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August 3 , 19 2 9
Mayer Declines Ambassadorship Offer To Turkey
M-G-M Executive Tells Hoover
Business Affairs Do Not
Permit Him Taking Post
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Louis B. Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer <>xeeutive in charge of production whose name has been mentioned in the past a,s a possible ambassador to Turkey, this week announced that he declined the appointment, according to a report published in the ' ' New York Evening Tefegram, ' ' Aug. first.
Mayer journeyed to Washington from the West Coast to inform his friend, President Hoover, that his business affairs made it impossible for him to consider the post. It is understood that he was offered the choice of either the Turkej ambassadorship or an equally good diplomatic assignment. ,
The President will probably announce his selection for the Turkey and other diplomatic posts on August 19, the ' ' Telcgi'am" stated.
RKO Calls Off
Deal For Strand Theatre Syracuse
Collapse .of the Radio-Keith-Orpheum negotiations for the Strand Theatre in Syracuse, N. Y., results from vaudeville's close study of the film situation, it was explained this week.
Surveying the picture field, the R-K-0 executives found that it would l)e short of features for a second first-run house in Syracuse.
For the new film year, Keith 's here will require a minimum of 52 features, the house shortly adopting a full week policy in place of the split week program now in vogue. These Radio and Pathe will be in a position to supply. They will not, however, have sufficient surplus to keep another de luxe house in operation.
With the decision to drop the deal for the Strand, it is understood RKO also has called off negotiations fer a neighborhood second-run house.
Columbia Completes Ten
On Victor Gem Schedule
Columbia Pictures have finished sevoi of the twenty-six Victor Gem productions on the new season schedule. These were couLpleted at the Camden Studios and three more are scheduled to be finished sometime this week.
Those ready include "The Gav Caballero," with Frank Crumit; "Old Man Trouble," with Jules Bledsoe; "My Wife,'' with Jack Wilson; "Memories"; "At A Talking Studio," with Buddy Doyle; "Falling Stars," with Henry Bergman, and "Parlor Pest," with Betty Combe. The two completed this week are "Snappy Co-Eds," with Nan Blackstone, and "Jailhouse Blues," with Mamie Smith.
Tif f any-Stahl Announces Ten Features; Year's Program Will Include Twenty-Six In All
Paramount Sound News Debut On Aug. 3
THE first issue of Paramount Sound News will make its bow in theatres throughout the country on August 3, Emanuel Cohen, editor of Paramount News, announced this week.
The new sound newsreel will be released once each week. The sound accompaniment will be furnished theatres in both film and disc form.
Mr. Cohen's organization has been working during the past year on the Paramount Sound News. Collaborating with him have been the laboratories of the Bell Telephone Co. The sound recording process is said to be of a new type.
The silent Paramount News will continue to be released twice weekly.
Exhibitors And Producers Agree On Adjustment
(Continued from page 413) an organized industry plan acceptal)le to everybody, that all of the companies had authorized him to assure the exhibitors' committee that immediate instructions would be sent to every branch manager, that immediate relief be given to any small, independent, unaffiliated exhibitor, who could produce justifiable reason for the reduction of score charges and film rentals of sound pictures; that all managers will be instructed to give this their immediate and serious consideration, to give adequate and proper relief where the facts and circumstances warrant.
After presenting the plan Mr. Kent stated that the companies pledged to abide by the plan were Paramount, Pathe, Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, R-K-0, First National, Columbia, United Artists, Universal, Warner Bros., Educational and TiffanvStahl.
The exhibitors' committee comprised M. A. Lightman, president of the M. P. T. 0. of Arkansas, Tennessee and ilississippi, chairman of the exhibitor group; R. F. Woodhull, president of the M. P. T. 0. A. ; Charles Picquet, president of the M. P. T. 0. of North Carolina; R. R. Biechele, president of the M. P. T. 0. of Kansas and Western IVIissouri; D. A. Harris, of Pittsburgh, president of the Harris Amusement Co., and Frank C. Walker, vice-president of the M. P. T. 0. of Northwestern Pennsvlvania.
Three Roadshows Scheduled:
Total Production Outlay
$15,000,000
TTFFANY-STAHL announced this week the first ten specials of their feature program of twenty-six. The other sixteen will be made public within a short time.
The announcement said the program entails an outlay of $15,00,000. All productions will be made at the sound studios in Hollywood, will be 100 per cent dialog and sound and synchronized by RCA Photophone.
There will be three i-oadshows : '." Journey's End," from the stage success l)v R. C. Sheriff; "The Lost Zeppelin" and "Enchanting Melodic," the latter to be allcolor.
The ten specials for fall release are :
PEACOCK ALLEY, starring Mae Murray, an original story written by Carey Wilson, adapted for the screen by Frances Hyland, with dialog written by Wells Root. The story is a treatment of today's divorce problem.
TROOPERS THREE, written by Arthur (iuy Empey. a story of the United States Cavalry, the first picture of its kind to be produced in dialog with sound. Arthur Guy Empey is the author of "Over the Top."
PAINTED FACES, with Joe Brown, Helen Foster, Virginia Bradford in the leading roles. An original story by Frances Hyland; a story of the circus.
DANGEROUS BUSINESS, by Edwin Balmer, editor of the Red Book Magazine. The story depicts how girls are used as decoys by big business houses for the entertaining of buyers. It is to be a Ilalperin Production, directed by Victor Halperin. "Dangerous Business" was published serially in the Cosmopolitan Magazine and ran into several editions as a novel published by Dodd, Mead & Co.
KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEX. starring Sally O'Neill, tlie supporting cast including Charles Delaney, Robert Ellis, Aggie Herring, Walter Perry and Francis Ford, based on the stage play of the same name by Dion Boucicault. Continuity and dialog by Frances Hyland.
THE MEDICINE MAN. from the successful stage play of the same name by Elliot Lester. The stoo' of a snake oil salesman and his adventures in a Pennsylvania town.
WOMAN TO WOMAN, from the stage success of the same name by Michael Morton, the well-known English playwright. To be directed by Victor Saville. A tremendously dramatic story of before and after the Great War.
MISTER ANTONIO, from the Booth Tarkington stage play made famous by Otis .Skinner, Leo Carrillo and Virginia Valli starring for the screen version. The storv of a traveling hurdv-gurdy man.
THE LOST ZEPPELIN. A melodrama of the South Pole, with Conway Tearle, Ricardo Cortez and N'irginia Valli in the leading roles. Directed hy Regianld Barker, with dialog direction by Edward Sloman.
ENCHANTING MELODIE. The first of the Tiffany-Stahl all-color Technicolor features.
The announcement also states that there are to be twenty-four Color Symphonies, the first twelve for fall release being 'X'iennese Melody," "Songs My Mother Taught .Me," "Minuette," "The Cossack's Bride," "The sacred Hour," "Temple Bells," 'Tales of Araby," "A Modern Cinderella,'' "The Mountain King," ".\ Song of India," "Pharaoh's Dauahter," "In Old Madrid."
Distributors For Continental
Continental Pictures' eight features, scheduled for the new season, will be distributed by Hollywood Pictures Corp.
Charles Hastings Photoplay Editor Of The Brooklyn Times
Charles Edward Hastings, veteran newspaper and trade paper man, has been appointed Photoplay Editor of "The Brooklyn Daily Times." Hastings is well known in the industry, having been prominent on the editorial staffs of several trade papers, besides having handled publicity for stars.