The Film Daily (1936)

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THE Friday, Sept. 18, 1936 •a&a DAILY HOLDOVERS SETTING ALL-TIME RECORDS (.Continued from Page 1) and others. A few independent releases also are sharing in the longrun boom. Among the phenomenal runs is the 19 weeks already chalked up by "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" in Portland, Ore., with no end to the engagement m sight yet. "San Francisco" also has gone into a 12th week there. DENVER New salesman at the United Artists exchange is Earl Collins, from the west coast. "Anthony Adverse" is in its third week here. "My Man Godfrey" and "Swing Time" are being held a second week. H. P. Wolf burg, district manager lor M-G-M, is in town. Rick Ricketson, intermountain division manager for Fox, has just returned from Salt Lake City, where he went for conferences followingacquisition of the Orpheum and Studio theaters by Fox. Bill Steege, manager of the Montana division, completed the deal for Fox. Gerald Whitney, city manager for Fox, is in Presbyterain hospital. He will be there for some time. J. T. Sheffield is here from his Seattle headquarters, and will remain until the building operations on his two new exchange buildings are all set. Sheffield will occupy one of the buildings with his SheffieldRepublic exchange, while Fox is expected to lease the other. The Lyric at Torrington, Wyo., has been reopened after remodeling. Westland Theaters has reopened the Rialto at Pueblo, Colo. G. H. Cary of Minatare, Neb., was in Denver on a buying trip. Mercury Film Exchange is booking Lareina La Rule, who puts on a psychic act, and who was at the United Artists theater in Los Angeles for three weeks. NEW HAVEN "Anthony Adverse", "Ziegfeld", "Girls' Dormitory" and "General Died at Dawn" all held over here. Harry Shaw, Loew division manager, reports fine business at the Globe, Bridgeport, with "trucking" as the latest contest. All Loew-Poli circuit houses will give special 10 A.M. kid shows on Sept. 26 in honor of Mickey Mouse's jirthday. The 4,000-seat State, Hartford, Harris Bros, house, reopens Sept. 26 after de luxe improvements. Other Hartford houses undergoing renovations include the Crown, operated by Charles Repass; the Princess, run by Martin Keleher, and Maurice Shulman's Rivoli. Independent M. P. T. 0. of Conn. opens its bi-weekly meeting season with a session Tuesday in the Kilfeather offices. Maurice Shulman will report on the Allied convention. • • • MEET THE Daddy of the 16 mm. camera and projector A. F. Victor of the Victor Animatograph Corp. this is the man who invented the first commercial 16 mm. machine away back in 1923 and Mister Victor proudly cherishes the first item ever published on the small projection outfit for the home, which appeared in a newspaper in Davenport. Iowa where the company factory is located • • • THIS ORGANIZATION supplies a big percentage of the world's output on 16 mm. sound projectors Victor is credited with the invention of the first machine for reducing 35 mm. to 16 he did not patent it, but gave it to the 16 mm. field to spur its development and advancement greatly through his efforts service has been established on the steamship lines, with Paramount, Universal and Gaumont-British supplying the films through Films, Inc., who practically do all the servicing to the various lines right now Mister Victor is working with the railroads in developing a recreation car completely equipped with 16 mm he is also designing a special model for installation on airplanes which service will soon be enjoyed by the air traveller • • • A NEW adventure fiction pulp monthly is put out by Dell Publications titled Buck Jones Western Stories first issue contains a fictionization of Buck Jones' latest Universal film, "Boss Rider of Gun Creek" a personal message from Buck, and a short biog • • • AND NOW Julius Cohen, picture ed of the Journal of Commerce, has changed his by-line to the somewhat frisky Julius Colt Clark Robinson, of the typewriter Robinsons and not the scenic artists set, has sold his first novel, "Under Dusk," which will be brought out early next Spring by Hillman-Curl • • • FOR THE 8th Birthday celebration of Mickey Mouse, a 25-page bulletin has been issued crammed with stunts to help the exhib put over the gala week . .which will be that of Sept. 25 to Oct. 1 the official birthday cake will of course be cheese cake • • • OUR RECENT comment on the advisability of systematic filing of important film data for future generations, brought an interesting letter from James Van De Mark, Director of the Pacific Audit and Research Bureau at Berkeley, California this organization has kept files since 1932 of important press books of the major companies other printed matter systematically filed by the Bureau includes studio special announcements, year books and posters they plan to file the complete history of feature releases, such as all the paper, photographs, music copies, all printed reviews, and countless data in all departments , . . such a service will be of inestimable value to the industry in years to come • • • A SILENT 16 mm. film called "Idle Hands" has been taken by Stark Films of Baltimore for the Maryland Commission on Prison Labor, to help solve the problem of 2,000 idle inmates in that state ... • Electra Wagner Bowman, sculptress and socialite of Texas, arrives in New York today with a bust of Victor McLaglen as "The Magnificent Brute," just completed at the Universal studio HAYS RADIO SURVEY TO BE SIFTED SOON (Continued from Page 1) day after a prolonged Hollywood visit. ^ David Palfreyman, circuit contact for the association, is supervising the analysis. Whether or not an accurate picture of the situation can be obtained through a survey is causing some speculation. The move was started following exhibitor complaints that appearance of picture stars on radio programs is having an injurious effect upon box-office grosses. Hays is expected to confer with major radio executives as to a possible plan of cooperation which would curtail or eliminate the reported competition, as exclusively printed in The Film Daily of Sept. 1. KANSAS CITY Home offices of the Glenn W. Dickinson circuit, formerly in Lawrence, Kans., are now located here. Booking offices were opened here last month in the Davidson Bldg. with Gus Diamond in charge. Variety Club's fall social season begins with a party and dance on Saturday. R. H. Cochrane and J. R. Grainger of Universal stopped off here recently on their way west. Charles Reagan of Paramount was another visitor, with William Gehring and W. J. Kupper of 20th-Fox expected this week. Mike Roth, Columbia exploiteer, is out of town on a brief business trip. Emanuel Rolsky recently sold his St. John Theater to Albert Charon, while S. E. Wilhoit, operator of the Strand, Mt. Vernon, Mo., and Princess, Springfield, has bought the Opera House, Eldorado Springs, Mo., from A. J. Simmons. "Gorgeous Hussy" has held over at the Midland. Russell Borg, Grand National manager, has leased exchange space in the Warner Bldg. His staff includes Rube Melchor, Erwin Dodson and Pat Pinnell, salesmen; Bill Kubitzki, head booker; Mabel Fisk, secretary. NEW ORLEANS « « « » » » "Swing Time" and "The Gorgeous Hussy" both rated a second week at their respective theaters here. A reissue of "The Big House" is proving a sensational draw for a commercial area house here. The Orpheum will have all United Artists product not accounted for in the franchise U. A. has with Loew, according to reliable reports here. The Liberty, which is the subject of film talk on whether Mort Singer is to lease it or not, re-booked "Dinner at Eight" and is doing well with it