The Film Daily (1948)

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■■■■ €r *\ DAILY Wednesday, April 7, 1948 Vol. 93, No. 67 Wed., April 7, 1948 10 Cts. 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. 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 Willi, Manager MIS Hollywood Blvd. Phono: Granite 6607 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older (417 Dahlenega Rd. Phone: Wisconsin 3271 CHICAGO BUREAU Jeeep* Eeler, Chief C. L. Eslei 8241 N. Oakley Ave. Phone: Briargate 7441 STAFF CORRESPONDENTS LONDON— Ern«8t W. Fredman, The Filed Renter. 127-133 Wardour St.. W. 1. HAVANA— Mary Louise •Utnw, Virtudes 214. BOMBAY — Ram L. (iogts*. KlUb Mahal. 196 Hornby Rd.. Fort, Bombay 1. ALGIERS — Paul Baffar, Filmafrlc. 8 Rue Charraa. MONTREAL— Ray Carmlchael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xarler St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy. 411 Lyric D HnAlKIAL (April 6) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Am. Seat 19 19 19 Bell & Howell 21 V4 21 1/4 21 1/4 Columbia Piers, vtc. 123,4 12'/2 12y2 East. Kodak 44 43 j/2 43% do pfd 174'/2 1741/2 1741/2 Gen. Prec. Eq 163/4 16l/2 16l/2 Loew's, Inc 19% 191/2 19S/8 Paramount 23% 23 y2 233/4 RKO •■-•-. 9% 9i/8 9i/8 Republic Pict 4 4 4 Republic Pict. pfd... 10V8 10 '/g 10'/8 20th Century-Fox 25 24% 24% 20th Cent.-Fox pfd.. 35 35 35 Universal Pict 15 15 15 Universal Pict. pfd. 64% 63% 6434 Warner Bros 133/8 13% 13% NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. . . . 3l/8 3l/8 3% RKO 23/8 Sonotone Corp 334 Technicolor 131/2 Trans-Lux S'/s Net Chg. + "% — % — Vb + V2 — % — Vs + % — "Vi '/4 21/4 33/4 13% 5% OVER THE COUNTER Cinecolor Pathe 4% 21/4 3% 13% 5% Bid 4% Asked 5% 5V4 SCREENING ROOM Oir Air Conditioned Comfortable Screening Room it part of "BONDED'! 3-WAY SERVICE" • Him Sttrwt* • Htm ttthamw Service • Air Crm4Hlon*d Scrcanfna Room NDED "WT" 1600 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY CIRCLE 6-0081-2-3-4 corainc. MID GOIDG SOL KUNKIS, industry attorney, is scheduled to sail April 29 on the Queen Elizabeth for a two-month tour of England, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany. MAURICE LIVINGSTON, vee-pee of Int'l Optima, flies to Europe via Pan-Am over the weekend for a month's sales tour through London, Paris, Rome and Madrid. TOM CONNORS, who has just organized Tom Connors Associates, leaves for Miami Beach Saturday to attend the Variety convention. MANNY REINER, SRO Latin American sales manager, leaves for Havana early next week. HARRY RAPF, M-G-M producer, and his wife will leave the Coast April 15 for New York. CHATHAM STRODE, British author and playwright who has been at the M-G-M studios on a writing assignment, will leave Hollywood with his wife April 23 and sail April 29 on the Queen Elizabeth for London. FRANK CAPRA will arrive from Washington the latter part of the week. RALPH W. MAW has returned to Minneapolis after a month at the Metro home office. RUDY BERGER is due back in Washington Monday after a Miami vacation. TED R. GAMBLE has returned to his home in Portland, Ore., but expects to return to New York in mid-April. WILL HOLLANDER has returned to Chicago from Florida. Allan Quits Cineguild For Indie Production London (By Cable) — Anthony Havelock Allan, producer member of the Cineguild team, has broken with J. Arthur Rank to go with Constellation Films as an indie producer. Allan will make "The Small Voice" as the first of a program of four at Riverside studios for release thru British Lion. Explaining his break, Allan said he regards increasing production costs the greatest danger to U. K. production, and he feels that an indie, unhampered by large overheads and policy considerations, has the best chance of operating on an economic basis. Brisson Here on Hunt For IA 'Names/ Stories Frederick Brisson, president of Independent Artists, is here from the Coast to put the company's production expansion plans into effect. Specifically, Brisson will seek new names and properties to add to the program. Company's third pic will be "Madly in Love," an original starring Rosalind Russell. Shooting starts late in the year. Chi. contingent to Varietv Clubs' Miami Beach convention will include JACK ROSE, SAM LEVINSOHN and IRVING MACK. B. SCHIMMEL, Bell & Howell export manager, is on a South American trip. VAN NOMIKOS and SEYMOUR SIMON have returned to Chicago from New York. LOU HARRIS of Alliance circuit is in Kennewick, Wash. JAMES GREGORY has returned to Chicago from Hot Springs. EMIL STERN is back in Chicago from Palm Springs. EDDIE SILVERMAN has arrived on the Coast from Chicago. S. J. GREGORY is looking over Alliance's Indiana situations. CLAUDE RUBENS and son, BOB, are in Florida from Chicago. RUSSELL JANNEY goes to Indianapolis Saturday. CLEMENT S. CRYSTAL returns by air to New York today from Lima, Peru. ROLAND CULVER upon completion of "Isn't It Romantic?" departs for England. BING CROSBY and DIXIE LEE head East for Pittsburgh and New York in two weeks, arriving in Pittsburgh for the Pirates-Reds opener April 19. EDWARD M. SCHNITZER is on a trip to Gloversville, Albany and Buffalo. He is being accompanied by his assistant, ABE DICKSTEIN. INGRID BERGMAN is here from the Coast. Stopping at the Waldorf-Astoria. E. C. GRAINGER, of Shea Circuit, returns today after six weeks at Fort Lauderdale, Flo., with MRS. GRAINGER and daughter. JOE ESLER, chief of THE FILM DAILY Chicago bureau, and C. L. ESLER have returned from an extended Texas trip. BILL BEIN of National Screen Service, Chicago, has left for Miami Beach to attend the Variety convention. CHARLES M. REAGAN returned to his Paramount desk yesterday after a stay of two weeks in Hollywood. Arbiter Rejects Plea of Teague, Tex., Exhibitor Dallas — Arbitrator here had dismissed the demand of W. B. Henderson, operator of the Lee Theater, Teague, for a division of product or the reduction of the 60-day clearance enjoyed in that city. Arbitrator said Lee had been getting pictures on competitive basis without favor by distribs. 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