The Film Daily (1947)

IKE DAILY Wednesday, April 16, 1947< Vol.91, N o. 74 Wed. Apr 16 1947 10 Cents JOHN W. AUCOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU c Associate nd General Publisher Manager CHESTER B. BAHN Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sunday! 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 (Postafe 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 BIdg., 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, JernbaneaHe 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. nnnnciflL ; (Tuts., Apr. 15) ; NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Am. Seat Bell & Howell Columbia Picts Columbia Picts. pfd.. East. Kodak Gen. Prec. Eq Loew's, Inc Paramount RKO Republic Pict Republic Pict. pfd.. . . 20th Century-Fox . . . 20th Century-Fox pfd. Universal Pict Warner Bros High 17% 18 18 85 234% 20% 22 Vs 25i/8 12% 6% 13 303/4 40% 23 14% Low Close 17% 17% 17% 85 229 20% 22% 23% 12% 6 12% 29% 39% 22% 14 17% 17% 17% 85 229 20% 22% 2454 12% 6% 13 30 39% 223/4 14% Net Chg. — % — % + % — % — 5 + % — % — % + % + % + NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. RKO Sonotone Corp. . Technicolor 4% 3 3% 14 Trans-Lux 33,4 4 2% 3% 13% 3% 4% + 3 + 3% — 14 + 3% — OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Cinecolor 4% 5% Pothe 5% 6% Pa. Censor Quits Board Philadelphia — Mrs. Lucy Love, member of the state Board of Censors since 1939, has resigned as of April 1. No successor has been named as yet. cominG DUD Gome DR. HERBERT T. KALMUS, president and general manager of Technicolor Motion Picture Corp., will arrive in New York April 24, for a month's business stay. RITA HAYWORTH sails today aboard the S.S. Veendam for Rotterdam. FRANK W. CARLOW, head of a Scottish circuit, who has been visiting in Hollywood, left yesterday for New York en route home. N. PETER RATHVON, RKO-Radio prexy, has returned to the West Coast. LOUIS JOURDAN, French actor, is in New York. BENAY VENUTA, songstress, arrived in Manhattan from the Coast. BOBBY BREEN arrived in New York following a tour. ABRAHAM POLANSKY, Enterprise scribe, is visiting Manhattan. RAY DAVIS, Northern district manager of Fox Inter-Mountain Theaters, returned to Denver yesterday after holding a week-end meeting in Cheyenne, Wyo., in connection with the local world premiere and the Rocky Mountain Empire Preview of "Cheyenne" late next month. BOB ARMSTRONG, M-G-M studio publicist, has returned to the Coast via plane. CHARLES E. KESSNICH, M-G-M district manager with headquarters in Atlanta, is in Charlotte for a brief stay. BENN ROSENWALD, recently promoted to Boston M-G-M branch manager, is in town from Charlotte. Smallpox Vaccinations Made Available To All Film companies have made arrangements for their home office employes to be innoculated against smallpox. Managers of Broadway houses arranged for doctors to vaccinate employes at the theaters, or gave employes time off to see the doctor. Only one Broadway theater decided to send employes to the local precinct station where Board of Health personnel will administer the inoculation. Mono Regional Meet Set For Atlanta Apr. 19-20 Monogram regional meeting of all Southern exchanges will be held in Atlanta, at the Biltmore Hotel, April 19-20, with Arthur Greenblatt, Eastern sales manager presiding. Attended by branch managers from exchanges in Charlotte, Memphis, Atlanta, and New Orleans, meetings will follow similar pattern to the last New York meeting. Monogram's Dillinger' Will Be Reissued in Summer West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — "Dillinger," biggest money-maker in the history of Monogram, will be reissued this Summer, according to a decision just reached by President Steve Broidy. Film, produced by King Bros., is still registering sensational grosses in foreign first-runs. Re-release is set to follow first Chicago showing at Oriental and Biograph theaters May 29. Two WB May Releases Warners will release "Love and Learn," May 2, and "The Two Mrs. Carrolls," May 24. KARIN BOOTH left for the Coast yesterday after two weeks in town on vacation. WILLIAM R. FERGUSON, M-G-M exploitation head, returned yesterday from a Boston visit over the week-end. SILAS F. SEADLER, M-G-M advertising head, is due back Monday by plane from the Coast where he vacationed at Palm Springs and spent a week at the studio. HERMAN LEVY, general counsel of the MPTOA, is in town from New Haven. EDWARD M. SCHNITZER, Eastern and Canadian sales manager for UA, left New York last night for Scranton, Pa. He will proceed from there to Buffalo. JOHN ROBERTS, booker for the Comerford Theater circuit, with headquarters in Scranton, Pa., and MRS. ROBERTS are vacationing in Los Angeles until Apr. 26, stopping at the Ambassador Hotel. WILLIAM LYON, of the M-G-M studio publicity department, arrives from the Coast on April 22. ROBERT NATHAN, M-G-M writer, is due from the Coast Apr. 23. W. C. KUNZMAN, National Carbon Company, is due in Chicago today to take personal charge of convention arrangements. VAN HEFLIN has returned to the Coast from New York. BING CROSBY and GROUCHO MARX are in Chicago this week. JENNIFER JONES resumed her Hollywood trip ofter illness while at Chicago's Ambassador Hotel. Harry Kalmine Holds Meeting in Cleveland Cleveland, O. — Harry M. Kalmine, general manager of Warners Theaters, accompanied by W. Stewart McDonald, vice-president and Rudolph Weiss, head of the circuit's real estate department, arrived here yesterday from New York to conduct a meeting of managers and other zone executives in Nat Wolf's territory. On their way back to the home office today, Kalmine and Weiss will stop off in Pittsburgh for a brief session with Moe Silver, zone manager in that area. Bercovici's $5,000,000 Chaplin Suit to Trial Trial of the $5,000,000 damage action brought by Conrad Bercovici against Charles Chaplin is scheduled to be started in N. Y. Federal Court tomorrow. Bercovici is suing for a share of the profits of "The Great Dictator," alleging that he submitted material whic>> was incorporated in the feature. 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 Storage and Service BONDED FILM STORAGE Co., Inc. mnn BROADWAY. N. Y. C. Trade Leaders on Dais At Cinema Lodge Dinner Entertainment industry leaders i eluding Barney Balaban, Jack Coh Malcolm Kingsberg, Herman Ro bins, Leonard Goldenson, Har Brandt, Si H. Fabian, Max A. Cohe Sam Rinzler, Maurice A. Bergma A. J. Balaban and others, will occur the dais when New York's Cinen Lodge of B'nai B'rith welco new president, Robert M. and pays tribute to its retirin ident, Jack H. Levin, at a dinner the Hotel Astor April 29. Leading stars of screen, stag radio and night clubs will provide tl ; entertainment according to Marv Kirsch, Radio Daily business ma ager, who is chairman of the dinne [•inj^pre Harold Russell To Become Honorary Ampa Member As a tribute to ex-GIs who ha adopted the motion picture ad-pu licity field as their life's work, honorary membership in AMPA w be presented to Harold Russell, Aca emy Award winner, at Ampa's 30 anniversary dinner-dance at t Hotel Astor on April 23. President Rutgers Neilson sa yesterday that prominent Hollywo star personalities had been invited grace the dais for the gala occasic . Walders Takes Over RKC Cleveland Managership Cleveland, O. — Harry Walde Monday took over as local RE branch manager, having been pi moted from city salesman in the CI cago office. Walders suceeds Al K itz who has been promoted to Roc Mountain district manager. Me BANK OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY ank oC Atnctrica NATIONAL IKtt. o» ASSOCIATION MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM