The Film Daily (1947)

Bday, November 22, 1946 ^ii(4 DAILY ifcporf Control List i be Reduced 10% osliiiwtvti Burcut of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Arthur Paul, assistjlt to the Secretary of Commerce ■iid director of the Office of Internapiv"'^ Trade, announced yesterday 'i.:"^)e present list of commodities Uv ^nder export control is being •viewed and is expected to be re'aced by at least 10 per cent within ^ae next few days. ''Export controls will continue to e removed as soon as the supply tuation in relation to our home eed; permits," Paul said. He emhasized, however, that such control ■ould not be dropped precipitously. ) There are as many or more presures for export embargoes as there (ire for lifting controls, Paul pointed 'ut. He recalled that more than 25 ills were introduced in the last Con•ress to embargo certain commodi18} for export. \ lA/^aters and Rosen Win 30th-Fox Promotions (Ccn.'inued from Page 1) lorf, who has resigned to become iistrict manager for Eagle-Lion covering the Dallas, Oklahoma City ind New Orleans territories. Waters s being replaced in Albany by Joe jSosen, who has been promoted from i New Jersey salesman out of the \ew York exchange. Beiersdorf had been associated .vith 20:h Century-Fox for the last 15 years and had been Pittsburgh manager for two years. He , f orm3rly headed branches in Charlotte and Dallas. He takes his new post bn Dec. 8. Try Feature with Cartoons Chicago — B&K will try "Alice in Wonderland'' and "Rebecca of Sun nybrook Farm" with cartoon shows in several subsequents, with a view i to full circuit use. Special morning hows are designed for children. ^Mansfield Joins PRC , Boston — Joseph W. Mansfield, jl former publicist with RKO theaters Ihere, has been appointed field rep. [ for PRC with Hub headquarters. SEND BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO: Nov. 22 Sam Silver Arthur Da Bra Bobby Burns Lee Patrick Ce rank P. Rosenberg Fe ix A Jenkins Hary A. SiTions Sally B.iss Nov. 23 Boris Karloff H:bart Henley lules Cirden Rosetta Djncan Louis M. Cold Harpo Marx Brad King Nov. 24 raldine Fitzgerald Alex Moss Lee Bonnell E. V D iPar Tom Bu'ton A-t*" r E. Chiistie John Francis Natteford ALONG T ▼ A Reporter's Report • • • BLASE BROADWAY, the street which presumably has seen everything, learned yesterday that it hadn't after all The revelation came when Metro ligurotively rolled out the red carpet in front of Loew's Stale to welcome its equine star, Bess, while an Army band, no less, and the band oi Christopher Columbus High School as well did the musica' honors less, who went through her paces for a nocn-hour Times Square crowd that numbered several thousands, put in as strenuous a day as any Hollywood visiting fireman, what with visits to the Daily Mirror, radio stations, other Losw theaters Bil!y Ferguson, et al, certainly banged the exploita ion bell for "Gal'aat Bess" Cne Broadway wag nevertheless was heard to ask Bill Ornstein if it was a fieup for the "The Bess Years of Our Lives" Bill, alw^ays the polite one, sa'd no, and murmured something about a Metro picture called "My Brother Ta'ks to Horses" ▼ ▼ ▼ • 0 • CUFF NOTES: The public hasn't forgotten Rin Tin Tin A survey made by Buchanan & Co., for PRC revealed that the famous canine star is still strong in the memory of theater-goers And that 70.3 per cent of those queried, rancing in age from six to 45 and over, knew his name and that 94.6 psr cent identified him correctly More than 77 psr cent of those questioned said they liked dogs and dog pictures, wh'.ch was grati'ying to PRC which will release "The Return oi Rin Tin Tin" in Vitacolor. ... • Jeni Freeland, who was Miss F orida of 1S45, is being auditioned by M-G-M and EagleLion and is having her own show on WLIB She's a "find" cf Ted Green. ... • Apparently no lilm interests were success'ul bidders for the surplus property of the Third Avenue Transit Co. which auctioned off the car bams site at 65th and Third Ave., although there were rumors that it was being sought for a possible theater site However. Arthur White tid 51,400,000 for a client It finally went to the New York Life Insurance Co. for 81,600,000 cash. ... • Laurels Dep'..: Cuoted from our mail bag: "May we recommend to the powers that be that one Ann Baxter be nominated for an Academy Award lor her outstanding and sincere perlormanre in 'The Razor's Edge'? She was superb.". . . • An editor can put in an apostrophe with a blue pencil But through an oversight, the workmen left off the apostrophe in the massive "Razor's Edge" e'eclric sign on Broadway It was a day's job to insert it T T T 9 • • THIS 'N' THAT: Paul Dukes, whose sleight o' hand delighted at the Picture Pioneers Harvest dinner, will sad'.y tell you that he isn't the only one who can make things disappear In Philadelphia to fill a date, Dukes "lost" luggage which held no less than 2,000 tricks Nevertheless, he's off for Holly w rod to fill an El Rancho engagement. ... 9 Coincidence Dept.: The Daily Mirror's Lee Mortimer ar.d the AP's Jack O'Brian both tippirg Leo McCarey to do a film with Kate Smith — one a la "Going My Way" or "The Bells ol St. Mary's.". . . O In Ihs credit sheet handed the audience attending a recent preview of "Lady in the Lake," M-G-M's new translation oi the Raymond Chandler thriller of the same name, there is a character listed as "Chrystal Kingsby." She's the central focus of the plot. She's missing. It's Robert Montgomery's sleuthing job to find her Whether he does or does not will be told here But she's listed in the credits as being plcyed by Ellay Mort EUe est mort Get it? She's dead! . . . • Nellie Witting, Secretary cf Monogram International this week has been 25 years with the company T T ▼ Clark Sees Pix as Crime Preventative H'ashington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Answering a "small minority" of critics, Attorney General Tom C. Clark stated that the "general trend in motion pictures is to have an effect of dissuading people from committing crimes." Clark's theme was made clear at the industry's Government confer' ence at the White House and repeated before the National Conference for the Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency. The con^ ference winds up three days of sessions today. "I do not personally believe to, day," Clark said, "that any but a ! few, in an extremely small minority, would characterize a motion picture i performance as an in:tigator of a j crime, and I do believe that the general trend in motion ^^ctures is to I have an effect of di^uading people I from committing crimes." Panel made up of motion picture, radio and press representatives, ; agreed yesterday to wuhhold airecc ! recommendations on plans to assist : in the anti-juvenile delinquency un ' til after the end of the conference. Media campaign to put the campaign across should follow studies and recommendations by other groups, it j was agreed. Academy to Allow All Film Prods, to Compete (Ccmtinued from Page 1) ernors of the Academy of Motion {picture Arts & Sciences has : amended its by-law.s. Under new amendment, those productions unable to qualify through I normal exhibitor channels due to the current emergency and crowded booking schedules will be eligible, if Academy is notified in writing, and the producers show a release print I for seven times, not necessarily consecutively, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, which includes Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and other points. Weisberg Joins Young May Weisberg, formerly of the New York Strand publicity office, has joined the staff of Harold YoungProds., makers of business films. SICK REPORT HAZEL DEMERS, inspectress at M-G-M, Minneapolis, is recovering at home from internal injuries suffered in an auto accident. RAY DANIELS, manager, E. M. Loew's Drive-In, and city manager, E. M. Loews, Providence, R. I., is bedded with measles. RENO BROWN, Monogram actress, is convalescing from an emergenry appendectomy in Good Samaritan H:spital, Los Angeles.