The Film Daily (1948)

DAILY Friday, April 2, 1948 Vol. 93, No. 64 Fri. , Apr 2, 1948 lOCts. 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, Ne'w York 18, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc J. W. Alicoate, President; Donald M. Merser eau. Vice President and Treasurer; Patt, 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 Film day. New York. WEST COAST OFFICES Ralph Wllk. Manager 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phono: Granite 6607 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older 6417 Dahlonesa Rd. Phone: Wisconsin 3271 CHICAGO BUREAU Jetoph Esler, Chief C. L. Esler (241 N. Oakley Ave. Phone: Brlargate 7441 8TAFF CORRESPONDENTS LONDON— Ernest W. Fredmao, The Film Benter. 127-138 Wardour St.. VV. 1. HAVANA— Mary Louise Blanco. Vlrtudes 214. BOMBAY — Bam L. Gogtay. KlUb Mshtl, 190 Hornby Rd.. Fort. Bomb*; L ALGIERS — Paul Saffar. Filmafric, 8 Boe Charraa. MONTltEAL— Bay Carmlchael. Boom 9, 464 Francis Xavler St. VANCOUVEB — Jack Droy. 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. SYDNEY — Bowden Fletcher. 19 Mooton A?e.. Punchbowl, N. 8. Phone, UY 2110. BBUS8F.L8 — Jean Pierre Meyi. 110 Bu« det Paquerette*. COPENHAGEN — John Llndbent, Jernbanealle No, 8. Copenhagen-Van Loese. BOMB— John Perdlcari. Via Ludorlsl 16. Phone. 42758. MEXICO CITY — Latin American News Service. Humboldt 49. SHOWILMG FILMS IN POLAR AREA Motion pictures recently broke into thePolar Region and have become popular there, Seymour Moses, Loew1 s International manager for Finland, reported. Armand Lohikoski , 16 mm. representative, recently signed a longterm contract with a Finnish 16 mm. exhibitor who began weekly shows in Ivalo, about 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. AMPA ELECTS AMPA's formal election of officers for the 1948-49 season took place at a business meeting in the Headquarters Restaurant , Friday. Max E. Youngstein is the new prexy. STRIKE HEARINGS ON COAST Washington— Chairman Carroll D. Kearns of the House Labor Sub-committee investigating the Hollywood strike indicates hearings may be held in Hollywood within the next six weeks in addition to the scheduled May 17 sessions here. FABIAN IN UJA POST Si Fabian will head the Greater Hew lork amusement division for the UJA drive, it is announced by Barney Balaban, national chairman. Fabian has called a luncheon meeting for the chairman's committee of industry leaders for the Hotel Astor Tuesday. PIX BENEFITS IN ERP UNCLEAR Washington— ^Although study :s being given to that section of EBP which provides the administrator a $15,000,000 fund to aid informatio n and propaganda media in telling the story of America in ERP nations, no details on its potential value to the pix industry are yet known at MPAA.. There is no chance that the fund will be enlarged beyond the comparatively small sum of $15,000,onn. TOA TO TACKLE BAD REPORTING TOA in its public relations program new underway will concern itsel* with the "bad reporting" and the "bad comment" films are receiving from certain segments of the press and radio, according to Ted R. Gamble, TOA prexy. TOA* s goal will be objective and honest reporting, with elimination of the sensationalism that plagues the industry, Gamble indicated. CIRCUITS BACK PAL WITH COIN Police Commissioner Arthur Wal lander, Deputy Commissioner James Nolan & License Commission er Ben Fielding addressed yesterdayTs ITQkmeeting on behalf of the current drive for funds to support the Police Athletic League. Substantial contributions were made by metropolitan indie and affiliated circuits. C. C. Moskowitz is chairman of the drive* s industry phase. DRAW MUSIC ON SOUND TRACK Experimental sound films which used neither camera, mike nor sound recording equipment will be demonstrated by Norman McLaren, formerly heading the Canadian Film Board animation dep't, at 20thFox Monday under MPAA auspices. Music on film's sound track was drawn with fine pen under magnification, it was disclosed by McLaren. 65,000,000 Tele Audience DEATHS MAX MARCIN, 68, film writer, dramatist, in Tucson, Ariz. Chi cage— Television in two years time will have a U. S. audience approximating 65,0llPX)0, Joseph H. Ream, CBS vice prexy, told the Chi cago Federated Advertising Club yesterday. Ream disclosed that CBS by the end of 1949 would have a line of video communication running from Boston to Richmond at the East Coast, and west of Chiago, Milwaukee and St . Louis. Later, connecting links to Los Angeles and other large population centers in the far West would reach thru the southern tier of states embracing such cities as Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmi ngham , Shrevepo r t , Dallas and Fort Worth. Another transcontinental link would incorporate such northern route cities as Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. Noting that tele sets increased eight times from February, 1947, to February, 1948, with production now at a monthly rate of 35,000, Ream asserted set ownership in five years will have reached 50$ of saturation point in country* s larger markets having tele service. Hfe