The Film Daily (1936)

THE DAILY Tuesday, Sept. 1,1936 Vol. 70. No. 53 Tucs, Sept. 1, 1936 10 Cents JOHN W ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Pnlili>hcd daily except Sundays and Holidays at Ifi50 Broadwav, New York, N. Y. by Wid'n Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. \V. Alircite. President. Editor and Publisher; Dnn.iM M Mersereau. Secretary-Treasurer in>l General Manager; Arthur \V. Eddy, Associate Editor; Don Carle Gillette. Managing E'litnr. Entered as second class matter. M.iv 21, 1018, at the post-office at New York. N V . 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 *"i5.00 Subscriber should remit with order Address all communications to THE FILM UMIV. !*5fl Broadway, New York, N. Y Phnne. Glrcle 7-4736. 7-4737. 7-4738. 7-4739 Tabic Address: Filmday, New York. Hollv■rood. California— Ralph Wilk. 6425 Holly wood R'vd.. Phone Granite 6607. London — Rniext \V Fredman. The Film Renter, 127-133 Warrlnnr St. W. I Berlin— Lichtbildhuehne. Friedrich-trnsse. 225. Paris — P. A. Harle, La rinematngraphie Francaise, Rue de la Cour ' None*. 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Am. Ssat Cclurrbi] Piers, vtc Co'UTib:3 Picts. pfd. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. . E st. Kodak 1 do pfd Gen. Th. Eq Loew's. Inc do pfd Taramount Paramount 1st pfd. Paramount 2nd pfd. Pathe Film RKO 20'h Century-Fox 20th Century-Fox pfd. Univ. Piet. pfd Warner Bros do pfd NEW YORK High Low Close 24 24 24 — 39S/8 383,4 39 — Net Chg % Va 173,6 17 17% + 771/2 177 177 — 24Vi 24V4 24V4 — 593/g 58% 591/4 + 8i/2 81/8 8I/2 + 73'/2 723,, 731/2 + 9% 91/8 93g + 77/g 73/4 77/g + 63/4 63A 63/4 — 311/8 30V2 301/2 — 391/4 385/8 385/g — 13% 13i/4 131/4 BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s46 Loew 31/2S 46 991/s 98% 99 — 1/4 Per. B'way 3s55 56 55%. 553/4 — V4 Paramount Picts 6s55 90 89 89y4 + % RKO 6s41 Warner's 6s39 973/8 97 97 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Picts. vtc. 39% 393/8 39% — 2% Grand National . .. , 4% 4% 43/8 + i/4 Sonotone Corp 2% 2Va 2% Technicolor 27 1/2 27'/4 27 1/4 — % Trans-Lux 4 4 4 VmC JL E. M. Asher Rex Beach Edwin S. Clifford Richard Arlen George O'Brien Merian Scegar Betty Blythe Major William Altman New Brooklyn Pool Deal Will Run for 2 Years The pooling deal involving three Brooklyn houses, the Paramount, Fox and Strand, has finally been set on a two-year basis, with Si Fabian to operate. Contracts are now being drawn up and should be ready for signatures this week. Appeal Syracuse Music Case Syracuse, N. Y. — An appeal has been allowed to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in connection with the recent decision of Federal Judge Bryant here in actions brought by Ascap against Elm Lodge, Inc., over copyright violation. The appeal, being sponsored on behalf of the local night club by the Music Users Protective Ass'n of this city, will endeavor in this test case to have the higher court determine that in future all similar actions must fail unless proof is given by Ascap that the musical numbers involved are "new and original compositions". Honor Wesley Ruggles [Vest Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Honoring ProducerDirector Wesley Ruggles, Gladys George, Arline Judge and other members of the cast of the recently completed production "Valiant is the Word for Carrie", Adolph Zukor, "hah-man of the board and production chief of Paramount studio, last night entertained with a dinner nart in Cocoanut Grove. Among •■hose attending were Mr. and Mrs. A.dolph Zukor, Gladys George, Mr. ind Mrs. Weslev Ruorgles (Arline T"dge), Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Digges. Mr. and Mrs. John Wray, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Binyon, Maude Eburne. Tsabel Jewell, Mr. John Howard and Leonard Penn. GB Circuit Deals GB has closed a product deal with fhe Cooperative group of theaters in Detroit, also a split-deal for firstruns at the Fox and Adams theaters in that city, and another contract with the M. A. Lightman circuit in the memphis area. Monte Hance to Pensacola Pensacola, Fla. — Monte Hance, who has been in Biloxi since 1930 as manager of the Saenger Theater there, has been transferred to Pensacola to handle the reopened Isis and Saenger theaters. Johnny Jones, who has been manager here, was shifted to Hance's former post in Biloxi. A, T. Kaplan as Film Buyer A. T. Kaplan will serve as film buyer for the Cinema Theater, foreign policy house opening about the middle of the month in Detroit, besides acting as film buyer for the Cinema de Paris in New York and continuing as foreign film buver for Fox West Coast and its affiliated houses. Titles of Initial Program Announced by New Company Titles of the eight pictures planned as the initial program of Producers National Distributors were announced yesterday, with the first release set for Nov. 15 with "Track of the Wolf", based on a Louis Joseph Vance story. Following are the titles: "For the Love of Mike", by Owen Davis; "Spider and the Fly", by Nat Le Roy; "Not Tonight, Josephine", by Frank Kennedy; "A Few Wild Oats," by Arthur Hoerl, all musicals based on plays; "Track of the Wolf", "The 13th Door, "Sins We Do" and "Rendezvous With Death", all based on Louis Joseph Vance stories. Second release will be '"For the Love of Mike", which goes into distribution Dec. 15. Walker Succeeds Giegerich W. Ray Walker, formerly vicepresident of Motion Picture Capital Corp., vice-president of Cinema Finance Corp., and at one time in charge of sales for Powers Pictures, Inc., has been named by Celebrity Productions to succeed Charles J. Giegerich as general sales manager. Celebrity is now giving consideration to the production and distribution of its product for the new season. Budd Schulberg at Selznick West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Budd Schulberg, son of B. P. Schulberg, has joined the story department of Selznick International Pictures at United Artists. Young Schulberg, who was graduated from Dartmouth in the Spring, is to work under Val Lewton, story editor. "General Died" Opens Wed. Paramount's "The General Died at Dawn", with Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll, opens tomorrow at the New York Paramount. Owen B. Thornton Dead West Warwick, R. I. — Owen B. Thornton, 65, veteran theatrical man and one of the first movie exhibitors in this section, died Sunday. More Mirrophonic Showings Owing to demand from exhibitors in and around New York, Erpi will give demonstrations of the new Mirrophonic sound system today and tomorrow at the Venice Theater at 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. All exhibitors are invited to attend. Gets French "Miserables" Franco-American Films has >acouired North American rights to the French production. "Les Miserables". Picture will probably open here at the Cinema de Paris. Football Short Released Columbia has completed and will immediately release "Football Flashes", a News World of Sports short subject. Coming and Going PHIL RUBINOFF has left New York for Kansas City to conclude a deal for the appearance j of fiddler Dave Rubinoff in that city. ' JOHN GIELGUND. British stage and screen star, arrived yesterday in New York to begin rehearsals for "Hamlet." HELEN GAHAGAN is back from the coast ' to start rehearsing her role in "And Stars Remain," Theater Guild offering. RICHARD CROMWELL has arrived from Hollywood to appear on Broadway in "So Proudly We, Hail," in which he recently appeared for a summer tryout. THERESA HELBURN of the Theater Guild is back from abroad. ALFRED DE LIAGRE, JR., Broadway produce has returned from Europe. LEWIS MILESTONE, director of Paramount's "The Gen3ral Died at Dawn," will arrive in New York today by train from Hollywood to be present at the opening tomorrow. Milestone will spend several weeks at his country home, Aussble Forks, N. Y., before returning to Hollywood. FRANK PHELPS, Warner Theater home office executive, has returned from a three-day business trip to Cleveland. WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB, Professor of History at the University of Texas, who wrote the original book on which Paramount's production of "The Texas Rangers" was based, is in New York for a short stay SAM LEVENE and TEDDY HART, who were both in the original stage cast of "Three Men On A Horse" and who have played the same roles in Warner's forthcoming screen version of the play, have returned to New York. Levene is going into the cast of George Abbott's new show "Nightingale." CHARLES HART, who has worked in various major producer pictures at the coast, has arrived in New York. JOHN W. HICKS, JR., who is in Havana, returns to New York Sept. 8. AL SELIG has returned to New York after working on the opening of "Nine Days a Queen," at Keith's in Baltimore. ADOLPH ZUKOR has delayed his trip to New York from Hollywood until next week. JIMMY SAVO goes to Chicago on Sept. 15 for a night club engagement. A. TOWNSEND KAPLAN returned yesterday from Detroit. RALPH KOHN left by plane yesterday for the coast. GEORGE J. SCHAEFER is expected to leave for the coast late this week. CHARLES WINNINGER, who left New York last Saturday, arrives at Universal City today to play in "Top of the Town." HORTENSE SCHORR, Columbia publicist, has returned to the Adirondacks to complete her vacation and will return to the home office next Tuesday. FRANCES CORRIGAN returned to her desk at Spectrum Pictures after a two-week vacation at Wallkill, N. Y. JOHN COSENTINO, special representative for Spectrum, left New York last night for Bos-, ton and will remain there over Labor Day. HERMAN HOFFMAN, after handling publicity in Dallas for the premiere of Paramount's "Texas Rangers", headed for New York on his vacation. New Cuban Censor Setup Havana — All films to be shown in Cuba are now being passed upon by the newly created Comision Revisor.i Cinematografica (Film Censorship Board), consisting of the Secretary of the Interior and five members. Concurrence by three members is required to make decisions valid.