The Film Daily (1936)

THE ■22H DAILY Wednesday, Aprill , 1 936 Report Free-Lance Actor Controversies As Over Vol.69. No. 77 Wed. Apr. 1. 1936 lOCents JOHN W. AUCOATE Editor and Publisher Pii'.li-hed daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1650 Broadway. New York, N. Y. ny 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, V. 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. Gable 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 Courtes-Noues, 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Am. Seat 23% 23% 23% Columbia Picts. vtc. 36 35% 36 Con. Fm. Ind 6 6 6 East. Kodak 168% 164 168'/4 do pfd 164 164 164 Loew's. Inc 47% 465/8 47% Paramount 9% 9'/4 9% Paramount 1st pfd.. 713,4 713/4 71% Paramount 2nd pfd. 10 9% 10 Paths Film 11% lO'/g 11 RKO 7% 73/8 7% 20th Century-Fox pfd. 35% 353/8 353/8 Warner Bros 12 113/4 11% NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 27% 27 27% Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40 ctfs. 27% 263/4 263/4 Keith A-0 6s46 ... . 95 94% 94% Paramount Picts. 6s55 90% 89% 90 Par. B'way 3s55 . . 56% 56% 56% RKO 6s41 71% 71% 71% Warner's 6s39 95% 95 95% NEW YORK CURB MARKET Sonotone Corp 3% 3 3% Technicolor 293/„ 293/8 293/8 Trans-Lux 4 3% 4 + 3/8 + % + 5 \ — % + % + % + Vs + % + Vs. — 5 8 + % % — % % — % — % + % +1 -16 + % — % ■appv/ APRIL 1 Charles McCarthy Wallace Beery Harry Green Leon Janney Dorothy Revier West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Controversies as to working conditions in the free-lancing acting field have practically been eliminated through operation of the revised Academy standard weekly contract and day player agreement, it is indicated by figures now being compiled covering the first year of the agreement which went into effect Mar. 1, 1935, for a five-year period. Major studios signatory to the Academy codes issued 2,500 contracts during the year guaranteeing from one to 10 weeks' employment at $90 per week or more. Salaries paid players working under the Academy conditions ranged to as high as $40,000 per picture, it is shown. Hart-U. A. Suit Up Monday Action of William S. Hart against United Artists for $500,000 damages in connection with the picture "Tumbleweeds" is scheduled to be heard in Supreme Court starting Monday. Hart charges that the picture, released in 1926, was improperly distributed by being block booked with another film. The suit was filed in 1931. To Address S.M.P.E. Meet An address on "The Application of Sound Motion Pictures to Criminal Identification" will be delivered before the Spring convention of the SMPE, April 27-30, at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, by Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police. Brenon To Direct Two Herbert Brenon, who arrived in New York Monday from London, where he directed "Living Dangerously" starring Otto Kruger for B.I. P., will direct two more pictures for B.I.P., it is learned. Brenon left yesterday for Hollywood where he will spend a month before returning abroad. Filing K. C. Reply Major distributors who are defendants in the injunction action aimed at the Kansas City clearance and zoning plan will file their reply in the Federal Court, that city, Monday. Sign New Warner Music Pact About 10 radio stations have already signed and forwarded the new five-year Warner, music contract, The Film Daily was advised yesterday. Set "Panic" Release Date "Panic on the Air," featuring Lew Ayres and Florence Rice, will be released nationally April 10. Urges Experimental Lab To Develop New Stories Hollywood might profit if like other large industries with an eye to future earning possibilities it maintained experimental laboratories where new types of stories could be developed, it was said yesterday by Joris Ivens, Dutch director, who is considering propositions to make several pictures here, notably one of negro life in the South and another contrasting Paris and New York. There are many fresh and healthy things in the American people which could be profitably brought to the screen, Ivens said. This involves a more realistic approach to presentday life such as "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang," but nothing that need alarm Hollywood, Ivens declared. Hollywood leads the world in everything but story content and should make an effort to overcome this deficiency, he said. To Urge Brandt to Remain I.T.O.A. membership is expected to urge Harry Brandt to reconsider his decision not to accept the presidential nomination at the bi-monthly association meeting today at the Hotel Astor which will be concerned mainly with nominating a slate for the coming year. It is expected also that action will be taken on a proposal by Sam Rosen of Fabian Theaters that a committee be formed representing exhibitor organizations, major and independent circuits and others to act unitedly on industry matters. Allied Unit Okays Subs Substitution of eight additional pictures for 10 cancelled productions on M-G-M's 1935-36 program has been accepted by Northwest Allied. Announcement of the O.K. was recently made by S. G. Lebedeff, vicepresident of Allied. Milstein To Visit Branches West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILt Los Angeles — J. J. Milstein, who arrived here early this week to take over his new position as Western district manager for Republic, leaves next week for a tour of the company's Western exchanges. Lift Covington Quarantine Cincinnati — Spinal meningitis quarantine on Covington, Ky., has been lifted since Saturday noon. McRoberts and Jenkins, Ky., have also reopened. Joan Marsh to Appear at Roxy Joan Marsh will appear in person at the Roxy tonight in conjunction with the showing of the film, "Dancing Feet," in which she is featured. Booked for Palace "Colleen" and "Charlie Chan at the Circus" open at the Palace Friday for a week. "Unguarded Hour" to Capitol "The Unguarded Hour" comes to the Capitol, New York, Friday. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Ill Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., it was reported last night, is seriously ill with influenza in London. Coming and Going LEW BROWN, who has signed a new con tract with RKO-Rjdio as a producer, leaves I New York immediately for the Coast to begin work on a series of pictures. SAM DEMBOW returns to New York today from Florida. BERT WHEELER is due back at the Coast April 15 from a Honolulu vacation. LEO SINGER is in New York from Hollywood on F. & M. business. OSCAR OLDKNOW, who is now in New York, leaves for Atlanta tomorrow. LILY PONS returns to New York today on the Bremen after a brief engagement with the Monte Carlo Opera. HERBERT BRENON left New York last night for Hollywood. NAT SALAND arrives in New York by plane tomorrow from Hollywood. NATE BLUMBERG and LEON GOLDBERG left yesterday for Boston and are due back this afternoon. MEYER SCHINE and CHARLES LYNCH are in New York from Gloversville. BILL HOWARD, RKO vaudeville dept. head, leaves Saturday for Cleveland. JOHN G. PAINE has gone to Washington from New York. LEE GARMES arrives Thursday on the Washington from Europe. DOROTHY MACKAILL left by plane yesterday for the Coast. AL JOLSON will arrive in New York tomorrow morning. Nine Features in Work At Warner-F. N. Studio West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Nine productions are now before the cameras at the Warner Bros.-First National studios and six scripts are being readied for early shooting. Now in production are "Love Begins at Twenty," "There's Millions in It," "Public Enemy's Wife," "Stage Struck," "The Case of the Velvet Claws," "Bullets or Ballots," "Earthworm Tractors," "Angel of Mercy" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Six in preparation are "Cain and Mabel," "Invitation to a Murder," "Nowhere," "Over the Wall," "The Way of a Pirate" and "Green Light." Gallup Joins Universal Bruce Gallup has been made assistant to John Leroy Johnston, Universal Studio Publicity Director and will be in charge of newspaper contacts and trailers. Provo Paramount Enlarged Salt Lake City — Hazen & Thornberg of the Salt Lake City Service Theater Supply Co. are back in the city after having been working on equipment installation at the newly remodeled and enlarged Paramount Theater of Provo, Utah, an Intermountain house. "Natural Vision" Tryour Newark — An eight-day trial period of the "natural vision" system of pictures will open April 6 at the Mosque. The sponsors are John Berggren, organizer of Essanay Film Corp., and George K. Spoor. Four showings will be given daily, with vocalists as an added attraction. The Mosque has been closed several weeks.