The Film Daily (1940)

7l) DAILY Wednesday, April 3, 1941 Vol. 77. No. 66 Wed., Aprils, 1940 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor Published ilaily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer. 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. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadwav, New York, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd.. Phone Granite 6607. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., VV. I. PARIS— P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, 29 Rue Marsoulan (12). MEXICO CITY — Marco-Aurelio Galindo, Av. Coyoacan No. lOOB, Mexico, D. F. BUENOS AIRES— Chas de Cruz, Heraldo Del Cinematografista, Corrientes 1309. Call Police and Patrons in Buffalo's Bingo Test Buffalo — Contention.s that Old Vienna, Inc. the former Gayety Theater, i.s operating within the law vied with assertion.s that it.s three operators .■showed old cheap pictures and made $1,000 a month apiece marked yesterday's Buffalo Bingo test case in County Court. One highlight was admission b" a police lieutenant that the public could participate in prize distribution without buying dollar admission tickets. Numerous police and patrons are scheduled to testify today. County Judge George Rowe has put the 12 jurors and an alternate in the charge of sheriff's deputies and quartered all at the Statler Hotel. Interest is high because former Mayor Frank X. Schwab is head of the corporation. He always has insisted that operations have been as prescribed by Appeals Court rulings. H M MnnnciflL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat. 103/s IOV4 lOSg Col. Picts. vtc. (2'/2%) 71/2 71/2 71/2 Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind 1 1 1 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. .. lO'A lO'/g lOVs — '4 East. Kodak 151^4 151 ^/g 15134 -| % do pfd Gen. Th. Eq 13 I21/2 121/2— Vi Loew's, Inc 37 3638 3634 + 1/2 do pfd Paramount 73^ 7% 75/8 — Va Paramount 1st pfd... 913/8 91 913/g — i/g Paramount 2nd pfd.. 9'/2 9'/2 9'/2 4 '4 Pathe Film 11 34 11 1/2 11 1/2 RKO IVa I'/s I'/g 20th Century-Fox .. 115/g IIV2 11% 4 V4 20th Century-Fox pfd Univ. Pict. pfd 1051/2 105 IO51/2 -f 1/2 Warner Bros SS/g 35/8 35/8 do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith B. F. ref. 6s46,102i/2 IO21/2 IO21/2 + 1/4 Loew's deb. 3i2s46. 1045,8 104% 1045/8 + Vs Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. 6s55 Para. Picts. cv. 314547 RKO 6s41 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts Sonotcne Corp 2 2 2 + Vg Technicolor 15 143^ 143/4— 3/g Trans-Lux 13/8 13/8 13/8+ l/g Universal Corp. vtc... 534 5% 534 + i/g Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Pathe Film 7 pfd Fox Thea. Office BIdg. 1st '46 Loew's Thea. Realty 6s 1st '47 Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45... 73 74 Roxy Thea. BIdg. 4s 1st '57 6534 6734 Two Consolidated Houses in Bronx Passing to Met. Deal has been closed by Metropolitan Playhouses to take over the Tuxedo and Mosholu theaters in the Bronx, it was reported yesterday. Houses were formerly operated by Consolidated. "The Boys From Syracuse" to Have Syracuse Opening "The Boys From Syracuse," Jules Levey's first production for Universal, will have its world premiere in Syracuse in August, with the upstate city already giving a thought to the high jinks. Martha Raye, Ritz Bros, and Allan Jones, of the cast, will attend, the Coast delegation including as well virtually the entire "Syracuse colony" if plans carry. Other industi->' figures with Syracuse antecedents are expected to come on from New York for the civic celebration, centered about the premiere, tentatively set for the K-A-0 Schine Keith's. Story of "The Boys From Syracuse" has nothing to do with the up-state Salt Citv, but Jones for a time was enrolled at Syracuse University, making everything perfect. West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Joe Penner has been signed to appear in Jules Levey's RKO production^ "The Boys from Syracuse." Va. MPTO Sets Conclave for Old Point Comfort Richmond, Va. — William F. Crockett, president. MPTO of Virginia, has announced that the Mid-Summer convention of the Association will be held at the Chamberlin Hotel, Old Point Comfort, on June 24. Committee on arrangements includes Syd Gates, chairman; Graham Barbee and Leo Greenwood. Norfolk, and Leonard Gordon, Newport News. Prexy Crockett says that he will increase the committee later in time to participate in the final arrangements. Oriental Keeping GWTW? Chicago— Oriental theater mav extend the run of GWTW which to date has played to 500,000 attendance. Trans-Lux Ad-News Corp. Incorporated in New York Albany — Trans-Lux Ad-News Corp., formed in Manhattan, has been issued incorporation papers by the Secretary of State here to conduct a general advertising business. Stock issue of 24,000 shares of common at |1 each, and 1,000 preferred shares at $10 each, was approved. Directors are given as Percy N. Furber and Percival E. Furber, 1270 Sixth Ave., and Robert L. Daine, 60 Hudson St., New York, while subscribers are Allen G. Miller, Frank J. Zito and Helen F. Tuohy, 120 Broadway, New York. Attorneys filing were Hunt, Hill and Betts. It is understood that the new corporation will handle biz attending a recently developed ad machine for outdoor advertising. Company is an associate organization of Trans-Lux Corp. Producers Releasing Corp. Incorporates in New York Producers Releasing Corp., successor to Producers Distributing Corp., has been incorporated as a New York organization. Capital is listed at 1,000 shares of no par value stcok. Incorporators are Robert S. Benjamin, Seymour Peyser and Sidney Freidberg. Other incorporations announced in Albany last week were Empire State Industrial Corp., Twin Theaters, Inc.. and Popular Theaters, Inc., all of New York City for the purpose of exhibiting motion pictures. Incorporators of the trio were Thelma Gedan, Philip Weiss and Louis Drell. Papers in all cases were filed by Continental Lawyers Albany Service. Chi. Indie Circuits Talk Elimination of Triples Chicago — With Illinois Allied tackling the triple feature evil generally, the GCS circuit, the Meltzer Bros, chain, the Oscar Brotinan theaters and the Time theater management are conferring on triples elimination in the Logan Square district. RKO to Rush in "Lincoln" as Stage Show Quits Chi. Chicago — With "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," starring Raymond Massey, about to terminate one of the most successful stage engagements of the season here, it is expected that RKO will rush in the film version for an extended run. Truck Traffic Limitation Proposal Hit by Carriers Chicago — Petition by the railroad unions to the Illinios Commerce Commission that truck trafl[ic be prohibited over main highways Sundays and holidays is being energetically protested by film carriers. K comiHG nno Goinc DAVID 0. SELZNICK arrives here Friday morn ing from the Coast. SAMUEL BRONSTON flies to the Coast today returning here next week. SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE, ALAN MARSHALlE, CARY GRANT and RICHARD Cj-j^SON arrivi ^ in Williamsburg, Va., today t' ^k on sequences for Columbia's "Tree 0. /4Certy." FRANK LLOYD, director of "Tree of Liberty,' also arrives In Williamsburg today. HERB MclNTYRE, captain of the RKO Ned E. Depinet sales drive, HARRY MICHALSON, short subjects sales manager, and L. M. DEVANEY, arrive in Montreal today for a branch meeting. LOUIS FRISCH has returned from a Florida vacation. ERNEST SCHOEDSACK. director of Paramount s "Dr. Cyclops," arrives here today from the Coast to attend the premiere of the picture at the Paramount on April 10. LLOYD BACON will vacation here as soon as he completes his current directorial assignment at Warners where he is megging "Brother Orchid." WILLIAM RIPPARD, Farmvillc, Va., exhib., has returned to the city after a vacation on the Coast. CHARLES BOYER leaves the Coast in two weeks for New York. KEITH GOLDSMITH, of the 20th-Fox foreign department, leaves New York this week-end on an assignment to the Mexico City office. CHARLES 6LETT, vice-president of General Film Industries with headquarters in the East, returned yesterday from California. AL CHRISTIE has arrived in New York from the Coast and is stopping at the St. Moritz. H. M. RICHEY, RKO's director of exhibitor relations, will speak today before the Civic Club of Philadelphia. HERMAN ROBBINS vacation. is back from a Florida GEORGE STEVENS, director, is in town. MAX WEISFELDT, Columbia's short subjects supervisor, returned yesterday from a Florida vacation. Asks Distribution Bids on "The Fight for Life" Invitations were sent out last night by the United States Film Service to 29 distributors throughout the country to submit proposed term.= for the domestic market release of Pare Lorentz' production. "The Fight For Life." It was indicated earlier that the government would ask for distribution bids on the picture. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthdays: APRIL 3 Sam Katz George Jessel Heath Cobb Maurice Kann Duncan Renaldo