The Film Daily (1936)

RADIO COMPETITION NOT EXHIB. WORRY Thursday, Dec. 3, 1936 (Continued from Page 1) benefits from the broadcasts. Sitting in their chairs beside 20,000,000 hearthsides, radio listeners can receive a personal contact with the players who are broadcasting. I consider it publicity which is certain to increase their popularity." The new deal between DeMille and Paramount under which he will produce and direct four more productions will be completed when he returns to the coast Monday, in time to do his next Lux broadcast. He leaves New York today en route Omaha and Denver. Four Boston Anti-Trust Suits Ask $600,000 Balm ( Continued from Vane 1) defendants in each case are as follows: Publix NETOCO Theater Corp.: New England Theaters, Inc.; New England Theaters Operating Corp.; M. & P. Theaters Corp.; United Holding Corp.; Shawmut Investment Corp.; Martin J. Mullin; Jacob Lourie, and Samuel Pinanski. Two $200,000 suits have been brought, one by the Sanford Theater Corp., which is an operating company managed by Irving A. Isaacs, and the second by Bernard L. Geddry. Two $100,000 suits have been filed by Edward M. Wood and First Fund, Inc., respectively. These suits have been brought by the consecutive owners of the Humboldt Theater since 1930. It is alleged that the defendants have monopolized trade in the entire New England district as well as in the particular case of the Humboldt Theater. Furthermore, it is claimed that these alleged abuses, including questions of first runs and clearances, have been existent since 1930. The attorneys for the plaintiffs are Warner, Stackpole, Bradlee, Palfrey and Walsh. Henri Elman To Handle General Pix in Chicago General Pictures Corp. has closed a five-year franchise deal for the Chicago territory with Henri Elman, who operates the Capitol Film Exchange in the Windy City but who will form General Pictures of Illinois to distribute General product, it was made known yesterday by Mack D. Weinberger, general sales manager. "Three Legionnaires," first of the General output, will be released Feb. 15. Coward Play to be Given "The Young Idea," by Noel Coward, third play to be presented this season by the senior students of the Feagin School of Dramatic Art, will be given tomorrow night at the theater of the school, 316 West 57th St. Portland. Me. — Arthur Allaire, former assistant manager of the Haines Theater, Waterville, has been given the same position at the Star in Westbrook. The house is managed by Fred Eugley. Aliquippa, Pa.— The Temple has been selected as the name for the new $125,000 house erected by the Beaver Theater Co. Cooperator is W. B. Urling. This house is the third for Aliquippa. Williamsburg, Pa.— A fire starting in the basement destroyed the interior of the Dean Theater here causing damages estimated at $15,000. The house, operated by Mrs. Ruth Dean Grassmyer, will be rehabilitated. Boston — Joe Dondis is taking over the State Theater, Calais, Me., on Jan. 1. Boston — Carrol T. Cooney, Jr., Waldo Theater, Waldoboro, Me., and William Harwood, Strand Theater, Gardiner, Me., have become members of Independent Exhibitors, Inc., Allied unit, according to Business Manager Arthur K. Howard. Jacksonville, Fla. — A $25,000 fire has destroyed the Foley Theater and adjacent garage at Foley, lumber town near here. St. Louis — The Volland Studios, Inc., of St. Louis, has been incorporated by Louis Freund, James S. McClellan and Leona Fuchs. FRIEDL-LUDWIG PLAN TO EXPAND IN MINN, (Continued from Pane 1) the Minneapolis program, which is now being developed, are: Time, Rochester, Minn., seating 500; Austin, Austin, Minn., seating 500; and a 500-seater at St. Cloud. One new theater is to be named the L. J., states Friedl, over the protest of his partner. The company is also remodeling the State at Eau Claire and the Fargo at Fargo. Sterling Sets Titles for Its First Eight Pictures West Coast Bureau of THE FILM \DAILV Hollywood — W. Ray Johnston, president of Sterling Pictures Corp. announces that the first release on the new Sterling program will be "Legion of Missing Men". Second production set by Scott R. Dunlap, production head, will be "Paradise Isle". Others among first group include "A Romance of the Limberlost", by Gene Stratton-Porter; "The County Fair", "The Marines Are Here," "Dream Come True" and "The Thirteenth Man." Typh< oon A. C. In Washington With Russell B. Bedford in charge, Typhoon Air Conditioning Co., Inc., has opened a new Washington branch at 1224 Connecticut Ave., N. W., to serve the WashingtonBaltimore territory. Typhoon is now doing work for the Republic Theater, Washington, and the Walker Theater, Richmond, Va. Bedford has been identified with the air conditioning field since 1901. S. F. Circuit Buys GB Program George W. Weeks has announced the closing of a deal with the T. & D. Jr. Circuit, San Francisco, whereby GB's entire 1936-37 program will play over the theater chain which consists of twenty-four situations in and around San Francisco. The deal was negotiated by Jack Erickson, GB San Francisco branch manager, and Ken Hodkinson, assistant to Geo. Weeks. F. F. Plimpton Retires Boston — F. F. Plimpton, manager and superintendent of Tremont Temple for the past 35 years, has retired. He has been an active member of the Allied Theaters of Mass. Inc. and was one of the directors at the time of his retirement. Acme, Manila, to Handle Republic in Philippines M. Goodman, vice president in charge of foreign sales for Republic, announced last night that he had closed a deal with Acme Films, Inc., of Manila for distribution in the Philippine Islands of Republic's entire first year's program of features, Westerns and serials. Acme's New York representatives are S. M. Berger & Co. of this city. Cooper Personnel Shifts Denver — Recent managerial changes in the J. H. Cooper Enterprises theaters (Publix) are as follows : M. Irwin, assistant at the Mission at Grand Junction, Colo., has been promoted to the managership succeeding R. W. Huffman, who now is manager of the Uptown in Pueblo, Colo.; Edward Vaughn has been transferred from the Uptown to manage the Sterling at Greeley, Colo.; and Mancel Lofgren is now manager of the Park at Greeley. "Yellow Cruise" Bookings "Yellow Cruise," now in its third week at the 55th Street Playhouse, has been booked into the Europa, Philadelphia, for Dec. 31. Other scheduled engagements, according to the French Motion Picture Corporation, are San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Oakland and Boston. Kiwanis Honors Rudolph St. Louis — Edward E. Rudolph, owner-manager of the Studio Theater, at Pine Lawn, has been elected lieutenant governor of the MissouriKansas-Arkansas district of the Kiwanis. Rudolph is President of the Pine Lawn Business Men's Association and a Past President of the Normandy, Mo., Kiwanis Club. New South Wales Moves for Quota Enforcement Sydney (By Cable) — Government of New South Wales has served a show cause order on six American1 distributors here in a move to enforce film quota legislation. At the same time, there was a clarifying definition of the "ac-| quire" phraseology in the quota statute. "Acquire," it is held, means both production of or obtaining possession of films for quota purposes. Quota legislation passed last year requires distributors to handle 5 per cent of native films in 1936 in comparison to the entire total of foreign pix distributed here, and 5, 7y2, 10, 12 V2 and 15 per cent in the succeeding five years, respectively. General impression here is that the quota measure thus far has done little to assist either Australian producers or exhibitors, and that there will be renewed agitation for an Imperial Quota. Indianapolis Variety Club Names Niesse as President Indianapolis — Carl Niesse, manager of the Central Amusement Co., has been elected president of the Indianapolis Variety Club. Floyd Brown, Universal, was elected first vice-president; A. C. Zaring, of Zaring's Theater, second vice-president: B. E. Jolly, Ross-Federal Service, treasurer and Sol. Greenberg, RKO, secretary. Directors are: Curtis Butler, Kenneth Collins, R. W, Baker, Joe Cantor, Henry Markun and Dale Miller. Modern Appointed Foreign Conn-Halperin Distributor Modern Film Sales Corp. will distribute exclusively for the foreign market 28 pictures to be produced by Halperin Brothers and Maurice Conn. Victor and Eddie Halperin \vill produce the eight exploitation features. Conn will produce the Tomlin, Darro and Maynard series of four, eight and eight pix, respectively. "Avenging Angels", second picture in the new Halperin-Conn line-up, is now in its third week oi production. First picture released is "With Love and Kisses", starring Pinky Tomlin and Toby Wing.