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MOTION PICTURE
DAILY
Thursday, January 31, 1935
MOTION PICTURE
DAILY
(Registered U. S. Patent Office)
Vol. 37
January 31, 1935
No. 26
Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN
Editor JAMES A. CRON Advertising Manager
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Labor Leaders to Talk Sunday Shows
(Continued from page 1) to the protest of Code Authority against free radio shows, but as yet had promised no definite action. The commission said that the matter, after being taken into consideration, had been referred to other channels for further study. A report of this is expected by Code Authority shortly.
There was no discussion of the ticket speculator situation, however, since it was thought best to wait until the courts had rendered a decision before taking the matter up. The U. S. District Court here has reserved decision on the case but is expected to present this decision by the end of the week.
Paramount Signs Young
Hollywood, Jan. 30. — Harold Young, who was once a cutter in the Paramount Astoria studio, and who later directed a picture for GaumontBritish, has been signed as a director at Paramount. His first assignment will be "Jungle," which stars Cary Grant.
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MARTHA SLEEPER, who has been vacationing here with her husband, Hardie Albright, is going back to work. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur have signed her for a role in "Miracle in 49th St.," now in work at the Astoria studio. •
Monroe Greenthal, of United Artists, will now be saluted besides being salaamed to on his entry at the office every morning. He was made a Kentucky Colonel yesterday. •
Jack Byrne of M-G-M, Harry P. Lander, secretary of the code board, and Dr. J. B. Fishman, all New Haveners, were visitors yesterday. Code trouble was the reason.
Quip of the Day
Jack Cohn, planing it back to New York from Miami, reached Washington at jour something yesterday morning and reached out for a local nezcspaper. In it, he read Mrs. Al Smith had broken Iter arm while walking aboard a train in the general neighborhood of Richmond.
Said Cohn, turning to the pilot: "I ahvays knew those trains weren't safe."
Ruth Schwerin, since her nervous breakdown Monday, is finding peace from constant telephone calls but shutting off the service in her office anyway.
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Louis Calhern gets one of the leads in "The Night Is Young" which Al Woods plans to produce on the stage. Hasn't Metro a picture by that name?
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J. Walter Ruben and Wells Root have sold "B. I .D. J." to M-G-M. The initials stand for Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice. •
Louis Frisch is back from a week at Atlantic City and, true to exhibitor form, couldn't stay away from the theatres on the boardwalk.
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William Boehnel and Morris Helprin have collaborated on an original, "Forced Landing," and sold it to Monogram.
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Nate Spingold will soon join the Columbia contingent in Florida. He pulls out late this week for Palm Beach. #
Al Lichtman returns Monday from his Miami vacation. Harry Brandt will be his bridge partner on the train.
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Jack Connolly, the Pathe News man, is due in from California tomorrow. Or maybe a day or so beyond that.
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Gerald F. Sanger, editor of British Movietone News, is here from London.
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Jules Levy's Florida tan is wearing away already and that makes Jules slightly pensive.
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Pat Garyn has recovered from the flu in Chicago.
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Claudia Morgan goes into the cast of "De Luxe" (not a motion picture).
BOB GILLHAM, flanked by Al Wilkie and Alec Moss, entertained a number of Chicago film critics at the Tavern yesterday, including Clark Rodenbach of the Chicago News, and Doris Arden of the Chicago Times. Eddie Levin of the B. & K. publicity department, was also along.
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Hortense Schorr wants it denied she lunches in Thompson's No. 27, saying her luncheon dates have been few and far between since the spreading of what she termed "a base canard." She further insists her lunches are as de luxe as the Columbia product.
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John Hay Whitney was scheduled to leave for the coast any day, but has postponed the trip indefinitely. Business is keeping him here, but he promises to be on hand for the big race at Santa Anita.
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Hal Young spends most of his time while at lunch these days practicing at bagatelle. He hopes to make expenses to New Orleans next month out of some of the M.P.T.O. delegates.
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Carole Lombard has deserted Florida for Havana. The cold wave that hit the south as well as up here made her decide to have a look at the rhumba on its home ground.
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Felix Feist, E. M. Saunders, William Rodgers, William Scully and Jack Byrne, all of M-G-M, at the M. P. Club, but at different tables.
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Nate Blumberg, E. C. Grainger and Edgar Moss spotted at the Music Hall eatery yesterday, too busy talking to notice anyone. •
Julia Shawexl, formerly of the Macfadden magazines, is hard at work on her new women's magazine which is due shortly.
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Freddie Bartholomew, who plays young David in "David Copperfield," will be heard on the Rudy Vallee hour tonight.
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Dorothy Arzner, Columbia's woman director, was around the home office yesterday visiting with company officials.
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Bill Brown, manager of the Randforce-Marboro Theatre in Brooklyn, is Miami-bound for a two weeks' vacation.
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Jesse Martin, of Ben Jacksen, & Harold Leyton, Inc., is en route here from Hollywood on business. •
Compliance Director Sol A. Rosenblatt is in North Carolina, but returns to Washington tomorrow. •
David Loew says he'll head for the coast Feb. 15 and will not go to Havana for any amount of money. •
Gregory Dickson has joined King Features, knocking out a daily syndicated column on film players. •
Alpha, the mechanical man from England, appears today as master of ceremonies at the Music Hall. •
William H. Briggs, who has been
Detroit Catholics Seek Cancellations
Detroit, Jan. 30. — The Federation of Catholic Societies here has addressed a letter to Carl E. Milliken, secretary of the M.P.P.D.A., laying the blame for exhibitors playing Class C films on the doorstep of his organization and asking "justice for the exhibitors who have had to pay." The classifications are made by the Societies.
They also demand that the Hays organization make good on the promise of several months ago to permit exhibitors to cancel objectionable pictures, and in bringing out this point cite five instances here where exchanges have refused to cancel "Limehouse Blues."
Fee Jump, Censored Ads in Senate Bill
(Continued from page 1) from $3 for each 1,000 feet to $100 for the first thousand and $5 for each additional thousand or fraction thereof.
The bill adds the words "filthy," "lascivious," "disgusting," "offensive" and "revolting" to the reasons for rejecting a film or advertising matter.
Senator McCall also introduced a bill imposing a tax on the exhibitor of 10 cents per 100 feet for the "privilege" of exhibiting film and requiring the registration of film houses and payment of an annual registration fee of 50 cents per seat.
Jack Warner in Town
Jack Warner has arrived in town by way of Florida. He will be here for a week or so discussing production with home office officials.
in the editorial department of Harper & Bros, for many years, has just signed a contract with M-G-M to act as a local scout for writers, books and plays.
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Sam Rinzler has been dubbed the chief herring eater from Brooklyn at the M. P. Club. Nat Cohn holds a similar title for Mt. Vernon. •
Joe Rivkin is wavering between an apartment at the Pare Vendome and one on Park Ave. What a waver ! •
Pauline Frederick will play Elizabeth in the road company of "Mary of Scotland."
Jimmy Durante is being talked about for a role in "Jumbo." A play not a picture.
Irene Rich, out of Hollywood for some time, returns there shortly to resume work.
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Bob Sherwood, confident now that "The Petrified Forest" is a hit, is Europe-bound.
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Claude Rains has been signed by G. B. to play the lead in "The Clairvoyant."
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Sydney Singerman observed his 20th year at Universal yesterday.
Bill Rodgers' Miami tan is the envy of all emgeeemers.
Pauline Stark is off for the other side.