutiny on the Bounty" nominated for best production, best actor performance, best direction, best adaptation and screen play, and best musical score FLA. THEATER UNITS BEING CONSOLIDATED {Continued from Page 1) and other spots. E. J. Sparks is president of the new operating company while Freeman is vice-president. ITOA To Discuss Cut In Electricity Rates A plan for bringing about a reduction in the cost of electric current to theaters will be discussed by the board of directors of the I. T. O. A. tomorrow at a meeting at the association's headquarters in the Hotel Lincoln. There may also be talk concerning a merger between the I. T. O. A. and the T. O. C. C. but so far no steps have been taken in 'this direction. The unit is now studying a children's bill now pending in the State Legislatm-e at Albany in hopes that it will meet its requirements from the standpoint of support. San Antonio Squibs San Antonio — M. M. Buchanan, formerly w.th W. E., is backing the new Ritz, colored house soon to open on Iowa St. Wanda Hall, exhibitor, is to open another suburban house in Alama Heights. Agitation by college students has brought Sunday shows to Denton, Tex. Charles Bowman is the new floor captain at the Majestic. Inez England has returned to the Palace as cashier. Alfred Sack has returned from a business trip to Dallas and Oklahoma City. J. J. Jimenez, manager of the Latin-American Film Exchange, is back from El Paso. Sam Schwartz of Eagle Pass plans to remodel his second theater. Gidney Talley of Talley Enterprises, is building his new Rialto at Pearsall. Iowa Items Des Moinues — The Iowa Theater here, is now operated by Haines & Huddleston instead of Tri-States and Haines. Miller and Dougherty have taken over the management of the Strand at Cumberland from Patterson & Miller. The Wonderland at Newell, formerly owned by the Country Club there and operated by Dr. Armstrong, has been taken over by Armstrong & Hoist. The former Granada at Casey is now the Casey Theater and is being operated by Harold Mowell. The Monte Theater, Monticello, formerly owned by Floyd Carter, has been sold to S. & E. M. Lambert.