The Film Daily (1943)

Wednesday, May 12, 1943 TNEi DAILY I . MPPDA Abandons lis Plan on Manpower (.Continued from Page 1) -would provide for furloughs for actors and directors needed for specific ipix. That such a plan might be drawn up was tacitly confirmed by t^^MPPDA, although it was made 2j> that it might be a matter of vTVks before it would be ready. Conferences were believed in progress, and various association and studio executives were asked for their suggestions. It was learned yesterday that no such over-all plan will be submitted to Costello, and there is probably no other solution to the pressing studio manpower problem now under discussion by MPPDA. There had been discussion along those lines with Costello last month, after he and several others in Washington had been working to obtain a three-week deferment for an actor scheduled for the Army. The three-week delay was not granted. Although several authoritative sources have reported that WMC has finally decided to retain in their present form its listings of essential activities and essential jobs within , those activities, with the lists retaining their 'importance so far as local draft boards are I concerned an official of the WMC essential activities committee denied yesterday that any such decision has been reached. Ik implied that it is more likely that one if several proposed changes will be decided ' upon all of which would mean that the present essential indexes would become le<s important so far as local draft boards are concerned. They would be retained however for I'SES reference in matters concerning the (manpower stabilization program. He said 'that if any members of the committee have decided it would be best to leave matters a> they are this has not been suggested to t'te full committee. The committee's regular Tuesday meeting was not held yesterday. The Thursday meeting is still scheduled. Tlie WAC plan for "limited essential" li-tings for seven theater and circuit jobs — including projectionists, manager-projectionists, managers and assistant managers, equipment , maintenance technicians, circuit managers, cirI cuit executives and circuit bookers — has not yet been presented to WMC. This plan. . which would not affect ushers, porters, cleaners and cashiers — already non-deferrable — is i designed to protect the men in the former seven jobs from transfer to basic civilian : or direct war industries, but would not proi vide deferment from military service. 20th Home Office Club Holds 1st Dinner-Dance The newly organized 20th-Fox • Home Office Family Club held its first dinner-dance last night at the Hotel Astor. Among company executives present were Spyros Skouras, William C. Michel, Hermann G. Place, Sydney Towell, Wilfred J. Eadie, Felix A. Jenkins, Tom J. Con: nors, William J. Kupper, Andrew W. Smith, Jr., Edmund Reek, Murray i Silverstone, Larry Kent, Hal Home and Dan Michalove. Lew Lehr was in charge of the entertainment program, on which appeared many headliners. Puerto Rican Strike Ends San Juan, P. R. (By Air Mail)— The strike called by the Union of Projectionists and Helpers against Cobina Theaters, Inc., and film houses in Mayaguez, has ended with the signing of an agreement with ■tlie managers. Zanuck Salary, 20-Fox Tops $168,269 to Skouras, $155,700 to Goetz (Continued from Page 1) Zanuck received $175,000 in salarytllan officers and directors, received in excess and <K100 in Hi vector '« fPp« i of $-'0,000 during 1942. Of these 99 received ana q,lUU in OlieCtOI S lees. more than $2n,000 but not more than $S0,000, President Spyros P. Skouras received |169,769.15 of which $168,269.15 was salary and $1,500 director's fees; William Goetz, vice-president in charge of production, received $$155,700 of which $200 was director's fees; Thomas J. Connors, vice-president in charge of distribution, received $107,573.33 of which $1,000 was director's fees and $2,573.33 compensation as a member of the executive committee, while VicePresident Robert T. Kane received $104,000 in salary. Connors' income from 20th-Fox was $101,573.33 in excess of his 1942 income from the company, but he worked only the last three weeks of that year. Goetz' remuneration was $51,700 greater last year. Remuneration of other directors and officers is listed as follows: H. Donald Campbell, director. $6,500, $600 greater than 1941 ; John K. Dillon, $6,600, $700 greater; W. J. comptroller, director to April 9, 194 Eadie £31,900, $4,300 greater; Daniel O. Hastings director, $6,200, $500 greater; Felix A. Jenkins, director, secretary, general attorney, $26,600.04, $200 greater; Sydney R. Kent. director and president until his death on March 19, 1942, $19,707.60; Edwin P. Kilroe, director to April 9. 1942, $27,400, $500 greater than 1941. (Kilroe was indebted to 20th-Fox for $12,500 which was repaid March 24. 1942. with no charge for interest); Also, Fred I.. Metzler, assistant treasurer, $39,000; William C. Michel, $58,700, $300 greater; William P. Phillips, director, $6,200; Hermann G, Place, director, chairman of executive committee, $56,800, $23,477.16 greater than 1941 (Place's remuneration for 1941 started on June 16) ; Seton Porter, director, $6,800, $400 greater; Sydney Towell, director, treasurer. $45,700, $200 greater; George I'. Wasson, Jr., assistant secretary, $32,366.67, $3,766.67 greater; and Wendell L. Willk-ie. chairman of the board, $1,000. In addition to amounts listed above the following received the remuneration listed from National Theaters Corp.; Skouras, $66,250; Place, $32,000.04; Michel, $6,900; Campbell, $5,500. and Dillon, $5,600. Notice reports that 150 employes, other Paramount Signs Pact With Local 109 for 400 29 received more than $50,000 but not more than $100,000 and 22 received more than $100,000. Total remuneration for the 150 was $8,255,040.17. Persons, other than officers and employes of the corporation, whose remuneration exceeded $20,000 include: Julian T. Abeles, legal fees, $30,500; American Arbitration Association, fees, $42,210.06; Dwight, Harris. Koegel & Casky, legal fees, $229,000; Hal Home, special advertising and exploitation, $32,760; Hughes, Schurman & Dwight and Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Casky, legal fees, $108,500; MPPDA, dues, $98,716.38; Ross Federal Service, Inc., cheeking theater receipts, $466,605.92; Touche, Niven & Co., accounting and auditing fees, $26,891.94; Willkie. Owen, Otis, Farr & Gallagher, legal fees, $75,000; Alfred Wright, legal fees, $41,990.10; Wobber Brothers, services-distribution department, $70,660.40. Industry Brief Opposes P.R. Block-Booking Bill (Continued from Page 1) block-booking bill which has passed the Legislature. Schreiber will endeavor to urge the Puerto Rican governor Rexford Tugwell, to refrain from signing the measure until the American film industry's side of the issue can be explained. It is feared in American film circles that the bill will prevent the distributors from doing business in Puerto Rico if the bill becomes a law. IN NEW POSTS RUSS iBLUCK, auditor, Columbia, Denver. ROBERT W. HUFFMAN, publicity, M-C-M, Denver. CHARLES R. DEITZ, publicity, M-C-M, Albany. JOE EHRLICH, 20th-Fox home office publicity staff. CEORCE W. FORNWALD, assistant manager, State, Harrisburg, Pa. JAMES RILEY, RKO shipping staff, Washington BENJAMIN J. LOURIE, manager, Columbia, Chicago. HARRY OLSHAN, Columbia, New Haven. HERBERT STEWART, assistant manager, Orpheum, Seattle. PETE HIGGINS, manager, Sheffield-Republic, Seattle. RAY ACKLES, salesman, Paramount, Seattle, CHARLES OLIVER, booker, Universal, Des Moines. MARVIN HARRIS, manager, Paramount Theater, Toledo. RALFH LAWLER, Creat States central district manager, Chicago. THOMAS RONAN, Great States city manager, Danville, III. JACK KALMENSON, salesman, Warners, Cleveland. JOSEPH C. OPPENHEIM, manager, Academy, Waukegan, III. FRED MINDLIN, National Screen Service, Chicago. VOCEL GETTIER, manager, Pekin Theater, Pekin, III. JERRY SACER, publicity director, Loew's Criterion. s canning theS creen By AMY H. CROUGHTON 400 the (Continued from Page 1) 109, UOPWA, affecting some white-collar workers. The contract provides for classification of the positions of all employes involved. Thus Paramount becomes the first of the companies with which SOPEG holds contracts to agree to job classification. The union announced yesterday that it would attempt to persuade the other companies to agree to similar classifications in an effort to stabilize jobs and salaries of office workers in the industry and thus eliminate the huge labor turnover now prevalent in the ranks of film white collarites. Under the terms of the contract salary adjustments resulting from classifications will be retroactive to Oct. 5, 1942. Pending the settlement of classifications and salary schedules the company has agreed to es~tablish a minimum salary of $18 for mail and messenger jobs and $21 for clerical positions, with wages in both cases retroactive to Oct. 5. There are also provisions for a union shop, severance pay up to 12 weeks, union security and seniority rights. Vital Year For Movies BETWEEN the handsome blue, gold and white covers of the silver jubilee edition of The Film Daily Year Book for 1943 is a wealth of information on the part that the industry, and the individuals who compose it, are playing in the war. We wish the book could be made "must" reading for every carper at the industry whether he be just an uninformed movie patron who has happened on a poor film, or a congressman who is looking for a scapegoat. The section "The Industry at War" opens with a page of quotations from the words of President Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Frank Knox and Lowell Mellett and eight other notables, who all seem to think pretty well of the industry and what it is doing for the war. We have not room here, to quote, or even list, the organizations of the film colony that are making training and morale films, raising money for war and home charities, selling war bonds, and sending entertainment groups to camps at home and overseas. But it is all there. And seeing it thus assembled we gained a new realization of its extent even though we Reprinted from the Rochester (AT have been familiar with much of it for more than a year. Moreover, the industry had given 5,177 of its men to the various war services at the time the Year Book was closed. Of these, 972 are actors, the rest workers and technicians. Another 532 actors have left the studios for some war industry. All this data, in addition to the usual sections, make The 1943 Film Daily Year Book an outstanding volume of reference. Save That Hairpin! THE FILM DAILY YEAR BOOK is not all facts and figures. Some one of its editors had a nose for interesting trivia that yet throws a light on the thoroughness with which Hollywood studios have entered on the task of conservation. The little problem of hairpins — important when a studio is making films with an 1890 background and is limited to two pounds a month — was solved by sending the used hairpins to the sterilizer and using them right over again in the next picture. Gowns are remodeled, shoes redyed, wigs redressed, and rubber noses and wrinkles have given way to plastic substitutes. Y.) Times-Union, May 7, 1943 !