The Film Daily (1947)

Cf *\ DAILY Monday, April 7, 1941 Vol. 91, No. 67 Mon., Apr. 7, 1947 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; Donald M. Mersereau. Vice President and Treasurer; Patti Alicoate, Vice President and Secretary. 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. Manning Clagett, 2122 Decatur Place NW. Phone. Hobart 7627 CHICAGO, 45. 111.— Joseph Esler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briargate 7441. LONDON —Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127133 Wardour St. W. 1. MANILA— Homer Stuart, Hotel Manila. HAVANA — Mary Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. BOMBAY— Ram L. Gogtay, Gaiety Bldg., Hornby Road Fort. Bombay 1. ALGIERS— Paul Saffar. Filmafric, 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL— Ray Carmichael. Room 9. 464 Francis Xavier St. VANCOUVER — Tack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. SYDNEY— Bowden Fletcher, 19 Moxon Ave.. Punchbowl. N. S. W. Phone. UY 2110. BRUSSELS— Tean Pierre Mevs. 110 Rue des Paquerettes. COPENHAGEN— John Lindberg, Jernhanealle No. 3. Copenhagen-Van Loese. ROME — John Perdicari Via Ludovisi 16. Phone. 42758. MEXICO CITY— Louis Turnoff, Morelos 56 No. 523 MONTEVIDEO— Dr. Walter Schuck, Cerrito 597. cominG add come Howard Dietz to Emcee Ampa's Dinner-Dance Howard Dietz, Loew's vice-president and Metro ad-publicity director, will emcee Ampa's 30th anniversary dinner-dance in the Hotel Astor April 23. Rutsrers Neilson, Ampa president, will preside at the affair which will feature the installation of the new Ampa slate of officers. Reservations should be made in advance with Abe Dash of The Film Daily. Mishkind in SRO Post Cleveland, O. — Leonard Mishkind, former Republic city sales manager, has been appointed SRO sales manager covering Cleveland, Cincinnati and Detroit. Offices are being opened in the Film Bldg. Appointment was made by Grover C. Schaefer, SRO home office rep. Haines Holds WB Chi. Meeting Chicago — Roy Haines, WB Western division sales manager, held meeting of the Midwest district here on Saturday in connection with the company's 1947 sales drive, which starts April 27. Haines and W. W. Brumberer, drive captain, will be back in New York today. SID BLUMENSTOCK, assistant manager of exploitation at 20th-Fox, is accompanying three Costa Rican beauties who will partake in the Pan American Day celebrations in Miami beginning April 14. Prior to the Florida celebrations the girls will visit Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee. DAVID LEWIS, producer of Enterprise's "Other Love," arrives today on the S.S. Queen Elizabeth. LEON and SAM SIRITZKY, prexy and vee-pee, respectively, of Siritzky International, returned to New York at the week-end after having attended the opening Saturday morning of their latest acquisition, the Old South Theater in Boston. House opened with the preeming of "Children of Paradise." NICK TRONOLONE, Pathe Laboratories vicepresident, is in Mexico selecting personnel for the new RKO laboratory in Mexico City which is expected to begin operations shortly. HAL HORNE, vice-president in charge oc production for Story Prods., Inc., returned to the Coast. MONTE SHAFF, whose production, "Man Eaters of Kumaon," will b* released by Un'versalInternational, left New York Friday n'ght for California. NATE J. BLUMBERG, Universal prexy, arrives on the Coast today from New York for a 10-day stay. VAN HEFLIN has arrived in New York from the Coast. CPA Gives Approval of Vet Theater Building (Continued from Page 1) over the week-end. CPA approval was given to construction of a $35,000 theater in New Albany, Miss., and an $11,000 stand in Little Valley, N. Y. CPA approval was given to construction of nine other theaters, many of them drive-ins, in the largest group of theater okays in many weeks. Biggest single reason for theater approvals last week was connection with the theater by veterans of World War II. In its approvals, CPA said the theaters were "reasonably essential" and "will be owned or leased by veterans of World War II, for the conduct of business to which the veterans will devote their activities and of which they own more than 50 per cent." These approvals were for stands in Hollandale, Miss., Putney, Ga., Oklahoma City, Okla., Seekonk, Mass., and Tuscaloosa, Ala. Other approvals were for theaters in Des Arc, Ark., Farmersville, Calif., and Atlanta, Ga. I PRESS [BOOKS PHOTOOFFSET ^COLORCHROME CO HL AU! SERVICE 2 BROADWAY NEW YORK 4 ALL 4 — 3722-3-4-5-4 miMMMaa • COPYWRITING • ILLUSTRATION • PASTEUP • STORING • MAILING /? Gamplete Seboice RITA HAYWORTH does not arrive until Apr. 12. She will sail on the S.S. Veendam April 16 on a three-month good-will tour of Europe. WILLIAM FOREST CROUCH is en route to Havana to supervise location shooting for W. F. C. Productions' "Isle of Lost Women." ROCK DILONE, chief engineer of Walter Reade circuit, left for Bermuda last week with the Missus, courtesy of Reade, in honor of his 35 years of service with the organization. JACK HARRIS, of Walter Reade Theaters, and his wife, are in Miami for the next three weeks. WILLIAM HURWORTH, Paramount International general sales manager for Australia and New Zealand, and STANLEY H. CRAIG, N?w Zealand general manager, are due in San Francisco on April 30 and May 1, en route to the home office for conferences. A. L. PRATCHETT, Paramount International Latin-American division manager, is expected back from a Central-American trip tomorrow. KARIN BOOTH, who appears in M-G-M's "Unfinished Dance," will arrive from the Coast tomorrow aboard the Constellation. ARCHIBALD SILVERMAN, owner of the Strand, Providence, R. I., is en route to Havana for a vacation. JAMES NEWCOM, chief film editor for Hunt Stromberg, is due from the Coast this week with the master print of "Personal Column." P. J. DEE, Alliance Circuit prexy, has returned to Chicago from a Hollywood trip. ROBERT CUMMINGS comes into town from Florida tomorrow. LESTER COWAN is in town until tomorrow for UA conferences. EDDIE CLINE, Monogram director, is in Manhattan to direct the Broadway show "Heads or Tails," which opens late this month after a four-day out-of-town tryout. Mersereau Returning to Office After Accident Don Mersereau, associate publisher and general manager of The Film Daily and Radio Daily, returns to his desk today after an absence of approximately 10 weeks occasioned by injuries received in an auto accident. Mersereau was struck by a hit-run car while returning to his home on the night of Jan. 29, sustaining a bad fracture of the left leg. Subsequently, he underwent an operation at Doctors Hospital. For the last several weeks, he convalesced at home. "PREVIEW ROOm" . . . will really SELL your picture. FULLY EQUIPPED for 35MM, 16MM, and Slide Projection. 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