Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1940)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1940
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000438
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:
November 03, 2022
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2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, March 8, 194(1 Majors Attack U.S. Trust Stipulations (Continued from page 1) the commonest of trade terms employed by the Government in its stipulations are incorrectly used. No response to the stipulations is required for some time to come, however, and the matter may go over to March 27, at which time Federal Tudge Henry W. Goddard is scheduled to discuss with counsel a general procedure for pre-trial conferences. Inasmuch as these conferences, as well as the stipulations, have the general objective of shortening the actual trial, it is believed that the two will be discussed together. Defense attorneys began their study of the Government's 300-page answer to interrogatories yesterday. First reactions were uniformly mild, indicating that nothing unexpected had been discovered in the document. Presumably, the answers will have to suffice all defendants except Columbia, which won the right earlier to examine the Government's replies and, if it found them unsatisfactory or lacking in vital information, could come before Judge Goddard and request additional data. Columbia had been scheduled to do this today, since the Government's answers were due March 1. However, an additonal week's time will be given the defendant to study the answers before making its application, since the Government was five days late in furnishing the answers. Legal opinion now is that the mounting mass of detail which faces the attorneys for both sides, and the court, makes the start of trial by May 1 more doubtful than ever. 4 Purely Personal ► Newsreel TAMES ROOSEVELT will be the J guest speaker today at the monthly meeting of the Headline Club, Chicago journalistic group, at the Hotel Sherman. Ray Mill and is the father of a six and one-half pound son, born to Mrs. Muriel Weber Milland at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood Wednesday. • Edwin Silverman, Essaness circuit executive in Chicago, is the father of an eight-pound boy, born this week to Mrs. Silverman at the Michael Reese Hospital. John Eberson, theatre architect, is on his way to Houston, Texas, where he will supervise the construction of a large office building. • Jack Kirsch, president of Allied Theatres of Illinois, has delayed his return to Chicago from Miami Beach until next week. Thomas Mitchell arrives in town today from the Coast for a vacation. Ernest Schoedsack has left for a trip by yacht for Central America. • I. Goldsmith, British producer, arrives by plane today from the Coast. Sam Spring, film attorney, left yesterday for Hollywood. • Frank C. Walker has returned from Palm Beach. S barret Mccormick, rko advertising and publicity director, will leave for the Coast early next week. Barney Balaban, Austin Keough, Louis Phillips, Frank McHugh, Al Lewis, I. E. Lopert, Arthur Krim Joseph Lee, Sidney Phillips, A. P. Waxman, Russel Crouse and Eddie Dowling lunching at Sardi's yesterday. Lynn Farnol, United Artists advertising and publicity director, will leave for the Coast by plane on Sunday to discuss campaigns on the company's forthcoming product. • Charles E. McCarthy, Charles Casanave, Max Dreyfus, William F. Rodgers and Wally Owen at Nick's Hunting Room in the Astor for lunch yesterday. • Frank J. McCarthy, Universal Eastern sales manager, is on a tour of the company's exchanges in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Buffalo. John Kenneth Hyatt, managing director of the Center Theatre, returned yesterday from a Caribbean cruise. Nicholas M. Schenck, president of M-G-M, has returned to Miami Beach following a short stay in New York. Edwin C. Stein, Eastern publicity representative for Samuel Goldwyn, will leave for the Coast by plane today. 1. Goldsmith, British producer, returns, here today from Hollywood where he has been visiting. • Lee Newbury, president of New Jersev Allied, has returned to Florida to resume his vacation. • James Mulvey, Samuel Goldwyn's Eastern representative, will leave for Florida this weekend. • Truman H. Tally, vice-president of Movietone News, has returned from Washington. Osa Johnson will arrive from the Coast by train on Monday. Regina Crewe has returned from the Coast. Stockholders Lose Midland Prop, Suit Buffalo, March 7. — A stockholders suit for accounting and uncomputed money returns against Midland Properties, Inc., owner of the Century theater holdings, 511 Main St., and former and present officers and directors was dismissed today by Referee Thomas H. Noonan. The suit was brought by William P. Eckhardt and Joseph C. Henafelt as stockholders and former directors of Midland Properties. They charged squandering of corporation funds. Other defendants were Charles J Deckop, William R. Pooley, William L. Marcy, Jr., Eugene Warner, Ed win F. Jaeckle, Maurice L. Parry and J. Chester Goldberg. Parade Varied events comprise the new issues. Reels and their contents fok low : MOVIETONE NEWS, No. SZ— Sleeti storm in New York. Fire at LaGuardiai rport. Carnival, in Italy. Choose "Missj Florida of 1940." Food and ammunition! tored on Maginot Line. Oliver jjt-nley at front. Hull greets Australian AdK> . sador in Washington. King Zog with^^milyj France. Pursuit planes in trial flights., Bowling tournament in Chicago. Track meet in New York. Water ballet in Giicago. Giants in training. Lew Lehr. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 250— Situai tion on the Maginot Line. Allied troops in; Egypt. Sleet storm in East. Miami bathing beauties. Ski meet in East. Chicago women in bowling contest. Giants in] training. Arrival of Queen Elisabeth in' New York. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 55-Rescue patrol in Oregon ski area. Water ballet makes debut. 4-A track meet at Garden. Fire at New York airport. Eden inspects troops in Egypt. Dorothy Lamour judges Coral Gables beauty contest. Zog in exile. Children find refuge in Madeleine Carroll's French villa. Census takers ready. Gracie Allen is presidential candidate. RKO PATHE NEWS, No. 67— Inspect new planes in California. Maginot Lineactivity. Madeleine Carroll donates cha-j teau for French children. A.A.U. swina meet. British war minister at front. New machine for safety engineering. Hockey games in Sweden. UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL, No. 856Finland: Russian bombers downed; round up reindeer for clohting; broadcast propanda at war front. Ajax and Exeter crews parade in England. Anzac troops in Egypt. ' New liner Queen Elizabeth arrives here. Train wreck in Mexico. Beauty parade in Miami. Baltimore lumber plant burns. Pennsylvania city sinks. Festival in Italy. Giants in training. Pursuit planes in mass flight on Coast. Vitagraph Suit Settled Settlement of a $37,500 infringement suit of Vitagraph, Inc., against Behrand Motion Picture Supply House, Inc., was revealed yesterday in N. Y. District Court. Vitagraph had charged the defendant with 150 infringements of advertising stills. Operate on Stern Charles Stern, Eastern division sales manager for United Artists, last night underwent an emergency operation at Park East Hospital. 'Wind' in 852 Cities "Gone With the Wind" dates in the United States and Canada total] 956 in 852 cities, including 22 seq yesterday. 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. Other Quigley publications: Motion Picture Herald, Better Theatres, International Motion Picture Almanac and Fame. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 23, 1938, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year $6 in the America! and $12 foreign. Single copies 10c