The Film Daily (1942)

r-n Tuesday, November 24, 1942 Can't Group Theater Supervisory Attaches (Continued from Page 1) chain has been dismissed by the NLRB. The board based its action on the ground that "the various Pis of supervisory employes. . . lot be appropriately grouped. . . in a single unit." The NLRB upheld the contention of WarnerStanley that the unit proposed by the union was "inappropriate for bargaining" because such employes had "no common interests" and that "managers who supervise assistant managers, utilitarian and treasurers should not be included in the same bargaining unit with such employes." In making its decision known, the board asserted that the case involved no question concerning "the representation of employes of Stanley in an appropriate bargaining unit." As a result of the board's action the Screen Office and Professional Employes Guild, Local 113, which is the UOPWA affiliate to which belong the WarnerStanley employes involved in the case, will have to bargain for the managers as a separate unit. In Friday's Film Daily it was erroneously reported that the union's petition had been granted by the NLRB. Weshner Names Harris UA Publicity Director (Continued from Page 1) York Journal-American and a correspondent in Paris for the Chicago Tribune and New York HeraldTribune. He also was a screen writer for 20th Century-Fox. Harris handled special exploitation campaigns for "I Wanted Wings," "Foreign Correspondent," "The Long Voyage Home," "Pride of the Yankees," "Jungle Book" and "The Thief of Bagdad." Staggered Hours In Chi. Chicago — Staggered hour system will go into effect here Dec. 1 at the request of the ODT. Fifteen employing groups will start the system, with the change expected to affect the Loop theater attendance. «l^ v * e ■ * Geraldine Fitzgerald E. V. Du Par Lee Bonnell Arthur E. Christie Alex Moss John F. Natteford J. S. Hummel T T T • • • IT'S not promotional verbiage but a fact that the ninth annual "Night of Stars" in Madison Sq. Garden jtonight will be the biggest and best of this notable series of extravaganzas for refugee aid and Palestine resettlement Record film industry attendance in audience and on stage is certain Marvin Schenck, chairman of the producing committee, tells us that the show will last for five hours from the time Governor Lehman, the guest of honor, delivers the short opening address at 8:35 p.m More than 1,400 stars, technicians and musicians are in the cast. . • • . .There will be more big name performers on hand than ever before, and, because of the silver lining that is now showing through the dark clouds of war, the spirit of this "Night of Stars" will eclipse all predecessors As usual, Schrafft's will cater to the stars backstage, — and for so doing in these days of living's hicost, shortages, and what have you, Phil M. awards to that institution's solons the Order of Applause (with two palms) T T ▼ • • • PCA is breathing easier now that Republic has decided not to ornament the upper leg areas of chorines with the victory "V," and is transferring the symbol to the gals' shorts in the current musical, "Chatterbox" Coast reports aver that Joe Breen's thigh of relief could be heard from Hollywood to 28 West 44th St. . . . • Invitation to Metro's premiere tradeshowing of "Random Harvest" in the Normadie Theater at 2:45 this afternoon is by card only. ... • Paul Benjamin is celebrating his 23rd anniversary with National Screen Service. ... • Industry observers describe Brig. Gen. Fred Osborne, supremely tall and Lincolnesque, as one officer you just have to look up to,— so much so that he couldn't play the Great Emancipator even in his stocking feet. ... • Nearly three tons of clothing collected in Schine's Rochester sector stands in co-operation with Russian War Relief's chapter there have been shipped since the Schine houses opened the collection depots in September. ... » Boosting of war workers' morale with consequent increase in production, via the playing of music and the delivering of timely messages o'er sound systems, is interestingly disclosed by Dan D. Hatpin, chairman of the Industrial Music Committee of RCA Victor Although millions of war workers are now being reached by industrial sound systems in more than 1,000 U. S. plants, the use of music in industry is, says Dan, only in its beginning T T T • • • SOME film salesmen just now are saving tires, petrol and vocal gas until Thanksgiving is over, and the word "turkey" struts out of the conscious minds of exhibitor customers, at least until Christmas. . . • That 35th annual frolic of the Friars Club at the Music Box Theater on Sunday will be dedicated to the memory of the late George M. Cohan George Jessel is program's chairman, and flocks of stars will participate in the show. ... • On Thanksgiving morn, the Philadelphia Warner Club will hold its famed Xmas party for kiddies in the org.'s Club Rooms and the Little Theater In addition to the special screening scheduled. Zone Head Ted Schlanger, who heads the committee additionally comprising Prexy Al Zimbalist, J. Ellis Shipman and Joseph Feldman, declares that the kids'll witness the giant Gimbel Toyland Parade, have copious refreshments, and listen to a short talk on conservation of materials and the importance of purchasing War Stamps and Bonds. ... • Stanley Richards has joined the David Lowe office which is publicizing Associated Filmakers, Inc., producers of Government as well as educational films. . . . • • T T T • • • f VENGE PEARL HARBOR! SOPEG, IATSE Split Para. Election Honors (Continued from Page 1) home-office white collars by a vote of 233 to 110 and the maintenance workers by a count of eight to one. White collarites at the Paramount music subsidiaries, Paramount Music Co: p. and Famous Music Corp., selected SOPEG as their bargaining agent by nine votes to two. SOPEG was repudiated by whitecollar workers at the Paramount exchange and at Paramount News. The IATSE, through the medium of Local F-51, won a resounding victory over SOPEG at the company's exchange, where front-of-the-office employes cast 17 votes for the alliance and seven for Local 109. Only at the Paramount exchange was SOPEG opposed on the ballot. The IATSE victory marked the culmination of a long and intensive campaign by the alliance disputing SOPEG's right to exercise jurisdiction over office workers in the city's film exchanges. Of the 12 white-collar votes cast at Paramount News only half were for SOPEG. The Paramount election was the first at which maintenance workers voted as a separate unit. Their right to participate in the election was based on the fact that in the Paramount case such workers are not attached to the building staff, being employed by the company itself. According to SOPEG, maintenance workers at Paramount often lend a hand with office chores. Following the election SOPEG announced that it was preferring unfair labor charges against Paramount and the IATSE on the grounds that the alliance had asseitedly signed a contract with the conVpany covering white-collar workers at the exchange — a procedure which, Local 109 alleges, dispensed with an election. WEDDING BELLS Milwaukee — Dorothy Ann Langmack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Langmack, has been married to Dr. G. Harrison Brace. Langmack has long been associated with the operation of the Colonial, nabe house here. Wheeling, W. Va.— Lt. George W. Otte, son of George Otte, manager of the local Dipson theaters, and Nancy Hill were married recently in Oregon. Lt. Otte is stationed at Camp White and prior to joining the Army assisted his father in the management of the theaters. Nat Shindelman, formerly of the Warner Bros, exchange in New York and now a Private First Class in the Army, stationed in Orlando, Fla., was married last week while on furlough in New York.