Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1934)

The Leading Motio Picture Industry MOTION PICTURE DAILY Alert, Intelligent the in All Branches VOL. 36. NO. 126 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1934 TEN CENTS Kansas City's Clearance Is Again Delayed Disturbed Price Scales Given as Reason Because of the unsettled price situation in that city, the Kansas City clearance and zoning schedule will not be discussed by Campi today at the adjourned session from last Thursday. Instead Campi members will busy themselves disposing of about 20 appeal decisions which were not brought up last week. It is probable that the K. C. plan will come up Dec. 6. That depends on the business on the docket for the day. A number of code members are not anxious to hurry on the Kaycee schedule. They figure that pictures are being sold the way they have been for the past number of years and no one is squawking. K. C. Unit Considering M-G-M, U.A. Boycott Kansas City, Nov. 26. — is seriously considering a M-G-M and United Artist Midland, which plays both product, continues its low inaugurated Friday with lions." The association already a committee to confer with (Continued on page The I.T.O. boycott of ; if Loew's companies' price scale "Kid Milhas named representa9) Chicago Clearance Goes Into Eclipse Chicago, Nov. 26. — The local clearance and zoning board tonight officially disposed of the Chicago schedule which it had previously approved and which was subsequently rejected by Campi. The plan was withdrawn. A second resolution adopted by the board declared that the board does not intend to write any schedule for (Continued on page 9) After Robinson Hollywood, Nov. 26. — Fox is dickering with Edward G. Robinson for a two-picture contract. The actor spent Friday on the lot making a series of tests, it was learned today. Theatres Hired 63,473, Paid $85,416,000 in '33 Home Television by Jan. 1 Is Sarnoff 's Prediction Home television sets will be ready for installation beginning Jan. 1, according to David Sarnoff, president of RCA, who advised radio dealers to this effect at a recent meeting at the Pennsylvania. Sarnoff did not go into detail about price or size of images to be transmitted through the first sets but, according to dealers, television equipment cannot be placed into present radio sets, a complete new set being required for the new see and hear ether broadcasts. Columbia Net On Quarter Is $235,712.19 Columbia Pictures' net for the quarter ending Sept. 29 was $235,712.19 after deducting Federal income tax and other charges. This is equivalent to $1.29 a share on 172,073 shares of common outstanding after deducting the preferred dividend. In addition, the company has declared a semi-annual two and one-half per cent dividend payable in stock. This makes five per cent in stock dividends for the year and $1 in cash (.Continued on page 9) Add New Impetus To Jewish Drive In an effort to raise $2,000,000 in the theatrical field, leaders in the Federation of Jewish Charities yesterday met with top-line executives and art(Continued on page 10) Phila. Duals Case Widened To an Inquiry Philadelphia, Nov. 26. — At the resumption of the hearing in the Harry Perelman double feature suit against major distributors m Federal court here today, Judge George A. Welsh declared he would "open the door wide" for an inquiry into whether the operations of the defendants, referred to during the taking of testimony as a "combine," affected the general public. The suit is for an injunction against (Continued on page 9) Para. Plan May Go To Court Tomorrow The Kuhn, Loeb & Co. plan of reorganization for Paramount Publix has an excellent chance of being completed today for filing in Federal court (Continued on page 10) Agents 9 Rules Proposed Under Code Are Rejected National Film Carriers, Inc., guarantee dependable delivery. — Adv. Washington, Nov. 26. — Rules and regulations proposed by the agency committee in September were rejected today by NRA as exceeding the authority of the committee. The rejection, however, was "without prejudice," leaving the way open for submission by the committee of recommendations not subject to attack, as were its original ones, at the hearing before the then Division Administrator Sol A. Rosenblatt on Nov. 1, when Harold Bareford charged the (Continued on page 9) Talent Is Not Embraced In Latest Phase of Gov't Survey Where the theatre payroll went in 1933 appears in tabulated form on page 8 today. By CLARENCE LINZ Washington, Nov. 26. — Approximately 63,473 persons last year derived their livelihood from the theatre industry, it was disclosed today in figures on employment compiled from the U. S. Census Bureau's survey of service industries. The 10,263 theatres figuring in the survey, with gross receipts in 1933 of $414,468,000, paid $85,416,000 in salaries and wages to the 63,473 fulltime and a comparatively small number of part-time employes needed for operation of the houses. The statistics reveal that the theatrical industry as a whole is one of the major industries of the country, to the more than 63,000 employes of the theatres being added the 19,037 (Continued on page 8) Conferences Under Way on RKO Plans RKO debenture holders', stockholders' and creditors' committees are continuing periodic conferences on the development of a plan of reorganization for the company, it was learned yesterday, although a plan has not taken definite shape as yet. RCA, with its 84 per cent ownership of RKO debentures and 64 per (Continued on page 9) ITOA Affiliation With Allied Talked Leon Rosenblatt, head of the national organization committee of the ITOA, yesterday conferred with Sidney Samuelson, president of Allied, on affiliation of the local unit with the (Continued on page 8) No Paper Thursday Motion Picture Daily will not publish on Thursday, Nov. 29, which is Thanksgiving Day and a legal holiday.