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 #:
000214
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 Thursday, January 25, Rosen Going Ahead On "Mad Dog" Film Hollywood, Jan. 24. — Having just returned from an extended European visit, Al Rosen is going ahead with plans to produce "The Mad Dog of Europe." He states that while abroad he dug up first-hand information regarding the activities of the Nazis and will present it just as the movingfinger of Hitler is writing it. Rosen asserts that inasmuch as his presentation will be an accurate photographic reproduction of the drama that Hitler has penned, "gentle Adolf should not be ashamed of his brain child," also that because the Nazis hold high the ideal of truth, they should not be afraid to permit others to see socalled Nazi truth portrayed on the screen. Rosen says that, while abroad, the Nazis issued a decree purporting to prohibit Jews from swimming in the swimming pools with Nazis. The Nazi high command contends that mixed swimming might contaminate the Nazis. Rosen contends it might contaminate the Jews. He states that he will announce distribution as soon as his film is completed. Virginians Move to Drop Censor Board Richmond, Jan. 24. — Agitation stirred up by the removal of Mrs. Emma Speed Sampson from the censor board and her refusal to resign until dismissed, has stirred a demand for abolition of the board. Major Edwin H. Gibson, assistant attorney general, says the attorney general has power of removal and will exercise it so Mrs. Elizabeth Churchill Chalkley can take office by Feb. 1. In the meantime some members of the legislature claim it would be an economy move to abolish the board. Assemblyman A. E. S. Stephens has a bill providing for the abolition of the board and Wilbur C. Hall of Leesburg, chairman of the House finance committee, says he intends to move for the elimination of all appropriations for the board. Patrick V. Shea Dead Patrick V. Shea, father of Jack Shea, booker for the Feiber & Shea circuit, passed away Tuesday. Funeral services will be held tomorrow and interment will be at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Mrs. Hendrickson Dies Clayton Hendrickson, ad sales manager at the local Paramount exchange, is mourning the loss of his mother. IJouU shaft wbmi tjousMit fjh hit with For Bookings and State Rights Wire JEWEL PROD., Inc., 723 7th Ave., N. Y. C. Some headline names disport themselves after the Interstate Circuit convention in Dallas. Somewhere in Mexico, left to right are: George J. Schaefer, Paramount; E. V. Richards, Saenger Theatres ; Jules Levy, RKO ; Sam Dembow, Jr., Paramount, and Karl Hoblitzelle in the background. MOTION PICTURE DAILY* HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW "Hi, Nellie!" (Warners) Hollywood, Jan. 24. — "Hi, Nellie I" is a nickname of derision handed a guy in charge of a "heart throbs" column on a newspaper. Paul Muni, a two-fisted managing editor, broken from his job, is stuck in the "dog house," and given the "Hi, Nellie" razz assignment. He creates a sensation with it, scores a beat on the story that sank him, and is elevated to his former job again. "Hi, Nellie !" is virile, staccato realism of reportorial enterprise, spattered with home ambition, hope, and some suggested romance. It moves rapidly. It is flavored with sauce of front page life and salted with humor. Muni turns in a finished performance. Glenda Farrell convinces as the girl reporter. Ned Sparks' dry humor registers, and a competent cast supports. The story has bite and bark, and what it lacks in heart it amply fulfills in romantic action built around reportorial resourcefulness. The direction is smooth and up to Mervyn LeRoy's high standard. The title may need explaining, but the film should satisfy those who like their newspaper yarns straight and strong. Stock Rise in Heavy Buying Net Columbia Pictures, vtc Consolidated Film Industries Consolidated Film Industries, pfd Eastman Kodak 87j4 Eastman Kodak, pfd Fox Film "A" Loew's, Inc M-G-M, pfd Paramount, cts RKO Warner Bros. Warner Bros.. pfd. High Low Close Change Sales 26% 26ys 26% 100 V/i 4 4% + % 600 WA 14 14 3.000 8754 8654 8754 + Vi 800 121 121 121 +1 1.000 157/8 14% 15'4 29% + H 4,900 30Vs 29% + Vt 30,900 21% 21% 200 3% M + % 26.800 2 m 2 + % 1,300 1254 12 mi + H 2.100 3 2%, 3 4,100 m 6% 6% % 10.800 22 22 22 —l 200 Technicolor Gains % Point Net „ „ . „ High Low Close Change bentry Safety Control % % % ' Technicolor 1054 10^4 1054 +ys Bond Market Shows Advance General Theatre Equipment 6s '40. Keith B. F. 6s '46 Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights Paramount Broadway S'As '51 Paramount F. L. 6s '47 Warner Bros." 6s '39, wd. 'High Low Close 654 654 654 . 58 58 58 92 92 92 38 38 38 . 37% 36% 37 ■ 3754 36 3754 51 50 51 Net +1 + Yi + % — % +W + Va Sales 100 1.100 Sale M-G-M Issues Huge "Eskimo" Pressbo* M-G-M has just turned out a 241 x 32 in. press book on "Eskimo" vl is claimed to be the largest the q pany has ever turned out. Included in it are details of 29 ups with national manufacturers, v appropriate stills for local use of th There is also an educational ar which includes water color cont' and children's tests of their knowle of Arctic life. A full page Sunday feature is r available in mat form, with 35 feat publicity stories, a 12-chapter and a variety of advertising campai) Outbids Capitol for New Warner Relea Outbidding the Capitol, Howarc Cullman yesterday signed a deal v A. W. Smith of Warners for Got Your Number," which has b set to open at the Roxy on Feb Dating of the picture at the 7th P house marks the first from Wan since Jan. 6, 1933, when "Fr Jenny" played there. The film formerly titled "Hell's Bells" stars Joan Blondell. "Dark Tower" to Warm Hollywood, Jan. 24. — Warners h purchased "The Dark Tower," a rr tery play by Alexander Woollcott George S. Kaufman. The story is intended as a veh for either Edward G. Robinson Warren William. Warners have also purchased magazine stories by Arthur Son Roche, "Roadhouse" and "Lady Di( which they will combine into a co nuity for one picture. Seidelman in London Londox, Jan. 24. — Joseph Sei> man, foreign general sales mana for Columbia, arrives here tomon on the Olympic. He will preside the three-day meeting of the Eng selling force which starts Jan. 27. Fassio Gets Singin' Si B. C. Fassio, president of Shamr Pictures, has closed a deal with Sin Sam, the Barbasol man, to do a se_ of songs in his "Ye Olde Time If trated Songs" series. MOTIOI PICTUR ALMANA 1954-35 NOW /A/ PA£M/IA T/OM WHERE TH E WORLD LOOKS FOR MOTION PICTURE PRKt fact*