Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1937)

MOTION P1CTURI DAILY Tuesday, March 9, 1937 Oklahoma City Spot Starts Vaude Policy Oklahoma City, March 8. — The Warner here, which has been open only two days a week for the past year, has resumed full time operation, with vaudeville and films four days each week, and dual bills the remaining three. A 10-piece orchestra will be featured with the stage show. Prices will run from 20 cents to 3? cents. ihe move coincided with the opening of T. B. Noble's new State. The Liberty price has been dropped from a 55-cent top to 35 cents, and has discontinued vaudeville during the first four days of alternate weeks. It will play duals following the permanent closing of the Capitol. Western Vaudeville Gain Lincoln, Neb., March 8. — L. J. F'inske, division manager of the J. H. Cooper Enterprises ot Nebraska and Colorado, says the Colorado houses have joined Wilbur Cushman's vaudeville circuit. Spots in Pueblo, Colorado Springs and brand Junction are in eluded. Mrs. Rabwin Is Signed Hollywood, March 8. — David O Selzmck, president of Selznick Inter national, has appointed Marcella Bannett Rabwin his executive assistant. Mrs. Rabwin had been associated with Selznick for seven years before resigning six months ago to take a European vacation from which she has just returned. Raise Albany Prices Albany, March 8. — A rise in ad mission prices at the RKO Palace, a Fabian house, and at Warners' Strand, from 25 to 30 cents minimum adult and from 40 to 50 cents maximum, has been instituted. Rebuilding Two Kutcher & Cohen, operators of the Manor, Livingstone Manor, and Rialto, Monticello, are rebuilding the two theatres. Joe Hornstein has been awarded contracts for both jobs. Lease New Haven House New Haven, March 8. — The Craw ford Clothing chain has leased the Globe Bldg. housing the theatre for 20 vears. Ihe theater will close April 1. 'Weather or No' Changed Hollywood, March 8. — Columbia has chosen "Let's Get Married" as the title for the film previously called "Weather or No." The Tavern MEETING PLACE of the INDUSTRY MAKE THIS YOUR LUNCHEON — DINNER — SUPPER CLUB 158 W. 48th St. Toots Shor 4 Purely Personal ► VICTOR SHAPIRO, publicity purveyor for Major Prod., planes to New York today from Hollywood on a two-week vacation. He will return to the coast to be on hand when Emanuel Cohen starts another cycle of three, individually starring Gary Cooper, Mae West and Bing Crosby. • Gradwell L. Sears, Carl Leserman and Hal Wallis are due to leave for the coast Thursday. Mrs. i^eserman will accompany her husoand, while Mrs. Sears will leave today from San Antonio, Tex. • J. Robert Rubin arrived yesterday on the coast from New York, fie will meet Imicholas M. Schenck [here. Al Lichtman is already there tor the seasonal production conferences. • Charles Leonard is holding down the fort in the U. A. publicity, advertising and exploitation departments during Monroe Greenthal's abence on the coast. • Rube Jacter and Leonard Picker of Columbia returned yesterday from Miami vacations. Max A. Cohen, head of Cinema circuit, got back from Hollywood, Fla. • Elmer Hynes, exhibitor of Roanoke, Va., visited Roy Haines at Warners yesterday. Hynes is here for the Ohio State dinner. • Mrs. Max Minzesheimer, the former Mrs. Marcus Loew, is en route from one Hollywood to another — California to Florida. • Nate Manheim returned to his desk at Universal yesterday after an absence of several days spent nursing a cold. • Tom Murray will leave in 10 days for Terell, Tex., where he is operating a number of theatres for a bank. • Milton Blackstone is back on the job after an operation on his left arm at Park East Hospital last week. • Edward A. Golden, Monogram sales manager, has returned from the coast where he visited his family. • Joe Lee returned to his desk yesterday at the local 20th Century-Fox exchange after a Miami sojourn. • Norman H. Moray is due in Winnipeg tomorrow to confer on Vitaphone shorts and trailers. • Harry Shaw, New England district manager for Loew's, is in Atlantic City vacationing. • Arthur Gottlieb, president of DuArt Lab., will arrive in Hollywood today. • Joe Miller, Columbia Buffalo branch manager, is in town for a few days. • Lionel Houser's original, "World of Women," has been purchased by RKO. • Willard C. Paterson is off for a rest. GRACIE FIELDS, Engilsh comedienne for whom 20th Century-Fox will give a party at the WaldorfAstoria this afternoon, was delayed in arrival from England. She had been expected yesterday on the Queen Mary, but the ship will not get in until this morning. • Max Richter, president of Consolidated Amusements, is back from a California vacation. The circuit will open the new 600-seat Esquire at 44th St. and 8th Ave. during Easter Week • Roland Young, who was recently signed by Hal Roach for the leading role in "Toper," has left for Holly wood. Constance Bennett also will appear in the film. • Jack Fruchman, assistant to Joe Davis, cashier at the local .Paramount exchange, is now chief accountant at the company's Washington branch. • Harold Hendee, director of research for KKO, will address Fran cis Taylor Patterson's film class at Columbia University tonight. • Leo Spitz will stop off in Chicago en route here from the coast, which may delay his scheduled arrival in New York by a day or two. • Sidney Lumet, now playing in "The Eternal Road," has signed an actor-manager contract with the William Morris Agency. • Herb Ochs, assistant to Gradwell L. Sears, will represent Warners at the forthcoming M. P. T. O. A. convention in Miami. • Ben Goetz and Benny Thau will arrive this morning on the Queen Mary, which will dock a day later than scheduled. • Otto Bolle, assistant to C. V Hake, will leave tomorrow for South Africa to make a survey for the com pany. • Elizabeth Palmer, recently signed by 20th Century-Fox, will report at the studios on March 26. • Don Pallini, dance originator, is planning a two-reeler, production on which is to start shortly. • Lillian Worth and Edythe Zell have sold "Headline Huntress" to 20th Century-Fox. • S. R. Kent will celebrate his fifth year as president of the 20th Century Fox on March 28. • Karl MacDonald of the Warner foreign department is in South America. . . . Denver Harry Golub, president of the Rocky Mountain Screen Club, has announced that the new club rooms in the Cosmopolitan Hotel will be opened March 13. The rooms are being redecorated. Mike Gieseking's big smile these days is caused by a new son at his house. Mother and boy are doing well. Mike is an RCA engineer. Gene Gerbase, manager of the Denver Sheffield-Republic exchange, is on a business trip in the western part of Colorado, and he may go on to Dallas. • . . Indianapolis R. R. Bair, circuit head; V. U. Young, head of Theatrical Managers, Inc., and Maurice Rubin of Michigan City, in Florida vacationing. Harry and Mrs. Van Noy of Anderson off to Hollywood on a delayed honeymoon. • . Omaha Dan B. Lederman, formerly with several Omaha exchanges here, but now associated with 20th CenturyFox in the Philippines, visiting old friends here. J. D. Petty of the Fox at Beatrice, Neb., has been transferred to Springfield, 111. Succeeding him at Beatrice is Jack Maes, formerly of Emporia, Kan. Dr. Giannini Meets With UA Executives (Continued from page 1) Jack Schlaifer, Kelly, Greenthal and James P. Mulvey. Budgets Boosted on U. A. Films Hollywood, March 8. — Monroe Greenthal of United Artists, and Loew's, through the medium of long distance telephone today, doubled the advertising budget for "History Is Made at Night." Playdates for the film have reached a total of 182. A goal of 200 has been set. Samuel Goldwyn today stated that he has increased to $1,500,000 his budget for "Hurricane." Republic Men to Meet Hollywood, March 8. — With the completion of production on "Hit Parade," Nat Levine's last film at Republic, Herbert Yates and Moe Siegel. studio production executive, are here for reorganization conferences. Wall Street Trading Uneven; Many Off Net High Low Close Change Columbia 36 3SJ4 35% —1 Columbia, pfd 4554 45 45 Consolidated 5 5 5 + lA Consolidated, pfd.. 1654 1654 1654 — % Eastman Kodak ..172 169 169 —3 Eastman, pfd 160 160 160 —1 Gen. T. Equip. ..3054 29 29 —154 Loew's, Inc 79% 78% 79% — 54 Paramount 26% 25% 26% — % Paramount 1 pfd.. 186% 185% 186% +1% Paramount 2 pfd.. 24% 24 24 — % Pathe Film 8% &y2 8% — % RKO 9 m m — % 20th Century-Fox. 37% 35% 36% -f % 20th Century, pfd.. 4554 45 45% + % Warner Bros 16% 15% 1554 — 54 Little Movement on Curb Net High Low Close Change Grand National ... 354 35-6 3% Sonotone 2% 2 2 Technicolor 21% 2054 21% + % Trans -Lux 5 4% 4% — % Universal Pict. ... 14 14 14 — lA Bonds Drop Slightly Net High Low Close Change Loew's 354s '46. . . . 99% 99% 99% Paramount B'way 3s '55 75 75 75 Paramount Pict. 6s '55 100% 10054 10054 — % Warner Bros. 6s '39 wd 98 98 98 — 54 (Quotations at close of March 8)