Inside facts of stage and screen (November 8, 1930)

ESTABLISHED 1924 EDITED BY JACK JOSEPHS Vol. XII Entered as Second Class Matter, April 29, 1927, at Post- office, Los Angelos, Calif., under Act of Maich 3, 1879. Saturday, November 8, 1930 Published Every Saturday at 800-801 Warner Bros. Down- town Building, 401 West Seventh St., Los Angeles, Calif. No. 19 U.A.ANDF.W.C.ATWAR PLUGS NET BANK ROLL IN POLITICS SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6. —Nearly quarter of a million was spent in advertising and publicity in San Francisco dur- ing- the last few weeks of the November election period, ayid this is only one California town. Amount was pretty evenly divided between news- papers, radio stations and bill posters, with newspapers con- ceded first position. So hungry were political fac- tions for recognition of their group and domination of their pet legislation, that they passed no opportunity for a self plug. As a result, election time was the goose that laid the golden egg for all publicity sources. Nightly, during the week preced- ing election day, local radio sta- tions were thronged with speakers, favoring or opposing this or that legislation and willing to lay dough on the line to take the ether waves to express their opinions. Defend- ants, politicians, cranks . . . they were all there. Newspapers carried one of the heaviest loads of advertising they’ve had for months. Bill posters and printers worked to a maximum ol business. USED THEIR HEADS Reports credit certain promoters and advertising men with working up a lot of the proposed legisla- tion. Rumors say an out-of-town publicity man was source of the daylight saving scare. He is said to have worked up the idea, sold it to stock brokers and gas and auto companies and to have cleaned up a neat pile. Anti-daylight saving fight, put up here, was the greatest organized piece of work San Francisco show business has ever done. Theatre heads, union and non-union propo- nents, worked side by side in bat- tling the stock brokers’ pet. Every available publicity source was util- ized. Daily papers treated this ques- tion delicately, most of them failing to mention it. WILD EDITORIAL Hearst’s Examiner was the only paper to take a stand in favor of saving, and that was an editorial, more of a slap at theatres and mo- tion picture production than any- thing else, and was treated by the daylight saving workers as a boost for their side of the argument. NEW CHAIN OF HOUSES MAY FORM In a scathing statement against the Fox West Coast Theatre chain, controlling over 600 exhibitors in this territory, Joseph M. Schneck, President of United Artists issued a dramatic diefi in a document charging Fox West Coast Theatres with, an arrogant monoply. Formal statement signed by Charles Chap- lin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fair- banks, Gloria Swanson, Eddie Cantor, A1 Jolson, Ronald Colman, Sam'l Goldwyn, Norma Talmadge, D. W. Griffith and Jos. Schneck containing the following declara- tion: “We will not cheapen our pictures. We will not degrade our life’s endeavor and we challenge West Coast Thea- ters to a public test. “We will show our pictures in tents, armories, in halls— wherever they can be shown in cities of the Pacific Coast— but we will NOT show them in the theaters of the Fox West Coast frust, organized to stifle our individual endeavor and that of all other artists and producers.” Schenck also charged that his action was occasioned by the fail- ure of Fox West Coast to abide by agreements recently made in New York. There is a possibility that from today’s battle a new chain of thea- tres may be formed on the coast- The recent Hughes-Schenck deal indicates this. “BOMBY” (Aldo Bomonte) Tenor AND HIS RADIO GANG WEEK OF NOVEMBER 5 — ORPHEUM — OAKLAND WEEK OF NOVEMBER 13 — RKO — LOS ANGELES RAINEY INSTALLED SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6.— William S. Rainey has been named production manager of National Broadcasting Co. in its New York headquarters. Rainey was former program director in the local NBC studio coming from the Alcazar where he played in stock. ON KID PROGRAM SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6.— Not content with managing KTAB, Bob Roberts has inaugurated and is personally handling a kiddie pro- gram on which he spins a few yarns and croons a few tunes. Pro- gram replaces “Brother Bob,” who has been dropped from KTAB’s payroll. GIRL DIES ON TRAIN DENVER, Oct. 5.—Tragedy en- tered the home of Frank “Rube” Milton, owner of the Rivoli Thea- tre here. His daughter, L o u e 11 e, was found dead in her berth on a Denver bound Union Pacific train. She has been in Hollywood the past two years in pictures. ‘CARUSO’ AT KHJ Guty Cardevas, Mexican com- poser, termed Mexican “Caruso,” will fulfill extensive contract en- gagement at KHJ beginning to- night. More than 4,000,000 Bruns- wick and Columbia recordings have been sold throughout Mexico of Cardevas. MEDBURY ‘WARNS’ HIS RADIO FRIENDS “There are plenty of other stations you can tune in on, so if you listen to me it will be your own fault.” That was John P. Med- bury’s announcement, circu- lated by mail to his friends, concerning his KHJ broad- cast.