The Film Daily (1942)

HM^mnllM 71 DAILY Monday, June 8, 194; Vol. 81, No. 110 Mon., June 8, 1942 lOCents 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. V., Iiy Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. VV. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Merseieau, 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. Adddess all communication to THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway. New York, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable address'. I'ilnulay, New York. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Kranite 6607. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St.. W. 1. PARIS— P. A. Harle, Le Film, 29 Riu Marsoulan (12). MEXICO CITY— Marco Aurelio Galindo, Depto. 215, Calle del Sindicalismo. 99, Tacubayo, D. F. FINANCIAL (June 5) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 83/8 83/8 S% + i/4 Col. Picts. vtc. (2V2%) 6V2 61/4 6V2 + 1/4 Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd East. Kodak 124 1/4 124 124 1/4 + 65/8 do pfd Gen. Pre. Eq 12 12 12 Loew's, Inc 423/8 42 42 + % do pfd Paramount 15 14% 14% Para. 1st pfd RKO RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . 10'/8 9% 10 20th Century-Fox pfd. 223/4 223/4 2234 — 1/4 Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 53/8 5'A 53/8 + Vs do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. deb. 4s56 995/8 99'/2 99!/2 — Ve. Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 100 99% 99% NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts Radio-Keith cvs Sonotone Corp Technicolor 8 7% 8 Trans-Lux Universal Corp. vtc... 6% 6V4 6V4 + !4 Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45 63 1/2 66'/2 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 603/4 63l/4 Clark Leaves MPPDA PostCommissioned Army Major Kenneth Clark, for the last seven years public relations head of the MPPDA, resigned Friday to enter the Army as a major in the Service of Supply under Col. A. Robert Ginsburgh in Washington. Clark will be succeeded at the Hays organization by Joel Swenson, also of the public relations department. Clark reports in Washington today. II The Broadway Parade H Picture and Distributor Theater The Cold Rush (United Artists-Chaplin)— 9fh week (d) Globe This Above All (Twentieth Century-Fox) — 5th week Astor In This Our Life (Warner Bros. Pictures) — 5th week Strand Native Land (Frontier Films) — 5th week World iKipps (Twentieth Century-fox) — 3rd week Little Carnegie All-Dance Festival (Martin J. Lewis & H. S. Rosenwald) — 3rd week ...5th Ave. Playhouse Mrs. Miniver (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures) Music Hall Ten Gentlemen from West Point (Twentieth Century-Fox) Roxy Beyond the Blue Horizon (Paramount Pictures) Paramount Broadway (Universal Pictures) Capitol Miss Annie Rooney (United Artists-Small) Rivoli 'Remember Pearl Harbor (Republic Pictures) Criterion Powder Town (RKO Radio Pictures) Rialto Moontide (Twentieth Century-Fox) (a-b) Palace Almost Married (Universal Pictures) (a) Palace The Lawless Plainsman (Columbia Pictures) — Last day (a) New York The Nazi Spy Ring (Columbia Pictures) — Last day (a) New York ♦ TWO-A-DAY RUNS ♦ Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Bros. Pictures) — 2nd week Hollywood ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURES ♦ Red Tanks (Artkino Films) Stanley ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Juke Girl (Warner Bros. Pictures) — June 19 Strand The Magnificent Dope (Twentieth Century-Fox) (c) Roxy The Wife Takes a Flyer (Columbia Pictures) (c) Capitol Friendly Enemies (United Artists) (c) Rivoli My Gal Sal (Twentieth Century-Fox) — Julie 10 (a-b) Palace I Was Framed (Twentieth Century-Fox) — June 10 (a) Palace The Panther's Claw (Producers Releasing Corp.) — Opens tomorrow (a) New York Sunset on the Desert (Republic Pictures) — Opens tomorrow (a) New York (a) Dual bill, (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill. Local 244 Receivership Hearing Off to Sept. 21 Newark — Chancery Court hearings for appointment of a receiver for Local 244, operators, will continue Sept. 21 before Vice-Chancellor John O. Bigelow. Complainants are six members of the union who charge officials with misuse of funds and coercion of the membership. They seek removal of the officias and an accounting of union funds. One of the charges is that Louis Kaufman, business agent, dominates the union to such a degree that members vote as he wishes them. N. J. Counties Asked to Join In Penn. Blackout June 23 Harrisburg, Pa. — Dr. A. C. Marts, executive director of the Pennsylvania State Council of Defense, has asked Leonard Dreyfuss, director of Civilian Defense in New Jersey, if he would arrange for New Jersey counties along the Delaware River to join in the dusk-to-dawn blackout of Eastern Pennsylvania on June 23. If the New Jersey official complies with the Pennsylvania request the areas blacked out on June 23 will include the cities of Camden and Trenton. To Give New York Dinner For King George of Greece West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Van Nomikos, Allied executive and Ahepa president, will nreside at a formal dinner to King George of Greece at the WaldorfAstoria Hotel, New York, June 20. PCC Urges Full Season's Buy for Duration of War {Continued from Page 1) going into effect nationally, exhibitors of the United States who operate theaters outside of any exchange center will probably find it impossible to attend any of distributors' tradeshowings. "This war measure will undoubtedly also prohibit outlying exhibitors from visiting exchange centers as often as heretofore and distributors' salesmen cannot, of course, continue their usual visits to exhibitors on sale of blocks-of-five." Poole further stated that "the present war measures together with further restrictions that will be placed upon transportation will all combine to augment many arguments in favor of the new selling plan presented by UMPI to Department of Justice for inclusion in present consent decree. In fact, for the duration of war exhibitors should really be allowed to buy their product once a year instead of four times and thus eliminate greatly increased expenses which to some degree accounts for increased film rentals to exhibitors. "There are many other problems confronting independent exhibitors of the United States," stated Poole, "one of which is the probability of elimination of approximately 20 per cent of prints now provided by major distributors.' One of greatest effects upon the public of a 'essening of prints will be that it will tend to increase clearances and thus bring pictures to subsequent theaters much later than the date now provided under the existing clearance scheduled. "Every effort should be made by distributors and exhibitors to maintain and in many instances decrease clearance now existing rather than increase it. Time is the essence of value of every feature picture, particularly in the minds of the theatergoing public, and delayed clearances can only result in decreased box office receipts." Hawley Rites Tomorrow Utica — Mrs. Charles Fulcher, 52, who as Ormi Hawley played in some 370 silent films, died here in Oneida County Hospital of pneumonia. Funeral services were held in Camden Saturday. COfllinG and GOIM LOU WEINBERG, Columbia circuit sales exec, five, will be in New Haven today to attend th , graduation of his son, Arthur, at Yale. ANNE BAXTER is here on vacation. WILLIAM J. KUPPER, executive sales assistar to TOM CONNORS at 20th-Fox, returned rode with WILLIAM SUSSMAN and JOSEPH J. IE from the New Jersey Allied convention in^.; lanfic City. mT JOSEPH MCSKOWITZ will be back at hisVJ^ today after several weeks' conferences at ft 20th-Fox studios. CHARLES COHEN of Metro's publicity depart ment is vacationing at Woodbourne. TOM WALLER, Paramount's syndicate ar wire service contact, is on a fishing vacatio ROY HAINES, Warners Eastern and Canadi; sales manager, left Thursday for Pittsburgh ar Cleveland. He returns today. ISABEL G. TURNER of Warners' publici staff returned yesterday from Washington. CHARLES WALL, tunnel-digging expert, on the Coast to act as technical adviser Paramount's "No Time for Love." NEW yCRLK TH EATER § RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center GREER GARSON . WALTER PIDGEON "MRS. MINIVER" From Jan Struther's Book • An M-G-M Picture ON THE GREAT STAGE: "AT EASE!"— Leoni dofT's fast moving, colorful revue. Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Erno Rapee. First Mezzanine Seats Reserved Circle 6-4600 ROSALIND ^tW^IN PERSON RUSSELL MkMURRAY/ gfflfflp J ' fAMOUS ORCHESTRA |g £P w PARAMOUNT 'TEN GENTLEMEN FROM WEST POINT" A 20lh Century Fox Picture PLUS A BIG STAGE SHOW RA V V 7th AVENUE U A I 50th STREET E2ZE B'WAY & 47th St. IDA LUPINO— JEAN GABIN "MOONTIDE" — and — "Almost Married" Jane Frazee — Robert Paige Tyrone POWER -Joan FONTAINE THIS ABOVE ALL A 20th Century-Fox Triumph ACTAD BROADWAY & 45th ST. 3IUK CONTINUOUS