Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

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MOTION PICTURE DAILY Wednesday, March 28, 1934 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 March 28, 1934 No. 72 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 CIcle 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, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Bernard Charman, Representative; Berlin Bureau: Berlin Tempelhof , Kaiserin-Augustastrasse 28, Joachim K. Rutenberg, Representative; Paris Bureau: 19, Rue de la Cour-desNoues, 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. Jobless IATSE Men Getting Free Meals Chicago, March 27. — This city has a new form of help for unemployed stagehands — a restaurant started by George Brown, head of the I.A.T.S.E., in which members can get three meals a day free of charge without embarrassment. Working members of the union buy tickets good for meals at the restaurant and those not working get them free. Only Brown knows who has paid for them and who hasn't, and it is said that 36,000 free meals have been served during the first six months. Meals are 35 cents each and the restaurant is self-supporting. "U" Adds Two Classics Hollywood, March 27. — Universal has added two classics to its next season's list — "Swiss Family Robinson," written by Johann David Wyss in 1813, and "School for Scandal," Sheridan's famous drama, first presented in 1777. The company has also taken up an option on "One More River," John Galsworthy's last novel. H other sall-Neidig Wed Edna Hothersall and Fred J. Neidig of Motion Picture Daily today will be married at the Brick Presbyterian Church. After a short honeymoon, they will reside in New York. To Conduct Roxy Poll Audiences at the Roxy will be polled next week to determine reaction of patrons in a revival of "All Quiet on the Western Front." Insiders' Outlook \yf OST persistent are those reports Warners contemplate a theatre shift in Philadelphia, its strongest zone; that is, numerically. Joe Bernhard says he's well satisfied. Candidates whose names are linked by rumor with rumblings of changes are (1) Sol Hankin, formerly a Warner zone manager in Wisconsin before Dave Weshner went in and (2) Herschel Stuart, long with Publix and RKO. There it is, for time to dispose. . . . ▼ Los Angeles got a thrill of excitement the other day when the rumor was afloat the Skourases were out of Fox West Coast management and Herman Wobber, Fox head man in the west on all matters aside from production, was in with Jack Sullivan as general manager. Says Sidney Kent : "It's as crazy a rumor as ever I heard." Nothing but secrecy around those marathon conferences in New York on FWC reorganization what with Charlie Skouras, the receivers, the bankers and Kent sitting in. . . . Kansas City flash: "Elysia" will be held over at the Publix Royal another week because the management "figures that it would be more advantageous than running in a new picture for Holy Week." "Elysia," a nude picture very nude, for Holy Week ! There's a booking for you. . . . Differences in opinion and procedure between the NRA and NRRB over code matters find the film business in the middle. But that's happened before, hasn't it? . . . Walter Reade, having noticed the best of everything in Hollywood gets an Academy statuette, is* in the ring for one of the awards. He says he has outdistanced all competitors in sitting through punk pictures. . . . Mort Shea still running the Brooklyn Paramount ? You're screwy, says Paramount to The Insider and continues : "Fact Bill Raynor continues there is not because Shea is in, but because Raynor is the man for the job." . . . April 7 draws near and with it General Johnson's deadline on the Hollywood report, the dope for which Sol Rosenblatt went west recently. That should make an extremely interesting document. Coincidence : Paramount has its Bob Gillham, publicity and advertising chief. Kansas City has its Gillham theatre. . . . Strange how those stories about N. L. Nathanson and his reported control of Famous Players Canadian will persist. . . . Watch the first page tomorrow. It's going to sizzle. . . . KANN Roxy Plans Benefit Show A benefit performance will be given at the Roxy on April 6 for the Foster Home Department of the Children's Aid Society. "The Constant Nymph" will be current during the week. Harry Cohn East Hollywood, March 27. — Harry Cohn, Columbia president, plans to leave here for New York, April 4, to confer with Jack Cohn, vice-president, on new season production plans. Stocks on Big Board Recede Net High Low Close Change Columbia Pictures vtc 25% 2554 2S% —VA Consolidated Film Industries 454 VA MA — 54 Consolidated Film. Ind. pfd 1554 1454 1554 —1 Eastman Kodak 8654 8554 86 —2 Eastman Kodak pfd 132 132 132 —154 Fox Film "A" 1554 1454 1434 — 54 Loew's Inc 3054 3054 3054 —154 M-G-M pfd 2454 2454 2454 + 54 Paramount cts 454 4J4 454 — 54 Pathe Exchange 3 2% 2% — 54 Pathe Exchange "A" 1754 1634 1754 — 54 RKO 354 354 354 — 54 LTniversal Pictures pfd 3254 32 32 —VA Warner Bros 654 6 6J4 — 54 Technicolor Down % on Curb Net High Low Close Change Sentry Safety Control 54 54 54 Technicolor 854 754 754 — % Trans Lux 2 2 2 — }4 Pathe Bonds Slump /% Points Net High Low Close Change General Theatre Equip. 6s '40 954 9 9 — 54 Keith. B. F.. 6s '46 6554 6454 6454 +54 Loew's 6s '41 ww deb. rights 98 98 98 — 54 Paramount Publix 554s, '50 4954 49 49 — % Pathe 7s '37 ww 9154 91 91 —154 Warner Bros. 6s '39 wd 5454 5354 54 —1 Sales 300 500 700 700 10 1,200 12,400 300 13.500 6.900 2.500 4,000 20 8.800 Sales 100 1,000 200 Sales 25 10 2 16 4 31 i Purely Personal > SAM H. HARRIS will arrive in New York Friday from the coast to attend the joint testimonial dinner with his former partner, George M. Cohan, to be given by the Jewish Theatrical Guild at the Astor April 8. Clark Robinson, stage designer, who was associated with Roxy for years at the Capitol and the RKO Music Hall, has been signed by the Paramount. John W. Hicks was due in yesterday on the Olympic, but the fog tied things up in the harbor so tight that he won't reach his Paramount offices until today. Harriette Ashbrook's "Murder of Stephen Kester" has been sold to Chesterfield. It probably will be filmed under the title, "Green Eyes." Howard Cullman has invited Mayor LaGuardia to talk before Roxy patrons on the New York City economy bill and taxicab situation. Jimmy Durante will be host to 500 pupils of P.S. 1, his Alma Mater, it is said, at the Capitol this afternoon Irene Dunne arrives in town today on her usual between picture vacatior with her husband. Jack Warner will take a party ol his friends for a three-day cruis< starting Friday. Barbara Brandt has been added tc the cast of "Frankie and Johnnie.' George Brown left for Washingtot yesterday and returns here Monday Estelle Taylor is at the Warwick Buckley to Cleveland Harry D. Buckley leaves for Cleve land tomorrow to witness the openins of "The House of Rothschild" at th Ohio. Monroe Greenthal leaves toda; for Boston where the picture open Saturday at the Majestic. Buckle will also be on hand for the Beantowi premiere. On April 17, the U.A. film opens a Gary, San Francisco, with Harr Brand of the studio publicity fore and Bob Doman of the United Artist theatre in San Francisco handling th debut. Hazel Flynn to M. H. Hazel Flynn, former motion pictur editor of the Chicago Evening Amer lean under the name of "Rob Reel, joins the Music Hall publicity depart ment this week-end, succeeding Georg Gerhard, who resigned recently. Get) hard's plans are undecided. Fox Picks "Debutantes' Hollywood, March 27. — Fox ha added to the competition against th Wampas "Baby Stars" by followin the custom it started last year and hi named five "debutantes" for 193! They are Alice Faye, Pat Patersoi Claire Trevor, Rosemary Ames an Drue Leyton. No Summer Shutdown Hollywood. March 27. — Winfie' Sheehan said today that there woul be no summer shutdown at either tl old Fox studios or the Westwoc plant.