Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

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MOTION PICTURE DAILY MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 January 15, 1934 No. 12 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN Editor JAMES A. CRON Advertising Manager Published daily except Sunday and holidays by Motion Picture Daily, Inc., subsidiary of Quigley Publications, Inc., Martin Quigley, President; Colvin Brown, Vice-President and Treasurer. Publication Office: 1790 Broadway, New York. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address "Quigpubco, New York." All contents copyrighted 1934 by Motion Picture Daily, Inc. Address all correspondence to the New York Office. Other Quigley publications: MOTION PICTURE HERALD, BETTER THEATRES, THE MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC and THE CHICAGO AN. Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union Life Building, Vine and Yucca Streets, Victor M. Shapiro, Manager; Chicago Bureau: 407 South Dearborn Street, Edwin S. Clifford, manager; London Bureau: 1021 A Finchley Road, Golders Green, Bernard Charman, Representative; Berlin Uureau: Berlin-Tempelhof, Kaiserin-Augustastrasse 28, Joachim K. Rutenberg, Representative; Paris Bureau: 19, Rue de la Cour-des-Noues, Pierre Autre, Representative; Rome Bureau: Viale Gorizia, Vittorio Malpassuti, Representative: Sydney Bureau: 102 Sussex Street, Cliff Holt, Representative; Mexico City Bureau: Apartado 269, James Lockhart, Representative; Glasgow Bureau: 86 _ Dundrennan Road, G. Holmes, Representative; Budapest Bureau: 11 Olaaz Fasor 17, Endre Hevesi, Representative. Entered as second class matter January 4, 1926 at the Post Office at New York City, N. Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year: $6 in the Americas, except Canada $15 and foreign $12. Single copies: 10 cents. i Purely Personal ► CARL LESSERMAN, assistant to Gradwell Sears, Warners southern and western sales head, and S. Charles Einfeld, advertising and publicity director, return from Dallas today. Fred Mayer of Universal has his first personal accessory. He was born Friday in the Park West Hospital, weighs six pounds, and will be called John Stephen Mayer. Mother and baby are doing nicely. Edward Bonns nursed a bad cold over the week-end, but expects to get back to his desk today. Trixie Friganza will start a week's engagement at the Roxy next Friday. Market Shows Slight Slump Net High Low Close Change Sales Consolidated Film Industries 3'A 3'A — 54 100 Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 13^ 13 13 — 'A 200 Eastman Kodak 8054 80^ 8054 — % 300 Fox Film "A" 1354 1354 1354 — 54 200 Loew's, Inc 2754 2&A 26% — % 1,100 Pathe Exchange 1*6 1H ty% 100 Pathe Exchange "A" 1154 V*A 1054 — 'A 200 RKO 254 254 2'A +Vs 100 Universal Pictures, pfd 19J4 1934 1934 +2% 10 Warner Bros 354 554 554 1,000 Technicolor Off % on Curb Net High Low Close Change Sales Technicolor 8 8 8 — 54 100 Paramount F. L. Bonds Jump One Net High Low Close Change Sales General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 5 5 5 — 54 1 General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 ctf 5 5 + 'A 2 Keith, B. F, 6s '46 5234 5254 5254 — 54 4 Loew's 6s '41 ww deb rights 89% 8754 89% +1% 27 Paramount Broadway 554s '51 3554 3454 3454 + 54 8 Paramount F. L. 6s '47 3554 34% 3554 +1 10 Paramount Publix 554s, '50 36 3554 36 +154 35 Warner Bros. 6s '39 wd 4354 42% 4356 — % 16 Year's Canada Film Footage 25,000,000 Toronto, Jan. 14. — Colonel John A. Cooper, president of the distributors' organization, says 700 theatres in Canada used 25,000,000 feet of film last year. All of it was printed in Canada, giving employment in one film manufactory and two laboratories. The number of persons employed in laboratories, exchanges and allied enterprises in the Dominion is approximately 1,000, while the number in theatres is in excess of 5,000. The total annual payroll last year was $10,000,000. It is estimated that the investment in exchange buildings and theatres is nearly $75,000,000. Batcheller Starts Film Hollywood, Jan. 14. — George Batcheller's next for Chesterfield release will be "The Understanding Heart," a story of men and women past their prime, by Robert Ellis. Charles Grapewin and Emma Dunn will have the principal roles. Production starts tomorrow at Universal with Richard Thorpe directing. Actors' Ball Big Success Hollywood, Jan. 14. — The Actors' Guild Ball Saturday night was one of the outstanding social events of the Hollywood season. Rudy Vallee was master of ceremonies and many topnotch stars contributed to the entertainment. At $12 a ticket, the function was a sellout. About 1,200 attended. TWO LITTLE WORDS THAT MEAN A GOLD MINE FROM WARNER BROS. "Rouge" Caravan to Start Trip Feb. 2 The "Moulin Rouge Caravan" will start its coast-to-coast tour from Washington on Feb. 2, instead of from New York, as was originally planned. Upon leaving Washington, the caravan will visit the following cities : Baltimore. Feb. 3 ; Philadelphia, Feb. 5 ; New York, Feb. 6 and 7 ; Providence, Feb. 9; Boston. Feb. 10; Albany and Syracuse, Feb. 12 ; Rochester and Buffalo. Feb. 13-14; Cleveland. Feb. 15; Detroit, Feb. 16-17; Chicago, Feb. 19-20; Milwaukee, Feb. 21-22; Indianapolis. Feb. 23: St. Louis. Feb. 24-25-26: Kansas City. Feb. 27-28. From there the party will go on to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Griffith Goes to Dallas Dallas, Tan. 14.— R. E. Griffith, operating Westland Theatres Co., throughout Colorado, and R. E. Griffith Theatres, Inc., in New Mexico and Texas, has moved from Denver to Dallas, where he is establishing offices. Wisconsin Rule Reversed Milwaukee. Jan. 14. — Judge F. A. Geiger has reversed without prejudice Referee M. J. Knoblock's ruling in the Fox Wisconsin and Wisconsin Amusement cases, pending filing of a nlenary suit against the companies by C. H. Benton, Statewide trustee. Milt Kusell on Trin Milt Kusell. eastern cantain in the Paramount Victory Drive, leaves either today or tomorrow for New England and other exchanges in connection with the drive. He was slated to go last week. Libertu Picks Third Hollywood, Tan. 14.— "Take the Stand" will be the third in a serie= of eiVht features to be oroduced Libertv Pictures Corn., headed bv M. H. Hoffman. Tt will be out into work soon at the Pathe studios. Youngstown Para. Open Youngstown. O., Jan. 14. — The Paramount, dark several months, has been reopened with a straight first run policy. Monday, January 15, 193 Here's real news of reel folks '. How they act when they're not acting! Intimate, humorous, novel —"SCREEN SNAPSHOTS" satisfies the curiosity of millions of fans about Hollywood's private lives. Opening to sensational business at the Lafayette, Buffalo, "LET'S FALL IN LOVE," musical romance featuring Edmund Lowe, Ann Sothern, Miriam Jordan and Gregory Ratoff — stood them in line for hours. | A story for women and everyone I who ever loved a woman! That's "ONCE TO EVERY WOMAN," I " from A. J. Cronin's Cosmopolitan I I Magazine story — featuring Ralph / Bellamy, Fay Wray and Walter ' j Connolly.