The Film Daily (1941)

1W DAILY Friday, November 7, lSi Vol. 80, No. 92 First Section Fri., Nov. 7, 1941 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., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer. Entered as 6econd class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the set of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New York J10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, 13.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications 'o THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable addresi: Filmday, New York. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD. CalifRalph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., VV. I. PARIS— P. A. Harle, Le Film, 29 Rue Marsoulan (12). MEXICO CITY— MarcoAurelio Galindo, Depto. 215, Calle del Sindi,alismo, 99, Tacubayo, D. F. FINANCIAL (Thursday, Nov. 6) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. 93/4 9V2 93/4 + % Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc.(2'/2%) Columbia Picts. pfd. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. . East. Kodak 1 do pfd Gen. Th. Eq. . Loew's, Inc. . . . do pfd 1 Paramount Para. 1st pfd 1 Para. 2nd pfd Pathe Film RKO RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . . Warner Bros do pfd NEW YORK Loew's deb. 3Vis46. Para. B'way 3s55 . . Para. Picts. cv.3'/4s47 1 Para. Picts. deb. 4s56 1 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 NEW YORK Monogram Picts. . . Radio-Keith cvs. . . Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux Universal Corp. vtc. ¥4 Vg 5/8 9% 9% 9% 353/4 1351/4 1351/2 123/4 125/g 123/4 .. 38% 38i/8 38i/8 — 06 106 106 + 15 14% 15 111/2 iiii/2 im/2 _ 14 14 ' 14 — 21/2 21/2 21/2 .. '8 i/4 8% '8V4 '.'. 5 4% 47/8 — 731/s 73% 73% — BOND MARKET 003/4 IOOV4 10034 + I/4 0034 1003/4 10034 96% 96% 96% CURB MARKET 5-32 5-32 5-32 '.'.'.'.'. 83/8 8 1/4 8 1/4 — % 9-16 9-16 9-16 —1-16 95/8 9% 9% — % Jump Amusement Ad Rates 10c Per Inch in Portland Portland, Me. — Amusement advertising rates have been boosted a flat 10 cents an inch by the Gannett Publishing Co., publishers of the city's only newspaper, morning Press Herald, Evening Express and Sunday Telegram. Open New Metro Pic House New 1,800-seat Cine Metro Copacabana, located in the heart of the ultra-fashionable Copacabana beach section of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, opened yesterday. Authors' Guild Elects Carl Carmer President The Authors' Guild has elected Carl Carmer president for a term of two years. Manuel Komroff was elected vice-president and Helen Hull, secretary. Named to the Guild Council were: Bernard DeVoto, Walter D. Edmonds, Henry F. Pringle, Carl Sandburg, Oscar Schisgall, Emma Gelders Sterne, Arthur Train, Jr., Mark Van Doren, Margaret Widdemer, Thyra Samter Winslow, Arthur Leo Zagat. Representatives of the Guild who have been elected to membership on the Authors' League Council are: Louis Adamic, Stephen Vincent Benet, Elmer Davis, Inez Haynes Irwin, Will Irwin, Denis Tilden Lynch, Albert Maltz, William Brown Maloney, Nathaniel Peffer, Oscar Schisgall, Lyman Beecher Stowe, John Vandercook. 32 States Will Observe Nov. 20 Thanksgiving Day Thirty-two States will observe Nov. 20 as Thanksgiving Day, a final checkup established yesterday. In these States, the observance will coincide with the national commemoration. In 16 other states the Governors have declared they will stick to the traditional date, which this year is Nov. 27. States to observe Nov. 20: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon. Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia. Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. States to observe Nov. 27: Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas. Montana, Nebraska, Nevada. New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont. Thomson, Mannix Join M. P. Soc. of Amer. Board West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollvwood — Kenneth Thomson and E. J. Mannix have been elected as members of the board of directors of the Motion Picture Society for the Americas. Thomson, Screen Actors Guild secretary, resigned his SAG nost because of the pressure of double duties. He is continuing to serve until a successor is appointed. New Oil Industry Short Bureau of Mines, U. S. Departs ment of the Interior, is releasing "The Evolution of the Oil Industry," 30-minute 16 mm. short, produced in co-operation with one of the large oil companies. Amplications for the film should be addressed to the Bureau's Experiment Station, 4800 Forbes St., Pittsburgh. "Night of Stars" Draws On Broadway's Musicals Representatives from every topflight musical comedy on Broadway will entertain at the forthcoming eighth annual "Night of Stars," refugee relief show, at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 26, according to an announcement by Marvin Schenck, chairman of the producers' committee. "Let's Face It" will send the largest contingent, headed by its new star, Danny Kaye, and including Eve Arden, Mary Jane Walsh, Benny Baker, Sunnie O'Dea, Billy Daniels, Punkin Parker and Tommy Gleason and His Royal Guards. "Best Foot Forward" will be represented by Rosemary Lane, who will sing several of the show's hit songs. Sophie Tucker and George Jessel, stars of "High Kickers," will entertain with a group of showgirls. Vivienne Segal, star of the long run, "Pal Joey," will sing its song hits and Arthur Treacher, the solemn-faced comedian of "Panama Hattie," another long-run show, will also appear. Blackout Cuts Tenn. Receipts 10 to 33 1-3 P. C. Nashville — Ending the first week of "blackout" on marauee and all display lighting, Nashville and middle Tennessee theaters report heavy cuts at the box-office, attendance being off from 10 to 33 1-3 per cent, particularly in large uptown theaters. Local theaters, beginning the second week, will try using gas lights under marauees to offset the blackout. Nashville's uptown theaters have received instructions that beginning Nov. 10 the cut in current used must equal 30 per cent of amount during the month preceding Sept. 15. Nashville houses receiving such instructions were Paramount, Knickerbocker, Loew's 5th Avenue, Princess, Nashville Theaters Corporation houses and several of the larger suburbans. Theater managers say that this means further elimination of lobby and auditorium ornamental lighting, with the greatest harm due to cutting advertising lights in lobbies. No plans have been made yet for cutting schedules in theaters of the city. Spaeth Suit Dropped Suit of Sigmund Spaeth for $500,000 damages against Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., was discontinued yesterday in the Federal Court. Spaeth had charged libel by the film, "Naughty But Nice." in which he claimed Dick Powell depicted and ridiculed him. World In Esquire Deal Archie Mayers, general manager of World Pictures, has signed a fiveyear deal with Esquire Films, Inc., for the exclusive distribution of 14 of its British-made films in the U. S. COmiDG and GOIDC ARTHUR VV. KELLY is due to leave the C today. JOSEPH I. BREEN, RKO studio head, is pected to arrive from Hollywood today. HERMAN WOBBER, general sales manage: 20th-Fox, leaves for a tour of the compa midwest exchanges tonight. He plans to re on Tuesday. DAVID O. SELZNICK has postponed hldH to the Coast until late next week. ^^ GEORCE WELTNER, Paramount's assist manager, leaves tomorrow for a South Amen trip. SIDNEY DAVIDSON flew in from the C| yesterday to head the campaign on Univer "Keep 'Em Flying." WALTER PIDGEON returns to Hollywood night. HAROLD BUCQUET, M-G-M director, has turned to the studios. HOBART BOSWORTH is due here next w to appear in a sacred masque, "We Go Forwar at Town Hall, Nov. 22. MARLENE DIETRICH and RITA HAYWOR return to Hollywood tonight. Atlas Holds 35% of RKO Pfd. and 42% of Commoi Holdings of Atlas Corp. in Ri were revealed yesterday when t. RKO Corp. applied to the Stock E change to list 120,000 additior. shares of common stock which w be given to Atlas for reorganizati services. Atlas owns, part indirectly, 46,0 or 35 per cent of the 6 per ce' preferred, 1,216,453 or 42 per ce of the common, and 327,811 or i per cent of the option warrants. RCA holdings include 44,757 or per cent of the common, 316,3: or 11 per cent of the preferred ai 555,629 or 19 per cent of the optic warrants. Rockefeller Center, Inc., owns 56; 629 or 19 per cent of the common. UA Closes Product Deals With 10 Chi. Area Circuits Ten circuits in the Chicago ten tory have signed for United Artist new program, according to Haske; Masters, Western general sale manager. Deals have been made with tl following circuits: F. W. Anderso: Reinheimer, Jack Rose, J. Laske Joe Stern, Van Nomikos, Essanes Great States, Warner Bros, and wii B & K for first-run, Chicago. FRIENDLY SERVICE SAVES TIME AND MONEY AT Tostal Telegraph CHARGES FOR TELEGRAMS 'PHONED IN APPEAR ON YOUR 1QK TELEPHONE BILL.