The Film Daily (1936)

THE Monday, Dec. 21, 1936 ARE YOU LISTED AMONG THE MISSING PERSONS (Continued from Page 1) to turn, when misfortune is at hand, then the Relief Fund steps in. It provides funds without embarrassment, without humiliation, and with a cheery word. Why not participate in this most worthy cause that is designed to help the unfortunate brother in our midst? And remember— every penny goes directly to relief. The Film Daily assumes all the administration expenses. So you have the satisfaction of knowing that every cent you donate, goes to help some needy individual and his family. The time is getting short, fellows. Christmas Day winds up the drive. And we are SHORT on the Relief budget! Shoot your check right NOW! HONOR ROLL Charles C. Moskowitz Don Hancock In Memory of Walter F. Eberhardt Moe Streimer Cresson E. Smith Walter Reade Theaters E. W. Hammons H. J. Ochs George Barnet Rose Karess Vincent Sardi Sam Cohen Joan DuGuerny Joe Fliesler A. Schneider H. M. 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Seidelman Lewen Pizor Stella Hamlin Louis Semels Samuel Rubenstein W. F. Barrett H. F. Krecke W. S. Caldwell Louis Astor Sam Dembow, Jr. Harry Shiftman In Memory of Ben Solomon Arnold M. Picker Albert Warner William Massce David Barrist William Barnett Herbert S. Berg Ted Curtis Jay Emanuel E. C. Leeves Joe Weil Eugene Picker Queen Feature Dave Weshner Nathan Hirsh Service Arthur Eddy E. A. Schiller E. M.Saunders Gabriel Hess Prospect Press Jack Trop Maurice Kann Irene F. Scott William R. Ferguson Jos. R. Vogel Charles J. Sonin Silas F. Seadler Carl E. Milliken Morris Kinzler Dictograph Prods. Co. Inc. Al Semels Paul N. Lazarus Marvin H. Schenck Isaac Weinberg Ben Shlyen H. D. Buckley City Photo Engraving Corp. Milton Silver Louis K. Sidney Quigley Publications Irving Samuels Henry D. Behr Anonymous Nate Golden Dennis R. Smith Jack Alicoate Emil C. Jensen Irving Thalberg Neumade Prods. Oscar F. Neu L. A. Farrell Harry F. Shaw Hugo K. Kessler J. George Feinberg J. H. Gallagher C. C. Pettijohn T T T • • • IT SETS a new style in Laugh Shows it kicks the slats out of the dumb and outworn musical films that are heavy on spectacle but light on real entertainment here is a musical that features only one song, but it's a honey and the gals are really an important part of the show and not just decoration as far as we can gather, the Miracle happened when four first-line writing lads clunked their conks together and said "Let us do something really Bright and Original and t'hell with all the old junk that has been passing in Hollywood for years as light musical comedy entertainment" and, lo, Paramount gives you "College Holiday" Have You Helped the Relief Fund? • • • THESE CLEVER writing lads started with a handful of comedy talent, and built in parts for them such as had never been written for them before Jack Benny George Burns and Gracie Allen Mary Boland, Martha Raye and Etienne Girardot Ben Blue and they worked them into a nutty, goofy, delirious yarn that stands on a pinnacle as the finest specimen of clever nonsense that we can ever recall on the screen T T T • • • THEY HIT so many funny slants such a diversity of gags for keeping the laughs coming that the production fairly bubbles and sparkles with wit and drollery absurdities that have you howling light banter, clever kidding, airy nonsense and downright goofy touches that are a sheer delight you can see that Frank Tuttle had a howling holiday directing it the entire cast kept sparkling because they were having a grand time, too and those four writers J. 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McEvoy, Harlan Ware, Henry Meyers and Jay Gorney must have had as much fun as the audiences will wherever "College Holiday" shows that's the real secret the comedy throughout is Spontaneous it's Laughing Gas administered painlessly and if you don't hand it to your patrons, Mr. Exhibitor, you're practically cheating 'em and yourself Have You Helped the Relief Fund? • • • A NICE Xmas present for Earle Hammons of Educational ' . with more important New York bookings for his shorts than he can ever recall at the holiday season the Roxy ran the Buster West-Tom Patricola comedy, "Any Old Port" and "The Chesapeake Retriever" and is now running "Modern Home," the Tim and Irene comedy, and later will play the West-Patricola "The Screen Test" at the Criterion, "Spring Is Here," the Niela Goodelle musical, has played, and "Symphony in Snow," one-reel Alpine subject, plays this week and Buster Keaton's "The Chemist" is playing the RKO circuit, following "Diamonds in the Rough," which features the Three Diamond Brothers T T T • • • THE FIRST annual band popularity poll conducted by the New York Paramount theater to determine the most popular ork of 1936, will wind up on Xmas Eve almost 1,000,000 votes have been cast by the Paramount patrons as the theater presented the bands from week to week the ten leaders scoring over 50,000 votes are Guy Lombardo, Glen Gray, Fred Waring, Benny Goodman, Shep Fields, Hal Kemp, Eddy Duchin, Louis Armstrong, Ray Noble and Phil Spitalny ballots have been cast for 135 different orchestras so successful has the band popularity poll proved, that it will be continued next year, with Glen Gray and His Casa Loma ork starting the new year Have You Helped the Relief Fund? L. J. Schlaifer J. A. Tanney Albert O. Bondy David Bernstein Lowell Calvert Therese E. Drazin David S. Stern John W. Hicks, Jr. Leopold Friedman Victor J. Morris F. C. Quimby Sam Stern Ray Johnston Harry M. Bernstein Herman Robbins Roy E. Larsen Louis de Rochemont Ralph Rolan Ross Federal Service, Inc. E. L. Alperson Louis Nizer Hugo Mayer J. Van Straten Herman Pincus M. Shapiro Ben Y. Commack Max A. Cohen W. A. Scully John D. Clark Thomas D. Goldberg S. Charles Einfeld Mitchell May, Jr. C. W. Bunn Vincent Trotta Anonymous N. H. Brower DISTRIBS. WILL STRESS RESALE PRECEDENT (Continued from Page 1) this," said a source close to the distributors. Expectations are that trial of the case, which involves Interstate Circuit, Karl Hoblitzelle, R. J. O'Donnell and Texas Consolidated Theaters as well as seven major companies, will be reached in the U. S. Court, Dallas, before next summer. George Wright, Dallas attorney, is expected to represent the theater defendants. Set 11 Pix for First 12 Weeks of WB Sears Drive (Continued from Page 1) vice-president and general sales manager announcing the list of features to be released during the first 12 weeks of the drive which spans 15 weeks to April 4. The 11 features, which will be generally released from Dec. 26 to Feb. 27, are: "Gold Diggers of 1937," (FN) starring Dick Powell, Joan Blondell (Dec. 26); "Smart Blonde" (WB) with Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Winifred Shaw, Craig Reynolds, (Jan. 2, 1937); "Guns of the Pecos" (FN) with Dick Foran and Anne Nagel, (Jan. 2); "Sing Me A Love Song" (FN) a Cosmopolitan Production featuring James Melton, Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert, ZaSu Pitts and Allen Jenkins, (Jan. 9); "God's Country And The Woman," in technicolor, with George Brent, Beverly Roberts, Barton MacLane, Robert Barrat and Alan Hale, (Jan. 16); "Once A Doctor" (FN) with Jean Muir and Donald Woods, (Jan. 23); "Black Legion" (WB) with Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan and Dick Foran (Jan. 30); "Stolen Holiday" (FN) starring Kay Francis with Claude Rains, Ian Hunter and Alison Skipworth (Feb. 6); "The Great O'Malley" (WB) with Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Sybil Jason, Ann Sheridan, Frieda Inescort, Donald Crisp, (Feb. 13) ; "Green Light" (FN) a Cosmopolitan Production of the best-seller by Lloyd C. Douglas, starring Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Henry O'Neill, (Feb. 20th); "Penrod And Sam" (FN) based on the popular Booth Tarkington novel, with Billy Mauch, Frank Craven Spring Byington, and Craig Reynolds, (Feb. 27). Understanding Expected in Local Currency Matter (Continued from Page 1) obtain the German Government's consent to payment of royalties due in Austria, Hungary and several other German-speaking countries in local currency and not in dollars, but expressed little hope that any such arrangement would be worked out. He said, however, that he expected to reach an understanding with the Tobis licensees.