The Film Daily (1948)

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Tuesday, March 2, 19481 Vol. 93, N o. 41 Tues , March 2, 1948 lOCts. JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate Publishei and General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN : Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President; Donald M. Mersereau, Vice President and Treasurer; Patti Alicoate, Vice President and Secretary. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable address Filmday, New York. WEST COAST OFFICES Ralph Wilk, Manager 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone: Granite 6607 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older 6417 Dahlonega Rd. Phone: Wisconsin 3271 CHICAGO BUREAU Joseph Esler, Chief C. L. Esler 6241 N. Oakley Ave. Phone: Briargate 7441 STAFF CORRESPONDENTS LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter. 127-133 Wardour St., W. 1. HAVANA— Mary Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. BOMBAY — Ram L. Gogtay, Kitab Mahal, 190 Hornby Bd., Fort, Bombay 1. ALGIERS — Paul Saffar, Filmafric, 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL— Ray CarmUhael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavler St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bids. SYDNEY --Itmvdcn Fletcher. 19 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. Phone, UY 2110. BRUS finAnciAL {March 1) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 17 17 17 Bell & Howell 183/4 18% 1834— 14 Columbia Picts. vtc. 10y4 10 10V4 ■+ 14 East. Kodak 39y8 395/8 3978 + 3/4 Gen. Prec. Eq 14V4 141/4 14'A Loew's, Inc 16% 16 16 — Vss Paramount 183/4 18% 18%— % RKO 7% 7l/4 7% + % Republic Pict 33/8 33/8 33/8 Republic Pict. pfd... 9 9 9 + % 20th Century-Fox ... 19/2 19i/8 19/i Universal Pict 11 14 lll/8 11 14 Warner Bros 11% 11 11% NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 3 2% 2% RKO l'/2 1% 1% Sonotone Corp 3V> 33/4 33/s — l/s Technicolor 12% 12 12 Trans-Lux 5% 5% 5% OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Cinecolor 4^ 5% Pathe 3% 4 $& STORAGE Film Storage in Modern Fireproof Vaults . . . part of "BOKDED'S 3-WAY SERVICE" • Film Storage » Film Ixchange Service » Air Conditioned Screening Room I BONDED "VST COfllMG flRB GOIRCS JOHN J. JONES, president, Screen Guild Productions, arrives in Chicago today from the Coast. ROBERT L. LIPPERT, Screen Guild vice-president in charge of distribution, returned to San hancisco from Hollywood over the week-end. STEVE BROIDY, prexy of Allied Artists, left over the week-end for Amarillo, Texas, accompanied by the cast which recently completed "Panhandle." AL ZIMBALIST, ad-publicity chief of Film Classics, returned last Sunday to the home office after a week's trip to the West Coast. ROBERT S. TAPLINGER, vice-president in charge of advertising and publicity for Enterprise, has returned to New York from a brief vacation in Nassau, to confer with George J. Schaefer, Fred Polangin, United Artists and Donahue & Coe, on plans for the New York launching of "Arch Of Triumph." Reserve Funds Put Coast Appeal Up to Its Quota West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Utilizing funds collected last year and refused by the American Red Cross and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Permanent Charities Committee put the Third Annual United Appeal over the to^ when the .solicitation reached 90 per cent of goal, Edward Arnold, campaign chairman, revealed. As a result 193 charitable agencies will receive an aggregate of $1,312,190 in allocations — 100 per cent of the amounts promised. Fourth United Appeal, to cover the 1949 charity year, will be held early this Fall, it was announced. V. U. Young, Pioneer Indiana Exhib., Dead Miami Beach, Fla. — Verner U. Young, 69, owner of Y. & W. Management Corp. of Indianapolis, died at his Winter home on Normandy Isle. Young, who retired as president of Y. & W. about five years ago, in 1911 organized the Gary Theater Co. to build the former Orpbeum Theater, the Broadway and the Palace. Circuit was extended at one time to operate in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and currently has 27 theaters in -Indiana, headquartering in Indianapolis. Survivors include his wife, Doris; a son, and a daughter. Interment will be in Gary. 81 U. S. Pix Permitted In Denmark in 10 Months Copenhagen (By Air Mail)— U. S. distributors will be permitted to release 81 features in Denmark during the next 10 months, under the agreement with the Ministry of Trade which went into effect yesterday. Companies may remit 500,000 kroner ($250,000) during the period, with the remainder of earnings to be used for purchases in this country. Earnings for the past several months have all been used by distributors to refurbish their local offices, under an agreement reached in January. S. J. A. MCCARTHY, U-l Canadian and Southern sales manager, will leave today for Charlotte. B. G. KRANZE, world-wide sales head of Film Classics, is still en route from L. A. to N. Y. with stop-over at 'Frisco. JOEL BEZAHLER, M-G-M sales executive, returned over the week-end from Chicago. MORT SPRING, vice-president of Loew's Int'l, has returned from the Coast, where he had been vacationing. HENRY L. NATHANSON, president of M-G-M Films of Canada, left the Coast yesterday for his Toronto headquarters. He had been vacationing with his wife in California. Sir Philip Warter Will Be WB Luncheon Guest Sir Philip A. Warter, chairman and director of Associated British Pictures, Ltd., an associate corporation of Warners, is being tendered a luncheon today in the Empire Suite of the Waldorf-Astoria at which he will formally meet the WB home office executives. Max Milder, managing director of Warner Bros. Pictures, Ltd., and of Associated British Pictures, Ltd., will introduce Sir Philip. Attending the luncheon will be Joseph Hummel, Samuel Schneider, Robert Perkins, Stanleigh P. Friedman, Harold Bareford, Ben Kalmenson, Harry Kalmine, Mort Blumenstock, Samuel Carlisle, Herman Starr, W. S. McDonald, Jack L. Warner, Jr., Karl MacDonald, John J. Glynn, Norman Moray and G. R. Keyser. Sir Philip and Lady Warter entrain for Los Angeles on Friday to meet Harry M. and Jack L. Warner. Clearance is Eliminated In Cincinnati Decision Cincinnati — Holding there is no substantial competition between the Vogue and Emery theaters, Arbiter Anthony B. Dunlap ruled that neither house should have clearance over the other, and that the Vogue is entitled to the same 29-day availability as the Emery. Clearance dispute was filed by Herman Hunt and Maurice Chase, operators of the Vogue, against Loew's. Gross Promoted to RKO's Studio Production Cabinet Tele Film Co-ordinating Com. to Report in April Initial reports of the recentlynamed Television Film Coordinating Committee will be made at the Third National Television Institute and Industry Trade Show, to be held in the Hotel New Yorker, April 19-21, Irwin A. Shane, general chairman, announced yesterday. FILM SALESMAN WANTED FOR SMALL COMPANY HANDLING SPECIALTY PICTURES TO SELL DIRECTLY TO THEATRES THROUGHOUT COUNTRY. MUST BE WILLING TO TRAVEL. MUST BE TOP NOTCH MAN. Box No. 174 1501 Broadway THE FILM DAILY New York 18 West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Elevation of Jack Ji Gross to the RKO production cabinel as an assistant to Dore Schary, production chief, in charge of pre-filming analysis of production costs announced. Gross has been an ex. ecutlve producer at RKO fp^ th past five years. gr Gross' new department is 'part o: the move to eliminate waste in pr< duction and to assure a proper vali ation in budgets with respect to bo: office potentialities. He joins J Nolan, Edgar Peterson, Willia Fadiman and Leon Goldberg in t production cabinet. UOPWA Would Renew Home Office Contracts Film companies' home offices arn six other big business groups wer singled out by the UOPWA as "con centration points" for the entire un ion to start negotiating for contrac renewals. This move was reveale yesterday in the Officers Report t 600 delegates at the opening day' Seventh Constitutional Conventio; of the United Office & Professions Workers of America, CIO, at th Hotel St. George in Brooklyn. 20th-Fox Sets Dividends For Quarter on 3 Issues Twentieth-Fox's board of directo: yesterday declared a quarterly c dividend of 50 cents a share on ou1 standing common, of 37% cents o outstanding convei*tible preferre and of $1.12% on outstanding prio preferred. First two are payabL March 31 to holders of record March 10. Latter is payable Marcl 15 to holders of record on March 1G Here we are at 245 W. 55TH ST, Ready to serve you with NEW finest special announcement trailer YORK PHONE U you haven't tried Filmack's PLAZA quality and rapid service, send us 7-3809 your next order and be agreeably surprised. 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