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MOTION PICTURE
DAILY
Friday, February 16, 19
MOTION PICTURE
DAILY
(Registered U. S. Patent Office)
Vol. 35
February 16, 1934
No. 39
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.
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Peekskill Theatres Protest Free Shows
Peekskill, N. Y., Feb. 15. — Free entertainment at the armory, which includes boxing, film shows, etc., has aroused local exhibitors to such a point where they have asked the Code Authority to step in. The theatre men claim attendance at the armory drastically cuts in at the box-office and is unfair competition.
Auten to Hold Benefit
Captain Harold Auten will stage a benefit show in April, the proceeds of which will go to the aid of film men in distress in England.
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Insiders' Outlook
T) OY, oh boy, oh boy ! The old -'-'grapevine almost got itself completely tangled in its excitement yesterday. It had to do with the wire which Nelson Rockefeller is reported to have hurried toRoxy in Miami, asking him to come back to the fold, meaning Radio City, in charge and on terms to be set by Roxy. Radio denied it ; Roxy denied, but there it was. The excitement sizzled for another reason, however, and that reason was the report the Rockefellers were considering Roxy without RKO. In other words, to run the Music Hall and Center themselves with Roxy at the helm. Maybe important, maybe not is the fact that Rockefellers to date have submitted no terms on those theatres' leases. . . .
Internal set-up at the Roxy which, if it does nothing else, explains why various and sundry men figure in its operation. Howard Cullman, of course, is receiver by court order. Harry Arthur is the maestro on management through Artco, a company formed for that purpose by Cullman. Artco supplies talent and operation. Talent is F. and M. with Jack Partington in on it. Management means Irving Lesser. Sydney S. Cohen represents the first mortgage bondholders' committee, for which Carlos
Israels of White and Case is attorney. Artco is one of the four groups which have submitted a plan to take over the theatre, which, by the way, is doing all right. . . .
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Heard around town that when the local grievance board gets set, 150 complaints will be filed by the I.T.O.A. Also that the men sitting on this board will have alternates, who will have alternates, who will have alternates, etc., because of the tremendous amount of complaints to keep the body busy. . . . Cecil De Mille will remain true to the bathtub in "Cleopatra." Reposing on the director's desk in Hollywood is a sketch of a gigantic steam affair, large enough to fill a hotel lobby and sufficiently representative of that decadent era. Claudette Colbert will do the splashing. . . .
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Fox has been asking members of the studio publicity department for a catchline to pin on Alice Faye. Wants something like the platinum blonde line used over at Metro for Jean Harlow. One of the scribes thought and thought, finally giving up with : "Nerts, why not call her 'Lily of the Valley*?" No dope on the decision. . . .
KANN
Monogram Undecided
Hollywood and Atlantic City are being considered as convention spots by Monogram. The annual sales meet will be held either in April or May.
Long Term for Swanson
Hollywood, Feb. 15 — Gloria Swanson's one-picture deal with M-G-M has been changed to a five-year contract. Her first will be Elinor Glynn's "Three Weeks."
Heavy Gains on Big Board
Net
High Low Close Change Sales
Columbia Pictures, vtc 26 2554 26 +1 500
Consolidated Film Industries 554 5 554+54 3,200
Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 1754 16% 17*4 + 54 5.4O0
Eastman Kodak 9054 90 9054 +254 1.500
Fox Film "A" 1754 1654 1654 + 54 11.100
Keith-Albee-Orpheum, pfd 26% 24% 24% +4% 200
Loew's, Inc 33% 33% 3354 +1% 31.600
Loew's, Inc., pfd 86!4 8654 8654 100
M-G-M, pfd 25 2454 2454 — % 300
Paramount, cts 554 454 554 + 54 65.100
Pathe Exchange 314 3% 354 + Vi 16.600
Pathe Exchange "A" 18% 17% 1854 + % 3,900
RKO 3% 3% 3J4 + % 7.500
Universal Pictures, pfd 30 30 30 +2 4.000
Warner Bros 7% 754 754 +54 19,500
Technicolor Gains 7% on Curb
Net
High Low Close Change Sales
Technicolor 1054 954 1054 +154 4,300
Paramount Publix Bonds Up 5x/%
Net
'High Low Close Change Sales
General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 9% 83/g 954 +1% 114
General Theatre Equipment 6s '40, ctf 954 854 954 + % 16
Keith B. F. 6s '46 61 61 61 +1 1
Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights 95% 955i 95% — % 1
Paramount Broadway 554s '51 40 37% 40 +3 60
Paramount F. L. 6s '47 38 3454 36% +254 45
Paramount Publix 554s '50 50 4554 50 +5% 185
Pathe 7s '37, ww 91 90 91 —1 5
Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd 5754 56 5754 +2% 15
4 Purely Personal
HENRY RANDELL, Brookl. Paramount exchange mana„'c leaves for Florida within the next U days. Work on the Paramount Dri has exhausted Randell to the poi where he needs rest.
Cakl Lessermax, assistant Gradwell Sears at Warners, w be far off Sunday on a week's to of the mid-west. Sears himself leav the same day for a week's trip to t company's Atlanta office.
Edward Marks, author of "Th» All Sang," Willie and Euge Howard and Weber and Fields w be Cheese Club guests next Tuesd: Busby Berkeley and his bri< Merna Kennedy, will fly to NYork next month for the opening "Wonder Bar."
Cary Grant and his bride, V: ginia Cherrill, are on their way this country on the Paris. Nffia Talmadge is on the same ship.
Sigmund Spaeth and Fredeii Worlocr have been added to the a of "Frankie and Johnny," now work at the Biograph Studios.
Sophie Prizep, Si Seadler's sd retary, and Buddy J. Markus, MG librarian, leave for Miami, Feb. 17
Dave Blum is expecting bless events. His dog Penny is about increase the family expense.
Rose Burkes and Marie Ade man of the Roxy are recupc^rj from appendicitis operations.
Bernice Claire begins work toe in "Who Is That Girl" at the Yi phone plant.
Irving Caeser, tune writer, is U from Movietone City.
Herschel Stuart has gone Dallas to visit his wife and baby
J. H. Hoffberg has returned fn Cuba.
Lesser to Confine Work to Produch
Hollywood, Feb. 15.— Sol Les," intends to concentrate on product hereafter and give up all theatre distribution interests. In addition, intends to be sole backer of his p ductions.
"If I make hits. I'll take all / profits ; if I make flops I'll also t? the losses," he said.
His present plans call for four [ tures a year, with Jackie Cooper "Peck's Bad Boy" the first.
Cummins to Featuri European Excitemei
Samuel Cummins is at work orj! feature dealing with current politic and social unrest in Europe. He \ ' call it "Revolution" or "Volcano,"', has not determined on the final ti'
Cummins said yesterday the f will be completed in about 10 da There will be no dramatic story exc the drama of the situations as cJ| vey-ed through newsreel shots. *\
Duals at Cleveland La
Cleveland, Feb. 15. — Commenc today the Lake, a Warner do\ town first run, goes to a double f ture policy.