The Film Daily (1940)

"dil(4 Di&aY Tuesday, June 18, 19 Senate Com. Wants Sliding Tax Scale (.Continued from Pcuic 1) lions of the industry a possible $60,000,000 return was seen annually, the proponents of the Senate formula predict the new amusement levy will bring in $77,000,000. The Senate Finance Committeeaiii)roved scale follows: Nine cents or less no tax; 10 to 19 cents, one cent tax; 20 cents, a two cent tax; 21 to 30 cents a three cent tax; with the rate continuing to go up 1 cent for each 10 cents or less. The Senate schedule is expected to produce $102,500,000 as compared with $25,000,000 under the House bill which merely applied a flat 10 per cent tax, starting at 31 cents. Under present law there is only the 10 per cent tax, starting at 41 cents. The additional $77,000,000 thus obtained from amusements off'sets the revenue lost by deleting the House increases on cigarettes cigars and other forms of tobacco. The Senate recessed still debating the tax bill. No vote action on the measure is expected until today, and probably not until later in the week. Twin Courses to be Used For RKO's Golf Tourney General committee for RKO's annual golf tournament for employes and their guests, scheduled for the Westchester Country Club June 27, has announced that play will be over the Club's two courses. A booklet will map an entire set-up for the competition has been prepared by Al Adams of RKO Radio Pictures' advertising department. Al has told the boys that winter rules will apply, but not for tiger land. He also has tipped off the boys to the Little Marvel Mask Company, where duffers who expect to turn in scores in the 80's and 90's may get masks aiding them in keeping the necessary straight face. Another novelty the mashie maestros may apply for is a "pro pencil" which on the score makes a nine loom up as a six. 5^^ ^^0^1 mo From THE FILM DAILY to Ivan B. Lebedeff Bruce Gallup H. Pergament Jeanette MacDonald ALONG THE WITH PHIL M. OALTi • • • POSTMARED Hollywood "I am about ready to start photographing one of my Specials ior this year 'Cherokee Strip' based on a story by Bernard McConville" Source of the missive is Harry Sherman who goes on to tell of the assembling of a cast whose principals comprise Richard Dix, Florence Rice, Victor lory, Andy Clyde Georgie Stone, Addison Richards, Charles Trowbridge William Henry, Douglas Fowley and Tom Tyler It is noteworthy that Richard Dix and Georgie Stone are ocling together for the first time since "Cimarron" • • • NOW by any yardstick that is a rousing collection of talent and we have Mister Sherman's word jor it that he is dedicated inflexibly to the proposition that the supporting players must be of commensurately strong timber This corner openly envies the entire roster of thespians whom Harry has hired for they'll be working in natural settings of transcending magnificence viz. — the wonderlands in and about California's Convict Lake some 100 miles from Reno That's the same locale wherein the same producer made his recently released "Knights of the Range" whose scenic backgrounds made audiences gasp and subsequently rush for travel literature • • • VIA the Sherman missive comes additional news that Bill (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd is recovering rapidly from the leg injury he suffered a short time ago and will soon be literally in the saddle again as star of "The Round-Up" which gets under way immediately in the wake of "Cherokee Strip" T T T • • • POSTMARKED Toronto: Word comes from Syd Tauhe of the program being currently carried on by the Canadian Picture Pioneers which is, as you may readily guess our Good Neighbor's wing of the org. founded by Jack Cohn, Columbia's v.-p who is honorary big-wig of the Dominion chapter Now north of the border Clair Hague, chairman, Ray Lewis, secretary-treasurer J. J. Fitzgibbons, of Famous Players Canadian, and Tom Daly, of the Imperial Theater, Toronto plus Syd Taube, who also has a prominent hand in the Pioneers' pie, but is so modest that you'd never know it have as Exhibit "A" on their program aid for the Red Cross and as Exhibit "B" the promotion of tourist trade this Summer in behalf of Canada • • • A vast amount of credit must be given to the Canadion Picture Pioneers for the constructive work they are doing Their membership stretches across the Dominion and they have made arrangements for the operation of a travel bureau which will serve American tourists in a host of ways even to the booking in advance of hotel reservations anywhere from the Maritime Provinces to British Columbia They are anxious to serve their country as well as all who visit it Their assistance to the Red Cross has been and is outstanding Jack Cohn certainly started something constructive when he started the Motion Picture Pioneers. « « « » » » $500,000 Reported Tied Up in France (Caiitinucd from Page 1) this time to believe these propc ties were lost for the future, wi the exception of losses in i stricken areas. ^t Shipment of prints wasTSclng he in abeyance until the situation h; been clarified. Reason for the comparative! small bank balance of distribute) operating in the country was state to be due to the fact that monej earned in France had been used the most part for expenses of dul bing, and costs of transportatioi for shipment of prints from Franc to other European countries. As an instance, it was pointe out that practically all picture shown in Greece up to a recent dat had been dubbed in French and shij ped to Greece from France whet the prints were made up. Majorit of companies also drew out all aval able money from French bank shortly after the war started. Milwaukee Will End Dual Bills on Sept. 2 Milwaukee — Duals which have hel out at local houses for the past fiv years despite sporadic attempts t drop them, are slated for oblivion starting Sept. 2, according to Harr; Perlewitz, business manager of th IPTA of Wisconsin and Upper Michi igan. Perlewitz reports he has the aS' surance of independents and circur officials alike that they will co-opi erate in a single feature policy ill Milwaukee county. If exhibitors can agree on th» elimination of dual features, therej is said to be a strong possibilitjij that other evils, such as early bircil admissions and giveaways, may bfl also weeded out at a later date. i Goldwyn to Stop Producing For Year Pending Suit H'est Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAIL) Hollywood — Samuel Goldwyn will stop producing for a year, awaiting; outcome of his suit against United Artists, it was revealed here last! night. That he expects the courti battle to last for quite some time wasj indicated by the skeletonizing of his: production staff during recent weeks.. Free Phone Service Measure Withdrawn Baton Rouge, La. — Even if you go to the movies it will still cost you five cents to telephone. State Senator Nicholas Carbajal withdrew his bill which would have prohibited charges for "telephone service in hotels, boarding houses, hospitals and theaters."