The Film Daily (1943)

W^% DAILY Thursday, May 6, 1943 Vol. 83, No. 87 Thurs., May 6, 1943 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE DONALD M. MERSEREAU CHESTER B. BAHN Publisher General Manager 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. 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, May 5) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net Low Close Chg. 173/4 18 17 17 — i/8 High 18 17 Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (2%%) Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind 2% Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. 16% East. Kodak 1641/2 1 do pfd Cen. Prec. Eq 22% Loew's, Inc 56 Paramount 26Vi Para. 1st pfd RKO 8% RKO $6 pfd 88l/2 20th Century-Fox . . 215/8 20th Century-Fox pfd. 31 'A Univ. Pict. pfd. Warner Bros. . . do pfd NEW YORK BOND Para. 'B'way 3s55... 76i/2 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 103 1 NEW YORK CURB Monogram Picts. ... 3 Radio-Keith cvs. ... 1 1/2 Sonotone Corp 33A Technicolor 13% Trans-Lux 3Vb Universal Corp. vtc. 19 2V8 23/8 + l/8 i6 i6i/4 + y4 64l/2 164l/2 2P/8 22i/g + % 551/2 557/g + % 253/8 26 + % 8 1/4 8 1/2 — 1/4 86 86I/2 — IV2 2U/4 2U/2 + l/4 31 3U/4 + 1/4 14 13% 13% MARKET 761/2 76% + 1% 02% 102% — % MARKET 27/a 1% 31/4 % 3 + 13/8 — 33/g . . . 13% 13% + 3/g 3 3% + % 18% 19 Eastman Board Re-elects And Declares Dividends Rochester — A quarterly dividend of $1.25 a share was declared on the common of Eastman Kodak here yesterday by directors who also elected officers for the year. Regular dividend of $1.50 per share was declared on the preferred. William G. Stuber, honorary chairman, Frank W. Lovejoy, chairman of the board; Thomas J. Hargrave, president: Alfred F. Sulzer, vicepresident and general manager, and all other officers of the company were re-elected. COflimG RRD G0IDG BIDE DUDLEY departs tomorrow for Los Angeles to visit Jack Jenkins, his grandson, who appears in "The Human Comedy." WALTER SLEZAK, NED E. DEPINET, ROBERT MOCHRIE and S. BARRET McCORMICK left last night for Cincinnati for the opening of RKO's "This Land Is Mine" tomorrow. NAT LEVY, WALTER BRANSON and HAROLD MIRISCH follow them today. LEN DALY, of United Artists foreign publicity department, left for Mexico yesterday to put on the advance publicity campaign for "In Which We Serve." ROY HAINES, Warners Southern and Western division sales manager, left last night for Detroit and points West. MRS. EUGENE SPENCER, wife of the manager of the Lincoln and Trenton in Trenton, N. J., is visiting her sister, Louise Wilson, assistant manager at Loew's 'Rochester. ARTHUR M. WIRTZ is in town. LEON FROMKESS and SIG NEUFELD arrive Monday from the Coast for PRC home office conferences with Prexy O. Henry Briggs. JACK L. WARNER is expected to arrive here from the studio over the week-end. MARY McCALL, JR., is New York-bound. ABE SCHNEIDER is returning to New York from the Coast. GEORGE J. SCHAEFER is due in New York from Hollywood over the week-end. HERBERT J. YATES and WILLIAM SAAL arrive in Hollywood today. KEN SMITH and NANCY GATES were in Chicago yesterday en route from the Coast to Cincinnati for the premiere of "This Land Is Mine." Buyers Snap up 80,000 Shares of 20th-Fox Stock E. F. Hutton & Co. and Shields & Co. yesterday opened books on 60,000 shares of 20th-Fox common and 20,000 preferred. The stock went in a few minutes. It was offered at 21 ]/4 for the common and 31 for the preferred. "Mission to Moscow" Release Date May 22 General release date for "Mission to Moscow" was set by Warners yesterday as May 22. As forecast by The Film Daily, this will be the company's only feature release during May. "Moscow" Prologue Goes Into Congressional Record Washington Bureau of THE FILM >DAILY Washington — Because it "breathes so well the ideals of a great American," Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, Utah Democrat, inserted into the Congressional Record the prologue to Warners' "Mission to Moscow," as spoken by former U. S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Joseph E. Davies. Edward Rubson Dead Newark, N. J. — Edward F. Rubson, 78, twice president of the local Musician's Union, is dead here. Through the silent film era he conducted orchestras at RKO Proctor's and the Paramount. Scanning the Screen By AMY H. CROUGHTON IF YOU want to know the number of motion picture theaters in operation in 1942 ; the effect of the war, and women's entrance into war work, on the wording of motion picture titles ; or how many Drivein theaters there were in the country last year, you will find it all — and a lot more information— in the 1943 Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures which came off the presses today. The Film Daily Year Book, now entering its 25th year, is one of the standard reference books for all people connected with the picture industry, from studio and theater executives to the humble cinema critic whose readers seek information on Patricia Jones real name or the birth date of Reginald Smith. The book is the work of a large staff of editors and collaborators headed by Jack Alicoate, publisher ; and Chester Bahn, editor of The Film Daily, the latter once film critic of a Syracuse paper. In addition to comments on the development of the motion picture in the first full year of this country's participation in the World War, the book furnishes a list of picture titles from 1915 to 1942 and much other reference material. War sent the public hurrying to the motion picture theaters, according to the 1943 Year Book. Cinema attendance in 1942 increased from an average weekly record of 85 million to 90 million, in spite of the fact that the WPB ban on construction held the number of theaters down to practically the 1941 total of 17,919. In spite of war restrictions there were 99 Drive-In Theaters operating in 1942. Some of these may not open this summer because of the pleasure-driving ban. The Year Book also finds that film titles have switched from romance to reflect conditions of war living. Reprinted from Rochester, N. Y. Times-Union, April 15, 1943. Anli-Blind Checking Bill Okayed in Ohio Columbus, O. — The Committee on Judiciary of the Ohio House of Representatives has recommended a bill to prohibit the obtaining of informa tion on the business operations oi any motion picture theater surren>1 tiously for the purpose of ascert^ ing the amount or value of the busi ness done. NEW YORK THEATERS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL ROCKEFELLER CENTER Rosalind RUSSELL . Fred MacMURRAY "FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM" With Herbert Marshall An RKO Radio Picture Gala Stage Revue • Symphony Orchestra First Mezzanine Seats Reserved. Circle 6-4600 Loretta YOUNG ••i Allan LADD 'CHINA A Paramount Pictu with William Bendix PARAMOUNT Times Square In Person HMBfl *S Maker* The Golde G»*e Quartet ALICE JOHN JACK FAYE PAYNE OAKIE HELLO FRISCO HELLO' and — — JANE WITHERS 'JOHNNY DOUGHBOY' :oTwe5TBTE ON SCREEN 'HAPPY GO LUCKYMARY MARTIN DICK POWELL BETTY HUTTON T IN PERSON JOAN EDWARDS EXTRA! CUS VAN