The Film Daily (1948)

W'l^ DAILY Monday, August 2, 1948 Vol. 94, No. 22 Mon., August 2, 1948 10 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate Publislier 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 Jiseph Ester, 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 2M. BOHrBAY — Ram L. Oogtay, Kitab Malial, 190 Hornby Rd., Fort, Bombay 1. ALGIERS — Paul SafTar, Fllmafrlc, 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL — Ray Carmlchael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xheater BIdg. SYDNEY — Bowden Fletcher, 19 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. Phone, UY 2110. BRUS.•5ELS — Jean Pierre Jfeys, 110 Rue des Paquerettes. rOPENHAGEN — John Llndberg, Jembanealle No. 3. f'openhagen-Yan Loese. ROJrE>— John Perdlcarl. Via Ludovisi 16. Phone, 42758. MEXICO CITY — Jay Kaner — c/o American Chamber of Commerce — San Juan de Letran 24. nnnnciflL = (July 301 =; NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Am. Seat 261/8 25 251/2 Bell & Howell pfd 100 993^ 993^ Columbia Picts 9% 91/2 95/8 East. Kodak 41 1/2 41% 41 '/a East. Kodak pfd. .156 166 166 Gen. Prec. Eq 15 I41/2 15 Loew's, Inc I6I/8 16 16 Paramount 221/8 2II/2 213^ RKO 77/8 73/4 77/8 Republic Pict 31/2 31/2 31/2 Republic Pict. pfd.. .9 9 9 20th Century-Fox I91/4 173^ ^8^/g 20fi Century-Fox pfd. 343^ 345/8 343/4 20th Centurv-Fox ppf. 981/, 981/2 981/, Universal Pict lOl'n 10 lOVa Warner Bros lOV, IOI/4 IOI/2 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. . 4l/i 4 4'/4 RKO 2 17/8 17/8 Sonotone Corp 35/; 3V2 35/) Technicolor 121^ II3/4 12Vs Trans-Lux 43^ 45/o 4% OVER THE COUNTER Bid Cinecolor 4% Pathe 37/^ Net Chg. — % — 33/4 + Vs — Vi — Vr — l/f Ask^d 45A 43/8 Seek Date for Suit Hearing Chicago — Towne Theaters Milwaukee anti-trust case will be heard by Federal Judge Barnes as soon as the court finds open date. MLST SELL An old established Film LibraryConsisting of all types of shots, opportunity for TELEVISION. Box 222 The FILM DAILY 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood 28, Colif. ■35mm. Great cominc ARD Goinc ANN SHERIDAN is spending the week in New York. _ _ JACK HASTY, Jerry Fairbanks writer, is in Detroit to gather story material for a new sponsored film. FRED ZINNEMANN and his family are on a short vacation in San Francisco. JACK CUMMINCS, Metro producer, has returned to the Coast from Chicago where he has been supervising the shooting of location scenes for "The Life of Monty Stratton." EDWIN KNOPF, Metro producer, returned to Hollywood from London and New York Sunday. CHARLES MOSKOWITZ, Loew's vice-president and treasurer, has returned to New York after three weeks of meeting with L. B. Mayer and studio executives. IDA KOVERMAN, of the Metro studio, leaves Saturday for a business trip to Sacramento. GERALD FAIRLIE, English author, is here enroute to London, following completion of the script on Metro's "The Conspirator." LEON J. BAMBERGER, RKO sales promotion manager, will return today from a vacation at Lake Minnetonka, Minn. HERBERT BERG, of Eagle Lion's publicity department, returns today from a Murray Bay, Ont., vacation. MERRIMAN H. HOLTZ, of Portland, Ore., first vice-president of NAVED, will attend the Chicago convention of the Association August 8-11. FRANCES OSBORNE, of Hygienic Prods, home ofice publicity staff, is vacationing in Blowing Rock resort in the Blue Ridge Mountoins. Prior to her return, she will visit New York and Saratoga Springs. WINFIELD ANDRUS, news editor of THE FILM DAILY, is vocotioning. JOSEPH BIRSTEIN, FILM DAILY staff writer, returns today from a Loke George vacation. WILLIAM FRIEBERG has returned from on Ogunquit, Me., vacation. BERNIE ARONS, of THE FILM DAILY editorial staff, returns today from a Canadian vacation. H. M. RICHEY, M-G-M exhibitor relations head, is due back today from a visit to French Lick. Ind., and Cincinnati. HERBERT CROOKER, M-G-M publicity manager, returns today from a brief vocation spent cruising around local waters on his sloop. SAM SHAIN, of 20th-Fox, goes to Chicago tonight. Eight to be Filmed at Republic During August M'csf Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Holllywood— With "Wake of the Red Witch" and "The Far Frontiei'" currently before the cameras at Republic Studio, six other films will be started this month to mark the most active production period since the war days, according to Allen Wilson, vice-president in charge of studio production. One of the features will mark the first independent production at the valley studio by an outside producer. Starters this month will include: "Rose of the Yukon," "Sundown in Santa Fe," an untitled medium budgeter; "The Missourians," first of the Allan "Rocky" Lane series and "Too Late for Tears," a Hunt Stromberg production, which inaugurates Republic's new policy of opening its stages to independent producers. Gidwitz Brothers Buy Johnson Chair Company Chicago — Gidwitz Bros., owners of NATCO Co., manufacturers of projection machines, have purchased the 80-year-old Johnson Chair Co. TOM ROGERS, M-G-M radio contact, will return today from Phoenix, Ariz., after attending the funeral of his mother. RUDY BERGER, M-G-M Southern sales manager, and CHARLES E. KESSNICH, district manager, have returned to their Washington and Atlanta headquarters following home office conferences. salesman for Pamo Film visiting the Astor Pic GEORGE SUSSMAN, Exchange, Buffalo, is tures home office. MILTON S. KUSELL, SRO vice-president in charge of domestic and Canadian sales, has returned from three weeks of Hollywood conferences with David 0. Selznick and Paul MacNamara. MAX E. YOUNGSTEIN, Eagle Lion vice-president and ad-publicity-exploitation director, is in Cincinnati today in connection with the Bill Heineman Soles Drive. LOUELLA 0. PARSONS returns to Hollywood today from New York. GEORGE BROWN, Para's ad-publicity director at the studio, is stopping at the St. Regis during his New York visit. NICHOLAS JOY arrived in Hollywood from New York yesterday. HUGH OWEN, Para's Eastern and Southern soles manager, will return to his desk in the home office today, fololwing a week of conferences in the Paramount branches in Atlanta and Jacksonville. DREW EBERSON, theater architect, left for Mexico City yesterday. Form Gramercy to Handle German Pic Gramercy Films, Inc., has been formed by Joseph Green, Michael Hyams and Alexander Parkson. Company will distribute "Marriage in the Shadows," German film produced in postwar Berlin. Green and Hyams, via their own firm, Globe Film Distributors, have acquired U. S. rights to "The Wandering Jew," Italian pic, and the Swedish "Waiting Room for Death." Complete List of DIRECTORS and their tvorh will be found completely covered in the 1948 YEAR BOOK of MoHon Pictures 30th Edition • '^ow Being Distributed Free To Subscribers of THE FILM DAILY 1501 B'way, New York Basic Steering Committee for Anti-Censor Activity While full details of names and units aire unavailable at present, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union, which is tied in with the Committee for Freedom from Censorship, disclosed Friday that a basic steering committee ha^j^Ven set up and a number of subc^jg^jiittees named for exploratory investigation into the potential combatting of future censorship laws similar to the Cunningham measure. The Cunningham Bill, introduced in the City Council in April, was vigorously opposed both within the City Council, by the ACLU and the film industry— the MPAA, the MMPTA and the ITOA acting vigorously. Hold Mono. Chi. Sales Meet at Drake Aug. 7 Chicago — Monogram will hold a sales meeting at the Drake Hotel, beginning Aug. 7, with Steve Broidy heading the sessions. Plans for the local preem of "The Babe Ruth Story" are also reported under way. Sack in New Offices Sack Amusement Enterprises has moved its local office to .354 W. 44th St. NEW YORK THEATERS -^ RADIO CITY MUSIC HAll __ Rockefeller Center BING JOAN CROSBY . FONTAINE in "THE EMPEROR WALTZ" Color by TECHNICOLOR A Paramount Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION ^^' scamttnc^^iir m tmonrnto ( ROY DEL RUTH'S "iHHE 1 BABE RUTH STORY