The Film Daily (1940)

I3i^ DilLY Monday, May 20, Vol. 77, No. 99 Mon.. May 20, 1940 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y., hy Wid's Films and Film Folk. Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersercau, Secretary-Treasurer. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the net 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 Broadway. New York, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, ')-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120. 9-7121. Cal>le .nddress: Filmdav. New York. Representatives; HOLLYWOOD, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Holly%vood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman. The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St.. W. I. PARIS— P. A. Harle, La Cinematographie 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. FINANCIAL (QUOTATIONS OF FRIDAY, MAY 17) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. 73/4 73/4 73/4 — 1/4 Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (21/2% Columbia Picts. pfd. . Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. ind. pfd.. East. Kodak do pfd Gen. Th. Eq Loew's, Inc do pfd Paramount Paramount 1st pfd.. . Paramount 2nd pfd... Pathe Film RKO 20th Century-Fox . . . 20th Century-Fox pfd, Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros do pfd 71/4 ) 5'/8 45/8 16'/8 "" 11-16 7 'A 1421/4 139 172 170 10 9 271/8 25 103 102 5% 5 161/8 161/8 + 7/8 5/8 — Vs 71/4 -4 1/4 1393/4 _ 23/4 170 9 25 102 5 — 5 — Vi — 21/2 — 15/8 — 5/8 73/4 8 Vs 7 18 76 21/2 71/8 65/8 ¥4 61/8 18 76 21/8 71/8 — 1/4 7 % — Va 61/8 — Va 18 + 1/2 76 — 4 21/8 — 1/4 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith B. F. ret. 6s46 .102 102 102 Loew's deb. 3 1/2 s46. 101 1/4 101 1/4 101 1/4 -f Va Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. 6s55 Para. Picts. cv. 3i4s47 86I/8 86 86—4 RKO 6s41 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 84 84 84 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts Sonotone Corp 15/8 1% 15^ Technicolor 12 11 11 Trans-Lux 1 Vs 1 1/8 1 Vs Universal Corp. vtc. 33^ 33/8 33/5 — 3/8 Universal Picts 7 7 7 % Satisfy "Lynton" Judgment Satisfaction of a $4,723 .I'udgment obtained by Edward Sheldon and Margai-et Ayer Barnes against Moredall Realty Corp., operator of the Capitol Theater, was filed in the Federal Court on Friday. Judgment was obtained for the exhibition of "Letty Lynton" which the Court ruled infringed the plaintiff's play, "Dishonored Lady." H The Broadivay Parade 11 Picture and Distributor Theater The Fight for Life (U. S. Film Setvice-Lorentz) — 11th week Belmont Buck Benny Rides Again (Paramount Pictures) — 4th week Paramount My Son, My Son! (United Artists — Small) — 2nd week Music Hall If I Had My Way (Universal Pictures) — 3rd week Rivoli Waterloo Bridge (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Capitol Lillian Russell (Twentieth Century-Fox) -Roxy Torrid Zone (Warner Bros. Pictures) • Strand Ski Patrol (Universal Pictures) ■■ . . .Rialto Hell Below (Metro-Coldwyn-Mayer Pictures) (d) Criterion I Was An Adventuress (Twentieth Century-Fox) Globe Riders of Pasco Basin (Universal Pictures) (a) •. -..Central Mad Youth (Atlas Pictures) (a) Central 'Til We Meet Again (Warner Bros. Pictures) (a-b) Palace Star Dust (Twentieth Century-Fox) (a) Palace ♦ TWO-A-DAY Kl/iVS ♦ Gone With the Wind (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-Selznick) — 23rd week Astor ♦ FOREIG]\ LAiVGC/AGE FEATURES ♦ The Bakers Wife (The Baker's Wife Co.)— 12th week World Kvinnora Kring Larsson (Scandivanian Talking Pictures) 48th St. Theater Le Due Madri (Esperia Films) Cinecitta La Charrette Fantome Columbia Pictures) 55th St. Theater ♦ FUTURE OPEiVIiVGS ♦ Irene (RKO Radio Pictures-Wilcox)— May 23 Music Hall Typhoon (Paramount Pictures) — May 22 Paramount Twenty-One Days Together (Columbia Pictures) — May 22 Rivoli Edison, the Man (Metro-Coldwyn-Mayer) — May 30 Capitol The Saint Takes Over (RKO Radio Pictures)— May 22 Rialto The Biscuit Eater (Paramount Pictures) — May 23 Criterion Lost Horizon (Columbia Pictures) — May 25 (d) .....Globe Brother Orchid (Warner Bros. Pictures) — June 7 Strand The Doctor Takes a Wife (Columbia Pictures) (c) Roxy The Man from Tumbleweeds (Columbia Pictures) — May 22 Central If I Had My Way (Universal Pictures)— May 23 (a-b) Palace You Can't Fool Your Wife (RKO Radio Pictures)— May 23 (a) Palace La Donna Bianca (Esperia Films) — May 23 Cinecitta (a) Dual bill, (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill, (d) Revival. Book-of-the-Month Club Honors Mrs. Johnson A cocktail party in honor of Osa Johnson was given at the WaldorfA.storia Friday afternoon by the Book-of-the-Month Club which recently selected Mrs. Johnson's book, "I Married Adventure." Columbia Pictures shortly will release the film version of the story. Among those present were Jack Cohn, Max Weisfeldt, Bertram Lippincott, Joseph Wharton Lippincott, Wanda Hale, Thyra Samter Winslow, Meredith Wood, Perry Osborn, Ralph Cokain, Mrs. Chester Bahn, Mr. and Mrs. George Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Terry Ramsaye, Vic Bloom, Lew Mentlik, Jack Pegler, Elizabeth Lockwood, Kate Cameron, Amy Porter, Richard Hansen, Lawrence Reid, Stella Unger, Al Sherman, Hortense Schorr, Frederick James Smith and others. Direct Gibson to Testify Before Karol Suit Trial Appellate Division of the N. Y. Supreme Court on Friday directed Peyton Gibson, secretary of the board of directors of Universal Pictures, to testify before trial in the suit of Wilhelm Karol for $60,000 against Universal. Karol is suing for alleged services, claiming that he represented Universal in 1938 in a deal in which that company sold licensing rights to its films in Italy to Giuseppe Domenico Musso for $400,000. Mexican Labor Situation Blocks Investment — DeVry Chicago — Labor situation in Mexico is precluding the investment of large sums of money there by U. S. interests, it is stated by H. A. DeVry, president of DeVry Corp., who has returned here from what he described as essentially a vacation in Mexico. Latter country, he asserted, presents vast possibilities for film trade and commerce generally, but progress along this line is not expected to materialize until a new administration comes into power and labor adjusts its present stand. DeVry said that Filmsets, visually teaching geography, are being received enthusiastically by educational interests in Mexico. He plans a visit to the company's New York offices this week. Local 20940 Certified As WB Bargaining Agency IVashingtoii Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Washington — NLRB has certified Local 20940, American Federation of Office Employes, affiliated with A F of L, as the bargaining agency selected by a majority of the warehouse employes of Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; Warner Bros. Circuit Management Corp.; Producers Settlement Corp.; Circuit Settlement Corp.; Globe Export Corp., and Vitagraph, Inc., at their New York City warehouse. The Board action was based upon a secret ballot election, resulting in an 8 to 4 count in favor of the A F of L union. COMING AND GOI SIDNEY R. KENT and MRS. KENT ,irr Los Angeles today from New York. Th Fox prexy plans to return to New Y week-end. CHARLES E. McCARTHY, 20th-Fox advt and publicity director, cancelled his jch departure for the Coast Friday. CLARENCE BROWN, Metro director, is ping at the Waldorf. NATE J. BLUMBERC, LEO SPITZ, Jd SEIDELMAN and CLIFF WORK flew to Ti Friday from New York via United tor ,„ convention. ARTHUR SAWYER was in Boston ove week-end, returning here today. WILLIAM F. RODGERS, HOWARD DIETZ. CONNORS, E. K. "TED" OSHEA and Metro execs, left yesterday for Washingtor HARRY KOSINER, Eastern represent,! Walter Wanger, flew to the Coast from Chicago to confer with Wanger. W. RAY JOHNSTON, Monogram prcxy scheduled to leave tor the Coast over the end. THORNTON WILDER will fly to Boston 1 day for the premiere of Sol Cesser's prodi of Wilder's "Our Town." S. J. DAY, special representative of the Fox home office foreign department, sails 31 on the Santa Clara for a survey of s South American companies. W. E. VAN BEVEREN, of the 20th-Fox U department, is en route to South Africa t lieve Otto Bolle, managing director, whi takes a furlough in the U. S. after a I year stay in that territory. LUCY FLACK, operator of the Capitol, ford, Conn, is on an 11 -day cruise to America. CHARLES EINFELD and MRS. EINFELC at the Gotham. MORT BLUMENSTOCK returned Saturday. South Bend, Ind. RUBE JACKTER, Columbia's assistant manager, left Sunday night, by plane, for I phis, on business. Lack of Product Delayic Showing of Mills Machiti Chicago — Trade showing of Mills-Roosevelt automatic projeCs is being delayed by the lack of mm. product to be made by Ro velt's outfit, it is understood. K Novelty Co. here has 10 moi! ready. One Big Union Report Due , A report on the plan for one! union will be submitted to the AA.i board for consideration at a me ing scheduled for Wednesday, j E. B. Derr H. Lee Hugunin From THE FILM DAILY to James Stews Leon Schlesini Stanley Fieic Estelle Taylc Virginia Sal( Johnny Arthu I \l-{