Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Tuesday, May 15, 1934 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 35 May 15, 1934 No. 113 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN Editor JAMES A. CRON A dvertising 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: Remo House, 310 Regent St., London, W. 1, Bruce Allan, 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. Krellberg Doing Well Sam Krellberg of Amusement Securities Corp. is gaining ground steadily following serious injuries inflicted by a taxicab last week. He is still confined to the Polyclinic Hospital. Hollywood, May 14. — Fred S. Meyer, Wisconsin exhibitor leader, is gaining ground steadily following a serious illness. Monogram Pays Dividend Monogram has paid a one and onehalf per cent dividend on its capital stock. This is a regular quarterly dividend declared at the annual convention in Atlantic City last month. Booked in Two Cities Hollywood, May 14. — P a t r i c i a Ellis leaves for Detroit Tuesday. She is scheduled to make personal appearances there and in Chicago. M-G-M Film for Rialto Arthur Mayer has booked "The Hollywood Party" for the Rialto. The M-G-M picture opens in about a week. Peggy Fears All Set Hollywood, May 14. — Peggy Fears arrives here June 1 from New York to go to work for Fox. NOW BOOKING ENTIRE COUNTRY Insiders' Outlook Hollywood rJyHE colony has its stooges, tipsters and feeders who funnel facts to various sources, all depending. Stooges are of a strange ilk, ranging from comics to snoopers. . . . ▼ Not too long ago, one studio accused another of planting stooges on its lot. The defendant studio retorted it had to protect itself against stooges placed on its own terrain bv the plaintiff. ... ▼ A New York executive recently took on a stooge with instructions to check and double check, then airmail, the lowdown on one of his studio executives. After reading the reports, the NewYorker hurried west, huddled with the stooge who suggested the guillotine for the executive under fire. . . . T Up on the carpet, the executive, sensing something was out of focus, dollied right up to New Yorker. "If you're getting reports on me, and it looks as if you were, they're phoney. Let's go over the record. You admit I'm competent, honest and loyal. What are you after ? Who doesn't like the way I part my hair or who wants my job?" The counter-attack stymied New Yorker. He stalled. Then checking better sources, more first-hand, he got the lowdown. The stooge ferreted out the facts, but supplied New Yorker something else. The reason had to do with a run-in somewhere along the line between executive and stooge. . . . T New Y'orker, by that time, had learned, then asked the stooge who might be a good replace ment for the executive on the spot. He mentioned a former business associate with whom, the suspicion goes, he was still in business. Espionage is not peculiar or exclusive with Hollywood or films. It's part of the big business scheme, international style. . . . T The summer here looks like the most active in many. Major studios are arranging their schedules to avoid the customary shutdown between seasons. This reminds of the inside report, current in Hollywood a few weeks ago, by private advices, the NRA had requested — this was the word — the studios to sidestep dark days by staggering production and thus maintain whatever their level of employment happened to be. Subsequently, nobody ever admitted and such word had emanated from Washington. Now comes the plan to keep stages busy right through the warm weather. . . . , Y Hollywood is losing out on some of Walter Winchell's gossip about Hollywood. His stuff runs daily here in the HeraldExpress, Hearst-owned, but the sheet has been known to edit out or forget many paragraphs which run in New York. Therefore, Hollywood eyes, usually primed wide to catch this and that, are missing out, unless they scan the New York Mirror. Outstanding instances : The "If I were the Roosevelt of Hollywood" column which discoursed on stars, critics, supervisors, agents. . . . ▼ Among the wall decorations in Harry Cohn's office, a handbill. The text : "Mr. Rubinstein is the best piano man in his line and he Columbia Up One on Big Board High LowColumbia Pictures, vtc 25% 2454. Consolidated Film Industries 3% 354 Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 15 1454 Eastman Kodak 9054 87/4 Eastman Kodak, pfd 135 135 Fox . Film "A" 1454 13% Loew's, Inc 3054 2834 M-G-M. pfd 25i4 2554 Paramount Publix 414 4 Pathe Exchange 2% 254 Pathe Exchange "A" 18% 17% RKO 2M ' 2fi Warner Bros 514 5% Close 257/g 15 9054 135 14% 30% 25/2 4% 254 18% 334 554 Technicolor Off % on Curb High Low Close Technicolor 854 7% 7% Trans Lux 1% 1% 1% Net Change +1 u + % +m —1 + % +1 + 54 + % Net Change Paramount Publix Bonds Off 21/4c JEWEL PROD., 723 7th Ave., N. Y. C. High General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 854 Keith B. F. 6s '46 68 Loew's 6s '41. ww deb rights 10054 Paramount Broadway 554s '51 43 Paramount F. L. 6s '47 48 Paramount Publix 554s '50 4854 Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd 5554 Low 854 10054 43 47:4 54 Close 10054 43 48 4754 54 Net Change + 54 -254 —1 Sales 1,000 1,000 400 1,200 10 900 5,500 200 8,600 1.600 2,700 2,100 6,100 Sales 1,700 200 Sales 11 3 21 2 5 15 52 would rather play than eat. And the same can be said about Mr. Cohn — only that he is a singer that can sing and he is not backward about it. Admission 5 cents." The theatre was the Claremont, 174th St. and 3rd Ave, in New York. The "Rubinstein" is Harry Ruby, now of Kalmer and Ruby. Close by on the same wall is a shot of Mussolini, autographing his best to the Columbia presidents ... T Joe Von Sternberg set out to make a pageant when he launched "The Scarlet Empress." He succeeded. . . . Dorothea Wieck leaves Hollywood, presumably for Germany. That's on the surface of the news. Were those recent stories tying her sympathies directly with the Nazi cause responsible? That's the moot question not on the surface. . . . Boy drives by girl. Girl drives by boy. As they pass, big smiles and expansive hellos. Thereafter, boy discovers he doesn't know girl; likewise, in reverse. The conclusion seems to be that nobody in Hollywood likes to pass up anyone else. It might mean offense to someone of no account Monday, but of much account Tuesday. . . . KANN 4 Purely Personal ► CC. PETTIJOHN, Roy Norr, . Sam Eckman, Arthur Loew, Howard Dietz, Si Seadler, William Scully, Louis Frisch, Sam Rinzler, Phil Reisman, Earle Swigart, Henry Randell, Budd Rogers, Harry Asher, Kelcey Allen, E. H. Goldstein* and Herman Gluckman among those at the M. P. Club yesterday for lunch. Frank Lawton, who has been appearing in "The Wind and the Rain" here, leaves for the coast today to make two pictures for Universal. Gene Raymond is in town for a brief vacation. George Dembow is back from the coast. William Goetz didn't accompany Darryl Zanuck to Europe after all. Hal Horne and his stooges will be guest chairmen of the Ampa Thursday. Cooper-Radio Riddle May Be Solved Today Hollywood, May 14. — Merian C. Cooper spent the week-end conferring with J. R. McDonough on his future status with Radio. Authoritative sources have it that he and the studio will arrive at some agreement as to whether he resumes entire charge of production or produces a series of four or six independently for Radio. General opinion is Cooper is inclined to shake off studio detail and concentrate on his own productions. A decision is expected tomorrow.