The Film Daily (1938)

3* DAILY Monday, November 14, 19: WB 3RD SEARS DRIVE TO START XMAS DAY (Continued from Page 1) name to the campaign was on motion of Major Warner and unanimously adopted. As before, Leserman will function as co-ordinator. First pix to be released for the drive will be "Dawn Patrol"; set to -follow are "Wings of the Navy," "Crime Is a Racket," "Love Bites Man," which may get a new title; "Going Places," "Dark Victory," "Oklahoma Kid," "Yes, My Darling Daughter" and "BlackwelPs Island." As was done last year, the competition will be set up by districts with each district manager acting as captain of his particular territory. Prizes will be awarded the winning districts, as well as the winning branches in winning districts. Prizes will total $25,000. Roy Haines, eastern and Canadian sales manager, will meet with his district managers today and tomorrow at the home office to set up plans for his territory. Attending will be Ed Schnitzer, eastern district manager, with headquarters in New York; Bob Smeltzer, central district manager with headquarters in Washington; and Wolfe Cohen, Canadian district manager with headquarters in Toronto. Ben Kalmenson, western and southern sales manager, left over the week-end for Chicago where he will hold meets at the Blackstone Hotel today and tomorrow with district managers in his territory setting up plans for the drive. Managers attending are Fred Jack, southern district manager with headquarters in Dallas; Rud Lohrenz, acting midwest district manager with headquarters in Chicago; and W. E. Calloway, West Coast district manager with headquarters in Los Angeles. Movie Digest To Debut Newest movie mag. to hit the stands will be the Movie Digest, which will appear the latter part of this month. With a format similar to Readers Digest, the magazine will be published in Toronto and edited by Roly Young, Toronto critic. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthday: NOVEMBER 14 Nicholas M. Schenck Eugene O'Brien John Moynihan Betty Caldwell Doris Anderson ALON8 THE wiTtH PHIL M. DALY • • • APPLICATIONS are pouring in to the officials of the Great Waltz contest in the offices at the Waldorf-Astoria couples old and young want to test their skill and hope to make the finals which will be held in the. grand ballroom of the Waldorf in December there are 42 theaters in the metropolitan area participating coupons are available at all Loew theaters to be filled in by the aspiring queens and kings of three-quarter time in the greater city the contestants will be assigned dates and places where they will take part in the eliminations with the nation divided into 12 zones, and the contests taking place in every city of any size this M-G-M National Dance Fiesta looks like one of the biggest exploitations in the way of a contest ever attempted T T T • • • WE RISE to ask will the industry do anything about that grand suggestion of George J. Schaefer in his talk at the AMP A last Thursday that a permanent organization be formed to maintain the goodwill created with the nation's press by the Drive and cement the closer ties engendered between the producers and distributors with the exhibitors and also to keep cashing in on the new interest in motion pictures stirred up among the cash customers known as the public? we will bring this query up from time to time as a gentle reminder to an industry that is notorious for Forgetting to Remember after all, the effort cost One Million Dollars, and the industry should get something PERMANENT out of that much dough ▼ ▼ T • • • RECOGNITION at last has come to one of the greatest artists of our time Maria Gambarelli who has been engaged as the premiere danseuse of the Metropolitan Opera for the coming season she rose to fame on the stages of the Capitol and Roxy and later scored triumphs in European capitals ▼ T ▼ • • • HOSTESS to 65 vets of the wartime subchaser force that is Nancy Kelly's job, after completing her first film role in 20th-Fox's "Submarine Patrol" she will come to New York from the Coast for the special preview on Thursday eve to the vets at the Little Theater in the home office building a fine exhibit in connection with the production opens at the Museum of Science and Industry at Radio City tomorrow displaying models and equipment of submarines and subchasers. ▼ ▼ T • • • THANKSGIVING campaign being set nationally by Warners on "Angels With Dirty Faces" a 1,000-line ad in four columns will be taken in 33 key cities with the release date in these situations Warners assume all the cost the theaters get this as a Thanksgiving gift this splurge ad will be supplemented by the regular theater ads T T ▼ • • • CAVALCADE of Motion Picture Music Nat Shilkret's ork and chorus of 19 voices will feature it over WEAF and the NBC hookup at 6 p.m. tomorrow. . . % Our old film pal, known to most of you gents, Bert Adler, now city Commissioner headed the committee of the American Legion parade on Armistice Day « « « » » » SAY DISTRIBS. GRANT 20% GANGELLATIO {Continued from Page 1) ported that these two adjustmei were among the requests made the MPTOA and agreed to by t distributors. ( ,< MPTOA's executive commi'Vtee expected to reconvene with the d tribs late this week and Ed Ku kendall, MPTOA president, may se out a call today for a meeting. It is believed that when all parti concerned are in accord on the pi posed reforms, the adjustments w become effective immediately, i though it is possible that a new e hibition contract may have to drafted before the next selling se son gets under way. Latin America Represents 6 to 12% of World Mark* (.Continued from Page 1) market, according to Walter Goul United Artists' manager for Lati American companies. Gould has ju returned from a three-months' to' of his sales territory. An increase in business of 50 p cent in recent years has been e joyed by American firms, Gould sa in a press interview Friday, addiij that the market is growing steadilj United Artists, he said, is serviciij approximately 550 accounts in Arge tina and 450 accounts in Brazil, wi other countries proportionately re resented. Definite progress is being made production by Argentinian comp nies, Gould asserted, pointing o that between 50 and 60 features w be produced in Buenos Aires th season. Approximately 100 Spanis pictures will be made in the Lat \mericas during the season, wi Mexico ranking second in the nur ber produced. United Artists will distribute s: Mexican-made features during 193: 39, Gould said. Kurtzman Has Flu Pittsburgh — Charles Kurtzmai manager of Loew's Penn Theate is confined to his home with a ba case of flu. Studio Flashes West Coast Bur., THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Week-end studio news flashes: Para.'s remake of "Hotel Imperial" will have 162 speaking roles, believed a new record. . .Sam Coldwyn will star David Niven in that Scotland Yard pix. . .WB's "Dead End" kids will be seen in "Hell's Kitchen to Hollywood". . .Hal Roach starts "Captain Midnight" in mid-December. . John Miljan, Montagu Love swell the "Juarez" cast. . .Keye Luke has been signed by Columbia for "North of Shanghai". . . Edward Arnold will be in Metro's "Idiot's Delight". .Universal has signed Edmund Lowe for "Newsboy's Home."— RALPH WILK.