The Film Daily (1948)

Tuesday, March 16, 1 94; Vol. 93, No. 51 Tues., March 16, 1948 10 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate Publisher 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. Phnnn: 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 Filnj Renter. 127-133 Wardour St., W. 1. HAVANA— Mary Louise Blanco. Virtudes 214. BOMBAY — Ram L. Gogtay. Kitab Mahal. 190 Hornby Rd.. Fort. Bombay 1. ALGIERS — Paul SafTar, Filmafrtc. 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL— Ray Carmlchael, Room 9. 464 Francis Xavier St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. SYDNEY — Bowden Fletcher. 19 Moxon Ave., runchbowl. N. S. Phone. UY 2110. BRUS rlflAfiCIAL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Am. Seat 173/8 173/8 173/8 Bell & Howell 19'/8 19'/8 19'/8 Columbia Picts. vtc. 12 11% 11% East. Kodak 39l/2 38% 39l/2 Loew's, Inc 18 1 7 1/2 17'/2 Paramount 20% 20'/4 20'/4 RKO 8% 8% 8% Republic Pict 4% 4 4 Republic Pict. pfd... 9% 9% 93/4 20th Century-Fox . .. 21% 21% 21% 20th-Cent.-Fox pfd. . 345/8 343/8 34% Universal Pict 14% 14% 14% Universal Pict. pfd. 66 66 66 Warner Bros 12% 1 1% 12 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 3 3 3 RKO 2 1 7/g 2 Net Chg. Vt % % % % y4 OVER THE COUNTER Asked 5% 4% ^STORAGE Film Storage ir proof Vaults Modern Fire. . part of 'BONDED'S 3-WAY SERVICE" Film Storage Film Fxehange Service Air Conditioned Screening Room BONDED FILM STORAGE CO., INC. m. cominG mid GomG J. CHEEVER COWDIN planed in from London today, preceding NATE J. BLUMBERG, CHARLES PRUTZMAN and JOSEPH H. SEIDELMAN, due by boat at the week-end. Paramount ad-publicity-exploitation executives returning to their desks yesterday after conferences on the Coast included PAUL RAIBOURN, BEN WASHER, STANLEY SHUFORD, RUDY MONTGELAS (Buchanan Agency), PAUL ACKERMAN and REX TAYLOR. SID MESIBOV and RUSSELL HOLMAN return today. JAMES R. GRAINGER, Republic executive vicepresident in charge of sales and distribution, has returned to New York, following a five-week trip during which he visited Charlotte, Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. NORMAN CLARK, film critic of the Baltimore News-Post, will visit Hollywood shortly. KARL HERZOG, Cinecolor executive, is in New York to confer with President Joseph Bernhard of Film Classics. BERT M. STEARN, Screen Guild franchise holder, returned to Pittsburgh yesterday via Constallation, after sessions in the Hollywood home office. DEBORAH KERR is at the Waldorf. STEVE BROIDY, Monogram and Allied Artists president, is in Boston for a few days. HARRY K. McWILLIAMS, Columbia exploitation chief, leaves New York today for Rochester, Toronto, Buffalo and Detroit. ALFRED HITCHCOCK, expected in New York yesterday, deferred his Eastern jaunt until next week. EDDIE SILVERMAN, Essaness prexy, and his wife are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a trip to California. HARRY ROSENQUEST, Warner Bros, theater department executive, goes to Philadelphia today returning^ New York the end of the week. WALTON C. AMENT, vice-president and general manager of Warner Pathe News, returned from Washington today where he attended conferences of newsmen with Secretary of Defense Forrestal on voluntary censorship. IKE and HARRY KATZ, Kay Film Exchanges execs., have arrived from Atlanta and are stopping at the Astor Hotel. GEORGE RAFT, who arrived in New York from Morocco on Sunday, entrained last night for Hollywood. Foreign Managers Meet On Chile and Colombia Foreign managers at a meeting yesterday discussed the Chilean and Columbian film situations. Dismiss 2 in Mossotti Suit St. Louis — Anti-trust suit filed by Victor G. Mossotti, against Fanchon & Marco, St. Louis Amusement Co. and several motion picture distributors, has been voluntarily dismissed against PRC and Eagle Lion. Mossotti is a former lessee of the Shubert Theater. Pegler at Video Seminar Syracuse — Jack Pegler of Jerry Fairbanks, Inc., will speak today at the first day of a three-day television seminar, scheduled by General Electric at Electronics Park. Pegler will talk on films and television. About 125 are expected to attend the sessions, which run through Thursday. CANDY AND POPCORN SPACE AVAILABLE IN EIGHT THEATERS. LICENSEE TO PAY GOODWILL OR ADVANCED RENTAL. OTHERS NEED NOT APPLY. CALL BETWEEN 10 A.M. and 5 P.M. ONLY. CIRCLE 5-4247 Colbert-Skirball-Manning Form New Producing Co. JOHN DALL arrives in New York following completion of "Rope," on holiday trip. IRVING MACK of Filmack, Chicago, was a New York visitor at the week-end. WINIFRED CUTLER, secretary to Col. William McCraw, national executive director of Variety Clubs International, has arrived in Miami to help co-ordinate plans for the 12th Annual Convention of Variety Clubs International April 12-17. JULES LAPIDUS, Warners Eastern sales manager, has returned from a trip to the company's Pittsburgh and Cleveland offices. R. E. WARN, newly appointed chief of engineering of the Westrex Corporation, has arrived in New York from Australia to take over his new duties. DON SWARTZ, head of the Independent Film Distributors, Astor Pictures' outlet in Minneapolis and Milwaukee, is in New York for a business conference with "Bob" Savini, president of Astor. JESSE L. LASKY has arrived from the Coast to attend the world premiere of "The Miracle of the Bells," at the Rivoli Today. JAY EISENBERG of M-G-M's legal department, and IRVING HELFONT of the home office sales department, have returned from Montreal. ELLIOTT FOREMAN of M-G-M's exploitation department has returned from a trip to the Southwest. LOU FORMATO, Philadelphia M-G-M manager, and HARRY ROSENBLATT, New Haven head, have returned to their respective offices following a meeting here with John P. Byrne, Eastern sales manager. MERLE OBERON is touring Europe with her husband, LUCIEN BALLARD, with stops at St. Moritz, Spain, Morocco, Italy and England planned between now and the end of April. LEAH SALISBURY, on her way back to New York, stopped off over the week-end to see her clients David and Ruth Lamson in San Francisco. HAL WALLIS is at the Waldorf from the Neumade to Enlarge Factory in Buffalo Oscar F. Neu, president of Neumade Products Corp., leaves for Buffalo on Thursday to attend a class reunion. Neu will also visit Neumade's Buffalo factory to complete arrangements for the enlargement of manufacturing facilities there. The constant growth of the 35 mm. industry, coupled with the increasing demand for 16 mm. equipment, indicates that previous estimates of productive capacity necessary in the immediate future, will have to be considerably increased to maintain expanding shipping schedules. Neu will return to New York on March 23. -wroRK lriLMACl [ S5 STRSET IBZT^obas^hKogg West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — C 1 a u d e 1 1 e Colbert Jack H. Skirball and Bruce Mannin; have organized a new producine^oin pany. As their first picture^»y'l make "The Soft Touch" by^Pep Fields and Fred Kohner, in whic Miss Colbert will star. The pictur should start shooting by June 15t> Crestwood to Make Trio West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Crestwood Picture; Inc., has been formed with Robert I Lippert as president and Carl K Hittleman as producer, to releas through Screen Guild. First three pictures will be "Re turn of Wildfire," "Last of the Wil Horses" and an as yet untitled do story. Wolfe Cohen in Manila Manila (By Cable)— Wolfe Cohei Warner Int'l vice-president in charg of Far Eastern and Latin-America distribution, arrived here over th weekend on a tour of inspection wit Clifford E. Almy, general manage of Warner interests in Manila. Testimonial for Reingold St. Louis — Ben B. Reingold, wh resigned as manager of the 20th-Fo exchange he"re, yesterday was tei dered a farewell testimonial luncl eon in the Sheraton-Coronado Hote Reingold leaves shortly for Cal fornia where he will make his hom Van Upp Leaves Columbia West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — The five year associ; tion of producer-writer Virginia Va Upp and Columbia was terminate over the weekend by mutual consen COME TO THE FETTER FAMILY HOTELS On S. Kentucky Ave., near Beach ATJ^ajtmccity Jefferson AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLANS Delicious Meals Sun Deck & Solarium overlooking Ocean. 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