Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1933)

The Leading Daily llSewspaper li:....the Motion Picture Industry MOTION PICTURE DAILY Alert. Intelligent and Faithful I Service to the Indiistry In All Branches VOL. 34. NO. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1933 TEN CENTS Coast Talent Bitter Over Clauses 9, 10 "Passive Resistance" Is Talked by Some Hollywood, Oct. 12. — Resentment imong actors and writers over the Inclusion of Article 9 and the old A.rticle 10, the agents' and "star raidng" clauses, in the production code las reached the point where there is :alk of Ghandi-like "passive resistince." The prediction is made openly that nsistence on inclusion of these arti:les will stir up so much trouble that ;hey will cost producers more in the ;nd than the present competition for ;alent. Another mass meeting, to be held It the El Capitan Sunday night, has )een agreed upon between joint emergency committees of the .A.ctors' and Writers' Guilds. Non-members will De admitted and an effort will be (Continued on page 6) Says 466 Get 51% Of Coast Payroll Washington, Oct. 12. — In Hollyvood 466 individuals got 51 per cent )f millions expended in studio payoils, Deputy NRA Administrator 5ol A. Rosenblatt stated today. This ;ame to light in response to pressing juestions from daily and press assoriation reporters who regarded the A'hite House statement of Wedneslay on salaries as something entirely lew, when as a matter of fact Motion Picture Daily published it exclusivey on Sept. 21. Queries influenced Rosenblatt to •emark : "A large portion of the probem with respect to salaries is raised (Continued on fade 6) Mystery Solved Washington, Oct. 12. — The great Rosenblatt-Cowan mystery was lifted this afternoon when the deputy administrator acknowledged receipt of the Academy letter requesting a Hollywood hearing on the former Article 10. Rosenblatt characterized the report as 'ridiculous" and then added: "All of these points were covered at the public hearings here." Split Within Hays Ranks On Three Issues Averted Code Authority Reduced to 10 Film and Three Government Men Washington, Oct. 12. — The code authority will be composed of 10, not 12, film men and three government representatives, the latter without vote. Continuing to decline to make known its personnel. Deputy NRA Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt has made his final selections nevertheless, the Motion Picture Daily learned today. With the reduction of those empowered to vote to 10, it is a foregone conclusion that among those included are S. R. Kent, Nicholas M. Schenck, H. M. Warner, George Schaefer, R. H. Cochrane, Ed Kuykendall, Nathan Yamins, W. Ray Johnston. The other two are unknown, but probably one will be Charles L. O'Reilly. It has been definitely determined that labor will not be represented. Code Remains About Same; Major Executives Depart Washington, Oct. 12. — Progress tuward a final completion of the code made no appreciable advances today in the face of a careful statement made by Deputy NRA Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt that he hoped to settle argued points with various groups by Saturday. If that objective is attained, it will be minus alterations in former Article 10, over which the battle of weeks continued to rage. Today head and ranking executives of the major companies fulfilled their eagerly anticipated wish and left for New York on the Congressional Limited. The departing codifiers included Sidney R. Kent, Harry M. Warner, Nicholas M. Schenck, R. H. (Continued on pane 6; lATSE Seeks Definitions On Contracts Washington, Oct. 12.— I.A.T.S.E. men are demanding a clear-cut decision on how thousands of existing contracts with exhibitors stand, and today began to swing theirs and h. F. of L. influence to bear on high Administration officials in an effort to find out. While the inference is that the code will not be retroactive by the simple expedient of making no mention that it will, or that it will not, labor officials are insisting that this is not sufficient definition. While the (Continued on pane 4) Capital Gets Detroit Jam On Bookings Washington, Oct. 12. — Several moves are under way here today to obtain protection for Leon Kirm and. A. Ruttenberg, Detroit exhibitors and Allied members, who claim they are being throttled and their theatres facing extinction because Mid-States Theatres has bottled up most of the backbone product for members of its booking combine, in which H. M. Richey and J. C. Ritter^ both Allied members, are officers. One effort is being made by Ed Kuykendall, M.P.T.O.A. head, while (Continued on pane 4) Duals, Shorts, Salary Control Arguments Sidetracked By RED KANN Washington, Oct. 12. — A split in the Hays organization has been averted, and what threatened seriously to be a schism at the code deliberations is now definitely out of the running. At the same time, however, all elements are not entirely in accord in their views. While this lack of accord has resulted in tension, member companies will stick it out together. The threatened break in the ranks developed over three points. One was double features. A second was combining shorts with feature sales and a third was the interminable arguments which raged for weeks over the question of fixing top line salaries. Those agreeing to stick together are Nicholas M. Schenck, S. R. Ivent, H. M. Warner, George Schaefer and B. B. Kahane, as representatives of the major distributors which are also heavily interested in exhibition. Aligned on the other side were, and are, R. H. Cochrane, Harry Cohn, (Continued on pacic 4) MPTOA Men Confer With Hays Lawyers Washington, Oct. 12.— M.P.T.O.A. representatives at a late hour tonight were discussing changes in the NR.A. code with Hays lawyers. Included was the clause covering 10 per cent cancellations which, they declare, requires further clarification, not as to intent, but as to language. Whatever (Continued on pane 4) It Means Johnson Washington, Oct. 12. — Exactly to whom reference is made throughout the code when the word administrator is mentioned was cleared up today when Deputy NRA Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt made it clear that the term meant the administrator of the NRA. In other words, General Johnson.