The Film Daily (1948)

W'Vdaily Monday, May 17, 1948 Vol. 93, No. 95 Mon., May 17, 1948 lOCts. 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. 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 (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 6417 Dahlonega Rd. Phone: Wisconsin 3271 CHICAGO BUREAU Joseph Ester, Chief C. L. Esler 6241 N. Oakley Ave. Phone: Briargate 7441 STAFF CORRESPONDENTS LONDON — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. 1. HAVANA— Mary Louise Blanco. Tirtudes 214. BOMBAY — Ram L. Gogtay, Kitab Mahal, 190 Hornby Rd., Fort, Bombay 1. ALGIERS — Paul Saffar, Filmafric. 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL — Ray Carmiohael. Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. SYDNEY— Bovvden Fletcher, 19 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. Phone. XIY 2110. BRUSSELS— Jean Pierre Meys. 110 Rue des Paquerettes. COPENHAGEN— John Lindberg, Jernbanealle No. 3, Copenhagen-Van Loese. ROME — John Perdicarl, Via Ludovisi 16. Phone. 42758. MEXICO CITY — Jay Kaner — c/o American Chamber of Commerce — San Juan de Letran 24. fMAnCIAL {May 14) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Am. Seat 24'/2 23% 24'/2 Bell & Howell 22'/2 22/2 22'/2 Columbia Picts 12 1 1 '/•> 11% Columbia Picts. pfd.. 65 65 65 East. Kodak 455/8 43% 455/8 Gen. Prec. Eq 16 15'/2 16% Loew's, Inc 19% 18% 19% Paramount 24% 23% 243/8 RKO 9% 93/8 9% Republic Pict 3% 33/4 3% Republic Pict. pfd.. 10 9% 93,4 20th Century-Fox . . . 23% 227/8 233/8 20th Cent.-Fox pfd. 35 35 35 Universal Pict 14% 14 14% Warner Bros 12% 12% 12% NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 31/* 3% 3V4 RKO 2l/4 2% 2% Sonotone Corp 4% 4% 4% Technicolor 1534 15'/4 15% Trans-Lux 5% 5'/4 5% OVER THE COUNTER Bid Cinecolor 4% Net Chg. + 1 + 1 + V? + 2 + 1% + 1 + Vr + V4 + «/8 + '/s + V8 + % + % + % + Va + % Asked 4% 20th-Fox Stockholders to Meet Annual 20th-Fox stockholders meeting will be held at the home office tomorrow. WRITE US Eureka Productions Inc. FOR BOOKING DATES OR STATE AND WORLD RIGHTS US W. 46th St. Itarrtno MCOT LAMARR N. Y. City EcsTast coiimiG nun goihg GEORGE CHASANAS, M-G-M manager for Egypt and the Near East, and JACK GUGGENHEIM, manager for Switzerland, have arrived in New York for conferences with home office executives of Loew's Int'l. E. Z. WALTERS, Altec Service comptroller, is in New York from the Coast. MADELEINE CARROLL, left New York Saturday for Chicago, where she will be the recipient of the NCCJ's annual "Woman of the Year Award." United Artists executives attending the world premiere Saturday of "Four Faces West" in Santa Fe, N. M., included MAURY ORR, W. E. CALLAWAY, FRED JACK, and KEN MacKAIG. JOSEPH FRIEDMAN has delayed his return to his Columbia London post until mid-June. MICHAEL HAVAS, new supervisor of Latin America for RKO Radio, is en route to Buenos Aires. HAROLD WENGLER, Altec advertising manager, has returned from a trip to Bethlehem, Pa. MARC LAWRENCE is here from the Coast to appear in "The Time is Now," which Fletcher Markel is shooting in New York. GILBERT MILLER planed to London over the week-end. JOE YULE is in from the Coast to take over the title role in "Finian's Rainbow" on June 1. GEORGE MARGOLIN, president of Continental Motion Pictures, leaves for France and Italy Saturday on the SS Queen Mary. JERRY MASON, associate editor, and LOUIS BERG, entertainment editor of This Week, are due on the Coast tomorrow. JOEL McCREA and FRANCES DEE were in Santa Fe, N. M., Saturday for the dual premiere of Enterprise's "Four Faces West" at the Lensic and Burro Alley Theaters. F. A. BATEMAN, general sales manager. Screen Guild, is visiting in Kansas City, St. Louis, Oklahoma City and Dallas, returning to Hollywood on May 24. ERROL FLYNN will be in Denver today and tomorrow for p.a.'s in connection with the world premiere there of "Silver River." JOHN ABBOTT has arrived from London to visit in New York for several weeks. ALFRED CROWN of Samuel Goldwyn Prods, sails for Europe Saturday on the SS Queen Elizabeth. CECIL B. DeMILLE arrived on the Coast from Washington over the week-end. CARL BRISSON will fly to Hollywood when he closes at the Versailles here tomorrow for one day of business conferences before he goes to Chicago to open at the Hotel Blackstone next Friday. BURTON LANE is in New York from the Coast. GUSTAV WALLY sails for England on May 28. IRENE MANNING leaves for London in July and on Aug. 6 opens in Edinburgh in "Serenade," musical. DAVID A. LIPTON, U-l studio co-ordinator of ad-promotion, accompanied by FRANK ROSENBERG, associate producer of "Maneaters of Kumaon" arrived this morning from the Coast. JANIS CARTER has arrived from L. A. and is staying at the Waldorf-Astoria. SIR RALPH RICHARDSON arrives from England in early June to appear in Paramount's "The Heiress," to be made under the Liberty banner by William Wyler. MITCHELL MAY, Jr. CO., INC. INSURANCE Specializing in requirements of the Motion Picture Industry 75 Maiden Lane, New York 510 W. 6th St. Los Angeles MARTIN MURRAY, of Martin Murray Prod., is here from the Coast. He's at the Waldorf. HOWARD J. LONDON, director of radio and motion pictures for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, is in Los Angeles to attend NAB convention. O. M. PAULSON, vice-prexy and general sales manager of General Films, Ltd., of Regina, Canada, arrives in New York May 27 from London where he is a member of the Saskatchewan trade delegation to the British Industries Fair. JEANNE CAGNEY went to New Brunswick, N. J., Friday to reign as Queen of the Military Ball of Rutgers University at the invitation of Scabbard and Blade. EDWIN KNOPF, M-G-M producer; SPENCER TRACY and HOWARD STRICKLING, studio publicity chief, arrive from the Coast tomorrow and will sail May 21 on the SS Queen Mary for England to start work shortly on "Edward, My Son." GEORGE CUKOR, director, will follow in about a week or so. JESSE KAY, rep. for M-G-M records at the Culver City studios, left for the Coast yesterday after two weeks of home office confabs. RUDY BERGER, M-G-M Southern sales manager, has returned to Washington from Charlotte, after making a swing of exchanges under his supervision. C. J. FELDMAN, U-l Western division sales manager, returned from a two-weeks Coast trip over the week-end. Sauter Special Events VC For Treasury's Bond Div. James Sauter, deputy commissioner of commerce of New York City, has been named vice-chairman for special events of the Treasury's Savings Bond division, advisory committee for New York State, Lewis E. Pierson, state chairman, announced. Vice-president of Veteran Hospitals Camp Shows, and a director of the American Theater Wing, Sauter served as chairman of the entertainment industry committee for eight War Loan Drives in New York, and in a similar capacity during the war years for the American Red Cross and National War Fund. TWA Const e 11a tions set new winter performance record On its coast-to-coast and New York-Chicago routes, TWA's Constellations flew 4,377,000 miles, carried 117,000 passengers— completed 97% of scheduled mileage during one of worst winters in history! For reservations, call your TWA office or your travel agent TRANS WORLD AIRLINE U.S.A. • EUROPE • AFRICA • ASIA Burger and Lewis Back From Biz Trips Abroad Samuel N. Burger, sales manage] of Loew's Int'l., and David Lewis regional director of Continental Europe, North Africa and the MiddU East, returned to New York from Paris Friday, following extensive business trips abroad. Burger, who had been aw^,. n three months, made a swing th*ougi all M-G-M offices on the Continent and the Near East. For most of hit tour, he was accompanied by Lewi? who on this trip had been abroad continuously for the past eight months. To Screen German Films For Foreign Distributors British Information Services this week will screen for distributors of foreign films the first two German features to be made in the British Zone. Consigned to the BIS Film Section, "In Janen Tagen" and "Film Ohne Title," were produced by Camera Film Production, under license of the Control Authorities, and were exported through the Joint Export and Import Agency of Bizonia. Hammond Clearance Granted by Distributors Hammond, Ind. — Calumet Theater demand for reduced clearance has been granted by Chicago exchanges. Under the agreement, clearance is reduced from 59 to 35 days. 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