Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1934)

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8 MOTION PICTURE DAILY Monday, November 26, 1934 Variety Club Chatter Pathe Plan Is New Financing Of Production (.Continued from page 1) March 4 meeting. Earlier stockholders' meetings at which the plan was presented failed to constitute a quorum, which led to the application to the court for permission to hold the extraordinary session. No large-scale financing will be undertaken by Pathe in advance of ratification by the stockholders of the reorganization plan despite the fact that a Hollywood office was recently opened with John Jasper in charge. Moreover, indicative of Pathe's interest in new financing and laboratory work on the coast, it was learned that Stuart W. Webb, president, and Arthur B. Poole, treasurer, will alternate in making quarterly visits to the west coast. It is also indicated that if new Pathe activities in Hollywood warrant, the company will open a new laboratory there with ratification of the reorganization plan. An alternative to this would be a Pathe association with a Hollywood independent laboratory for the handling of local rush print work. Pathe's production financing would, of course, involve the producer's print work, to be handled either at Pathe's main laboratory at Bound Brook, N. J., or at the proposed new west coast plant. Negotiations looking to a new Pathefinanced production deal with E. B. Derr and Charles Sullivan, to replace the old contract which was permitted to lapse, are reported under way. Report Academy's Membership Grows Hollywood, Nov. 25. — Following closely upon election of Frank Lloyd to the presidency of the Academy, many of the old members are reinstating themselves and new members joining up, among them a number of directors and prominent writers. Among those added to the active membership roster are : Directors: Murray Roth, Tay Garnett, Monta Bell, Otto Brower, Lloyd Corrigan, Alan Crosland, George Cukor, Roy Del Ruth, Alfred E. Green, William Keighley, Erie Kenton, Leo McCarey, Ralph Murphy and Sam Taylor. Actors: Ralph Forbes. Louise Dresser, Mitchell Lewis, Henry B. Walthall, Raymond Hatton, Henry Armetta. Writers: J. P. McEvoy, Edith Fitzgerald, Joseph Moncure March. Producers: E. W. Butcher, Ed Ebele and Walter Futter. Assistant Directors: Bill Cannon, Louis J. Marlowe and Edward Sowders. Technicians: Harold Curtis, Simon Gelberg, Thomas K. Little, Savko Vorkapitch and Lincoln Lyons. Special Member: John E. Gardner. Reedy a Life Member Hollywood, Nov. 25. — The Academy board of governors has conferred a life membership on J. T. Read, whose presidency was succeeded by Frank Lloyd. Others holding life memberships are Douglas Fairbanks, William de Mille, Frank Wood, M. C. Levee, Conrad Nagel and Benjamin Glazer. Barry Goldman a Father Baltimore, Nov. 25. — Mrs. Barry Goldman, wife of the manager of the Diane Theatre, presented him a baby boy recently. Buffalo Buffalo, Nov. 25. — Failing to make plane connections, John H. Harris of Pittsburgh, National Variety Club president, took a train but arrived in Buffalo too late to attend the first Fall meeting of the Buffalo tent after the summer hiatus. Approximately 65 members of the Buffalo tent attended the luncheon, served in Pfeiffer's restaurant, underneath the club's new quarters. Chief Barker Dave Miller announced signing of the lease for the quarters, which met with enthusiastic response. Harris inspected the quarters and conferred with Miller, Sid Samson, Ted O'Shea and other officers of the Buffalo tent. Weekly luncheons will be held on Mondays, with an occasional guest speaker, until the quarters are ready for occupancy late in December. Once in the new quarters, regularly organized weekly luncheons will be held, with entertainment at each session. Cincinnati Cincinnati, Nov. 25. — Some of the cast of the "Follies" regaled the members at the last meeting, thanks to Nelson Trowbridge, skipper of the Shubert, who was the sole King for a Day. A kiddie's party was staged at the local club from three to six S«"',',-» in honor of the birthday of Dough Guy Abe Lipp's little daughter. Jack Flynn, barker of the Detroit tent, gave the local quarters the once over last week. Nat Wolf, one of the Cleveland brothers, also was among those present. Harry Goldstein, past chief barker of Pittsburgh, and M. R. Clark, chief barker of Columbus Tent No. 2, dropped in to say "Hello" at the last meeting. Clark dispensed some good advice to the local boys. Joseph Oulihan, member of the Washington, D. C, tent, who succeeds George Smith as Paramount exchange manager, is making the local club his rendezvous. Incidentally, the farewell party thrown for Barker Smith was one of the high spots of the week. A traveling luggage outfit was presented as a parting token. Annual election is scheduled for tomorrow. Chief Barker Allan S. Moritz is without opposition. Arrangements are going forward for the first annual frolic to be held at the Netherland Plaza early in the new year. Ervin Bock, who holds down the manager's chair at the RKO Grand, is to appear before the altar Thanksgiving Day. Eleanor Hebrig, local girl, is the party of the first part to the matrimonial contract. Joe Goetz is showing up around the club rooms wearing cheaters. Says he doesn't want to miss seeing everything. Kansas City Kansas City, Nov. 25. — All barkers, from Chief Barker Frank Hensler down, are pulling for the success of the Variety Club Annual M. P. Relief Ball, to be given at the Pla-Mor ballroom Dec. 10. Arthur Cole, general impresario, promises an affair the club will be proud of. This is the fourth annual relief ball and the first sponsored by the tent. Another big event in the offing is the New Year's Eve party at the Muehlebach hotel. Festivities will begin at eight bells with a cocktail hour, followed by dinner and a floor show, and winding up with dancing until time for breakfast. Attendance will be limited to 100 couples. "Ladies' Day" was one of those unusual get-togethers the barkers talk about long after it is held. Harry Tailor, chairman, with Ed Shanberg and Charles Shafer as kings presented an enjoyable program. The turnout numbered about 100. New members added to the roster: George W. Fuller, Fox manager ; Lawrence Lehman, RKO Mainstreet manager ; Fred J. Wolfson, attorney and grievance board member ; Roscoe Thompson, Universal; E. C. Leeves, Erpi, and Homer Blackwell, Independent Poster Exchange. Institutional nights have caught on in big fashion and are proving a swell way to popularize the club rooms. Bill Warner worked out the schedule for each company. Office managers are in charge of individual parties. Jack Cameron was chairman of the Erpi kings for a day. Morrill Moore, manager of the Fox Rockhill, supplied the entertainment. Horlacher Organ Out Horlacher, house organ of the Horlacher Delivery Service, Inc., of Philadelphia, has made its debut under November date. The publication is a monthly. < Purely Personal ► LEO MORRISON arrived in New York from Mexico City on Saturday. He will remain a week and on his way back to the coast will meet Max Baer in Kansas City. Don Casanova has been signed by Angelo De Vito for the leading role in "The Greatest Love," first of a series of Italian talkers to be made by Venetian Prod. Rudy Vallee, his assignment at the Warner studio completed, left Hollywood yesterday and is due here Wednesday. Maxine Doyle, a four weeks' personal appearance tour and vacation over, is back at the Warner Burbank studio. Tyree Dillard, Jr., John Hicks, Harry A. Kaufman, Sam Sax, Miles Gibbons and Sid Hall are up for M. P. Club membership tomorrow. Abe Blumstein has an infected right hand, which is swathed in bandages. Lee W. Insley of Ortho-Krome Screen Co., Salisbury, Md., is in town. S. R. Kent is expected back from England the early part of December. Insiders' Outlook (Continued from page 2) them down. One was not big enough, in his eyes, and the other is reported to have carried with it political implications which Rosenblatt decided he wanted to avoid. If he hadn't gotten the job he wanted, he was prepared to return to private practice with an office in New York. . . . Joe Schenck, disciple of Terpsichore, unearthed a good deal about the rhumba, Continental style, on his last European trip. The board of directors of El Morocco stand ready to remove his cover charge if only he'll come back and step again. . . . KANN Kent Holds Foreign Meet London, Nov. 25.— S. R. Kent president of Fox, on Friday completed a two-day sales session with Walter Hutchinson and J. C. Bavetta in addition to other company foreign heads Roberts Gravely III Cleveland, Nov. 25. — George Roberts, Fox district manager, is dangerously ill with pneumonia at hi' home in the Westlake Hotel. Kohn in Hollywood Hollywood, Nov. 25. — Ralph Kohr is in from New York and expects tc remain indefinitely. His health has no1 been good of late. New House for Toronto Toronto, Nov. 25. — Further sign; of the return of better times are seer in the announcement of plans for i theatre costing $70,000 in north Toronto by the Parkway Theatre Co. Hollywood Personals Hollywood, Nov. 25. — Errol Flynn, Irish actor signed in New York by Warners, arrived today. Studio has no definite assignment lined up for him. . . . Mrs. Leslie Carter draws one of the featured spots in "Becky Sharp" for Pioneer. . . . George Batcheller on his way to New York. . . . "The Last Days of Pompeii," Merian C. Cooper's next for Radio, starts Dec. 1. . . . Lee Marcus back from New York. . . . Rochelle Hudson gets her first big break in pictures as feminine lead in the next Will Rogers', "Life Begins at Forty." . . . Sam Cohen abed with severe case of flu. . . . Spencer Charters, Bradley Page and Florence Roberts additions to Monogram's "The Nut Farm." . . . Mrs. Frank Borzage recovering from her recent illness. . . . M-G-M considering Aline McMahon for a role in "Good Earth." . . . Pert Kelton postpones her trip to New York. . . . Ralph Bellamy goes to Palm Springs to get rid of a cold. ... Jo Swerling heads for New York on a three months' leave of absence from Columbia. Gets in Monday. . . .