Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1934)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Saturday, November 24, 1934 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 36 November 24, 1934 No. 124 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; Colvm 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 CHI CAGOAN. m , tt • r-t Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union Lite 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. Promoters at Frisco Are Warned on Jobs San Francisco, Nov. 23.— Arthur L. Johnson, attorney for the Labor Commission, says he has warned S. A. Hedding and Walter Irving, who have announced plans for reopening the old Graf studios in San Mateo, that state laws prohibit job selling. Johnson's statement followed the filing of an affidavit by Bert Russell that he had been offered his pick of a job by the new company if he would invest $1,000 in the company. Ohio House Approves Bill for Sales Tax Columbus, Nov. 23.' — The House here last night passed the sales tax bill by a vote of 75 to 25. It is expected that the Senate will also pass the bill some time before Nov. 29 and thus repeal the admission impost. Bills doing, away with income and liquid fuel taxes also passed the House. Was a Liberty Prod. Distributor credit on "Once to Every Bachelor" inadvertently was accorded Mascot and not Liberty _ in the Providence box-office report which appeared in Motion Picture Daily on Tuesday. The picture played the RKO Victory for four davs and grossed $1,300, or $300 over the normal $1,000. Hollywood Personals Hollywood, Nov. 23. — Cary Grant invents a new game of solitaire. . . . W. C. Fields writing his own dialogue for "Mississippi." . . . Barry Norton to play the lead in "The King's Highway" for Penzner Pictures. ... J. Farrell MacDonald lecturing twice a week at U. S. C. on the subject of screen diction, makeup, costumes and pantomime . . . Max Reinhardt returns from Chicago . . . Perry Leiber has a mustache. . . . Malcolm F. C. Bullock, youthful son of Charley Bullock, United Artists still department head, is causing enthusiastic comment from stars and directors on the lot on his camera artistry. . . . Robert Montgomery gets his champion horse, "Death Lewis," a part in M-G-M's "Vanessa." . . . Hugh Walpole says he was offered plenty of money for his private collection of letters of Sir Walter Scott, but refused as in the past. . . . Pete Smith is laid up with the sniffles. . . . Rod LaRocque spotted in Fox's "Mystery Blonde." Mirisch New Warner Head in Wisconsin Milwaukee, Nov. 23. — Under the new setup for the Warner circuit in Wisconsin, Harold Mirisch, originally slated to go to Cleveland Jan. 1 as head booker, becomes district manager of the Wisconsin houses, with Jack Keegan, formerly Milwaukee district manager, as his assistant. The accounting department is being moved to Chicago and the district will operate under the direction of James Coston, Warner zone manager in Chicago. Ben Katz remains here in charge of advertising and publicity for the Wisconsin district. Warner Party Is Set The Warner Club Players, an amateur dramatic group made up of members of the Warner Club, will hold its second annual performance and dance at the club rooms, 321 West 44th St., Friday night, Dec. 7. The play will be a comedy, "Thank You, Doctor," with Tess Ginsberg, Ruth Goldberg, Sol Reiner, Sam W'ollowitz and Max Fried, and a drama, "The Valiant," with Hy Blaustein, William Toles, Cliff Jockers, Marie Carroll, Ted Hammer and Al Trojack. Both plays will be staged and directed by Leo J. Drexler. Pauline Starke Signed Pauline Starke has been signed by Ajax Pictures for a role in "$20 a Week," the first of a proposed series of four features. W anger Reports Few Cuts in His Picture Hollywood, Nov. 23. — Not more than 50 feet of film has been ordered eliminated from "The President Vanishes," according to Walter Wanger. Joseph I. Breen, head of the Production Code Administration, saw the picture Thursday night and ordered a small amount of dialogue out. Wanger says Breen has assured him in writing that a seal will be issued when the changes have been made. Rothenberger in New Job W. L. Rothenberger has been appointed manager of the centralized sound department of the RCA Victor Co. by G. K. Throckmorton, executive vice-president. Rothenberger has been identified with the communications and house entertainment phases of radio for the past 14 years and was formerly district sales manager of the centralized sound department in Atlanta. Select Switches Title Select Productions, Inc., has changed the title of "Bad Penny" to "The Blind Road." Edward Dean Sullivan is the author. Production is scheduled to get under way shortly at the Biograph studios with the cast headed by Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Buster Collier, Jr., Lila Lee, Shirley Grey and Roscoe Ates. Crane Wilbur will direct. Eastman Up 1XU on Big Board High Low Close Columbia Pictures, vtc 40 39 39 Consolidated Film Industries 334 3£fe 354 Consolidated Film Ind., pfd 1754 1754 l~Vs Eastman Kodak 116 11454 116 Fox Film "A" MVi 1354 13% Loew's, Inc 35 3454 34% Loew's. Inc., pfd 1G2J-6 102 102 M-G-M, pfd 2754 2754 2754 Paramount Publix, cts 354 3% 354 Pathe Exchange 1% V/A Wa, Pathe Exchange "A" 1454 1454 1444 RKO 2 154 2 Universal Pictures, pfd 33 3254 33 Warner Bros 454 5% 454 Warner Bros., pfd 1554 15 1554 Net Change 54 + Vs + V* + % +i + 54 + 54 + Vs 54 + Vs Vs Sales 1,700 900 5.900 1,300 2,400 12.000 200 100 4.500 2,000 900 3.000 6.000 4.300 300 Technicolor Rises Eighth on Curb Technicolor High . 12J4 Low 12'4 Close 1254 G. T. E. Bond Issues Advance Net Change Sales + J-s 1.000 High Low Close General Theatre Equipment 6s '40 10 9 10 General Theatre Equipment 6s '40, ctf 954 854 954 Loew's 6s '41, ww deb rights 10354 103% 10354 Paramount F. L. 6s '47 6054 5954 5954 Paramount Publix 554s '50 60 5954 60 Pathe 7s '37. ww 9954 9954 9954 Warner Bros. 6s '39, wd 58% 5854 5854 Net Change Sales + % + Vs + Vs 54 54 54 < Purely Personal ► HOWARD S. CULLMAN has invited a large group of clergymen of all faiths to see "Wednesday': Child" at the Roxy, Nov. 27. The picture is set to open at the house Dec. 7. Faith Baldwin's story, "Wife Versus Secretary," which will appear serially in Cosmopolitan beginning next January, has been purchased bv M-G-M. Hyman. J. Glick, controller of Mascot for the last three years, resigned that post yesterday. His future plans are not yet set. Arthur Benlixe, production assistant to Harold B. Franklin and Arch Selwyn, was added to the list of Kentucky colonels yesterday. Whitney Bourne has been discharged from the Doctors' Hospita' and is at home, well on her way tc recovery. Pat Patterson is on her way hert from Hollywood to meet her husband' Charles Boyer. Dwight Taylor has sold hi: musical, "Two on a Tower," to Para mount. Clevelanders Talk Neighborhood CuU Cleveland, Nov. 23. — An effort i Li being made to solve the neighborhooc, price cut problem in some of the poor )i er sections by permitting exhibitor I to get together and seek an agreemen Ir in each locality. The idea is to help those who sa: i they cannot get along without cuts an(i} at the same time prevent a genera li spread of lower scales. "Becky Sharp" First Feature for Pioneei Hollywood, Nov. 23. — K e n n e 1 1 MacGowan will produce "Beck . Sharp" as the first Pioneer featur for Radio release. He will move hi office and production unit from thf Radio studio to the RKO Pathe plam 1 Set 6 "Charlie Chans" Hollywood, Nov. 23. — Because cl the success of the current series c mysteries starring Warner Olanc Fox has announced an additions series of six "Charlie Chan" picture: Simultaneously Fox has signed Olan to a long term contract calling fo two pictures a year in which he wi portray the famous Chinese detec tive. The first two will be title u "Charlie Chan in Buenos Aires" an!1 "Charlie Chan in Morocco." Show Hungarian Film A group of consular representative and their families attended a privai showing of "Hungaria," an offici; film produced in Hungary, in the Cc lumbia projection room yesterday. Tr j: film is being sponsored here by tf Hungarian-American Societv. Lasky Signs Ceballos Hollywood, Nov. 23. — Larry Ceba los, who just arrived here from NeYork, has been signed to do the danc numbers in "Red Heads On Parade for Jesse L. Laskv at Fox.