The Film Daily (1944)

■ ^•'\ DAILY Tuesday, June 20, 1944 [OWI Overseas Film [Post for Maj. Loew Maj. Arthur Loew has been as jsigned by the Army Signal Corps. [to temporary duty with the Motion ! Picture Bureau of it he Oversas EBranch of OWI. ■Major Loew will lact as associate fchief in the Mo [tion Picture Bu [reau in an admin fistrative capac | rity. He is ex [pected to go over (seas shortly to [supervise foreign [distribution o f 1 American films ffor OWL Major Loew, who returned re i^^J Arthur loew cently from duty in the European theater of operations, joined the Army Signal Corps Pictorial Service in May, 1942, and was stationed at the Photographic Center, Astoria, L. I. Previous to his Army Service, Maj. Loew was for 20 years export manager for M-G-M. He was in complete charge of the overseas operations of the film company, including the production and distribution of M-G-M pictures and the operation of Loew's theaters abroad. "U" 26-Week Profit Set at $1,833,945 (Continued from Page 1) ing Federal income and excess profits taxes, it was announced yesterday by J. Cheever Cowdin, chairman of the board. This compares with $1,858,552 for the corresponding six months period of the preceding fiscal year. Before providing for Federal income and excess profits taxes, the consolidated net profit amounted to $4,794,845 compared with $5,117,807 in the same period of last year. Cowdin reported that Universal had more completed pictures for the new season than at any corresponding period in its history. Biz Off at Warm Chi. Houses Chicago — Theaters without Freon gas for cooling systems are losing business, a survey indicates. Weekend heat wave resulted in marked attendance drops where systems were not operating. IN NEW POSTS HAROLD WEIDNER, JR., manager, Empress, Jacksonville, Fla. AL CHAMPAIN, head booker, 20Hi-Fox, Detroit. CHARLES LEONARD, booker, Columbia, Charlotte. All in the Day's Worh • • • A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: "One ol the weaknesses of Youth is its irequen! contempt for the experience of others," voiced by William A. Brady as he marked his 81st birthday yesterday ▼ T T • • • THIS AND THAT: Oscar A. Doob is bedded down at home with a strep throat. . . • Cold Label Books, Inc.. irill publish Hal Hode's first noxiel, "This Hero Business," on July 1. . . • Dai'iil I"). Selznicit has a substantial interest in Gabriel Pascal's production, "Caesar and Cleopatra," u<iiich, financially backed by J. Arthur Rank, has started shooting in England UA will release the Technicolor pix u'hich has Vivian Leigh as Cleo and Claude Rains as Caesar. . . • RKO Television Corp. is capitalized at .|50, 0001,000 shares at .|50. . . • "What Price Italy?" goes to Amco Films, Inc., 119 W. blth St. for distribtttion. . . • Film and Radio Disctission Guide, edited by Bill Lewin and issued by the Department of Secondary Teachers. National Education Association, lias issued a special Metro 20-)V'ar Antiiversary number For the first lime, the Guide will Junie a newsstand sale. . . • 1944 Greater New York Fund campaign netted a record .'i?4,023„'511. . . • Tip: The British MOI and Canada's National Film Board are plotting documentaries to cover the work of the United Nations Relief and Reliabilitation Administration. . . • Allen Meltzer, Warners' ex-Eastern publicity manager, has formed an indie public relations organization bearing his name, with quarters at ."jOQ Madison Ave. ... • Wonder who's behind Cinema Equities Corp., just incorporated in Delaware? • • • STRICTLY HOLLYWOOD: Looks as though Maj. Clark Gable's first post-AFF pic for Metro will be "Seattle," comedy drama with music, with Myrna Loy and Lucille Ball in top femme spots. ... • Lt. Bruce Cabot's Air Transport Command service is also ending; he'll report to Paramount on July 2. . . . • Billy De Wolfe leaves the Navy this week for Paramount. ... • Also slated to doff uniforms for studio makeup shortly are Donald O'Connor and Skinnay Ennis; they're up for medical discharges. ... • Bette Davis gets the Elisabeth Bergner role in WB's "The Two Mrs. Carrolls" and Eleanor Parker the lead in "Of Human Bondage". ... • Monogram will shoot "Black Beauty" in Cinecolor. ... • Bing Crosby Prod, has signed Greg McClure, newcomer, for the title role in "The Great John L.". ... • Paul Cox joined Monogram yesterday as casting director. ... • Warners will do a series of shorts based on short stories ... • Bob Hope heads for the Hawaiians and South Pacific on another service tour of 10 weeks next month. Meanwhile, Bob's corking new tome, "I Never Left Home," has soared to the 100,000 mark in its first printing, topping Wendell Willkie's "Around Ihe World" Simon & Schuster's ad campaign for if is a honey. • Leslie Fenton will direct "Tomorrow, the World" for Lester Cowan. • Wanda Tuchock will script "Our Moment is Swift" for 20th-Fox. • Johnny Downs gets a fop role in Jeff Bernerd's "They Shall Have Faith" for Monogram. ... • Richard Blumenthal takes over production of Columbia's Chatauqua saga, "Gone Are the Days," now that Sol Siegel has stepped out • Hal Wallis has purchased Chris Massie's novel, "The Love Letters" and may make if in England for Para, release. • David O. Selznick has acquired Francis Beeding's "The House of Dr. Edwardes;" Alfred Hitchcock will direct for Vanguard T T ▼ • • O AVENGE PEARL HARBOR! Scliine Reply Cliarges Gov't liands Unclean Buffalo — Charging that the Government has come into court with "unclean hands," Schine counsel over the week-end filed an answer to the plaintiffs' second amended complaint in which they demand judgment dismissing the complaint. The charge of "unclean hands" was made on grounds of the Government's dismissal of the distributors from the Schine case subsequent to commencement of the action against Paramount in the southern district of New York. The answer charges "negotiations were instituted between the plaintiff and the major distributors." Dismissal of I the "Little Three" just before start of the Schine trial, the answer asserts, was the result of a "secret agreement" between the Government and the "Little Three," "details of which are unknown to the remaining defendants." Schine denies it violated the Sherman act and that it is engaged in interstate commerce. Counsel charges "remaining defendants have been severely prejudiced by dismissal of the distributors and that notwithstanding the dismissal of the distributors, plaintiff still claims they are parties to the action." The answer concludes with the charge that the plaintiff is "guilty of laches." TO THE COLORS! * DECORATED* S/SCT. DOVARD HALL, AAF, formerly Paramount Theater, Montgomery, Ala., awarded a second Oak Leaf Cluster for his Air Medal. * COMMISSIONED* LT. JAMES H. ARTHUR, F & M attorney, in the USMC, * ARMY * MICKEY ROONEY. ROBERT YOUNG, son of Frank Young, United Artists office manager, Chicago. ROBERT SATTERLEE, film Truck Service, Decatur, 111. *NAVY* MORRIS ARNOLD, operator. Colonial, Burton, 0. ^ THE "BIG DEIMT' HAS BEEJV MADE!— AND EXTRA WAR BOND SALES Wi\LL DEEPEN IT! UA May Name Coplan Permanent U. K. Head (Continued from Page 1) ain, in addition to re-electing the present panel of officers. It was said yesterday that no change in the officers was contemplated, although another vice-president may be appointed. UA's officers are Edward C. Raftery, president; George Bagnall and Gradwell Sears, vice-presidents; Loyd Wright, secretary; Harry J. Muller, treasurer and assistant secretary; Paul D. O'Brien and Charles E. Millikan, assistant secretaries.