Variety (Sep 1935)

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26 'VAKIKTT'S' I.ONUUN UmCB, t Bt. Murtln's Place, TrafiilKar Squnr* ■NTEBNATIONAt. NEWS IMeAbone Temple Bar BQ41-B042 ' Cable AddMMt VAHIKTY. LONDON Three More Stage Unions Ousted By Nazis: Actors, Managers, Chorus Berlin, Another blow haa been delivered by the Relchstheaterkammer (The- atre Chamber), this time directed against, legitimate actors, managerE and chorus people. Follows the recent disbanding of the Interna- tional Artists' Lodge, the Interna- tional Varfety Managers' -UWoh ahd the Berufaverband iDeutscher Ar- " listen" (FrdfessTonarPeTfoTmefS'^'AS- eociation). At a special meeting of the newly founded "Fachschaft Buehnci' (Stage Union), General Managf?r Hinkel of the Relchskulturkammer (Chamber of Culture) and Divisional Or- ganizer Frauenfeld said that three groupis with thelr-^Marxistlc' tend- encies could not be tolerated any longer and therefore had to go. All their members, as far as they are of Aryan descent, will be incor- porated In the new 'Fachschaft Bu^hne.' . Three groups In question which had to blow are the 'GSeiiOssenschaft D e u t s Cher Buehnenangehoerlger' (Actors' Union), 'Deutscher Bueh- nenverein' (Legitimate Managers' Association), and 'Deutscher Chpr- skengerverbcmd and •• Taenzerburid' (Chorus Union), Au three were In operation long Ijefore .the. war, just like' the. International Arists' Lodge and the Variety Managers' Organization. ^Managing director of the newly founded 'Fachschaft Buehne' Is Dr. Bainer .Scbloesser. Meeting was mum on . the ques- tion of-' what becomes of - the Old Age Pension Fund and other finances left by the three orgaiilza- .tlons and built up over the years. Revenge Paris, Sept. IB. in revenge for recent law authorizing cities to reduce poor tax on theatre tickets, French tax authorities hsCve coine Tjack with a sock At actors and managers. Here- after contracts engagements will have to be signed on paper bearing revenue. stamps. Local tax collectors are trying tO make the provision retroactive and to get managers to stamp the con- tract's they signed during the past thirty years. NAZI BIZ AT tow EBB 'HatV 6 at Cariton, 4 for 'Boss' at Regal London, Sept. 24. 'Top fiat' (Radio) Is dated Et the Carlton for mldrOctober oh a six weeks' guarantee with options. ■--'She -MaiTled -Her Bass' (Col) opens at the Regal Nov. 4 on a four- week guarantee with options. It's the first Columbia pic In the house. PRODDCnON AT HAGUE Sm VERY LIMITED Hoyt-Union Break Thought Inuninent k Houses Start Separate Billing NoAdmission 79 PLAYS READYING FdR MOSCOW SEASON Moscow, Sept. 8. ■The 1935t3.6 season's program in the eight leading theatres here In-. eludes 34 contemporary Soviet play^, 88 classics and nine modern foreign dramas. These figures include new productions as well as plays carried dyer from last yearJ New plays refiect various sections of Soviet reality. A Aflnogenov has written another psychological drama 'In the Distance.' The Theatre of the Revolution haa A. Falko's 'Con- cert' In rehearsal, a piece showing the bewilderment of the Intelllgeht- sla In the period of socialism. S. Semenov's 'We Won't Land* takes its inspiration from the Chel- yuskin episode. The Kamerhl has It in preparation. The Novl "Theatre will present 1. KochergfL's problem play 'You Go and You Won't Come Back,' all about the new Soviet ethics, princi- pally the separation of married people. Pogodln's 'Santa Lucia* will have Its premiere at the Realistic Thea- tre. Sept. Due to low wages,, high , cost of living and large number Of Jobless, outdoor biz in the Fatherland Is tit low. ebb. Big talrs like the Dresden Vogelwlese and the Breslau Johan- nesfect were dlsappointingi causlhg much havoc among outdoor show- men, who w.ere compelled to go as low as 4c. for rides and side ehows. Luna Park of Berlin, a special attraction of the city during the hot spell. Is now a maze of ruins. Nazi direction of- park during, the first summer of the Hitler regime upset biz completely and put • down the abutters after two months' try. P^rk has. been darkv ev6r since and 1^. now demolished. Other Berlin park, Ulap, Is a sim- ilar flop and not open any more. Great open-air festival planned last' summier oii the Templehofer Field never materialized, and when "postponed" to this summer met with the'saAie'fate. Reason is un- willingness' of showmen to stand risk at mountains of red tape, high charges and inefficiency of organ- izers. . The Hagu'e; Sept. 13. At_present_thwe_ are^ jn^ Hollaiid aFout'liarr"a dozen "film proWcersT their number varies from day to day as hew ones start to work and others go out of business. First is the Cinetohe Studio In Diemen, near Ainsterdam. This stu- dio is not exactly a, producer, in the real sense of the word, because Its main business lis to let out its . premises to. producing companies. .The Monopoie and Ams'tel compa- nies make use. of this studio ias they don't own a studio themselves. When CInetone is not rented out, company produces a picture on its own, but this is rather an excep- tion than the rule. .Idea of the yearly production (estimated) of each producer here. Is given by this, chart: Barnsteyn (at The Hague) 3 features; Mohopiole (Amsterdam), .3: Holfl (no studio), 1;. Rutten (no studio), 1; Majestic (no studio), 1. or 2; Amstelfllm (at CInetone) '1. So far the producers have had it their own way here, because cine- xn&B bought films before they could Judge them at trade-shows and. therefore contracts for distribution were made and signed before the fllnis were ready. On basis of those asreements, moniey was found to finance the production. Lately, however, ^several of the productions Were so bad that cinemas got stung. They, therefore, are. now shy and won't close deals until they have viewed the films; This change In. attitude niay hurt, as . production will not be so easily financed. Berlin, iSept. Municipality Theater In Klel,"aiso Schausplelhaus and eight Of. larg- est cinemas put up notices outside of the iiousss list-week to Inform would-be visitors that ''"^ewOLre"lnot~pefmK^^^ this house.' COMEDIE DROPS REP FOR K SANS GENE' American Whodumt, 'The Hawk/ in Paris Paris. Sept. .15. . Local cricks are. giving a good sendoff to the French version of 'The Hawk,' Howaria J. Young's whodunit, which has opened at the Two Masks theatre. Playhouse Is devoted to thrillers. piece was played In N. Y. with Clai'k Gable in lead, before the latter went Into pictures. It's the first American adaptation this sea- son, and was made by Pierre Cham- bard, Young is here himself to see his play off. He was here before with Paramount, and even earlier was a student at the Corbonne. Paris, Sepit. 15. Comedle Prancalse, temporarily at least, has dropped Its repertory policy and Is playing Sardou's 'Madame Sans. Gene' every night, in- stead of changing bills dally as heretofore. New policy has created, an up- roar abong authors whose pieces are In the Comedlc's repertory be- cause they'figure that under the new ischeme they won't be per- formed often. They protest that the Comedie Is a state subsidized the- atre and ought to stick to the old Idea of g9lng through a list oic plays whether the public wants them or not. Instead of behaving like a mere commercial • theatre. Prokofiey's New BaDet Based on 'Romeo, JuEet' Moscow, .Sept. 8. Sergei Prokofiev, composer, pi anlst and conductor (the Chicago Opera Co. produced his fantastic opera, 'The Love of Three Oranges,' some years ago), who Is now a pro- fessor of composition at. the State Conservatory of Music here, is com- pleting a hew ballet for the Bolshoi theatre based on Shakespeare's 'Ro- meo and Juliet.' The Bolshoi, which usually takes one adventure into^he unknown a season, promises to. produce the ballet at the close of the winter Prokofiev says that the ballet will consist, of four acts and 56 num bers. 'Becky's' Aussie Break Sj'dney, Aug. 29. 'Becky Sharp' (Radio) Is booked at the Kmbassy following 'Brown on Resolution '(G-B). 'BeCky' Is the .first Yank pic ever •booked Into this exclusive British •theatre. Pulling Down Two pidtimers in Beriin Bei-lih, Sept. 15. Berliner theatre on Charlotten street, erected in 1850 as the Circus Renz and later rebuilt into a legiti- mate house, will be pulled down shortly. Popr neighborhood and no tenant. Another Berlin stage, Trianon, at Frledrlch street depot, opened 33 year.s figo and mostly playing Frenchy farces. Is making way for a garage. Annabella's Break Paris, Sept. Annabella, French Ingenue film .Btar, hid a narrow escape, when her car turned turtle. Slie didn't f;et a'scratch. Two persons who were with her required a doctor's attention. Anna- bella herself was driving. Offense Berlin, Sopt. 16. Crowds of ude people in A Sperling's ofllce were almost shell- shocked when a bunch Of~~Secret State Police officers swooped down and locked the dopriSi OfCenso was that'Agent Sperling aUcgcdly supplied Jewish vaude manager -with acts, thereby .-reliev Ing the unemployment field. OPEN-AIR CINEMAS South of France Likes Drinks at Tables Them; Paris, Sept. 15. Open-air film theatres, hitherto unknown In French territory, got a bit of a start this summer, especl ally in the South, and some talk has been around of gettlhg one going in Paris. At Casablanca, orocco, open-air Rex hit a pack of trouble In the form of protests by neighbors that It kept'them awake nights, and city government decided to close It dpwii. Company, faced with $20,000 loss, protested, and final decision is not yet know". . At Cannes film theatre was in stalled, in gardens of Casino, with tables for spectators to drink, De- spite difficulties occasioned by 125 foot throw from cabin to screen, outfit is getting away with it. Reinhardt's 3,0i Seater in Berlin Goes Pop Opera Berlin,^ Grosses Schausplelhaus, largest of Max Relnhardt theatres in Ber- lin, is now called 'Theatre des 'Volkes' (People's Theatre) and houses that veteran Llncke oper- etta, 'Frau Luna'. Max. Relnhardt in days gone'by, ahd up to the present political re- gime ran, in addition to the above, the Deutsches theatre, the Kammer- spiele, the Konioedle and the The- atre s-m Kurfuersstendamm. Of all these, the Grosses Schausplelhaus was by far the most successful. Reinhardt's own productions, such as 'The Miracle,' 'Everyman,' 'Oedi- pus Rex,' 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' etc., were played here, in pre-Hitler days, ,as well as 'White Horse Inn*^ an.l 'Ball at the Savoy.' Last nanied . starred-Gltta Alpar and paid her a weekly isalary of $1\750. with, all the glory gone, Paul Llncke, comjposer of 'Glow Worhi;' saw his chance, to take the moth- balls out of his musical plays pro- duced here 36 years ago at the Apollo. Llncke's standing with the present rulers makes him a current czar. Anything goes. Capacity of Grosses Schausplel- haus, over 3,000, makes the house an ideal spot for 'Kraft durch Freude' (Strength 'Through Happi ness), largest Nazi theatrical or ganlzatlon, selling tickets at .low charges in all factories and. 0 ces 'NINA,' GERMAN IMPORT, aiCKS IN LONDON London, Sept. 24. 'Nina,' new play adapted from the German, opened at the Criterion. Stars Lucie Mannheim, German import, who scores decisively In a dual role assignment. Despite an elemental plot the show looks to be in. 'Please Teacher,' due at the Hip- podrome last "Thursday (19), had to be postponed , at the last minute due to the Illness of Bobby Howes, whp stars. May open this week. 20,000-Seat Theatre Berlin, Sept. 15. On the Olympla Sporting Grounds, Just outside of Berlin, an Immense open-air theatre Is being erected, the Dietrich Eckart Frel- '.tohtbuehne. Capacity will be over 20,000. Tobis-Pittaluga Deal Berlin, Sept. 15. Italian Pittaluga .bas concluded an agi-eferacnt with German Tebis Cinema for inter-production. , - v TContract, cdlls for ten -Tobls -pic- tures cacb year. Anti-Trust Law Charge Against B. A. Distribs Buenos Aires, Sept. 5. Local Argentine Assn. of Film Distribs bumped into trouble; Hector Bini has accused them of Violation of the Anti-Trust Law and unlawful association. Bini, who is the proprietor of two cinemas, alleges that the association was formed by all the. distributors of American films,, whp had reached an understanding which enabled them to oblige the owners of pic- ture theatres to draw up programs and fix prices according to their ce- slres and to fprce local pictures Into second place so as to reduce competition. Blnl also alleges that two of the tenants to whom ho haid hired his theatre.T had failed to pay rent on some films and the Association had refused to supply -films to him (Bini) 'until, he had -made-goed the amounts owing. Cftne is heirs; in vestlgated by the courts. Sydney, Aug. 29. For the first time slnce-the tloup- between (Greater Union Theatres and Hoyts into General Theatres, ttli -G;—U. Ti ■hoUflea are" boldly^-an- nouncing )n newspaper ads that the theatres mentioned are entirely un- der G. U. T. direction. Ads are_, piizzje. to flji^ street, seeming to' mean a break'-^^tweeh .C!bi.IItjr,iJtUiA.H.?iyjt8;^^ sooner than anticipated. Stuart Doyle of G. U. ' has left for South Australia to confer with his henchmen in that territpry. Charles Munro of Hoyts left at the same time for Queensland to take a. look see there. Both Doyle and Munro l|ave constantly been on the nriove over the past few weeks covering similar territory. Both are also^ pay- ing very strict attention to the naba sind country centers of each district. Munro, when questioned, woul neither confirm nor deny that a G. U. T.-Hoyts split is due imirie- dlately. Muhro, however, stated emphatically .that he had been agalhiat the tie.up from the very first. Strangest feature is that not one newspaper ad is billing any theatre as being under the direction of Gen- ei'al Theatres now. Believed that when the break is announced both is. U. T. and Hoyts will be set for. pix. ,.Hoyts will, of course, have the babking of Fox, G-B", and 20th Century; Rest of dis- tribs win probably be glad to do biz with either side. Frank Graham, Hoyts* buyer, will leave on a trip to the U. S. on Sept. 18. By the same boat v^lll go Cecil Marks, United Artists. Inside has It that Hoyts intends dickering for a U. A. biiy, and will advise Gra- hant to contiact Marks on a price for product during yoyage, Arthur Kelly, U. A. foreign chief when in Australia some mpnths a^p, found the General Theatrep' situa- tion very puzzling, but was believed at the time to be rather pally with Stuart Doyle. PLAY ON THOS. PAINE SKEDDED IN BERLIN Berlin, Sept. 16. A . Play by Hanns Johst, Nazi dramatist, oh Thomas Paine, Amer- ican revolutionary and author of 'The Rights 'of Man' espouslnff America's cause of Independence, will be presented in the course of the new season at the Berlin State Playhouse. , Other features of the season will be Shakespeare's 'Hamlet,' Hebb^l's •Gyges and His Ring,' and Hans Rehberg's 'Frledrlch 'Wllhei I,' with Emll Jannings. ITALIAN EXTRA PAY starts at 84c. Per Day and Up to $12.50 for Bit Players Rome, Sept. 13. Extras employed in film produc- tions here are divided Into five rate classes and receive remuneration accordingly. Payoff_ ranges from 84c. per day to $12.50. Unemployed sent In by district~ relief grpupa reap the peanut pay of 84c. Employment agency deliv- eries, get $2 each. Two lower grades have no wardrobe worries and are confined to mob scenes and for emotional crowds. More im- portant remaining groups get up to 112.50. Top bracket stipends neces- sitate fancy rags, attractiveness and ability to perform small bits. ■ New French Distrib Paris. Sept. 17. New istrib. Consortium Con- tinental Cinematographique, as- serts it owns French rights to nine American indie films* which are now being dubbed. Outfit, owned by Henri toroge, Geza Salviche and Joe Sdlviche, will. also go in for exportation and production. First, picture to be released here Is a film version of .Pushkin's 'Sypsles,' and it also will bring out an Austrian pic, 'Lieutenant Ferry.' Encore Paris, Sept. 1.7, Spectators af the Madeleine Cinema are yelling 'Encore' at the close 01 'Band Concert,' first Mickey Mouse short in colors to reach h«re'. Theatre ie seriously consldf-rin.q lunnlng the film twice.