The Film Daily (1948)

3te Friday, May 21, 194 Vol. 93, No. 99 Fri., May 21, 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, X. 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 S10.00 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, NewYork 18, N. Y. Phone BRvant 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 Esler, 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. Gogtav. Kitab Mahal. lilO Hornbv Rd. . Fort. Bombay 1. ALGIERS — Paul Saffar. Filmafric, 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL — Rav rarmifhael. Room <1, 464 Francis Xavier St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bids. SYDNEY — Bmvdcn Fletcher, 19 Moyon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. Phone. UY 2110. BRUSSELS— Jean Pierre Meys, 110 Rue des Paquerettes. COPENHAGEN— John Lindberg. .Ternbanealle No. 3. Copenhagen-Van Loese. ROME — John Perdicari, Via Ludovisi 16. Phone. 42758. MEXICO CITY — Jay Kaner — c/o American Chamber of Commerce — San Juan de Letran 24. fMAnCIAL (May 20) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Am. Seat 23% 23V2 23% Bell & Howell 23'/2 23V4 23'/2 Columbia Picts. vtc. 12^ 12V2 12% East. Kodak 44% 44 do pfd 168 167 Gen. Prec. Eq 17 16'/2 Loew's, Inc 1934 195/8 Paramount 251/4 24% 11 43/4 1034 44 168 17 19% 25l/8 11 5 V, 111/2 Net Chg Vi V" 3/„ % '/•> '/4 241/4 24% 351/2 35V2 RKO 1 1 Vs Republic Pict 5!/4 Republic Pict. pfd. 11V2 20th Century-Fox . 24% 20th Cent.-Fox pfd. . 35l/2 Universal Pict 15 Universal Pict. pfd. . 70 Warner Bros 133/8 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 41/4 3% 4Vf RKO 31/4 Sonotone Corp. 4 Technicolor 15'/2 Trans-Lux 5% 14% 70 13% 3% 4 151/4 5% 14% 70 13 'A 3% 4 153/8 5% OVER THE COUNTER Bid Cinecolor 4l/2 Pathe 4 + 1% + v» — % Asked 43/4 5 Liggett-Steifel Moving Liggett-Steifel Booking Office on Monday will move to new headquarters at 341 W. 44th St. OSCAR B. DEPUE Optical Picture Reduction Printers, Contact. Microfilm ancl Sound Reduction Printers nianu facturcd and sold by OSCAR F. CARLSON CO. 2600 Irving Park Road, Chicago 18, III. Warner Executives Honor Jack L„ Jr. at Dinner Top Warner executives attended the buffet dinner and cocktail party tendered yesterday to Jack L. Warner, Jr., in honor of his forthcoming marriage. Among those present at the Warwick Hotel reception were Harry M. Warner, Maj. Albert Warner, Ben Kalmenson, Harry Kalmine, Mort Blumenstock, Samuel Schneider, Herman Starr, Samuel Carlisle. Also, W. S. McDonald, Harold Bareford, Barney Klawans, Rudolph Weiss, Jules Lapidus, Norman Ayres, Norman Moray, Clarence Eiseman, Clayton Bond, Wolfe Cohen, Natt Fellman, Herb Copelan, Harry Mayer, Stanleigh Friedman, Larry Golob, Ed Hessberg, Jules Levey, Tom Martin, Robert Perkins, Harold Rodner, Harry Goldberg, Gil Golden, Ralph Budd, Harold Levinson, James Brennan, Mike Dolid, Ed Hinchy, Albert Howson, Sam Lefkowitz, Jacob Wilk, Frank Phelps, Morris Ebenstein and Bill Brumberg. Circuits Buck Overhanging Sign Veto for State St. Chicago — Faced by opposition of B & K, Telenews Theaters and local sign companies, City Council committee considering a proposal to ban overhanging signs along State St have put off their decision so that both sides will have opportunity to outline positions. Backed by the State St. Council, proposal was hoppered by Alderman John Budinger. Rank Cancels Walpole Pic After Crime Pix Outcry London (By Cable) — Bowing to the outcry against crime pix which has been raised here recently, J. Arthur Rank yesterday scratched his production plans for "Killer and Slain," Hugh Walpole's latest novel. Pic, script of which had been okayed both here and the U. S. with only minor changes, was budgeted at $500,000. 20th-Fox, NT Plan Home Tele On Installment Plan (Vest Coast Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Hollywood — Twentieth-Fox and National Theaters plan to bring video into homes as well as theaters and are considering a toll plan for homes, whereby AT&T would do the collecting. Twentieth-Fox will apply for a TV band in Seattle next week and in a short time will apply in Kansas City. Fox and National Theaters application will be heard in San Francisco Monday. Pettijohn Funeral Rites Today in Indianapolis Indianapolis — Services for Charles C. Pettijohn will be held today at St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, with interment to take place at Crown Hill Cemetery. The former MPPDA general counsel died Wednesday of a cerebral hemorrhage. Rodner to Receive Beacon Award at Dinner Tonight Annual dinner tonight of the Motion Picture Associates will see the presentation to Harold Rodner, Warner executive, of the Associates' Beacon Award for meritorious and patriotic service. Rodner, executive vice-president of the Will Rogers Memorial Fund, and trustee of the Jewish Child Care Association, will be honored for his work in the social rehabilitation of totally blind ArmyNavy veterans, and for his activities in behalf of servicemen. Rodner, who is vice-president of Warner Bros. Service Corp., is completing 20 years with the company, and 38 years in the industry. In 1943 he was honored with the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Rollins College. Active in the affairs of Montefiore Hospital and Bedford Hills Sanitarium, he has held high office in the Masons. Association dinner will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria. Film Codes' Part in Public Relations, Schlaifer Topic The motion picture Advertising and Production Codes in their relationship to the functioning of industry public relations will be discussed tonight by Charles Schlaifer, 20thFox ad-publicity chief, at the fourth session of his course on "The New Significances in Motion Picture Public Relations" at the New School. How the activities of an advertising, publicity and exploitation department contribute to the application of these codes will be presented to the students. AT&T Opens Coaxial Cable Between Albany-New York Coaxial cable service between New York and Albany will be started today, according to the Long Lines Dept. of AT&T. While designed primarily for telephone and network radio traffic, the cable is capable of transmitting four television programs at one time. Construction of the newest link in the AT&T coaxial network was started in June, 1947, and is a joint project of the N. Y. Telephone Co., the N. J. Bell Telephone Co. and AT&T. Seeks $381,000 Damages In Anti-Trust Action Terre Haute, Ind. — Claiming inability to get current films forced them to close their theater in 1946 and to sell its equipment, Fred V. and Eva M. Willey, own»»s of the Fox Theater, Brazil, filed a $381,000 treble damages action in Federal Court. Action also seeks an injunction to restrain defendants from continuing an alleged monopoly. Named in the suit are Affiliated Theaters, Inc., of Indianapolis; Citizen's Theater Co., Brazil, and 23 distributing companies. cominc mid gomg BARNEY BALABAN will remain on the Coa to attend the world premiere of "The Emper. Waltz" at the Hollywood Paramount Theat May 26. En route to England for the production i M-G-M's "Edward, My Son," SPENCER TRAC DEBORAH KERR, EDWARD KNOPF and HCWAR STRICKLING sail Saturday aboard thJf 'jl''t Mary. vli *1 MADELEINE CARROLL sails aboard the Quec Mary Saturday. BUDD ROGERS, vice-president of Realart, on a tour of exchanges in the South and Mic west. He will visit Charlotte, Atlanta, New O leans, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, S Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. HAROLD MIRISCH, Allied Artists vice-pres dent, has returned to Hollywood from a tour i company exchanges. R. T. VAN NIEMAN and BOB GARDNER < Motiograph are on the Coast attending tt SMPE meetings. MYRON FOX, M-G-M studio executive, le for the Coast last night. WILLIAM B. ZOELLNER, head of M-G-M shorts sales, returns Monday from a trip t.irouc the Midwest and South. ANITA COLBY has arrived in New York fro her 33-city tour in behalf of "The Empen Waltz," and will leave Monday for Hollywoc to resume her studio duties. EDWARD MOREY, Allied Artists execute vice-president, and MAURY GOLDSTEIN, natiom sales manager, leave for the Coast today to a tend conferences in connection with the fortl coming Roy Del Ruth production, "The Bat Ruth Story." LORRAINE MacLEAN, Allied Artists fashic designer, returns to Hollywood today follov ing a two-week stay here. WILLIAM HEINEMAN, Eagle Lion v.-p. charge of distribution, and MAX E. YOUNC STEIN, v.-p. and ad-publicity-exploitation direc tor, leave for Chicago today for the second a series of regional sales conferences. IKE and HARRY KATZ, film exchange execs are stopping at the Hotel Astor. MAURICE LIVINGSTON, vee-pee of Interne tional Optima, is due back on Monday from six-week European tour. 20th-Fox, WB Will Use Instantaneous Projection West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — It has been learne that both 20th-Fox and Warner Bros will use instantaneous projection i connection with their RCA large size theater screen television. A high frequency link will be em ployed, with tele studio to transmit ter link working on 960 megacycl and carrying video and aural sig nals. For projection, a 75,000 von ' 7 inch projection tube is usee Schmit optical system is also use in projection. Warners' screen i 15 feet by 20 feet. OF COURSE I I BROOKuri HEAVEN •J* sent from UA