The Film Daily (1936)

INDIES INTERVENE IN K. G. ZONING (Continued from Page 1) as represented by their contracts with distributor defendants in the independent exhibitor action attacking the system. The parent case comes up in court this morning on a petition for a temporary injunction. Friday, Mar. 27, 1936 24 Color Features Planned in England {Continued from Page 1) first British picture will be produced in May for London Film Productions. A series of shorts for London Films will also be produced at the laboratory which will cost about $1,250,000. Omaha Notes With negotiations finally completed, W. N. Youngclaus has come into possession of his third theater, the Comet at Shelton, Neb. He has closed the house for complete renovation and re-equipment. F. E. Reider, in possession of the Granada at Oxford for only a week, sustained a serious setback recently when the house caught fire during a matinee, causing heavy damage to the interior. R. M. Bernau, formerly with the King Theater at Ida Grove, la., has purchased portable equipment which he is using in staging shows at Danbury, Arthur and Early, la. Galva, la., will be added to the circuit soon. Business men in those towns are cooperating. E. R. Cummings, district manager for A. H. Blank, announced the Majestic at Fairbury, Neb., dark for three and a half years, will be renovated and reopened Easter Sunday. T. J. Kempkes, who will operate the Majestic as well as the Bonham, is a partner in the A. H. Blank interests locally. Opal Brown will open his newly located Princess March 29 at Mapleton, la. On the same day, Abe Friedman will reopen the New Orpheum, which was formerly the Princess. Bob Whelen will be local manager. Robert Harrison of Scottsbluff succeeds Brick Boston as manager of the Trail at Bridgeport, Neb. The house is part of the Gibraltar circuit. Boston goes to Alamosa, Colo., to manage another Gibraltar house. Delivering Reel by Plane London (By Cable) — Airplane delivery of newsreel supplements is planned by GB to serve theaters in every town throughout the United Kingdom. T. Campbell Black has been appointed aviation manager for the company. • • • NINETY-NINE PER CENT of movie publicity shipped daily to foreign correspondents here finds its way into the waste basket and on days when big news is breaking the remaining one per cent is also cast aside This was the somewhat startling information given yesterday at the Ampa luncheon by A. Bernard Moloney, president of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents who was a guest together with several colleagues ▼ ▼ T • • • WATCH WORLD news was Moloney's advice to the pressageys and don't try to crack the cables when events of world import are breaking he suggested that pressageys contact the correspondent directly and inquire whether a particular story is suitable he said foreign pressmen were especially interested in hard facts new technical developments and processes actual facts about film stars their opinions on current topics news of their next picture information about marriages, divorces, romances and the like and accurate biographical data particularly on the age of stars at cocktail parties, he said the correspondent cannot get near the star he suggested that interviews for the foreign press be held separately T T T • • • MOLONEY EMPHASIZED that the correspondents appreciated the friendliness and hospitality of American film companies and said the correspondents would be glad to reciprocate by getting publicity in their papers when they can do it Kenneth Durant of Tass, the Soviet News agency said Soviet interest was in plots of pictures and new technical developments Prexy Gordon White introduced the guests and later invited the pressageys to ask questions it was a highly interesting and constructive session other guests were Harold Butcher of the London Daily Herald A. Frank Tinsley of Reuters G. J. M. Simons of De Telegraaf, Amsterdam, and Torsten Floden of Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm T T T • • • A PIX outfit was recently confronted by a puzzling problem when the star of one of its operas demanded 100 per cent billing, and pointed to his contract to prove this right and yet the company wanted to bill the title 100 per cent so the head man in Manhattan devised the bright idea of giving the star his 100 per cent billing status and gave instructions that the title be billed 110 per cent if you can figure that one out, you're a smart feller ... • Republic will have three of its output on Broadway next week "House of a Thousand Candles" at the Center "Laughing Irish Eyes" at the Roxy and "Leathernecks Have Landed" at the Globe It's a new Republic record, sez Prexy Johnston. T T T • • • THE PARAMOUNT Pep clubbers will hold their postponed meet Tuesday at noon, with Pres. Eugene J. Zukor presiding A three-cents-a-day hospitalization plan will be explained ... • Cine Roma, Italian pix houses threw open its doors last night when it premiered in the former Warner house on Broadway Celebs dotted the audience ... • Arlene Frances is giving first-rate performances nightly (and at matinees too) in Al Rosen's comedy, "One Good Year," at the Fulton ... • "Intolerance," the great D. W. Griffith opus, will be screened Sunday evening by the New York Adult Educational Council T T T • • • BY WAY of exploiting "The Great Ziegfeld," all former Ziegfeld girls will meet at M-G-M this afternoon to form the Glorified Ziegfeld Girls Club Mary Alice Rice is head lady somewhere behind the idea you'll find Bernie Sobel, who is handling special exploitation on the pix . . . • Among the noticeables at that 44th St. restaurant yesterday were: Joe Moskowitz, Hy Daab, Arthur Loew, Mort Spring, Dave Blum, Monroe Greenthal, Gregory Dickson, Arnold Van Lear, Sam Lyons, Jimmie Savo, Eddie Golden, Claude Ezell, Eddie Alperson, Eddie Peskay, Sidney Phillips, George Skouras, Myron Fagin, Clark Robinson, William Phillips and A. H. Hammerslag. MUSIC PUBLISHERS ATTACK DUFFY BILL (.Continued from Page 1) clause of the Duffy bill, presented their case before the House committee on patents here yesterday. In a bitter attack against the production-exhibition clause contained in the bill, John G. Paine, chairman of the board of directors of the Music Publishers' Protective Ass'n told j the committee that in the case of f the motion picture the clause worked incalculable damage. "Why not charge the man who is going to perform?" Paine said. "In the case of the motion picture we don't know in how many theaters a picture will be shown. And if we did, we could hardly sue them all. You can't deal with the situation that way." Paine declared that while the men who drafted the bill may have had the best of intentions there was none of them who had ever sold a copy . right. The bill, he said, in its present form was the most impractical thing that has ever been drafted. Following Paine, Dr. Francis Cook, president of Theodore Presser Co. and editor of Etude, carried i on his predecessor's arguments] against entrance into Berne convention. "I am in entire disagreement with] the bill on entrance into the Berne • convention," Cook stated. "With the advent of the motion picture and the latest developments of the radio, composers and authors are greatly limited. If it were not for fear of the $250 damage clause, composers and authors would get nowhere." Other witnesses were William Arms Fischer, of the Boston Music Publishers' Ass'n and the National Music Publishers' Ass'n and Francis Gilbert, attorney for the Music Publishers Ass'n. Today's hearing will be taken up with testimony by representatives of the Hotel Men's Ass'n. Para. Casts Virginia Weidler West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood— "The Good For Nothing" is the title of the next Paramount production with Virginia Weidler. Glenn Erickson, Frances Farmer, and Henrietta Crosman are featured in the cast, under the direction of William Shea. Hold Over "Leathernecks" "The Leathernecks Have Landed" will be held over another week at the Globe, New York. Pix Plus Bar Denver — The R voli has reopened, after a recent fire, with a pol cy of pictures, stage shows , a bar, restaurant and dance space. Seats have been removed from the main floor to allow dancing and the erection of food counters.