The Film Daily (1942)

Monday, October 19, 1942 Vol. 82, No. 77 Won., Oct. 19, 1942 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Managei 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 N<sw 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 (October 16) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High low Close Chg. Am. Seat 10V4 10V4 10l/4 Col. Picts. vtc. (2'/2%) 10% 103/s 105/8+ l/8 Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. fm. Ind. pfd. 7% 77/8 7% + % East. Kodak 139y2 139y2 139l/2 + Vz do pfd 173 172 173 +1 Cen. free. Eq 14'/8 14Vs 14l/8 Loew's, Inc 433^ 433/8 433/8 + l/4 Paramount 16% 163,4 16% + % Paramount 1st pfd 25 25 150 150 6i/4 6i/2 KKO 33/8 RKO $6 pfd 5014 50i/2 50l/2 + l 20th Century-Fox ...14i/2 1334 14l/2 + l/4 20th Century-Fox pfd. 25 Univ. Pict. pfd 150 Warner Bros 6'/; do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. dbs. 4s55 100'/2 100'/2 100i/2 — i/, Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 101 101 101 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts Radio-Keith cvs. . . Vi y4 1/4 Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45 72 76 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st *57 64i/4 67 — Scrap Socks Japs — Allied of Western Penn. Opens Convention Today Pittsburgh — The 22nd annual convention of Allied Motion Picture Theater Owners of Western Pennsylvania opens here today at the William Penn Hotel. Election of officers and business routine will occupy today's activities. M-G-M's Exhibitors' Forum will be held tomorrow. A banquet will wind up the activities tomorrow night. H The Broadway Parade S Picture and Distributor Theater Wake Island (Paramount Pictures)— 7th week Kivoll The Major and the Minor (Paramount Pictures)— 5th week Paramount Tales of Manhattan (Twentieth Century-Foxi-^th week Music Hall A Yank at Eton (Metro-Coldwyn-Mayer Pictures) Capitol Iceland (Twentieth Century-Fox) Roxy You Can't Escape Forever (Warner Bros. Pictures) Strand The Devil With Hitler (United Artists-Hal Roach) Globe Sin Town (Universal Pictures) Rialto The Glass Key (Paramount Pictures) Criterion Across the Pacific (Warner Bros. Pictures) (a) Palace Get Hep to Love (Universal Pictures) (a) Palace Baby-Face Morgan Producers Releasing Corp.) — Last day (a) New York The Phantom Plainsmen (Republic Pictures)— Last day (a) New York Eyes in the Night (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures) Loew's State The Great Commandment— Revival 55th St. Playhouse ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURES ♦ In the Rear of the Enemy (Artkino Pictures) — 2nd week Stanley ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ For Me and My Gal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures) — Oct. 21 Astor The Forest 'Rangers (Paramount Pictures) — Oct. 21 Paramount My Sister Eileen (Columbia Pictures)— Oct. 22 Music Hall The Moon and Sixpence (United Artists-Loew-Lewin) — Oct. 27 Rivoli Now, Voyager (Warner Bros. Pictures) — Oct. 22 Hollywood Mummy's Hand (Universal Pictures) (c) Rialto George Washington Slept Here (Warner Bros. Pictures) — Oct. 30 Strand Flying Tigers (Republic Pictures) (c) Capitol Girl Trouble (Twentieth Century-Fox) — Oct. 22 Palace The Whalers (Scandia Films)— Oct. 24 48th St. Theater Foreign Agent (Monogram Pictures) — Opens tomorrow (a) New York Bad Men of the Hills (Columbia Pictures) — Opens tomorrow (a) New York (a) Dual bill, (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill. cominG nno goirg H. M. R1CHEY, M-C-M director of exhibitor relations, and M. L. SIMONS, his assistant, are in Pittsburgh for the company's exhibitors' forum to be held at the William Penn Hotel there tomorrow. WILLIAM R. FERGUSON, director of M-C-M exploitation; LESTER ISAAC head of the company's sound and projection department; SEYMOUR MORRIS, publicity head of the Schine Circuit, and WALTER E. GREEN, president of the National Theatre Supply Co., will leave for Pittsburgh tonight. JULIUS J. and PHILIP C. EPSTEIN, Warner writers who were recently elevated to producer status, return to the Coast early this week from New York. E. S. GREGG, vice-president and general manager of the Western Electric Export Corp., left Friday for Hollywood to discuss domestic and foreign recording problems. IRVING MILLS of Mills Music, Inc., arrived in town Friday. HARRY HONER, stage designer, will get into town today for conferences with Sol Lesser on "Stage Door Canteen" for which he is doing the settings. MERVYN LeROY returned to the Coast yesterday. ARTHUR HORNBLOW pulled out for the M-G-M studio yesterday. JULES LEVEY, head of Mayfair Productions, is in town with the first print of "Jacare." MR. and MRS. O. HAMILTON DOUGLAS, parents of Gordon Douglas, Hal Roach director, are here from the Coast. GUDMUNDUR SICMUNDSSON, Western Electric Export Corp. rep. in Iceland has arrived in New York City. EDWARD C. ROBINSON arrived in New York on Friday for a brief stay. He is expected to leave soon for 'England. M. J. SIEGEL returns to the Coast today. BEBE DANIELS is reported to have arrived at an Atlantic port from England. 20th-Fox Radio Dept. Expanded by Hal Home Expansion of the 20th-Fox radio department to cover all phases of air exploitation was announced on Friday by Hal Home, the company's ad-publicity chief. The duties of the department will be shared by Robert Montgomery and Ted Lloyd, who have been entrusted with the expansion plans. Montgomery will be in charge of all radio activity designed for exhibitor service and of music exploitation. Myra Miller will assist him. Lloyd will take care.of national radio programs and handle commercial tie-ups in the . East. ... He was formerly, a member, of -the editorial staff of Radio Daily. • ',.■. "Dakar" to be Republic's Next de Luxe Production Republic's next de luxe production, designed to surpass "Flying Tigers," will be "Dakar," it was announced Friday following conclusion of home office conferences with M. J. Siegel, president of Republic Productions. John Wayne already has been set for one of the leading roles, while John Carroll and Anna Lee who appeared with Wayne in "Flying Tigers," are being sought for other lead parts. Siegel returns to Hollywood today. —Scrap Socks Japs — Max Katz Dies Chicago — Max Katz, father-inlaw of Dave Balabah died at Chester, Illinois. Pittsburgh V. C. Will Open Stage Door Canteen Pittsburgh — Under the sponsorship of the local Variety Club, a Stage Door Canteen will be opened here in 30 days. The club will finance and operate. Committee is headed by John H. Harris and M. A. Silver as co-chairmen. Estimated this city has 900 service men down town daily. — Scrap Socks Japs — Surprise Blackout for Penn. Before Month's End rn Harrisburg, Pa. — Pennsylvania will have a state-wide surprise blackout before Nov. 1, it is announced by Dr. A. C. Marts, executive director of the State Council of Defense, who said that the test probably would be of shorter duration than the previous half-hour blackouts. new ycer THEATERS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center NINE CREAT STARS FORTY-TWO FEATURED PLAYERS IN "TALES of MANHATTAN" A 20th CenturyFox Plctura Gala Stage Revue Symphony Orchestra First Mezzanine Seats Reserved Circle 6-4600 IN Sonja HENIE • John PAYNE ICELAND PLUS A BIG STAGE SHOW WAR A A V U 7th TTHE KUAl 50th IbMM-lflll "ACROSS THE PACIFIC" — and — "GET HEP TO LOVE" ROBERT PAIGE • GLORIA JEAN 'The Perfect Skating Show' — Mantle, News ^(V ro $1 ^0 at a" Performances ex | Plus JVH. IU y I .JUcept sgt. Eves. 50e t0 jj.sn 1 T„ STARS ON ICE CENTER THEA., Rockefeller Center, CO. 5-5474 ; America's Only Ice Theater Eva*. -Ihel. ,8un.-8:40. No Monday Performance Matinees Wed. S. Sat. at 2:40 and Sun. at 3 -Mail' Orders Promptly Filled Li ~ '•'. ■ .