The Film Daily (1947)

<^ Friday, October 17, 1947 DAILY Vol. 92, N 0. 76 Fri. , Oct 17, 1947 10 Cts. JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU Associate and Genera Publisher Manager CHESTER B. BAHN : Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays fad Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. y. W. Alicoate, President; Donald M. Mersertau. 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. WEST COAST OFFICES Ralph Wilk, Manager 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone: Granite 6607 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older. Chief Manning Clagett 6417 Dahlonega Rd. 2122 Decatur PI.. NW Phone: Wisconsin 3271 Phone: Hobart 7627 CHICAGO BUREAU loseph Esler. Chief . C. L.,Esler 6241 N. Oakley Ave. Phone: Bnaraate 7441 STAFF CORRESPONDENTS LONDON — Ernest W. Fredraan, The Film Eenter, 127-133 Wardour St.. W. 1. HAVANA — Mary Louise Blanco. Virtudes 214. BOMBAY— Ram L. Gogtay, Kitab Mahal. 190 Hornby Rd., Fort, Bombay 1. ALGIERS— Paul Saffar, Filmafrlc, 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL — Ray Carmirhael, 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 Paquercttes. COPENHAGEN — John Lindberg. Jembanealle No. 3. Copenhagen-Van Loese. ROME — John Perdicari, Via Ludovisl 16. Phone. 42758. MONTEVIDEO— Dr. Walter Schuck, Cerrito 597. MEXICO CITY— Latin American News Service. Humboldt 49. Phones: Mexicana 35-79-87. Ericsson, 18-30-90. BUDAPEST— Andor Lajta, Filmmuveszeti Evkonyv. Thokoly-ut 75. Budapest, XIV. STOCKHOLM— Gilbert Gels. Erstagaten 18 (HI). HONOLULU— John WlUlams. Phone. 542594. nnnnciiiL : (Orf. 16) : NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Am. Seat Bell & Howell Columbio Picts. vtc. East. Kodak Gen. Prec. Eq Loew's, Inc Paramount RKO Republic Pict Republic Pict. pfd. . 20th Century-Fox 20th Cent. -Fox ppf.. Universal Pict Universal Pict. pfd.. Warner Bros High 191/2 241/2 16% 4S5/S 18 203/4 23% 123/8 51/8 12 275/8 991/4 1334 701/2 14% Low Close 19 191/8 24 243/8 16% 16% 451/4 453/8 1 73^ 18 201/2 201/2 231/2 23% 12% 121/8 51/8 5% 111/2 111/2 271/s 271/4 991/4 991/4 183/4 183/4 70 701/2 141/2 141/2 Net Chg. — 1/8 + 3/8 + % + 1/4 — % -■■1/2 + Vs + 1/4 — 1/4 — 1/4 — 1/4 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. . . . 4% RKO 31/2 Sonotone Corp iV4 Technicolor 13% Trans-Lux 43^ 4 33/8 41/8 13 41/4 4 33/8 41/8 13 1/8 43/8 — % — 1/4 + 1/4 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Cinecolor Sl/i 8I/2 Pathe 33/4 41/2 AA's "Fifth Ave.," "Gold' Booked for Loew Circuit Allied Artists' "It Happened On Fifth Avenue" and "Black Gold" will play the Loew circuit beginning Nov. 12, it was learned yesterday. Pair will play the long half of that week. cominc flno goirg STUART H. AARONS of Warners legal staff was in Philadelphia yesterday. JOHN JOSEPH, U-I's ad-publicity-exploitation director, arrives from the Coast Tuesday. BEN BURKE of Boxoffice Attractions is in New York from Hollywood. MRS. GLADYS B. PIKE, president of Film Truck Service, Detroit, will represent National Film Carriers at the American Trucking Association convention in Los Angeles the week of Oct. 26. WANDA HENDRIX, featured in Universal's "Ride The Pink Horse," left New York last night for Jacksonville, Fla. EDITH HEAD, Paramount studio fashion designer, leaves for New York on Oct. 23 by plane for a two weeks stay, surveying the fashion and fabric fields. TOM WALLER, MPAA New York public information exec, goes to Washington tomorrow. SAM SHIRLEY, special M-G-M home office sales rep., has returned to New York from a business trip to Hawaii. PETER LAWFORD is in town from the Coast, on vacation. JAMES K. McGINNESS, M-G-M studio executive, is due from Hollywood Monday. M. L. SIMONS, assistant to H. M. Richey, M-G-M exhibitor and public relations head, returns Monday from Memphis. WILLIAM B. ZOELLNER, head of M-G-M shorts sales and reprints and importations, is due back Monday from a Southern vacation. KEN PRICKETT, M-G-M field exploiteer, is due next week from New Orleans for home office conferences. CEDRIC GIBBONS is due from the Coast today. DENNIS O'KEEFE, star of Eagle Lion's "T-Men," is en route to the Coast. LEWIS W. DOUGLAS, U. S. Ambassador to Great Britoin, leaves for the U. K. this evening, aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth. Shipmates are: GEN. DAVID SARNOFF, RCA president; and SIR SIDNEY CLIFT, former president of the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association, and LADY CLIFT. Seek Clearance Adjustment Via Arbitration Demand Norman Bialek and Martin Fessler, operating the Astor Theater in North Bergen, N. J., have filed an arbitration demand with the New York tribunal, naming all of the five majors as parties. Complainants, maintaining that their house is not in substantial competition with certain theaters granted clearance, ask elimination or reduction to one day of clearances enjoyed by the Temple, Union City; Rialto, West New York; and Alvin, Guttenberg. Also requested is a reduction to one day of the clearance enjoyed by the Mayf air in West New York, N. J. Astor owners demand further that pictures be made available to them not later than 24 days after the Embassy in North Bergen or Capitol, Union City, whichever is sooner. ATO of N. J. to Hold Luncheon Meet Oct. 21 Allied Theater Owners of New Jersey will hold a luncheon meeting at the Newark Athletic Club, Newark, N. J., on Tuesday. Ed Lachman, ATONJ president, and Irving Bollinger, National Allied eastern regional vice-president, will report to the group on the national board meeting which was held in Detroit, this week. ZACHARY SCOTT is due in New York about the middle of November for a month's stay. ROY HAINES, WB Western division sales manager, is on his way to the Coast, making several stops en route. JOHN P. BYRNE, Eastern M-G-M sales manager, has returned from a New England trip. KENNETH MacKENNA of M-G-M's studio story department leaves today for the Coast after spending a month in the East contacting publishers and editors. ROBERT LYNCH, Philadelphia M-G-M district manager, has returned to the Quaker City after a visit to the home office. ALVIN ASHER of M-G-M's studio legal department leaves for the Coast tomorrow after a brief visit to New York. ARTHUR SACHSON, general sales manager for Samuel Goldwyn Prods., will leave Sunday for Indianapolis and other Midwest cities. AUDREY TOTTER leaves the Coast next Monday for Chicago. VICTOR SAVILLE and MRS. SAVILLE leave here today for Hollywood. RUDY BERGER, M-G-M Southern sales manager, is back in his headquarters in New Orleans after visiting Oklahoma City and Dallas. WILLIAM POWELL flies to Buffalo from the Coast tomorrow to appear on the Calvalcade of America broadcast which will be held at the DuPont plant there. While in the East Powell plans to spend a week in New York. WB's Cohen, Macdonald Off Monday for Mexico Wolfe Cohen, vice-president of Warner Int'l in charge of LatinAmerica, Australia and the Far East, and Karl G. Macdonald, vice-president and sales manager for the Latin territory, leave New York on Monday by plane for Mexico City to look over company projects under way there and to confer on forthcoming releases for the country. Cohen will fly back to New York from Mexico in about a week. Macdonald goes from there to Panama and Cuba. ITOA, Mourning Bolte Postpones Meeting In reverence to the memory of John C. Bolte, veteran exhibitor, who died suddenly last Tuesday, the ITOA postponed its meeting that was scheduled for yesterday. Close to 100 ITOA members attended chapel services for Bolte last night at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Parkchester. The funeral procession starts today at 2 P.M. from the church. Carolinas TO to Mull Affiliation with TOA Charlotte, N. C— Affiliation with the Theater Owners of America will be considered Monday at a special meeting of the Theater Owners of North and South Carolina. Agenda also includes discussion of ASCAP fees and other exhibitor problems. Leroy Mason Dead West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Leroy Mason, veteran western character actor, collapsed on the Republic set and died a few hours later of a heart ailment. Normandie Seeks To File Amended Complaint vs. U. ^^< Hearing on a motion of Normandit Theater Corp. for the right to serve an amended complaint in its dispute with Universal Film Exchange anc Park Ave. Theater Corp. has beer set for Tuesday in N. Y. Supremt Court. Normandie seeks permission k, a $22,500 damage action, claimqj had an agreement to play Unive'fsa product ahead of all theaters in it: neighborhood, other than specific ex ceptions. Some months ago Norman die failed in an attempt to get a re straining order to stop Universa from playing "Canyon Passage" a the Park Ave., but claims to have additional evidence to support it claim in the damage action. I ai 'e Councils Will Sponsor Chicago Festival Winners Chicago — Winners of the Films o the World Festival, will be shown ii Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Cleve land under the sponsorship of loca film councils and the Cleveland Pub lie Library, according to Thurmai White, executive director of the Filn Council of America. An additional * request was received from a grou] ' in San Francisco. } Festival will continue on Satu^^f': days through Nov. 22. Schlaifer Breaks Return Trip for Exhib. Confabs Charles Schlaifer, 20th-Fox di rector of advertising and publicity is breaking his return trip from th' Coast by stopping off in variou Western cities for discussion wit exhibitors on "Forever Aniber,f 'Gentleman's Agreement" and "Dais Kenyon." He has been in San Fran Cisco, Denver and will stop in a Omaha and Chicago before return ing to the home office. Schlaifer ha been huddling with studio officials if k Ii a if 1 St. Louis' St. Clair Destroyed By Fire St. Louis— The 900-seat St. Clai Theater was destroyed by fire of uil determined origin early yesterdaj, Fire Chief Russell Wright estimate' the damage at $55,000 to the build ing and $20,000 to the contents. Ei; win Ditzenberg, owner, said the los was partly insured. Arnold Dickerson Dead Detroit — Arnold D. Dickerson, 6.: is dead, after a long illness. One o the oldest familiar figures on Filij Row, Dickerson started as proprie tor of the White Palace Ilieater i Pana, 111., in 1907, going to Chicag in 1909 to join a pioneer exchange He came to Detroit in 1912 and bi came salesman for Pathe, Unicoi and Universal Films, and establisl ed the Dickerson Screen Service i 1925, which he operated until hi death.