The Film Daily (1941)

V'A DAILY Thursday, November 13, 194 Vol. 80, No. 96 Thurs., Nov. 13, 1941 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Ceneral 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 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 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD, CalifRalph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. PARIS— P. A. Harle, Le Film, 29 Rue Marsoulan (12). MEXICO CITY— MarcoAurelio Galindo, Depto. 215, Calle del Sindicalismo, 99, Tacubayo, D. F. riNANCBAL (Wednesday, Nov. 12) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Am. Seat 9 9 9 Col. Picts. vtc. (2i/2%) 634 63/g 63/8 Columbia Picts. pfd.. 26'/4 26 26y4 Con. Fm. Ind '.'. 9-16 Vi 14 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.... 93,4 9y2 9Vi East. Kodak 134/8 133l/4 133 1/4 do pfd 176 176 176 Gen. Th. Eq Loew's, Inc 37'/2 36y4 36V4 do pfd. .. . 106 110 106 Paramount 1514 143/8 Para. 1st pfd 112V4 109 Para. 2nd pfd 13'/2 13 Pathe Film 14 1378 RKO 23/8 23/8 RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox .. 8'/8 73/8 7l/2 20th Century-Fox pfd. 21 V2 21 21 Univ. Pict. pfd.... 160 160 160 Warner Bros 43,4 45/8 45/8 do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Loew's deb. 3'/2s46 Para. B'way 3s55... 56y2 56y2 56'/2 Para. Picts. cv.3'/4s47.100y4 lOOVi 100'/4 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 96 96 96 Net Chg. % Vb V? -1-16 % 3/4 1/4 14% 109 13 13% 23/8 1% -"% — 4 — % — 1/8 — 1/8 — "% 21/2 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts % 9-16 9-16—3-16 Radio-Keith cvs. ... Vs Vs Vs — 1-32 Sonotone Corp 21/i 2Vs 2Vs Technicolor 8V4 8Vs 8/8— V4 Trans-Lux % % % + V4 Universal Corp. vtc. 8% 85/8 8% — % Universal Picts 27y4 27 27 y4 + 1/4 TO SPEED TELEGRAMS AT LOW COST-PHONE Tostal Telegraph CHARGES FOR TELEGRAMS •PHONED IN APPEAR ON YOUR tv TELEPHONE BILL. cominG nno goirg BEN KALMENSON, Warner Bros, general sales manager, is visiting the company's exchanges in the South. MONROE CREENTHAL, UA advertising and publicity chief, DAVID E. WESHNER, exploitation director, AL MARGOLIES and MORRIS HELPRIN plane out to the Coast Sunday to confer with UA producers. LEONARD COLDENSON and LEON NETTER, Paramount home office theater executives, return tomorrow from a Southern trip. R. M. SAVIN1, president of Astor Pictures, flies to Charlotte on Friday. WILLIAM S. HART arrives this morning aboard the Twentieth Century. EROS VOLUSIA, Brazilian dancer signed by M-G-M, arrives aboard the Argentina Monday. ELLEN DREW and her husband, CAPT. SY BARTLETT, arrive this morning from Washington. MARIA KORDA is here from the Coast to confer with MAURICE MAETERLINCK on pictures which she will produce. RONALD COLMAN and his wife, BENITA HUME, are here from the Coast and stopping at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. BUD ABBOTT and LOU COSTELLO arrive this morning from Hollywood. G. L. CARRINCTON, vice-president and general manager of Altec Service, has returned to New York after a month's stay in Los Angeles. PAUL NATHANSON, president of Odeon Theaters of Canada, and A. W. PERRY, general manager of Empire-Universal Films, are here from Toronto. Three 'Frisco Theaters, Long Closed, to Reopen San Francisco — This Thanksgiving, in addition to turkey, Frisco gets three long time dark downtown theaters reopened. Irving Ackerman is reopening the 2,100-seat Casino as a second-run house, spending around $90,000 renovating the house he had just taken on a 10-year lease. On unnamed group has taken over the President and will use second-run films, plus a semi-burlesque stage presentation. The Tivoli will make a stab at a season of light opera, with the "Firefly" as the opening attraction. This means that, for the first time in at least a decade, there is not a theater in San Francisco gathering dust. Warners Will Tradeshow Five Features Dec. 1-2 Warners will tradeshow five features nationally on Dec. 1 and 2, with final screening hours and locations to be announced shortly. Pictures which will be tradeshown are: Dec. 1, "The Body Disappears" and "They Died With Their Boots On." Dec. 2, "All Through The Night," "Steel Against The Sky" and "You're In The Army Now." "Eagle Squadron" to be Distributed by Universal Deal by which Universal will distribute "Eagle Squadron," Walter Wanger's next production, was reported yesterday as set. Wanger previously had been negotiating with UA. Pic will utilize considerable British background footage. Greenblatt In Dallas For 5-Day Sales Parley Dallas — Arthur Greenblatt, general sales manager of Producers Releasing Corp., yesterday opened a five-day sales meeting. Others are scheduled for Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Omaha, Denver and Hollywood. Lay Cornerstone Saturday For New RCA Laboratories Cornerstone of the new RCA Laboratories being built at Princeton, N. J., will be laid Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, chairman of the board of RCA, will officiate with a silver trowel as the cornerstone is placed. Otto S. Schairer, vice-president, in charge of RCA Laboratories, will preside and will present David Sarnoff, president of RCA, and Gano Dunn, member of the board of directors. Sarnoff will speak by radio from the S. S. Matsonia, bound from Honolulu to San Francisco. It is expected that the Laboratories will open next Spring. $250,000 Philly Trust Suit Finally Settled Philadelphia— The $250,000 triple damages anti-trust suit filed by the Harrison Brothers, then operating the Lansdowne, suburban house, against Warners and the eight majors is to be finally settled on the basis of terms originally agreed upon by the litigants last Summer. This was announced yesterday afternoon as the case was called in U. S. District Court here, with some 12 lawyers, among others, on hand. Settlement terms included leasing of the Lansdowne by the Warner Circuit. Plan Washington Funeral For Lieut. Carlo Petersen Washington funeral services are planned for Lieut. Carlo Petersen, 44, U. S. Naval Reserve, veteran of the first two Byrd Antarctic expeditions and Paramount News photographer, who died in the Marine Hospital at Portland, Me. Lieutenant Petersen was stricken with a heart attack last Sunday aboard the aircraft carrier Ranger. William T. Wookey Dies Wr." Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — William T. Wookey, cashier at Paramount studio for past 24 years, died yesterday after a short illness. Grainger Leaves Warner* Flying East at Week-End, West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAllA Hollywood — Edmund Grainger, fl the last two years with Warner Br< ■ as a producer, has severed his co nection with that company and w j announce his future plans followii a month's vacation in New York Cit j He will plane East at the week-en Grainger's latest Warner featui "International Squadron," open/flj/ day at the New York Strand. ("*.-, new ycer THEATERS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 50th St. & 6th Ave. FREDERIC MARCH ' MARTHA SCOTT "ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN' A Warner Bros. Picture ON STAGE: "THE WALTZ KING"— melodies of I Johann Strauss . . . produced by Leonidoff. Symphony Orchestra direction of Ranee. 1st Mezzanine Seats Reserved Circle 6-4600 ! FRED MacMURRAY MARY MARTIN ROBERT PRESTON in Para mount's "NEW YORK TOWN" m PERSON ROBINSON JIMMIE LUNGEFORD AND BAND PARAMOUNT sVumaerse CARMEN CESAR ALICE JOHN MIRANDA-ROMERO -FAYE PAYNE "WEEK-END IN HAVANA" PLUS A BIG STAGE SHOW R0XY 7th AVENUE 50th STREET 3HH3BB TYRONE POWER BETTY GRABLE "A YANK IN THE R.A.F." — and — "HURRY, CHARLIE, HURRY" with Leon Errol 1 ■ T UUI1EI * "-^. DUMBO 20th Century-Fox presents "HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY" RIVOLI Continuous Pop. Prices. Midnight Shows. United Artists Broadway at 49th St.