The Film Daily (1943)

0 ■' DAILY Tuesday, April 20, 19 Vol.83, No. 75 Tues., April 20, 1943 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General 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. Micoate, 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 DATLY, 1501 Broadway tfew 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— 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 CTTY— .Yfarco-Aurelio Galindo, Apartado 8817, Mexico, D. F. FINANCIAL (Monday, April 19) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 15% 15y2 15% + % Col. Picts. vtc. (2y2%) 17 17 17 + Vl Columbia Picts. pfd.. 34V4 34 34 + % Con. Fm. Ind 134 134 134 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. 14 14 14 East. Kodak do pfd Gen. Prec. Eq 20V4 20 20 — % Loew's, Inc 56y4 55'/4 55'/4 + V4 Paramount 25'/4 24% 243^ Para. 1 pf. called M 174 174 174 + 21/2 RKO 7% 7'/2 7l/2 RKO $6 pfd 84'/2 84% 84% + 1/4 20th Century-Fox ... 203/8 19% 19% + % 20th Century-Fox pfd. 30% 30 30 — % Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 12% 12% 123/8 do pfd 8IV2 81 8IV2 + II/2 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. deb. 4s56 104% 104 104 — i/2 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 103 103 103 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Ficts. .2 1% 1% — % Radio-Keith cvs. ... 1 1/4 1 Vs ' % + Vs Sonotone Corp 3'/4 3'/s 3'/s Technicolor 10'/4 10 10 Trans-Lux 2% 2% 2% Universal Corp. vtc. 17% 17% 17l/2 + Vs Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 6834 71% 1600 B'WAY, H. Y. C. CIRCLE 6-0081-2-3-4 Juvenile Lawlessness, Kansas City Problem Kansas City, Mo. — Theaters here are suffering their share of vandalism and lawlessness by youngsters 12 to 18. Fifteen girls, 14 to 17, and apparently from well-to-do families, attempted to "rush the gate" at the Midland here last week. One girl bought a ticket and went inside, intending to open one of the side exit doors and let her friends rush in. But they were intercepted. As to the Federal tax evasion, the most serious offense involved, the leader queried, "So what? There's a war on and Uncle Sam is too busy to worry about us. Everything's different in wartime, you know. This is our first war and we're getting fun out of it." $96,098 for Red Cross In Northwest Territory Minneapolis — Contributions by patrons of 500 of the 709 picture houses in the Northwest territory, in the Red Cross War Fund drive, totalled $96,098.64 yesterday, and Harold Field, in charge of the drive for the northwest section of war activities committee, feels certain final total will be close to $125,000 when balance of theaters report. Largest amount ever realized previously in the same theaters in any similar between-shows collection was $59,000, total "take" for the Army and Navy Relief Fund, and Field said he was sure this figure has been doubled in the Red Cross Campaign. First Four Issues of Army Reel to Arrive This Week Washington Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Washington — The first four editions of the new Army magazine reel will arrive here for Army clearance this week. Completion of four of these reels makes it obvious that the Army has no intention of dropping the project, as the Navy did after two reels, in the face of criticism from Congressional and industry quarters. Sholly as Army Film Critic Wilmington, Del. — Sergt. Henry L. Sholly, The Film Daily's Wilmington correspondent prior to his induction into the Army last year, has just been appointed to handle the film column for The Flaming Bomb, camp newspaper of the Ordnance Replacement Training Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. From 1934 to 1939 he was motion picture editor of the Wilmington Sunday Star. Sam Merin Dies Sam Merin, 31, former Hollywood writer, and recently a member of Max Gordon's theatrical publicity staff here, died Sunday afternoon at the Beth Moses Hospital, Brooklyn, t Hear Arguments Thurs. on FTC Conspiracy Charge Washington Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Washington — Argument will be heard Thursday by the Federal Trade Commission in its suit against Albert E. Fair and the Screen Broadcast Corporation. FTC charges "conspiracy to suppress competition and create a monopoly in the sale, lease and rental of commercial motion picture films advertising the products of national advertisers." The complaint named General Screen Advertising, Chicago, as well as Screen Broadcast, and five distributors, but all other respondents signed a stipulation of fact some time ago. Screen Broadcast, which holds an exclusive contract for East Coast business with several years to run, refused to sign the stipulation, and is thus answering the charges alone. Hays Up for Re-election As Railroad's Director Chicago — Will H. Hays, president MPPDA, is up for re-election as a director of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, at the stockholders meeting, to be held May 14, in Chicago. Hays is listed as owner of 200 common shares, 625 Class A shares and $25,000 of the General Income Mortgage bonds of the company. His firm, Hays and Hays of Sullivan, Ind., received $4,650 last year for legal services from the railroad. Studios May Use $10,000 For Materials in One Pic West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — As much as $10,000 in vital materials may be used in one production, so long as producers comply with the spirit of WPB's restricting order, according to Harold Hopper, chief of motion picture division of WPB. More flexibility will be allowed to studios which were heretofore rigidly restricted to $5,000 worth of material per picture, although perhaps only $1,000 was needed on one picture and $8,000 on another. Hopper urged studios to use as much secondhand lumber and other materials as possible. Lapham Staying on Coast West Coast Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Hollywood — Claude Lapham of Music Corporation, has arrived in Hollywood, after stopping off in Mexico City for 10 days. He has taken offices in the Radio City Building, ' and plans to remain on the Coast until September. He will retain his office in New York, as well. NSS to Ship OWI Posters Special posters prepared by the OWI and heretofore shipped directly to all WAC theaters from that office, will now be distributed from National Screen Service exchanges. New arrangement is expected to result in increased , efficiency. COminG and Gome ; Moines. ew duti JOHN JOSEPH, Universal ad-publicity ch leaves New York Thursday for Washington returns to the Coast next week. BEN KALMENSON, Warners' sales head, off to Chicago on the first leg of a sales t CHARLES EINFELD, Warners' ad-publicity rector, goes to Washington today. SAM WEINTRAUB, formerly head bot at the 20th-Fox exchange in Des Moines, back in New York to resume his new the company's home office. ROGER MAHAN, circuit operator, was in h' York yesterday from Hamden, Conn. L. M. RICE, Dallas film attorney, is in Ws ington. IRENE MANNING, who has been making p. in the East, returns to the Coast tomor to appear as soloist at the Hollywood B Easter Sunrise services. NAT D. FELLMAN, Cleveland zone buyer Warner Theaters, arrived in New York yestei for home office conferences. JOHN GARFIELD, leaves tomorrow on anol tour of Army camps. LT. BOB HALEY, on furlough from his a post in Tallahassee, Fla., is visiting Chic; where was formerly publicity director for RKO Palace. EDDIE BUZZELL will visit Salt Lake C Denver and St. Louis en route to New Y later this month in quest of new talent. FRANK FAY is back in Hollywood from 1 York. COL. JASON JOY has arrived in town f the Coast. MARGARET SULLAVAN, accompanied by hubby, LELAND WAYWARD, is at the Wald, Astoria from the Coast. LT. BOB BENJAMIN, Signal Corps, goes Washington this week and then departs Hollywood. SAMUEL HACKER, head of Film Audit Ser is in Pittsburgh on company business. KENNETH THOMSON, executive secretary the Screen Actors Guild, has returned to Coast. DE WITT BODEEN is in town to do rese; on the screenplay of the 'RKO picture tentati' called "Curse of the Cat People." He is sell uled to return to the studio by May 1. BILL SCHWARTZ of RKO is in Chicago supervise transfer of the Van Nomikos Cr Theater to the circuit. D. A. DORAN, Columbia producer, arrivec New York yesterday, to confer with Ruth k Kenney on her story, "Washington, I I You." N. A. Taylor, president and general man; of Twinex Century Theaters Corp., Ltd. general manager of Exhibitors Booking Asso tion, has returned to Toronto from New Y EDWARD C. DOWDEN of Loew's home of publicity staff, is in Syracuse arranging for opening of the newly-acquired Loew's Str with a War 'Bond premiere April 28. CHARLES C. MOSKOWITZ, vice-presir of Loew's, Inc. and general theater opera is in Florida on vacation. LEOPOLD FRIEDMAN, loew legal chiefj back from Palm Beach. Sidney Lanfield Harold Lloyd