Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

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The Leading Daily .m Newspaper of the Motioia Picture Industry MOTION PICTURE DAILY Alert, Intelligent and Faithful Service to the Industry in All Branches ,rOL. 35. NO. ti3 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1934 TEN CENTS Earners Set For 60 Again Next Season tusiness Gaining, States Jack L. in Chicago Chicago, March 16. — Warners are finitely set on 60 features and 300 icrts and the selling season will bep May 1, declared Jack L. Warner, eduction head of Warners, here toiv on his way to New York. IThe number of color shorts, he said, obably would be hiked from five, I figure this year, to 12 next season, Ith all color shorts to be made on the (.Continued on page 2) 'hila. Talks Need Of Production Cut Philadelphia, March 16. — Writh ■>rt product than is needed at prest and the independents being Dwded out of the Mayfair and alto, there is talk here of starting move to have the government limit Dduction the way it limits crops, :ording to the Exhibitor. Extended playing time for the betI pictures of the majors has caused 'ire trading of playing time than 'ir before, it is said. astman Profits in 1933 Nearly Doubled Eastman Kodak Co. yesterday rerted a net income of $11,119,044 J the year ended Dec. 30, 1933, after charges. This compares with $6,;3,748 the year before. Earnings for |33 were equivalent, after dividends ' preferred stock, to $4.76 per share ' the common, as against $2.52 for ui2. Total volume of business lowed a substantial increase in "trly all products during the last p of the year," said the firm's ■Uncial statement. Menace Over the wire from Miami yesterday from Jack Cohn P and Nathan Burkan: *'Hal Home insists on cluttering up our box with Motion Picture Daily. He is becoming a positive menace, j Either make Home read them himself or stop sending them Pi to him, or send professional f_ reader to read them to all f of us." The editor refused to take anv action. Hepburn First Actress; Laughton King of Actors F or her work in "Morning Glory" For his work in "Henry VIII" Los Angeles, March 16. — Filmdom's highest honors were announced tonight at the sixth annual dinner of the Academy of M. P. Arts and Sciences in the Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel, which was attended by more than 750 of the leading Hollywood figures, including executives, players, directors and technicians. The winners : Best Performance, Actress Katharine Hepburn for "Morning Glory." Best Performance, Actor Charles Laughton for "The Private Life of Henry VIII." Best Direction Frank Lloyd for "Cavalcade." Best Production "Cavalcade" (Fox). Best Original Story "One Way Passage," by Robert Lord. Best Adaptation "Little Women," by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman. Best Cinematography Charles Lange for "Farewell to Arms." Best Art Direction William Darling for "Cavalcade." Best Sound "Farewell to Arms" (Paramount). Best Short Subjects Comedy — "So This Is Harris" (Radio). Novelty — "Krakatoa" ( Educational ) . Cartoon — "Three Little Pigs" (Disney-U. A.). (Continued on page 4) Para. Theatre Pool in South Said Brewing Plan Rumored to Include About 500 Houses New Orleans, March 16. — Gossip that Paramount theatre operators in the south would pool interests to form a theatre corporation reaching from the Atlantic coast solidly westward through Texas, creating an affiliated circuit of approximately 500 houses, is stirring plenty of discussion in industry circles here. Reported to be involved in the rumored combine are the circuits operated by E. J. Sparks in Florida ; Wilby-Kincey in the Carolinas; Saenger interests here and throughout neighboring states, and the Karl Hoblit (Continued on page 2) Delaware Bill for Censors Introduced Dover, March 16. — Rep. Robert Hopkins of Milton introduced in the Delaware Legislature today a bill to create a film board of censors, composed of three members, one of whom must be a woman, and to make it unlawful to show in the state any film having for its principal actor or actress any divorced person or any person convicted of any infamous crime or crimes involving moral turpitude. It also sets out that it would be unlawful to show any film which is obscene or disrespectful to any race, class or persons or professions. Mayf air's Tickets Are Again Protested Recurrence of "courtesy tickets" at the Mayfair yesterday resulted in another protest from the Roxy to Division Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt. Howard S. Cullman, receiver for the Roxy, enclosed in his letter to the NRA official a "managerial courtesy" pass, asking for action. The pass has on it the NRA insignia. Recently, the assistant manager of the Mayfair stated the giving away of "courtesy" passes had been stopped. Warner, Wehrenberg Confer on St. Louis Theatre building by Warners in St. Louis is seen as remote as a result of conferences yesterday between H. M. Warner and Fred Wehrenberg. St. Louis independents pledged coopera (Continued on page 2)