The Film Daily (1948)

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13% DAILY Friday, April 9, 1948 $1,357,128 ASCAP "Take" from Theaters (Continued from Page I) 1947 from radio stations and the networks. ASCAP's total gross for the year, Taylor reported, was $10,694,uOO, a rise of $805,000 over 1946. The Society's net income for the past year was $8,416,541, a gain of Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — The House Judiciary Committee yesterday lacked a quorum and failed to consider the Lewis bill to wipe out the ASCAP seat tax. It is likely that measure — adversely reported by the subcommittee on copyrights — will come up next week. BEfiiius m mm funis 5,000. Operating expenses of the Society were reported at $2,232,000 for 1947. Membership now stands at 2,284, split between 334 publishers and 1,950 writers. Taylor in his report noted that music for television was still free, but with a 30-day cancellation clause maintained by the Society. An arrangement covering music charges for tele is being formulated and will be submitted to the writer members before negotiations are started with video interests, it was said. SIMPP Members Advance Mulvey for Presidency (Continued from Page 1) Samuel Goldwyn Prods who represented the independents in the discussions leading to the British tax settlement, to take the post, but there is no indication at this time as to whether Mulvey would accept. Mulvey's impressive performance both in the London discussions and in interpreting the provisions of the settlement to SIMPP members has convinced the majority of the organization of the obvious advantages of selecting a leader from among its own ranks. Homebuilders See 'Mr. Blcmdings' Wastlngton Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Thirty officers and directors of the National Association of Homebuilders from all parts of the country will be guests of SRO at a special screening of "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" here today. Rowe Leaves Republic Sydney (By Air Mail) — Ray Rowe has resigned as Australian rep. for Republic and will take up farming. DEATHS C. V. SCHOFIELD, 57, owner-operator of ElDckhawk Theater, Lansing, la., in LaCrosse, Wis. MRS. J. B. STEIN, wife of the owner of the Garfield Theater, Terre Haute, Ind. "The Lady From Shanghai" with Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles Columbia 87 Mins. TENSE, UNORTHODOX DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT; HAYWORTH -WELLES TEAM HIGH VOLTAGE COMBINATION THAT SHOULD LINE 'EM UP LONG AND LENGTHILY. Produced and written by Orson Welles, "The Lady From Shanghai" is tense dramatic entertainment loaded with surprises and departing vividly from orthodox treatment. Each time Welles does a film he composes a complete new text on the form. His new bag of tricks on display is inventive, imaginative, full of surprises. Additionally it is an editing and cutting job the like of which has not been seen in some time. Capturing the attention of the viewer, Welles keeps it rivited on his story and he constantly uncovers new developments in technique to keep optical senses alert. His handling of dialogue gives a fine naturalism constantly. Soundtrack and lens make the proceedings very real. Plot, based on Sherwood King's novel, is a whodunit with courtroom scenes that departs strikingly from the general form. It begins in Central Park and ends up in a Pacific Coast amusement park. Welles took his troupe into a dozen novel, picturesque and interesting places. They are all the more interesting because they are so unusual. Playing an Irish sailor, Welles is hired by Everett Sloane, husband to Rita Hayworth. Slcane is a strange character, a criminal lawyer paralyzed in his legs. Yachting party heads for California via the Canal. En route Welles becomes enamoured on Miss Hayworth and Glenn Anders, Sloane's law partner, comes aboard. It is a suspicious, confusing game that is played bv all hands and while Miss Hayworth disports in costume and manner to please the male spectator and give the females ideas, it soon comes out that the law partners are not adverse to a little illegality. The Welles-Hayworth liaison is threatened by planted observers and intruders. But on arriving in San Francisco the lovers make plans to run away. Welles is offered $5,000 by Anders to assist in framing a disappearance act intended to resemble murder. The carefully thought out setup misfires. Anders is killed. Welles learns he is the fall guy for the murder. He's arrested, faces trial. He fakes an attempt at suicide, escapes from the courtroom. Miss Hayworth later catches up with him and then in short order developments mount to a powerful climax that takes place in a "Crazy House" at the amusement park. This last business is a highly original shooting treatment done in a trick mirror chamber. A literate Irishman, Welles draws parallels in which self destruction is the chief thought. Seems he once saw a school of sharks kill themselves off and he is inclined to think humans have similar voracious instincts. As events transpire he is quite right. CAST: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Slcane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, Gus Schilling, Carl Frank, Louis Merrill, Evelyn Ellis, Harry Shannon, Wong Show Chong, Sam Nelson. CREDITS: Production and screenplay by Orson Welles; Associate producers, Richard Wilson, William Castle; Photography, Charles Lawton, Jr.; Musical score, Heinz Roemhold; Music director, M. W. Stoloff; Based on a novel by Sher "Hatter's Castle" with Deborah Kerr, James Mason Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams Paramount 90 Mins. RISKY, DATED BRITISH NUMBER HAS LITTLE OF ANYTHING TO RECOMMEND. Spawned in the dark English days of 1541, "Hatter's Castle" has been dusted off and removed from the shelf no doubt to capitalize on present day name values of the cast. To familiars of British product the leads are now esteemed playing talent. It would seem to be a questionable practice for an exhibitor to trade a definitely dated film of little merit for a gullible public's avid desire to spend its money, be disappointed and so threaten a noticeable upgrade tendency in British film acceptance here. Dissecting small town Scottish life, the A. J. Cronin story shows how an ambitious tyrant provokes tragedy that decimates his family and brings about his demise. A shopkeeper-hats-'James Brodie" is a snob who trades on similarity of his name with the local peerage and the quality patronage of his store. His family life is brutal, domineering. He keeps them under thumb constantly, they fear him considerably. As a diversion he has the local barmaid for a mistress. In time his daughter is seduced by a scoundrel. She becomes pregnant, is cast out. His wife, ill many years, dies of cancer and heartbreak after he brings his mistress home as housekeeper. His son fails at school. "Brodie" goes berserk, smashes his shop. When he learns of his son's failure at school he goes to thrash him but finds the boy a suicide. His home, "Hatter's Castle," he feels is responsible for his misfortune. He sets it ablaze, and dies in it. After he is buried his expelled daughter, ostracized by the townspeople, finds haven with a young doctor. Direction is heavy handed. Performances bear this out. CAST: Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Henry Oscar, Beatrice Varley, Anthony Bateman, June Holden, Brefni O'Rourke, George Merritt, Lawrence Hanray, Roddy Hughes, Claude Bciley, Mary Hinton, Ian Fleming, David Keir, Aubrey Mallalieu. CREDITS: Producer, I. Goldsmith; Director, Lance Comfort; Based on a novel by A. J. Cronin; Screenplay, Paul Merzbach, R. Bernaur; Scenario, dialogue, Rodney Ackland; Sound, A. W. Watkins, C. C. Stevens; Art direction, James Carter; Editor, Douglas Robertson; Production management, E. J. Holding, V. Permane; Music, Horace Shepherd; Photography, Max Greene. DIRECTION, Second Rate. PHOTOGRAPHY, Fairly Good. UST Readying Television For Use in Theaters (Continued from Page 1) Hoge, is now producing a new $2,495 receiver which projects a picture three by four feet under normal lighting conditions. New model uses a special metal screen developed by the company. AFP Consolidates Editorial and executive departments of American Film Producers have been consolidated in new offices at 1600 Broadway, Lawrence A. Glesnes, executive producer, has announced. Record of 14 Indies Working on Col. Lot (Continued from Page 1) who will make "Knock on Any Door' and "Tokyo Joe," both starring Bogart. Other independent units/"-.rking on the Columbia lot inclu\^ V'3eckwith Corp. (Rita Hayworth), Sidney Buchman Pictures, Harry Joe Brown's Sage Western Pictures, Robert Rossen Productions, Philip Yordan Productions, Edward Small, Signet Productions (Irving Cummings, Sr. and Jr.); Jerrold T. Brandt, Tony Owen, Gene Autry, Harry Romm, Sam Katzman's Esskay Productions and Cinopera, Inc. (Gregor Rabinovich) which is working in Rome. Two pictures on Columbia's 1948 schedule were made by Benedict Bogeaus. wood King; Editor, Viola Lawrence; Art, Stephen Gooson, Sturges Carne; Sets, Wilbur Menefee, Herman Schocnbrun; Sound, Lodge Cunningham. DIRECTION, Excellent. PHOTOGRAPHY, Top. Lower Income Homes, Not Rich, Buy Most Video Sets (Continued from Page 1) division of WPIX, The News tele | vision station. Only 26.5 per cent of the 31,755 ' home receivers in the New York viewing area were in the higher income neighborhoods, it was revealed. The survey, conducted under the supervision of B. O. Sullivan, commercial manager of the station, declared that families in the lower income groups have always found ways to buy something expensive if it appeals to their imagination, comfort or amusement. "Sixty per cent of the receivers were found in the middle income level and the two lowest income groups accounted for more sets than did the highest," the survey said. Of the area covered, 53 per cent of the receivers were in the city, with 47 per cent in the suburbs. Armstrong Files for Experimental Tele Permit Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Major Edwin H. Armstrong yesterday filed an application with FCC for an experimental television permit to operate on the 480-500 me. channel at Alpine, N. J. Expenditure of about $100,000 was anticipated with extensive utilation of the laboratory, transmitter and other facilities and structures at Alpine planned. Power of 50 kilowatts was asked. CHARTERED REPUBLIC PICTURES OF CUBA, INC.', New York, with capital of $10,000 in $100 shares, three shares subscribed, to distribute motion pictures. Chartered at Albany by T. R. Black, Syril Cosner, Milton Green. EASTLAND THEATER CORP., Fairmont, W. Va. Capitalized at S25,000; $15,000 paid-in; incorporated by John S. Urse, Joseph Morrone and William Reese, all of Fairmont. CREATIVE SALES, INC., New York, with capital of 100 shares no par value stock, three shores subscribed, to distribute motion pictures. Chartered at Albany by Harry H. Pollack, Leah McEvelia, Lillian Heisler. !