Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1936)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Thursday, December 31, 1936 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 40 December 31, 1936 No. 154 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN, Editor J. M. JERAULD, Managing Editor JAMES A. CRON, Advertising Manager Published daily except Sunday and holidays by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., Martin Quigley, president; Colvin Brown, vice-president and treasurer. Publication Office: 1270 Sixth Avenue at Rockefeller Center, New York. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address "Quigpubco, New York." All contents copyrighted 1936 by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc. Address all correspondence to the New York Office. Other Quigley publications, Motion Pictuke Herald, Better Theatres, Teatro Al Dia, International Motion Picture Almanac and Fame: The Box Office Check-Up. Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union Life Building, Vine and Yucca Streets, Boone Mancall, Manager; Chicago Bureau: 624 South Michigan Avenue, C. B. 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Barxey Balabax — Not to refuse compensation from Paramount in '37. Staxtox Griffis — Ditto. Jack Cohx — To agree with Harry. Harry Cohx — To call him "Jack." Bob Gillham — To gild the silver jubilee. Leo Spitz — Reorganization before the snow melts. Al Steffes — A new check act for the new year. Jack Oakie — To go on a diet. Hal Horxe — To make more for Wanger than he did for RKO. Vic McLaglex — To convince all the Light Horse Troop is just a hobbv. Fraxk Freeman" — Some "permanent" theatre deals for Paramount. Whitford Drake — To find out why is a Federal committee. Dave Palfreymax — To refuse to be quoted. Garbo — To star in a Pollyanna story. Shirley Temple — Better stories. Nat Levine — A major producer rating. Sid Rechetxik — A pilot's license. Gordox White — To get Ampa out of the oxygen tent. Charlie Eixfeld — To top the "Gold Diggers" flight. Mort Sprixg — To find a horse that won't take advantage of his height. Howard Dietz — To graft music to his layouts. Al Friedlaxder — That Fortune Films live up to their name. Rube Jackter — To keep Jerry Safron on the coast. Jerry Safrox — The reverse on Rube. Bobby Breex — A vote against five shows a day. Sam Briskix — To click with an artistic picture. Dick Powell — To lose that mustache. Soxja Hexie — To become a skateless star. Jeax Hersholt — To forget Dr. Dafoe. Gary Cooper — To find out whether Paramount or Goldwyn owns him. Sam Goldwyx — To see America doesn't lack family type pictures. Gypsy Rose Lee — To see Sam doesn't lack for someone to star in 'em. Bob Rubin — Never to back a stage play. Jake Wilk — Me, too. Al Lichtmax — To picket Philadelphia. exhibitor headquarters as unfair to Metro sales policies. T Adolph Zukor — To survive the Jubilee dinner. All Exhibitors — To drop protests against percentages and preferred playing time. W. G. Van Schmus — Not to put Bank Night in the Music Hall. Johx D. Clark — To sell every account in Florida before spring. Harry Charxas — To find a producer who wants a Broadway show window. Bex Moss — Ditto. Eddie Alpersox — "Maybe I'm it" Willard McKay — To buy stock in Jack and Charlie's. •Louis Nizer — To stop trying to give the industry a Cinema Club. Sam Sprixg — To take bridge lessons. George Quigley — To take color out of the lab and put it on the screen. A-Mike Yogel — To be seen and not heard. Lynx Farxol — Less trips to Hollywood. Hollywood — To make cheaper, but better pictures. Warxers — To make "Gold Diggers of 1938-39-40." Harry Sherman — To keep the Hopalongs hopping. Joe Moskowitz — Never to leave before the last act. Bob Goldstein — To stick to radio. Burxs and Allex — To stymie the menace of Bob Burns and Martha Raye. Burxs and Raye — Same thing, the other way. Hexry Hathaway — To find another "Bengal Lancer." Fraxk Capra — To forget the Chinese for a time. Mutual System — To pack its airways with film guest names. NBC — To revise the clock to get more hours oer diem. Mae West — To have all censors outlawed. Donald Crisp — Not more than 30 pictures in '37. R. H. Cochraxe — To keep the New Universal new. Cheever Cowdin — Them's my sentiments. Ed Finxey — More time in New York for those Grand National westerns. Charlie Bunn — Resolved to spend some time in Gotham. Guy Kibbee — To find a romantic lead. Bob Taylor — To answer all fan mail. Don Gilman — To promote commercial television. Don Thornburgh — T o move 'Frisco to L. A. Arthur Treacher — To explain Wodehouse's comedy to scenarists. W arxer Oland — T o po rtrav {Continued on page 6) Maury Cohen Joins RKO as Producer (Continued from page 1) production field with the indicated disbanding of his Invincible Pictures, it was stated at Chesterfield headquarters here yesterday. George Batcheller, Jr., pointed out that Chesterfield and Invincible were completely separate business organizations and that the combination of interests between the two was limited to office and distribution services. The pictures of each company were sold separately, he said. "Chesterfield will not be affected in any way by the withdrawal of Cohen or the disbanding of Invincible," Batcheller said. "We are remaining in the state's rights field and are fulfilling all of our obligations in both production and delivery." Three pictures on Chesterfield's schedule of nine for the current season have been completed and the fourth will be started immediately after the first of the year with the return to the coast of George Batcheller, Sr. The entire program will be completed according to schedule, it was said. It was understood that Invincible has delivered only one picture to date on its current schedule of nine. Expect "Thin Man" To Reach $82J000 "After the Thin Man" is expected to wind up its first week at the Capitol tomorrow night with approximately $82,000. The gross up to last night was said to be well over $70,000. The third and last week of "Born to Dance" ended with about $22,000. Kolbe Presides at Pathe Frank Kolbe, chairman of the Pathe board, yesterday presided at a routine meeting of the directors. O. Henry Briggs, president, is in Miami and is due back shortlv. 2»th-Fox Board Meets The monthly meeting of the board of 20th Century-Fox was held yesterday. Only routine business was transacted, according to company officials. Gehring Starts Monday William C. Gehring, S. R. Kent sales drive leader, on Monday assumes the post of central division manager, a newly created setup. William Sussman is eastern division head and William Kupper, western sales manager. "Carnival" Opens in N. O. "Carnival in Flanders" will have its southern premiere tomorrow at the New Strand in New Orleans for an indefinite run. Decorate Greta Garbo Stockholm, Dec. 30. — Greta Garbo was decorated by King Gustaf in a State Council today with a gold medal in Letters and Arts. WANTED — ARTIST with trailer experience. One with modern idea of layouts and capable of supervising art department. One who can plan animations and can tell camera man how to shoot them. Laboratory experience preferred but not essential. Steady job with great future for right man. Must make his home in Chicago. See Irving Mack, Hotel Astor. Sunday.