Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1934
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000172
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE DAILY Tuesday, January 23, 192" MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 January 23, 1934 No. 19 Martin Quiglev 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 Vork. 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 CHICAGOAN. 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: 6 Brookland Close. Hampstead Garden Suburb, Bernard Charman, Representative; Berlin Bureau: 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. An Apology Motion Picture Daily regrets publication of an erroneous page of Universal advertising copy in yesterday's edition. The text concerned the Universal Newsreel advertising the recent French train wreck when the correct copy, appearing on page 23 today, has to do with scenes marking the overthrow of the Grau San Martin government in Cuba and scenes of the naval flight from San Francisco to Hawaii. Universal Newsreel asserts the Cuban scenes were exclusive and the flight scenes first in its Issue No. 216. Film in "Phonetage" A new method of synchronization called "phonetage," said by its sponsors to be an improvement over the present method of dubbing, will be introduced in this country when "Girls In Uniform," the English version of "Maedchen In Uniform," opens at the Criterion tomorrow night. Week's Opening Shows General Slump Net Consolidated Film Industries Eastman Kodak Eastman Kodak Fox Film "A" . Loew's Inc pfd. Paramount cts. .. Pathe Exchange . Pathe Exchange ". RKO Warner Bros Warner Bros. pfd. High Low Close Sales 261^ 25 i/0 /2 500 400 14 1354 1354 — 'A 2,400 86 8654 y» 600 120 120 120 54 2,000 isy2 15 15 3,500 29% 28% 28% -V* 28,300 2154 21-/4 2VA A 200 354 3 3'/s -X 10,600 2 m m 600 \2A 12 12*4 -H 1,100 3 2% 3 3,000 m &A 7'A 19,800 22A 23 23 200 Technicolor Jumps One on Curb Technicolor Net High Low Close Change Sales 1054 9% 10A +1 2,200 Loew Bonds Show iy2 Points Loss Net General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 Keith, B. F., 6s '46 Loew's 6s '41 ww deb rights Paramount Broadway 554s '51 38J4 Paramount F. L. 6s '47 Paramount Publix SAs, '50 Warner Bros. 6s '39 wd 5154 High Low Close Change Sales m 7 7 54 30 7 644 6M 7 57 56 57 + 54 7 90A 90Vs 9054 -154 2 3854 38J4 38J4 + 54 3 38 37'A 3754 M 3 39 3754 37'A 54 31 5154 S0A 5054 54 115 4 Purely Personal ► WALTER CONNOLLY, who has just finished work in "It Happened One Night" for Columbia, arrived in town yesterday with Mrs. Connolly. She is scheduled to open in a Broadway play soon. Werner Richard Heymann, who wrote the music for "Congress Dances," leaves Wednesday for the coast to do the music for Eric Charell's first production for Fox. Sadie Feuerstein, Al Lichtman's secretary, and Sam Kaufman, U. A. branch manager in Chicago, have set the date to tie the knot. It's Feb. 18. Place. New York. Harry Wilcoxon, English actor, who will play opposite Claudette Colbert in "Cleopatra," arrives today on the Mauretania. John Blystone, Fox director, who was in town last week for exterior shots for his next film, has returned to the coast. Tullio Carminati will be interviewed by Radie Harris Wednesday night at 7 :30 over station WOR. Sophie Tucker left last night for Hollywood, Fla., to open an engagement in a night club' there. P DGAR SELWYN is at the Warwick for a vacation, but will look around for stories while he is here. Janet Gaynor is quietly enjoying a vacation in New York and is taking in shows almost nightly. Milt Kusell is back from his latest trek in conjunction with the Paramount Victory Drive. Jack Cohn plans to shove off for the coast today but may be delayed until later in the week. May Robson is scheduled to make a personal appearance at the Capitol starting Feb. 2. Joseph M. Schenck and Arthur W. Kelly arrive from England on Thursday. Taylor Holmes will be the guest of honor at the Cheese Club luncheon today. W J German is on his way to Florida for a short vacation. Jack Fuld has joined the U. A. exploitation force. Abe Montague heads for Chicago shortly. Wyler Forms Company Robert Wyler, former LTniversal director, has organized Wyler Productions, Inc., in conjunction with Murray Garsson and John Wexley, and will produce his own pictures. TWO LITTLE GOLD MINE WORDS THAT MEAN A FROM WARNER BROS. Harry Butler Weds Harry Butler, director and scenarist, is now a benedict. The bride is Ann Bowen of Cleveland and a non-professional. Principal Buys "Dawn" Dn-World Pictures has sold the New York and Northern New Jersey rights of "Dawn to Dawn" to Principal Film Exchange, Inc. Slated for Capitol Lionel Barrymore will make personal appearances at the Capitol starting the week of Feb. 9. "Hell on Earth" to Open "Hell On Earth," Aeolian Pictures Corp., release produced abroad, opens at the Acme Theatre Saturday. / Ji>&t~lteu>± JOHN BARRYMORE in "20TH CENTURY" with Carole Lombard. A Howard Hawks production from the Broadway success by Ben Hccht and Charles MacArthur. One of the prize plums of any year! Almost ready! Frank Borzage's production "NO GREATER GLORY," based on Fercnc Molnar's world famous novel is hailed by Hollywood as the screen's supremedramatic triumph. Get ready for Lewis Milestone s production, "RED SQUARE." adapted by Laurence Stallings from a great Russian novel. A tremendously moving kaleidoscope of life and love. /