The Film Daily (1942)

<?fe Thursday, December 10, 1942 Vol. 82, No. 112 Thurs., Dec. 10, 1942 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Ceneral 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. commG ADD GOinG WALTER BRANSON, RKO's Western division sales manager, left yesterday for Chicago and Midwest exchanges, returning in a week. MAX KRAVETZ has returned to the Coast. ALEX HALPERIN, buyer and booker for Warner Theaters in the Chicago territory, returned to the Windy City last night following h.o. conferences. last HARRY FEINSTEIN, Warner Theaters buyer the Pittsburgh zone, returned to that city ght from New York. LILLIAN HELLMAN arrives en the Coast today with the completed treatment of her first original screen story for Samuel Coldwyn. LEON FROMKESS, production chieftain of PRC-Fathe, will leave Hollywood Dec. 15 for New York to confer with O. Henry Briggs, and Arthur Creenblatt. SI FABIAN leaves for Hollywood this week. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD. Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. WASHINGTON— Andrew H. Older, 520 Third St. N.W., Phone District 1253. 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, Apartado 8817, Mexico, D. F. FINANCIAL (Wednesday, Dec. 9) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 125/8 12y2 12V4 Col. Picts. vtc. <2y2%) Columbia Piers, pfd Con. Fm. Ind Vi Vi Vz Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. 77/8 7% 1% Cast. Kodak 147y4 147'/4 H7y4 + % do pfd 180 180 180 +2 Gen. Prec. Eq 14l/4 UVi 14V4+ % Loew's, Inc 46 455/8 46 -f % Paramount 16% 16% 163^ + % Para. 1st pfd 118 117% 118 + 1 RKO 31/2 .31/2 31/2 rko $6 pfd :: ... ... 20th Century-Fox ..15 145/8 14%— 1/4 20th Century-Fox pfd. 25 Vi 25V4 25% — % Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 6% 6% 6% — % do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Para, fl'way 3s55 Para. Picts. deb. 4s56 100% 100% 100% — % Wamer Bros.' dbs. . .s48 102'/2 102% 102% NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. ... 3^ 34 3fa Radio-Keith cvs. . . . 5-32 5-32 5-32 Sonotone Corp Technicolor 7% 7% 7% ....'. Trans-Lux 1% 1 % 1 1/8 ... Universal Corp. vtc... 7% 7% 7% — V, Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45 75 78 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 65 67Vi 7-Fold "Action" Premiere M-G-M will stage simultaneous world premieres of "Stand By for Action" in the seven U. S. Naval Base cities on New Year's Eve. The production will open in Boston, Providence, Washington, Chicago, San Diego, Norfolk and San Francisco. Some of the cities will hold special advance premiere showings on the evening of Dec. 30, SPG Preparing to Reopen Contract Negotiations New economic developments created by the President's wage stabilization decree have spurred the Screen Publicists Guild of New York, Local 114, UOPWA, to prepare itself for the reopening of contract negotiations far in advance of the May deadline for the taking of such action under its agreement with the film companies. According to the terms of the Guild's two-year pacts with the employers, which terminate in May, 1944, negotiations on the question of wag-es can be reopened at the expiration of the first vear of the agreements. The rising cost of living is given as the reason for the Guild's early action. A research and contract committee is being lined up to work out wage demands in the light of recent developments. Contract reopening will be discussed by the membership for the first time tonight at a meeting at the Hotel Piccadilly. Also on the agenda tonight is the nomination of officers for the coming year. Election is scheduled for the January meeting. Ed Warren Heads Can. Independent M. P. Ass'n Toronto — First executive meeting Tuesday of the Motion Picture Exhibitors Association elected Ed Warren of Aurora, Ont., president; H. Freedman of Toronto, vice-president; M. A. Milligan of Hamilton, Lreasurer; Joe Garbarino of Toronto, secretary. S. B. Taube was appointed permanent executive secre'^ry-teasurer. Warren is a smalltown theater owner. "Serve's" Salty Adjectives Before House of Commons Objections by the American code authority to two "salty adjectives" in "In Which We Serve" reached the House of Commons in London yesterday, according to an Associated Press London cable. Brendan Bracken, Information Minister, was quoted as having said that Hollywood censors were just too "old maiden aunt-like" to appreciate the controversial words in the picture. Code authority sources in New York still insisted that the words in question would not be heard when the picture has its Broadway premiere on Dec. 23. Conveys Aussie's Thanks To U. S. Film Industry The Australian Government's gratitude to the American motion picture industry was expressed informally yesterday by David W. Bailey, chief of the New York office of the Australian Info:mation Bureau, at a meeting of the International Film Relations Committee. He said thanks were due for the help of 12 screen personalities now participating in the austerity campaign through films and the radio. Bailey thanked Albert Deane of Paramount who acted as liaison for the committee in preparing trailers and transcriptions for the programs. Jack Rappaport Leaves Paramount to Join OWI Jack Rappaport, formerly Paramount's manager in Cuba and Panama, has resigned to join the OWI and will be stationed temporarily in Washington. F. F. F. Interesting — Isn't it? His Majesty's, Montreal, Adopts British Pic Policy Montreal — Consolidated Theaters, Ltd., will inaugurate a new policy on New Year's Day when they will start showing British films at His Majesty's, commencing with the Esquire pic, "One of Our Aircraft is Missing." His Majesty's has been alternating special films and stage productions. 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