The Film Daily (1946)

{Thursday, June 6, 1946 = DAILY ieo. Skouras Reports In Greek Aid Drive i More than 3,500 horses, cows and lules, valued at $448,672 were de v d to needy Greek farmers duri_^yS 39-city tour of George Skours. national vice-president of the ireek War Relief Association, in bealf of the Give an Animal Campaign. Figures were cited last night n Skouras' report to over 3,000 memers of New York's Greek-American ommunity, at a mass meeting and ally in the Hotel Astor. Skouras pointed out that "these ,500 animals represent only the be•inning of the Greek War Relief rogram . . . we will ship more than 0,000 cattle before the end of this iummer, and we will continue to eep a steady stream of animals iioving to Greece until herds have een completely replenished." Reief group also will solicit donations f farming implements to help out he war-devastated country, where JNRRA will terminate its activities n December. A War Dept. film, "Seeds of Desiny," released for the first time in \ew York City, was shown at the ally. Earlier in the day, the Associaion tendered a luncheon and press onference to Skouras. Jnited States Pictures Sets 6 for WB Release (Continued from Page 1) Sperling, vice-president of United 'States Pictures. Initial release will >e the Gary CooperLili Palmer-Rob•rt Alda starrer, "Cloak andDagger," now nearing completion. "Pursued," starring Teresa Wright, toes into production about July 15, o be followed by "So Goes the Naion," "Distant Drums," "Golden :ity" and "Gentle Sin." Dominion Films Sets Program of 20 Pix Toronto — Dominion Films, Ltd., a iiew production company, has been "ormed here to produce 20 pictures a 'ear. Backed by local capital, the ompany plans to make moderately tudgeted films. First picture on the •rogram will be "Bush Pilot" and vill be shot in Northern Ontario with ocal talent. Finances came from private sourcs after the Province of Ontario re•ortedly turned down a request to iack the new enterprise. SEND BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO: June 6 Tyler Brooke Zac Freedman Maurice Hanline Harry Rosenquesf Frank D. Ferrone Richard Crane Dorris Merrick PHIL M. DALY • • • CUFF NOTES: The first annual Electronic Television and Radio Exposition will be held at Grand Central Palace, Oct. 14-19. . . . • Although "Henry V" will not have its City Center opening until the 17th, the Laurence Olivier pic already has rolled up an advance sale of $50,000 via mail orders. ... • The temporary State Commission, created to study plans for improving the New York State Fair at Syracuse, is giving some thought to the erection of a combination theater and convention hall. ... • Kurt Singer will handle negotiations for the sale of film rights to the three winning short stories in This Month magazine's fiction contest which drew more than 2,500 entries. ... • A new theater, the Parkway, opens today in Spring Valley The entire receipts for the first three days are being donated to the Rockland Emergency Fund of the Spring Valley Fire Department. ... • Tyrone Power will star in 20th-Fox's $4,000,000 film version of "Captain From Castille," with Henry King directing Pic will be shot largely on location in Mexico, and will be in Technicolor. ... • UA's ad-publicity staff will make a foray into the wilds of Pennsylvania this coming weekend to unlimber their muscles in such strenuous athletic feats as pingpong, gin rummy and hop-scotch Leaving Friday for Tyler Hill will be Paul N. Lazarus, Jr., Howard LeSieur, Francis Winikus, Lew Barasch, Nat Lax, Simon Wolf, Bernie Kamber, Joe Clair, Phil Cowan, and Leon Brandt. ... • Claiming that ideas pay off, Loew's is offering cash awards to its personnel who come up with good ideas for increasing efficiency and reducing expense, time and waste First to cop off the awards were Wiley Padan, head of the art department; Helen Lilienfeld, purchaser of tickets; Leonard Pollack, Mike Peskin, George Berry and Irving Schlossberg ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • AL ACKERMAN, manager of the East Side Theater, operated by his father, Samuel Ackerman, for nearly 40 years, appeared as a star performer in Detroit's current Automotive Golden Jubilee Ackerman, whose mother appeared on "People Are Funny" on the West Coast recently, decided to compels with her record when Art Linkletter brought his show to town Result — Ackerman split a pair of dress suit trousers trying to get into them for the show, was stranded downtown in a car with a stuck horn — minus his own trousers — and condemned to ride in a special float in the Jubilee parade, likewise minus pants, but in a tuxedo and top hat He did it! T T T • • • "WATTS" ON FIRST— WHO'S ON SECOND!: Universal's home office baseball team has been challenged by Station WNEW's team to a game Friday, at six p.m. on the diamond at Riverside Drive and 76th Street First Prize in Reisman Drive Taken by China At the end of the first 13 weeks of the initial half of the Phil Reisman Drive for 1946, now being conducted throughout the world by RKO Radio's foreign division, first prize was taken by China which Arno F. Kerske manages. Switzerland, managed by -Armand Palivoda, took second place with Straits Settlements, headed by acting manager H. L. Chow capturing third position. The prizes consisted of extra weeks salaries, distributed according to the position of the winners, with every employe, including the manager of each office, participating. The drive ends Aug. 31. RKO Will Produce Series Of Pictures in France Hollywood — A series of pictures will be made in Paris by RKO in conjunction with Pathe Cinema, a French producing company, it was stated here at the studio yesterday. The deal with Pathe specifies no particular number of films. The pix will be produced with French dialogue, with English titles added for the American market. The first of the series will be "Golden Silence" in which the French star, Raimu, will play the lead. Rene Clair, French producer now in Hollywood, will produce and direct the film. He will sail for France on June 29, COMING and GOING JOHNSTON leaves for the Coast ERIC A. Monday. NICHOLAS M. SCHENCK is back from Coast. the NATE J. BLUMlBERG i for the Coast tomorrow, 24th. scheduled to leave returning about the DAVID O. SELZNICK has gone back to the Coast. SKOURAS is in New York from CHARLES P. the Coast. MORT BLUMENSTOCK, vice president in charge of Warner Bros, advertising and publicity, was in Philadelphia yesterday to discuss arrangements for the company's 20th Anniversary of Talking Pictures sales convention in Atlantic City, August 5-7. HERBERT GREENBLATT, RKO district manager, is visiting the Minneapolis exchange. DELORES LARSON, office manager's secretary at the RKO exchange, Minneapolis, is vacationing in Duluth. ISABELL JOHNSON, assistant cashier at the RKO exchange, Minneapolis, is spending her vacation in Peoria, III. ROY MILLER, branch manager of the Universal exchange, Minneapolis, is on a two-week fishing trip in northern Minnesota. WALTER BROOKS returns tomorrow from a 10-day trip to several Southern cities. WILLIAM C. BRENNER, head of M-G-M's checking department, returns from the Coast Monday. CAREY WILSON, M-C-M producer and director, arrives from the Coast today to spend two weeks here. PETE S. HARRISON, accompanied by CADET CHARLES P. SKOURAS, JR., leaves for an extended Coast stay via the Constellation on Monday. HERB BLAAS, salesman, CENE MEREDITH, cashier, and AL LUTZ, maintenance engineer, all of the Warner exchange, Minneapolis, have returned from a fishing trip to Lake Winibigoshish. EDiTH HEAD has returned to Hollywood following fashion research in New York for RKO Radio's "Katie for Congress." MICHAEL WOULFE leaves New York for Hollywood on Tuesday. SIDNEY LANFIELD will arrive in New York from Hollywood on June 14 for a vacation and a round of the Broadway shows. He will be accompanied by MRS. LANFIELD. AUBREY SCHENCK flew back to the Coast yesterday. ED THOMAS, of Monogram's West Coast publicity staff, is spending a two-week vacation in New York. HOWARD MINSKY, 20th-Fox's Buffalo branch manager, was a recent visitor to Syracuse, N. Y. MRS. KEN PRICKETT, wife of the M-C-M publicity representative in New Orleans, left there for a trip to the West Coast. CHARTERED KAY FILM EXCHANGE, Charlotte, N. 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