Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

Tuesday, March 27, 1934 MOTION PICTURE DAILY 7 "Scandals," "Harum" and "Christina 99 Going Strong {Continued from page 1) iSome Code Boards Get Work Started (Continued from page 1) zoning board was named to arrange for permanent quarters in a convenient downtown office building. A 'budget was compiled for submission ko Code Authority. Mrs. Alice M. Juergens, secretary \ol the Film Board, was unanimously i recommended by the board for the position of joint secretary. Chicago. March 26. — Local boards start functioning tomorrow when the [grievance and clearance and zoning members hold a joint meeting for the purpose of naming chairmen and considering recommendations for secretarial posts. Buffalo, March 26. — Organization of the grievance and zoning and clear, ance boards is expected this week at | an informal joint meeting. Sidney Samson. Fox exchange manager and A. Charles Hayman, managing director of the Lafayette, are temporary chairmen of the grievance and zoning hoards, respectively. . Cleveland. March 26. — The local grievance and clearance and zoning boards will hold a joint meeting in the very near future. T E. Fontaine, affiliated distributor representative on the grievance board and John Heubner I of Marion, unaffiliated first run exhibitor on the zoning and clearance hoard, have been notified by Code Authority to call a meeting as soon as the members of both boards have been sworn in. Joint informal meetings of clearance and zoning and grievance boards were held yesterday in Dallas and Atlanta. The Washington boards meet today. Purpose of the meetings is to get ! board personnel familiar with provisions of the code and to schedule the : initial formal meeting to start the : boards functioning. Three Forms Printed For Grievance Files (Continued from page 1) , cover complaints under Article 6, Part L 2, Section 1 of the code. The second will be a blue form and ; will cover grievances under Article J 6, Part 2, Section 4. The third will be a pink form and will include protests dealing with nontheatricals, refusal of fair adjustment, designation of percentage playdates. reduced admissions, theatre transfers and premature advertising. All grievances must be filed in trip■ licate with local boards. ; ■ ' Elliott Repeats Refusal Cincinnati, March 26. — John B. Elliott of Lexington, Ky., grievance , board member, today repeated his refusal to serve, although it is under . stood he has not submitted a formal I] resignation. Members of the local board are asking Code Authority to L appoint a substitute immediately to facilitate functioning of the board. (< Emanuel Cohen Here ; Emanuel Cohen, vice-president in charge of Paramount production, is in , town from the coast to discuss next season's lineup. a big draw, but it fell down in Providence and dropped off in its second week at Chicago. In Indianapolis it was held for a fourth week. "David Harum" was the only big grosser in Kansas City in spite of the fact that it was in its second week. The take of $6,000 was 100 per cent over the Uptown average. "Jimmy, the Gent" and "She Made Her Bed" were the only other business getters. Detroit had one of the best weeks in months with a total first run gross of $79,000. Providence fans shied away from the big-shot pictures last week. "Bolero" and "His Double Life," a dual at the Paramount, was away off at $4,000, "Midnight" was also pretty weak at Fay's with $6,000, "David Harum" and "This Mad Age" was $1,000 under par with $6,000 at the Majestic, and "Catherine the Great" was the biggest disappointment of all, getting only $10,500 at Loew's State. "Scandals" Big "George White's Scandals" bowled the cashiers over with a smash $11,000 at Warners' Hippodrome, Cleveland. Normal for the house is $5,000. "Coming Out Party," with Buddy Rogers on the stage at the RKO Palace, was the other big draw of the week. The take was $19,000. "Six of a Kind" and "The Gay Detective" took a satisfactory $4,200 at Loew's Stillman. "Queen Christina" was weak with $8,500 at Loew's State, and a dual, "Devil Tiger" and "Dancing Man," had a weak $2,000 at Warners' Lake. Montreal piled $11,000 into the Capitol box-office. This is $3,000 up. Lent held grosses down elsewhere. "As Husbands Go" was par at $10,500 at Loew's with a strong stage show. Business was good in most of the Minneapolis and St. Paul first runs. Above average draws in Minneapolis were : "As the Earth Turns," Minnesota, $8,000: "Mandalay," RKO Orpheum, $6,000 ; "Good Dame," State, $6,000. Two others, "Devil Tiger," Lvric, $1,500, and "Comrades of 1918," World, $2,000, were par. In St. Paul "The Private Life of Henry VITI" was the big monev-maker of the week with $2,500 at the 300-seat World." Three others were average as follows : "Bolero." Paramount, $5,500: "Palooka." Riviera, $3,500, and "Devil Tiger," Tower, $1,500. "George White's Scandals" took top money in Oklahoma City, $4,400, at the Midwest. "Death Takes a Holiday" had a fair $4,700 at the Criterion. "Hips, Hips, Hoorav" was also a bit off with $2,200 at the Capitol. "Dark Hazard" and "Heat Lightning," splitting the week at the Liberty, garnered $2,100, over average by $100. Boston went for "George White's Scandals" with a rush. Helped by the "Hodge Podge Revue" on the Metropolitan stage, the Fox musical went to $34,000, over par by $6,000. "Queen Christina" was $5,000 up with a '$21, 000 take at Loew's State. "David Harum" also was a hit at Keith's, the $22,000 gross being $6,000 over the regular take. Seattle's two strongest attractions were "It Happened One Night," with $5,000 at the Liberty, and "Nana," with $4,750 at the Music Box. "Fashions of 1934" took a weak $3,500 in five days at the Fifth Avenue. "Jimmy, the Gent" fared badly with $3,750 at the Blue Mouse, and two other dull spots were the Orpheum, with "Search for Beauty" and "Devil Tiger," $4,500, and the Paramount, with "This Side of Heaven," $5,250. "David Harum" continued to be an Indianapolis sensation. The thirdweek take at the Apollo was $4,000 and it was held for a fourth stanza. "Death Takes a Holiday" grabbed a fine $4,500 at the Circle. "Love Birds," with a vaudeville bill, reached a par $6,000 at the Lyric. Chicago's prize attraction was "It Happened One Night" and a vaudeville bill at the Chicago, where the $38,000 take topped par by $3,400. "David Harum" fell off to $8,000 in its second week at the McVickers. The other four first runs were weak. The record was : "Palooka," United Artists, $8,500; "Search for Beauty," Palace, $18,000; "Jimmv, the Gent," Roosevelt, $7,000; "Long Lost Father," State-Lake, $12,500. "David Harum" was the biggest film draw in Pittsburgh, grabbing $8,500, up by $4,500, at the Fulton, but big money honors went to "The Poor Rich" on the Stanley screen. Howard, Goldsmith Up for Wage Board (Continued from page 1) theatres, but never got anywhere. Rosenblatt was asked to step in and recently announced he would appoint a special committee to handle the matter. Howard is of the Scripps-Howard organization, publishers of the Nezv York World-Telegram, which some time ago agitated against Local 306 under the Sam Kaplan regime. However, the paper's attitude has changed under the leadership of Harry Sherman in the union. Goldsmith was at one time associated with RCA as vice-president in charge of engineering. He also has been active in the affairs of the S.M.P.E. Milwaukee Doubles Spurt Despite Ban (Continued from page 1) with reports about that the practice will become more prevalent within the next month or so. In the state the dual policy continues strong with all houses in Kenosha, both independents and affiliated, playing double features. The practice is also being carried on in varied degrees in Madison, Racine, Green Bay, Marinette, Sheboygan, Beloit, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac, some theatres in some of these spots billing the duals I daily. Smoke in His Eyes . . . and a swell idea in his head: He'll go to the M.P.T.O. A. Convention . . . find out for himself what this code business is all about... and settle a lot of other things that have been worrying him.