The Film Daily (1941)

! rday, November 10, 1941 DAILY day Call All-Industry Unity Meet Before Dec. 1 ]ied's Conference Comttee May Get Samuelson! rsch Report This Week i.tinued from Page 1 ) :ences will be handled by the It— -ibutors. It is understood that Editor units not affiliated with f led. including the ITOA, MPTOA i others, will be contacted by the tributor representatives. Sidney Samuelson was in New rk Friday completing the ground trk laid by him and Jack Kirsch o weeks ago. A report to the neral conference committee may riled this week. ost oi Living Bonus ot Applicable to FPC Toronto — Employers who had vol tarily raised the pay of employes compensate for the higher cost of : ing before the wage-fixing order the Labor Board will not be com I'.ed to add the statutory bonus to yrolls, adopted by the Canadian ivernment as a war measure to :event inflation, according to a no ieation from the Department of bor. The cost of living bonus will be termined by Government statisticla every three months but the or(i does not apply in the meantime firms which had raised wages and laries in the recent past. This apies to Famous Players Canadian irp., employes of which received a rmanent bonus in October. )The ruling has also been made that iployes will continue to have the ■portunity of receiving a Christmas nus where extra pay had been anted in past years. Staffs of Can!ian chains and film distributing mpanies can, therefore, look forr.rd to an extra week's pay at the 1 of 1941 because they had received e bonus previously. loyd, Skirball Borrow [itchcock to Direct 1 Pic THE WEEK IN REVIEW Browne, Bioff Guilty; Brit. 'Frozen' Coin Arrives {Continued from Page 1) that the "'Big 5" night utilize the "escape clause" in the consent decree was seen in Government's hint it might not get a decree against the "Little 3," which would automatically make blocks-of-five a dead issue. . . . Allied of Conn., will conduct a survey on effect of the consent decree to date. . . . Gov't will make a report on theater expansion under the decree. . . . Texas Allied ar its Dallas meeting took up "sabotaging" of the consent decree, came out against percentage pix, and reelected Col. H. A. Cole prexy, as well as other officers. . . . Senator Clyde Herring of Iowa would exclude extra usners from Government tax. . . . Unity idea is spreading, ITPA of Wis. and Upper Mich., was told by J. E. Flynn, Metro's district manager in Chicago. The ITPA offered its aid to Minn., in its anti-5 law difficulties. ... At meeting of tele instrument manufacturers and broadcasters it was decided to propose a special committee of the P'CC on television, particularly as to its use for national defense. . . . Paramount and National Theaters reported talking regional pix deals. . . . United Parents Ass'n plans a motion picture survey. . . . Newly organized Ala. MPTOA elected William R. Griffin prexy. . . . U. S. distribs. want to get their "frozen" coin out of Australia, and are pondering what action, if any, they can take on restrictions of imports into India and the "freezing" up to 50 per cent o± monies due them. . . . Distribs. received $7,850,000 of "frozen" funds from England. Aussie Ad Valorem Plan lo be Fought {Continued from Page 1 ) tures imported into Australia are taxed on footage, but the AEC at a meeting held in Adelaide resolved to ask the government to consider the ad valorem method. Subject was discussed at a recent meeting of. foreign department managers and it was decided to take no action until the proposal was placed before the Aussie government. No Special Session in Minn. Governor Gives Pledge to N.W. Allied Frank Lloyd and Jack Skirball -.ve borrowed Alfred Hitchcock to I rect "The Saboteur," Universal please. Production starts about ec. 1. Universal also has assigned Bruce anning to produce "Life of Thomas ewsome," while William A. Seiter E s been named to produce and dil?ct a sequel ot "Hired Wife" titled Fired Wife." STORKS! Chicago — It's a baby girl, named v.dith, at the home of Irwin Joseph, epublic salesman. {Continued f> ed the product situation is growing more acute every day for Minnesota picture theaters and said William J. Glaser, operator of the Paradise at Faribault, has decided to close that house on Nov. 21 because of inability to contract sufficient supply of class "A" pictures. Glaser, who also operates the Lido in Faribault, told Strom that house would continue in operation with available product. The Paradise is the "A" theater of that city. Strom Appeals to Governor Following receipt by Strom of word that Rodgers had suggested the present situation in Minnesota, as to pictures, could be cleared up immediately by repeal of the antifive law, the Allied executive secretary wrote Governor Stassen as follows: "In behalf of independent exhibitor members of this association, will you please make known your position with reference to calling a special session of the legislature fcr the purpose of repealing the act known as the anti-blocks-of-five law?" om Page 1 ) Replying to Strom's communication the Governor wrote: "I have absolutely no intention of calling a special session for the purpose ot reconsidering the anti-five law, nor for any other purpose. The next session contemplated for the Minnesota legislature will be in January, 1943." This statement by Governor Stassen definitely spikes all rumors the anti-five law may be repealed any time before the '43 session. Record Biz for Indies With four of the five major companies still refusing to sell in the state under the anti-five law because of the New York consent decree, other firms not bound by the decree are doing a record business. Columbia, as an illustration, formerly got along here with four to eight prints on each feature. It now is using 16 to 20 on practically every picture on its list. In addition, this firm now is servicing 300 houses as compared with a maximum of approximately 100 in previous seasons. Other companies not bound by the decree report similar record business. Lieut. Halpern Assisting Hirliman on Marine Film Coral Gables, Fla. — Lieut. William A. Halpern, USMC, is serving as assistant director for "Here Comes the Marines," which George Hirliman is producing at Colonnade. On its completion, Halpern will go to Lakeland to make a training film on the amphibious tractor used by the Marine Corps to land troops on hostile beaches. Two File Interventions In Chicago Alcyon Case Chicago — Henry Kohn, AJB Theaters attorney of Libertyville, 111., has filed intervention in the Alcyon theater, Highland Park, arbitration case. Rosenberg, Stein & Rosen berg, attorneys for Sam Myers, have filed intervention in the Alcyon case for Mvers' Glencoe Theater, Glencoe, m. Warner Bros. AOE Wins Bargaining Agency Poll {Continued from Page 1) by a vote of 451 to 112, it was learned Friday. Election was held on Oct. 23 and the WBAOE is the first industry white collar group to win an NLRB election. Union is unaffiliated at present time but possibility exists it may join the Screen Office and Employes Guild, Local 109, CIO, or at least vote on such affiliation. Local 109 has chapters at Columbia, Loew's and RKO. Columbia management has agreed to a NLRB consent election and the union has requested a similar vote for the Loew's unit. There are independent office worker unions at 20th-Fox and Paramount. It is understood the former will soon vote on question of CIO tieup. RED CROSS ROLL CALL— NOV. 11-30