Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1936)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1936
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000544
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
November 10, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE DAILY KEY TO PITTSBURGH GOES TO WARNER BROS, on air-arrival 'Gold Diggers of 1937' flying troupe while Ben Bernie and lads, 65 fifeand-drummers and airplane convoy turn out in city holiday greeting. WASHINGTON, D. C. NEXT! (Advt.) 4 Purely Personal ► 2 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 40 November 24, 1936 No. 124 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN, Editor J. M. JERAULD, Managing Editor JAMES A. CRON, Advertising Manager i^^^^m Published daily except Sunday ■IBBB and holidays by Quigley Pub||(HyMj lishing Company, Inc., Martin I25f| i Quigley, president ; Col v in Brown, i^HI^B vice-president and treasurer. Publication Office: 1270 Sixth Avenue, at Rockefeller Center, New York. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address "Uuigpubco, New York." All contents copyrighted 1936 by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc. Address all correspondence to the New York Office. Other Quigley publications, Motion Picture Herald, Better Theatres, Teatro Al Dia, International Motion Picture Almanac and Fame: The Box Office Check-Uf. Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union Life Building, Vine and Yucca Streets, Boone Mancall, Manager; Chicago Bureau: 624 South Michigan Avenue, C. B. O'Neill, Manager; London Bureau: 4 Golden Square, London W 1, Bruce Allan, Representative. Cable Address "Quigpubco London"; Berlin Bureau: Stuelerstrasse 2, Berlin W 35; Joachim K. Rutenberg, Representative; Paris Bureau: 29, Rue Marsoulan, Pierre Autre, Representative; Rome Bureau: Viale Gorizia, Vittorio Malpassuti, Representative; Australian Bureau: Regent Theatre Buildings, 191 Collins Street, Melbourne, Cliff Holt, Representative; Mexico City Bureau: Apartado 269, James Lockhart, Representative; Budapest Bureau: 3, Kaplar-u, Budapest, II, Endre Hevesi, Representative ; Tokyo Bureau: 880 Sasazuka, Ichikawa-shi, Chiba-Ken, H. Tominaga, Representative; Prague Bureau: Uhelny trh 2, Prague 1, Harry Knopf, Representative; Shanghai Bureau: Rooms 38-41 Capital Theatre Building, 142 Museum Road, /. P. Koehler, Representative ; Rio de Janiero Bureau: Caixa Postal 3358, A. Weissman, Representative; Buenos Aires Bureau: Corrientes 2495, N. Bruski, Representative; Barcelona Bureau: Calle Ansias March No. 5, Juan Caragol, Representative; Montevideo Bureau: P. O. Box 664, Paul Bodo, Representative; Moscow Bureau : Petrovski Per 8, Beatrice Stern, Representative; Vienna Bureau: Neustiftgasse, 54, Vienna VII, Hans Lorant, Representative; Amsterdam Bureau: Zuider Amstellaan 5, Philip de Schaap, Representative. Entered as second class matter January 4, 1926, at the Post Office at New York City, N. Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year $6 in the Americas, and foreign $12. Single copies: 10 cents. Set Zukor Party Dec. 3 Hollywood, Nov. 23. — A dinner dance will be given in honor of Adolph Zukor's 25th anniversary at the Trocadero here on Dec. 3. Darryl Zanuck will be chairman, and George Jessel toastmaster. Sponsors include Frank Capra, Claudette Colbert, Louis B. Mayer, Jesse L. Lasky, Mary Pickford and Cecil B. DeMille. Cowdin, Dulin on Coast Hollywood, Nov. 23. — J. Cheever Cowdin, chairman of the Universal board, and Garretson Dulin, Universal director and head of Dulin & Co., financial house, are here for conferences with Charles R. Rogers. Cowdin expects to return to New York on Thursday. Petti john Gaining C. C. Pettijohn, general counsel of M.P.P.D.A., issued to Motion Picture Daily his own bulletin from Mt. Sinai Hospital last night, saying that his condition improved over the weekend but that a number of additional days of hospital care are still in prospect. MARC LACHMANN of Universal left for Hollywood yesterday and Bill Dover of 20th Century-Fox goes in a day or two. Joe Moskowitz, Bob Goldstein and some others entertained them at lunch at "21" yesterday. • Gladys Swarthout arrived in New York yesterday for a rest before starting on a concert tour of IS cities after Jan. 1. She was accompanied by her husband, Frank Chapman. • Edward Schnitzer, Republic district manager, got back yesterday from a two-week tour of branches under his supervision. • Herman Rifkin, Republic franchise holder in Boston, was in town yesterday. • Rick Ricketson left for Denver last night. Spyros Skouras will fly to the coast Sunday. • Dave Epstein and the missus here from the coast for a two-week stay. • Ella Ungar, wife of Arthur, editor of Coast Variety, in from California. • Jack Nelson, Washington distributor for Bank Night, is in town. • Pandro S. Berman left by train last night for the coast. • Howard Dietz is expected from the coast the early part of next week. • Claude Ezell will leave for Chicago, Minneapolis and Dallas today. • Frank Albertson, Rowland Brown and Lee Marcus are stopping at the Warwick. • Andre Kostelanetz will leave Saturday for the coast via American Airlines. HARRY SHAW, New England district manager for Loew's, arrived yesterday from New Haven to arrange for a luncheon next week at the Taft Hotel for Eleanor Powell. He will leave for home today. Leon Lee, advertising director of Imperial, left yesterday for Washington to set the opening of "Broken Blossoms" at the Belasco Thanksgiving Eve. • Sam Briskin arrived from Hollywood yesterday morning for conferences with Leo Spitz. He plans to leave for the coast toward the end of the week. • W. Ray Johnston has purchased "Tintype of a Lady," by Kathleen Shepard, for production on the initial Sterling Pictures program. • Harry Ross, head of Ross Federal Service, will return today or tomorrow from meetings with managers in Chicago and Detroit. • Herman Robbins will take a plane to Los Angeles tomorrow. • Neil F. Agnew, J. J. Unger and Bob Gillham flew to Boston yesterday. • Dorothea Cleveland, press agent, has taken on Robert's, in the Greenwich Village sector, where film gourmets congregate. • Mrs. Ara Gershwin has arrived from Beverly Hills and is at the Lombardy. • . . . Denver Dewitt Webber, owner of the Webber building which is now leased to Fox, is touring England, Ireland, Scotland and the continent. William Rosenfeldt is back in I Denver for a few weeks, after several I Tuesday, November 24, 1936 months in Chicago. He formerly owned the Amity exchange here. Harry Nolan, pioneer film and theatre supply man, is putting sound into his Colonial in Pueblo, Col. The house is also being overhauled. Richard Dekker of the Jewel, was held up in his office as he was checking up late at night. • . . . London Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Douglas and Mrs. Fairbanks in on Queen Mary. Dagmar Wolfski, once talent scout for Universal and now free-lancing in Paris, here arranging to handle book and play deals for British studios. John Maxwell donated £5,000 to Guarantee Fund of the Scottish Empire Exhibition, to be held in Glasgow in 1938. Alistair Cooke guest speaker at Luncheon Club. Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty; Major G. C. Tryon, Postmaster-General ; Capt. Hudson, Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Transport ; Sir Cooper Rawson and Herbert Morrison, leader of the LC. C. Labor Party, among members of Parliament to attend London C. E. A. dinner Dec. 8. • . . . Omaha Ray Brown will open his new de luxe house at Harlan, Iowa, about Jan. 1 with his son-in-law managing it and the Harlan, Brown's present theatre there. Irvin Schlank, formerly of Omaha, paused here while en route to Chicago to visit his brother, Jake, Universal salesman. A. W. Schwalberg of New York, supervisor of Warners' exchanges ; Leo Blank of Chicago, district manager; A. M. Anderson, recently named Des Moines manager, and C. K. Olson, Omaha manager, conferred here. • . . . Pittsburgh Mrs. Harry Kalmine and her two daughters have returned home after two weeks in Atlantic City. Joe Feldman's son, Wally, celebrated his sixth birthday a couple of days ago. Ned Dobson, Republic talent scout, spent several days in town last week inspecting the little theatre rolls. Jackie Heller is here spending some time with his family before sailing for England. DeMille Starts Tour Hollywood, Nov. 23. — Cecil DeMille left for Dallas today by plane on the first leg of the exhibition tour of "The Plainsman" which will take him also to New Orleans, New York, Boston, Denver and Omaha to study audience reactions prior to release. Bill Pine accompanied DeMille. Raise Lincoln Scales Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 23. — The price scale at the Varsity here has been increased 10 cents, to 35 cents for orchestra seats in the evening. The move is being watched with interest by other operators here. Republic Names Manheim Hollywood, Nov. 23. — H. Manheim was today named Publicity Director at Republic. Jack Hardy remains with the company as Manheim's assistant.