The Film Daily (1943)

FIL riffith Defendants Make Proposals to D of J (See Column 2 Below) imate in Character ernational in Scope ependent in Thought The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Twenty-Four Years Old -1FDAILV I 83. NO. 75 NEW YORK. TUESDAY. APRIL 20. 1943 TEN CENTS ECREETO HIGHLIGHTALLIED BOARD MEET aftery in Counter Proposal to Crescent Order Prexy Denies His Comy "Combined" With Extor Defendants Illegally ishville — A counter proposal to lecree and certain amendments ie findings of fact and conclu of law of Judge Elmer Davies ie Government's anti-trust suit 1st the Crescent Amusement *nd others were presented, with <ment, by Edward J. Raftery in If of United Artists at 10 a.m. irday. The decree, or order, of •e Davies is now being circu among attorneys in the case (Continued on Page 8) •TOA Board Group ills Capitol Meet group of MPTOA directors may ; in Washington a few days be the annual board meeting in York May 4-5 to confer with dus Government agencies. The (Continued on Page 8) Pictures and Production Lines Must Move — So War Plant Offers Actors Part-Time Jobs If est Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — War industries in the Los Angeles area are eyeing with interest the experiment of the Lockheed-Vega plant in offering part-time employment to film actors, with the co-operation of the Screen Actors Guild. The factory has announced that it has 100 jobs which it will fill with two-man teams of U. S. citizens only. One actor will work from 4 to 8 p.m., and the second from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m., with the understanding that if one member of the team is occupied with motion picture work, his partner will work the full shift. The Guild is canvassing it membership to determine how many male thespians are interested in part-time war work. Women are not eligible for the Lockheed-Vega teams, it is said. >P Chairman Charges w Deal Rules Movies oston — A hint that the film in;ry may find itself uncomfort' in the middle in the next Presi (Continued on Page 6) Ex-Exhibition Exec. Spawns "Reel" Idea Miami — E. J. Sparks, former operitor of more than 100 pic stands in :lorida, and now retired at Miami ieach, has turned his hobby of anging to the benefit of our armed orces by organizing the Armed :orces Fishing Committee, Inc., here. Organization furnishes free angling equipment to service men for use in heir leisure time. Sportsmen are donating rods, reels, lines, hooks and ■■trier essentials, and it is hoped, the splendidly working idea will spread to "vherever the armed forces are trainng and fighting, thus providing what ♦ parks calls "the greatest of all relaxations." Proposes Griffith Consent Decree Washington Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Washington — The Department of Justice has been asked to accept proposals by the defendants in the Griffth case, the Oklahoma City Equity suit, it was revealed yesterday by Tom C. Clark, new chief of the Department's anti-trust division. L. M. Rice of Dallas, who represented several of the defendants in the Griffith case, was in yesterday (Continued on Page 8) Atlanta Civic Clubs To Hear Coe April 27 Charles Francis Coe, vice-president and general counsel of the MPPDA, will address the InterCivic Clubs in Atlanta on April 27, it was reported yesterday. His ap (Continued on Page 6) Rosenberg Says Pix Shortage Artificial The "artificial" shortage of product created by the distributors tends to make all deals "must deals" so far as the exhibitors are concerned and destroys whatever bargaining power they once had, in the opinion of M. A. Rosenberg, Allied president. In a current organization bulletin, (Continued on Page 8) Reporters Force McNutt To Admit Job Shift "Holes" Washinaton Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Washington reporters forced from War Manpower Czar Paul V. McNutt yesterday the admission that there is nothing in the regulations regarding job shifts announced Sunday by WMC to prevent (Continued on Page 7) 1942 Gross Up $79,560,000 Annual Attendance Jumps to 4,680,000,000 New Company Formed To Handle Re-issues The formation of a new national distributing company, Film Classics, Inc., which will continue in circulation the major screen achievements, was disclosed here yesterday by Bertram A. Mayers, attorney for (Continued on Page 6) Reflecting an increase of 320,000,000 in anual attendance and a jump of three tenths of a cent in the average admission scales of U. S. film theaters, annual gross for 1942 is estimated at $1,193,400,000— $79,560,000 greater than in 1941, according to the 1943 FILM DAILY YEAR BOOK, published today. In both cases, grosses are estimated exclu (Continued on Page 5) Board to Decide Whether To Recommend Changes at Meeting Set for Detroit Consideration of the consent decree and proposals for changes will highlight the meeting of Allied's board of directors scheduled for May 5-6 in Detroit. In a bulletin issued by M. A. Rosenberg, the Allied president points out that the first decision in respect to the decree will be whether to propose amendments for the existing decree or to advocate that the case be tried so that, if the Government wins, the court can write a decree similar to that (Continued on Page 6) Riles Tomorrow For Joseph W. Engel Funeral services for Joseph W. Engel, 60, veteran producer and industry executive, who died Sunday at Lenox Hill Hospital, will be held at two p.m. tomorrow at Universal (Continued on Page 5) Staub Asking Van Wert Terms in Delphos Case Cleveland, O. — Hearing before the arbitration board of the Capitol Theater, Delphos, case, originally set for April 27 has been postponed (Continued on Page 6) Sees Gov't Control Of Best Tele Patents Washington Bur., THE FILM DAILY Washington — Government control of some of the more valuable "television patents" as a result of experimentation brought on by the war was predicted yesterday by FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly. Earlier he had remarked that he supposed "the three companies that are heaviest in the research would naturally come off with the predominant number of patents." YOU DON'T REQUIRE RATION POINTS FOR WAR BONDS — PURCHASE YOUR QUOTA TODAY