The Film Daily (1948)

w DAILY Tuesday, May 25, 1948 Vol. 93, No. 101 Tues., May 25, 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, 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 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. Virtudes 214. BOMBAY — Ram L. Gogtay, Kitab Mahal, 190 Hornby Rd., Fort, Bombay 1 ALGIERS — Paul Saffar, Filmafric, 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL — Ray Carmichael, Room 9. 464 Francis Xavier St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy. 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. SYDNEY— Bowden Fletcher, 19 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. Phone. UY 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 24) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Am. 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W«Uin«to cominG mid Goinc ROBERT CUMMINGS will leave Hollywood for Chile to film his second picture for United California Productions following completion of his starring role in "The Accused." MARY KAY DODSON, Paramount fashion designer, left Hollywood yesterday for New York for a three-week stay, arriving Thursday morning. GENE KELLY has returned to the Coast after a visit to New York. IRENE GIBBONS arrives back on the Coast today after a week's business trip to New York. ALAN MARCUS and ROBERT NASKELL, writers, have arrived at the M-G-M studios from New York. HERB PETTEY, managing director for WHN, is visiting on the Coast. JANE POWELL planes to Chicago tomorrow from the Coast for p.a.'s at the State Lake. ARTHUR HORNBLOW will arrive from the Coast by plane Saturday, accompanied by his wife. WILLIAM BENDIX arrived in New York yesterday from Hollywood. CHARLES E. CANDEE, assistant manager of the Victoria Theater, heads for Los Angeles soon where he will make his new home. STANLEY KRAMER, producer of "So This Is New York," arrives in New York from Hollywood today for conferences on releasing plans for the Henry Morgan starrer. Brisson Sets Hacker as IA Eastern Representative Independent Artists, Inc., production firm with Frederick Brisson, Rosalind Russell and Dudley Nichols as partners, will open an Eastern office at 50 Rockefeller Plaza, with Samuel Hacker as representative. Hacker will work on an exclusive basis, representing IA with RKO, as well as for talent and stories. Brisson, who made the announcement yesterday, leaves for Europe early next month to set up offices and representation abroad. United World Product Via Distributor's Group United World has made a deal with the Distributor's Group, Inc., to release UW product in 11 Southern and Southwestern states. Films will be deposited in Atlanta, Columbia, New Orleans and Dallas. Volk Hearing Sept. 13 Minneapolis — Hearing of the Volk Bros, injunction action against the majors yesterday was put back to Sept. 13, under an agreement by counsel. Latter sought further time to study the case. Girl with stenographic and clerical experience wanted by established industry service company. Interesting position for someone wanting a varied job. Starting salary $50. Apply: 1600 BROADWAY Suite 608 THEATER MANAGER Available now for a New York or New York neighborhood theater. Thoroughly capable publicity and exploitation man. Write Box 204 THE FILM DAILY 1501 Broadway New York 18, N. Y. S. J. GREGORY, GEORGE DOERR and PETER PANAGOS have returned to Chicago from an inspection tour of the Washington theaters of the Alliance circuit. EDWARD MOREY, MAURICE GOLDSTEIN and NORTON RITCHEY return from Hollywood conferences today via TWA. J. I. HOFFMAN, executive secretary of the Coatesville, Pa., YMCA, which doubles as the town's film theater, is motoring to Alaska over the Alcan Highway. RICHARD H. ROFFMAN, Manhattan public relations counsellor, leaves for Los Angeles on June 9 to interview studio execs, concerning a projected new radio program. MARGARET SULLAVAN will leave New York late this month to sail with her children for a Summer holiday in England and will return in late September. NICHOLAS JACK LEVRERO, former associate producer, now heading Eastern operations for Sky Coach Limited, leaves for Hollywood June 9 and plans to return East about July 4. Livingston Back with $ Deals for Int'l Optima On his recent six-week tour of England, France, Denmark, Belgium, Germany and Italy, Maurice Livingston, veepee of International Optima, told The Film Daily that he succeeded in getting dollars from all of these countries on the sale of "Hopalongs," Hal Roach pictures, "Discovery" and "North Star." Aside from the purchase of shorts for video and 16 mm., Livingston also bought for distribution here, two French features and two Italian. Livingston announced the removal of his office in the Paramount Bldg. to larger quarters on the 11th floor of the Brill Building, 1619 Broadway, at the end of the week. Rosenblatt Heads Mono. Branch in St. Louis St. Louis — Rubin Rosenblatt, Paramount salesman, has been named to manage the local Monogram-Allied Artists branch, filling the vacancy caused by the recent death of Barney Rosenthal. FOR SALE (New) I Mitchell 35mm studio model (BNC) camera with insulated housing and built in features. 12 Filter Holders and Case. I Combination matte box and sunshade (BNC35) I Combination wide angle matte box (BNC24). Erect image viewfinder with built in mattes and mechanical parts for automatic focusing and parallax adjusting (BNC). I Reducing finder adapter lens. 4 1000 foot sound magazines (NCI0). I Camera carrying case. 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Minneapolis — Irving Marks, city sales manager for Columbia, on June 1 succeeds Morris Steinman as manager of Monogram's branch here, Sol Francis mid-West manager, announced. Steinman was relieved of his post at his request and will remain with Monogram as sales manager.