The Film Daily (1943)

*— » DAILY Tuesday, April 27, 194: N. J. Allied to Hold Parley at West End (Continued from Page 1) the New Jersey unit, yesterday appointed a convention committee, of which Irving Dollinger of Linden is chairman. The committee is divided into two sections, one representing the northern New Jersey branch and the other the south Jersey group. The northern committee includes Lee Newbury, Manasquan; George Gold, Newark; Helen Hildinger, Trenton; Dave Snaper, New Brunswick; Harry Hecht, Passaic; Dr. Henry Brown, Lakewood; Edward Lachman, Boonton, and Dave Mate, Little Falls. The south Jersey committee consists of Sam Frank, Hammonton; Ralph Wilkins, Pitman; D. Roscoe France, Ocean City, and Simon Myers, Trenton. E. Thornton Kelly is conference manager. Victory Gardening New Hot Weather Competition (Continued from Page 1) trying to grow some of next season's vegetables and, what with weeds and sore backs, the amateur farmers just don't get to the movies so often. What's more, exhibs. fear the gardens will take even more time as the weather gets warmer. Joan Fontaine a Citizen West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Joan Fontaine, British subject born in Japan, has been admitted to U. S. citizenship. WEDDING BELLS Virginia Marie McCullough, secretary to Jack Cohn, and Lt. Roger Francis De Pasco, Army Air Corps, were married Saturday. West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Barbara Pepper and Lt. Hugh Enfield, USMC, known on the screen as Craig Reynolds, were married Saturday. Lt. Enfield was wounded on Guadalcanal and is home on leave. Chicago — Betty Jane Eckhardt, daughter of Bill Eckhardt, Stadium Theater treasurer was married to Bernard O'Connell. Chicago — Virginia Abel of the Pamamount Exchange and Robert Thomas were married. Cleveland — Ruth Moss, secretary to Columbia branch manager Lester Zucker, has announced May 23 as the date of her wedding to Irving Rosenthal, instructor in journalism at City College, New York. Helen Katzell moves up to fill her position. T ▼ ▼ • • • WHILE the preposition "about" prefixes the date, July 4, in all references to the proposed release date of Walt Disney's "Victory Through Air Power," this corner has a hunch that Independence Day will actually be selected ... .Guess is based on the angle that the opus is now well on its way toward completion Mister Disney & Co. being consummate showmen, considerable accent could be placed on the screen interpretation of Major Alexander P. de Seversky's book by giving it to exhibs. as a substitute for July 4 fireworks, — which Phil M. understands the attraction is According to the underground, the footage will be approximately 72 mins. running time. ... • That book penned by Joan Bennett on wartime beauty is scheduled to come off the famed Alfred Knopf presses on Sept. 1 La Bennett's manuscript is all finished Illustrating it comes next. ... • Sam (PRC) Kesten baum trains out of Penn Station today for Baltimore to arrange run of "Corregidor" at Mayfair Theater there, commencing May 6. . . . • Service flag on Loew's State is now bearer of the numerals 2029 It's a credit to that far-flung org. ... • Nobody is more interested in all the current week's doin's anent "Mission to Moscow" than Mr. "H. M.," who avidly follows at his local hotel suite every press and radio mention of this latest WB powerhouse. ... • First public showing of the much discussed "The Nazis Strike," second in the Frank Capra series of war pix, will be held at the Annual Inaugural Meeting of Cinema Lodge, B'Nai B'Rith, in the Hotel Commodore's Grand Ballroom next Tuesday evening. May 4 ...... At the meeting, Adolph Schimel, newly elected president of Cinema, will be installed in office, and Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein will deliver the invocation Edward E. Gudtstadt, executive director of the Anti-Defamation League, will be the guest speaker ▼ T T • • • EMERSON YORKE, executive producer of Emerson Yorke Studio, planed into town over the week-end from Las Cruces, New Mexico, where he headquartered for the past fortnight while inaugurating production on two films in tlie Mesilla Valley for the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs The films, both two-reelers, are "Soldiers of the Soil" and "Eyes for Tomorrow," and are under the direction of Allen Luey who recently completed "We Choose To Live" for the Surgeon General's Office of the Public Health Department, Washington Al Jarrett is in charge of the camera work on both productions. ... • Did you read Drew Pearson's columnar report on the young AAF flier whose bag of Nazi planes in Tunisia finally led General "Hap" Arnold to quiz him "What uniform did you wear before you came over here?" asked the General "The blue and gold, sir" "Whose colors are they?" queried Arnold "Roxy's in New York. I used to be an usher there," was the answer There are 74 other Roxy "veterans" in the armed forces. T ▼ ▼ • • • ANNABELLA (Mrs. Tyrone Power) was feted yesterday afternoon at the Sherry-Netherland by 20th-Fox at a cocktail reception which was heavily attended by the trade press, national magazines, news services and metropolitan daily representatives The company's contingent included Larry Kent, Lt. Thornton Sergeant (division manager West Coast Theaters), Charles Schlcdfer, Hal Home, Jeanette Sawyer and Joe Shea One of the features of the reception was a mass trade paper photograph in which the trade scriveners appeared before the shutters and lenses in company with the guest of honor It was virtually a 20th-Fox edition of "One Hundred Men and a Girl." T T ▼ . • • • AVENGE PEARL HARBOR! WAR SERVICE . . . on the Film Front Rochester — Thousands of pontoons f< use of U. S. invasion forces all over th world have been shipped by Eastman Kodal They are put together in a building former used for storage at Kodak Park. ... — V...-7 Four truck loads of tin cans — more 4 40,000 in number — were carted away i. the Langley Theater, Hampton, Va., whai manager Calvin Ball had staged a "Ti Can Matinee." Matinee, staged with th collaboration of the local American Legici Post, and at the request of Captain ' C. Shank, Salvage director for the count will be repeated shortly. . . . _ V . . . — Chicago — A Red Cross blood bank canpaign in which Alliance Theater Circu houses will offer free tickets to dona is announced by Peter Panagos, promotic director. In towns where there are r blood banks, parties will be organized I go to the nearest city with a Red Cro: depot. East Not Included In Easier 'Gas' Order (.Continued from Page 1) the relief given film salesmen in ye; terday's order still does not appl; include the New England state New York, New Jersey, Pennsy vania, Delaware, Maryland, Virgini North Carolina, South Carolin; Georgia, Florida, District of Colun bia and Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgai Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Grar and Pendleton counties in West Vii ginia. To qualify for the additional milt age salesmen must show that the need it entirely for "course-of-work travel and are arranging to shar their cars as much as possible. Local ration boards will be instructed to iss C books and stickers to applicants who me these conditions and have not been able drive more than 470 miles per month. Appl cants are urged not to go to the local boart before they are forced to in order to prevei swamping of the local boards. OPA price restrictions have been lifted fro maintenance and repair service on publ address systems and signs, Price Administrati Prentiss M. Brown announced yesterday. The: items, he said, are insignificant in the co of living, and administration of the ceilini and enforcement difficulties are "out of propo tion to their intrinsic sigificance." STORKS Advent of twin daughters is ar nounced by Mr. and Mrs. Milto Star. Star has just relinquished hi duties with the Bijou Amusement C< in Nashville, Tenn., to join OWI i Washington. Springfield, 111. — Paul Morgan, as sistant at the Orpheum, has a neson, Philip Daniel.