The Film Daily (1948)

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CWJwLY Monday, March 22, 194l»r Pittsburgh 10% Tax Already At $225,000 Pittsburgh — The 10 per cent amusement tax placed on the theaters of Pittsburgh Jan. 1 has netted over $225,000 by mid-March, according to the figures released by City Treasurer J. P. Kirk. The "take" for the year 1946 is expected to yield over $1,500,000. The legality of this tax is being challenged in the courts on the basis of its constitutionality by the Lexington Amusement Co., operating a local roller skating rink. City legal advisor is depending on Philadelphia precedents where a similar levy is a veteran of court battles. The City of Pittsburgh is reaching out beyond the city limits for revenue to be gathered wherever a claim can be placed. Under the "Duff Home Rule' slogan, "to tax anything that hasn't been taxed by the state," theaters located outside the city limits whose employes are residents of Pittsburgh, were advised and warned by the school solicitor, M. B. Lesher of the Pittsburgh Board of Education they must help collect the new $5 head tax. According to his interpretation, anyone in Pennsylvania employing a Pittsburgh resident is required by State Law to deduct the per capita tax from the employes' pay earnings. This applies to all who were on the payroll before March 31 and were residents of Pittsburgh before Jan. 1 and were 21 or older on that date. If the person is married, an extra $5 must be taken to cover the wife's tax. He will pay $10 to help support Pittsburgh schools and will in addition pay taxes to support the schools where his residence is located. Telenews-INS Launching Daily Reel Over W6XAO West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Los Angeles — Telenews Prods, in association with International News Service will inaugurate a daily newsreel service for television today over Don Lee station W6XAO here. Daily reel, which will subsequently be made available to stations throughout the country, consists of eight minutes of subjects. Material will be packaged so that it may be easily re-edited if local programming requirements do not make use of the entire reel practical. In addition to Monday through Friday showings, a weekly news digest will be compiled. Negotiations are now under way in New York to provide the service on one of the major video networks. It's in the Bag! Cozad, Neb. — It is a pretty safe bet that Walter Hagedon, local theater owner and community leader, will be the next mayor of this town of 3,000. Two opposing political factions both nominated him for the position. HCiiiciuc n# ii^ni £i| Hi w The Search' with Aline MacMahon, Montgomery Clift, Jarmila Novotna, Ivan Jandl M-G-M 105 Mins. COMES CLOSE TO GREATNESS; WITH THE RIGHT IMPETUS GIVEN IT BY THE EXHIBITOR, THIS FINE FILM STANDS TO LOOM LARGE AND LONG AS AN OUTSTANDING, COMPASSIONATE HUMAN DRAMA. OF GENERAL APPEAL. To put it simply, this film produced by M-G-M in Europe, comes as close to cinematic greatness as anything in recent years. This is an intensely human document. It is deeply stirring. It causes the viewer to experience inner emotions that overflow the limit of physical control. Such realistic feeling as is generated is honest, and genuine. "The Search" might be the first of a forthcoming collection of films financed by American companies to be made in Europe for playing here. There is no foreign "wall" for the American exhibitor to tactically plan his campaign of penetration. These films are as potentially acceptable as native films and the audience should be cultivated in this respect and enlightened. "The Search" is a film that calls for intensive, personal and direct contacts by the exhibitor with his patrons. Ultimately it will be to the advantage of both. Produced for M-G-M by Lazar Wechsler and filmed in the American zone of occupation in and around Nuremburg, Wurzburg, Frankfort and Munich, the scenario lucidly and with compassion inspects one of the most affecting tragedies of the late war. It deals with the problem of displaced children as handled by UNRRA. These children were once prisoners with their parents in concentration camps. In many cases they are orphans, brought to that state by murderous abuse of all that stood for human decency by the Nazi legions. In other cases it is separation and the attempts by children and parents to find one another. Acute understanding of the tragic is constant in the scenario and it is not unduly emphasized. This stark revelation will serve to remind the spectator of an end product of warfare. With about 50 children and four professional actors, Director Fred Zinnemann skillfully displays his story, first as a series of case histories starting with the arrival of a group at a UNRRA depot. It is necessary the youngsters be sorted and an attempt made to reunite them with relatives or send them to homes where they can be properly cared for. The children are frightened, suspicious. There are individual instances where the horror of things seen and experienced has rendered them temporarily incapable of comprehending the efforts put forth in their behalf. Transported in Army ambulances, the children become panic stricken. The vehicles are a reminder of the Nazi method of using such cars for gas chambers. Two boys escape from UNRRA guardians. One drowns, the other is lost sight of also thought drowned. He befriends an American soldier. This child has been badly upset by his experiences and it is a hard task to make him understand he \r among friends, safe from further harm. The G.I., played by Montgomery Clift, and the boy, Ivan Jandl, become fast friends and the child thaws out due to the kind treatment and affection he receives. Clift teaches him basic English. Soon Clift is due to go home however. He advances a plan with Wendell Corey that will enable him to send for young Jandl. With the arrival of another soldier's wife and son, Jandl becomes aware of his lack of a mother and inquires about his parent. He is told she is dead but does not believe it. He runs off and tries unsuccessfully to find her. Clift finds him and it is planned to send him to an UNRRA camp until the time when he can go to Clift in America. But with the alert memory of Aline MacMahon who discovers Jarmila Novotna, who plays the boy's mother, and young Jandl plus Clift, the boy and his parent are brought together. Full poignant essence of the script is pointedly captured in superb direction and photographic quality. The performances, particularly Miss MacMahon, Mme. Novotna and Jandl are in the right key, sensitive and guided by Zinnemann for fullest effect. There will be more films financed from here from Europe; from Germany, Italy, France. "The Search" sets a high mark in accomplishment. It's equal or superior will be a challenge. CAST: Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey, Mary Patton, Ewart G. Morrison, William Rogers, Ivan Jandl, Leopold Borkowski, Claude Gambier. CREDITS: Produced for M-G-M Dy Lazar Wechsler; Directed by Fred Zinnemann; Original screenplay, Richard Schweizer, in collaboration with David Wechsler; Additional dialoque, Paul Jarrico; Photography, Hermann Halter; Musical score, Robert Blum; Technical adviser and military liaison, Therese Bonney. DIRECTION, Excellent. PHOTOGRAPHY, Fine. Bob Helms New Booker Dallas — Robert E. (Bob) Helms has been installed as booker by Screen Guild Productions of Texas. Helms beg'an in the industry in 1915 with the original Metro Company in Chattanooga. Griffith Managers Meeting Oklahoma City — A meeting of all managers in the Griffith Theaters' Oklahoma-Texas division will be called here March 30-31. Discovery Opens N. Y. Office United California Productions has opened a New York story purchase office, Eugene Frenke, president, has announced. Mrs. Mesmore Kendall will head the unit which will be called Discovery, Inc. MOT Revising "Czechoslovakia" March Of Time is revising its 16 mm. Forum Edition of "Czechoslovakia," adding new fooitage to cover recent happenings. Tentative release date is April 15. British Rivalry Will Mean Better U. S. Pix (Continued from Page 1) dent, told a nation-wide NBC radii1 audience Saturday night. Johnston, speaking from Washing3 ton, discussed the new agr Lmen.j with Britain, interpreting itsV ',ac* as he sees it, for the film theater'; mass audience. Johnston's thesis was that insteai, of sacrificing quality as operating costs are reduced, "the end resuL, will be quite the contrary." "The consuming public is alway | a great beneficiary of competition,1, he said. "He gets the better prod] uct. I don't believe the better mous< trap is very often found in a her.1 mit's cabin in the mountains; it i\A usually invented under the lash ant<;; spur of competition by some ener/.v getic soul in the mouse-trap busines_ who is determined he is not going tfff let his competitors get ahead of him. Pj The industry's chief exec, declared that Hollywood is under no illusion'*' as to what the film agreement mean? [ I observing that "our industry novks will be taking out of Britain les than half of what it used to take." !» Johnston told his listeners that th dollar shortage situation faced no only in Britain "but in practicall ■■ all the countries of the world" wil| "continue until war-shattered econoic; mies are restored." Monogram Second Quarte ' Profit Down to $69,029 Monogram and its subsidiaries re*:: port of operations for the seconir quarter ended Dec. 27, 1947, as am: nounced by Prexy Steve Broid&Jfc shows a profit before provision foi; Federal income taxes of $92,214 anr:: a net profit after Federal inconritaxes of $69,029. This compare i-: with a profit of $176,286 before taxetand $112,218 after taxes for the sam^: quarter of 1946. The operations for the 26 week/ended Dec. 27 resulted in a loss be ••: fore Federal income taxes of $75,59! LI and a loss after taxes of $122,98:: The same period for 1946 showed profit before taxes of $344,973 an' after taxes of $216,999. The gross income after eliminatin inter-company transactions for tb 26 weeks ended Dec. 27, amounted t $4,493,218, as compared with T 826,568 for the same period a yeafc' ago. nEUJ POSTS JACK MULLENS, booker, Star Films, New Have JAKE SULLIVAN, general manager, Irving Belr, sky Circuit, Detroit. TOM PAULOS, manager, Franklin, Detroit. LEONARD SALERNO, manager, Romeo, Detroit TOM SCOTT, manager, Shores, St. Clair Short Mich. DAVID MAGAS, manager, Alvin, Detroit. MIKE LEVIN, manager, Moreland, Cleveland. EDWARD STEVENS from booker to salesma Eagle Lion, St. Louis. AMES S. WALSH, Eagle Lion salesman, Seattle