The Film Daily (1945)

at DAILY: Tuesday, October 9, 194: Stars Over America Tours Start Oct. 29 Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood • The spectacular "Stars Over America" tours planned for the Victory Loan drive will start with an appearance in Washington on Oct. 29 and will cover more than 70 cities, it was announced at a mass meeting of celebs. Sunday night at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. More than 400 stars and industry toppers pledged all-out support to the drive in response to messages by Lt. Gen. James Doolittle and Ted Gamble. The two, with George Murphy, were introduced by Louis B. Mayer. Kenneth Thomson presided. General Doolittle, declaring that "the millions of men who were in foxholes and behind the lines will bear testimony to what Hollywood has done," said, "You may not be aware of it, but you actually added to the combat man-hours by boosting the morale of our fighting men. Fewer men, fighting with high morale, can do much more than a larger number of men who are dispirited." Doolittle pointed out that 7,000, or approximately a third of the men employed normally in Hollywood, entered the service, and hundreds more made up the units which took the films for the historical sections of the various arms of the service. Loew's State, Cleveland Beats Gun in Bond Show Cleveland — In a tieup with the management of the Cleveland Arena and Station WTAM, Loew's State here jumped the gun on Victory Bond shows and piled up a sale of $176,150 in "E" Bonds at a special Victory Bond Escapades performance in the Arena on Saturday night. Event was put over by Howard Burkhardt with the aid of Don Abeles. O'Donnell Calls Atlanta Regional Meet Oct. 15 Robert J. O'Donnell, Southern regional chairman for the Victory Loan campaign, which gets under way Oct. 29, has set a meeting of his state distributor, exhibitor and publicity chairmen for Oct. 15 in Atlanta, it was announced yesterday by Si H. Fabian, national chairman. Attending the meeting will be Fabian, Charles M. Reagan, national distributor chairman; "Chick" Lewis, IJV CIVVIES * Honorably Discharged -k <$t FLASH NEWS TTfl5g!j NATIONAL BULLETINS ^kttiw •*••** DON |OSE BROWNING, from the Army, former Paramount News cameraman, of Springfield, Mass. |IMMY DAVIS, from the U. S. Coast Guard to M-G-M studios, Hollywood, for a top spot in a "Maisie" film. DAVID B. DASH, from the Navy, joining Post Pictures Corp., New York, as assistant to Harry Post, president. CEORCE E. SHELLEY, Harrisburg. Pa.. FILM DAILY staff correspondent, from the Army. 24 Conn. Premieres Set New Haven — I. J. Hoffman, state chairman for the Victory Loan Drive, and Harry F. Shaw, co-chairman, report exhibitors already signed up for 24 Bond premieres, as against a total of 34 premieres in all during the Seventh War Loan in this state. A state-wide meeting at which more than 150 are expected, is scheduled for the Hotel Taft Friday. Caravan's Conn. Dates The Hollywood Star Caravan is scheduled to arrive in Hartford, Nov. 2, Bridgeport, Nov. 3, and New Haven, Nov. 5, and arrangements are being made for the stars' reception and appearance in these towns. Sam Smith, British Lion Head, Dies in London Lesser and Kinzler Cited Lt. Com. Jack Banner, public relations officer of the U. S. Maritime Service, today will, on behalf of the Maritime Service, present Irving Lesser and Morris Kinzler with special citations for their work in conjunction with the Seventh War Loan drive. A feature of their promotion was a series of cruises for Bond buyers on Liberty Ships on Long Island Sound. Lesser Picks Generalis George A. Generalis, in charge of the foreign press publicity for 20thFox, has been appointed Chairman of the Foreign Language Division for the Victory Loan by Irving Lesser. Neu Named TESMA Prexy; Gedris, Bowie Get Posts (Continued from Page 1) while returning from the U. S. recently. Funeral services will be held tomorrow and a memorial service is scheduled for Thursday. Entering film business in Canada in 1910, Smith returned to England in 1913 to establish business as an exporter, distributor and producer. He was managing director of AngloCanadian Distributors, and a pioneer in the exploitation of British film in the Dominion. A former president of KRS, Smith also served on the Film Advisory Committee of the Board of Trade. Pioneer Censor Stricken Portland, Ore.— Mrs. Eleanor T. Colwell, 76, the woman who started film censorship in Portland in 1912, died at her home here of a heart attack. campaign co-ordinator, and Oscar A. Doob, campaign director. Fabian, Reagan, Lewis, and Dooh also will attend the regional meeting called for today by Sam Pinanski, New England chairman, at the Statler Hotel in Boston. Seven Posters Prepared For Victory Loan Drive A group of seven different Bondsoiling posters has been prepared and will be ready for shipment in about a week for use in the Victory Loan. The posters, contained in one compact package, include: "Finish the Job," block one-sheet; "Presidential Message," one-sheet; "Free Movie Day," one-sheet; "Uncle Sam," 40x60; "Thanksgiving Day," 40x60; "Donald Duck," 22x28; "Treasury Department," 18%x26. Chicago — Climaxing the three-day conventions of TEDPA and TESMA, which concluded on Sunday in the local Edgewater Beach Hotel, the latter organization elected Oscar Neu, president of Neumade Products, to serve as body's president for the next year. William Gedris was named vice-president, and Carl Bowie, of St. Louis, was made secretary-treasurer. Neu, formerly TESMA's secretarytreasurer, succeeds E. Allan Williford, of Ansco and formerly of National Carbon Co. . Speakers at the joint TEDPATESMA banquet on Saturday night included Jack Kirsch, president of Allied of Illinois; E. Allan Williford, Oscar Neu, and Nathan D. Golden, the latter from the Department of Commerce, Washington, D. C. Ray G. Colvin, TEDPA chief, presided at the banquet. Final session of the two organizations on Sunday was addressed by Bob Engel, sales manager for the DeVry Corp., and his topic dealt with 16 mm. sales. He urged distributors to man their departments with salesmen thoroughly trained to oversee these lines. ASA specifications will set standards for 16 mm. post-war projectors. Other speakers at the Sunday session were Bert Sanford of Altec; Ben Friedman, Williford and Golden. Arthur Dickenson of MPPDA sent a letter to the meeting of manufacturers asking their co-operation. I RKO May Redeem Preferred Stock i Continued from Page 1) ferred issue, is under consideratio by company officers and directors. When the plan will be adopted, i at all, and whether it will be put in, effect in whole or in part, is known at this time, he said, butl might well be before the end of th current calendar year, or shortl; thereafter. As of Dec. 31, 1944, date of th last RKO annual statement, 121,13' shares of RKO 6 per cent preferrei were outstanding, less, 3,220 share in the treasury, and the stock wa carried at $11,791,000 in the con solidated balance sheet. Funded deb of subsidiary companies was carriei at $16,673,149, made up of mortgagi bonds and mortgages, $7,408,326 and notes payable maturing after om year, $9,264,823. ! i 36 NT Executives Will Attend Rhoden Dinner Kansas City — Thirty-six executive: of National Theaters Corp., heade< by Charles P. Skouras, president and the heads of subsidiary com panies, will attend the Silver Jubile< Dinner honoring Elmer C. Rhoden tt be held here on Oct. 24. Nationa Theaters executives will remain foi two days during which they will hok the organization's Fall meeting. Other out-of-town guests who have made reservations are Ben Kalmen son, Roy Haines and Hall Walsh o: Warners; Spyros P. Skouras, Ton Connors and W. C. Gehring of 20tl Century-Fox; Robert Mochrie, Walter Branson and Ray Nolan of RKO R. J. O'Donnell, Interstate Circuit A. H. Blank, G. Ralph Branton anc Harry Warren, Tri-States Theater.1 Corp.; George Skouras, Skouras Theaters Corp.; Steve Broidy, Lon Fidler, Ed Morey, Sol Francis of Monogram; Harry Thomas, Reeves Espj and Max Roth and Jack Adams PRC; Rudolph Berger, and Burtus Bishop, Jr., M-G-M; James R Grainger of Republic; Irving Mack Filmack Co.; Harry Taylor, Viking Popcorn Machines, Los Angeles. Many exhibitors and other tradespeople from the Midwest trade areas also have made reservations. Tota attendance is expected to reach 200. ttmmE touch Kleinsasser Building Freeman, S. D. — E. J. Kleinsasser, owner of the. Met. Theate^ Jiare, ixUEAN" winn building a ne^&thelter. n««>A "^N Omaha. %b\q saououpoJri M 'W uosiuTOiiJ, Jta?.S8i -JpT ■ MARIE RUMAN has been made assistant mana ger, Van Dyke, Detroit. SALLY PERLE, assistant to Homer Harmon, pub licity director at the Roxy, res'gned to ac cept the public relations post for MacLevy' slenderizing salons. MRS. RUBY THOMAS has been named manager and MRS. EDNA CRAY, assistant manage of the Dilworth, Charlotte. cashier department, 20th-Fox