The Film Daily (1947)

m3$b DAILY Wednesday, April 9, 1947 Vol. 91, No. 69 Wed., Apr. 9, 1947 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : : : : Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate and General Publisher 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 — 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, Jernbanealle No. 3, Copenhagen-Van Loese. ROME — John Perdicari, Via Ludovisi 16. Phone, 42758. MEXICO finflnciAL ; {Tues., Apr. 8) 5 NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Bell & Howell 19'/2 191/g 19'/8 Columbia Picts 18% 18'/2 18'/2 East. Kodak 239 238 238 Gen. Prec. Eq 21 1/2 21 21 Loew's, Inc 23 1/4 23 23 Paramount 27 26V4 26% RKO 13% I31/2 131/2 Republic Pict 7 6% 6% Republic Pict. pfd... 13% 13%. 13% 20th Century-Fox ... 32% 31% 31% 20th Century-Fox pfd. 40% 40% 40% 20th Century-Fox ppf.103 103 103 Universal Pict 25% 253^ 25% Universal Pict. pfd. 841/2 84 84 Warner Bros 151/4 15% 15'/4 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. . . . 4% 4 4 RKO 3% 3% 3% Sonotone Corp 3% 3% 3% Technicolor 14% 14% 1 4 1/4 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Cinecolor 5% Pathe 6% Net Chg. — Vi — % — 1% Va — "l/4 — % — 1/4 — % — 1% — 1% — Va — 1% + Va — Va — Vi Asked 5% 7% WANTED Young lady for detail work in film ship~ ping office. One who can toke some die tatior and do typing preferrec Salary, forty dollars per week to start. Write— BOX 121, THE FILM DAILY 1501 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 18, N. Y. cominG ADD GOinG Sailing on the S.S. Queen Elizabeth today are: BEN GOETZ, Metro's London manager and his wife; HAL WALLIS, producer; JOSEPH HAZEN, prexy of Hal Wallis Prods.; LEWIS ALLEN, director, and his wife; LESLIE MITCHELL, London Films publicist, and his wife; and BEATRICE LILLIE, comedienne. EDDIE AARON, M-G-M assistant general sales manager, has returned from Florida with his wife and daughter. WILLIAM F. RODGERS, M-G-M vice-president and sales head, left for Detroit yesterday. He returns to the home office on Friday. E. W. SAUNDERS, M-G-M assistant general sales manager, is in California. He is expected back in N. Y. at the end of the week. DOROTHY LAMOUR and her husband, WILLIAM ROSS HOWARD, 3rd, will leave Hollywood today for a business and vacation trip to New York and Baltimore. E. J. MANNIX, M-G-M production executive, left for the Coast yesterday by plane after two days of home office conferences. WILLIAM B. ZOELLNER, head of M-G-M's reprints and importations, leaves the end of the week for Atlanta, Jacksonville, Fla., and Chicago. He will be gone a week. MAURICE N. WOLF, M-G-M district manager, returned to Boston yesterday after two days of home office conferences. KARIN BOOTH arrived from the Coast yesterday and will remain here until Apr. 15 before returning to the studio. JULES K. CHAPMAN, Film Classics' assistant sales manager, on a business trip to Buffalo. IRA EPSTEIN, Warners' field rep. for the Central district, is in New York for a few days, conferring at the home office. RALPH AUSTRIAN, RKO Television exec, flies in today from Mexico City. Biz Abroad Fluctuates With Weather — Johnston Box office receipts on Monogram releases currently playing in England have been drastically cut by the recent floods, according to W. Ray Johnston, Monogram board chairman who sails today on the Queen Elizabeth with Mrs. Johnston for a three months' tour of the Monogram franchise holders in the United Kingdom and the Continent. The situation abroad is fluctuating with the weather, Johnston said, and the advent of Spring should restore business. Reporting advance exploitation being shaped up on a grand scale for Allied Artists' "It Happened On Fifth Avenue," Johnston said he would be present for pic's UK premiere. Johnston will negotiate for studio space for subsequent Monogram and Allied Artists productions in England. JOSEPH R. SPRINGER, Century circuit general theater manager, has returned from a seven-day vacation. ALFRED W. SCHWALBERG leaves today for Hollywood. MILTON MOHR, Para, publicist, and ED SULLIVAN, Para. Eastern photographic depart ment chief, back from the Coast. GORDON SWARTHOUT, Paramount home office publicity exec; BILL JOHNSTON, Bob Hope's special rep., and JULIA SULLIVAN, secretary to Curtis Mitchell, Para.'s national pub-ad director, return to N. Y. Thursday. Paramount sales quota drive winners, DAVE GILPIN, THOMAS LEDGER, CLIFFORD J. COX, ASHLEY C. BATE, ALICE HOLT and NELLIE NISBET sail for England on the S.S. Queen Elizabeth today. DONALD BUKA is in New York from Hollywood. BORIS MORROS, accompanied by MRS. MORROS, leaves today aboard the S.S. Queen Elizabeth for London, where he will confer with J. Arthur Rank on releasing details for "Carnegie Hall." They plan to fly back to New York after a week's stay. CHARLES ROSS, theater, lighting expert, leaves by plane for the Coast today. Back following Monday. MANNY REINER, SRO sales rep., has arrived in Havana from Mexico City on the first leg of a swing of the Caribbean area. FRED WILCOX, M-G-M director, arrived from the Coast for a short visit. RUDOLPH WEISS, head of the Warner Bros. Theaters real estate department, and MILES ALBEN, circuit executive, leave New York today for Washington. They return the latter part of the week. BEN MARCUS, Columbia Midwest division manager, is in Minneapolis. DAVID NIVEN plans to leave for England in May. D. A. DORAN, Paramount studio production executive, is due in New York from California on April 21. VAN HEFLIN left for the Coast Monday after vacationing in the East for several weeks. HAL ROACH is in town for a week. MIKE TODD is in Chicago conferring with LENA HORNE regarding a new show. SAM HARRIS, of State Theater, Hartford, Conn., and MRS. HARRIS are vacationing in Florida. Court Reserves Decision On Cinema Time Request Wilmington, Del.— U. S. District Judge Richard S. Rodney yesterday reserved decision on the motion of Cinema Amusements, Inc., plaintiff in an anti-trust action against several major companies, to seek additional time to answer interrogatories of the defendants, Loew's, RKO and 20th-Fox. Action was originally filed in June, 1946. AN OUTSTANDING INDUSTRY EVENT! ASSOCIATED MOTION PICTURE ADVERTISERS 30th ANNIVERSARY DINNER-DANCE HOTEL ASTOR — MAIN BALLROOM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 — 7 P.M. SHARP RUTGERS NEILSON, President, Will Preside HOWARD DIETZ, Member-Guest Emcee THIS GALA AFFAIR WILL HONOR THE PRESIDENTS OF OUR INDUSTRY WHO WILL BE PRESENT FOR THE OCCASION AS WELL AS GLAMOROUS HOLLYWOOD PERSONALITIES. Admission Ten Dollars per Person (For Tickets Write or Phone — Harry McWilliams, Columbia Pictures) "Egg and I" Sets New Marks In First Dates Cobian's P. R. Circuit To Add 6 New Houses St. Louis 5% Ticket Tax Measure Dead St. Louis — Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann's proposed five per cent tax on theater tickets and other amusements died when the Board of Aldermen ended its 1946-47 session sine die. IF YOU BUY STADIUM. AMUSEMENT PARK OR % CONTACT INTERNATIONAL TICKET* 1 |||;:,:. Your needs supplied ef% \ ficienrly with Roll, Machine %. ' Folded, Reserve Seats, etc. Samples, prices on re' '* quest. % INTERNATIONAL TICKET CO. 52 GRAFTON AVE. NEWARK 4, N. J. Sales offices in New York and Principal Cities "The Egg and I" is breaking rec fl ords in Cincinnati, Detroit, Los Angeles, Louisville, Kansas City, Indianapolis, and Oklahoma City in its first engagements, according to figures received yesterday at tJBfcJJ-I home office. Mfc "The Egg and I" Easter RWday opening in these cities, according to U-I execs., is the biggest holiday business ever registered on any pic in the company's historv Highlighting the first engagements was the unprecedented six-theater Los Angeles engagement. All . records at the Keith's, Cincinnati, were broken, and a new Sunday record was established in Kansas City, where the pic j is playing simultaneously at the j Uptown, Esquire, and Fairway Theaters. New week-end records were also set at Keith's, Indianapolis, National, Louisville, Home, Oklahoma City, and Playhouse, St. Petersburg. 1 Non-Profit Film Center Formed by 100 Groups Columbus, O. — Non-profit film center to distribute and produce non-theatrical films has been organized here by representatives of 4 100 national, civic, and labor organizations. Robert Delson, former Republic counsel, is chairman of the executive committee of the center. San Juan (By Air Mail) — Cobian Theaters plans to add six new metropolitan area theaters to its string during 1947. With the circuit now including 22 houses, new theaters to be opened include the Metropolitan, Coloso, Bolivar, Borinquen, Victoria and Cobian.