The Film Daily (1942)

^•\ DAILY Friday, October 16, 1942 Vol. 82, No. 76 Fri., Oct. 16, 1942 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Genera Manager 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. PINANC IAI {Thursday, October 15); NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 10i/4 10i/4 10i/4 — i/4 Col. Picts. vtc. (2i/2%) 10 1/2 10i/4 IOI/2+ V. Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind ..... Con. Fm. Ind. pfd East. Kodak 139i/2 138 139 do pfd Gen. Free. Eq 14i/8 14'/8 141/g _"% 17 l/8 431/2 — % 163/4_ l/4 31/8 31/4 Paramount . . . Para. 1st pfd. RKO 31/4 RKO $6 pfd 491/2 481/2 491/2 + 2 20th Century-Fox ... 14l/2 14'A 14V4 — % 20fh Century-Fox pfd. 25!/8 25 25 Univ. Pier, pfd 150 150 150 Warner Bros 6i/2 6% 6% — y8 do pfd NEW YORK iBOND MARKET Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. deb. 4s56 100}4 100'/2 10034 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram 1/4 3-16 2 2 71/2 71/2 Radio-Keith cvs. . . . Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux Universal Corp. vtc. WANTED—; Exceptional opportunity for FILM EDITORS and CUTTERS. One of the largest producers of educational, training and industrial films has opening for experienced Film Editors and Cutters. Permanent employment. Write for Interview, stating Experience. Very good salary. Address Box 100 The Film Daily, 1501 Broadway, N. Y. C. WPB Cites Emil Komuves Of IPC for New Method Emil Komuves, an inspector in International Projector Corp.'s plant at 92 Gold St., is the first worker in the New York area to be honored by WPB's Production Drive Headquarters, having received honorable mention for evolving a method which reduces time in use of a gauge employed in checking tolerances of precision instruments being manufactured by IPC for the war effort. John F. Campbell, plant manager for IPC, opened the factory meeting at which Komuves was formally honored. Michael Romano sang the national anthem, and then Lieut. H. Massie Smoot, U.S.N., was introduced and made the award. Earle G. Hines, company's chief, presented Komuves with a $100 War Bond. Charles Fay, president of Local 475, delivered an address. Ceremonies concluded with singing by Romano of "America." — Scrap Socks Japs — N. Y. SPG to Publicize CIO War Effort Role At the suggestion of the Greater New York Industrial Union Council of the CIO the Screen Publicists Guild of New York has organized a publicity and promotion committee to acquaint the city and the nation with the part being played in the war by CIO members in the metropolis. Chairman of the committee is Lawrence H. Lipskin, first vice-president of the SPG. Another committee, this one to aid civilian defense offices through the utilization of SPG talents, has been formed at the request of the CDVO, with Arthur Jeffrey, second vice-president as chairman. A third committee to be organized will serve to implement the union's winthe-war program. — Scrap Socks Japs — Montague and Jackter To Host Philly Exhibs. A. Montague, general sales manager of Columbia, and Rube Jackter, assistant general sales manager will be hosts Sunday night at a dinner for important Philadelphia exhibitors and circuit executives, to launch the company's advance campaign on "You Were Never Lovelier." Following the dinner, which will take place at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, those present will be Montague's guests at a special tradeshowing of the film, slated for 9:00 p.m. at the Erlanger Theater. — Scrap Socks Japs — Ben Kresch Party Ben Kresch, legal contact for Warner Bros, theaters in Philadelphia, who leaves soon for Army service, was guest of honor at a cocktail partv yesterday in the Penthouse of the Hotel Piccadilly. Warner home office executives were among the friends and business associates who attended the farewell get-together. Clearance Adjustments In Canton, O., Sought (Continued from Page 1) set-up as between these distributors and the first and second-run theaters of Canton. The petition claims that the clearance as between the Ohio, Loew's, Palace, Mozart and Valentine Theaters and the complainant Deuber Theater is unreasonable; that the comparable clearance granted the Strand and State with the Deuber is unreasonable; that neither the Valentine nor the Mozart is entitled to clearance over the Dueber. Complainant seeks relief by having the existing licenses between the distributor defendants and the defendant Mozart and Valentine Theaters declared inoperative, that the arbitrator reduce the clearance between first and subsequent-runs in Canton, and that the comparable clearance granted to the State and Strand Theaters with the Dueber be discontinued. This is the second arbitration suit filed by the Dueber Theater against the same distributors and theaters. On Feb. 4. 1942, suit was filed under Section VI of the degree, asking for some run. Case was dismissed by Arbitrator J. Virgil Cory, who rendered the decision that the evidence failed to prove a refusal of some run to the complainant, and also, that according to the evidence, clearance and price fixed by the distributor defendants were not such as to defeat the purpose of the decree, as was claimed by the complainant. — Scrap Socks Japs — PRC Sets Product Deal With Two Warner Zones Warners circuit theaters in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have closed for PRC's new product lineup, it was announced yesterday by Arthur Greenblatt. sale« manager. Meanwhile, PRC's "Jungle Siren," starring Ann Corio and Buster Crabbe. has been booked by more than 600 maior circuit theaters and has established a new record for a PRC nicture in Class "A." houses. Circuit deals also are piling un for "Secrets of a Co-Ed." which is scheduled for release Oct. 26, and indications are that the contracts mav surpass in number those of "Jungle Siren." — Scrap Socks Japs — YDD London Debut Sells $4,050,000 in War Bonds London (By Cable)— British War Bond premiere of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" at the Warner Theater here last night resulted in the sale of more than $4,050,000 in Bonds. Patterned after the New York anrl Hollvwood premieres of the Warner Bros, picture, admission to the local first night was strictly through the "in-chase of National War Savings Certificates, the British eauivalent of War Bonds, priced at $20 to $20,000 per seat in American coin. commc and come STEVE BROIDY. vice-president and general sales manager of Monogram, has left Hollywood on a tour of the company's Eastern exchanges. JOSEPH T. HANLEY, service manager of Monogram's foreign department, is in Hollywood for conferences. He will be away two weeks. VERONICA LAKE gets in from the Coastit"day to rehearse for "Incendiary Blondes, "«£yi, I aret revue to be put on at the Waldos in toria on Oct. 23 for the benefit of the American Theater Wing War Service. Actress will be at the Waldorf for the next two weeks. SOL SCHWARTZ, Western zone manager for RKO theaters, is on a tour visiting RKO houses in Chicago, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Dubuque, Minneapolis, Marshalltown, Sioux City and Waterloo. I. H. ROGOVIN Boston; HARRY WEINER, Philadelphia; JOE MILLER, Albany; PHIL FOX, Buffalo, and TIM O'TOOLE, New Haven, have returned to their homes after attending branch managers' conference at the Columbia home office. NAT WOLF, zone manager for Warner Theaters in the Cleveland territory, arrived in New York yesterday for home office conferences with Joseph Bernhard and Harry M. Kalmii He returns to Cleveland over the week-end. ARTHUR SACHSON, Vitagraph vice-president, left yesterday on a business trip to Chicago: He is expected back the early part of next week. A. A. SCHUBART, RKO's manager of exchange operations, got back yesterday from a tour of the company's branches on the Pacific Coast. LOU ASTOR, Columbia circuit sales executive, left for Philadelphia yesterday to be gone until Monday. — Scrap Socks Japs — Macgowan on "Happy Land" West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Kenneth Macgowan's first 20th-Fox production, following his return to the studio after his work in the office of the Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, will be "Happy Land." — Scrap Socks Japs — Frank Nolan Dead Oberlin, O— Frank Nolan, 60, veteran theater manager who, for the past few years has been managing the Lonet Theater in Wellington, died in Oberlin Hospital. «te OCTOBER 16 Harry Rapf Al G. Ruben Lucille Fairbanks Lloyd Corrigan Bill Elliott Frank D. Ormston Molly O'Day Vincent Munro, Jr OCTOBER 17 Rita Hayworth Marilyn Morgan Jean Arthur Roy Stewart Casey Robinson Hapsburg Liebe Marian Marsh David Bennett Radie Harris OCTOBER 18 Miriam Hopkins Lamar Trotti Guy Wonders H. J. Yates, Jr. Bob Custer