The Film Daily (1945)

Lesser Names Aides For 7lh Bond Drive (Continued from Page 1) mittee comprises Harry Brandt, Max A. Cohen, Oscar A. Doob, Wilbur England, Si Fabian, Malcolm Kingsberg, Harry Mandel, C. C. Moskowitz, Sam Rinzler, Edward Rugoff, Fred Schwartz, Robert S. Weitman and William White. Borough chainnen are George C. Ritch, Manhattan, Riviera Theater; Eugene Meyers, Bronx, Loew's Theaters; Miss Helen Beckerman, Brooklyn, Elm Theater; Fred W. Brunelle, Queens, Queens Theater; and Louis Goldberg, Richmond, Fabian Theaters. County chairmen: Russell Ende, Westchester, RKO Theaters; Walter F. Higgins, Suffolk, Pradential Playhouses; John Endres, Nassau, Playhouse, Great Neck; Max Cohen, Sullivan, Rialto, Monticello; Fred Lichtman, Rockland, Lafayette, Suffern; Mrs. Bess Fisher, Lower Orange, State, Middletown; Robert W. Case, Ulster, Broadway, Kingston; and Harry L. Royster, Duchess, Bardavon, Poughkeepsie. Approximately 700 theater managers and their staffs, veterans of previous War Loan campaigns, are pledged to serve with these chairmen, and will co-operate closely with other civic groups in the drive. Lesser also disclosed yesterday that Lloyd Seidman, vice-president of Donahue & Coe advertising agency, has been put in charge of all newspaper advertising for the Seventh War Loan in the N. Y. area. ; W*^ DAILY Thursday, April 12, 194 20th-Fox Associates Fete Rosenfield, Off for Army Over one hundred and fifty colleagues of Jonas Rosenfield, Jr., assistant advertising manager of 20thFox, tendei'ed him a farewell dinner last night at the Sherry Netherland prior to his departure for Army service. Hal Home was the principal speaker, with Charles Schlaifer emcee. Among those who attended were: Irving Lesser, Rodney Bush, Sid Blumenstock, Dave Bader, Jerry Pickman, Ted Lloyd, Jules Fields, Earl Wingart, Max Stein, Al Kayton, Jerry Spiero, Leonard Gaynor, Vic Sedlow, Morris Kinzler, Jerry Novat, Louis Shanfield, Harry Hochfeld, Christy Wilbert, George Gomperts, Abe Goodman, Virginia Morris, Homer Harman, Theodore Jaediker, Manny Islip, and David Sternfeld. urn mnm UUmU TO: April 12 )ane Withers Harry Noble Ann Miller Marie Lund East, West and In Between • • • CUFF NOTES: It's just a guess, of course, but Standard & Poor's current analysis of the motion picture industry affirms "there is a strong possibility that some compromise will be reached, in the New York equity suit. . . • Bob Weitman is transforming the Paramount lobby into the Promenade of Generals and Admirals on May 11 as a curtain raiser for June 5 observance of Maj. Glenn Miller Day And for that military pageant on the night of the 6th, the Paramount loge will be dubbed the Loge of Honor Buy a Bond with $2,500 to $10,000 maturity value and you can sit there. . . • Dan Seletsky, booker for the M & P Theaters, is very ill in a Boston hospital with a strep infection. . . •A doff of the old chapeau to John Friedl, president of Minnesota Amusement Co., for his plan to stage annual free shows for children of war veterans throughout the circuit It's a plan raUng national adoption. . . • RKO Radio Pictures Colombia Corp. has changed its corporate name to RKO Radio Pictures De Colombia, Inc ▼ T ▼ • • • THE PERSONAL TOUCH: Gus Schaefer's host of industry friends will welcome the news that his name has been removed from the danger list at the Newton (Mass.) Hospital. . . ©Dr. W. F. Zimmerli has resigned as vice-president of General Aniline & Film Corp. to engage in private practice as a chemical industry consultant. . . • Ingrid Bergman will desert Hollywood sometime next year to return to Broadway under the Playwrights Company banner in a new Maxwell Anderson play, based on the story of Joan of Arc Raymond Massey will be opposite. . . • Roy Rogers opens a series of p.a.'s at the Rodeo in Washington's Uline Arena tonight. . . • Gilbert Cote, for the past 17 years with the New York, New Haven and Hartford, has joined the transportation department of Metro Special Service. • Benny Goodman and his ork. have volunteered for services for the pageant with which the New York Paramount will mark Major Glenn Miller Day on June 5. . . • Lawrence Nugent, assistant shipper for United Artists in Boston, will represent the Hub film row in the April 19 Marathon race ▼ T T • • • OFF THE HOLLYWOOD WIRE: Universal is planning a Technicolor musical to be based on the lives of Beethoven and Schubert with production scheduled for mid-Summer. . . • Columbia has signed Richard Wallace to direct two more films. . . • 20th-Fox has added John Carradine to the cast of "Fallen Angel.". . • Universal has set Moyna McGill, Irish actress, to play the older sister in "Uncle Harry." • George Milburn's as yet untitled novel about a small farming community in the Middle West, has been purchased by Paramount for filming. . . • Nick Kalten, 20th-Fox's greenery expert, is the subject of a Jim Marshall article in the coming issue of Collier's ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • MOVIES SPEARHEAD THE ATTACK: Newt Oliphant, Yank correspondent back in the U. S. from the Philippines, told Phil M. yesterday that the boys saw M-G-M's "Two Girls And A Sailor" on the eve of the Tinian invasion only three miles away from the first beachhead established the next morning ▼ TV • • • STREET SCENE: Advertising exec, of a major, out strolling with Young Hopeful, aged seven, meets the advertising exec, of a rival company "Who is he. Daddy?" inquires Y.H The seven-year-old is enlightened but scarcely impressed Unhesitatingly comes this: "I don't think your advertisements are as good as Daddy's. Why don't you give up?" You'll never make the second ad exec, believe it was unrehearsed ▼ T ▼ • • • WE'RE AVENGING PEARL HARBOR! St. Louis Amusement Accused of Monopolf (Continued from Page 1) Co. against four major companic and other defendants including th Apollo and Princess. In his answers, Rosecan, on b< half of Adolph Rosecan, operatin I the Princess, and Joseph Litvag, o^ erating the Apollo, would change tl: i St. Louis Amusement Co. into tl: i role of defendants. On behalf ( I the Apollo owners, Rosecan's answe I and counter-claims ask that a tot< : of $90,000 damages be granted b i the U. S. District Court against S '•■ Louis Amusement and Paramoun ] 20th Century-Fox, Warner Bros 1 Universal, United Artists and C< i lumbia, which furnish film to tl: 31 theaters of the circuit. Damage J on behalf of the Princess were n( ! named, but it will be based on tt I business done by the theater 3in< clearance to St. Louis Amusemei was reduced and that done six yeai prior to the reduction. In addition to charging St. Lou Amusement with maintaining a m^ ' nopoly, the answers ask that tl plaintiffs and the filin companies li required to cease and desist fro!i imposing alleged unreasonable cleai ance and to desist fro-m their a| leged policy of delaying and prolonj ing the exhibition of pictures in thel first, second and subsequent-run thi' : aters. The court also is asked to i ; sue an order setting aside and dji j daring -null and void and unlavdj ; the contracts between St. Loif I Amusement and the seven distriby ! ing companies. [li Schusel Named F C Mgr. Here; Herman in Buffalo Managers for Film Classii branches in New York and Buffa; were appointed yesterday by Irvirij Wormser, Eastern sales manager. I Seymour Schusel, formerly wil Columbia, has been named New Yoi exchange manager, while Leon He; man, a United Artists salesman fi many years, will head the Buffaji blanches. Worm Turns: Operator ' 'Trtares' The Treasury! Cleveland, O. — Law prevents disclosure of the gent's name by the U. S. Treasury, because income tax returns are confidential. Anyway, he's a local projectionist who decided to take advantage of the law and sent in his withholding slips, — 366 of 'em which accumulated in 1944 (Leap Year)—, to have Morgenthau's lads figure ^he tax on the pay he received each individual night because of the nature of his job. The Revenue Bureau had to put the 366 slips through 50 separate operations, and a staff of employes spent a week figuring out the return.