The Film Daily (1948)

99 DAILY Tuesday, April 13, 194, VC Miami Conclave Meets Get Under Way Miami Beach — With International Chief Barker, Robert J. O'Donnell presiding, the first business meeting | of the 12th annual convention of Variety Clubs International was held yesterday morning in the Ocean Room of the Roney Plaza Hotel. International officers and canvasmen attended and it was a closed session, with the agenda for daily business meetings to be held the rest of the week under discussion. A stag reception and dinner was held last night for international officers, canvasmen, delegates and chief barkers in the Alcazar Hotel club rooms of the host tent, No. 33, the Variety Club of Greater Miami, and a get-acquainted party for all barkers and their wives was conducted last night in the Variety Club annex in the Surf Room of the Roney. A business session will be held this morning, and a luncheon and fashion show are scheduled for 10 p. m. in the Roney Gardens given by Hartleys of Miami. Tonight barkers and their wives will travel to the Biscayne Fronton to see Jai Alai played. Amongr the 1,000 prominent exhibitors and their wives attending the convention are: Mr. and Mrs. Fred Archibald, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Beresin, Tom Canavan, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Chakeres, Louis Charinsky, Max Cohn, Tom Connors, George Dembow, Mr. and Mrs. W. Elson, H. R. Falls, Al Galston, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gehi-ing, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hiller, Fred Jack, W. K. Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kirsch, W. C. Xunsman, Mrs. Ed Kuykendall. Also C. J. Latta, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lichtman, Mr. W. H. Lollier, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lowenstein, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Lowenstein, William McCraw, Mr. and Mrs. Irving Mack. Mrs. M. A. Mooney, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Nathanson, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Noble, Wm. O'Donnell, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Robb, Mr. Jack Rose, William Sazton, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scully, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Silver, Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Smart, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Switow, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Trotta, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vincent, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Whitaker, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice White and Mrs. Marc J. Wolf. Cleveland's Variety Club In Marine Hospital Gift Cleveland — Variety Club here has presented a complete 16 mm sound equipment and a limited library of films to the Marine Hospital located in Cleveland, as part of its heart program. Zimbalist to Charlotte To Set Calvert P.A's Al Zimbalist, Film Classics adpublicity head leaves today for Charlotte, N. C, where he will set up the forthcoming P. A. tour of John Calvert, starring in "Devil's Cargo." Calvert and his troupe of models will play 20 theaters of the Wilby-Kincey Circuit. «#?#V*V*4 W#V»* ♦♦♦♦>*>♦>♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦>♦•♦>♦>*♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦ Vi£ it «* Send (Birthday QreetingA Ucr April 13 Robert Lowell Donald Duck Molcom Stuart Boylan John Howard ifc jTffj— v\rj£ *»M PHIL M. DALY i$Kttttttr»»&i4tt$&3tttt3$$S»Stttt3ttS$$ Tuesday's Tele-lines • • • THINKING-OUT-LOUD DEP'T: Wonder what TOA will do about Mrs. Nussbaum's lines in last Sunday's Fred Allen broadcast? From the industry viewpoint, they were NOT funny. ... • Mississippi exhibs. and managers getting first day covers bearing the new Mississippi commemoration stamp and souvenir catchets from RKO's Ned E. Depinet They'll be prized by all philatelists. ... • If you don't think Stanton Griffis is doing a helluva job for his Uncle Samuel as U. S. envoy to Poland, read that scurrilous attack made upon him by the Warsaw daily, Zycie Warszawy N. Y. Times broke the story yesterday. ... • Those full-page co-op ads for "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" which have been eye-catching in New York dailies will hit other papers in more than 120 cities Co-op program expenditure will top $500,000. T T ▼ • • • ABC WILL SWAP spot announcements of Henry Morgan's "So This Is New York" on 225 radio stations in return for short trailers plugging the net in theaters, plus co-op material in pressbooks and direct aid from the UA field force. ... • New monthly mag.. Clue, which hits the stands Friday will cover Hollywood, Broadway, radio, tele Clayton Rawson edits from Mamaroneck. ... • Charles Repec. with Metro 25 years, is returning to the sales force in Boston after a stint with B & Q Associates. ... • Rail strike "down under" knocking Aussie theater biz for the proverbial loop. ... • John Garfield, now here for location shooting on "Tucker's People," huddling also wtih Cheryl Crawford on the possible co-production on Broadway of a new translation of Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" in which Garfield would star. ▼ TV • • • SIR ALEXANDER KORDA'S spine-tingling "Mine Own Executioner," released here by 20th-Fox, follows "Arch of Triumph" into the Globe Second Korda pic, "Lost Illusion," will open in New York City in May. ... • "Whitey" Moore, one-time hurler for the Cincy Reds and the St. Louis Cards, is now in film biz as assistant to Urban Anderson, general manager of Tusarawas Amusement's Ulrichsville and Dennison, O., houses. ... 9 National Legion of Decency has put "Anna Karenina," "Hazard," "Letter from an Unknown Woman," "Ruthless" and "Antoine and Antoinette" on its Class B. . . . • Hotel Astor dinner April 26 will launch the Greater New York Fund 1948 campaign. . . . ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • THE TOA. delving into just why juvenile film attendance has hit the downgrade, might give a thought to the double-billing by a Bronx theater of "Bambi" and "Out of the Past" There you have a picture right down the kiddies' alley tied with one that is hardly for the young impressionables. ... • J. Arthur Rank would like to see American religious pix exhibited in British churches And vice versa. of course Remember, it was the religious film which led Br'r Rank into the British film industry. ... • Monty Salmon getting ready to stage the Rivoli's "Know Your Stars" contest with patrons asked to identify 50 portraits now being specially taken on the coast. ... • Talk about not putting your eggs in one basket! Edward Small now has three pix for Columbia release, two on the Eagle Lion slate, three on the UA schedule and, via his subsidiary. Reliance, six coming up for 20thFox! ... • James Brennan, Jr., son of the late RKO Theaters division manager, has joined the managerial staff of Walter Reade Theaters in Asbury Park. ... • Said to be the first French cartoon in Technicolor. "Rhapsody of Saturn" starts Thursday at the Elysee on the bill with "Antoine and Antoinette. ... • First new German pic to be exhibited in London in 10 years has opened Title: "The Murderers Are Among Vft". Write four own comment! r r r lawson Denied Pleas In Trial Beginning (Continued from Page 1) to Justice Edward M. Curran, whci had as U. S. Attorney for the Dis ! trict of Columbia prosecuted simila ( cases in the past. Curran said thi: was insufficient evidence of prejudice and pointed out that he had JL'tlie heard motions made for i-I a'soi \ without being asked to disqualif; himself. Charles Katz of Los Angeles, om of Lawson's attorneys, argued thi motion to transfer the trial to an \ other city. He maintained that ;, number of Government employee; could be expected to be on the jury . He said that Government employee,' have become "intimidated" by thi' House committee's investigations. Lawson, he said, had a right to bi tried "in a community which has no been pre-conditioned." Even though Government em • ployees might serve on the jury Curran said he was certain Lawsoi will get fair consideration. Federal Films to Make Pic from Drew Story Boris Morros, Federal Film; chief, engaged in an open story conference last night with members oi] Geza Herczeg's screen writing seminar at the New School for Socia Research. Story under discussion, "Will Europe Smile Again?" has been approved by Federal for production Proceeds from the sale of the yarr will be divided between the author Bernard Drew, and the Boris Morros Film Foundation which will grant scholarships to aspiring screen writers at the New School. STORKS West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Son born to Mrs. James Mahon here makes Tom Connors a grandpop for a fourth time. Lost Nation, la. — Walter E. Allen, operator of the Nation Theater, has a new son, Jeffrey Esfeld Allen. Jack Romaner, assistant to Lou Kaufman of the Warner home office theater department, became a father for the second time Sunday, with the birth of a son to his wife. Bernie Myerson, Fabian Staten Island booker, became the father of a boy on Friday. The newcomer, will be named Alan Randall. Mrs. Myerson is the former Muriel Friedman. Cleveland — Ernest Schwartz, president and general manager of the Cleveland Motion Picture Exhibitors Association is a grandpappy for the third time. His daughter, Mrs. LoisEckhouse, of Chicago, recently presented him with a second grandson, named John Hays Eckhouw,