Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1937)

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6 MOTION PICTURE DAILY Tuesday, March 2, 1937 MOTION PICTURE DAILY* HOLLYWOOD PREVIEW "23y2 Hours' Leave" {Grand National) Hollywood, March 1. — Horseplay in the 1917 military cantonments is the substance of this feature produced by Douglas MacLean and in which he once starred. Of the substance that revives happy memories in the minds of those who signed up to save democracy and also providing amusing entertainment for a new young generation, the film is a blending of comedy characterizations, gags, situations and dialogue, interspersed with solo and chorus singing. A soldier boy-general's daughter romance is also worked in. The song number "Good Night, My Lucky Day" is quality music and would be a decided asset to any production. As the full atmosphere of how the citizen soldiery lived when the war was considered a lark is reflected, Rookie James Ellison bets his comrades he will have breakfast with Gen. Paul Harvey and that patty cakes will be the main course. He does all right but not before he is given a merry jousting about by his buddies and falls in love with Terry Walker whom he does not know is the General's daughter. The amusement provided is aimed to hit the fancies of the neighborhood and family trade. Likewise, it is geared to take the World War soldiers back to the good old days. Roisterous, but clean and wholesome, it should fit in acceptably on secondary programs. Ellison is pleasing in the leading role and Miss Walker satisfactory as the center of romantic interest. Good support is provided by Morgan Hill, Arthur Lake, Paul Harvey, Wally Maher, Andy Andrews, Murray Alper, Russel Hicks and Ward Bond. Premised on Mary Roberts Rinehart's story, Henry McCarty and Harry Ruskin did the screen play. Samuel J. Warshawsky contributed added dialogue and music and lyrics are credited to Sammy Stept and Ted Koehler. John Blystone's direction made comedy to predominate. Production Code Seal No. 3,124. Running time, 72 minutes. "G." "That I May Live" (20th Century-Fox) Hollywood, March 1. — Basically a crime melodrama, "That I May Live" is handled, for the most part, in a light vein with sprightly penned dialogue and situations and tempered direction spasmodically verging on the farcical. The film emerges as ordinary, but entertaining, program fare evenly gauged for laughs and suspense which will primarily draw neighborhood patronage, but can be counted on to balance up a double bill in some key spots as obviously calculated by the producer. It's the old story of the man who emerges from a term in the penitentiary desiring to reform but is forced back into the racket by former pals. Robert Kent is the lad who does a three year stretch for robbery and, upon release, is forced at gunpoint to participate in another bank robbery by former cronies Jack La Rue and Frank Conroy. He is framed in this one and is held on a murder charge. Subsequently escaping, Kent fakes a restaurant holdup but Rochelle Hudson, the waitress, kids him out of it, he goes to work washing dishes and romance begins. J. Edward Bromberg, who tours the country with a general store housed in his truck, is the kindly benefactor who takes the couple in after they are fired, sees that they are properly married and ultimately clears Kent of the crime. All characterizations are carried out in first class order with Bromberg's role outstanding. Fred Kelsey, George Cooper, De Witt Jennings and others ably supported. Allan Dwan's direction is evenly balanced and intelligent. Ben Markson and William Conselman did the screen play. Sol Wurtzel produced. Production Code Seal No. 3,089. Running time, 70 Minutes. "G." Grace Moore's Film $101,000 for Week (Continued from page 1) Roxy, "Woman Alone" got $23,800. The picture is expected to wind up with $37,000 on the week. "Man of Affairs" at the Criterion garnered $16,394, according to G.B. "Women of Glamour" will open there Thursday evening. 20th Century-Fox will have five first runs of Broadway this month. "Love Is News" opens at the Roxy Friday. "Nancy Steele Is Missing" is due at the Rivoli March 6. "Wings of the Morning" has been dated into the Music Hall for March 11. "Time Out for Romance" is scheduled to open at the Palace March 12 and will be followed by "Fair Warning." Moore-Orsatti Settle Los Angeles, March 1. — The action instituted by Orsatti & Co., against Grace Moore for $98,000 was dismissed today following a private settlement by the principals. File Infringement Answer C. & F. Amusement Corp., through its attorneys, Weisman, Quinn, Allen and Spett, yesterday filed answers in the U. S. District Court to copyright infringement actions brought by 20th Century-Fox and M-G-M, which charged the theatre company with playing one picture of each company one day overtime. The answer declared that the actions of the two companies had led the theatre to assume the overtime playing was authorized, and charged that the suits were for the purpose of collecting damages which the answer called "excessive." Allow Proctor RKO Claim A stipulation was signed yesterday between attorneys for RKO and RKO Proctor Corp. in the RKO reorganization proceedings allowing the claim of the Proctor Corp. against RKO in the sum of $10,350. Disallows Attorneys' Claim Special master Richard B. Scandrett, Jr., filed an order yesterday disallowing the claim of Boyle and Priest, St. Louis attorneys, in the RKO reorganization proceedings, for $3,561 for legal services on the ground that the services were not rendered for the debtor corporation. Wilkes Answers Interrogation New Orleans, March 1. — Harold Wilkes today filed an answer to an interrogation in Federal Court here defining the position of branch manager for Paramount and director of the Saenger Theatres Corp. He claimed that there has been no discrimination on account of color and stated further that Saenger has prior claim to Paramount this season. Technicolor Wins Restraint Los Angeles, March 1. — Federal Judge William P. James today ruled that Tricolor's circularizing of exhibitors constitutes improper interference with the business of Technicolor and granted an injunction restraining Tricolor from further use of the practice pending the trial of the case on March 9. The opinion states, in part : "The belief, as expressed by Tricolor, that it might show some conspiracy between the defendant and the purchasers of films produced by it is not sufficient to authorize the threaten ing notice sent to exhibitors. The law states plainly that when infringement by the making and use of apparatus is claimed, liability does not extend to the users of the apparatus." The Tricolor correspondence was held "tending to alarm exhibitors." United Sues Columbia in N. O. New Orleans, March 1. — Suit has been filed here by the United Theatres circuit against Columbia. The circuit claims "Theodora Goes Wild" to be part of their contract for first subsequent run, claiming that Colum bia had no right to sell the film first in other situations. Pulverman Action Dismissed Milwaukee, March 1. — Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone in Superior Court here has dismissed the $300,000 action of Minnie Pulverman against M. P. Exhibitors' Protective Ass'n of Northern Wisconsin, Vitagraph, Paramount, United Artists, G.B. and M-G-M. The court held that the exhibitors had the right to protect their business. _A motion for a new trial was denied. France, Italy Sign New Film Agreement (Continued from page 1) in Italy and Italian language films made in France will not be considered in the import group, nor will shorts or silent films. Italian films shown in France will be subject to all regulations which govern the showing of any foreign product in this country. The agreement will be in effect from Feb. 1 to Dec. 31, 1937, with renewal automatic at the termination date unless opposition to it is voiced. Under a correlative agreement payment for such films as are traded between the two countries will be paid for through a special clearing house set up by the Government in each country. Eastman Raises Pay Rochester, March 1. — Pay increases and wage dividends totaling nearly $4000,000 have been set for home and foreign employes with eight months' service or more by Eastman Kodak. The pay increase, approximating a jump of 20 per cent over the old 40-hour week, will total $1,500,000. The wage dividend will be $2,112,555, of which employes in the three Rochester plants will receive $1,393,909, those in the United States and Canada $1,858,528, and those in foreign countries the rest of the total. Epidemic Bars Children Wellington, N. Z., Feb. 2. — (By Air-Mail Via London) — Theatre managements in the Dominion have voluntarily undertaken to bar the attendance of children until the infantile paralysis scare has passed. Selznick Meets Today Hollywood, March 1. — The board of directors of Selznick International at its meeting to be held tomorrow will consider the $12,000,000 production program for the coming year. Wall Street Losses Spot Board Net High Low Close Change Columbia Columbia, pfd. . . Consolidated .... 3654 4454 3654 4454 3654 4454 54 4?4 4% 4% Consolidated, pfd. 163^ 1654 1654 + 54 169 168 168 -i% Eastman, pfd. . . . 16054 160 16054 54 Gen. T. Equip 30 J>30 30 K.-A.-O., pfd. ... 1044 103 103 —7 Loew's, Inc 79 7754 7754 -1M 26% -25% 25% % Paramount 1 pfd. .185 184 184 —2 ' Paramount 2 pfd. 2434 23% 23% -% Pache Film 9 8% % RKO 9 m 8% % 20th Century -Fox. 3Sl/$ 3454 34% Vi Warner Bros. . . . 1554 15% 15/s -% Technicolor Best Curb Gains Net High Low Close Change Grand National . • 3% 354 354 U % Sentry Safety . . . ■ ¥>, 34 Sonotone 2 2 2 Technicolor 20J4 1954 2034 +154 • 554 5 5 Universal Pict. . . 15 15 15 —2 Most Bonds Rise Net High Low Close Change Loew's 354s '46. . . 99%, 99% 99% + % Paramount B'way 3s '55 75 74 75 +1 Paramount Pict. 6s '55 1013^ 101 101 54 RKO 6s '41 pp.. 120 118 118 Warner Bros. 6s '39 wd 98% 98 98% + % (Quotations at close of Mar. 1)