The Film Daily (1942)

Intimate in Character International in Scope Independent in Thought ' The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Twenty-Three Years Old -^FDAILV ^. 81. NO. 107 ===== NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY JUNE 3, 1942 TEN CENTS i GROUPS SAID SEEKING RKO'S CONTROL Repetitious Testimony Draws Fire of Arbitrator ack of Speed in Presentig Evidence Assailed in hornton Theaters Case Lack of speed in presenting evince in motion picture arbitration ises was attacked by John C. Pem■rton, a veteran arbitrator who curntly is hearing the complaint of hornton Theaters, Inc., against iramount and others. He criticized ie counsel after the first day's hearg on Monday. Pemberton said he was disturbed 'er the considerable amount of •petition during the course of the (.Continued on Page 8) Valsh, IA Officers lut for Re-election Columbus, 0.— Eichard F. Walsh, i.TSE prexy, sprung a surprise here ;sterday as 951 IA delegates gathed in convention, by announcing at he and all the officers would and for re-election. Walsh waived ly right to the unexpired term of eorge E. Browne, which he is fill (Continued on Page 7) 106,000 in War Bonds old at Cleveland Meet Cleveland — Purchase of $106,000 orth of War Bonds was pledged by ■0 exhibs. and exchange men repdenting 310 Northern Ohio theirs at a meeting at the Statler (Continued on Page 7) Theater's Tower as Scrap for Armament Cincinnati — RKO Theaters has donated the steel decorative tower on the Paramount Theater, to the war waste material drive. Other structural iron and steel donated from theaters to the amount of 100,000 pounds include old boilers, pent house, fans and equipment no longer in use, and a quantity of old copper. TRADESHOW ALL PIX, SIMPP PLEA Indie Producers Society Opposes UMPI Sub Plan in Letter to Tburman W . Arnold Opposition of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers to the UMPI substitute sales plan was carried to the Department of Justice yesterday through the medium of a letter addressed to Thurman W. Arnold, Assistant Attorney General, and the head of the Department's anti-trust division. The letter, which bore the signatures of Roy Disney, Sam Goldwyn, David O. Selznick and Walter Wanger, comprising the Society's Executive Committee; Loyd Wright, president, and John C. Flinn, ex ecutive secretary, requested that the Government shall not consider any selling plan to replace the present expiring consent decree provisions unless such new plan shall permit free choice by theater operators of one or more features, with the contingency that each and every feature offered shall first be screened for the exhibitor. Claim Position Vulnerable "In a very specific sense," declares the letter, "the members of this society are in a unique and high (Continucd on Page 3) War Hero Tour Com. Unified Censorship Headed by Skouras Plans for a tour of 21 cities by a group of 16 war heroes are being completed by a committee headed by Spyros Skouras, president of 20thFox. The tour, which will start in New York on Monday, is sponsored by the Treasury Department through (Continued on Page 6) 20th-Fox to Expand Board to 14 Members Enlargement of the 20th CenturyFox board of directors to not more than 15 members was voted at a spe (Continued on Page 6) System in Prospect The postal and the customs film censorship operations of the Government, now being conducted separately, may be combined into a sing-le unit upon the establishment of boards of review in New York and Los Angeles by the Office of Cen (Continued on Page 6) New Jersey Allied Parley Calls Film Trade Leaders Atlantic City — Industry leaders and others associated closely with the motion picture business are ex (Continued on Page 7) Stockholders' Meeting in Dover. Del., Today Expected to be Postponed a Week Three financial groups, separate and apart from each other, are reported to be in various stages of negotiation for the purchase of RKO control. One of the deals appears to have the jump on the others insofar as nearing an agreement with Atlas Corp. is concerned for the acquisition of the Atlas holdings in RKO. Whichever group is successful in (Continued on Page 7) Brennan, Schwartz RKO Zone Managers Adoption of the zone system of theater operation to assure closer co-op between home office and field and to solidify the circuit was announced yesterday by Edward L. Alperson, RKO general manager in charge of theaters. In line with the new setup, Alper (Continued on Page 8) Conservation Program Of Studio PR Committee West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Studio Public Relations Committee announced its conservation program includes elimina (Continued on Page 8) Blum berg Sees Challenge Met "Industry Able to Cope with Emergencies'7 Columbia-Pemberton Deal May Be Closed This Week Stage production deal which Brock Pemberton and Columbia Pictures have been discussing for some time is expected to be closed this week, (Continued on Page 7) Despite any restrictions which the Government may have to impose on the motion picture business, the industry will find ways and means to fully meet its responsibilities to the total war effort, Nate J. Blumberg, Universal president, said in an opening address to the company's (Continued on Page 6) $675,000 in Cash For Army and Navy "Cash-in-hand," covering collections made in theaters during the recent industry Army-Navy Emergency Relief drive, took a big jump upward yesterday, hitting the $675,000 mark. Largest check received was that from Loew's, Inc., $217,250. Paramount-Richards, New Orleans, sent in $36,200; Alabama Theaters, Inc., Birmingham, $16,865; Translux Theaters, N. Y., $10,152; Wilmer-Vincent, New York, $6,790; Dixie Theaters Corp., New Orleans, $1,720.