Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

16 MOTION PICTURE DAI LY Tuesday, January 9, 1934 No Operators' Protests Yet To Rosenblatt (Continued front page 1) prevailing in each locality. The code does not provide that compensation is not to be reduced as a result of shorter hours, although a number of other codes carry such a clause, Rosenblatt asserted. This agrees with the Daily's story. I. A. T. S. E. members are complaining that this is not in accord with the spirit of the NRA and are understood to be agitating for a change in the code to make it conform in this respect to other industry regulations. Rosenblatt denies that he has made an exception to the 40-hour rule in behalf of the Boston operators' local which has a contract with exhibitors and no idle members. He states simply that a satisfactory adjustment was made there. Board Nominees Pouring in; 200 from 23 Cities Listed Name of A.F. Baker Off K. C. Code List Kansas City, Jan. 8. — The name of A. F. Baker, president of the Mossouri-Kansas Theatre Ass'n., has been taken off the list of nominations submitted to the Code Authority by the I. T. O. of Kansas City. Baker was suggested as a representative of affiliated exhibitors on the grievance board. He protested his designation, asserting the Grubel houses over which he has supervision are no longer Publix-owned. Jay Means, president of the independents, accepted this explanation and termed the designation "a mistake." George S. Baker, manager of the Publix Newman, and son of A. F. Baker, was named in his father's place. Home offices of major distributors and affiliated circuit theatres recently requested their Kansas City managers to compile and dispatch to them suggestions for memberships on the local grievance board and zoning and clearance board. This has been done. Board nominations also have been submitted by individuals. MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1954-35 NOW /A/ P/l£/>A/lA T/OA/ WHERE THE WORLD v LOOKS FOR MOTION PICTURE PRKf 1C££ M (Continued each district is up to the Code Authority committee, comprising S. R. Kent, Charles L. O'Reilly, George J. Schaefer, W. Ray Johnston, Nathan Yamins and Ed Kuykendall. All names submitted are card-indexed in Executive Secretary John C. Flinn's office. Each are listed in territories. Another group of recommendations is expected to be released today for comment from anyone in the industry. Favorable criticism as well as unfavorable is invited so that the authority may get the true picture of all men named. Permanent headquarters in the RKO Bldg. will be decided today, the belief being that the 23rd floor will be selected in preference to the 19th. Expenses for administration of Code Authority are being kept at a minimum. Temporary headquarters are in the Paramount Bldg., but the expectation is that next week will see the authority set up in its own offices in the RKO Bldg. Authority Meets Tomorrow With the authority meeting tomorrow night at H. M. Warner's office, methods of financing by taxing production, distribution and exhibition are expected to take up the entire evening with doubt existing as to whether anything definite will be decided upon at the forthcoming session. Several plans have been suggested for raising funds and these will be threshed out at the adjourned session. Kent will preside. Eddie Cantor, Marie Dressier, George J. Schaefer and Harry M. Warner will be absent. Austin C. Keough will act for Schaefer and Harold S. Bareford for Warner. J. Robert Rubin may substitute for Nicholas M.. Schenck. The first list of names follows : Albany, N. Y. — William Benton and Chris Buckley. Atlanta— R. B. Wilby, O. C. Lam, Roy Le Craw, Wm. K. Jenkins, Mitchel Wolfson, Louis Bach, Ike Katz, and Albert G. Maxwell. Boston — Edward Ausin, Walter B. Littlefield, Max L. Levenson, Phillip Smith and Ed Farrell. Buffalo— Dr. Peter Cornell, Thomas J. Hanrahan, Phil Cadoret, Ned Komblike, Jules H. Michael, and J. Meyer Schine. Chicago — Edward Grossman, Edwin Silverman, Aaron Saperstein, James Coston, Walter Immerman, Nate Wolf, Lou Reinheimer, Simon Simansky, Chas. Reagan, Phil Dunas, Felix Mendelssohn, J. Rubens, and Jack Rose. Cincinnati— R. E. Myers, Willis Vance, Elmer Shard, Charles Fine, H. O. Krent, Frank W. Huss, and J. Meyer Schine. Cleveland— P. E. Essick, Dan Robbins, John D. Kalafat, Frank Gross, M. S. Fine, M. B. Horwitz, Henry Greenberger, E. C. Flanigon, Paul Gusdanovic, Nat Lafton, Nat Holt, J. Himmelein, I. J. Schmertz, F. D. Drew, M. A. Mooney, Matt Goodman, Herb Greenblatt, H. C. Bissel, and J. Meyer Schine. Dallas — Don C. Douglas. Denver — Joe Ashby, Jim Morrison, Jack Langan, Wayne Ball, Rick Ricketson, L. J. Finske, H. E. Huffman, Henry Fredel, Earl Bell, Louis Hellborn, and Ed Schulte. Detroit— Geo. W. Trendle. Kansas City— W. J. Kubitzki, T. R. Thompson, Robert Withers, Jay Means, Fred Meyer, E. E. Webber, Mrs. A. Baier, George Baker, Fred Meyn, Arthur Cole, F. C. Hensler, Harry Taylor, Wm. Benjamin, Elmer Rhoden, A. F. Baker, Ed Dubinsky, C. V. McVey, Lawrence Lehman, and Roy Roberts. Los Angeles— Carroll Peacock, Howard Stubbins, Jack Sullivan, Russell Rogers, George Hanes, and Harry Hicks. from page 1) Milwaukee — D. E. Weshner, Thomas E. Saxe, J. S. Grauman, W. L. Ainsworth, A. N. Schmetz, George L. Levine, H. J. Fitzgerald, Fred S. Meyer, C. W. Trampe, and Sam Shurman. Minneapolis — Al Anson, Henry Green, Jos. Friedman, Frank C. Brickley, and Roy McMinn. New York City— Louis F. Blumenthal, Harry Schiffman, Harry Brandt, Lawrence S. Bolignino, Joseph Suder, A. H. Schwartz, Leo Brecher, Rudolph Sanders, Leo Justin, Jack Haddem, Maurice Brown, Hyman Rachmil, and Fred Small. Oklahoma City— R. I. Payne, Sol Davis, Pat McGee, Ralph Talbot, M. Lowenstein, A. B. Momand, W. B. Zoellner, L. F. Stocker, R. M. Clark, Fred Pickrel, and Charles R. Zears. Omaha — D. V. McLucas, H. J. Chapman, Ralph Branton, Geo. F. Monroe. Jr., August Herman, Sam Epestein, H. A. Taylor, Gordon Ruth, W. W. Troxell, Chas. Prokop, Harry Day, Walter Creal, A. M. Avery, M. J. Stern, Morgan Ames, Geo. O. Monroe, Sr., Miss Regina Molseed, Thomas Burke, and H. F. Kennedy. Philadelphia — Joe Willing, Philip Sherling, M. B. Comerford, Milton Rogasner, P. Mortimer Lewis, Charles Segal, Herbert J. Elliott, David Barrist, Jay Emanuel, Lewen Pizor, and Michael J. O'Toole. Pittsburgh— A. M. Bowles, H. V. Harvey. Aaron Goldburg, Morgan A. Walsh, G. C. Parsons, and Barney Rose. Portland, Me.— M. J. Garrity. Portland, Ore. — Homer Gill, Andrew Sasso, George Jackson, Oscar Phelps, Ted Gamble, and Wm. Cutts. Salt Lake City — Charles Walker, Maurice Saffle, W. F. Gordon, Robert Hill, Ray Hendry, C. E. Huish, Joseph Lawrence, John Gillette, and Stan Robbins. San Francisco — Cliff Work, George M. Mann, George Ballentine, L. E. Tillman, Aaron Goldberg, Irving C. Ackerman, and George Nasser. St. Louis — Fred Wehrenberg, Lito Hill, Oscar Lehr, Lon Cox, George Eigel, Charles Goldman, S. E. Pirtle, Clarence Kaiman, Albert Critchlow, Collin S. Espey, Harold Evans, George Thyson, H. H. Horman, and George Eigel. Sirovich to Confer On Industry Probe Washington, Jan. 8. — Declaring he has been deluged with complaints against the code, Representative Sirovich of New York within the next week or 10 days will call a meeting of some 30 of his colleagues to discuss the resolution providing for a film investigation introduced by him during the special session of Congress last spring, to determine whether it shall be pushed. At the same time, he said, he will ask his fellow Congressmen for their ideas as to whether the desired investigation should be widened. The complaints reaching Sirovich, it is understood, center largely around block booking and alleged monopolistic practices, and it is indicated he will ask his colleagues whether the investigation, if pushed, should include a study of the code and the negotiations leading up to its adoption. W. H. Doherty Soon To Join NRA Staff Washington, Jan. 8. — William H. Doherty, well known here in newspaper circles and formerly a member of the staff of Universal Service, is to be appointed an assistant deputy administrator and attached to the film division, it was made known today by the Recovery Administration. William H. Farnsworth, formerly assistant deputy administrator, has been promoted and now drops the "assistant" from his title. What do I think of "Roman Scandals"? Well, I'll guarantee you more money than any Cantor ever earned. Jim Yiannis, Grand Theatre, Dubuque, Iowa.