Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1936)

MOTION PICTURI DAILY Roars from Leo's Lair Monday, May I I. 1936 M-G-M's List To Be 44-52; Limit Titles {Continued from page 10) i lalihan and S. J. Gardner, salesmen, R. W. Carmichael. office manager; J. Jacobs, urst booker. Memphis — J. F. Willingham. manager; . F Mock and J. ReYille. salesmen; M, L. Basse, office manager; L. J. Weber, "rst booker. Milwaukee — S. Shurman, manager; A. J. Shumow. M. Schwartz and E. J. Lipson, alesmen; J. H. Imhof. office manager; K. Bennin, first booker. Minneapolis — W. H. Workman, manager: G. W. Turner, A. S. Clatworthy. W. P. Cameron and L. H. Coen, salesmen; A. Putz. office manager; W. McKean, first ->ooker. Sew Haven — J. P. Byrne, manager; M. Hyams, salesman; F. G. Rippingale. office nanager and first booker. New Orleans — C. J. Briant, manager; V". H. Bridges and F. M. Jelenke. salesmen; E. F. Briwa, office manager and booker. Sew York and New Jersey — W. A. Scully, district manager; J, Bowen. New York manager; H. W. Miller and H. Levy. \ew York salesmen; D. Levy, New Jer-ey manager; B. Abner and R. Cuming. \'ew Jersey salesmen; D. Feck, office maniger; R. Ellsworth, first booker. Oklahoma City — W. B. Zoellner. manager; J. N. Byrd and H. R. Gaus, salesnen; J. Markowitz, office manager: W. A. Lewis, first booker. Omaha — H. J. Shumow. manager; F. C. Thortsen, C. Nedley and C. Lieb, salesmen; V. B. Trent, office manager. Philadelphia — Robert Lynch, manager; S. E. Applegate, sales manager; C. C. Pippin, (3 Schwartz, J. Morrow, T. Burns, Jr. and N. Lloyd, Jr.. salesmen; J. Farrow, office manager; W. Gabriel, first booker. Pittsburgh — J. J. Maloney. manager; J. Lapidus, J. L. Kelley and S. Gottlieb, -alesmen; H. W. Genter. office manager; M. Brauman, first booker. Portland — L. Amacher. manager; J. T. Warren, salesman: A. S. McCarl. Jr.. first cooker. St. Louis — W. E. Banford. manager; G. '<. Gregory, G. F. Reilly and J. X. Quinn, salesmen; F. Snyder, office manager: C. Ritzier, first booker. Salt Lake City — M. Saffle, manager; C. W. Boulet, C. Lind and D. T. McElhinney, salesmen; G. A. Derrick, office manager; J. Comer, first booker. San Francisco — G. C. Parsons, manager; U S. Hulling and E. C. Mix, salesmen; T. Aspell, Jr., office manager; H. Schmidt. fi.rst booker. Seattle — L. YVingham. manager: M. Rubenfeld and B. W. Rucker. salesmen; P. McElhinney, office manager: H. Rlatt, first hooker. Washington — R. Berger. manager; P. Bobys. H. Cohen. J. Goldberg and F. J. Scully, salesmen; H. A. Weinberger, office manager: M. Greenfield, first booker. Canada — H. L. Nathanson and W. Hayner. Charles Ramage. Vancouver; T. Oould. Winnipeg", G. Lightstone. Toronto: H> 1. Cass. Montreal; A. E. Smith. St. John. Erploiteers — E. B. Coleman. Atlanta: B. McKenzie. Boston: J. Gilmore. Buffalo; F. A Bartow. Chicago: C. C. Deardourff. Cleveland; W. G. Biship. Detroit; C. E. Morris, Kansas City: J. A. Schiller. Los Angeles; M. Abrams. Minneapolis and N. W. Pyle. Washington. Traveling Auditors — C. Aaron. J. J. Ash. J. M. Cummings. T. T. Donahue. T. F. Grady. R. Long. W. Marsh. P. D. Agnew Three Shorts in Work Hollywood, May 10— M-G-M has three shorts in work under the supervision of Jack Chertock. They are "Violets in the Spring." two-reel mucal with Jean Chatburn : "Modern Miracle," storv bv Duffy Cornell, and "The Killer." a dog film. The last two are in the Pete Smith group. Roy Shield to Roach Hollywood, May 10. — Hal Roach has signed Roy Shield to arrange the musical score of "Our Relations." next L3urel & Hardy picture. Shield, who is with NBC in Chicago, is due here tomorrow. Chicago, May 10. — Scheduled as one of the principal speakers on Tuesday's program, Louis B. Mayer is not due on the local scene until Wednesday. Last Friday night, he entered Doctors' Hospital in New York for observation with expectations of being discharged Monday. + Howard Strickling. studio publicity head, planned to leave with the convention special out of New York, but last minute changes has him in the east keeping in close touch with Mayer. According to present plans, Strickling will leave New York Monday night. + Ernest Morrell, head of M-G-M's transportation department, on April 11, celebrated his 15th year with the company. He started in the accessory and supply division, later becoming manager of the department. When Frank Rhorenbeck was transferred to WHN some time ago, Morrell took over the reins of the travel department. + J. S. MacLeod, in charge of exchange maintenance, has been here for several days dressing up convention headquarters at the Palmer House. With him is Bill Ferguson, who is plastering the place with displays. Ferguson also has under his wing the roadshows on "The Creat Ziegfeld," which he is trying to handle in addition to campaigning for the convention. If he hasn't dropped his Scotch tendencies by now. it will be a surprise to a lot of the bovs. + Charles Deesen of the home office didn't have anything to worry about this year. As a rule he adds a grey hair or two trying to figure out who will be his room mate on the train. On this trip, M. L. Simons, editor of The Distributor, was the second man. According to reports Simons read his companion to sleep en route. + Within an hour after he arrived. Bill Rodgers' right hand went limp because of the many handshakes congratulating him on his appointment to the top post in the sales setup. + Fred C. Quimby and James A. FitzPatrick had many "short" things to talk about on their way out. FitzPatrick. who produced 10 Traveltalks last season, is upping his schedule two to make an even dozen. All will be in Technicolor. M-G-M. by the way. has a tieup to release the 12 features FitzPatrick will make next season for England. + Arthltr Loew and his foreign contingent are not in evidence. Loew may hold an international sales meet of his own. + Morris ("Moishe") Wolff, Boston manager, has finally been relieved of the Charley Horse in his arm by teaching Lefty Grove of the Red Sox a couple of pointers in pitching, it is rumored. + Jack Byrne, who pilots the New Haven exchange, is a handball artist of no mean ability. The nearest he can come to getting a game on the local grounds, however, is to challenge Howard Dietz to a ping pong setto. + Ira Furman, Charlotte boss, is trying to sign up a partner for a round of golf. He may get Bill Scully and Jack Bowen on the greens, but it all depends on the fourth man. Al Lichtman may enter the contest if he can manage to take off a couple of hours, the prospects of which are not so sanguine at the moment. + Bob Lynch, garbed in his usual convention black shirt, wanted to be the engineer of the special train, but the boys talked him out of it. Lynch will get even with his confreres in another way, he says. +' Clayt Lynch, the St. Louis Kid who was switched to Los Angeles when J. J. Milstein resigned, is catching up with the latest gossip from the Mound City by keeping constant company with "Doc" Banford, who now holds the reins at the St. Louis branch. Banford hails from Des Moines and he's hunting up gossip about his old home town, too. + Charles C. Kessnick, southern district manager with headquarters in Atlanta and a colonel in the reserve corps, contends he's losing his southern accent. He holds this is due to his association with the Yankee divisions, meaning namely Jack Flynn of Detroit and Bill Scully of New York. + Traveling with the 50 home office executives and their assistants, the New York exchange crew kept together like peas in a pod. Scully, Bowen, Dave Levy, Bob Cummings, Ben Abner. Howard Levy, Capt. Harry Miller, Dudley Peck and Bob Ellsworth were the inseparables. Miller reminisced largely on his recent silver wedding anniversary celebration. + Harry Margolies. formerly a booker at the New York exchange and now spending his second year as office manager of the Charlotte exchange, is attending. From this branch also are Furman, Ben Rosenwald. Burtus Bishop. and Thomas Bailey. + Jack Byrne's contingent from New Haven was the smallest. Milton Hyams and Fred Rippingale are the only salesmen in the exchange and each covers a lot of territory. + Frank Scully, a salesman in the Capitol exchange, is a brother of Bill. but. notwithstanding, has chalked up a fine record for himself in the past year. Rudy Berger is the boss and hates to be interviewed by the press. Others from the Washington office attending include Harold Weinberger. Phil Bobbys, Harry Cohen, Jack Goldberg and Murray Greenfield. + On Monday, all the boys will be photographed in groups. The cameras will start clicking as soon as the afternoon session is over. 1 1 "Meet Again" Denver Draw; Gets $8,500 Denver, May 10.— " 'Till We Meet Again," with a stage show at the Denham, nearly doubled par with a gross of $8,500 last week. This was an outstanding feature of a general first run pickup. "Under Two Flags" grabbed big money at the Denver by going $4,500 over normal to a total of $12,000. "Special Investigator," helped by Amos 'n' Andy for five days at the Orpheum, also pulled a big total, $9,500, which was up $3,000. "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" was $1,500 over the line on a $5,000 take at the Paramount, following a week at the Denver. Total first run business was $41,000. Average is $28,500. Estimated takings for the week ending May 7 : "EVERYBODY'S OLD MAN" (20th-Fox) "ROAMING LADY" (Col.) ALADDIN— (1,500). 25c-40c-50c, 7 days. Gross: $2,500. (Average, $3,000) "THESE THREE" (U.A.) BROADWAY— (1,500), 25c-40c, 7 days, following three weeks at the Aladdm. Gross: $2,000. (Average, $1,500) "FRISCO WATERFRONT" (Republic) "OREGON TRAIL" (Republic) CENTER-(1,500), 15c-20c-25c, 7 days. Stage: show. Gross: $2,000. (Average, $2,500) "TILL WE MEET AGAIN" (Para.) DENHAM — (1,500), 25c-35c-50c. Stage: show. Gross: $8,500. (Average. $4,500) "UNDER TWO FLAGS" (20th-Fox) DENVER — (2,500), 25c-35c-50c, 7 days. Stage: band. Gross: $12,000. (Averaee $7,500) "SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR" (Radio) ORPHEUM— (2,600), 25c-35c-40c, 5 days. Stage: Amos 'n' Andy in person. Gross: $9,000. (Average for week, $6,000) "MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN" (Col.) PARAMOUNT— (2,000), 25c-40c, 7 days following a week at the Denver. Gross: $5,000. (Average, $3,500) Remodeling Offices New Haven, May 10.— Warners are remodeling their exchange offices here, which will be ready July 1. A club room is among the improvements. Warshawsky on Job Hollywood, May 10. — Samuel J. Warshawsky has checked in at Pickford-Lasky to collaborate with Bertram Milhauser on the next story for Francis Lederer. They will work on an original idea. Insurance to Use Films St. Louis, May 10. — Selling insurance by means of films is the latest gag under consideration here by the Fire Underwriters' Ass'n. All the citizens who have been dodging insurance agents for years may encounter them unexpectedly on the screen. N. E. Insurance Is Set Boston, May 10.— The new group insurance policy plan started here by Independent Exhibitors, Inc., local Allied affiliate, is set, according to business Manager Arthur K. Howard. The scheme, which insures 50 or more theatres of the organization as a whole and assures reductions in prevailing rates, has gone through. The return of the certified policy is all that is being waited for, according to local Allied headquarters. Nathan Yamins was in town for final arrangements.