Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Rules Dec. 8 As Start for Johnson Proposes to Keep Deputies Off Code Bodies Eliminations (Continued from page 1) applies only to product released thereafter, he pointed out. Rosenblatt also ruled today that there is no class of hearings at which the local boards may deliberate without the services of the non-industry members, because "the non-industry member is a true member of the constituency of the board and has a definite function to perform thereon as provided in the code." Authority Finance Problems Not Set (Continued from page 1) will pay their share of the code bill. Just what taxation methods will be used has not yet been decided. A study of operating costs is now being made and figures are being compiled as a basis for a permanent budget. Jameson in Capital Kansas City, Jan. 17. — E. E. Jameson, manager of Exhibitors' Film Delivery & Service Co., film carriers, is in Washington for hearings on a film truckers' code. Jameson is a member of the board of governors of the recently formed National Film Carriers Ass'n., and is helping formulate the organization's code recommendations. Washington, Jan. 17. — Abandonment of the present policy of having deputy administrators serve as Government members of code authorities is planned by Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, because of the tax upon their time and the fact that they might have to pass on what trade associations would do, including the Administration members. It was revealed by Johnson today that the Administration is also trying to work out a policy under which men who have in the past been connected with NRA will serve as Government members of code authorities. These members would be paid per diem possibly $10 for time actually spent in service, plus not more than $5 per day for expenses. The administrator did not reveal whether he would eventually select non-Administration men to take the place of deputy administrators now serving. However, his statement that the men "are scattered all over the lot attending meetings and are not available for their duties here" was taken to mean that some action of the sort may later be taken. Substitution of men from private life for Administration members would involve both Division Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt, who is a member of the Code Authority and Deputy Administrator William P. Farnsworth, who is a member of the Legitimate Stage Authority and who yesterday, with Eddie Dowling, was appointed to the Radio Broadcasting Authority. Double Check System Set Up by Authority A double check on all code assents is being made by the Code Authority which will have a list of the names on a master file at headquarters in New York and a second list forwarded to the secretaries of each of the 32 clearance and zoning and grievance boards. Although the assents are forwarded to the New York office, the reason for the second set is to keep all boards up-to-date on exhibitors complying with the code. When an exhibitor registers a grievance with the board, .he will be checked to see if he has a legal right to make the complaint. Only parties signing the assent form without qualification can forward complaints to the local boards. Decisions of the boards also will be duplicated, one resting with the local office and the second for file at the authority headquarters. Five girls are now working on card indexing of the assent forms in duplicate. There will be a set on yellow cards and another on white cards. The master file will be colorless. Zoning schedules to be mapped out by the clearance and zoning boards must be published in each territory. All plans are to be sent to New York for the record. Any parties who feel they may be injured by the schedules have 30 days after publication to file protests with the local boards. John C. Flinn has secured facts on arbitration proceedings from 36 states and will present them to the rules and regulations committee for study. Carnival Employes Fight $10 Minimum Washington, Jan. 17. — A minimum wage of $10 weekly, less $4.50 for meals, transportation and lodging, was today protested by actors and musicians appearing before Deputy Administrator William P. Farnsworth during the code hearing for the carnival industry. The code contains little of importance outside of wages. An effort will be made to resolve the wage controversy through conferences with leaders in the industry and employes. Ryland Gets NRA Post Kansas City, Jan. 17— Robert K Ryland, Democratic lawyer, has been named by President Roosevelt as the Missouri member of the new National Emergency Council. Jonas Graber of Kingman, Kan., has been appointed as the Kansas member. St. Louis was designated as the Missouri headquarters city for the new governmental agency, and Topeka for Kansas. New Cinema Issue Out In the new issue of Experimental Cinema, just published, Rene Clair, Vertoff and Dovjenko have articles, and the entire scenario for Sergei Eisenstein's "Que Viva Mexico" is included. Thursday, January 18, 1934 March Thinks % Deals May End Pay Rows (Continued from page 1) have to be on the gross, I suppose, because so many things are charged against the net." March says it is probable the Actors' Guild will have a membership of 5,000 by the end of the summer. He believes it is possible for the guild to work harmoniously with producers in spite of the fact that the guild was formed because most players felt the Academy was producercontrolled. He sees no possibility of the guild affiliating with Equity, and this automatically bars it from joining the American Federation of Labor, because the Equity charter covers both the stage and screen. Asked if he thought producers would make another serious effort to slash salaries, he said he thought not. "After all, if there is to be salarycutting, executives are going to get hit just as hard as players," he pointed out. March expects to take in shows here for about 10 days before going to his home in Wisconsin to visit relatives. His first for 20th Century under his new contract will be "The Firebrand," a comedy based on Edwin Justus Mayer's play and the autobiography of Benevenuto Cellini. His second will be a loan to Samuel Goldwyn for a role in "Resurrection" with Anna Sten. Code Assents Sent To U. S. Territories Assent forms were yesterday sent i by the Code Authority to all U. S. i territorial possessions, including Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico the Canal zone and Virgin Islands. If any are returned from exhibitors at these points, they will be turned over to Division Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt. It is expected that none can be returned before Jan. 31, the deadline, and Rosenblatt will be asked to accept them as valid, due to lateness in sending them out. No Time Limit Set For Code Protests (Continued from page 1) can send in comment or suggestions I anytime they wish and they will be i welcomed by the authority. Inasmuch as the number of sugges [ tions received yesterday by the au-i thority amounted to about a dozen, i publication is being withheld until ai greater number are on hand. Straus NRA Director Nathan Straus, Jr., has been appointed state director of the National Emergency Council. He will take over the NRA offices at 45 Broadway and the supervision of the NRA compliance board. At the same time, Henry F. Wolff, local NRA administrator, announced his resignation, and those of Thomas J. Donovan, deputy administrator, and Lloyd P. Stryker, chairman of the Department of Law and Complaints. Class A entertainment from start to finish. \^3allant Lady" is a production of the highest quality