Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

iday, January 12, 1934 MOTION PICTURE DAILY isserts Code Delays Chafe ITO on Coast (Continued from page 1) g over the delay in setting up the cal clearance and zoning board for aeks and telephone inquiries from ie home scene as to a probable date Ihen the boards will be in operation live come to him daily since his arival in New York. "The Los Angeles territory has had > clearance or zoning schedules," ;rinstein said, "and several months to, in anticipation of schedules beg established under the code which ould be based on admission prices, (ere was a concerted move to inease admissions. However, the dey in setting up local boards already us discouraged many exhibitors who e no possibility of current season leases being affected by new schedies and others are even doubtful hether schedules can be agreed upi before next season's selling gets jider way. I "The result," Berinstein continued, s that subsequent run admissions are ick again to IS cents from the pretiling 25 cents of the past few onths. It is our fear that, with the 'st enthusiasm over NR. A wearing ?, many of these theatres may be clined to relinquish their Blue agles rather than go back to the gher scales, particularly if the local |>ards aren't in action soon. "The code," Berinstein pointed out, will add new costs to the already ■gher theatre overhead from ineased labor costs under NRA. MoreTer, exhibitors in our section of the ' untry have no representative on the □de Authority and no direct contact ith it. We're like a lot of step' ildren out there, who learn what is ippening under the code several days !ter the rest of the country is fa>iliar with it. All of these are seriis things to an exhibitor out there, irticularly if he is already half inned to give up his Blue Eagle. Hower, I think the prompt naming of a jeal clearance and zoning board 'ould be the solution to most of our esent problems." Berinstein made it clear that neith;! his organization nor the large body J Southern California exhibitors had fty fault to find with the code itself jid predicted "100 per cent assent to by the membership in his organi tion. Berinstein is contacting Code Au|ority members here in an endeavor 3 obtain some assurance as to when |cal boards can b'e expected to begin -nctioning. He plans to remain here other week. JVo Agreement in MPTO Omaha. Jan. 11. — No agreement jas reached here at the M. P. T. O. .eeting on a plan for clearance and '■ning to be presented to Code Auiority. Members found it impossible agree on a committee report. awyer NRA Aide Here Thomas J. Donovan, lawyer, has -en named chief NRA aide in New ork by Henry P. Wolff, newly ap>inted city administrator. Third List of 303 Nominees Is Announced (Continued from page 1) be thoroughly investigated by the appointing group. Although recommendations close at midnight Jan. 20, this does not necessarily mean that the men suggested for positions have to file code assents by that date. Deadline for return of compliance forms is midnight Jan. 31. Starting Jan. 21, the committee will start sifting the names submitted, but actual work on the appointments will not get under way until all assents are in. That may be later than Jan. 31, because a signed form mailed on the coast before midnight of the last day of the month is still good when it arrives Feb. 4. All compliances must be signed without qualifications to be valid. The list as released by the authority is as follows : Albany— R. C. Halligan, C. G. Eastman, Ray Smith, Charles Johnson, Nate Sanbar. C. H. Buckley, Lou Lazar, Wm. C. Smalley. Mr. Harrington. Charles Wilson. Morris Silverman. Bernie Mills, Jack Beck, A. Stone and Wm. Benton. Atlanta— Wm. K. Jenkins, Mitchel Wolfson. R. B. Wilby. O. C. Lam, Louis Bach and Ike Katz. Boston — M. M. Teft'rey. R. C. Cropper, Tom Bailey. Maurice Wolf. Tim O'Toole, Herman Rifkin. John Dervin, Tom Meighan, Joseph Brennan, Max Melincoff. Edward Ausin, Walter B. Littlefield. Max L. Levenson, Philip Smith. Harold Stoneman. Ralph Snyder, Frank Lydon, Joseph Levenson and Martha W. Ferris. Buffalo— Kenneth Robinson. Harry Dixon, E. K. O'Shea. Jacob Berkowitz, James Holden. Ralph Crabill, Erwin Price. Sol Raives. Jules H. Michael. J. A. Reid. Willis Sargent. Albert A. Fenyiessy, Chester Fenyiessy, E. Wm. Tiskoff. R. P. Merriman and G. N. King. Chicago — Edward Grossman, Felix Mendelsohn. Jack Osserman. Edwin Silverman, Phil Dunas. B. X. Judell. James Coston, Walter Immerman. T. Rubens. Verne Langdon. Jack Rose. Nathan Wolf. E W Haferkamp. S. H. Selig. Benj. Lasker, Aaron Saperstein. Lou Reinheimer. Simon Simansky and Ben Eartelstein. Cincinnati — S. D. Lee. Cleveland— J. Himmelein. I. J. Schmertz, I'. D. Drew. M. A. Moonev. Matt Goodman Nat Lefton. H. C. Bissel, Nat Holt. M. S. Fine, E. C. Flanigan, Dan Robbins, Frank Gross, P. E. Essick. J. P. Kala™ .A B\ Horwitz. Henry Greenleiger and Faul Gusdanovic. Dallas— Claude Ezell. Bob Mclllheran, Leaman Marshall. A. W. Lilly, Paul Scott and I. B. Adelman. Denver— Henry Fredel. Joe Ashby, Jim Morrison. Earl Bell, Wayne Ball. Jack Langan. Rick Ricketson, L. J. Finske. Louis Hellborn. Ed Schulte and H E. Huffman. Des Moines— S. T. Maver. E. T. Tilton, Joe Lery, Louis Patz, H. M. Weinberg. Ralph Branton. Leo F. Wolcott. C. L. Niles. E. D. Ellsworth. Don Thornley Wayne Dutton and F. R. Puffer. Detroit— Fred North, Otto W. Bolle, Sam Sepolin. Harlan Starr, G. W. Freudle, James Minter, Ray Branch, Roy Taylor. Indianapolis— Jack Flex. Kenneth Collins, Henrv Burton. Ace Berry, F. B. Saunders, M. Marcus, Earl Cunnyham, A. C. Zaring, Louis Markun. Charles Olson, L. B. Soulden. R. R. Bair, W. J. Bradley and Harry Markun. Kansas City— W. T. Kuhtzki, T. R Thompson. Arthur Cole, F. C. Hensler Robert Withers. Harry Tavlor. Wm. Ben iamin. Elmer Rhoden. A. F. Baker. Law rence Lehman, Ed Dubinsky, C. L. Mc Vey, Jay Means. Fred Meyer, E. E. Web ber and Mrs. A. Baier. Los Angeles — Carol Peacock. Howard Stebbins. Jack Sullivan, Russell Rogers. George Hanes and Harry Hicks. Milwaukee — A. N. Schmetz, George L. Levine. C. W. Trampe, Sam Shurman, J. E. O'Toole, Jack Brachman, D. E. Weshner, H. J. Fitzgerald, Fred S. Meyer, Thomas E. Saxe, Jack Yeo, John Adler, Chas. Washicheck, F. J. McWilliams W. L. Ainsworth, Ed Maertz and Harry Perlenitz. Minneapolis — Al Anson, Henry Greene, Al Steffes, Jos. Friedman, Sidney Blackmore, Bennie Berger, W. R. Frank, A. A. Kaplan, O. A. Lee. Frank C. Brickley and Ray McMuin. New Haven — Kathryn T. Sullivan. New Orleans — Guy Brown, Richard Frank, Fred Goodrow, Lee Schexnayder, E. V. Richards, Henry Lazarus, W. J. Salles, Mrs. E. Junqua, I. J. Hanelson, Jos. Akins and Jack Dischany. New York— Louis F. Blumenthal, Harry Schiffman, Harry Brandt, L. S. Bolognino, Joseph Seider, A. H. Schwartz, Wm. Small. Leo Brecher. Rudolph Sanders, Leo Justin, Jack Hathern, Maurice Brown, Hyman Rachmil. Omaha — D. V. McLucas, A. M. Avery, Thomas Burke, H. J. Chapman, M. J. Stern, Ralph Branton, Morgan Ames. Geo. F. Monroe, Jr., Geo. F. Monroe, Sr., Calvin Bard, H. F. Kennedy. Walter Creal, August Herman, Sam Epstein and H. A. Taylor. Philadelphia — P. Mortimer Lewis, Lew Pizor, M. J. O'Toole. Joe Willing, Philip Sherlwig, M. B. Comerford. Milton Rogasner, Charles Segal. Herbert J. Elliott, David Barrist and Jay Emanuel. Pittsburgh— John J. Maloney, B. M. Stearn, Lew Lefton, James H. Alexander, M. J. Cullen, Harry L. Kalmine. John H. Harris, Alex S. Moore, Wm. D. Davis and Dr. C. E. Herman. Portland— Homer Gill, Ted Gamble, Andrew Sasso, William Cutts. George Jackson and Bob White St. Louis— Harold Evans, H. H. Herman, Lito Hill, Lon Cox, Cullen S. Espey, George Tyson, Fred Wehrenberg, Oscar Lehr, Charles Goldman, S. E. Putle, Clarence Kaiman and Albert Critchlow. Salt Lake City — Charles Walker, Maurick Sassl. Wm. F. Gordon, Robert Hill, Ray Hendry, C. E. Huish, John Gillette, Stan Robbins and Joseph Lawrence. San Francisco — G. C. Parsons, George Ballentine. B. Rise, L. E. Tillman, A. M. Bowles. Cliff Work, H. V. Harvey. George M. Mann, Aaron Goldberg and Morgan A. Walsh. Seattle-Neal East, Al. Oxtoly, L. J. McGinley. L. N. Walton. Albert Finkelstein, Al. Rosenburg, John Hamrick, Hugh Bruen. L. O. Lukan and Leroy Johnson. Washington— W. Silverberg. Cantor-Rosenblatt Discuss Studio Pay Eddie Cantor, a member of Code Authority in addition to being head of the Actors' Screen Guild, early yesterday morning conferred with Division Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt at H. M. Warner's office. The confab revolved around charges from Hollywood extras and bit players that studios were "chiseling" on salaries. When a Motion Picture Daily reporter became too inquisitive about the discussion he was shooed off — with apologies. N. 0. Houses Sign Code New Orleans. Jan. 11. — Allied Theatres consisting of the Bijou, Coliseum, Garden, Lafayette, Lincoln, Newcomb, Peacock, Plaza and Wonderland have signed the code "with exceptions." 32-Hour Week For Industry Held Certain (Continued from page 1) der NRA has provided a smaller amount of employment than was anticipated in advance. It was also pointed out that in many instances where new employment had been created wages were apportioned in such a way that payrolls showed little or no increase as a result, thus contributing to new purchasing power, which is regarded as one of the primary objectives of NRA. Definite action on General Johnson's proposal to inaugurate a 32-hour week is expected to be made to the industry through the Code Authority when that body meets next month with General Johnson and the code authorities of all other industries. Imposing of the 32-hour week, it was pointed out, on this or any other industry is possible by means of an executive order. Under the N.I.R.A. the President reserves the right to make changes in codes for any industry by executive order. Poster Men at Odds On Code Provisions Omaha, Jan. 11. — To further the interest of middle western poster renters and to discuss their points of diference with those in the east, representatives from several cities gathered here and named Irwin Levin, local attorney, to represent them at a hearing on the poster exchange code in Washington on Wednesday. Sharp differences on code provisions between middle western and eastern poster exchanges were revealed at the meeting. It is understood there is some resentment over the fact that the code draft includes provisions favorable to eastern poster firms. The present code version, as sponsored by the national poster exchange associations, bans selling in each other's territory, restricts rebates on returned paper and limits discounts. The middle western exchanges oppose these provisions, claiming they have many customers in the eastern states and that they are not in a position to charge as much as their eastern competitors. The regional meeting here instructed their attorney to fight for favored changes in the proposed code. Represented were independent exchanges in Denver, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Kansas City and Omaha. UB it's not a production it9s a creation 2C YEARS RESEARCH BEHIND IT