Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1935)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Tuesday, July 30, 1935 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 38 July 30, 1935 No. 25 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN Editor JAMES A. CRON Advertising Manager i Purely Personal ► Published daily except Sunday and holidays by Motion Picture Daily, Inc., subsidiary of Quigley Publications, Inc., Martin Quigley, president; Colvin Brown, vice-president and treasurer. Publication Office: 1790 Broadway, New York. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address "Quigpubco, New York." All contents copyrighted 1935 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 Box-Office Check-Up. Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union Life Building, Vine and Yucca Streets, Victor M. Shapiro, Manager; Chicago Bureau: 624 South Michigan Avenue, Edwin S. Clifford, Manager; London Bureau: Remo House, 310 Regent St., London, W. 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Lawrence Improving New Haven, July 29. — "Laudy" Lawrence, general European representative for M-G-M, is making rapid progress here from a back injury received while on board ship some weeks ago and expects to be discharged the end of the week. Wall Street Warner Issues Gain on Big Board Net High Low Close Change Columbia 7454 7354 — 154 Consolidated 4 4 4 — 54 Cons., pfd 16 1534 1534. — 54 Eastman Kodak .. 14854 14734 + 54 Fox Film "A".... 1654 155^ 15^ —54 Loew's, Inc 4054 3834 3954 — 54 Loew's, Inc.. pfd. .10554 10454 10554 +154 Paramount Publix 454 4 454 + 54 Pathe 34 34 34 + 54 Pathe "A" 1154 1054 1154 + 34 RKO 254 V/i 234 Warner 554 5 554+54 Warner, pfd 4054 3854 39% +154 Little Activity on Curb Net High Low Close Change Technicolor 2054 2054 2054 — 54 Trans -Lux 254 254 254 Paramount Bonds Gain Net High Low Close Change General Theatre 6s '40 ctf 13 12J4 1234 + % Loew's 6s '41 ww deb rights.. 104 10354 104 +54 Paramount F. L. 6s '47 . .9754 9634 9754 +1 Paramount Publix 554s '50 99 99 99 + 54 RKO 6s '41 pp.... 4354 43 4354 +154 Warner Bros. 6s '39 wd 7534 7434 75 + 54 (Quotations at close of July 29) MAX BAER, according to well defined report, will make a picture in London. Anna Neagle, Nils Asther and Cedric Hardwicke will be in the cast. Sounds like a B. and J. production. • Fred M. Jack, Warner southern district sales manager, escaped with minor injuries when a plane in which he was flying over Tennessee last Saturday crashed. • Rosamond Pinchot has finished work in "The Three Musketeers" and is on her way east to join a summer stock company at Falmouth, Mass. Wendy Barrie will leave Hollywood for a brief vacation in England Aug. 1. She plans to return in November. • Henry King, now at work on "Way Down East" has purchased an airplane in which he will take a vacation by flying across the country. Maky Brian will star in "Stop Go," a new revue to be presented after a time in London by Charlot who knows his revues. • Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels, who have been touring with "Hollywood Holiday," stage play, expect to bring 't into New York later. Sam Marx was another in-andDuter. In from Hollywood by air Thursday, he was on his way back Sunday. • William Garity, production manager of the Walt Disney studios, arrives in town today from the coast. • Robert Suits, manager of the Loew, Reading, returned home yesterdav after a short vacation here. George Burns and Gracie Allen leave Hollywood for New York tomorrow. • Bob Hope finishes work on a tworeeler at the Brooklyn Vitaphone plant today. • Frank Phelps of the Warner office is back from a business trip through Pennsylvania and Ohio. • Earl Felton's story of college crew racing, "Freshman Love," has been purchased by Warner Bros. • Sidney Howard is Hollywoodbound. A writing assignment is calling. • Wallace Beery heading east by plane — his own. • Leslie E. Thompson is back from Hollywood. Ben Goetz spent two days here and left by plane for California Saturday. • Joe Moskowitz plans a coast trip in about three weeks. HENRY GINSBERG and his wife leave the coast by plane tomorrow and will sail on the Rex Saturday on a combined business and pleasure trip. After a vacation in Italy, Ginsberg will visit London to study the film situation. • Hal Roach, his wife and son have gone to Honolulu where the M-G-M short subject producer will compete in the annual island polo tourney. Oliver Hardy leaves for the same island next week for a vacation. • Joseph M. Schenck is due from the coast in two weeks. He will attend the Fox stockholders' meeting Aug. 15. • R. H. Cochrane was among the cheering squad greeting the Normandie on its arrival yesterday. His sonin-law was a passenger. • Paul Burger, who recently resigned from U. A., is now on the coast and will probably join 20th Century-Fox as a writer. • Patsy Kelly flew in from the coast yesterday and will return Saturday to start work in "Thanks a Million" for 20th Century-Fox. • Elmer C. Rhoden, head of Fox Midwest, arrives from Kansas City today for contract conferences with Spyros Skouras. • Oliver Messel, European stage de signer, has arrived at the M-G-M studios to act as advisor on "Romeo and Juliet." Walter Winchell's blessed event has arrived and it's a boy, bora Friday at the Park West Hospital. • Emanuel Cohen is in town from Hollywood. He flew in and arrived Sunday. Robert and Mrs. Montgomery get back from their European vacation today on the Aquitania. • Lou Irwin, Inc., has taken new offices in the RKO Building. • Arthur Loew is back from that coast trip. Davies to Star in 2 Of 6 Cosmopolitans Marion Davies will star in two of the six Cosmopolitans to be made for Warners next season. The first is "Page Miss Glory." Others include "Navy Sweethearts" with Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler ; "Special Agent" with George Brent, Bette Davis and Ricardo Cortez, and "Green Light," probably to star Leslie Howard. GB -Warners in Deal George W. Weeks, GB's general sales manager, stated yesterday that John Scully, Boston manager, and W. A. V. Mack, salesmen in charge in New Haven, had concluded a circuit deal for GB's entire 1935-1936 product throughout the Warner circuit in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Hollywood and Apollo May Be Taken by Loew (Continued from page 1) operation. The Hollywood is a second run, but while not materially affecting Loew's, will go along in the deal. Acquisition of the two independent units by Loew's will forestall future litigation between M. & S. and RKO, it is said. Last Tuesday RKO appealed from the recent state court order affirming an arbitration award in favor of M. & S. for $40,000 damages and specific performance of the long term contract. A settlement of the award will be made when RKO gives up the leases, it is said. During the lengthy arbitration hearings in the M. & S. case, David Loew, vice-president of Loew:s in charge of bu}nng and booking, was on the stand for five consecutive days. An announcement of the Loew-M. & S. deal is expected the latter part of the week. Revise Deal for Loew's Under a deal closed with Allied Owners Corp., the Loew circuit will be permitted to spread remaining payments due on ownership of the Pitkin, Valencia and Kings theatres over a period of 25 years as against 12. Payments will run at the rate of $500,000 vearly from 1933 to 1943 and at $550,000 a year for 1944 and 1945. Has 90th Birthday Topeka, July 29. — L. M. Crawford, veteran Topeka exhibitor, celebrated his 90th birthday anniversary by driving to Estes' Park, Col., with Mrs. Crawford and their daughter. Crawford came here in 1858 and lived here until a few years ago, when he began dividing his residence between Topeka and Wichita. Inactive in the theatre business in Topeka now, he owns three theatres, one at Wichita, one at Lincoln, Kan., and one at El Paso, Tex., all of which are under lease. Operate on Hy Fine Boston, July 29. — Hy Fine, former manager of the Metropolitan here and present director of stage productions for the M. & P. -Publix, is resting comfortably at Beth Israel Hospital after a night operation for appendicitis. Nick Smith Dead New Orleans, July 29. — Funeral services will be held for Nick Smith, treasurer of the Tulane, who died here of heart disease. Smith was 60 years old and not married. Postpone IEPA Meeting Milwaukee, July 29. — The first annual meeting of the I. E. P. A. of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, Inc., slated originally for Aug. 6 and 7. has been postponed until fall. Johnsons to Borneo Chanute, Kan., July 29. — Martin and Mrs. Johnson will sail from New York Aug. 13 for Borneo, the scene of their next travel picture.