The Film Daily (1946)

Tffl&s Wednesday, April 24, 194 Vol. 89, No. 79 Wed., Apr. 24, 1946 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate Publisher and General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer: Al Steen, Associate Editor. 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. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD, 28, Calif. —Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. WASHINGTON— Andrew H. Older, 6417 Dahlonega Road, Wash. 16, D. C. Phone Wisconsin 3271. CHICAGO, 45, 111.— Joseph Esler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briargate 7441. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. 1. HAVANA— Mary Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. BOMBAY— Ram L. Gogtay, Sandhurst Bldg. ALGIERS— Paul Saffar, Filmafric, 8 Rue Charras. STOCKHOLM— Armas Morby, Mastersamuelsg 25. HONOLULU — Eileen O'Brien. MEXICO CITY— James L. Wyatt, Apartado 91 Bis, Mexico, D. F. SAN JUAN — E. Sanchez Ortis. MONTREAL— Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. FINANCIAL (Tues., Apr., 23) comma hud goihg NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close* Chg. Am. Seat 31 Vi 31 Vi 31 '/2— 1/4 Columbia Picts. pfd.,103 102 102 — l'/2 East. Kodak 262 260 262 + V, do pfd 205 205 205 +2 Cen. Prec. Eq 38 37'/2 37]/2 — l'/i Loew's, Inc 39>/2 38?/8 39'/4 — % Paramount 79'/8 78% 79%+ 3^ RKO 271/4 26i/2 271/4+ 3/8 Republic Pictures ... 16'/2 16 163/8 Republic Pictures pfd. 19V4 19'/4 19V4 + i/8 20th Century-Fox ... 61 Vs 593A 61 Vs + % 20th Century-Fox pfd. 75'/2 75 75y2 20th Century-Fox ppf.102% 102% 102% — % Universal Pict 46'/4 45% 46'/4 + % Universal Picts. pfd.. 99 99 99 Warner Bros 50V4 47% 50y4 + 23^ NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. ... 10 93,4 10 Radio-Keith cvs 12'/2 11% 123/8 + y4 Sonotone Corp 5'/2 53/8 53/8 — % Technicolor 273/4 27 27 — % OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Pathe Industries 12% 13% EDWARD K. O'SHEA, M-C-M Eastern sales manager, will leave for Boston May 14. FRANCIS L HARLEY, 20th-Fox's managing director in Great Britain, is in New York from London for home office conferences. SID BLUMENSTOCK, 20th-Fox's assistant exploitation manager, has gone to Chicago. CHARLES SCHLAIFER, head of 20th-Fox's advertising, publicity, exploitation and radio departments, is back at his desk after an Atlantic City vacation. MR. and MRS. HERMAN FELD have returned to Newark from a vacation in Atlantic City. Feld is connected with the Treat Theater. FRANK MILLER, house staff, Loew's State, Newark, N. )., has returned from a vacation in Miami, Fla. PAUL THOMAS, treasurer of Altec, has returned to New York from Chicago and nearby points. JOHN E. FLYNN, Midwestern sales manager for M-C-M, is due to arrive from Chicago next Monday for home office conferences. HERMAN RIPPS, M-G-M district manager with headquarters in Albany, is in New Haven today. He is slated to arrive in New York May 1 for a short business visit. CEORCE V. LYNCH and LOU GOLDSTEIN, Schine circuit executives, will arrive here from Gloversville tomorrow. JOHN S. ALLEN, M-C-M district manager with headquarters in Washington, is scheduled to arrive here tonight for a home office visit. TED FLEISCHER, general manager and buyer for the Interstate circuit in Boston, is due tomorrow for conferences with E. K. (Ted) O'Shea, Eastern sales manager for M-G-M. EDDIE BUZZELL, M-G-M director, has arrived from the Coast. WILLIAM GLEICHER, of M-C-M's sales department, plans to leave next Monday for New Haven. EDWIN W. AARON, assistant general sales manager for M-C-M, will return Monday from his vacation at Asheville, N. C. TOM DONALDSON, Boston manager for M-C-M, arrived here yesterday for a brief home office visit. HARRY UNTERFORT, RKO-Schine city manager, is in New York from Syracuse. VICTOR SAVILLE is at the Waldorf-Astoria from the Coast. BOB LYNCH, M-G-M Philadelphia district manager, gets in tomorrow for a one-day home office visit. JAMES BRIDIE, British playwright under contract to David O. Selznick, will arrive in New York the first week in May from the Coast. ARNOLD MOSS, Theater Guild actor, will arrive on the Coast May 25 to make his screen debut in International's "Belladonna." CHARLES K. STERN, Loew's assistant treasurer, and WILLIAM C. BRENNER, head of M-G-M's checking department will head for Kansas City May 1. HENRY NATHANSON, president of Regal Films, and TED GOULD, general sales manager of the company, have arrived from Toronto and are at the Astor Hotel. DEWEY BLOOM, M-G-M exploitation rep. in Canada, is also in town. M. M. JACOBS of Cleveland, is flying out to Phoenix, Ariz. Saturday to arrange for the opening of his new Arizona theater. LEONARD GOLDENSON, Paramount vice-president in charge of theater operations, left New York yesterday for New Orleans, where he will confer with E. V. Richards. EDWARD L. HYMAN, Paramount theaters' Northern district director, is upstate New York conferring with Harry Royster, head of Netco Theaters. JOSEPH J. DEITCH, Paramount theaters' executive, left on the TWA Constellation for Kansas City on business. MARIA ELENA MARQUES, star of "The Pearl," produced by RKO Radio at its studios near Mexico Cit, leaves on Saturday for New York en route to Lisbon and Spain. LILLIE MESSENGER, of M-C-M's studio story department, will return to Hollywood Friday. LEON ROTH, United Artists press book editor, will leave New York today for Philadelphia and Baltimore in the first of a series of trips designed to give the best possible press book service to exhibitors. ALEX MANTA, theater circuit owner, has returned to Chicago from Florida. S. J. GREGORY and his wife have left Chicago for a Hot Springs vacation. 5 Majors Spent $698,805 In Newspapers in 1945 Nineteen forty-five newspaper expenditures of five film companies totaled $698,805, according to a survey by Media Records, financed by Advertising Age, Editor & Publisher and Printers' Ink. Compilation covered advertising in 333 daily and Sunday papers in 107 cities. Company expenditures were listed as follows: Columbia, $206,614; M-G-M, $221,318; RKO Radio, $87,635; 20th-Fox, $101,190, and United Artists, $82,048. MODERN HOME ML FOR SALE — SCARSDALE™' Modern French Colonial, 8 rooms. Has every modern improvement including streamlined kitchen, breakfast room. Extensive terraced gardens. Large master bedroom facing a finished deck. Almost everything you wished for is installed in this lowupkeep home. Corner plot of about one-third acre. One-half mile to school; one mile to station. PHONE SCARSDALE 7380 FOR APPOINTMENT TO VIEW, OR SEE YOUR BROKER $71,000 for "Kid" Sets New Record at Astor Opening week's gross of $71,000 for Samuel Goldwyn's "The Kid From Brooklyn," starring Danny Kaye, at the Astor theater, has broken the house record, it was reported yesterday by Maurice Maurer, managing director of the Broadway showcase. RCA Acquires Lancaster Television Tube Plant Purchase of the U. S. Navy's elec* tron and television tube manufactuij ing plant at Lancaster, Pa., said t be the most modern in the world, b the RCA Victor Division of RC, was announced yesterday by Fran M. Folsum, vice-president in charg of the division. Folsum's div^ built and operated the plant fo. Navy during the war. PurcilS price was $4,362,500. Folsum said yesterday that th availability of television for the pub lie would be advanced considerabl, by the acquisition of the plant whic! is the largest in existence for th manufacture of cathode-ray pictur tubes used in tele receivers and cam era pick-up tubes. liras Dunn Returns to Ansco As Advertising Manager Return of Robert M. Dunn to hi post as advertising manager of th< Ansco Division of General Aniline <S \ Film Corp., is announced by E. A I Williford, vice-president. DuniT served in the Navy for two years! Winthrop Davenport, assistant ad ; vertising manager, who directed thf« department during Dunn's leave will continue in charge of the division's offices in Binghamton, N. Y Election of David B. Dyche, GAFC treasurer, to vice-president, was alsc announced. He joined the companji in 1942. Shea to Housewarm New Headquarters on May 1 A housewarming on May 1 will* mark the opening of Jamestown ' Amusement Co.'s (M. A. Shea Theatrical Enterprises) new offices in I the Century Bldg., 132 W. 43rd St. Address will be the fourth for Mort5 Shea in his 45 years in the Times f Square area. Company had been in the Loew's;! State Bldg. for 25 years, and priori to that in the Knickerbocker Bldg.," and the Putnam Bldg. for 10 year periods. "The Green Years is a wonderful motion picture LOUIS SOBOL also says it! (M-G-M of course/) WORLD PREMIERE NOW AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL •»