The Film Daily (1942)

Intimate in Character International in Scope Independent in Thought The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Twenty-Four Years Old -^FDAILY '-*• 82, NO. 69 NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1942 TEN CENTS BROADWAY'S WEEK-END BIZ A GOLD MINE Col. Cole Fears Gov't Regulation of Film Industry Sees That Likely to Happen Before Pending AntiTrust Action is Settled Dallas — At the open forum here yesterday at the convention of Allid Theater Owners of Texas, Col. H. A Cole, the unit's prexy, in expressing regret that UMPI is dead, said tie feared the industry was headed for Government regulation. The morning session of the first iay of the convention was closed to the press. The luncheon and busi aess session were devoted to Col. (Continued on Page 7) — 'Don't be a Scrap Slacker — Pix and Newspaper Scrap Drives Join At a meeting held yesterday at the offices of the National Newspaper Association, the film industry's national scrap drive became a part of ;he great campaign currently being •.onducted by the country's press. At the meeting were Richard W. 31ocum, chairman of the newspaper issociation, Monroe Greenthal for (Continued on Page 6) -—Don't be a Scrap Slacker — Vogel Names Sparrow Loew District Manager Allen Sparrow, who has been a nanager for the Loew circuit since .920, was promoted yesterday by roseph R. Vogel to district manager, vith headquarters in Columbus, 0. sparrow replaces Mike Cullen, dis (Continued on Page 6) Rate Cut, But Md. Ticket Tux Booms Annapolis — Maryland fiscal officials got a pleasant surprise when they got around to computing the state's amusement tax revenue. When the tax was reduced from one per cent to one-half per cent, tax officials expected a healthy drop in the amount collected. Current computation, however, showed an increase of almost $10,000 over the 1940-41 fiscal reports. CANADIAN "UNITY PLAN" PROPOSED Falk Would Use All-Industry Advisory Council As Clearing House for Internal Disputes Toronto — Henry Falk, head of the National Council of Independent Motion Picture Exhibitors, has found a trade use for the All-Industry Advisory Council of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board by broadening the jurisdiction of the organization so that it would deal with disputes and problems within the Canadian film business, apart from collaborating with the Government board in the framing of control measures. Returning from a speaking tour of Quebec and the Maritime Provinces during which he laid the proposal before combined independentchain-distributor gatherings, Falk urged that the Advisory Council should be made into a central clearing house for internal disputes and for dealing with matters of general policy. On the other hand, Falk declared openly that some trade officials "have tried to reduce to a minimum the (Continued on Page 7) Warners To Double Newspaper Ad Coin Following a series of conferences at the home office between H. M. Warner, Major Albert Warner, Joseph Bernhard, S. Charles Einfeld, Ben Kalmenson, and Mort Blumenstock, Warners has decided to carry through the 1942-43 season on the (Continued on Page 7) —Don't be a Scrap SlackerAlbright Replaces Marks "Down Under" for UA United Artists has appointed Sydney J. Albright as its general manager in Australia and New Zealand, succeeding Cecil Marks, resigned. Albright formerly was UA (Continued on Page 2) Columbia's Year Nefaf$1r611,659 Columbia Pictures Corp. and subsidiaries earned $1,611,659.13 for the 52 weeks ended June 27 after provision for taxes amounting to $1,163,617, it was announced yesterday. Comparable net earnings for 1941 were $552,743.94 after provision for (Continued on Page 6) — Don't be a Scrap Slacker — Vermont Opposes Rugge For Presidency of 702 Candidates nominated for office were announced yesterday by the Motion Picture Laboratory Technicians Union, Local 702, IATSE. The nominations were made at a regular (Continued on Page 2) Moving Para. Cartoon Plant? May Switch Production from Miami'to N. Y. "Clubs Mobile" to Carry Pix to U. S. Troops in U.K. Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — A "Club Mobile" program to be inaugurated in Great Britain to carry motion pictures, music, athletic and canteen facilities to U. S. troops assigned in small (Continued on Page 2) Famous Studios, Paramount's cartoon production plant in Miami, may be shifte dto New York, it was learned yesterday. The studio is owned by Isador Sparber, Seymore Kneitel and Sam Buchwald who recently took it over from Max Fleischer. The cartoon staff was moved from New York to Miami in (Continued on Page 6) Soaring Attendance and "Takes" Lead Showmen to Recall New Year's Eve Theater business on Broadway over the week-end came close to shattering all records and managers described it as "another New Year's Eve." With thousands in town for the World's Series and the opening of the Belmont race track, which also attracted throngs, night business along the Rialto was almost unprecedented for a non-holiday period. Radio City Music Hall with "Tales of Manhattan" took in $62,000 in four days, Thursday to Sunday. The (Continued on Page 6) —Don't be a Scrap Slacker — Hub Film Theater Biz Records Fall Boston — Boston's theaters carried out their promises of exceeding all previous records over the week-end. Beginning with the middle of the week and continuing throughout the week-end, the crowds at all of the downtown houses and at nabes, was the largest in their history. Department stores in Boston last (Continued on Page 7) —Don't be a Scrap Slacker— AMPP Names Com. On Wage Stabilization Law West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood— Following a lengthy discussion of the wage stabilization law, the Association of Motion Picture Producers appointed a commit (Continued on Page 6) 10% Admission Tax Effective in Mobile Mobile, Ala. — A 10 per cent levy on amusements voted by the City Commission over the protest of more than 5,000 residents whose names appeared on petitions presented by Paramount-Richards chain and independent theater operators, is in effect. ^ p| mr; up that scrap:— take a rap at the jap>— avenge pearl harbor!