The Film Daily (1942)

<7 •' DAILY Wednesday, October 7, 1942 Vol. 82, No. 70 Wed., Oct 7,1942 10 Cents JOHN W. At ICO ATE : : : Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager M-G-M Gives Debut Show Of "Fine Arts of Cinema" 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, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. WASHINGTON— Van Beuren De Vries, 732 Woodward Building. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. PARIS— P. A. Harle, Le Film, 29 Rue Marsoulan (12). HAVANA — Mary Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. HONOLULU — Eileen O'Brien. BUENOS AIRES— Dr. Walter P. Schuck, Casillo de Correo 1929. MEXICO CITY— Marco-Aurelio Galindo, Depto. 215, Calle del Sindicalismo, 99, Tacubayo, D. F. FINANCIAL (.Tuesday, Oct. 6) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 103/8 10% 10% — % Col.lPicts. vfc. <2%%) 91/2 9% 93/8 + % Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind % Vx Vx Con. Fm. Ind. pfd East. Kodak 136% 136 136 (L^Prec.' ' lEq. '. '. '. .' '. 14% 1 4% 1 4% + " % Loew's, Inc 44 1/4 43% 44 — Vx Paramount 17 167/4 17 Para. 1st pfd 119% 119 119%+ 1/4 (RKO 3 3 3 — % RKO $6 pfd 42% 42% 42% + 74 20th Century-Fox .. 14% 14% 14%— % 20th Century-Fox pfd. 243/4 243/3 24% + % Univ. Pier, pfd Warner Bros 6% 6% 6% ...... do pfd 80% 80 80% + , % NEW YORK BOND MARKET Para. B'way 3s55 Para. iPicts. deb. 4s56. 100 100 100 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 102 10P/4 102 + % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. ... 1% 1 1% + % Radio-Keith cvs % % % Sonotone Corp Technicolor 73/8 7% 7% — % Trans-Lux 1% 1% 1% Universal Corp. vtc Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45.. 71 75 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57.... 64 — Get in the Scrap! — Quentin Reynolds in Film Quentin Reynolds will appear in a prologue to the screen version of his "Only the Stars Are Neutral," rights to which have been purchased by 20th-Fox. — Get in the Scrap!— Buys Cantor's New Story MacKinley Cantor's story "Hap"" Land" has been purchased by 20thFox before its publication in the Saturday Evening Post. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer yesterday presented a debut showing of its "Fine Arts of the Cinema" at Coty Fifth Avenue. The exhibit, first of the showings which will go into scores of leading department stores and public libraries throughout the nation, is the creation of Howard Dietz and presents the esthetic values which go into the making of motion pictures. One of the features of the exhibit is the life masks of Hollywood and other "greats" including: Mickey Rooney, Mme. Chiang-Kai-Shek, Judy Garland, Jeanette MacDonald, Laraine Day, Kathryn Grayson, Robert Montgomery, Van Heflin, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Spencer Tracy, Charles Laughton, Basil Rathbone, Robert Young and Adeline Dewalt Reynolds. The films represented via artists' sketches and other production drawings are "Seven Sweethearts," "Randon Harvest," "Mrs. Miniver," "White Cargo," "A Yank at Eton," and "Journey for Margaret." One of the greatest outpourings of celebrities, including civic and society notables, comprised, in part, Grover Whalen. chairman of the board of Cotv Fifth Avenue, H. L. Brook, president of Coty, Arthur Rotham, a vice-president of the company. J. Robert Rubin, Howard Dietz and William R. Ferguson. First stop of the exhibit will be Pittsburgh, and the tour will involve leading key city department stores of the 48 states. — Get in the Scrap!— T.abor-Management Clause In New SCG-Disney Pact West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — New contract between the Screen Cartoonist Guild and Walt Disney embraces a labor-manasrement clause and runs to June 1, 1944. It provides for vacations, sick leaves and minimum wages at current scales in the industry. A labor-management committee consisting of five union members and five persons named by Disney will undertake to develop methods designed to speed production, increase efficiency, eliminate bottlenecks and constantly improve labor-management relations. It will recommend the establishment of a schedule of awards for such employees as may have made acceptable suggestions for speeding up production and increasing efficiency. — Get in the Scrap! — Goldberg In Philly Harry Goldberg, director of advertising and publicity for Warner Theaters, goes to Philadelphia today to conduct a meeting of the circuit's advertising and publicity men in that zone. —Get in the Scrap!— Edington Rejoins RKO West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Harry E. Edington is rejoining RKO as a producer on a one-picture deal which carries an option for a term contract. Republic Hosts Reception For Rodeo Star, Roy Rogers Republic Pictures hosted a cocktail reception yesterday, the eve of the opening of the New York Rodeo, for Roy Rogers, the company's star and top-billed personality for Madison Square Garden where the rodeo will be held. There were door prizes for men and women, and the male guests were presented with 10-gallon hats and scarves, and the women with headgear of the plains. The party was one of the most unique in local picture annals. Present were Herbert J. Yates, James R. Grainger, who planed out for Chicago immediately after the reception, Mark Epstein, Sergeant Gene Autry, Walter Titus, Bosley Crowther, Charles Reed Jones, Evelyn Coleman, Jack Alicoate, Zac Freedman, Grace Beneke, Cal Swanson, Cecily Hathaway, Lillian Jenkins, Ned Irish, Eileen McCav, Toni (Disnev) Spitzer, Spike Claason, Irene Thirer, Jack McManus, Jimmy Dunn, Louise Levitas, E. E. Early, Jack Carson, Graham Wain, Steve Edwards, and members of the metropolitan press and of the motion picture trade press. — Get in the Scrap! — One-Day Matinee Service Discontinued by Carrier Detroit — Discontinuance of film carrier service for one-day matinees bv trucks on daytime runs is being placed in effect by Film Truck Service in over half the state of Michigan, according to Harold C. Robinson, president. Cut is in order to allow readjustment of running schedules caused by the 35 m.p.h. speed limit. All towns west of Kalamazoo, north or west of Grand Rapids, and north of Bay City are included in the new order. — Get in the Scrap! — Theater Authority Wins Income Tax Exemption Under a Treasury Department ruling, Theater Authoritv. Inc., has been exempted from the Federal income tax provisions on the grounds that it is "organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes." The organization, which was set up by entertainment unions to regulate benefits, gets its income by collecting a percentage of receipts. — Get in the Scrap! — New Duties for Three In 20th-Fox Pub. Dept. Three members of the 20th-Fox advertising and publicity department have been assigned to new duties. Rodney Bush will head an enlarged exhibitor's service unit, Sid Blumenstock will be in charge of trade paper advertising, and Christy Wilbert will function as editor-in-chief of the press book department. — Get in the Scrap! — Offer 67 for B & K Common Chicago — B & K common stock is 67 bid with no offerings. COmiM and G0IIIG S. CHARLES EINFELD leaves for Washington tomorrow and from there returns to the Coast at the week-end. MAJ. WARREN P. MUNSELL, Army Air Forces, who stepped down as the Theater Guild's business manager to accept his commission, has gone to Washington. JAY GOLDEN of the RKO-Paramount-Cojw* fcrd pool in Rochester, is in New York. tC^'i BOB TA'LINCER is in town from the Co%.*-' — Get in the Scrap! — Doob Replaces Greenthal As WAC Divisional Chief Oscar A. Doob, Loew circuit's adpublicity chief, succeeds Monroe Greenthal, now with the WPB, as chairman of the Public Relations Division of the WAC. Doob, public relations director for the War Bond drive last month, will organize theater publicists who played a major role in that campaign into a WAC division comparable to the exchange setup in the Distributors Division. In a letter to the WAC trade press division yesterday, George J. Schaefer, Arthur L. Mayer, Si Fabian and Francis S. Harmon paid glowing tribute to Doob's Bond drive service, terming it "the finest public relations job our industry has done." — Get in the Scrap! — "Manpower" Released In New York on Oct. 22 "Manpower," Victorv short produced by the OWI for distribution throughout the nation by the WAC without charge to exhibitors, will be released nationally on Oct. 29, with the New York release set for Oct. 22. The film, which shows how every American can fit into the war pattern, attempts to clear up the manpower situation by explaining the voluntary system set up by Paul V. McNutt's War Manpower Commission. — Get in the Scrap! — Haines, Schwalberg Tour Roy Haines and A. W. Schwalberg, vice-presidents of Vitagraph, left yesterday for a tour of exchanges in the Central District. They will be in Cincinnati today and in Cleveland on Thursday. Pittsburgh also is on their itinerary. Robert Z. Leonard Jack Mulhall Edward Peskay Max Ree Andy Oevine