Motion Picture Daily (July–Sept 1938)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY Today They Bury 'Capsule 9 For 5,000 Years — Perhaps 2 Set Clocks Back Sunday's the night for setting clocks back one hour in Daylight Saving areas — and there were a lot of them this year. The official time for it is 2 A. M. Theatre managers who are counting the week's receipts at that time can be official, but other citizens can do it upon retiring. Round Table Contest Winners Due Monday (Continued from pope 1) Artists on "Algiers" ; Harry Rubin, Tivoli, Michigan City, Ind., by RKO, on "Having Wonderful Time" ; Rex Williams, Hoosier, Whiting, Ind., by Monogram on "Romance of the Limberlost" ; J. P. Shipley, Dunkin, Curbing, Okla., by Paramount on "Professor Beware," and Rodney Collier, Stanley, Baltimore, by Warners on "Cowboy from Brooklyn." Headquarters will be at the St. Moritz. The program of entertainment includes luncheons given by Monogram and RKO ; a press party at the Astoria Studios by Paramount on the "One Third of a Nation" set; the Brooklyn-Giants games, as guests of James Mulvey of Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and a backstage tour of the Music Hall, through the courtesy of W. G. Van Schmus, managing director. The winners also will be received by Martin Quigley. Scheduled in addition are trips to Rockefeller Center and attendance at the Rudy Vallee broadcast, at the races at Belmont Park, as guests of Jock Whitney. A tour of the World's Fair grounds with Grover Whalen, president, is also contemplated. It is expected that the winners will hold a series of round table conferences on coming product with home office advertisng departments of the participating companies. Cantor, M-G-M Talk Deal Hollywood, Sept. 22. — Eddie Cantor and M-G-M are discussing a onepicture deal, it was disclosed today. Xo papers have been signed. Rosh Hashanah Sunday Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, will begin at sundown on Sunday. Deluxe overnight Sleeper ■ic Latest evening departure — 7:15 p.m. (DST) — with arrival for morning business in Hollywood. Or take United's famous Overland Flyer, another Sleeper plane, leaving at midnight. Fast, luxurious, fewest stops. RESERVATIONS at 58 West 42nd Street. MUrray Hill 2-7300. Or travel bureaus, hotels UNITED AIR LINES The Main Line Airway By J. M. JERAULD At the exact moment of the autumnal equinox today— some time between 12 :45 and 1 :05 P. M., E.D.S.T. — Terry Ramsaye's message to the ages will be lowered 50 feet into the World's Fair mud in a seven-foot cupaloy torpedo. Five thousand years hence an archaeologist digging about with a 6939 A. D. model pickaxe may bump into it, and if it doesn't explode he'll be surprised by what he finds inside. Allyn Butterfield, editor of Pathe News, has included a reel showing President Roosevelt speaking at Gettysburg, Howard Hughes' return, track meets, football games, baseball, battleship maneuvers, the Soviet celebration, the Chinese war and a fashion subject. Mr. Ramsaye has compiled an expository dissertation mingling optics, mechanics, chemistry and sex, not forgetting— we hope— that Motion Picture Herald used to go to press every Wednesday, autumnal equinox or no autumnal equinox — back in 1938, and George Schutz, editor of Better Theatres, has enclosed a diagram showing how to build a motion picture projector. This will be necessary because most of the records in the tube, called "The Time Capsule," are on micro film. Motion Picture Daily will cover the burial of the tube via WOR, but 4 Purely ED KUYKENDALL, M.P.T.O.A., president, went to Philadelphia last night to attend the Variety Club golf tournament here today. He will return to New York over the weekend. • Brian Aherne will leave the NewYork sanitarium where he has been recovering from a cold over the weekend and will leave early next week for the coast. • Louis Vorzimer, assistant to Martin Levine of the William Brandt office, was married yesterday to Ruth Klein. • A. H. Blank is in New York from Des Moines for Paramount home office conferences. Rosen Here Next Week Hollywood, Sept. 22. — Al Rosen, general manager of Symphonic Films, Inc., producers of shorts for Paramount release, said today he is leaving for New York next week to arrange a possible deal for a full length feature to be based on the opera, "The Barber of Seville." Symphonic next week will start production on its final three shorts for Paramount on a deal. Zama Leaves Columbia London, Sept. 22. — Emanuel Zama, European manager for Columbia, has resigned to open his own export and production unit in Paris. can't guarantee coverage on the exhumation. Tutankhamen's subjects had to dig into a rocky hill and build a pyramid so their king could make the front pages 3,000 years later, but the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. has applied modern science to get more material into less space. "The Time Capsule" is made of a copper alloy as hard as steel. It contains statements on scientific engineering, industrial, social, religious and scientific achievements, small articles that are worn or used at present, motion picture film on how we look, act and talk, and other material. It is lined with Pyrex glass and is filled with an inert gas instead of air to preserve the contents. The exact spot of the burial of the capsule has been surveyed by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. It happens to be under the Westinghouse exhibit at the World's Fair. Books containing a description of it will be sent to the principal libraries of the world, so that, in case some of them are preserved, future scientists can find the spot without getting mired on the edges of Flushing Bay. It is figured that the tube will sink another 50 feet in the course of the ages, so there will be no danger that it will be dug up if some future mayor should decide to extend the Eighth Avenue subway branch northward to Whitestone, or some place. Personal ► EORGE KELLY, one of the four Yacht Club Boys, who recently completed work in "Artists and Models Abroad" for Paramount, will get back to town tomorrow. • Neil F. Agnew, Paramount vicepresident in charge of distribution, returned to New York yesterday from a business trip to the middle west. • Ethel Merman will be greeted by a party of friends when she opens her personal appearance at the Strand tonight. • F. W. Allport, foreign representative of the M. P. P. D. A., who has been in this country since July, will sail tonight on the lie de France. Drew Joins Monogram Cincinnati, Sept. 22. — Robert Drew has resigned from Big Feature Rights, Cleveland, to join Monogram here as salesman in Kentucky and West Virginia. Hilgers Quits Universal Oklahoma City, Sept. 22.— Claire E. Hilgers, Universal branch manager here, has resigned, and will be succeeded by James Hobbs, branch manager at Charlotte. To Reissue "Sigma Chi" Monogram will reissue "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" on Oct. 10. Friday, September 23, 193 Scully to Conduct "U" Sales Meeting W. A. Scully, Universal sales man ager, will preside at the gathering o: eastern district and branch manager; at the Hotel Astor tomorrow and Natt J. Blumberg, president, and Matthew Fox, vice-president, will be among the speakers. Forthcoming product will be discussed with special emphasis on the W. C. Fields and Bing Crosby tures. Corrigan to Appear In Picture for RKO Hollywood, Sept. 22. — Immediately before flying to New York today, Douglas Corrigan signed a contract with RKO to appear in "Born to Fly," the story of his life. The film will trace the flyer's career and the history of aviation from barnstorming days and factory work to the trans-Atlantic flight. Only one double will be used. The ship in which he flew to Ireland will be used. Lab Settlement Off Strike settlement negotiations between the Du Art Laboratory and Motion Picture Technicians' Union, Local 702, which were close to consummation, yesterday were suddenly disrupted over the company's refusal to dismiss several employes whom the union classifies as strikebreakers. Pickets withdrawn from Du Art Monday night, when a settlement seemed near, were ordered back. Kent Due Next Week Hollywood, Sept. 22. — Sidney R. Kent, president of 20th Century-Fox, will return to New York the latter part of next week. Mr. Kent is here for semi-annual conferences with studio executives. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) MARTIN QUIGLEY. Editor-in-Chief and Publisher: J. M. JERAULD, Managing Editor, JAMES A. CRON, Advertising Manager. EDITORIAL STAFF: Charles S. Aaronson. Jack Banner. Al Finestone. Sherwin A. Kane, Joseph Priore. Published daily except Saturday, Sunday and holidays by Quigley Publishing Company. Inc., Martin Quigley, president: Colvin Brown, vicepresident and treasurer. Publication office: 1270 Sixth Avenue at Rockefeller Center, New York. Telephone: Circle 7-3100. 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 PICTURE HERALD. BETTER THEATRES. TEATRO AL DIA , INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC and FAME. HOLLYWOOD: Postal Union Life Building, Vine and Yucca Sts. : Boone Mancall. manager; William R. Weaver, editor. 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