Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Monday, February 26, 193 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 February 26, 1934 No. 46 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and .B.nblisha 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 publicationsMOTION 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. 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Caravan Arrives at St. Louis on Tour St. Louis, Feb. 25. — The "Moulin Rouge" caravan arrived here today and received an elaborate reception from citizens, officials and exhibitors. It will stay over here two days before heading for Kansas City. The troupe came here from Indianapolis where Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan greeted the visitors and presided at a banquet and broadcast at the Columbia Club. Felix Feist Returning Felix F. Feist, general sales manager of M-G-M, returns from Hollywood and a sales trip this week. MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1954-35 NOW /AT PJtfPA/iA r/OA/ WHERE THE WORLD LOOKS FOR MOTION PICTURE •5s facb Insiders' Outlook Nominations Set On Academy Award i \/l ETRCl directors can profit by talking to Frank Capra on ways and means of handling Clark Gable. The Gable in "It Happened One Night" is a new sort of guy ; human and even full of charm. It ought to be easy tO'. arrange,, for Capra will be over at Culver City in a while to direct "Soviet" for Metro. That's the retort courteous from Columbia for getting Gable. -You'll have to be fast and listen closely, but if you do you'll notice -.the bus driver in one of the early sequences announcing the stops between Miami and New York and mentions Columbia twice. He means the Columbia which is in South Carolina but doesn't worry much about designating the state. -Marlen Pew, chief pen-wielder of Editor and Publisher, who resents Hollywood's interpretation of what newspaper men are like, won't find anything but praise to hurl at the way Gable is given his part to play. He's made out to be a swell guy in a gorgeous piece of entertainment. You even get a shot of Claudette Colbert's gam. We've been waiting for it a long time. Used to get a flash on the stage here in New York regularly, but practically nothing in pictures and that's where Hollywood has missed. . . . ■Many distributors are afire with indignation over the star system in the Daily News. That is, they're indignant when they don't get them and forgetful about their ire when they do and don't deserve them. Latest ridiculous instance in point is "It Happened One Night," which drew two and a half, whereas "Shadows of Sing Sing," another Columbia which the boys there discuss with their fingers playing in the general direction of their schnozzles, drew three. Endorsed : The stage show at the Music Hall. It's "The Birthday of the Infanta," based on Oscar Wilde's lovely story, which gets full play in pageantry and scope on that theatre's huge stage. Source of wonderment : How the orchestra at the Capitol can be so consistently terrible. ...So? The "Christina" trailer there mentions everything and everybody but John Gilbert. . . . "Journal of a Crime" is Ruth Chatterton's exit picture for W arners. Some of the executives there regard it as her best. Metro publicity, in the wily hands of Billy Ferguson and Si Seadler. couldn't have had anything to do with those box-and folding-chair expectants at the Capitol, of course. It all had to do with the Gable, who is much noise in these parts this week. . . . The agents' situation on the coast continues messy, code or no code. . . . The remaining hoards probably will pop today. That is, except New York, which is difficult. You can get more on that on page one today. . . . KANN Loew Pfd. Off iy2 on Big Boar High Low Close Consolidated Film Industries 4-J6 436 436 Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 1654 1556 1534 Eastman Kodak S9 8854 8854 Fox Film "A" 1554 147-6 14?6 Loew's, Inc 3134 3054 3054 Loew's Inc., pfd 90 90 90 Paramount cts 434 436 436 Pathe Exchange 356 3 3 Pathe Exhange "A" 1656 16J^ 1654 RKO 336 354 33* Warner Bros 7 6% 6% U niversal Drops 1 on Curb High Low Close Sentry Safety Control 56 56 56 Technicolor Wz 9'A 936 Trans Lux 2'A 2'A 254 Universal Pictures 354 356 356 Warner Bonds Off IV2 High Low Close General Theatres Equipment 6s '40 954 9 9 General Theatres Equipment 6s '40 ctf 834 854 834 Keith, B. F.. 6s '46 6256 6256 Loew's 6s '41 ww deb rights 96 95 96 Paramount Broadway 5!2S '51 38 38 38 Paramount F. L. 6s '47 46 45 45 Paramount Publix 5%s, '50 4554 4434 45 Pathe 7s '37 ww 93 93 93 Warner Bros. 6s '39 wd 54 53 53 d Net Change Sales 700 — 56 1.500 -15-4 700 56 300 -15* 12.300 —154 100 56 13,800 56 1.400 1,100 3.600 3,700 Net Change Sales — 1/16 400 — 36 500 — 56 200 1 200 Net Change Sales 56 25 —1 5 + 56 1 + 54 9 —1 2 —1 9 54 13 — lA 2 -154 26 (Continued from page I) Paul Muni in "I Am a Fugitive ir<n a Chain Gang." Best Direction : Frank Capra it "Ladj for a Day," George Cukor n "Little Women." Frank Lloyd f( "Cavalcade." Best Production : "Farewell 1 Arms" (Paramount i. "Cavalcadt (Fox), "42nd Street" (Warners), fj Am a Fugitive from a Chain Garif (Warners). "Lady for a Day" (G| lumbia). "Little Women" ( Radio i "She Done Him Wrong" (Par; mount), "Smilin' Thru (M-G-M "State Fair" (Fox), and "Henry tlj VHP (London Films-United Artist jJ Best Original Story : "One Ws] Passage," by Robert Lord ; Prizefighter and the Lady," by Fraj ces Marion ; "Rasputin and the Er press," by Charles MacArthur. Best Adaptation: "Lady for Day," by Robert Riskin ; "Litl Women." by Sarah Y. Mason and Vi tor Heerman ; "State Fair," by Pa Green and Sonya Levien. Best Cinematography : Charl Lange for "Farewell to Armi George Folsey, Jr.. for "Reunion Vienna," Karl Struss for "The of the Cross." Best Art Direction : "Farewell Arms," "Cavalcade" and "Wjj Ladies Meet." Authentic credits being worked out. Best Sound : "Farewell to Arm "42nd Street," "Gold Diggers 1933" and "I Am a Fugitive from Chain Gang." Nominations in the short subj division and on the special award assistant directors will be named week. FWC and U.A.Clos A Deal on Chine, (Continued from page 1) Ire Operating Co. to take over ope tion of the Chinese. Joseph Schenck represents U. A. on the rectorate and Charles Skouras Charles A. Buckley, FWC. Each will hold 50 per cent of the stock1 FWC also plans a new company operate the Pantages. Holij wood, a deal which takes over die lease Y by Rodney and Lloyd Pantages. "Nana" Press Book Oi A determination to spare no pense in putting Anna Sten ovei reflected in United Artists' press b on "Nana." It is a distinctive p of work, with advertising matter fined and artistically laid out. Pie of features and stuff for the worn pages are included. There is a la' display of the star in alluring pc To Test Public Tastt Dallas, Feb. 25. — A test of whe the public prefers hokum or trutl films will be made at the W' premiere of "As the Earth Turns' the Melba here March 2. An inv audience from all walks of life sit in judgment at the showing. New Actors' Body The American Federation of Act an outgrowth of the Actors' Bet ment Ass'n.. was organized foil ing a mass meeting which broke early Saturday morning at the H Edison.