Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1937)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Wednesday, January 27, 1937 2 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 41 January 27, 1937 No. 22 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 1937 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-Up. Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union Life Building, Vine and Yucca Sereets, Boone Mancall, Manager; Chicago Bureau: 624 South Michigan Avenue, C. B. 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Box 664, Paul Bodo, Representative; Moscow Bureau: Petrovski Per 8, Beatrice Stern, Representative; Vienna Bureau: Neustiftgasse, 55, Vienna VII, Hans Lorant, Representative; Amsterdam Bureau: Zuider Amstellaan 5, Philip de Schaap, Representative; Helsingfors Bureau: Fredriksgatan 19 C, Charlotte Laszlo, Representative; Warsaw Bureau: Sienna 32, R. Sillei, 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. Croris Mother Dies Mrs. Florence Cron, mother of James A. Cron, advertising manager of Motion Picture Daily, died late Monday evening of a paralytic stroke. She was 80. Another son, Louis, survives. The funeral will be .held at Cedar Rapids, la., original home of the family, on Friday. Louis Cron will take the body west. "Jimmy" is ill at his New Rochelle home with a heavy cold and will be unable to go. Frankie Lyons Killed Hollywood, Jan. 26. — F r a n k i e Lyons, who was working in Columbia's "Racing Luck," as a racing driver, was killed at Gilmore Stadium. Lyons' car went into a skid and crashed into a fence. He is survived by his wife. Col. Drive Starts Big Columbia's home office declared yesterday that 165 per cent of the weekly quota was reached in the first week of the "Columbia Montague Sweepstakes," sales drive. The campaign will continue until May 1. i Purely Personal ► AL STEFFES returns this morning from Boston where he talked before the Independent Exhibitors of New England. He may stay on for the LouisPastor fight, and then again he may leave for Minneapolis tonight. • The Edward L. Kleins will not sail for London today, as planned. Telephone contact with members of Mrs. Klein's family in Louisville was established finally at six o'clock yesterday morning. Arrangements are under way for them to leave the flooded city. • Howard Estabrook's original story and screenplay of "The Port of Missing Girls" has been purchased by Monogram from Brenda Pictures Corp. It will be produced for 1937-38. • Andre Kostelanetz yesterday was awarded a silver cup by American Airlines for being the outstanding air traveler in 1936. He made 13 round trips to the coast in as many weeks. • Margaret Speaks, radio singer, will leave for the coast today via American Airlines. Ditto Mrs. Mack Miller, wife of the Hollywood restaurant publicity head. • Gertrude Merriam, her illness behind her but still weak in the pins, is back at the Managers' Round Table department of Motion Picture Tterald. • Sam Goldstein, treasurer of Guarantee Pictures, left yesterday on the Manhattan for a two-month business trip to England and the Continent. • Stephen Pallos, general manager of London Films, will leave for Miami the end of the week. He plans to sail for London the end of next week. • Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra will play Loew's State the week of Jan. 29 and will sail for Europe on the Batory on Feb. 13. • Marsha Hunt, Paramount player, arrives here today en route to Washington to attend President Roosevelt's birthday ball on Saturday. • Col. H. A. Cole, who came up from the two-day Allied directors meet in Baltimore, is expected to leave for Dallas today. • Frank Downey, Loew's Detroit branch manager, has returned to his territory after a short visit at the company's home office. • Mrs. Lela Rogers, head of Radio's talent school, left yesterday for the coast studio after looking at numerous Broadway plays. • Lou Irwin is due in from Hollywood today. His office here reports he has placed the Diamond Boys with Universal. • Teddy Trust, publicity head for the Brooklyn Strand, is recuperating at Christ Hospital, Jersey City, from an operation. • Charles Samuels, formerly of King Features, has joined the U. A. Extra Copies Following publication in Motion Picture Daily on Jan. 18 of the blow-up at the New York Strand on Red Kann's review of "Black Legion," Dinty Moore, Metropolitan district manager for Warners, received an air mail request from H. C. Federer of the Chief Theatre in Greeley, Colo., and three Warner houses in Philadelphia for similar enlargements. Moore has ordered extra copies and will send them to each theatre. home office publicity department under Myer Beck. • Marlene Dietrich sails from England on the Berengaria today, arriving here next Wednesday, en route to the coast. • George J. Schaefer will leave next Wednesday for Bimini, 40 miles east of Miami, on a 10-day to two-week fishing trip. • Harold Eckert, dramatic critic of the Columbus, O., Journal, is in town for a two-week looksee at plays and films. • Ethel Walters, secretary to Abe Montague, leaves today on the Empress of Australia for a 16-day cruise. • Martin Beck has been discharged from the Mt. Sinai Hospital and hies to Miami in a few days to recuperate. • Lamar Trotti, 20th Century-Fox writer, left yesterday for the coast after a New York vacation. • Sol Edwards, Grand National eastern division sales head, returned yesterday from Boston. • Robert Taylor and Jean Harlow arrived in Washington from the coast yesterday by plane. • Lou Diamond, Paramount short subject head, is due to arrive today from the coast. • S. E. Appelgate, branch manager of Loew's in Philadelphia, was in town yesterday. • Edward Peskay, general sales manager of Grand National, is in the south. • C. C. Moskowitz and Oscar Doob returned yesterday from Washington. • Norma Shearer and Constance Bennett left for the coast yesterday. • Douglas and Mrs. Fairbanks left New York for Hollywood yesterday. • Gradwell L. Sears is due from the south either tomorrow or Friday. • Arline Judge is in from Florida and at the Waldorf-Astoria. Erick Charell arrived from the coast yesterday. Clyde Elliott of Screeno is in from Chicago. • Al Lichtman returns from Miami tomorrow. Earnings of Extras Down Sharply in '36 Hollywood, Jan. 26. — E x t r a s earned $2,420,453.55 in 1936, showing a decrease of $150,840.29 from the 1935 figures, according to information made available by Campbell McCulloch, general manager of Central Casting. The total placements for the year were 268,436 against 278,486 for 1935. A breakdown of the statistics shows the average daily placement for 1936 was 858 against 889 for 1935. The average daily wage paid was $9.02 which was 21 cents less than the previous year's average. Feminine placements showed an increase of approximately 7,000 over the previous year while for men it showed a corresponding decrease. The total average daily placement was 558 men and 259 women. Forty-one child extras had daily employment. Aronson U. S. Agent For Capitol Films Al Aronson, one-time general manager of distribution for M-G-M in Central Europe, has been appointed American representative of Capitol Films of London, of which Max Shach is the head. Aronson arrived on the Manhattan earlier in the week. Loew's Drop New Game Bulls Eye, the new game sponsored by Loew's, will be dropped by the circuit after tomorrow night when it will make its final appearance at the Lincoln Square. Loew's booked the game one night a week and planned to extend it in the event it clicked. After several trys, executives decided to supplant Bulls Eye with either Screeno or Bank Night. Up to yesterday no decision had been made. /. L. Warner Heads Club Hollywood, Jan. 26. — Jack L. Warner has been named chairman of the board of directors of the Hollywood Turf Club. Alfred E. Green, director, is president of the organization. They will operate a new track now being constructed in Inglewood if permission is granted by the California Horse Race Board. Notables Seeing 'Plough* A distinguished group of Irish notables will attend the opening of "The Plough and the Stars" at the Music Hall tomorrow night. Leo T. McCauley, Irish consul, and Sean Nunan, vice-consul, and Erin O'Brien-Moore, who has a role in the film, will be among them. M-G-M Signs Six Hollywood, Jan. 26. — M-G-M has closed contracts with Sophie Tucker, Bruce Cabot, Noel Langley, writer ; Leonid Raab, arranger, and Robert Wright and Chester Forrest, composers. Slumber g Starts East Hollywood, Jan. 26. — Nate Blumberg left by train today for San Francisco. He will stop at Salt Lake City en route to New York later. Board Luncheon Feb. 6 The 22nd annual luncheon of the National Board of Review will be held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, as usual, on Feb. 6.