Dynamo, Volume 6 Number 7

              
"LONG LEGS" GOES-INTO THIRD WEEKS
All Productions Must
Be Played In Release
Order; Not Sometime,
But All the Time!
VOL. VI
A Weekly Newspaper Published by Fox Film Corporation in The U.S.A.
MOVIETONE CITY, CALIF., JUNE 24, 1931
If You Want To Be
Ahead Of The Parade
By All Means Plan
Ahead, Work Ahead.
NO. 7
AVALANCHE OF 1931-32 CIRCUIT DEALS.
GRAINGER MONTH LEADERS CROWDEDi
MORE BIDDERS FOR JULY VOLUME PRIZE
DENVER-FRISCO
GETTING STIFF
COMPETITION
THIS and next week will definitely
decide the winner of the W.C.
Michel Trophy and J.R. Grain­ger
Month. This fact is emphasized
by the first official standing announced
this week. If ever a race was decided
in its very last lap then the J.R.
Grainger Month competition is it, for
the margins are very small and the re­maining
fortnight can and, no doubt
will develop many changes all along
the line.
The first official J. R . Grainger
Month standing , published on this
page, shows R. J . Morrison 's Denver­ites
in first place-just where they said
they would be. But permanent occu­pancy
of that throne is dependent en­tirely
on the ability to stand up under
the heavy and wholesale assault to
which they will be subjected during
the current fortnight. Of that there
is no doubt.
Among the branches that rate, right
now, Denver's strongest competitors
are John Dillon's San Franciscans, Ben
Gould's Angelinos, Ward Scott 's Kan­sans,
J.P. O'Loghlin's Torontonians,
Lester Sturm's Detroiters, Hilgers'
Texans and C. R. Dipple's Vancouv-
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WEEKLY TIPS
W . K. Howard's "Transatlantic"
should make huge loads of profit
for exhibitors, for it is box office
from every conceivable angle.
Frank Borzage will " make" an­other
"natural team" in Sally Eilers
and James Dunn, who are in "Bad
Girl" and have been teamed for
"Sob Sister" leads.
Kansas City may spring the big
surprise of the J.R. Grainger Month
competition.
"Bad Girl" will top the interest
shown by the reading public when
it reaches the screen, for it sur­passes
the book version.
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FOUR 1931-32'S
READY WlTHIN
A SINGLE WEEK
WITH " Young as You Feel"
and "Transatlantic" already
completed the coming week
will increase the total of 1931-32 fin­ished
productions to six-and this a
full six weeks before the new season
will officially open. A feature of this
schedule is that the second Will Rogers
tentatively titled "The Plutocrat," directed
by David Butler will be finished
before the season during which it is to
be released has been opened.
The first Janet Gaynor-Charles Far­rell
1931-32 release-"Merely Mary
Ann"-will be completed by Director
Henry King late this week. Immediate­ly
upon the completion of "Merely
Ma y Ann," King will get into action
on "Over the Hill." for by that time
Vice-President and General Manager
Winfield Sheehan will have returned
to Movietone City and probably se­lected
tbe cast of youths who will support
Mae Marsh.
The other two productions to be
completed next week are Sam Taylor's
"Skyline" with Thomas Meighan,
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10-Year Canadian Deal Leading
Procession; 1930-31 Sales High
Is Smothered By 1931-32 Volume
FOR Fox Film Corporation the past week, according to official Home Office
statistics and information, was the greatest in the history of the organization.
Not only is 1931 -32 sales volume running months ahead of the
old record (established last year) , but more circuits-big and small-have been
closed to date than were closed during the first five months of 1930 -31 selling.
Top that official information with the fact that J.R. Grainger, Vice-Presi­dent
in charge of distribution , amazed the industry with the announcement
that he had just negotiated a 10-year contract with the powerful Famous
Players Canadian Theatres Corporation
'LONG LEGS' NOW
IN THIRD WEEK
AT ROXY
GOING STRONG!
Third week, New York.
Third week, Indianapolis.
Third week, Baltimore.
Third week, Chicago.
Second week, Louisville, Ky.
Second week, Portland, Ore.
Second week, Brooklyn, N. Y.
"DADDY LONG LEGS" is liv­ing
up to every expectation ­and
exceeding them in certain
spots. Definitely established as the
greatest entertainment and money ­making
production of 1930-31, this
Alfred Santell offering, co-starring
Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter, is
now in its third week at tbe world's
largest theatre-the Roxy in New
York-and may compell still a fourth
week.
That " Daddy Long Legs" may es­tablish
what will prove a world's record,
if attained, is confidently expected
in New York, for while it is in its
third week at the Roxy Theatre, it is
playing day and date with the Fox
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for Foxfilm service throughout that
Dominion for the next season.
And that one deal, virtually taking
care of the entire of Canada for some
136 situations (covering every import ­ant
spot from the Atlantic to the Pa­cific).
gives ample hint of the tendency
of buying on the part of the biggest
circuit operators. Therefore the an­nouncement that about twenty big
circuits bad rushed into the fold during
the past week will not prove surprising.
Just as The Dynamo was going to
press word came from the Home Office
that John Nolan had returned there
with a completed deal involving the
Central States circuit covering seven
cities in the Des Moines territories.
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HELLO CHICAGO
CHICAGO - Fox film productions
took all the money there was to be
had at the Loop's foremost theatres
last week.
Raoul Walsh's "Women Of All
Nations" was in its third week at
the United Artists theatre.
Alfred Santell's Janet Gaynor-­Warner
Baxter sensation, "Daddy
Long Legs," was in its second week
at McVickers.
And Alfred Werker's farce comedy,
"Annabelle's Affairs," was in
its first week at the Roosevelt.
All first-runs and Publix-Balaban
& Katz houses.