Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1932)

42 MOTION PICTURE HERALD November 19, 1932 WABASH AVENUE CHICAGO Oak Park, after a long struggle, finally licked the local blue law on Sunday shows, and exchange officials are predicting a similar change in the Evanston situation when that village holds its spring elections. V . Courshon and Frank are the new owners of the Webster theatre. V Louis Matthews, who has been with National Screen Service as an artist, has joined the Filmack Company, thus giving Irving Mack not only a new artist but a chap who is pointed with pride as Film Row's best bowler. V John Joseph of RKO staged a screening of "Little Orphan Annie" at the Universal building projection room last Wednesday. In addition to exhibitors, many manufacturers who make Orphan Annie merchandise and candy were on hand. V Essaness is preparing to open the West End theatre. V Harry Lande, who has been representing Powers Pictures here, is preparing to open his own exchange in the Universal building and will soon announce a lineup of independent product. V H. R. Phillips, who heads Western Theatrical Premium Company and has been making his headquarters in the Allied office, has moved to 838 South Wabash. His organization has been augmented by W. H. Foster, who will handle the southern states, Tom Delaney, who will be Illinois and Wisconsin representative, and Jack Cohen in charge of the Michigan territory. V Nat Levine, producer of Mascot Pictures, was a visitor along the Row, stopping here to confer with Ben Judell, Mascot distributor. V Walter Babitz of the Grant theatre, Cicero, has been made organizer of the Illinois Allied unit and will devote his efforts to obtaining new members. HOLOUIST Big 4 to Resume Activity With Feature, Shorts Output Big 4, independent company inactive since April, headed by John R. Freuler, and separate from Freuler Film Associates, which he also heads, plans immediate resumption of production activity. The program is to include westerns, melodramas and 52 short subjects. Mr. Freuler has returned to the Coast from New York to supervise the preparation of the program, and to initiate the work of two units. Charles L. Glett, Big 4 vicepresident, will handle distribution from the New York office. Sophie Tucker in Short Films Sophie Tucker, vaudeville and radio star, will make two one reel talking-singing pictures for Stanley Distributing Company. These two one reel subjects will be part of a series being made by Stanley featuring famous radio stars. The first subject will be "Little Red Hot Schoolhouse." Marshall Ne'lan is scheduled to direct. Moray Sees Double Feature Ban Improving Shorts Sales The return to the single feature policy by exhibitors in the Chicago territory has increased the short subject sales of Vitaphone fourfold, declared Norman H. Moray, Vitaphone sales manager, on his return to the home office from a tour of the Midwest. Exhibitors in the Cleveland territory expect a return to single features on January 1, he said. A general current of optimism pervading the theatre business in the sections he visited is reported by Mr. Moray. Small to Screen Joe Paloolca Edward Small, Coast producer, will make a film based on the newspaper cartoon figure, Joe Palooka, by Ham Fisher, with Jimmie Durante chiefly featured. United Artists will release the film. Richardson's Handbooks on Projection IN THREE VOLUMES Universally accredited as the best and most practical treatise ever published on projection and the many problems daily confronting the man in the projection room. The remedy for hundreds of every day perplexing annoyances is explained in detail and in simple language. • Volume 1-2 is devoted to the general subject of projection including its allied activities, but without information on sound. Volume 3 deals exclusively with sound. All three volumes are profusely illustrated and contain over 1400 pages of information and helps. Each volume contains Richardson's famous Question and Answer Series. • VOLUME 1-2 (one unit) $ 6.20 VOLUME 3 5.10 VOLUMES 1-2 and 3 10.20 (complete set) QUICLEY BOOKSHOP 1790 BROADWAY NEW YORK NEWS PICTURES FOX MOVIETONE NEWS— No. 15— Lady Astor visits U. S. — Army aviators drill at Selfridge Field, Mich. — Veteran autos taken for last "ride" at Memphis, Miss. — Pictures of rival contenders for presidency of U. S. — German army band consists of 800 pieces— Pittsburgh beats Pennsylvania. FOX MOVIETONE NEWS— No. 16— Princess Ingrid may wed English prince — Italy hails 10th anniversary of Fascism — Pictures of wild Abos of Australian interior — Roosevelt wins in Democratic landslide — Traffic violations popular in BerlinFrance launches largest liner — Charlotte Walls says chidren's play is healthful. HEARST METROTONE NEWS— No. 214— France launches world's greatest liner — Self -flying plane demonstrated at Los Angeles — River at Memphis, Tenn., gets new floor — Adventurer travels 1,300 miles to World Fair in Chicago — Steeplechase thrills smart set at Belmont Park — Roosevelt wins; thanks nation for triumph. HEARST METROTONE NEWS— No. 215— Atlantic gale hits Cuban coast — Harriers race for college crown in New York City— U. S. boy violinist amazes Europe — Notre Dame beats Northwestern; Michigan downs Chicago — Hotels getting ready for dry law modification — German warship visits New York. PARAMOUNT NEWS— No. 29— Italy hails 10 years of Fascism — Maurice Chevalier welcomed to New York — S. _ S. Normandie, world's ' largest ship, launched in France — U. S. C. tramples California — Roosevelt and Garner elected in Democratic landslide. PARAMOUNT NEWS— No. 30— New York welcomes German warship — Hoover and Roosevelt to confer on war debts — Election bets paid off — Washington honors war dead — Brown trips Columbia — Storm sweeps Cuba — Gale wrecks Atlantic seaboard. PATHE NEWS— No. 30— Pictures of president-electPolice quiet radical demonstration at Washington — Lady Astor arrives in U. S. — Pittsburgh downs Pennsylvania — Coast Guardsmen seize liquor in Boston— Chicago man paddles oddest craft — Aimee MacPherson back in Los Angeles — 11 to 1 shot wins Pimlico futurity in Maryland. PATHE NEWS — No. 31 — President-elect speaks to nation — Who should be picked for cabinet by Roosevelt?— Gale batters New England shore — Constance Bennett awarded D. S. M. by American Legion — Plane flies by self at Glendale, Cal. — Italy celebrates 10th anniversary of Fascism — New ship brings sea supremacy to France — Sea captain tells of trip to Greenland. UNIVERSAL NEWSPAPER NEWSREEL— No. 93— Notre Dame beats Northwestern — Yale and Princeton tie — Tribute to motherhood rites held at Shimada, Japan — Insull, Jr., returns to Chicago — Wedding rumors fly as Princess Ingrid goes home — Famed Elephant Inn, at Margate City, N. J., has golden jubilee — London's hunger army disbands — Corn-husking contest held at Galva, 111. Allied Unit Names Directors The new board of directors of Allied of Michigan, named at Detroit, includes Glenn Cross, Battle Creek ; A. Eiseman, Flint ; Allen Johnson, Grand Rapids ; P. C. Schram, Kalamazoo ; C. H. Beachler, Charlotte, and Fred DeLodder, Harlan T. Hall, Thomas Lancaster, William London, James C. Ritter, Alec Schreiber, Lou Wisper, David Newman, F. A. Schneider and George Sampson, all of Detroit. Calvert With Screen Service Lowell V. Calvert, at one time general manager of Educational Pictures, and later general manager of recording operations for RCA Photophone, has become associated with Exhibitors' Screen Service in New York as assistant to George Hirliman, president. Mr. Calvert will be in charge of sales and distribution. Frank Buck in Air Series Frank Buck, explorer whose recent motion picture, "Bring 'Em Back Alive," was produced by RKO Radio, has started a weekly series of radio broadcasts over a National Broadcasting Company network, reviewing the most interesting of his jungle experiences.