Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1940)

2 Motion Picture Daily Thursday, January 18, 1940 SEC to Study All RKO Allowances {Continued from pane 1) Zachry & Parlin for $25,000. The S.E.C. was desirous of studying all applications at one time, he stated. Judge Bondy intimated that 1 itwould follow Gale's suggestion. As assurance to the bank that it would not surrender any of its rights by turning over securities to the new RKO company, the court stated that it would direct the trustee to reserve the amount of the application until further order of the court. George W. Alger, special master, also applied for an allowance. Alger who has received interim allowances of $34,500 asked for an amount to be fixed by the court. No delay on his application was sought by the S.E.C. Price, Waterhouse Co. has been allowed $4,800 as compensation for an audit of RKO books for 1938, under an order signed by Judge Bondy. A hearing will be held today on a proposed order of the Irving Trust Co., trustee, which calls for transfer of all assets to the new company and for the winding up of various phases of proceedings. 20th-Fox Will Ask Lenrose Dismissal Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. filed notice yesterday in the U. S. District Court that it will ask Judge Bondy on Jan. 26 to dismiss the antitrust suit of Lenrose Amusement Corp. against it, all other majors and M. P. P. D. A. on the ground that no cause of action is stated. Lenrose, as owner of an independent Newark house, claims $150,000 damages for alleged conspiracy to deprive it of product. PROUD WORDS: I FLY UNITED Distinguished overnight sleeper and scenic daylight flights to LOS ANGELES. "The Continental," leave 5:15 pm, and "The Overland Flyer," leave 10:45 pm. Finest meals aloft. Call travel agents, hot-els, or UNITED AIR LINES 58 E. 42nd Street Phone MU-2-7300 Friday, Wednesday Premieres by Fox Two premieres and three previews are scheduled in the city in the next eight days. Twentieth Century-Fox opens "The Blue Bird" at the Hollywood tomorrow night and "The Grapes of Wrath" Wednesday at the Rivoli. The previews include: Tuesday. "The Grapes of Wrath" at the Normandie; Wednesday, Warners' "The Fighting 69th" at the Waldorf Astoria; Friday, Republic's "Village Barn Dance" at the Village Barn in Greenwich Village. 4-A Approves AGVA Appointees to Board Appointment of eight rank-and-file members to the executive board of the American Guild of Variety Artists was approved yesterday by the Associated Actors and Artistes of America. Kenneth Thomson, executive secretary of Screen Actors Guild, who is here to study A.G.V.A. conditions, endorsed the new appointments. The eight new members of the board are Philip Irving, David Fox, Charles Arno, Arthur Ward, Jack Guilford, Ernie Mack, Billie Glason and Sam Kramer. Under the A.G.V.A. constitution, all officers and members of the board must be acceptable to the 4-A. This provision was inserted at the time the branch received its charter because of the large loans granted by Actors Equity. Chorus Equity and S.A.G. The present move was said by union officials to be an effort to extend democratic control of the union. A.G.V.A. will start to slash overhead costs next week. Cuts in personnel and discontinuance of the union newspaper are planned. Four UA Salesmen Set Perfect Records Four United Artists salesmen, having sold every one of their possible accounts for the new season, are now lending a hand to other salesmen in their respective exchanges who have accounts still unclosed, according to word received at the home office yesterday from Jack Goldhar, Midwestern division manager, and Ben Fish, Far Western division manager. The salesmen with the perfect season's records are Edward Ashkins and Ray Wylie of the St. Louis exchange, in Goldhar's territory, and Joseph Solomon, Salt Lake City, and Al Hoffman, Denver, in Fish's territory. S hour as on Fund Council Spyros Skouras. operating head of National Theatres, has accepted an appointment to serve on the Greater New York Fund Business Council, recently organized as a permanent bodv. i Purely Personal ► JAMES MULVEY, Eastern representative for Samuel Goldwyn, will leave for the coast today. • Philip Saslau of the Fishman Circuit in New Haven and Fairview, Conn., and Mrs. Saslau left yesterday for Miami. Mrs. Saslau is recuperating from an automobile accident of last Summer. Norman Elson, sales manager of Film Alliance of the U. S-, returned yesterday after a week's tour of company interests in the East and Middle West. Evelyn Friedl of the Warner Cleveland office and Mrs. Leo Greenberger, wife of the executive of the Community Circuit, Cleveland, are visiting New York. • Terry Turner of the RKO exploitation department has returned from a visit to the studio after accompanying Charles Laughton through the South. Robert A. Foster, manager of the Community, Yarmouth, N. S., and Dorothy DeFreytas of Halifax were married at St. Mary's Cathedral, Halifax. William Orr, Max A. Cohen, Ed Saunders, Owen Davies and Owen Davies, Jr., at Nick's Hunting Room in the Astor for lunch yesterday. • Sidney Kingsley, Russell Holman, John Golden, J. Robert Rubin, Ruth Gordon and Bert Wheeler lunching at Sardi's yesterday. • Ben Griefer, house manager of the New York Paramount, and Elaine Conheim are to be married Sunday at the Riverside Plaza Hotel. • Edward G. Robinson will arrive from the Coast Saturday to spend about six weeks here. • Benn H. Rosenwald, M-G-M manager in Charlotte, observes a birthday tomorrow. • Herman G. Weinberg is handling publicity for Gilbert Josephson's World Theatre. • Art Schmidt of Oscar A. Doob's staff at Loew's has returned from Syracuse. Oka Munson arrives here today from the Coast via American Airlines. H. M. Richey of RKO is spending today and tomorrow in Washington. • Norma Shearer leaves for the Coast today after a few days' visit. Warner Party Tomorrow Warners will play host at a cocktail party for Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins and William Dieterle tomorrow afternoon from 5 to 7 o'clock in the Janssen Suite of the WaldorfAstoria. Columbia and Lloyd Sign One-Film Deal Harold Whalen Dead Chicago, Jan. 17. — Harold Whalen, 45, member of the cast of George White's Scandals, died today following an operation for a stomach ailment. He had appeared in films with his wife and dance partner, June Jans, whom he divorced in 1933. Hollywood, Jan. 17. — Columbia and Frank Lloyd Productions today signed an agreement under which the producer-director will make "Tree of Liberty" for Columbia release. Jack Skirball, formerly of Grand § National and head of Arcadia Productions, will be associated with Lloyd in his new company, which hajw.not yet been incorporated. The d« v>n the film has been in negotiatioiT"ior I several months, since Columbia's de ;j cision not to make the picture on its j own. Lloyd has left for Williamsburg, (j Va., to gather background material j tor the film, which will be a big j budget picture. Meanwhile, Lloyd and Skirball are j awaiting the signing of a contract by I Universal calling for the delivery of ! six pictures during the next two years, jj Negotiations have been completed, but the contract has not yet been signed. Autry Is Due East For 5 Appearances Gene Autry, Republic Western star, will fly East form Hollywood early next week for a series of personal appearances, two of which are at the invitation of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Autry will appear with Mrs. Roosevelt at the Ft. Myers, Va., Horse Show on Jan. 24 and at the President's Birthday Ball in Washington Jan. 30. On Jan. 25 Autry will attend the opening of Republic's "South of the Border" at Wilmer & Vincent's Embassy Theatre, Reading, Pa. This will be the first Republic film to play the house. The following day he will be at the world premiere of Republic's "Village Barn Dance" at the Village Barn night club here. On Sunday, Jan. 28, at 6 :30 P. M., Autry will broadcast from Washington on his CBS program which originates in Hollywood. Mrs. Roosevelt will be a guest on the program. 19 Weeks for 'Harvest' "Harvest," French film chosen as the best foreign picture of 1939 by the New York Film Critics, will have at least a 19-week run at the World Theatre. It is now in its 16th week. "The Baker's Wife" ("La Femme du Boulanger") is tentatively scheduled to start at the World Lincoln's Birthday, .Feb. 12, but may be postponed. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered 17. 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." 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