Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Wednesday, February 21, I9i MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 February 21, 1934 No. 43 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. T„ Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union LMe 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-de9-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. Mother and Son Die Lexington, Feb. 20. — Charles H. Berryman, former Lexington theatre owner and operator, lost his wife and son within a two-hour period. Brownell Berryman, the son, was 40 years old. He died at the Good Samaritan Hospital, two hours and IS minutes before his mother, Mrs. Louisa Brownell Berryman. Pneumonia was the cause of their death. Grade Allen Hurt Hollywood, Feb. 20. — Scalp injuries suffered when she fell through a door in a local cafe will keep Gracie Allen out of the cast of "We're Not Dressing" at Paramount for several days. MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1934-55 A/OrY /A/ PMPA/IA T/O/V WHERE THE WORLD LOOKS FOR MOTION PICTURE nuci •5* S3 facb Insiders' Outlookl^"^ , Personal NE W Paramount de luxe theatre policy calls for the biggest of names. You'd be surprised to learn at whom Sam Dembow is making eyes — and offers. But the plan goes beyond. It calls not only for marquee whoppers, but a novelty slant on their talents. It is figured dumping big names on a stage a la routine might be all right, but the unusual in treatment is better. And so it will be. . . . Practically all of the dailies handled the slight curtain fire at the Capitol Monday very nicely indeed. The Loew office is grateful. . . . Now that Warners will drop the use of the inserted word "Follies" in "Fashions of 1934," the Fox bunch will be happier. Foxites certainly were burnt up. what with "Movietone Follies of 1934" coming along pretty soon now. . . . Plans of Allied to resume its own organ on a weekly basis, first rumored in this column, are now admitted. What is not admitted is anything having to do with the editorial policy and what individual it is designed to make squirm. . . . Nary a peep from Harold B. Franklin, whose name reaches print again in the Who? What? When? series, now in its second day. The general understanding was Franklin was all set to produce independently, probably H. J. Yates-financed and Biographhoused. All's been quiet for some time on that front, however. . . . Madeleine Carroll is splendid in "I Was a Spy," which was made in London. Now Fox has her for one picture and she's in Hollywood. Lucky Fox. . . . ▼ Ed Schiller looked a trifle thinner than usual yesterday when we paid him a sick call, but nothing like the sick man those wild reports around Times Square had indicated. Forty stories above Central Park, there he was ready to leave for Florida for a month or six weeks of quiet and recuperation. "The doctor says this will fix me up and I'll be back like a two-year-old," he remarked. In the meantime, it will be all sunshine, all rest, all play and no worry about those Loew theatres to which Schiller has proven faithful for so many years. He's finding his enforced idleness irksome, but then Schiller would. . . . ▼ As was expected, quite a fuss has developed over code boards to serve New York and this exchange territory. Not much less is the fuss over a similar process for Chicago. ... So Ike Blumenthal, after all these years, is out of Paramount ! The old order certainly does changeth though. Time was when imagining Paramount without Blumenthal was pretty much as imagining the company without Adolph Zukor. . . . Sam Katz says he's about fed up, what with his sitting caught up and is getting ready to step. Sam usually steps handsomely and wide. So. . . . ▼ Bill Clark, once operating head for Paramount in Australia, is reported getting set to join Fox, where Brother John is generalissimo of domestic sales. Just a (Continued on page 8) Pathe "A" Up 1 on Big Board High Low Close Columbia Pictures, vtc 2554 2554 25% Consolidated Film Industries 5 5 5 Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 17 1654 16% Fox Film "A" 16% 16% 1654 Loew's, Inc 33% 32% 33 Loew's, Inc., pfd 9154 91% 91% M-G-M, pfd 24% 24% 24% Paramount, cts 554 4% 5% Pathe Exchange 354 3 3% Pathe Exchange "A" 17% 1654 17% RKO 4 3% 3% Universal Pictures, pfd 32 32 32 Warner Bros 754 7 754 Net Change + % -% + % 4 4-1 Sentry Active on Curb Sentry Safety Control. Technicolor High Low % Close Net Change + 1/16 + % Sales 500 200 300 1,000 6,900 100 100 15,100 2.700 1,000 3.700 1,000 4,100 Sales 100 400 Paramount Publix Bonds Fall 2% General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 General Theatre Equipment 6s '40, ctf. Keith B. F. 6s '46 Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights Paramount Broadway 5%s '51 Paramount F. L. 6s '47 Paramount Publix 554s '50 Pathe 7s '37, ww RKO 6s '41. pp Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd Net High Low Close Change Sales 11% 1154 11% + 'A 12 10% 10 10% % . 10 63 62% 625i — % 3 96% 96 96 — 54 7 3954 38% 39 4-2 23 4654 4554 46% -1% 43 4654 46 46 -2% 15 93 93 93 +1 1 33 33 33 —1 2 57% 5754 5754 — % 8 JIMMY HOLLYWOOD, Ed E/ tell and Henry Taylor, knowr. air and stage as the Three Rar* Rogues, will leave for Hollywood plane upon completion of their engan ment this week at Loew's State to a pear in a second film for M-G-M. Lynn Farnol, back from a qui trip to Philadelphia yesterday, pull out this morning for Cambridge meet Samuel Goldwvn, who d cusses industry problems there tod before the Graduate Business Schc of Harvard. Bertram Milhauser and Beul.< Marie Dix, both writing folk, a authors of "The Ragged Army," o' of the week's new: plays which ope at the Selwyn tomorrow night. Capt. R. Stuart Murray has L for Honduras on a five montl scientific expedition during which will film subjects for Universal New reel. Bernie Kleid has a new daught' Renee. It was sort of a Lincoli Birthday celebration in his fami Kleid is with National Theatre Su ply. James Whale, who arrived fr( England on the Europa, has 1 for Hollywood by train to beg work on "A Trip to Mars" at U: versal. Gene Raymond returns from Palm Beach vacation tomorrow. I will stay at the Lombardy over week-end and leave Monday for coast. Linda Watkins is one of the lea in "They Shall Not Die," latest frc the Theatre Guild, which opens at Royale tonight. Walter Huston reaches New Yoi Saturday night as the star of "Doc worth." Set for its debut at the Sr bert. Bernice Claire completed wc yesterday in "Who Is That Girl?" the Brooklyn Vitaphone plant. Cliff (Ukelele Ike) Edwae and Mrs. Edwards are in from I Angeles. Richard Wallace and Mrs. are off for Hollywood. Plans to ma a picture here failed to jell. Paul Muni gets in tomorrow the Manhattan with Mrs. Muni af a Russian trip. Marcel Achard is en route to i coast to do French dialogue for "1 Merry Widow." Abnf.r Rubien, I.A.T.S.E. coun; is back from a vacation in Cuba. Abe Montague is back from Florida trip. Joe Rtvkin expects to trek to 1 coast next month. Nate Blumberg and the missus sail for Bermuda today. Edgar Selwy-n has left for Hoi wood. Jeanette MacDonald is in to> from the coast. William Morris, Jr, is on I high seas. Paris-bound. C. C. Petttjohn snowbound at E yesterday. Sam Dembow, Jr.. laid low by cold at home yesterday. Ruby Keeler is in town.