The Film Daily (1936)

Wednesday, April 1,1936 THE 'c&H DA9LY « DATE BOOK » Today: Annual meetnig Neb.-W. Iowa M. P. T. 0. April 3: Actors' Equity Ass'n informal discussion meeting, Hotel Astor, New York. 2 P. M. April 5-6: Annual convention of M. P. T. 0. of Ark., Miss., and Tenn. at Hotel Chisca, Memphis. April 18: Annual party of Detroit Film Bowling League, Fort Shelby Hotel, Detroit. April 18-19: National Variety Club Banquet, Columbus, O. April 20-21: Annual convention of Northwest Allied, Minneapolis. April 25: Detroit Variety Club annual party, Detroit. April 27-30: S. M. P. E. spring convention Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. May 16-June 7: International Cinema Exposition, Dusseldorf. June 3-5: Allied national convention, Hollenden Hotel, Cleveland. June 5-8: Independent Supply Dealers Ass'n annual convention, Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. June 22-25: Sixth session of National Conference on Visual Education and Film Exhibition, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago. Oklahoma City Notes B. B. Benfield is erecting a new $40,000 theater building in Myrtle Beach, S. C, to seat 550. The Buffalo Engineering Co., at Dallas, announces recent cooling installations as follows: Palace at Post, Tex.; V. A. Walker's new theater at Mt. Pleasanton, Tex.; The Casadena Club at Big Springs, Tex.; The Lea Theater at Eunice, New Mexico. Ruben Frels has installed private light plant in his Uptown at Victoria, Tex., to be followed by similar installations in Frel's other houses. C. W. Wade, Jr., will open his new 600 seat theater at Clanton, Ala., about April 1. The owners of the Varsity at Amory, Miss., has purchased the Mingo at Amory, and will remodel and enlarge seating capacity to 800. Nathan Flexer will reopen his Gem at Hohenwald, Tenn., soon, to be renamed the Strand. Mrs. Mary Hayes Davis is the new skipper of the LaBelle at LaBelle, Fla. Morris L. Abrams has let contract for a new $50,000 theater building at Georgetown, S. C, with seating capacity of 750. Operator Per Machine Measure Pending in R. I. Providence — A bill introduced into the Rhode Island Senate by Senator Troy of this city, would allow operators to do no other work when operating a machine, thus requiring theaters to hire two or more projectionists. The bill has been referred to the judiciary committee. Robb & Rowley En Route to N. Y. Oklahoma City— H. B. Robb and E. H. Rowley of Dallas left Tuesday for a business trip to New York City. The Foreign Field ♦ ♦ News Flashes from All Parts of the Globe ♦ ♦ Parisian Film Notes Paris — British National has engaged Jean de Marguerat to direct the picture dealing with Mme. Tussaud . . . Denis Ricaud has formed his own producing company and will make his first picture before the end of the year . . . "Anna Karenina" is in its eighth week at the Champs Elysees . . . GB will make a French version of "The Wrecker" in Paris with Tony Bourdelle . . . Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is to be filmed here with Miriam Hopkins as the star of the English version and Annabelle in the French version ... "I Dream Too Much" will be the opening attraction at the Helder theater in which American-made English dialogue films will be shown exclusively. Films in North Africa Algiers — During the past year 197 foreign pictures have been shown throughout North Africa, including 9 in the original American versions, 138 American productions dubbed in French, and five Spanish pictures made in America. Strassbourg Houses May Close Strassbourg — All motion picture theaters here will close this week if the municipal tax is not rescinded. American Films in Budapest Budapest — From the first of last August until March 1 of this year, 144 pictures have been shown here, 68 of which were American, 30 German, 16 Hungarian and 6 French. Shows Two-Thirds U. S. Films Stockholm — Slightly more than two-thirds of the motion pictures shown here from Sept. 1, 1935, until March 1 of this year, were American productions. Comparative list follows: American 125; Swedish 17; French 15; German 14. G. F. D. Moves Office London — C. M. Woolf's General Film Distributors, Ltd., has moved its offices to 127-133 Wardour Street. News Theater for Leeds Leeds, Eng. — Associated News Theaters, which proposes to build a chain of Monseigneur Theaters on main line L. M. S. stations to be operated in conjunction with the London house of that name, will build its first theater here as part of a $5,000,000 reconstruction scheme at the Queen's Hotel. The theater will seat 350. Viennese Artists for Brussels Brussels — Viennese players and production personnel will be brought here and to The Hague for French and Dutch multilinguals to be made in new studios to be erected in both cities. Exteriors will be shot in Vienna and the Austrian countryside. The first production will be "A Fairy Tale of Love" which Jaap Speyer will direct. He will take a production unit to Vienna for exteriors. 6,000 Miles to Location London — The GB unit which is to make "The Great Divide" has sailed on the S. S. Duchess of Bedford for Halifax. It will go thence by train to Revelstoke, B. C, where eventually 2,000 players and technicians will be assembled for this film on the pioneer days of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Constance Bennett and Richard Arlen will play the leads. G.T.C. to Pay 9 Per Cent London — General Theaters Corp., Ltd., will pay a dividend of 9 per cent, it has been announced by the board of directors. 2nd English Technicolor Lab. London — Technicolor has applied for the zoning of land in Bath Road, Harmondsport, Middlesex, for the erection of a film factory and laboratory. From 300 to 500 persons will be employed in the new lab. Barry Norton in Mexico City Mexico City — Barry Norton, juvenile in many English and Spanishspeaking pix made in Hollywood, is here to play the male lead in Producciones Olga's "Marihuana, El Monstruo Verde" (Marihuana, The Green Monster), under Jose Bohr's direction, with Lupita Tovar, featured player in Hollywood-made Spanish talkies, in the feminine lead. U. S. Dancer in Mexico City Mexico City — Booked for two weeks, Janet Reisenfeld, dancer daughter of Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld, composer and conductor, is now doing her specialty of Spanish choreographic interpretations at Le Grillon, Mexico City's swankiest night spot. Janet is going here under the Spanish name of Raquel Rojas. La Argentinita (Encarnacion Lopez), noted Spanish dancer, singer (not to be confused with still more famed Argentina), is opening here this week for a limited engagement. Warners Get N. Z. Theater Wellington, N. 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