The Film Daily (1948)

IHEl DAILY Wednesday, July 7, 1948 Vol. 94, N 0. 4 Wed., J uly7. 1948 lOCts. JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate and General Publisher 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 LOXIJON— Ernest W. Frednian, The J'ilm Kenter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. 1. HAV.AX.\— JIary Louise Blanco, Vlrtlides 214. BOMBAY — Ram L. Gogtay, KJlab Mahal, 190 Hornby Rd., Fort, Bombay 1. ALGIERS — Paul Saffar, Filmafric, 8 Rue Charras. MOXTBEAI^— Ray Carmichael. Room 9, 464 Francis Theater Bldg. SYDNEY— Boivden Fletcher, 19 Mo.xon Ave.. Punchbowl, N. S. Phone, UY 2110. BRUSSELS— ,Tean Pierre Me.vs, 110 Rue des Paqucrettes. rOPENHAGEX— John Lindberg, Jernbanealle No. 3, Copenhagen-Van Loese, ROME — .John Perdicari. Via Ludovisi 16. Phone, 427.i8. MEXICO CITY — Jay Kaner — c/o American Chamber of Commerce — San Juan de Letran 24. FinAnciAL {July 6) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Am. Sect 2614 Columbia Picts 103^ Columbia Picts. pfd.. 74 East. Kodak 43% East. Kodak pfd 172 Gen. Prec. Eq ISVz Loew's, Inc 17% Paramount 23% RKO 9 Republic Pict 4 Republic Pict. pfd. . 93^ 20th Century-Fox . . 213/8 20th Century-Fox. pfd. 35% 20th Century-Fox ppf. 99 Universal Pict I2V4 Warner Bros 1 1 1/2 NEW YORK CURB RKO 23/a Sonofone Corp 3% Technicolor 123/) Trans-Lux 5 OVER THE CO Cinecolor Pathe . . Low Close 261/4 26 'A 103/4 103/4 74 74 423/4 43% 172 172 151/4 151/4 17% 173/4 231/2 231/2 83/4 83/4 3% 37/8 93/4 93/4 211/8 213/8 353/8 353/8 99 99 12 12 H1/4 111/4 MARKET 21/4 21/4 3% 37/8 12% 123/4 5 5 UNTER Bid 33/4 43/4 Net Chg. + 1/8 + % — % — 1/4 — 1/8 — 1/4 + 1/8 + % 1/8 + + Vs 1/8 '/s + 1/8 Asked 4% 51/4 RZO Trims Chicago Scales Chicago — RKO has trimmed morning scales at the Palace and Gem Theaters to 50 cents, meeting the reduction made by the B & K Loop houses. EDITORS fc DISTRIBUTORS SPAI^ISH AMERICAIV ^VEWSWItCl 252 W. 46th ST., N. Y. ig. N. Y. PL. 7-4816 cominc nno Goinc JEAN HERSHOLT arrived in London yesterday. BUDD ROGERS, Realart's vice-president, is back from visits to the Pittsburgh and Cleveland exchanges. WILLIAM Z. PORTER, head of Monogram and Allied Artists contract department in the West, left Hollywood yesterday for a two-month tour of exchanges in Denver, Salt Lake City and Midwestern branches. DEANE DICKASON, who has arrived in San Francisco after a lecture tour, is to visit Hollywood in mid-July to start production preparations for several new color travel films. BERNARD J. GATES, Monogram's Latin American supervisor, has arrived in Panama from Mexico City. CHARLES SAMUELS, of Motion Picture Magazine, is on his annual six-week junket to Hollywood to select this year's candidates for the magazine's yearly series, "Stars of Tomorrow." DON CASTLE is visiting his family in Houston and will proceed to location at Tyler before July 12 for opening scenes of "Strike It Rich." WILLIAM SNYDER, of THE FILM DAILY staff, is vacationing on Cape Cod. HARRY BLAIR, RKO Radio's trade press contact, is vacationing. JOE PRIORE, of THE FILM DAILY staff, returned over the week-end from a Southern vacation. TONY MARTIN and his wife, CYD CHARISSE, are due from England today aboard the Queen Mary. Newsreels Support TOA Youth Month Campaign Newsreel support of TOA's Youth Month Campaign is evidenced with the release beginning today, by all newsreels, of scenes of two youth camps near Kansas City, Mo., where 150 boys and girls are not only enjoying two weeks in tjie outdoors, but are also receiving vital lessons in self-government. Bill Burch, of Fox Movietone News, shot the scenes which have been serviced to all companies in accordance with the promise of cooperation which newsreel editors recently gave Charles P. Skouras, Chairman of the TOA Youth Month Committee. Co-op Film Delivery Seeks More Texas Area Members Tyler, Tex. — Film Transit Association, cooperative plan introduced by S. G. Fry, local theater owner, has invited other area theater operators to join the project, now serving 12 houses. Fry claims a saving of 40 per cent under previous costs of film transportation service. British Lion's Net Up; Dividend Again at 30% London (B Cable) — British Lion's net before taxes for the fiscal year jumped from £105,590 to £180,154, with a 30 per cent dividend as the previous year. "Urubu" Via United Artists West Coast Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Hollywood — George Breakston and Yorke Coplen, explorer-producers for World-Adventure Prods., Inc., have completed a deal with United Artists for the release of "Urubu . . . The Vulture People." NICK MAMULA, of SRO, is back from an Easthampton vacation. MARLYN KNOLL, secretary to Rudy Berger, M-G-M Southern sales manager, is in town from Washington on vacation. FRED QUIMBY, M-G-M short subject production head, will arrive from the Coast July 19. CLARK GABLE will arrive from the Coast today enroute to England for a vacation. He sails July 9 on the Queen Mary. DONALD CRISP will sail July 14 on the S. S. America for his first visit to England in a number of years. SIDNEY FRANKLIN is due from the Coast July 21 and will sail July 23 on the Nieuw Amsterdam for Paris. ANN MILLER returned to the Coast yesterday by plane. JOSEPH HAZEN, president of Hal Wallis Prods., has arrived in Hollywood from New York with his wife and two daughters for a stay of several weeks. JOSEPH ESLER, Chicago rep. of THE FILM DAILY, is vacationing in Wisconsin. SCOTT BRADY, whose first starring role is in Eagle Lion Films' "Canon City," will arrive in New York today for radio shows and interviews. CHARLES LEDERER has returned to Hollywood from New York to do the script of Pioneer's "The Broadway Story." JACQUELINE WHITE is in Guthrie, Okla., for the premiere today of "Return of the Bad Men." SRO's Kusell to Coast; Exchange Tour Follows Milton S. Kusell, SRO vice-president in charge of domestic and Canadian sales, left New York yesterday for Hollywood where he will confer with David 0. Selznick and then make a tour of SRO Western and Pacific Coast Exchanges. During his tour of the exchanges which will last from two to three weeks, Kusell will make circuit deals for "Duel in the Sun," "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," and "The Paradine Case." Melvyn Douglas to Make Two Features in France West Coast Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Hollywood — Melvyn Douglas Enterprises has been formed by the star, in association with Victor Trivas, to make two films in France. First will be "Yank in Paris," from a story by Trivas, to be followed by "You Were Away," by Trivas and Douglas. 20th-Fox Toppers Back After Studio Look-See Twentieth-Fox's Andy W. Smith, Jr., W. C. Gehring, Murray Silverstone, and Charles Schlaif er, who attended studio conferences last week were back at their desks yesterday with enthusiastic reports on the company's pix for release during the last half of 1948. Schlaif er said the home ^J^ce group saw four completed pic^ s, "The Snake Pit," "Unfaithluily Yours," "Martin Rome" and "When My Baby Smiles at Me." The home office group also viewed the uncompleted "The Luck of the Irish" and "Apartment For Peggy," and saw scenes filmed for "Yellow Sky" and "Chicken Every Sunday." All are on the release schedule for the last five months of 1948. Members of the home office adpublicity department who also returned were Stirling Silliphant, Christy Wilbert and Louis Shanfield. Paluguay, Para. Manager For Spain, Dies Suddenly Nicholas G. Paluguay, Paramount manager for Spain, died last Wednesday in a Barcelona hospital five hours after his admission, the home office was advised yesterday. Paluguay, who joined Para, in 1925, was enroute to Barcelona from Madrid when stricken. He was Para, manager in Bulgaria during the period of enemy occupation, and subsequently joined the MPEA in a similar capicity, returning to Para, in Spain two years ago. You Will Find II In The Year Book l/c-'-} Whether you want to know the work of a player, or the officers of an industry organization, or when a picture was released or a thousand and one other facts of information on Motion Pictures, you will find it in the 1948 YEAR BOOK of MOTION PICTURES JUST OFF THE PRESS Your check for $10.00 (foreign $15.00) brings you this unsurpassed reference volume in addition . to THE FILM DAILY five ) days each week and all ' special editions. THE FILM DAILY , 1501 Broadway New York 18, N. Y