Motion Picture Herald (Jan-Mar 1932)

68 MOTION PICTURE HERALD February 27. 1932 NEWS PICTURES FOX MOVIETONE NEWS— No. 43— Women of world have their day at Geneva arms conference — United States Treasury gets a new chief— Girls show skill on aquaplanes in Florida— United States wins wmter Olympics at Lake Placid— St. Peter's gets a new statue in Rome. FOX MOVIETONE NEWS— No. 44— Gene Tunney joins tight on dry law— Dixie divers show their talent at Miami Beach— America presents arms reduction plan at Geneva— Movietone man gets a thrill riding submerging submarine. HEARST METROTONE NEWS— No. 242— Campbell set for new speed record at Daytona Beach— —Feathered army holds carnival in Belgium— World arms conference gets United States' plan for disarmament—Diving champions show skill at Miami Beach— Metrotone invades Yellowstone's icy paradise — Looking at the mannequins in their Paris starriping ground— Cameraman risks Ufe to picture diving submarine. HEARST METROTONE NEWS— No. 243— John D. Rockefeller, 92, leads a hymn on Florida golf course —Gaiety on Riviera is cUraaxed at Cannes— Chicago boxer Ijeats Jack Dempsey — Society pets in show at Berlin— President Hoover hails Washington as Bicentennial opens— Airship Akron crashes at Lakehurst as sudden wind arises — First films of war in China. PARAMOUNT SOUND NEWS— No. 59— Daring German sled drivers exhibit their skill at Eibsee, Germany— Women plead for peace at Geneva disarmament conference — Sir Malcolm Campbell prepared at Daytona Beach, Fla., for attempt to better racing car record — Celebration of Washington BiCentennial begins throughout country — Girls of all nations compete for beauty prize at Nice, France — Londos, wrestling champion, again defeats challenger, Jim McMillen. PARAMOUNT SOUND NEWS— No. 60— Thousands have gay holiday as Cannes, France, celebrates annual flower festival — Congratulations pour in upon Charles M. Schwab on his 70th birthday — Thousands greet Mohammedan leader on his return to India from the Round Table Conference in LondonEnglish inventor demonstrates new speed car which he claims will revolutionize transportation — Pictures of the fighting in Shanghai. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEI — No. 1& English admiralty abandons effort to recover bodies of crew of ill-fated M-2 — Country's industries to save millions by new air parcel postal — News paragraphs— Latest millinery fad provides work for hundreds in New York trade — Pope and Mussolini in agreement after first official yisit — League of Nations group sails from San Francisco in hope of ending Sino-Japanese crisis. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEI No. 17— President honors birthday rites of George Washington— Famous Coast orange show draws thousands at San Bernardino — Sudden gale injures Akron at Lakehurst — News paragraphs — Million bushels of government wheat lost in explosion in Kansas City which causes two deaths — Sports enthusiasts take to motorbikes in stirring Oregon fox-hunt — United States forces unite for greatest "war games" in history off Honolulu. Branch Heads in New York R. H. Haines, Warner-First National Cincinnati branch manager, and Robert Smeltzer, Washington branch head, attended conferences this week at the home ofifice with Andy Smith, sales manager in charge of the Eastern and Canadian territories. "Mike" Newman Succeeds Ra+hner "Mike" Newman has been appointed successor to Harry Rathner as general manager of Universal Chain Theatres. Newman, veteran showman of San Francisco, is en route to New York. Rathner is expected to announce a new connection shortly. Vitaphone Has Lenten Short Vitaphone has released a number of the E. M. Newman "Travel Talks" series, titled "Oberammergau," called particularly appropriate for the Lenten season. The reel is devoted to the "Passion Play." SHORTS NOW SHOWING ON BROADWAY Week of February 20 CAPITOL One Good Turn M-G-M MAYFAIR Bob White RKO Pathe Fly Frolics RKO Pathe Laughing With Medbury in Voodoo Land Columbia PARAMOUNT Dancing Fool Parannount Auto Intoxication Paramount Paramount Pictorial No. 5 ... Paramount Screen Souvenirs No. 7 Paramount RIALTO Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie Paramount Babbling Book, The Paramount RIVOLI Dream House Educational Arabian Shrieks, The Paramount ROXY Screen Snapshots No. 5 Columbia Love, Honor and He Pays ... Columbia STRAND Naggers at the Opera Vitaphone Studio Murder Mystery Vitaphone Japanese Rome Capital WARNER Dancing Around the World . .Vitaphone Washington, the Man and the Capital Vitaphone Big Hearted Bosco Vitaphone WINTER GARDEN The Imperfect Lover Vitaphone Sport Slants No. 4 Vitaphone Pagan Moon Vitaphone WABASH AVENUE CHICAGO That sentiment is not a lacking quality among the folk on Film Row was demonstrated last week at the Columbia office when the five-yearold son of Clarence Phillips required a blood transfusion to help him over a serious illness. Practically every man in the Columbia office went to the hospital to offer his blood for the child. Fortunately the youngster took a turn for the better and the transfusion was not necessary. . V Through an error the Webster theatre at 2157 North Damen recently was reported closed in this column. The house is open and has not been closed. V Emma Abplanalp, film board secretary, made a trip to Buffalo last week to attend the funeral of a close friend. V Rita C. McGoldrick, editor of the Herald's School and Screen department, was in Chicago last iveek in connection with a lecture tour she is making. V Ludwig Sussman of the Adelphi theatre, who has been responsible for a number of notable contributions to his community's relief drive, again demonstrates the important part a theatre may play in this work. Through a coin box in the lobby of his theatre, Mr. Sussman has collected pennies, nickels and dimes over a period of time in sufficient numbers to enable the Rogers Park Relief Committee to purchase 367 quarts of milk with funds from this one source. HOLQUIST Watch • • • The 12th Annual Convention M. P. T. O. A. MAYFLOWER HOTEL Washington, D. C. MARCH 14 15 16