The Film Daily (1936)

THE * j^S DAILV Tuesday, Oct. 20,1936 N. Y. CRITICS AGAIN VENEZUELA FILM BIZ Vol. 70. No. 94 Tues., Oct. 20 1936 10 Cents TO PICK BEST FILMS 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. \V. Alicoate, President, Editor and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager; Arthur \V. Eddy. Associate Editor; Chester B. Bahn, 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 7-4/36, 7-4737, 7-4738, 7-4739. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd.. Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest \V. Fredman. The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., \V. I. Berlin — Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris — P. A. Hsrle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Courdes-Noues. 19. FINANCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. 237/g 23V4 231/4 — % 40% 393/4 393/4 — 1/4 Am. Seat Columbia Picts. vtc. Columbia Picts. pfd. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. East. Kodak do pfd Gen. Th. Eq Loew's, Inc. do pfd 5 4% 47^ _ 181/g 18 lS'/s + 176 175Vi 176 + 285/g 27% 277/8 _ % 58'/4 57i/2 5734 _ 3/8 Paramount 16 151/, 153/4 Paramount 1st pfd. 1133/4 112 1123/4 + % Paramount 2nd pfd. 15V8 8V„ 14 V, 14% Pathe Film 8% 8% — V* RKO 8 1/4 8 8 — Va 20th Century-Fox 327', 32 32 V, + 'A 20th Century-Fox pfd. 4034 403,4 403/4 Univ. Pict. pfd. 103 103 103 Warner Bros 14% Hi/4 14% — '/« do pfd 62i/2 61 61 — l'/2 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith A-0 6s46 961/2 96V7 96'/7 Loew 6s 41 ww . 99>/„ 99 99 Par. B'way 3s55 65 V, 65 65'/? 4. '/* Paramount Picts. 6s55 991/2 98 '/, 983/4 — 3/4 RKO 6s41 93 V, 93 V, 93i/7 + h Warner's 6s39 . 971/4 96V4 96 1/4 — Vi NEW YORK CURB MARKET Columbia Picts. vte Grand Nat'l Films . 3i/2 Sonotone Corp 2 Technicolor 2438 Trans-Lux 37/g B1/4 231/8 3% 31/4 2 241/4 3% ^/^U^o(Q4f OCTOBER 20 Evelyn Brent Marian Nixon Charley Chase Purnell Pratt Russell Holman James Hood MacFarland Metropolitan New York motion picture critics will again vote for the best picture of the year early in January, it was decided at a meeting yesterday. In addition to the best "English-speaking picture, best direction and best performances by actor and actress, the critics will this year select the best foreign film of the season. Last year balloting was confined to first string reviewers but this year the second string critics will participate. Those expected to vote are Howard Barnes and Marguerite Tazelaar, HeraldTribune; Robert Garland and Regina Crewe, Amer can; FrankS. Nugent and John T. McManus, Times; Kate Cameron and Wanda Hale, News; Bland Johaneson, Mirror; Leo Mishkin, Telegraph; William Boehnel, World-Telegram; Archer Winsten and Irene Thirer, Post; Rose Pelswick, Journal; Winston Burett, Brooklyn Eagle; Seymour Roman, Brooklyn Times-Union; and Edgar Price, Brooklyn Citizen. Richard Watts, Jr. who left the film critics' ranks to review the legitimate theater will make the awards when they are announced in January. UP 20 P.C.--PINES Film business is between 15 and 20 per cent improved over last year in Venezuela , said Aaron Pines, Paramount manager in that country, yesterday as he arrived in New York for home office conferences. A local newsreel has been started and is proving successful, stated Pines, who said that feature production is now contemplated. Theater construction is virtually at a standstill. At present, Venezuela has 133 theaters, 98 of which have sound equipment. Philly Picketing Halted Philadelphia — At the request of Mayor Wilson, Local 77, musicians' union has discontinued picketing of downtown theaters for one week while the mayor attempts to work out a settlement between the union and theaters which will obviate any necessity for picketing. Ascap Splits $950,000 Ascap's third quarter distribution to publisher and writer members was $950,000 it was said yesterday by E. C. Mills, Ascap general manager. Coming and Going LOUIS PIERARD, well-known Belgian writer, arrives in New York today aboard the Santa Clara from Lima, Peru, and will sail shortly for Europe. REX O'MALLEY arrived in New York yesterday by plane from Hollywood for first rehearsals of "Matrimony Pfd.," the Grace George play opening on Broadway in November. VICTOR FELDEER, Flemish playwright, arrives in New York tomorrow from London to attend premiere of his drama, "Jacques Bergson," which Maurice Schwartz launches at 49th Street Theater, Oct. 29. DOROTHY MACKAILL sails on the Aquitania shortly for a brief European trip. LORENZO DEL RICCIO leaves New York Friday for Hollywood. JOSEPH H. SEIDELMAN returned to New York yesterday from Europe on the Queen Mary. JIMMY CAMPBELL, in charge of music for GB, and now in New York, leaves Thursday on a jaunt that will include Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. JOSEPH STEINER, sales manager for American Tobis Corporation, expects to leave shortly on a trip that will take him to the West Coast. MAYOR HARMON W. PEERY, of the Peery Amusement Company, Ogden, Utah, and MRS. PEERY are New York visitors. JOHN PITTERI of DuWorld Pictures is back in New York after two weeks in Pittsburgh. JACK H. BRITTON of San Antonio is a New York visitor. MRS. ELIZABETH FRASER LLOYD, mother of Harold Lloyd, has arrived in New York from the coast. NEIL F. AGNEW, JOE UNGER and CHARLES REAGAN are due back in New York today from St. Louis. P. S. HARRISON, who has gone to Pittsburgh, returns to New York tomorrow. ABEL CAREY THOMAS is back in New York after a European vacation. GEORGE TRENDLE arrived in New York yesterday from Detroit. AARON PINES arrived in New York yesterday from Venezuela. RICHARD ORDYNSKI sails from New York Saturday returning to Poland. Y. FRANK FREEMAN has gone to Lincoln from New York. SAM PINANSKI and MARTY MULLEN are due in New York Thursday from Boston. J. MEYER SCHINE arrives in New York today from Gloversville, N. Y. ARTHUR A. LEE leaves New York tomorrow for Chicago. A. SCHNEIDER, treasurer of Columbia Pictures, is vacationing at Virginia Beach, returning to home office next Monday. BARBARA WEEKS, screen actress, left New York yesterday by plane for Los Angeles. ANITA LOUISE, accompanied by her mother, leave New York by air for Hollywood tomorrow. EDWIN KNOPF, M-G-M studio scenario editor, heads for Hollywood tomorrow via plane. HERMAN ROBBINS, president of National Screen Service, leaves New York for west coast next Friday on a business trip. He plans to fly both ways. HUGH MILLS, writer under contract to MG-M, and MRS. MILLS left New York yesterday by air for Hollywood. MIRIAM HOPKINS, who was scheduled to leave for the coast yesterday, has delayed her departure until tomorrow or Thursday when she will make the trip by plane. On arrival, she starts work on Samuel Goldwyn production "The Woman's Touch." LESLIE J. BOOSEY, head of the British Performing Rights Society, arrived from abroad yesterday. R. C. SHERIFF, British dramatist, arrived yesterday on the Queen Mary and leaves today (or Hollywood. NAT LEVINE, Republic production chief, and GROVR PARSONS arrived yesterday from Hollywood. WARNERS VICTORIOUS IN BETTE DAVIS SUIT (Continued from I'aye 1) for Toeplitz Productions, Ltd., which had announced the signing of a new pact. The order specified the ban would be operative for the remainder of her contract with Warner Brothers or for three years, whichever period is shorter. Justice Branson granted a stay of execution for 14 days pending notice of appeal. The court found that "in June of this year Miss Davis, for no discoverable reason except that she wanted more money, declined to be further bound by the contract with Warners, left the United States and in September entered into an agreement in this country with a third person." Uhlring-Davis to Erect Film House in Norwood, O. Cincinnati — Uhlring & Davis, located at Kingswood, W. Va., are reported to have closed a deal for the erection of a 1,200-seat theater at Norwood, O. The firm, which started in Pennsylvania, has recently invaded Ohio, and thus far has acquired 22 theaters. It recently secured houses at Pomeroy, Middlesport and Point Pleasant, and has erected a new house at London, O. They are also seeking locations in Kentucky, and are building a theater in Ripley, W. Va. Gallup With Reporter Bruce Gallup has assumed the advertising managership of the Hollywood Reporter. Prior to going with the Reporter, he was with Universal on the West Coast. Fox Met. Dissolves Albany — A certificate dissolving Fox Metropolitan Playhouses, re', cently reorganized as Metropolitan Playhouses, Inc., has been filed here. Irvy Loses His Tonsils Franklin Irvy, 20th Century-Fox counsel, is at home recuperating from a tonsil operation. IMPORTANT PEOPLE TRAVEL TWA Shortest, fastest, overnight coast-to-coast Non-stop between New York and Chicago TWA OFFICE: 70 EAST 42nd ST. Telephone: MUrray Hill 6-1640