The Film Daily (1948)

'i IS! :alei itai ednesday, May 26, 1948 DAILY nith Dinner Will lunch Sales Drive Executives of 20th-Fox, departnt heads, the entire home office es staff, and trade press representatives tonight will attend a testimonial dinner in honor of Andy W. Smith, Jr., 20thFox general sales manager. Affair, in the Sert Room of the WaldorfAstoria, celebrates the completion of Smith's first year as head of domestic distribution. Spyros P. Skouras, president, will act as toastmaster, withsponrs including the company's sales [rgjilkision managers, who are launchJig' the Andy Smith Anniversary pnth celebration, May 30-June 26. ajJOn the dais with Smith and Skoue rank w*^ ^e Frank C. Walker, Judge lilliam Powers, W. C. Michel, Otto )egel, Murray Silverstone, Donald | Henderson, W. J. Eadie, W. C. "jmring, Charles Schlaifer, Herman jobber, Harry G. Ballance, Jack (>rentz, Raymond E. Moon, Arthur Iverstone, Howard Minsky, Martin bskowitz, Peter Levathes, Clarence Hill and Lowell Thomas. iThe guest list includes: Chester B. Balm, I J. Balaban, Ulric Bell, Jack Bloom, Morris Jeg'g'in, Nat Brewer, Winton Burrhus, Rodll[|j!y Bush, Morris Caplan, Prank Carroll; ,6in Caskey, Murray Chikofsky, William 7-flljllhen, E. H. Collins, Richard de Rochemont, ion De Titta, Jay Emanuel, Roger Ferri, m Fishman, Seymour Florin, Alan Freedjin, William Freedman, James Glynn, Abe liodman, Moe Grassgrreen, Abel Green. ' Also Eric A. Haig-ht, Homer Harman, Jack irrison, Franklyn Irby, James Jerauld, H. Johnston, Lem Jones, Sherwin Kane, Red ^nn, Dave Katz, Frank Kelly, Tom KenSdy, Edwin Kilroe, Morris Kinzler, Arthur ~j+iorr, Mel Konecoff. William J. Kupper, Jr., n I H. Lang, Lew Lehr, I. Lincer, C. E. kin ir'^artney Eugene McEvoy, E. H. McFar"S Jnd, H. J. Mclntyre, Harry Mersay, Dan ANSiji.-halove, C. F. Minck, John Misa, Anthony ill uto, David Ornstein, Mike Pagano, A. Picjjumfilt, Joseph Pincus, Fred Pride, Sam Rauch, ^ jlmund Reek, Harry Reinhardt. G. A. Robinii i^s J°nas Rosenfeld. 'S!,,!1 Also Joseph St. Clair, Murray Schaffer, lurray Scher, Philip Scheib, Joseph Seco, im Shain, Louis Shanfleld, Ted A. Shaw, IlUrling Silliphant. R. B. Simonson, Dan J. ! nolen, Arthur Sorenson, Norman Steinberg, ugh Strong, Morton Sunshine. Paul Terry ... La Tulipan, Mo Wax, Sam Weintraub, Wil'N am Werner, Christy Wilbert, Earl Wingart i w ■ 1 J onds Battle in Loop Chicago — Horace Heidt and his ork t the Essaness Oriental and Sammy laye and his band at the B & K tate Lake are fighting it out in the oop this week. Sena (Birthday % Qreeting,A Vo— | May 26 § John Wayne Al Jolson *.» Andy M. Roy Paul Lukas g Eddie Ryan Norma Talmadge 8 Viola Brothers Shore {•} \XrW «>&* PHIL M. DALY JHid-weeh Memos • • • YES. SIR. the new 1948 FILM DAILY YEAR BOOK is in demand The phone rang yesterday It was the long distance operator reporting Port Hope, Ont., was calling And sure enough over the wire came the voice of G. Loevenmark, general manager of the Pan American Advertising Corp Was his copy of the new Year Book on the way? He was impatiently awaiting its arrival A quick check by the circulation and mailing departments, and Loevenmark was assured that the book was on its way. ▼ TV • • • CHARLEY SCHLAIFER is guiding a "Green Grass of Wyoming" private press junket to Roosevelt Raceway tomorrow, following a screening of the pic at the home office Charley's guests will have dinner on the clubhouse terrace. ... • Dr. Donald A. Gordon and Jozef Cohen, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, are keeping very mum about their system of transmitting color television. ... • Didja know that Fletcher Markle, producerdirector of CBS' "Studio One" dramatic series, is directing his first movie? It's "Jigsaw," described as a hate-racket thriller by Markle and Vincent McConnor of the CBS program writing staff, and has Franchot Tone as star. ... • Speaking of video. NBC's net on Sunday will repeat "Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobbies," the fantasy which two years ago won Hollywood termers for its authors. Nelson Bond and David Kent. ... • And still speaking of tele, NBC is sending Nancy Osgood to the GOP national convention in Philly to handle events of special interest to femme televiewers. ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • WALT DISNEY can expect an Iroquois scalping party to take to the warpath if he insists upon giving his projected Hiawatha cartoon feature a Minnesota background Phil M already can hear the distant throbbing of the war drums in the vale of Onondaga. . . . • The N. Y. Journal of Commerce yesterday quoted "informed ICC sources" as saying that the Commission may approve Robert R. Young's consolidation plans for the NYC, C 6V O and Virginia RR lines. ... • Some 600 priests and nuns from the New York area will attend a special preview of "Citizen Saint" at the Bijou this afternoon. ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • AIN'T-IT-THE-TRUTH DEP'T: "Is Young America going to hell on ball-bearings? We think not Jet planes may race at sonic speed and zippy convertibles cruise along at 100 miles per, but we doubt if the younger generation is sailing to perdition any faster, or, perhaps as fast, as that of a decade or so ago .... Having been exposed to just about all of the sins of the Roaring Twenties and the Dirty Thirties, and bearing few scars as souvenirs of our journey, we have tremendous confidence in the younger fry What have sin and fire and brimstone got to do with the movies, you may ask Just this: Everytime an overzealous do-gooder tires of throwing left jabs at cigarettes, hard likker, and necking on the back porch, he lets loose a right at the movies As a rule, the movies sit back, lick their wounds, and suffer in silence This only encourages a few more belts on the button No medium of mass entertainment — and we include radio, comic strips, cartoon books, television and the theater — labors under a greater degree of self-regulation than the animated daguerrotypes There is a belief, in some quarters, that the high juvenile delinquency rate is due to an increased emphasis on violence and horror in the various entertainment media .... Isn't this a bit silly when one considers that many of our finest citizens of today were weaned on Nick Carter, the ten, twent'. thirt,' melodrama, and on the gun-play in western movies down through the years?" — Loew's Theaters' Movie News Letter. Press Opinion Points Up Responsibility (Continued from Page 1) invoked against any motion picture that is indecent or in any way outrages the moral standards of a community. Present police power would prevent the exhibition of such a picture." "But," the ATOI continues, "that is an entirely different approach than setting up a board to require approval of what may be exhibited. That is the kind of censorship that is practised in countries who most abhor civil liberty." Pointing out that an active and responsible public opinion is the guiding force in all systems of self government, bulletin holds this responsible opinion is voiced by such capable groups as the Federation of Women's Clubs, Indorsers of Photoplays, PTA and others who have interested themselves in the quality of screen fare for a long time. Farrell Doing Interviews At Cagney Film Opening Frank Farrell, of the New York World-Telegram, will conduct the celebrity interviews at the Wiltwyck School for Boys benefit premiere of "The Time of Your Life" tonight at the Mayfair Theater. The proceedings will be broadcast over stations WINS and WNYC beginning at 9 P. M. James Cagney, Jeanne Cagney, William Bendix, James Barton, Paul Draper and John "Skins" Miller, all of "The Time of Your Life" cast, have arrived from Hollywood during the past week for the opening. See No Quebec Ticket Tax Until Next Legislature Montreal — Consideration by Quebec Province of a proposal to enter the amusement tax field recently vacated by the national Government is expected to be put off until next session. Canadian ticket taxes originated in this Province, however, and it is expected that the Legislature will again pick up the levy, as receipts have been a major factor in provincial and municipal public charities funds. Meanwhile, Montreal theaters have trimmed ticket charges, with cuts ranging fron an average of 10 cents at first run houses. "He's Not Amused, And Feels Abused9'' Zanesville, O. — A poetic, though disgruntled, taxpayer vented his feelings to City Auditor Henry Stemm as follows: "Of all the taxes I pay, With one I'm most confused. Why must I pay amusement tax When I haven't been amused." Ml