Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1934)

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The Leading Daily _~ ^ Newspaper! of the Motion | Picture Industry MOTION PICTURE DAILY Alert, Intelligent and * Faithful) Service to the Industry in All Branches >OL. 36. NO. 101 NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1934 TEN CENTS Charges M. P. Council Aims Hit Theatres E. G. Levy States Short Fosters Competition The charge that the "ultimate objective" of the M. P. Research Council's current efforts to raise a $200,000 campaign fund in furtherance of its lew program calling, in the main, for abolition of block booking is the promotion of "widespread, non-theatrical Exhibitions" in competition with esablished theatres, is made by Edward E. Levy, M. P. T. O. A. general counsel, in a bulletin distributed to exhibitors on Saturday. The bulletin contains an address on he subject made by Levy earlier before the Better Films Council of New Haven. It cites criticism of the Research Council's activities by its own (Continued on page 6) Missouri Receipts In '33 $8,014,000 Washington, Oct. 28. — Box-office -eceipts of $8,014,000 were reported tor last year by 278 Missouri film :heatres which had a total payroll of $1,785,000, while 43 legitimate and film ana vaudeville houses took in $2,242,000 and had a payroll of $765,000, the U. S. Census Bureau reported yesterday. Reports on the leading cities showed (Continued on page 3) Milwaukee Picketing Ban Ended by Appeal Milwaukee, Oct. 28.— The U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago has reversed a decision by Federal Judge F. A. Geiger granting a preliminary injunction to the Rex Theatre Corp., Sheboygan, Wis., prohibiting picketing of the house by the I.A.T.S.E. and other unions. The injunction was dissolved on the ground that Judge Geiger had not permitted William B. Rubin, attorney for the union, to show that the operators of the theatre violated the NRA code. Friedlander Named 1st Div. Vice Pres. Al Friedlander has been named vicepresident of First Division. He has been serving as assistant to Harry H. Thomas, head of the company, and as director of advertising and publicity. Gains Shown By Premiums In N. Y. Area Estimated 75% of Indies Are Using Practice Premiums are rapidly gaining headway in New York theatres. It is now estimated that 75 per cent of Greater New York independent houses have adopted the "giveaway" policy. Exhibitors are distributing linens, glassware, ebonyware, silver sets and other household articles on an average of three nights a week, it is computed. W ith the increased demand for free articles, the number of premium houses has risen to about 15. One of the chief necessities for giving away articles, exhibitors claim, is because of the staleness of pictures showing at independent theatres. Exhibitors assert that, because of increased protection demands by circuits, it is impossible to get releases until (Continued on page 7) SMPE Expects 200 At Sessions Today Two hundred technicians, engineers and equipment manufacturers will attend the opening of the four-day S. M. P. E. convention today at the Hotei Pennsylvania. The high-lights of the first day's session will be addresses at a luncheon by Martin J. Quigley, Hiram Percy Maxim, president of the Amateur Cinema League, who will introduce (Continued on page 3) More at Work Cincinnati, Oct. 28. — Industrial employment in September was 7.1 per cent greater than September of last year, according to a survey completed by the Bureau of Business Research of the Ohio State University. The gain over August was .4 per cent. The record was only 1.9 per cent below the average September increase since 1929. Para. Sets Plans On National Drive Paramount home office sales executives and district and division managers, returning from a three-day session in Hot Springs, have completed plans for a national sales drive which will be announced to the entire sales force this week. According to plans developed, the drive will last three months, starting Jan. 1, with bonuses for leaders. Among those returning today are George J. Schaefer, Neil Agnew, J. J. Unger, Charles Reagan, Milt Kusell, Robert M. Gillham, Alec Moss, (Continued on page 3) Production Gains Slightly on Coast Hollywood, Oct. 28. — Production for the week ending Oct. 27 registers a slight increase in feature pictures and a decrease in short subjects before the cameras. The chart shows 38 features and seven shorts in work as compared to (Continued on page 7) It Took Five Seconds William Fox isn't talking these days. As owner of 90 per cent of the stock in American Tri-Ergon, which has filed 22 suits against producers, distributors and film laboratories, he is keeping mum on his plans. Fox appeared jovial enough when a Motion Picture Daily reporter approached him. Where talking was concerned, however, the Sphinx was loquacious by comparison. It was an interview and it wasn't. No matter in what classification newspaper curriculum places it, the episode lasted exactly five seconds. "What . . . .," was as far as the reporter could get when Fox retorted: "I'm not going to do any talking." "And you won't say anything about reports of a settlement in the patent situation," the reporter managed to squeeze in. "No," was the reply and a signal for Fox's exit. At the time, he was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Jack G. Leo. Contracts Get Full Approval In CampiVote Legal Committee Rules Code Not Violated Contracts being used by distributors for 1934-35 product are not in violation of the code and conform to all provisions of the optional standard license agreement provided for in the code, Campi's legal committee has held. An analysis of the various clauses was recently made by the legal committee after Code Authority had received numerous complaints from exhibitors of alleged code violations in contracts. Nathan Yamins at first was appointed to make a study of all distributors' pacts and his report, after much arguing by the legal committee and Campi members, was finally voted down. Because it was held that a minimum vote of six, either in the affirmative or negative, is necessary for a majority vote, Campi has decided to hold a rehearing on the Boston clearance and zoning appeal involving a Brookline, (Continued on page 7) Bank Appeals Rule On Allied Owners Notice of intention to appeal the U. S. District Court decision denying Manufacturers' Trust Co. the right to vote the $12,000,000 Allied Owners bond indenture, for which it is trustee, in Allied's reorganization proceedings was filed in Brooklyn on Saturday. Allied Owners, a debtor corporation under Section 77-B of the bankruptcy laws, owns the Brooklyn Paramount, Loew's Kings, Pitkin and Valencia, and theatres at Birmingham, Ala., (Continued on page 3) Consolidated Net on Quarter Is $187,841 Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., reports a consolidated net income of $187,841 for the quarter ending Sept. 30. This is after depreciation and Federal income taxes, and compares with $320,782 for the previous quarter. For the nine months ending Sept. 30 the net income was $824,404, or 43 cents a share on the common, as against $716,478, or 22 cents a share on the common, for the same period in 1933,