Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1934)

AS USUAL RIGHT SMACK IN THE CENTER OF THINGS-GETTING WHAT'S WHAT AND WHO'S WHO— WHEN IT IS NEWS MOTION PICTURE DAILY WILL PUBLISH THREE ISSUES IN LOS ANGELES APRIL 10-12, SUPPLEMENTING ITS REGULAR APPEARANCE IN NEW YORK EACH MORNING WITH RED KANN LOOKING OVER THE SCENE VOL. 35. NO. 83 M.P.T.O.A. Convention Issue MOTION PICTURE DAILY LOS ANGELES. TUESDAY. APRIL !», 1934 Hays Asserts Films Helped ToEndSlump '.aughed Big Bad Wolf Of Depression Away" en credit (or an imstarttnE the country ( depression by Wdl H. Hays in innual report to the M. P. P yesterday. □ medium has contributed y than films to the maintt national morale during a period ■d byxevolutiorj, riot and politirmoil in other coi "It has been the Yen. without ignoring the s 'jal problem of the day. to ^i rati on, achievement, opti !, Goldsmith or Wage Board ■A and Dr Alfreu N understood to be unJeration for posts on i set op bv Division Adi M A. Rosenblatt Sasie operators* wage scale Vorlc. The I.T.O.A. and time have atscale for local Seek Reopening of Code To Aid Minority Groups Indies Thought Slighted As Review Board Opens Capital Hearings Authority May Name Boards ' Secretaries Outside Lists Appointment of secretaries by Code Authority — Cam pi — will not be confined to recommendations sent in from the field, it la learned. Cam pi is anxious to have aa many suggestion* for these posta as possible and everyone listed will be given doe consideration before appointments are made. Secretaries are not obligated to sign the code, it U atated by Cam pi. inasmuch as they arc not entitled to vote. These men and women selected will be employes of Casnpi and paid according to the prevailing wage for similar work Is territories they serve. Report Nathanson And F. P. Deal Set TosoNTO. March 26— II is reported here that N. L. Nathanson, president of Famous Players Canadian Corp.. s closing negotiations for the return of direct control of the circuit to Canadian and British interests which stand ready to make a stock purchase. Nathanson had hardly reached this city on his return from a Florida vacation when he left for New York -for the purpose, il is said, of discussing the deal. Ralph Kohn of Paramount Publix staled yesterday this was the first he had heard of any such move. Cummins Rushing Picture on Hitler "Hitter*i Reign of Terror," a fea Worked on secretly for some time and using the film credited to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Samuel Cummins has been rushing work on assemblage of the negative and expect* to have the first print ready in about a week. Reluctantly, he admitted hb plan yesterday. He is understood to have obtained possession of footage recently shot in Germany on a narrow gauge camera, purporting to show Jewish doctors and lawyers waiting in long lines for registration in concentratior campaigns and other shots allegedly showing atrocities. Production Gains; 41 Features Going HOLLYWOOD. March 26 —Production ast week registered a decided increase over the preceding week Forty-one features and lt» Shorts were in work as against -10 and five for the previous week There was also a healthy sign of continued activity with 33 features and 15 shorts in final stages of preparcontinue to be congested with « feaation tentatively slated to start within the nest two weeks. Cutting rooms <Co*ti***d on poos i) Milwaukee Doubles Spurt Despite Ban Milwaukee. March 26— Despite an agreement signed last July by a majority of exhibitors in Milwaukee County outlawing double features, indications point to a revival of the practice here with 20 independent neighborhood houses now playing dua bills several times a week. This represents approximately 25 per cent o the theatres in Milwaukee County (C<mtUufd a* fag* T\ 111-1