The Film Daily (1936)

f-<2^2 DAILY Monday, Sept. 21,1936 Vol.70. No. 69 Mob, Sept. 21, 1936 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Editor and Publisher Published daily except Sundays and Holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York. N. Y. by 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, N. 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. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Holywood, California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. LondonErnest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin— Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris— P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Franeaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues, 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (.QUOTATIONS AS OF SATURDAY) Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 24% 243/g 24% — V» Columbia Picts. vtc. 38'/g 38'/4 38% + 3A Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind 45/g 45/g 45/g .... Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 18'/8 18 18Vs East. Kodak 174 173y2 174 + Vi do pfd ; Gen. Th. Eq 24</4 24 24 — '/2 LoeWs. Inc 61 Vi 60% 61 Vi + 1 do pfd Paramount 12 11V8 12 + % Paramount 1st pfd. 91% 90 913^ + 1% Paramount 2nd pfd.. 12% 12V4 12% -f % Pathe Film SV* 8Vj 8% + % RKO 7% 7% 7% 4 % 20th Century-Fox . . 31 30% 31 20th CenturyFox pfd. 39 38% 39 — % Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 14 13% 14 4 % do pfd 62 62 62 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s 46... 95% 953/4 95% + % Loew 6s 41ww 99% 99 99 Par. B'way 3s 55 60% 60 60 — % Par. Picts. 6s 55... 96% 95% 96% + 1% RKO 6s41 Warner's 6s39 973,4 97i/7 9734 4 % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Picts. vtc Grand Nat'l Film . . . 4% 4% 4% + % Sonotone Corp 2Vi 2'/? 2% Technicolor 28% 27% 28 Trans-Lux ) Paul Muni Victor Seastrom Frank Strayer H The Broadway Parade H Picture and Distributor Theater The Great Ziegfeld (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Capitol My Man Godfrey (Universal Pictures) Music Hall The General Died at Dawn (Paramount)— 3rd week Paramount The Last of the Mohicans (Reliance-U. A.)— 3rd week Rivoli Give Me Your Heart (Warner Bros.)— 2nd week Criterion Sing, Baby, Sing (20th Century-Fox)— 2nd week Roxy Anthony Adverse (Warner Bros.)— 4th week Strand Hollywood Boulevard ( Paramount Pictures) Rialto Trouble Ahead (Times) Globe Girls' Dormitory (20th Century-Fox) (a-b) Palace Love Begins at 20 (First National) (a) Palace ♦ TWO A DAY RUN ♦ Romeo and Juliet (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — 5th week Astor ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURES ♦ Der Kampf (Amkino) — 2nd week Cameo Ciboulette (in French) — 2nd week Cinema de Paris Campo del Maggio (Nuovo Mondo) — 2nd week Cine Roma 4 FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Le Barbier de Seville (French picture) — Sept. 22 Cinema de Paris La Kermess Heroique (French picture) — Sept. 22 Filmarte Texas Rangers (Paramount Pictures) — Sept. 23 Paramount Dodsworth (U. A.-Goldwyn)— Sept. 23 Rivoli Don't Turn 'Em Loose (RKO Radio) — Sept. 25 Rialto Ginevra degli Aimieri (Nuovo Mondo) — Sept. 26 Cine Roma Midsummer Night's Dream (Warner Bros, (b) — Oct. 3 Strand The Gay Desperado (Pickford-Lasky-U. A. — Oct. 8 Music Hall Nine Days a Queen (GB Pictures) (c) R0xy Stage Struck (First National) Strand Ramona (20th Century-Fox) (c) New Criterion The Devil Is a Sissy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (c) Capitol Craig's Wife (Columbia Pictures) (c) Music Hall (a) Dual bill, (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows present bill. Sabath Comm. to Reopen Paramount Situation Action against some of the bankers and others involved in the recent Paramount reorganization is expected to be taken this week by the Sabath Congressional Committee which has been investigating receiverships, bankruptcies and reorganizations, The Film Daily learned Saturday. The committee for nearly a year has been probing the company's corporate affairs dating back to the John D. Hertz regime. In addition to the Sabath group's own investigation, the recent report on Paramount made by Joseph P. Kennedy is understood to have exerted some influence in the action contemplated for this week. "Allah" Preview on Plane West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — A sneak preview of "Garden of Allah," David O. Selznick production for United Artists release, will be held in a new Douglas airplane of the American Air Lines on a Los Angeles-San Francisco trip within the next two weeks. Eastbound for Material Coatt Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Myrt Blum, agent, accompanied by Nan Blair, head of his story department, left Friday for New York to confer with authors and to get story material. "Ziegfeld" Scale Boosted For New Orleans Pop Run New Orleans — With the return of "The Great Ziegfeld" for a popular run, Loew's State has raised its prices to 56 cents top at nights and 36 cents day top. This makes the second important development "Ziegfeld" has had on theaters here. The first came about when M-G-M wanted to roadshow it into Loew's State, owned by Canal Realty Corp., which at the time consisted of Loew, Erlanger and Saenger, each owning one-third. Saenger is understood to have objected to roadshow prices, so the film went to the Liberty and Loew quietly bought out the Erlanger interests, giving it control of the Canal Corp. Services for Bernard Cassidy Funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock this morning in the St. Joan of Arc Church, 82nd St. and Park Ave., Jackson Heights, for Bernard F. Cassidy, father of John A. Cassidy of the RKO press department, he died Friday morning in Flower Hospital, at the age of 58. Cassidy was engineer at the RKO Jefferson Theater up to the time of his death, and has previously been at the Hippodrome. Allen Benn at Mt. Clemens Philadelphia — Allen M. Benn of the Belmont Theater has left for an indefinite stay at Mt. Clemens, Mich. It will be his vacation. Coming and Going TED TODDY arrives in New York today from Hollywood with the master print of the first production completed by Unusual Pictures. CARL LAEMMLE, JR., is scheduled to sail Sept. 30 from abroad on the Queen Mary for New York, where he will spend about a fortnight before returning to Hollywood to start forming his new company. NICHOLAS M. SCHENCK has left the coast on his return to New York. EMLYN WILLIAMS, co-star with Dolly Haas in "Broken Blossoms," Imperial Pictures release, is en route from England to New York to make preparation for the production of his play, "Night Must Fall," to be presented at the Ethel Barymore Theater early in October. DAMON RUNYON, following the World Series, moves to Hollywood to become a writer at Paramount. MYRT BLUM and NAN BLAIR have arrived in New York from the coast. HAROLD HOPPER, president of the Cinema Mercantile Corp., Hollywood, will sail from New York on Wednesday for London aboard the Queen Mary. He will spend a month in Europe. GEORGE RAFT, WESLEY RUGGLES and ROSCOE KARNS arrive in New York this week from the coast with WILLIAM LeBARON. All will attend the World's Series. EDWARD EVERETT HORTON arrives in New York on Wednesday from England en route to the Universal studios. WILLIAM F. RODGERS returns to New York on Wednesday or Thursday from Chicago. CHICK ENDOR and CHARLES FARRELL are en route to New York from Europe on the President Roosevelt. AL JOLSON is due in New York on Wednesday by plane from the coast, coming east for the World's Series. BILLY and BOBBY MAUCH. twins under contract to Warner-First National, are back in Hollywood from New York to appear in "Prince and the Pauper." GEO. W. WEEKS, GB general sales manager, leaves today on a trip through the middle west and south, visiting branch offices in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Dallas, New Orleans Memphis and Atlanta. ARTHUR LEE, who has just returned from GB sales confabs with several eastern branches, will leave in a few days for other eastern offices, joining George Weeks in the south toward the end of the month. J. ROBERT RUBIN is due back in New York today or tomorrow from the coast. GEORGE HIRLIMAN has arrived in New York from Hollywood with a print of "Daniel Boone." New Incorporations NEW YORK L-Mar, Inc.. New York. Theatrical and film business; capital, $20,000. Stockholders: Hyman Bernstein, Norma Solomon and Angel Banos, New York. Kirkland & Grisman, Inc., New York. Theatrical and motion pictures; capital, $20,000. Stockholders: Norman M. Markwell. Michael Goldreyer and Ralph Marcus, New York. Picture Rental, Ltd., New York. Motion pictures: capital, $20,000. Stockholders: Samuel M. Sprafkin, Lester E. Benioff and Sylvia Breindel, Brooklyn. Eighty-sixth Street Garden Corp., New York. Theatrical business; capital, 200 shares of stock. Shareholders: Walter Schramm, Maurice Bernhardt and I. D. Hauser, New York City. Harkan, Inc., New York. Theatrical and motion pictures; capital, $1,000. Stockholders: Freda Jaret, Bertha Reich and Vera C. Poggle, Brooklyn. Raytone Safety Film Corp. New York. Motion pictures; capital. 100 shares of stock. Shareholders: H. Kerr, C. Bernert and J. Schleir, New York. The Fifty-fifth Street Play House, Inc., New York. Motion pictures; capital, 100 shares of stock. Shareholders: Irving E. Meller, Bernard L. Neumark and Rose Richmond, New York. Phoenix Strand, Inc., Syracuse, N. Y. Theatrical and motion pictures; capital, 200 shares of stock. Shareholders: George E. Smith, Albert G. Larkin and Robert W. Case, Syracuse. N. Y.