The Film Daily (1947)

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m WW DAILY Tuesday, April 8, 1947! Vol. 91, No. 68 Tues., Apr. 8, 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; ] 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 — Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. SYDNEY— Bowden Fletcher, 19 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. W. Phone. UY 2110. BRUSSELS— Jean Pierre Meys. 110 Rue des Paquerettes. COPENHAGEN— John Lindberg, Jembanealle 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. finnncitiL (Mon., Apr. 7) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Bell & Howell 195/8 '9% 195/8 Bell & Howell pfd. .105 105 105 East. Kodak 2393/4 239V2 239 V4 Gen. Prec. Eq 21 Vz 21 Vs 21 </8 Loew's, Inc 23 V4 23 23 Paramount 27V8 265/8 26V8 RKO 135/8 1334 135/8 Republic Pict 73/8 7 7 Republic Pict. pfd. 13V2 13V2 13'/2 20th Century-Fox .33 32V, 32'/, 20th Century-Fox ppf.l03V, 10T/8 10V/S Universal Pict 26V4 25V4 2534 Universal Pict. pfd. 85V4 85V4 85V4 Warner Bros 153/8 15V8 15'/s NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. . . . 4V4 414 4'/4 RKO 33/4 35/8 3% Sonotone Corp 35/s 33/8 3V, Technicolor 1434 143,4 1434 Trans-Lux 4y8 4'/8 4V8 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Cinecolor 5% Pathe 6'/2 Net dig % i/4 % Vi % — Vs + % — V4 + V, — V, + 1V4 — Vs — Vb — Vs — Vs Vs Asked 5% m MERVIN ASH & CO. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Statistical information on listed and un listed securities available upon request. Telephone HAnover 2-3050 61 BROADWAY NEW YORK "Dickey" Foy Funeral Services Held in Dallas Dallas, Tex. — Requiem mass for Richard E. "Dickey" Foy, 42, son of the late Eddie Foy, and manager of the Palace Theater here, was solemnized yesterday at the Sacred Heart Cathedral. Interment will take olace later in the week at New Rochelle, N. Y. Foy, who died late last week of a cerebral hemorrhage, started as an actor at the age of 12 in the Seven Little Foys vaude act. Once casting director for Warners Vitaphone Studio in Brooklyn, he went to New Orleans in 1931 to manage the Globe Theater and came to Dallas in 1933 where he subsequently managed five Interstate theaters. Surviving are four brothers, Bryan Foy, Eagle-Lion vice-president; Charlie Foy, Hollywood nightclub owner; Eddie Foy, Jr., radio star; Irving Foy, Albuquerque Theater manager, and two sisters, Mrs. Madelaine Foy O'Donnell of Dallas and Mrs. Mary Foy Litel of Hollywood. Ivan Foxwell Mulls Plans for "No Room" Prod. Ivan Foxwell, British indie producer, upon his arrival here yesterday aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth, revealed that there was a possibility he might produce "No Room At the Inn" for J. Arthur Rank. The Joan Temple play which has been running for two years in London has attracted a great deal of attention, Foxwell said. Chances are, Foxwell said, that he would form his own company to produce the picture. Paul Tabori has already scripted the screen play for it. Foxwell leaves for L. A. on Friday. Cinema Lodge Will Dine Weitman, Levin Apr. 29 New York's Cinema Lodge of B'nai B'rith will fete its retiring president Jack H. Levin and welcome its incoming president, Robert M. Weitman, at a dinner for 500 at the Hotel Astor, April 29. Entertainment industry leaders will attend. Saul E. Rogers, industry attorney, is honorary chairman of the dinner; Marvin Kirsch of Radio Daily is chairman; and S. Arthur Glixon and Harry K. Wallach are cochairmen. New $2,000,000 B & K Theater Set in Toledo Toledo, O. — A new downtown theater, to cost more than $2,000,000, will be built for Balaban & Katz, whose lease on the 3,600-seat Paramount expires in June, 1948. House, to seat 2,500, will be built at Jackson and Superior Sts., and is expected to be ready by mid-1948, John Balaban, secretary-treasurer, said. B & K currently operates the Paramount and the Princess, downtown holdover house. Paper WorU Delays Schaefer-'U' Inking George J. Schaefer categorically denied yesterday persistent reports that his deal with Universal for the U. S. and Canadian re-issue rights to 350 feature pictures and an unspecified number of shorts and serials had bogged down. Schaefer said that the signing of the pact had been held up by the vast amount of paper work and checking which has to be done before the deal can be formally consummated. Phone Strike's First Day With Little Trade Effect The first day of the nation-wide telephone strike apparently had little effect u^on operations within the motion picture industry, according to a survey made by The Film Daily yesterday. Toronto — The telephone strike did not extend to Canada yesterday but film exchanges and theater circuits had difficulty in getting through phone calls to New York except in case of emergency. St. Louis — The strike of telephone workers in this area halted all toll calls and cut off the film exchanges from all but 90 theaters in the city proper. This move affected approximately 500 theaters. Rosen Joining Hellman In Drive-ins, Joy Bars Albany — Leo Rosen, with Warners for 20 years and manager of the Strand for the past five years, has resigned to become assistant general manager of Fabian-Hellman Drive-In theaters and a partner with Neil Hellman in Joy Bar, Inc. Joy Bar will open frozen custard and ice cream stands throughout the state. B'way B.O.s Pick Up With Easter Sun(ny)Day Broadway houses took it on the chin Friday and Saturday. Unexpected good weather on Easter Sunday did much to restore the bloom to anemic cash registers. Business was still perky yesterday. Wm. P. Carleton Dies Hollywood — William P. Carleton, 74, veteran stage and screen actor, died last night as a result of injuries received last Thursday when struck by an automobile. REEVES SOUND STUDIOS, INC. 1600 BROADWAY . N. Y. 19 • Circle 6-6686 Complete Film and Disc Recording Facilities COfllMG and G0II1G i BARBARA STANWYCK and ROBERT TAYLO leave for the Coast today. HERBERT J. YATES, SR.( JAMES R. GRAINGEf and WILLIAM M. SAAL, of Republic, left N:v York last night for Chicago. BURT BALABAN, of the Paramount tele vision department, left for Chicago «^erday on a business trip. He returns at tlp^E1 ° the week. ^^ ALPHONSE BRISSON leaves New York for Hollywood where he will serve as pondent for both La Cinematographie caise and Le Monde of Paris. AL O. BONDY, distributor of GE films, has returned to New York from a mid-Western trip. CHARLES EINFELD, Enterprise president, is due in New York from Hollywood Friday. ROBERT TAPLINGER, Enterprise ad-publicity chairman, arrives from the Coast tomorrow. TED R. GAMBLE, ATA board chairman, goes to Louisville, Ky., Saturday to be the Army Day dinner speaker there. PAUL BRODER, president of Broder Releasing Co., is due from Detroit today. ARTHUR B. KRIM, Eagle-Lion president, leaves for the Coast today for conferences with production chief, Bryan po«, ALFRED W. SCHWALBERG, E-L vice-president and sales head; Max E. YOUNGSTEIN. ad-Dublicity-exploitation director; and JERRY PICKMAN, publ'city manager, will join Krim later in the week. WILLIAM C. GEHRING, 20th-Fox Central rales manager, accompanied bv JACK BLOOM, \is holding a sales meeting in Chicago. CAROL BRANDT, Eastern story head for M-G-M, returnofl yesterday from a three-week visit to the studios. E. J. MANNIX, M-G-M studio production executive, arrived yesterday from the Coast for home office conferences. BEN GOETZ, M-G-M production head in England, git in from the Coast yesterday with MRS. GOETZ. They are due to return to London on the S.S. Queen Elizabeth. H. M. RICHEY, exhibitor relations' head for M-G-M, got back yesterday from Auburn, Ind., whrre he attended the funeral of his motherin-law. EDWIN W. AARON, Metro's assistant general sales manoger, has delayed his return from Miami until today. IDA BELLE HICKS, amusements' editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, will arrive in Hollywood on Monday for a two-week stay, stopping at the Beverly Hills Hotel. RAYMOND MASSEY left New York over the week-end for the Coast. JERRY WALD, Warners' producer; DELMER DAVES, director, and DAVID GOODIS, wrter, ire in New York for a few dnys after surveying Boston locations for "Up Until Now." MICHAEL CURTIZ flew back to Warners' studios on Sunday from New York. WALTER MIRISCH, Monogram producer, is here to scout Broadway talent to star in his next production, "I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes." and attend the New York opening of his "Fall Guy." JACK H. LEVIN, vice-president and general manager of Confidential Reports, and JULES WILLING, branch operations head, have returned to New York from Atlanta. HAROLD L. GROVES, national field director for Confidential Reports, has returned to his desk after having completed a nationwide tour of branches. ^NORMAN ELSON, Trans-Lux vxe-president, returned yesterday from Mexico City. ■ / / Did You Know That Our SCREENING ROOM is once more available for your use? Modern . . . airconditioned . . . R.C.A. High Fidelity Sound and Simplex Projectors . . . Can We "Show" You? Call: Circle 6-0081-2-3-4 Film Storaae and Service BONDED FILM STORAGE Co., Inc. 1800 BROADWAY. N. Y. C. ' '