Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1940)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday,January 3, 1940 4 Purely Personal ► Newsreel Metro Orders Night Reserved Seat Sale For All 'Wind' Dates (Continued from page 1) situation as well as eliminate the long waiting for seats. Regular runs of the picture have heen set in 36 cities, following the preliminary engagements in seven cities now under way. Of these, 31 comprise Loew circuit theatres. Warners have set the picture dayand-date in two theatres in Philadelphia. The premiere will be held the night of Jan. 18 at the Boyd, with two reserved seat shows thereafter. The Earl will open the film Jan. 19 on a continuous run policy of three shows a day, starting at 10 A. M. Prices will be advanced over regular scales. The other engagements will be three-a-day continuous, at a night top of $1.10 with $1.65 for loges. Four opening's are scheduled for Jan. 25 as follows : Capitol, Wilkes Barre, Pa. ; Comerford, Scranton, Pa. ; Strand, Binghamton, N. Y. ; Great Lakes, Buffalo. The Cataract, Niagara Falls, N. Y., will open the picture Jan. 26. Loew circuit engagements are dated as follows : Jan. 26 — Century, Baltimore ; Palace, Washington ; Loew's, Wilmington ; Warner, Pittsburgh ; State, Providence ; State, Syracuse ; Rochester, Rochester ; Loew's, Indianapolis ; Midland, Kansas City; Loew's, St. Louis ; Stillman, Cleveland ; State, Louisville ; State, New Orleans ; Vendome, Nashville ; State, Memphis ; Yonge St., Toronto. Feb. 2— State, Norfolk; Loew's, Richmond; Loew's, Akron; Valentine, Toledo ; Broad, Columbus ; Loew's in Canton and Dayton ; Majestic, Bridgeport; College, New Haven ; Palace, Hartford ; Elm, Worcester ; Poli, Springfield, Mass. ; Victory, Evansville. Feb. 3— Poli, Waterbury ; Poli, Meriden. "Gone With the Wind" will play the Fifth Ave. Theatre in Seattle at a night top of $1.15, which will include a five-cent state admission tax. In Tacoma the picture will probably play the Music Box, according to John Hamrick, operator of the theatre, who is in town. Capacity business for second week runs of "Gone With the Wind" continued in all out-of-town houses. In Boston, where the second week ends today at both the State and Orpheum, a total of $92,000 is indicated, with $45,000 at the State, where two shows with reserved seats are played, and $47,000 for the Orpheum. The Grand, in Atlanta, reported $25,000 for the second week, on a two-a-day basis. In Cincinnati, the Capitol reported $30,000, more than three times the previous house record. At the Loew's, in Reading, the first week figure of $18,000 was equaled during the second stanza. In Harrisburg, the Loew theatre reported $15,500 for the second week. Based on the first five days, indications are that the film will do $65,000 in Los Angeles with $35,000 at the United Artists house, and $30,000 at the Carthay Circle. S CHARLES EINFELD, War• ners advertising and publicity director, is due from the studio early next week. • William F. Rodgers, Tom Connors, William Orr, John Hicks, Russell Holman, Toby Gruen and Max A. Cohen at Nick's Hunting Room in the Astor for lunch yesterday. • Anita Louise is due today from the Coast for a broadcast Friday. After a week here, she will go to Hartford, Conn., for a personal appearance. • L. R. Breslin, Jr., Roswell L. Gilpatric and Thomas A. Halleran have joined the law firm Cravath, DeGersdorff, Swaine and Wood, a Albert Margolies, publicity manager of United Artists, will fly to the Coast Friday for conferences on campaigns for forthcoming pictures." • Henry King, 20th Century-Fox director, is in Miami Beach for a few days. • Milton Hyams, M-G-M New Haven salesman, is visiting his daughter in St. Louis. • Timothy O'Toole, Columbia New Haven manager, has left for a short vacation in the South. Joan Crawford is in town for a week. Maclntyre Touring For Depinet Drive Herb Maclntyre, captain of the RKO Ned Depinet Drive, left yesterday for a rapid tour of the country's 38 exchanges in this country and Canada. The drive runs from Jan. 27 to May 10. Maclntyre will be accompanied by Walter Branson, Midwestern district manager, and Harry Gittleson, editor of the company's house organ, who will get out the paper from the field during the drive. Branson will visit branches in his territory, with other district heads visiting their exchanges with Maclntyre. The drive captain will complete his tour on Feb. 5 with a meeting at the New York exchange. Election on Jan. 14 By Variety Artists The American Guild of Variety Artists will elect officers Jan. 14 at the Palm Garden. There will be a membership rally Jan. 7 at the same place. Jean Muir is temporary executive secretary, replacing Dorothy Bryant who resigned over the weekend because of illness. Harry R. Calkins, recently named assistant to Mrs. Bryant, also has resigned but the reason was not revealed. Mrs. Hossfeld Dies Topeka, Jan. 2. — Mrs. E. Hossfeld, mother of Milton Hossfeld of New York, film buyer for National Theatres, was buried here yesterday. She died Sunday night. Hossfeld flew here from Los Angeles, where he had been vacationing. MJ. SIEGEL, president of Re• public Productions, has arrived from the studio to confer with H. J. Yates. He will remain about two weeks. • Albert Lasker, Fred Schwartz, Arthur Krecke, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Louis Phillips, Ted O'Shea, Joe Lee, Harry Buxbaum, Ben Boyar, Arthur Loew, Mort Spring, John Golden, Constance Collier, Lee Shubert, John Royal, Morris Gest and Jimmie Savo lunching at Sardi's yesterday. • H. B. MacKenzie, manager of Western Electric Co. of Argentina, has returned to the United States for an extended vacation. Following a visit to his home in Evanston, 111., he will confer with officials of Erpi in New York prior to sailing for Buenos Aires Feb. 15. • Herman Wobber, general sales manager of 20th Century-Fox, will leave San Francisco tomorrow. He is due in New York this weekend. • Mary Hawkins, Republic booker in Albany, has taken a two-month leave of absence to drive her ill mother to the Coast. • William Bacher, who produced the "Swanee River" broadcast over CBS Friday night, leaves tomorrow for the Coast. • Darryl F. Zanuck is scheduled to arrive here from the Coast Jan. 18. Legion Approves 6 Of Seven New Films The National Legion of Decency for the current week has approved five of six new films reviewed, two for general patronage and three for adults, and classified one as objectionable in part. The new films and their classification follow : Class A-l, Unobjectionable for General Patronage — "Parole Fixer," "Swanee River." Class A-2, Unobjectionable for Adults — "Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Invisible Stripes," "Untamed." Class B, Objectionable in Part— "Gone With the Wind." Warner Executives On Coast for Parley Gradwell L. Sears, Warner general sales manager ; Joseph Bernhard, general manager of Warner Theatres and Sam Schneider, home office executive, have left for Hollywood for conferences with H. M. Warner, Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis and Charles Einfeld. M or daunt' s Mother Dies Funeral services will be held at St. Catherine's Church, Pelham, today, for Mrs. Ellen T. Machell, mother of Edward J. Mordaunt, president of C. J. O'Brien, Inc., printers of Motion Picture Daily and other Quigley publications. Interment will be at Calvary Cemetery. Mrs. Machell died Sunday at her home in Mt. Vernon. Samuel Sulzbacher Dies Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 2. — Samuel Sulzbacher, 66, local theatre operator and business leader, died here. Parade New rtewsreel issues include compilations of the outstanding sports events of the past year. Reels and their contents follow. MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 33— Resume of outstanding sports events. German freighter in Panama Zone. Funeral/ei> r German naval captain. Dancing on ic San Francisco. Cavalry maneuvers in Texas. Lew Lehr. Fashions. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 231— New Year's celebrants on Broadway. Al Smith celebrates birthday. First Social Security checks mailed. Opera benefit for Finland. Sports parade of 1939. PARAMOUNT NEWS. No. 36-Social Security payments mailed. French cadets graduate. East Side markets open in New York. New eyeglasses for British soldiers. Airplane truck tested. Fashions. Skiing. N ew Year's Eve on Broadway. RKO PATHE NEWS, No. 4S-War cargo ready for shipment to Europe. Opera stars stage Finn relief show. Churches back Roosevelt's peace move. Graduations at French academy. Speed production of rifles for army. Best sport pictures of 1939. UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL, No. 837— Crew of French destroyer arrives in port. Mrs. Chamberlain reviews Women's Auxiliary Service. Trucks for shipment to Europe at Staten Island. Parade for major ette_ in Texas. W. C. Fields plays golf. Review of sports highlights of 1939. Protest Wilmington Standing Room Ban Wilmington, Jan. 2. — The City Council has under advisement a protest by local theatre managers against the inclusion in the pending fire prevention ordinance of a provision which would forbid any standing between the last row of seats and the foyer wall. H. S. Schutt, president of the Department of Public Safety, wrote the council asking that the prohibition against standing be retained. Nu-Color Firm Formed Albany, Jan. 2.— The Nu-Color Motion Picture Corp., has been incorporated here, with $99,960 in capital stock, by Sidney S. Cummins, John Finicelli and Rose Chatkin, New York. Blumenthal Joins Hentz A. Pam Blumenthal, formerly associated with the business management of Warners, has joined the firm of Hentz & Co., of the New York Stock Exchange. Blumenthal left Ely & Co. for his new affiliation. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Published daily except Saturday, Sunday and holidays by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York City. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address "Quigpubco, New York." Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Colvin Brown, Vice-President and General Manager; Watterson R. Rothacker, VicePresident; Sam Shain, Editor; James A. Cron, Advertising manager; Chicago Bureau, 624 South Michigan Avenue, C. B. O'Neill, manager; Hollywood Bureau, Postal Union Life Building, Boone Mancall, manager, William R. Weaver, Editor; London Bureau, 4, Golden Square, London Wl, Hope Williams, manager, cable address "Quigpubco, London." All contents copyrighted 1940 by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc. 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