Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

Page scan 000406 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1938
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily (Jan-March 1938)
Leaf #:
000406
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:
January 15, 2025
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MOTION PICTURE DAILY Monday, February 21, | MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 43 February 21, 1938 No. 42 MARTIN QUIGLEY Editor-in-Chief and Publisher A-MIKE VOGEL, Editor J. M. JERAULD, Managing Editor JAMES A. CRON, Advertising Manager Published dally 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 7-310U. Cable address: "Quigpubco. New York." All contents copyrighted 1938 by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc. Address all correspondence to the New York Office. Other Quigley publications: MOTION P1CTUKE HERALD. BETTER THEATRES. TEATRO AL DIA. INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC and FAME. HOLLYWOOD: Postal Union Life Building. Vine and Yucca Sts. ; Boone Mancall, Manager. CHICAGO: 624 S. Michigan Ave.; C. B. O'Neill. Manager. WASHINGTON: Albee Building; Bertram V. Linz, Representative. AMSTERDAM: 87 Waalstraat; Philip de Schaap. Representative. BERLIN: Steulerstrasse 2. Berlin W. 35: Joachim K. Rutenberg. Representative. BUDAPEST: 3 Kaplar-u, Budapest II; Endre Hevesi, Representative. BUENOS AIRES: Avallaneda 3949; N. Bruski. Representative. COPENHAGEN: Vesterbrogada 20; Kris Winther. Representative. HELSINKI: Fredriksgatan 19C; Charlotte Laszio. ft 6 pre s 6 n t sit i v 6 LONDON: 4 Golden Square. W. 1; Cable address. Quigpubco. London; Hope Williams, Manager. MELBOURNE: Regent Theatre Buildings, 191 Collins St.; Cliff Holt, Representative. MEXICO CITY: Apartado 269; James Lockhart. Representative. MONTEVIDEO: P. O. Box 664; Paul Bodo. Representative. MOSCOW: Petrovski Per 8; Beatrice Stern, Representative. PARIS: 29 Rue Marsoulan: Pierre Autre. Rep PRAGUE: Uhelny trh 2, Prague 1; Harry Knopf. Representative. RIO DE JANEIRO: Caixa Postal 3558: L. S. Marinho, Representative. ROME: 54 Via Delia Mercede; Joseph D. Ravotto. Representative. SANTIAGO de CHILE: CasiUa 13300; A. Weissmann, Representative. SHANGHAI: Rooms 38-41; Capital Theatre Building, 142 Museum Road; J. P. Koehler, Representative. STOCKHOLM: Kungsgatan 36; Ragnar Allberg. TOKYO: 880 Sasazuka, Ichikawa-shi. Chiba-Ken; H. Tominaga, Representative. VIENNA: Neustiftgasse 54 Vienna VII; Hans Lorant. 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. Fr. Ahearn Ampa Guest Rev. Michael J. Ahern, S. J., narrator of "Monastery," will be the guest of honor Thursday at the regular Ampa meeting. Rabbi Jonah B. Wise and Dr. Everett R. Clinchy will also be present to speak on "The Church and Motion Pictures." Rename 'Righ ts Reser ved' Hollywood, Feb. 20. — "Four's a Crowd" is the title selected for the Erroll Flynn vehicle formerly called "All Rights Reserved." MITCHELL MAY, Jr. CO., INC. • INSURANCE Specializing in requirements of the Motion Picture Industry 75 Maiden Lane, New York 510 W. 6th St. Los Angeles February Key City Grosses Holding to a Steady Level Estimated takings for the latest available periods Week Ending Feb. 4-5 No. Theatres Gross Boston 7 $103,100 Buffalo 5 53,900 Chicago 8 139,400 Cincinnati 8 64,300 Cleveland 5 60,000 Denver 7 36,700 Detroit 6 76,400 Houston 4 25,500 Indianapolis 5 36,300 Kansas City 5 44,000 Los Angeles 11 136,180 Milwaukee 5 30,200 Minneapolis 5 27,000 Montreal 5 42,000 New Haven 4 21,800 New York 9 284,885 Oklahoma City 5 22,600 Omaha 3 30,750 Philadelphia 9 95,500 Pittsburgh 5 61,500 San Francisco 9 84,700 St. Paul 4 15,000 Seattle 7 39,250 Washington 6 62,100 147 $1,593,065 Week Ending Feb. 11-12 No. Theatres Gross 5 7 6 4 5 5 11 7 5 5 4 9 5 3 9 5 9 4 7 6 149 $97,500 48,900 130,600 59,050 56,300 44,500 74,100 26,200 29,600 47,200 112,851 35,300 24,400 38,000 23,100 285,465 20,000 22,500 72,950 69,550 88,200 13,000 36,600 64,000 Key city grosses up to the week ending Feb. 11-12: Week Ending No. Theatres Sept. 3 4, 1937 •. . . . 142 Sept. 10-11 149 Sept. 17-18-. 150 Sept. 24-25 . 144 Oct. 1-2 148 Oct. 8-9 147 Oct. 15-16 147 Oct. 22-23 149 Oct. 29-30 146 Nov. 5-6 147 Nov. 12-13 151 Nov. 19-20 152 Nov. 26-27 138 Dec. 3-4 136 Dec. 10-11 137 Dec. 17-18 137 Dec. 24-25 136 Dec. 31-Jan. 1, 1938 136 Jan. 7-8 150 Jan. 14-15 145 Jan. 21-22 ; 149 Jan. 28-29 147 Feb. 4-5 147 Feb. 11-12 149 (Copyright, 1938, Quigley Publishing Company, Inc. $1,519,866 Gross $1,447,016 1,887,424 1,625,170 1,558,698 1,528,286 1,500,826 1,587,879 1,546,112 1,555,682 1,510,291 1,519,420 1,544,974 1,419,301 1,612,773 1,300,818 1,193,642 1,076,657 1,597,409 1,852,759 1,482,955 1,535,087 1,528,720 1,593,065 1,519,866 Asks Censoring of Reels Topeka, Kan., Senator Ed T. Hackney of Sumner County has introduced a bill which would permit the State Board of Review to bar pictures of sweepstakes and sweepstakes' winners from newsreels. At present the censorship law of Kansas specifically exempts newsreels from the jurisdiction of censors. The bill has been referred to committee. M-G-M Signs 5 Pacts Hollywood, Feb. 20. — M-G-M has signed new contracts with the following : Kenneth Warren and Reide Sawyer, junior writers ; Guy Kibbee and Gene Reynolds, players, and Dr. William Axt, music composer. Loew School Paper Out A four-page monthly publication called Students' Screen Forecast was launched by the Loew circuit over the weekend. It is published by the circuit's school department and will be circulated in the junior high schools, high schools and parochial schools in the five boroughs. The paper is devoted to news of coming pictures and is designed to appeal to students, teachers and parents. Oscar A. Doob is editor and Ernest Emerling associate editor. The advisory board includes Mrs. James F. Looram, film chairman of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae ; A. M. Bush, president of the ParentTeachers' Association of Samuel Tilden High School, A. L. Simon and Raymond Jacobson. i Purely Personal CTANLEY S. NEAL, mariai ^ director of Caravel Distritu Corp., has left on a trip thro Pennsylvania, in connection with company's first production, " Meets Dog." | Arthur Houghton, formerly the Hollywood Production Code ministration staff, sails for Lor Wednesday on the Manliattan i member of Joseph P. Kenke party. • Dominic Barreca, Loew dis manager, has left the Lutheran I pital after a long illness and is recuperating at his home in W' side. • John W. Hicks, Jr., Parara foreign head, sails tomorrow o three-month trip to South Arm and Europe. • Charles E. Ford will leave Hollywood tomorrow with Moe gel to begin a production assigni at Republic. • Betty Balfour, the Earl of V' wick and Zoltan and Laszlo V: Austrian producers, will arrive t' on the Queen Mary. • Ed Saulpaugh, formerly stage rector for Max Gordon, Inc., joined the sales convention dej ment of the Jam Handy organiza • John Hay Whitney arrived i the coast by plane on Saturday, plans to return to Hollywood w a few days. • William J. Clark, head of s subjects and news sales for 20th tury-Fox, will return today fro field trip. • Max Reichmann, European d tor, has arrived on the coast, w he will make his home permane • Al Ellner, assistant manage the Hollywood, is the father of a • . . . Indianapolis Max Page, former owner of Strand, is the new manager of Tacoma and will book pictures foi Garfield. The two houses are of Tamler circuit. A. E. Campbell has acquired Lido, Negro neighborhood house • . . . Seattle Joan Davis is visiting rela 1 here. Veronica Miller, formerly the Universal exchange in San F cisco, has arrived here to become j retary to L. J. McGinley, branch manager. Sammy Siegel, formerly adve • ing and publicity man for Hamr j circuit, here ahead of "Advenrun 1 Tom Sawyer" and renewing fr: j ships at the Film Club. Les Theuerkauf of Univei | Portland branch office working 0J( the local exchange for a short He formerly covered the we] J Washington territory.