The Film Daily (1948)

»ew Yorfc k, y LE--COPY REMOVE* Intimate in Character International in Scope Independent in Thought The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Twenty-Nine Years Old BT^IFDAILY1 i/OL 1 NO. 60 NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1948 TEN CENTS STHRS 111 POLITICHL PIK OKRV II * Pick 34 Pix For Campaign MPAA Ad-Publicity Cannittee headed by Maurice Bergman will employ preview list of ^ top pix in plans for national aliUndustry campaign to tell public balance of 19^8 and period well into I9U9 will witness era of b.o. product of exceptional quality. Ixploitation will use special trailer, press, radio, magazines. Funeral Services Today for Stern Funeral services will be held at Riverside Memorial Chapel today for Charles K. Stern, Loew's assistant treasurer for the past 28 years, who died suddenly on Friday of a heart seizure. Video Pix Via Majors-Lasky Philadelphia— Major studios will be making short films "as a matter of course" for tele at a day "not far distant," Jesse L. Lasky said in an interview here which was carried by the CBSTV net Ban Would he "Paltry, Shoddy Americanism," Johnston Says In MPAA Reply to PCC WashingtonEric Johnston has told R.H. Poole, PCCITO executive secretary, he "most emphatically" disagrees with Pooles position that stars should not appear in "political propaganda films, including newsreels." A Government such as ours, Johnston said, "is threatened whenever any one person is deprived, directly or indirectly, of his right to exercise his political sovereignty to the fullest extent. . .motion picture stars belong to the public but in a broader sense this relation ship in no way sterilizes their rights and duties as American citizens." To take the action Poole proposed, said Johnston, would be "paltry, shoddy Americanism." 20 P.C. AMUSEMENT TAX FOR ONT. loronto-Ontario's Legislature overwhelmingly approved a bill to impose a 20 per cent amusement tax in the Province. Move follows weeks of discussion, with the bill designed to take up the Dominion tax. Vote was 60 to four. AA-MONO. MAP SALES POLICIES Milwaukee — Allied Artists-Monogram franchise holders met here Saturday, Prexy Steve Broidy, presiding, to set sales policies. WILL RESUBMIT ASCAP CHECKS Some Allied units are advising their members to resubmit to ASCAP any check that the Society returns on the basis of lack of contract. ASCAP practice, reported, is to tell exhib that check cannot be accepted because no account exists to which payments can be credited. Allied view is to continue paying in accordance with published rates, but to sign no contract until various suits pending are cleared. No $ Here For Britain's Stars Washing ton-MPA prexy Eric Johnston expects the American industry to benefit by from two to three million dollars this year from that provision in the new accord with London whereby dollars need no longer be paid British film stars for their appearances in Hollywood productions. The star 8 themselves have drawn sterling right along, but until now their American employers have paid the dollars to the British Treasury; hereafter no dollars will be turned over. Provision is expected to provide a spur to Hollywood employment of British talent Munson Flying With Skoui Gen. Lyman Munson, Jr. , of the 20th-Fox studio flies to London today with Spyros P. Skouras to check on U.K. production possibilites for Fox. First Fox British pic will be "Britannia Mews," \LM DAILY'S "New Look" Today Is Occasioned by the N.Y. Printers Strike