Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

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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. 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 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, Harapstead Garden Suburb, Bernard Char man, 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: Vlale 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. 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. MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1934-35 NOW /A/ PAiPAAA T/OM WHERE THE WORLD LOOKS FOR MOTION PICTURE PR1CI «C2 53 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. . . . T 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. . . . T 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.