Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Thursday, October 4, 1934 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 36 October 4, 1934 No. 80 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 Circle 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. 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Single copies: 10 cents. Product Talk Opens Milwaukee Session Milwaukee, Oct. 3. — A round table discussion of distributor sales policies and new product, .held behind closed doors, occupied the opening session of the Wisconsin Allied convention here today. Exhibitor attitudes on buying are also understood to have been aired by the 40 delegates in attendance. Tomorrow's session is scheduled to take up the subject of double featuring in Wisconsin. Lowell M. Prewitt Dead Indianapolis, Oct. 3. — Lowell M. Prewitt, 40, well known Indiana exhibitor, is dead at his home in Plainfield. He had been ill for three years. He was a former member of the executive board of the Indiana exhibitors' association and was owner of the Prewitt Theatre. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Viola N. Prewitt, and his widow. M. L. Gordon Passes Middletown, O., Oct. 3. — M. L. Gordon, owner of the theatre bearing his name, died at his home here following a lingering illness. Delay Boston Road Deal Loew's has delayed taking over the Boston Road from Henry Seigel until Nov. 1. The house is now being remodeled. Heavy Para. Sales on Big Board Net Columbia Pictures, vtc. Consolidated Film Indu Fox Film "A".... Loew's, Inc Loew's, _ Inc., pfd. Paramount, cts. . Pathe Exchange Pathe Exchange RKO Warner Bros. •A' High Low Close Change Sales 3534 1 CI/ 200 3 3 3 100 13-H \M 13*6 V* 100 99/ 99/ 99/ / 200 115/g n/ H5/8 + Vz 300 2&Vi 27% 277^ Vt 2,400 91/ 91/ 9154 +1 100 4M 4/ + / 17,700 1/ M 154 700 13M 13 133/6 + % 800 2/ 2Yt 2% 200 S'/s 2.100 Trans Lux Loses Y$ on Curb Trans Lux High Low m Net Close Change Sales 200 Warner Bonds Decline V2 Point General Theatre Equipment 6s '40. Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights Paramount F. L. 6s '47 Paramount Publix 5/s '50 Pathe 7s '37, ww Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd Net High Low Close Change Sales 7 7 7 + / 1 101/2 101!4 101/ + / 2 61 A 60 60/ + / 3 61/ 60 60 -a 70 98 98 98 1 61 60 60 / 12 Chadwick to Make Six I. E. Chadwick plans to produce six features, one of which will be "In My Old Kentucky Home." Production will start at the Chadwick studios on the coast as soon as his work as independent production representative eases up. Discussing activities of independents, Chadwick says they are improving the type of product being turned out. He says it is amazing what the independents have done in the last year. Van Schmus to Entertain Trade and daily paper reviewers and others in the industry will be entertained tonight in the Music Hall executive offices by Managing Director W. G. Van Schmus following the 9:15 showing of "Power." This is the second Gaumont British feature to be shown at the Music Hall under the new deal with the British firm. Arrange Special Car Philadelphia, Oct. 3. — Arrangements are being made for a special sleeping car to leave Friday night following the tournament festivities. It will arrive in Pittsburgh Saturday in ample time for the Pitt football game, and the men will have a chance to rest before the annual Variety Club dinner Sunday night. Randforce to Take Utica Randforce expects to take over operation of the Utica, Brooklyn, from RKO within the next few weeks. This deal is part of the arrangement whereby the major circuit gets Fox product from Loew which is cleared in Randforce territory by Louis Frisch and Sam Rinzler. Run for "La Cucuracha" "La Cucuracha," which has already played at the Music Hall, has been booked into the Roxy on an indefinite basis, the understanding between Jules Levy, RKO general sales manager, and Howard S. Cullman being that it will stay for at least three weeks. Mississippians to Meet Jackson, Miss., Oct. 3. — Theatre Owners of Mississippi will hold their semi-annual meetinsr at the Robert E. Lee Hotel Oct. 28-29. Form Two Film Firms Albany, Oct. 3. — Cartoon Exhibitors, Inc., has been chartered here with 200 no par value shares to present films and vaudeville. Robert Schirmer, Clinton S. Cook and Carl Ahlermann are directors. Filmpro Agency, Inc., also has been formed to deal in picture apparatus. Alfred L. Schein, Stanley K. Friedman and Stanley B. Schein are incorporators. Warners to Star Darro Hollywood, Oct. 3. — Falling in line with the demand for kid pictures, Warners have decided to do a story starring Frankie Darro. Warner-Para. Deal In Phila. Dropped (Continued from page 1) abandoned, was admitted yesterday by Paramount theatre representatives here. The theatres, the Tower and Nixon in West Philadelphia, and Frankford and Roosevelt in Frankford, are under lease to Paramount until 1951, it was stated. Newspaper accounts describing H. M. Warner as the purchaser of the houses for "personal operation", were denied emphatically by Warner on Tuesday. Joseph Bernhard, Warner theatre director, made a similar denial on behalf of the theatre company yesterday. Korda to Hollywood Soon London, Oct. 3. — Alexander Korda, head of London Films, plans to leave for Hollywood shortly. The completion of three films will keep him here for a short while longer, however. The main purpose of his visit is to make an inspection of the Ameriican studios. To Film Houdini Story Hollywood, Oct. 3. — Columbia will film a story based on the life of Houdini, with Fred Keating, life long friend of the magician, featured. Jo Swerling is at work on the story. Trade Show "Divorcee" Radio will give a trade showing of "The Gay Divorcee" tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the Astor. "There's HAPPINESS AHEAD-he imagines he's about to become a mother '