Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1938
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000660
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:
August 29, 2022
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10 MOTION PICTURE DAILY Monday, March 28, 1 93"« THEATRE ACCOUNTING by WILLIAM F.MORRIS (Certified Public Accountant) A system devised expressly for keeping a correct tabulation of receipts and expenses. All the information required by the Social Security Act can be easily and quickly obtained both weekly and for longer periods as the total is accumulated. TELLS ALL THE FACTS ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS EACH WEEK • Payroll data for Social Security Taxes. • Profit at a glance — Daily or Weekly. • All expenses deducted — including Rent, Taxes and Depreciation. • Complete record of advance bookings. • Itemized Schedule of All Assets and Equipment with Table of Depreciation Rates. Does not require a bookkeeper to handle it. $4 ENOUGH FOR A FULL YEAR'S BOOKKEEPING QUICLEY BOOKSHOP Rockefeller Center York QUICLEY BOOKSHOP ROCKEFELLER CENTER NEW YORK GENTLEMEN : Please send me WILLIAM F. MORRIS' THEATRE ACCOUNTING. Enclosed find remittance of $4.00. I | NAME. . . I ADDRESS I I CITY STATE Leaders of Industry Unite In Dallas Depinet Tribute (Continued from page 1) dustry, Depinet was presented a scroll by his hosts of Interstate Circuit, while Governor Allred commissioned him Texas commissioner at the New York World's Fair. Mayor George Sprague of Dallas presented an elaborate proclamation which told the world Saturday was "Depinet Day" in Dallas. The keynote of the dinner was one of general ribbing. Large standing cutouts appeared showing Depinet as Snow White surrounded by seven dwarfs : Levy, Reid, Leo Spitz, Reisman, Sisk, Howard Benedict and Lee Marcus. Both March of Time and Pathe News contributed to the gayety with special Depinet newsreels. Scores of congratulatory telegrams were flashed on a screen. Depinet's first "high pressure" sales letter to exhibitors on the old "Heart of Humanity" was facsimiled at each plate. Depinet was flabbergasted. Magazine as Souvenir A striking souvenir was an eightpage copy of Life, in a special Depinet edition. The front cover bore a picture of the guest of honor, the inside front cover indicated decoratively that the editors of Life, Time and the March of Time, which is distributed by RKO, join with Hoblitzelle and O'Donnell in celebrating the occasion. Inside were highlight pictures in the career of Depinet, from the time he had his picture taken with very little clothes at the age of one, through his boyhood and his business career, as well as a page of cartoons by Hap Hadley. Entirely incidentally, the "magazine" mentions the fact that there is such a film product as March of Time. Those attending the dinner from New York were: Sears, Carl Leserman, Neil Agnew, Arthur Lee, Nate Blumberg, Bill Saal, Herman Robbins, Herbert J. Yates, John Wood, Sam Dembow, Jack Pegler, George Skouras, Willard McKay, Al Barlow, Red Kann, Jay Emanuel, Chick Lewis, Hal Horne, Kay Kamen, Charles Berns, Frank Buchanan, Charles L. Casanave, W. A. Scully, George Dembow, Y. Frank Freeman, Irving Mills, Phil Reisman, John O'Connor, Fred Ullman, Major L.«E. Thompson, A. H. McCausland, Cresson E. Smith, Ed McEvoy, Ralph Rolan, William Mallard, Ben Cammack, Harry Michalson, Walter Branson and Harry Gittleson. Many from Studio Other executives, who came to Dallas from the coast, included : Levy, McDonough, McCormick, Harry Cohen, Marcus, Sisk, Reid, Lou Lusty, Benedict, Milton Berle, Ricardo Cortez, Oakie, Charles Skouras, Mike Rosenberg, Billy Wilkerson and Arthur Ungar. The dinner guests also included I. M. Rappaport, John F. Henegan, J. J. Fitzgibbons, Eph Charninsky, Louis Charninsky, R. F. Cornes, Ted DeBoer, Myron Evert, John Franconi, L. C. Griffith, J. S. Groves, S. Koenigsberg, Clarence E. Linz, J. E. Luckett, Louis Novy, Oscar S. Oldknow, George P. O'Rourke, Hugh Owen, Eli Sanger, Rae E. Skillern, R. G. Soper, John Stiles, Ralph Talbot, Jack Underwood and Horace Falls. Total of "Chicago" Astor Run $140,570 (Continued from page 1) weeks were reported by 20th CenturyFox as follows: $17,734; $16,474; $16,390; $14,800; $14,211; $10,770; $10,990; $7,959; $7,347; $7,137; $6,950. The price scale ranged from 55 cents to $1.10 matinees and $2.20 top at night, including tax, with the Saturday and Sunday matinee top at $1.65. The Astor seats 1,142. All seats were reserved. "In Old Chicago" will be nationally released April 15, Good Friday. Whether it will open at the Roxy on that date is indefinite. Prior engagements may result in delaying the opening a week. "Proxy" Pickets Irk Exhibitors at Ogden Ogden, Utah, March 27.— Theatre managers were startled to find local showhouses being picketed "b y proxy." The striking Ogden newspaper typesetters and compositors were telling the public that the theatres and merchants were beiner "unfair" by advertising in the "unfair Ogden Standard Examiner." After a huddle, the pickets were called off, but the managers are still a HttV amazed. Para. Schedule of Shorts Nearly Set (Continued from page 1) for only about 15 to 22 of the total. Decisions on these will be made by Lou Diamond, in charge of the short subjects, within the next few days, it was said. The usual 104 newsreel releases are planned for next season. Circuit Closes RCA Deal The Wilmer & Vincent circuit has signed a sound service and maintenance contract with RCA, according to Edward C. Cahill, RCA Photophone service manager. The circuit's 21 houses in Pennsylvania and Virginia are included. Austin Gets New Post Denver, March 27. — Bud Austin has been made assistant booker at the Warner exchange, following the resignation of Sam Dunevitz. Paul Gundy will handle Austin's former job as salesmanager with Howard Campbell as assistant. Is Cast by Paramount Hollywood, March 27. — Erin Drew, formerly Terry Ray, has been given the feminine lead opposite Bing Crosby and Fred MacMurray in "Sing, You Sinners" at Paramount. ► Radio Personals < LUCY MONROE will begin ! short series of personal appear ances at the Earle, Philadelphia, Apri 1. . . Lawson Zerbe, radio actor, i making one-minute transcriptiojgy fo Walter Craig. . . Fred G. Rut/ i taking bows for rounding the half century mark with the Hicks Adver tising Agency. . . J. R. Poppele, chie engineer at WOR, will leave April (j on a seven-week European tour. . Roy Smeck will do a guest spot wit/ Pat Barnes and his Barnstormers or WOR April 2. . . Charles Ruggles wil be Al Jolson's guest on the latter' CBS program April 5. . . Tony Won: and Rico Marcelli have prepared ; program which is to be auditioned foi Vicks Chemical Co. Una Merkel, Lionel Barrymore anc Maureen O'Sullivan will appear 01, the "Good News" program Thursday . . Irving Caeser and his "Songs o; Safety" will be a feature of the Vallee' broadcast for some time to come. . ! Anna May Wong and Warren William will swap banter with Bing Crosby on the "Music Hall" Thursday. . . Melvyn Douglas will be Barbara Stanwyck's leading man on the Lux "Radio Theatre" April 4. . Rochelle Hudson will make a guest appearance on the Kate Smith CBS hour on Thursday. . . Jane Froman will be heard on the "Watch the Fun Go By" program from St. Louis April 5. . . Gladys Swarthout will be Eddie Cantor's guest on the new Caravan show which will start tonight. WFIL Gets Big Hall For Its Auditions Philadelphia, March 27. — The idea of putting open auditions on the air in a half-hour show has clicked so well at WFIL that the program has been, moved to the 1,600-seat auditorium of, the Manufacturers' Club. The whole thing got its start a few months back,; when the station, in a search for new programs, invited all comers to auditions. Shortly afterward they began airing the auditions and now so many spectators clamor for a view that the station's ordinary studios can no longer handle the crowd. Jack Steck of WFIL's production department ' chooses talent on the show. Fox Takes WNEW Time WNEW has sold time to the I. J. Fox Fur Co. for 12 programs a week. The deal includes "Mirror Man About Town" for six quarter-hours and six spot announcements. The programs will start April 5 and will continue for 52 weeks. The Peck Advertising Agency handled the negotiations. Police to Use Radio Mexico City, March 27. — The local police department is instituting a radio patrol service similar to that used by American police. A broadcast station is to be installed at police headquarters and patrol cars, station houses and other units are to be fitted with receiving and sending sets.