Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1934)

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MOTION PICTURE DAILY Friday, October 26, If MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 36 October 26, 1934 No. 99 Maktin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN Editor JAMES A. CRON Advertising Manager £3 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. Clifford, Manager; London Bureau: Remo House, 310 Regent St., London, W. 1, Bruce Allan, Representative. Cable address: "Quigpubco, London"; 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: 3, Kaplar-u, Budapest, II, Endre Hevesi, Representative; Moscow Bureau: Civtzev Vrazhek, N 25, Apart. 146, Moscow, U. S. S. R., Bella Kashin, Representative. Cable address: Samrod, Moscow. 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. "Innocence" Pulls $85,000 in a Week "Age of Innocence" at the Music Hall tallied approximately $85,000 for the week. "Little Friend" in its first week at the Roxy led "Chu Chin Chow" by $500, grossing $32,500 for the stanza. The Criterion with "Man of Aran," garnered $5,500 for the first seven days at two-a-day. "Now and Forever" in the last seven days of a two-week run at the Paramount took $28,000. Albany Gets Vaudeville Albany, Oct. 25. — Vaudeville returns to Albany on Nov 2 when the Harmanus Bleecker Hall will run acts four days each week together with pictures, but will hold to films only the last three days. Oscar J. Perrin will manage the house, switching from the Palace, where John Garry will take his place. The latter formerly was at the Hall. Howard Has Tonsilitis London, Oct. 25. — Leslie Howard is ill here with tonsilitis and will be confined to his home for several days. He is here on vacation from the Warner studios in Hollywood Hull and Louise on Streamlined Train Tim McCoy Back at Work Hollywood, Oct. 25. — Tim McCoy is back on the Columbia lot for the start of a series of westerns, the first of which will be "Burnt Ranch." Henry Hull and Anita Louise were the film representatives on the Union Pacific's streamlined train which arrived at Grand Central station yesterday morning. Hull, who recently finished work in "Great Expectations," will make a personal appearance at the opening of the picture in the Music Hall. Until about Nov. 15 he will spend most of his time at his summer home at Lyme, Conn. Miss Louise made a personal appearance last night at the Strand and was interviewed over Station WMCA by Sam Taylor later. She will be here about a week. Both players made broadcasts en route during stops of the train and were on the air over WJZ at the welcoming ceremonies in the terminal. Teperson Attorney For IT OA and Union Hearings in the suit of the Allied M. P. Operators' Union for an injunction to prevent members of Local 306 from working in houses where the Allied union has contracts have brought an admission that Joseph A. Teperson was counsel for both the Independent Theatre Owners' Ass'n. and Allied. The testimony was designed to support the contention of Local 306 that Allied was formed at the instigation of the I. T. O. A. Harry Brandt, one of the witnesses, admitted that the 10-year contract with Allied was the only one of its kind with a union. The case is being heard by Referee Robert McC. Marsh. Laughton Withdraws From "CopperHeld" Hollywood, Oct. 25. — After working two days in the role of Macawber in "David Copperfield." Charles Laughton, feeling the part inadequate for him, asked for and gained his release from David Selznick. This entailed no delay in production or expense other than pay Laughton for the time loaned. He returns to Paramount where he is under contract, and it is expected that W. C. Fields, from the same studio, will be substituted for him. With Regrets Providence box-office report, published in Motion Picture Daily on Oct. 19, inadvertently credited "Once to Every Bachelor," which did $8,100 as against an average of $7,000 at the RKO Albee, to Mascot and "Cheaters," which grossed $200 over the RKO Victory's normal of $1,000 to Columbia. Both of these pictures were produced by Liberty. Child Shows Exempt In Phila. Boycott Philadelphia, Oct. 25. — What exhibitors are hoping is to be the first sign of loosening up of the stiff Catholic boycott, is the exemption of the Junior Cinema Guild's productions for children from the church ban by Cardinal Dougherty. Under the joint auspices of the Junior Cinema Guild and the Junior League of Philadelphia. Saturday programs are run off every week, to begin this season on Nov. 3, at the Penn Athletic Club. Selected features alternate with all-cartoon programs. Cardinal Dougherty told the group: "You may advertise that movies such as yours presented at the Penn Athletic Club are not included in the Catholic boycott and that our children will be permitted to attend these films." Gunmen Rob Maloy9 s Indiana Residence Chicago, Oct. 25. — Five gunmen, after kidnapping a deputy sheriff whom they used to gain entrance into Tom Maloy's home at Long Beach, a suburb of Michigan City, Ind., looted the house of $50,000 in cash and $13,000 in jewels. Maloy, head of the operators' union, was away at the time. The intruders were admitted by Airs. Effie Gascoign. cousin of Mrs. Maloy. They were especially rough in their treatment of Mrs. Maloy, the police say. Maloy is under Federal investigation on a charge of income tax evasion. He recently made the headlines when Fred Oser, an operator, was shot in the union headquarters. Ralph O'Hara, a Maloy lieutenant, was acquitted on grounds of self-defense. Loew's Off iy2 on Big Board High Low Close Columbia Pictures, vtc 36% 35 3554 Consolidated Film Industries 3lA 3]4 3% Consolidated Film Industries, pfd 1534 1554 15?4 Eastman Kodak 10644 106 106 Eastman Kodak, pfd 143 142^1 143 Fox Film "A" 12*6 12*6 1244 Loew's, Inc 31*6 29 29 Paramount Publix 4?4 4 4 Pathe Exchange Wi VA Pathe Exchange "A" 13VS 13% \3V? Warner Bros Wt Mi Mi Technicolor Off Vs on Curb Net Change % + >A —2 +1 + Vi —VA Vi Technicolor Net High Low Close Change 13 1244 12** — M Paramount Bfway Bonds Drop 2 High Low General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 7 Keith B. F. 6s '46 62% 62 Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights 103ZA 102>g Paramount Broadwav 5^s '51 42 42 Paramount F. L. 6s '47 57% 56% Paramount Publix 5%s '50 57}4 57 Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd 585^ 58 Net Close Change 7" 62VS 103^ 42 5654 57 58 + *A + M —2 -U + V* Sales 800 800 800 2.000 18.000 1.900 9.800 3.400 700 200 5.100 Sales 1,200 Sales 3 4 2 5 1 13 11 < Purely Personal i DAVE DAVIDSON has bet1 named advertising and publicr director of Majestic by E. H. Goi. stein, vice-president. Davidson \: been with Kunsky Theatres, Detro and B. & K. in Chicago. Chris Buckley, Albany first ri operator, goes to New Haven evei week-end to see Chris, Jr., husl offspring and fullback on the Ya gridiron team. Parker Morell, author of "Di mond Jim," has been signed by Ur versal to do the screen adaptatio He will leave for the coast Satu day. Julius Aussenberg, former Berl manager for Fox Film, and now resident of Prague, Czechoslovakia, stopping at the Edison Hotel. Ernst Lubitsch has changed h mind about going west Sunday at now doesn't intend to leave befo Monday or Tuesday. George Gerhard has finished ; original, tentatively titled "A Prin for Sale." Paramount is conside ing it. Anatole France's "The Crime Sylvestre Bonard" has been bought 1 Radio. Anne Shirley will be in Robert Harris and James Mu hauser have sold their operetta, "Sii Me a Love Song," to Universal. Budd Rogers leaves next week a tour of Liberty franchise holde in the field. Jack Lewis, assistant to Josei I. Breen, arrived yesterday frc Hollywood. Mark Sandrich has been invited address the drama class at N. Y. Donald Novis will head the sta show at the Capitol starting today Sol Kravitz is now booker Gaumont British in New York. Budd Barsky has gone back to t coast. Paramount Men Leavi George J. Schaefer. vice-preside and general manager, headed the 1 cal delegation of Paramount m headed for a three-day conference district managers at Hot Springs, A The sessions open today. Neil Asrne Robert F. Gillham and G. B. J. Fra ley were among the New York cc tingent. Crew Back from Soutf A camera crew sent to Chariest' S. C. by W. A. Bach, head of Auc Prod., to do scenes for "Liebestraun one of the "Musical Moods" series, \ returned. The Middleton and Magr lia gardens outside of Charleston ? included among the scenes. Senators Ask to See Fit Washington, Oct. 25. — "Dealers Death." the film expose of the mu! tions racket, has been called by a sj cial committee of the Senate for special preview. The screening w take place next week. Closing for Alterations Dr. Leon Greenfield will close t Boro Hall, Brooklyn. Sunday nis for five weeks, during which altei tions will be made.