Motion Picture Daily (July–Sept 1938)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Wednesday, September 14, i Purely Personal ► SPENCER TRACY will leave for the coast today after five days here. He took time to see "Boys Town" at the Capitol, saw some of the tennis matches at Forest Hills and the polo matches at Westbury. He is scheduled to start work in "Northwest Passage. Russell Holman, Paramount's eastern production manager, will sail on the Normandie today. Other pas sengers will be Mrs. Natalie Kal mus, color director of Technicolor ; Fernand Gravet, Bennett A. Cerf of Random House and Paul Draper. • Joseph H. Seidelman, Universal's vice-president in charge of foreign ac tivities, is due tomorrow on the Wash ington after an extended stay abroad during which he visited all European offices. • Dave Bader, who has established the Literary Corp. of America in Hollywood after several years in Lon don, writes "it sure is great to be back for keeps in the U. S. A." • Dr. Saul C. Colin, president of Continental Productions, Inc., will return from the coast Thursday by plane after two months in Hollywood in search of talent. • Bill Saal of the Republic home office is spending about three weeks on the coast accompanying Roy Rogers on a personal appearance tour. • Nathaniel West's and Gordon Kahn's "Flight South" and Wells Root's "Heritage of the Wild" have been acquired by M-G-M. • Gladys Swarthout will leave Friday to start work in her fifth picture for Paramount. It will be her first non-musical film. • Ben Jacobson assistant to Al Altman, M-G-M talent director, arrived yesterday from the coast via American Airlines. • Mary Pickford is due this morning on the American Airlines' Mercury with her husband, Buddy Rogers. OVERNIGHT TO LOS ANGELES Big, luxurious Flagship Skysleepers. No change of planes. Air-conditioned at airports — nature-cooled en route. The Southern AilYear route. Complimentary meals. To Los Angeles or San Francisco, $149.95. 10%saving on round-trip (lights. The MERCURY The SOUTHERNER Lv. Newark . . 5:10 p.m. Lv. Newark . .9:00p.m. FOR RESERVATIONS Call your travel agent or VAnderhilt 3-2580. I icket Offices: 45 Vanderbilt Avenue and Rockefeller Center, 18 W. 49th St. Canada 16mm Field Booms In Rural Areas and Schools Canada is experiencing a boom in 16mm. film development, both in the non-theatrical and educational fields, and the large rural areas which have no established theatres are being amply supplied by circuits of 16mm. operators, according to Helen Mason of General Films, Ltd., of Toronto. General Films alone supplies more than 80 circuits of itinerant exhibitors out of its Toronto and Regina offices, providing projection equipment and programs of features and shorts. A recent development is the entry of the N. L. Nathanson organization in the 16mm. field in opposition to General. The itinerant exhibition business is well organized, Miss Mason said, and the operators obtain franchises on halls or auditoriums by the year for exclusive film showings. In sections where there are no power lines, the operators carry their own light plants. Also, some of them are talented and put on a vaudeville show to boot. The films used are from one to five years old. General Films has a li brary of 180 programs consisting of features and shorts from which the "roadshow exhibitors" can select. _ The company, which is the Canadian distributor for Victor Animatograph, is just starting to develop the Dominion for local newsreels, leasing cameras to exhibitors who usually tie up with local merchants to defray the cost of the films. Local newsreels have proved popular in some sections of this country. Miss Mason, who has returned to Toronto was here on a film buying trip. She formerly for five years was in charge of the film division for Victor Animatograph. Canada is stimulating the use of films in the schools, she reported, the Dominion admitting projection equipment duty free for school use. Nova Scotia pays half the cost of sound equipment installations in the schools, and provincial school authorities are considering establishing libraries of educational sound films. They are scheduled to leave for Boston immediately. They flew to the coast from New York last Friday. • Al Sindlinger, March of Time's advertising and publicity director, has returned from Boston where he arranged tieups. • Johnny Green, orchestra leader, and his wife, Betty Furness, left on the TWA Skychief last night for Hollywood. • Jack Marpole, eastern representative of Ten-O-Win, has returned to his office after 10 days on the coast. • M. J. Siegel, Republic executive producer, is due to leave for the coast today after home office conferences. • Florence Head, Paramount designer, left last night for the coast on the American Airlines' Mercury. • Arthur Greenblatt, G. B. eastern division manager, left yesterday for a visit to the Boston Branch. • James R. Grainger, Republic president, plans to leave on a field trip tomorrow. Donat in Connecticut Having brought a print of M-G-M's British-made "The Citadel" from Europe, Robert Donat left for Connecticut yesterday to spend a threeweek holiday with his father. Mr. Donat is under a six-picture contract to M-G-M and expects to do "Goodbye Mr. Chips" as his next. Zimbalist, M-G-M Sign Hollywood, Sept. 13. — Sam Zimbalist, producer of "The Crowd Roars" and "Navy Blue and Gold," signed a new long-term contract with M-G-M today. AMERICAN AIRLINES i Goetz Arrives for Talks Hollywood, Sept. 13. — Ben Goetz, in charge of British production for M-G-M, arrived here today for a fortnight of conferences. Court Refuses Stay For "Diagrams" Ban Albany, Sept. 13. — Supreme Court Justice Gilbert V. Schenck has denied an application for a temporary injunction, brought by Jewel Productions, Inc., Social Hygiene Films of America, Inc., and Samuel Cummins, against Irwin Esmond, motion picture director for the State Department of Education, who terminated a permit for "Animated Diagrams of the Human Body," a two-reel Government-made film. "Animated Diagrams" had been shown lately as part of a show variously entitled "Childbirth" and "Birth of a Child." "Animated Diagrams" was showing in Buffalo last June, when Esmond revoked a permit granted in 1921. Jewel Productions obtained a show cause order from Supreme Court Justice Ernest Hammer of New York County. A change of venue was agreed upon to Albany County, and Justice Schenck at that time reserved decision. "A Vivid Drama" London, Sept. 13.— "Prisi Without Bars," Alexand Korda film previewed toda which will be released 1 United Artists, poignant records the plight of the er ing girl who is an inmate a girls' reformatory. Edi Best and Barry Barnes a excellent, but the film's ti umphs are Corinne Luchaii French blonde, as the seei ingly untamable culpri Mary Morris and Gl|| Johns, who appeared ^ "South Riding." They see destined for stardom. Desmond Hurst's came work is outstanding, ai Georges Perinal direct* sympathetically. It is a viv dramatic picture, aided 1 the brilliant musical score < John Greenwood. The fil will open at the Pavilion hei Sept. 19. Flanaga Farnol Entertains Mo Lynn Farnol, United Artists licity and advertising director, host yesterday at a cocktail given at his home, 204 East 62n< to Edward Moran. Mr. Moran was co-author Jack Jevne on the Hal Roach pi< "There Goes My Heart." He wil today on the Normandie for a vaoi in Europe. Warner Men Golf Friday The annual golf tournament sponsored by the Warner Club, home office organization, will be held Friday at the Old Oaks Country Club, Purchase, N. Y. Numerous prizes will be awarded to winners in the various categories. A dinner to be presided over by Leonard Schlesinger will follow the day's activities. Prizes have been offered by the Cocalis, Randforce and Skouras circuits. Arrangements are in charge of Arthur Sachson, Jerry Kyser and Leonard Palumbo. Bergen, Fields Co-Si Hollywood, Sept. 13. — Edgar gen and Charlie McCarthy wil starred with W. C. Fields in versal's "You Can't Cheat an H Man." Production is schedulei start early in October. Augustus Bridle Honored Toronto, Sept. 13. — Augustus Bridle of the Toronto Star, dean of Canadian film reviewers, was honored during the "Melodic Strings" program over the national network of the CBC tonight when Director Alexander Chuhaldin dedicated the prelude by Leo Roy, Canadian composer, to the critic. This was the first time that the CBC string ensemble had featured modern music by contemporary Canadian composers. MOTION PICTURE) DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) MARTIN QUIGLEY, Editor-in-Chief and Usher: J. M. JERAULD, Managing 1 JAMES A. CRON, Advertising Manager. TORTATi STAFF: Charles S. Aaronson, Jack ner, Al Finestone, Sherwin A. Kane, Joseph Published daily except Saturday, Sunda holidays by Quigley Publishing Company,. Martin Quigley, president; Colvin Brown, president and treasurer. Publication office: 1270 Sixth Avenue at ]• feller Center, New York. Telephone: Circle 7' Cable address: "Quigpubco. New York." contents copyrighted 1938 by Quigley Publ Company, Inc. 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