Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1935)

2 MOTION PICTURE DAILY Thursday, September 5, 1935 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office^ Vol. 38 September 5, 1935 No. 56 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; 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, C. B. 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Production Holds; 37 Films in Work (Continued from page 1) none that would start within the next two weeks and 13 in the cutting rooms. Paramount had six, three and eight; Universal, six, one and four; Warners, six, zero and five ; Twentieth Century-Fox five, two and six; Radio, five, two and six ; Columbia, three, two and three ; Goldwyn, zero, one and one. The independents had zero, two and two. Short subject production held about the same. M-G-M had two shorts in work, one in preparation and slated for cameras within two weeks and three in the cutting room. Columbia had two, two and three; Universal, zero, one and zero ; Warners, zero, zero and one ; Radio, zero, one and seven, with the independents checking up with one, one and one. Atkins Heading for F. D. Chairmanship Robert W. Atkins, executive vicepresident and a director of Pathe, is slated to be elected chairman of the board of First Division at a meeting of the company's board scheduled for today. Atkins will also head First International Pictures, Inc., the Pathe subsidiary organized to acquire the stock of First Division. Harry H. Thomas is slated to continue as president of First Division. i Purely Personal ► MICHAEL BARTLETT will be guest star on the Paul Whiteman hour Sept. 12. The deal was handled by the William Morris agency. Frank Parker, who has just finished a picture at the Long Island Studio, will go on the Atlantic Refining Hour and Frank Crumit will do four additional weeks on the Ipana program. • Winfield Sheehan, now in Vienna on his combined honeymoon and vacation trip, writes to friends here that he, with Jack Connolly of Pathe News, arranged to have a memorial service said for Will Rogers in the chapel of the N ormandie while crossing. Quip of the Day Two comedians were arguing about the ownership of a gag. Said the first after various attempts to date the first use of the material: "Well, anyway, I paid for it." "Who had the money, Julius Caesar?" — The Era, London. A. H. Schwartz, Jack Partington, Colvin Brown, Ed Fay, Arthur Lee, George Weeks, William Feitelson, Charles Moses, Al Hovell and John Schultz were grouped at various tables at the Tavern during yesterday's mid-day lunch respite. • Fred Metzler, treasurer of Fox West Coast, is en route to the coast and due in Los Angeles Saturday. While here he conferred with Spyros and Charles Skouras on the reorganization setup of the circuit. • Ned Depinet, Leslie E. Thompson, Lynn Farnol, Richard Watts, Jr., George Trendle, Dr. A. H. Giannini and Martin Quigley were among those glimpsed at the Rockefeller Center Luncheon Club yesterday. • Mel Heymann of the M-G-M publicity department is still out with a bad cold. After recovering somewhat, he returned to the office only to be forced to return to bed. • Henry Ginsberg, vice-president and general manager of the Hal Roach Studios, and Mrs. Ginsberg are due in from Europe on the Aquitania tomorrow. • The Arthur J. Leonards now have an eight-pound girl, named Helene Patricia, in their family. Papa is in the accounts department at Paramount. • Margaret Callahan, stage player recently signed by RKO, has returned to the coast after a vacation here. • Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne are rehearsing the Theatre Guild's "The Taming of the Shrew." • Ruth Chatterton, weather permitting, is due to set her plane down on nearby terrain today. She is coming from the air race she sponsored in Cleveland. • Harry C. Arthur broke 200 on the scales yesterday for the first time in five years. He's down to 199^, or 17 pounds heavier than Irving Lesser. • Charles Koerner, RKO Boston divison head, has been in town for the past two days conferring with home office executives. • Edgar Selwyn, associate producer at M-G-M, sailed yesterday on the N ormandie for a short vacation in England. • Herbert T. Kalmus, president of Technicolor, and F. F. Bryant left for the coast yesterday. • Bob Wilby, accompanied by the missus, is in town enroute to Atlanta following a vacation in Bermuda. • Louis Nizer is due back from his European jaunt about the middle of the month. • Henry and Mildred Ginsberg are due back from their European trip on Friday. • . . . Chicago Mrs. Allan Usher, is reported making very satisfactory recovery. She lost a hand several weeks ago when struck by an airplane propeller. Harvey B. Day, of Terry-Toons, visiting. Harold Mirisch, Milwaukee district manager for Warners, was here looking over the new product and closing bookings. Herman Garfield of Harry Sherman Prod, was a caller at the Paramount exchange. He is handling the "Hop Along Cassidy" series. "Angel" Opens Tonight Many celebrities are expected to turn out tonight for the opening of "The Dark Angel" at the Rivoli. Among them will be Helen Vinson, Fred Perry, Herbert Bayard Swope, Grace Moore, Dr. A. H. Giannini, Sir Gerald Campbell, Lillian Hellman, Luigi Pirandello, June Knight, Dorothy Mackaill, Burns and Allen, Fifi D'Orsay, Mae Murray and Phil Baker. Mrs. C. B. North Dies Mrs. Caroline B. North, mother of Mrs. P. D. Cochrane, is dead following a stroke a month ago which virtually paralyzed her. She was 84 years of age. Funeral services will be held from the Davis Chapel, New Rochelle, tomorrow at 3 P. M. Loew Declares Dividend The regular quarterly dividend of 50 cents on the 1,490,095 outstanding shares of common stock was declared by Loew directors yesterday, payable Sept. 30 to stockholders as of Sept. 17. The disbursement amounts to $745,047.50. The next directors' meeting will be held Oct. 2. To Meet on Memorial Oklahoma City, Sept. 4. — An early meeting of the Will Rogers Memorial Committee will be called here to choose a memorial to the humorist. 306 Seeking Strike Right From Browne (Continued from page 1) of the International for an immediate audience. The departure to Washington of the committee depends on Browne's reply. On the committee, in addition to Basson, are Frank J. Ruddock, vicepresident of Local 306 ; Charles Thide, Alexander Polin, Bert Popkin and Harry Storin. Meanwhile the executive committee of the union and circuit representatives met last night to continue negotiations on a basic wage scale. The move to rescind the strike order does not necessarily indicate such a step will be taken. Local 306 feels its powers under local autonomy are being nullified because of interference by the I.A.T.S.E. The union is anxious to make a two-year deal with the circuit and independents, but, at the same time, does not want to be handicapped by International regulations. Warners-Skouras In 7 -House Pool (Continued from page 1) State, Jersey City. Warners' theatres are the Oritania, Hackensack; Ritz and Regent, Elizabeth, and Stanley, Jersey City. After canceling the lease on the Pascack, Westwood, Skouras has signed a new rental agreement for the theatre under the name of Modern Playhouses, Inc. The circuit also operates the Westwood in this town, having acquired it some months ago from the Rosenblatt-Welt circuit. Skouras has also closed for the Cameo, Ossining, N. Y., making two for the outfit in this town. The other house is the Victoria. Skouras late last week took over the Englewood, Englewood, N. J., on a 10-year lease from Walter Reade. The Warner-Skouras pool has been on and off for the past three years and was finally consummated late last week. Final details in the pooling arrangement between Skouras and Century in Long Island will be set Sept. 14. The original date was set for Sept. 7, but has been postponed a week by consent of attorneys. Quiet on Loy Pact With H-M Pictures The law firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy, which represented Myrna Loy in her much publicized negotiations for a contract with Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, declined to comment yesterday on Miss Loy's return to the M-G-M studio on a contract said to involve the same terms as those of her former M-G-M pact. William Saxe, a member of the law firm, made himself unavailable to reporters and other persons in the law office professed to know nothing of the effect which Miss Loy's return to M-G-M would have on her publicized contract with Hecht and MacArthur.