The Film Daily (1942)

X c Thursday, October 1, 1942 Vol. 82, No. 66 Thurs., Oct. 1, 1942 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN 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 flO.OO 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: Filmday. New York. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 66Q7. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. PARIS— P. A. Harle, Le Film, 29 Ru. Marsoulan (12). MEXICO CITY— MarcoAurelio Galindo, Depto. 215, Calle del Sindicalismo, 99, Tacubayo, D. F. riNANCIAL (Wednesday, Sept. 30) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (2>/2%> 83/8 8i/4 8% Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd East. Kodak 134i/8 133% 134'/8 + % do pfd 173 173 173 — 1 Cen. Prec. Eq Loew's, Inc 435/8 43 Vi 43l/2 — V4 Paramount 165/8 16y8 16% + % Para. 1st pfd 117i/2 116% 1171/2 + Vz RKO RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox .13 12% 13 + % 20th Century-Fox pfd. 23% 23% 23% + % Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 5% 5% 5% + % do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Para. B'way 3s55... 70 70 70 Para. Picts. deb. 4s56. 100 99% 100 + % Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. ... 1 % 15-16 +1-16 Radio-Keith cvs Sonotone Corp 2 2 2 + % Technicolor 73/8 73/8 73/8 Trans-Lux 1% 1 1/8 1%— % Universal Corp. vtc Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45. . 70 74 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 653,4 Sl% — Get in the Scrap!— Hartford Theaters Join In Boosting B. O. Scales Hartford, Conn. — E. M. Loew's Theater has raised admissions from 40 cents to 44 cents, including tax. The Proven Pictures has gone from 15 to 20 cents on admissions until 1 p.m. Most of the subsequent-runs have also gone up from 30 to 33 cents, both in Hartford and New Haven, but Bridgeport stays at old levels. COmiRG MID G0MG WENDELL WILLKIE is in Chungking. He expects to spend a week or two in China. JANET BLAIR leaves the Coast the end of the week for the Music Hall opening of the film version of "My Sister Eileen," in which she plays the name role. ROBERT BENJAMIN, Producers Releasing Corp. counsel, has arrived on the Coast for conferences with President O. Henry Briggs and Leon Fromkess, production head. ROY ROGERS flies in from the Coast on Sunday to appear at the rodeo at Madison Square Garden. The Sons of the Pioneers, who appear in his pictures, will accompany him. IRENE MANNING, returned yesterday from a War Bond selling tour through the Midwest. EDGAR BERGEN pulls into town from the Coast tomorrow for personal appearances. He will be at Fort Monmouth Oct. 4; Annapolis, Oct. 11; Quantico, Oct. 18: West Point, Oct. 25. JINX FALKENBURG arrived by plane from Hollywood yesterday afternoon to appear in "We're All in It" at Madison Square Garden last night. THEO JUNG of the Loew's construction department, N. Y., visited the Connecticut theaters this week. WILL YOLEN, Warner exploitation man, arrives in Tulsa today. PHILIP and JULIUS EPSTEIN, Warner Bros, writer-producers, arrive in New York tomorrow from the Coast with the body of their mother, who died Monday night in Hollywood. Scratch-Pad . . . jottings (Continued from Page 1) letter to Metro studio execs., producers, directors and writers urging careful study in the production of pix with war themes and backgrounds. ... If the six questions specified by Mannix were to be adopted by studio crrefs generally there'd be a marked slash in the number of so-called "war films" on Coast schedules. AAAA Committee Will Study Situation in AGVA The international board of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America held a special meeting at the Actors Equity headquarters yesterday to consider a report on the condition of the American Guild of Variety Artists submitted by Walter N. Greaza, assistant executive secretary of Eauity, who has been running the affairs of AGVA for the past four or five months. The board appointed a committee to study the AGVA situation in the light of the Greaza report. The committee will report back to the board with recommendations. Paul Dullzell, executive secretary of Equity, is chairman of the committee, other members of which are Kenneth Thomson of the Screen Actors Guild, Emily Holt of the American Federation of Radio Artists, Ruth Richmond of Chorus Equity. Dewey Barto of AGVA and Blanche Witherspoon of the American Guild of Musical Artists. Dullzell made it clear at the meeting that Equity had never considered the assumption or acceptance of jurisdiction over variety artists now held by AGVA. — Get in the Scrap!— Recall Col. Tim McCoy To Active Army Duty West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Colonel Tim McCoy featured in "Rough Riders" produced by Scott R. Dunlap for Monogram release has been recalled to active service with U. S. Army and reports at Fort Washington, Md., today for a refresher course preparatory to probable assignment to headquarters of an Army corps. Day-Date Broadway Runs For Para. Victory Shorts Paramount's first two completed Victory shorts in its program of four are scheduled for day-and-date screenings at all first-runs on Broadway. The date for "Letter from Bataan" is Oct. 8 and for "We Refuse to Die" Oct. 29. "We Refuse to Die," which deals with the destruction of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, by the Nazis, will have its first showing in Lidice, 111., on Oct. 23, The short will go into general release on Oct. 25, which has been designated as Lidice Memorial Day. —Get in Hie Scrap! — 'Tollies Girl" Starts At Jersey City Studios William Rowland has started production on "Follies Girl" which he is producing at the Ideal Sound Studios in Jersey City with a cast headed by Wendy Barrie and Doris Nolan. Other sequences will be shot at night spots in New York. Cast includes Arthur Pierson, J. C. Nugent, Cora Witherspoon, Lew Hearn. Cliff Hall, Jay Brennan and Fritzi Scheff, in addition to several top orchestras. Distribution has not been set. — Get in the Scrap!— Attendance Gains Send Stock Quotations Upward The gains in attendance at film theaters which have marked the start of the fall season are serving to draw heavy attention to motion nicture shares, it is reported in Wall Street circles. The improvement at the nation's box-offices is understood being reflected in firmer stock prices. At present film shares are at levels not far from their 1942 maximums. — Get in the Scrap! — PRC Is Negotiating For Talisman Studios West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — PRC is negotiating to acquire the Talisman Studios from L. A. Young. Preliminary talks are being held by O. Henry Briggs, president of PRC, Attorney Robert Benjamin, counsel of PRC, and representatives of Young. "George Washington" Set For 4 Weeks at Strand Warners' "George Washington Slept Here," has been booked into the New York Strand for a fourweek run, starting Oct. 30. Phil Spitalny and his all-girl ork now on the Coast making a picture, will provide the "in person" show during this engagement. "The Hard Way" and "Flying Fortress" will be +v,e following screen Strand attract' NEW yCRK THEATERS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center NINE GREAT STARS FORTY-TWO FEATURED PLAYERS IN "TALES of MANHATTAN" A 20th CenturyFox Picture Gala Stage Revue Symphony Orchestra First Mezzanine Seats Reserved Circle 6-4600 ORCHESTRA WIVES A 20th Century-Fox Picture PLUS A BIG D A V V 7tn AVENUE K U A f 50th STREET STAGE SHOW H;.if:tH4y^j STARTS TOMORROW BETTY GRABLE • VICTOR MATURE FOOTLIGHT SERENADE' — and — GEORGE SANDERS 'FALCON'S BROTHER' SAMUEL GOLDWYN PRESENTS GARY COOPER in THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES (The Life of Lou Gehrig) Released Through RKO-Radio Pictures, Inc. A DTAD B'way Popular Prices Cont. A& 1 UK & 45th Midnite Shows Perf. BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS "BRILLIANT— A HIT."— Anderson. Joor.-Amer. RClr ¥n $1 ^f) at a» Performances ex | Plus 3UC TO ^ I . JUcept sa,. Ev6s. 50e to $2.50 I Tax Sonja Henie & Arthur M. Wirt* present A New Musical Icetravaganza STARS ON ICE Evgs. Inel. 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