The Film Daily (1942)

Intimate in Character International in Scope Independent in Thought or remove: The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Twenty-Four Years Old -^FDAILY >. 82. NO. 113 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1942 TEN CENTS CIRCUITS MAY TRAINPERSONNEL ATN.Y.U. N.Y. Court Rules Games With Prizes Lotteries Editorial Scratch-Pad jottings — Br CHESTER B. BAHN — ED KUYKENDALL, the Sage of Columbus, Miss., in his latest MPTOA presidential bulletin calling for immediate consideration of the trade's "fundamental problems and abuses," warns that in film biz as in the nation's foreign affairs it is imperative that "we must not only win the war FIRST, but we also must be PREPARED to win the peace afterwards." . . . Adds MPTOA's prexy. . . . "Such a vital consideration of fundamentals will not interfere in any way with our allout war efforts, and may well be the only way to prevent disaster if the 'peace' comes unexpectedly, or the Government lands on us again with anti-trust suits, peremptory orders and directives, or drastic regulation." • "THERE'S a helluva lot of truth in what Ed ' says . . . And for a wealth of reasons. . . . This industry, when the country, vic ' torious, changes back to peace-time economy is going to confront perplexing and grave economic problems. . . . Problems that, if they are to be solved satisfactorily, will require concentration of effort. ... If the industry is to be called upon to face a new I flood of Government-instigated litigation and if it is to be worried by drastic Federal regulation after the war, that concentration of effort will be well nigh impossible. I . . The time to put the trade's house in order is NOW. ^-^THER spheres of business are thinking ^^ along those lines. . . . Henry J. Kaiser , spoke out before the National Association "■ of Manufacturers, urging that industrialists generally think about the future if they jj want to keep industry in private hands. . . . Certainly, it is not too early to do that. . . . To quote Ray Clapper of Scripps-Howard jt who wrote this week. . . . "Republicans are preparing for the Presidential election which is two years away. . . . Why should not industry begin preparing for a day that may be no further away?" . . . Let industry, including film biz, fail to prepare and you can kiss good-bye to the era when private enterprise is permitted to travel under its own steam. j CURE, it's a man-sized job. . . . And the *^ fact that UMPI and, before that, the trade practice code received the D of J's "kiss of death" establishes the handicapped faced. ... But it can be done. ... IT (.Continued on Page 2) Supreme Court Justice Carew Denies Application Of 27 Indie Exhibitors Bingo, Screeno and all other theater games in which patrons receive prizes were ruled lotteries in a decision of New York Supreme Court Justice John Carew yesterday in denying an application of 27 independent theater operators for a temporary injunction against Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine. The court made its ruling from the bench after hearing argument. According to Justice Carew, the theater games had all the elements of a lottery, including the disputed (Continued on Page 7) Warner-Pathe Deal Still in Talk Stage Deal for Warners' acquisition of Pathe News was described by a Warner top exec, here yesterday as continuing in the "discussion stage." Meanwhile, reports current in the trade here indicate that Pathe has placed a purchase price of $3 500,000 on the company, with Warners understood to have countered with an (Continued on Page 6) Bernhard to Present 17 Mgrs. With WB Awards Joseph Bernhard will take time off from his new Naval duties tonight to present Warners' merit awards (Continued on Page 7) Raw Stock Monthly Basis Plan Dropped Allocation of raw stock on a monthly basis has been dropped and the conservation program will continue on the original quarterly plan, it was learned yesterday. While the raw stock situation continues to become more critical, WPB spokesmen declared that the 25 per cent cut to the companies, which becomes effective Jan. 1, would not be changed for some time and that the order was expected to stand. It was pointed out that the shortage was due to the fact that the manufacturers were supplying film to all of the Unitted Nations as well as to our own military agencies, thus creating a gigantic "bottleneck." First Buying Co-op Asks Arbitration For the first time since the start of the present arbitration system, a booking organization has filed a complaint on behalf of a client. Affiliated Theaters Corp. of Boston has docketed a demand for arbitration (Continued on Page 7) War Injecting New Life Into Film Laboratories The war has injected new life into the majority of film laboratories in the East, it was learned yesterday as the result of figures made avail (Continued on Page 6) Asserts UA Will Show "'Serve Cut of Few Words Does Not Affect Contract rr Time Prexy Protests "Marines" Elimination In a telegram to Will Hays, Roy E. Larsen, president of Time, Inc., protested the Hays office action in ordering the removal from March of Time feature-length picture "We Are the Marines" of the words hell, (Continued on Page 3) Despite threats from London to the effect that "In Which We Serve" would be withheld from exhibition in the U. S. unless it was shown without cuts, Ed Raftery, president of United Artists, declared yesterday that the picture would open here Dec. 23. Controversy arose over the utterance of a word or two by sailor characters in the picture — (Continued on Page 6) Manpower Shortage May Be Met by N.Y.U. Course For Femme Employes A plan whereby circuits in the Metropolitan area might send both male and feminine employes to the motion picture department of New York University for training in theater management is in the preliminary stages of development, and it is likely that the project will be given impetus by the War Manpower Commission's opinion that women can and must take over jobs now; held by men in the distribution and exhibition branches. It is reported that Michael Zala,, instructor in the motion picture course at N. Y. U., already has dis (Continued on Page 3) Women Engaged May Equal Men Shifted Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — The number of workers to be transferred from the mo^ tion picture industry to war production is largely dependent upon the number of women who are induced to take jobs, a War Manpower Commission official told The Film (Continued on Page 6) BIR Expected to Clarify Salary Ceiling Today Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Further clarification of the salary ceiling and freeze order is looked for today, when the Bureau of Internal Revenue is ex (Continued on Page 7) Distribs. to Draw for "Next of Kin" Representative of the major companies today will draw lots to decide which of the distributors will handle "Next of Kin," the British Ministry of Information feature. Under the arrangement between the MOI and the American companies, each of the distributing organizations will handle one or more of the British pictures. 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