The Film Daily (1948)

w DAILY Thursday, May 27, 19^ Vol. 93, N 0. 103 Thurs., May 27, 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. Filmafrlc, 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL, — Ray Carmichael. Room 9, 464 Francis Xavler St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. SYDNEY — Bowden Fletcher. 19 Moson 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 Perdicari, Via Ludovisl 16. Phone, 42758 rinAflCIAL (May 26) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE High Low Close Bell & Howell pfd. .102'/2 102 102 Columbia Picts 12y2 12 12% East. Kodak 44 Vi 44 '/g 44 Vs Gen. Prec. Eq 18% 18 183/8 Loew's, Inc 19% 19% 19% Paramount 26% 25% 26 RKO 10% 10% 10% Republic Pict 4% 4% 43/4 20th Century-Fox . . 25% 24% 25 Universal Pict 15% 14% 15% Universal Pict. pfd. 69 69 69 Warner Bros 13% 13% 13% NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 41/2 4% 4% RKO 3 2% 2% Sonotone Corp 4 3% 4 Technicolor 15 14% 15 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Cinecolor 4% Pathe 4% Net Chg. Vi Vs V* % % Vi Vs Asked 5% 53/4 f ifa EXCHANGE SERVICE Physical Handling of Film Inspection — Receiving — Shipping is part of "BONDED'S 3-WAY SERVICE" • Film Storage • Film exchange Service • Air Conditioned Screening Room FILM STORAGE CO., INC. ONDED 1600 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY CIRCLE 6-0081-2-3-4 COmmG flllD GOIIIG AL ROGELL, here from the Coast, planes back at the week-end. HARRY ROWSON, British industry veteran, is visiting New York. SPYROS P. SKOURAS planed to the Coast last night. WILLIAM MORRIS, JR., and MRS. WILLIAM MORRIS, SR., left for London by air yesterday. WILLIAM B. ZOELLNER, head of M-6-M's short subjects sales and reprints and importations, is on a tour of 17 exchange centers with New Haven as his first stop. MAURICE N. WOLF, assistant to H. M. Richey, M-G-M exhibitor relations head, is in New York from Boston for home office conferences. ARTHUR HORNBLOW is due from the Coast Saturday by plane. He will spend a week in town before returning West. CHARLES C. MOSKOWITZ, Loew's vice-president and treasurer, is back from a vacation at Miami. WILLIAM GARGAN leaves Hollywood Saturday on the Super Chief for New York to do press interviews for Film Classics' "Argyle Secrets." GEORGE R. GIROUX, field rep. for Technicolor, arrived in New York yesterday from the Coast for a stay of about two weeks. DR. and MRS. HARRY MARTIN (Louella Parsons) arrive from the West Coast today. They will sail on the America next Wednesday. JOHN J. JONES, prexy of Screen Guild Prods., returns to the West Coast today after a short stay in Manhattan. WILLIAM J. HEINEMAN, Eagle Lion v.-p. and distribution chief; MAX E. YOUNGSTEIN, v.-p. and ad-publicity-exploitation director, and L. JACK SCHLAIFER, assistant to Heineman, are in Hollywood for studio conferences. Trio leave tomorrow for San Francisco where they will conduct the last of a series of regional sales meetings. ARTHUR JEFFREY, Eagle Lion exploitation manager, left for Des Moines and Moline, III., yesterday to set up plans for the forthcoming world premiere of "Mickey." JOHN ALTON, Eagle Lion cameraman, is in town for conferences with Macmillan Company regarding the publication of his forthcoming book, "Painting With Light." JOSEPH A. McCONVILLE, president of Columbia-International, is due in today on the Queen Elizabeth, with MRS. McCONVILLE. Also slated to arrive are CLAUDE RAINS and MRS. RAINS. ANN BLYTH returned to Hollywood by train yesterday following a month's visit to New York. BEST IN QUALITY FILMACK Special TRAILERSi BEST IN SERVICE I COMPLETELY EQUIPPED PLANTS LOS AN6ELES 1574 W. Wnliliiftwi FOR SALE Two 35 m.m. Bell & Howell motion picture rackover camera outfits, complete with magazines, carrying cases, lenses and Akely Gyro Tripods. Also lighting equipment. Call Circle 6-0951 HARRY M. WARNER, president of Warner Bros., and MORT BLUMENSTOCK, vice-president in charge of advertising-publicity, returned yesterday from Washington. PHIL ROSEN has returned to Hollywood from Montreal, where he directed "Sins of the Fathers" for Canadian Motion Picture Production, Ltd. of Toronto. B. G. KRANZE, general sales head of Film Classics, Inc., leaves New York today to visit exchanges in Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh. RUDOLPH WEISS, head of Warners home office real estate department, and MILES ALBEN, Warner Theater executive, will be in Washington today returning to New York next week. RKO Theaters to Keep Lights Up at the Palace RKO Theaters has no intention of darkening the Palace on Broadway for the Summer, a circuit spokesman said yesterday. The erstwhile "mother house" of Keith vaudeville, now is playing duals second run. Admittedly, business is off at the Palace, as it is at many of the Main Stem houses, but the theater will stay open, it was said. Loew's Declares Common Dividend, Payable June 30 Loew's board of directors meeting yesterday declared the regular quarterly dividend of 37% cents on the common stock, payable June 30 to stockholders of record on June 11. OSCAR B. DEPUE Optical Picture Reduction Printers, Contact, Microfilm and Sound Reduction Printers manufactured and sold by OSCAR F. CARLSON CO. 2600 Irving Park Road, Chicago 18, 111. ENTIRE BLOCK NEWARK 33,900 Square Feet 862 Ft. Street Frontage One block from Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. home office building. Especially valuable for theatre. Sale or ground lease. Owner, L. N. 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