The Film Daily (1939)

rnu DAILY Friday, July 7, 1939 Vol. 76, No. 4 Fri., July 7, 1939 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU CHESTER B. BAHN General Manager : : Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer; 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. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California— Kalph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. Paris— P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, 29 Rue Marsoulan (12). Mexico City — Marco-Aurelio Galindo, Depto. 19, 5A, Dr. Lucio No. 102. Mexico, D.F. Buenos Aires — Chas. de Cruz. Ileraldn Del Cinematografista, Corrientes 130V. H ■ finnnciflL «■ NEW YORK STOCK »■■■■■;■ Net Higr Low Close Chg. Col. Picts. vtc. (2Vi%) 85/8 85/s 85/8 — Vs Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 10 93/4 10 + y4 East. Kodak 164 163 164 + 2% do pfd Loew's, Inc 41% 41 '/2 413/4 1/4 Paramount 8'/i 8% iVi + Vs Paramount 1st pfd... 93 92 92 + 1i/2 Pathe Film 9'/2 9 9V2 + 1/4 RKO 1 % l'/2 l'/2 — Vs 20th Century-Fox ... 19 18% 18'/8 + Va 20th Century-Fox pfd Univ. Picts. pfd Warner Bros 4'/4 41/4 4 'A + Vs NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith B. F. ref. 6s46 100 99% 100 + Vs Loew's deb. 3'/2s46 102y2 102% 102% Para. B'way 3s55 . . 50% 50 50—4 Para. Picts. 6s55. .100% 100% 100% — 3/4 Para. Picts. cv. 3 '/4s47 88% 87% 88% RKO 6s41 Warner Bros.' cv. 6s39 Warner Bros. dbs. 6s48 89% 89 89% + 1% NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 1 % 1 % 1 % Sonotone Corp Technicolor 15 143/4 15 + % Trans-Lux 1 % 1 % 1 % Universal Corp. vtc Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Pathe Film 7 pfd 100 103 Fox Thea. Office Bldg. 1st '46 3% 5 Loew's Thea. Realty 6s 1st '47 99% 101% Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45. . . 68 70 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 65% 67% SAFETY LLOYDS FILM STORAGE CORP. Storage by Reel or Vault 729 Seventh Ave. New York City BRyant 9-5600 SECURITY • • • COCKTAIL party in the membership penthouse of the Museum of Modern Art on West 53rd Street in celebration of one of the finest plugs for the film industry that has ever been put into a can of film the March of Time current release, "The Movies March On" which dramatizes the highlights of the industry smash productions for the past forty years opening at the Music Hall today T T T • • • IN THAT gorgeous penthouse while seated on the outer veranda we renewed old acquaintances with film mugs, slapped Nelson Rockefeller on the back and called iiim "pal-ole-pal" and Nelson slapped us on the back when we told him our middle name was Nelson, but that we earned it, being descended legitimately from the guy Admiral Nelson whose statute adorns a square in dear ole Lunnon T ▼ T • • • IT WAS a swell party the film was so good and so many people wanted to see it that they had to show it twice we have already given it a column review, and no short subject has received that in this paper in ages among the distinguished guests we counted Raymond Massey, Mary Robson, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Ellison, Lynn Farnol, Mrs. Lela Rogers, Jack Pegler, Lillian Gish, Nelson Rockefeller, Bill German, Ned Depinet, Jules Levy Fred "Liberty" Smith, Cresson Smith, S. Barret McCormick, Harry Michalson, A. P. Waxman, Larry Reid. Harry Blair, Roy Larsen. Dorothy Masters Elizabeth Lockwood, Bob Wollf, Frank Nugent, Tom Pryor, Arthur Mayer, Eileen Creelman, Gus Eysell Blumenstock to Confer With Einfeld on Coast Mort Blumenstock, in charge of advertising and publicity in the East for Warner Bros, leaves for the Coast today for conferences with Charles Einfeld, Director of Advertising and Publicity, on merchandising plans for forthcoming productions. Blumenstock will be away about three weeks. Whitney Flies to Coast John Hay Whitney, board chairman of Selznick International, arrives on the Coast this morning by plane to look over the finished work on "Gone With The Wind" and confer with David O. Selznick. He expects to return here in about a week. Hacker in C P A Field Sam Hacker, who has been connected with the industry for 10 years, has entered the practice of public accounting, in association with Henry H. Ackerman & Co., CPA, 21 West St. Hacker will specialize in the motion picture industry. Until recently, he was assistant to Morris Goodman, vice-president in charge of foreign sales at Republic. B & K Keeping "Dr. I. Q." Chicago — "Dr. I. Q." Monday broadcasts from the B & K Chicago Theater for Mars Candy have been extended for a third time with period to Aug. 21 covered. 88 Family Audience Pix in First Half of Year Features reviewed by the National Board of Review for the first six months of 1939 totaled 281, a jump of 32 pictures over the 249 reviewed during the same period in 1938. For the same period 403 shorts were reviewed as against 416 shorts in 1938, a decrease of 13. Classifications are as follows: 88 family, 10 family-juvenile and 25 mature for this year's initial sixmonth period as against 80 family, 11 family-juvenile, 24 mature and 1 juvenile for the same period last year. J.-SS3 VfmJi tRTHV Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthdays: JULY 7 Ricardo Cortez Jackie Searl George Cukor Raymond Hatton Richard Carle JULY 8 Eugene Pallette Bradley King Lon Young JULY 9 Claude C. Ezell Al Steen Ralph Wilk Frank Namczy corninG mid GOIflG HERMAN WOBBER, general manager of distribution for 20th-Fox, arrived in New York yesterday afternoon from the Coast via United Airlines. JOHN HAY WHITNEY, chairman of the board of S-l, arrived on the Coast this morning by plane. MORT BLUMENSTOCK entrains todavMMthe Coast to huddle with Charles Einfeld. ^^ HAL B. WALLIS and MRS. WALLIS (Louise Fazenda) arrive on the Normandie Monday from Europe. CONSTANCE BENNETT, prior to sailing next Wednesday for Europe, is stopping at the Towers of the Waldorf-Astoria. WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES, film director, is en route to New York from Hollywood and is scheduled to sail for Europe on the Normandie on Wednesday. PEDRO SAENZ, president of Cia. Cubana de Peliculas. S.A.. who attended the recent RKO convention as delegate from Cuba, has sailed for Havana, accompanied by MRS. SAENZ and PEDRO, JR. FRANK CALVIN, research expert for Cecil B. DeMille, has arrived in Regina, Sask., Canada, to gather material for DeMille feature tentatively titled, "Royal Canadian Mounted." DANIEL J. TOBIN, vice-president of A F of L, arrived in New York yesterday from Europe, accompanied by MRS. TOBIN. ERROL FLYNN, film star, will journey to London late this Summer to star in Warners' "Captain Horatio Hornblower." LIEUT. BEN FELDMAN, of the Illinois National Guard and manager of the UA Theater in Chicago for B & K, is with the U. S. Army Summer training camp at Camp McCoy, Wis. BERTRAM BLOCK, story editor for Samuel Coldwyn; FRANK PARKER and NORMAN REILLY RAINE, Warner writer, flew to the Coast last night. JOHN W. CONSIDINE, JR., MILTON L. MILLER, PHILIP RAPP, HUGO BUTLER, and DORE SCHARY, of M-C-M's Coast studios, are stopping at the Sherry-Netherland. SYLVAN GOLDFINCER, former manager of B & K Garrick Theater, Chicago, has returned there following a trip to Hollywood and will announce his new connection shortly. WILLIAM SAROYAN, playwright, arrives in New York on Monday aboard the Normandie, having cut short his visit in Ireland. VICTOR PAYNE-JENNINGS, producer, leaves New York on Wednesday for Europe. CHARLES K. FREEMAN, producer of the Federal Theater's "Life and Death of an American," sailed from New York yesterday on the lie de France for a three-month study of the theater and films in England, France, Russia and Switzerland. PHILIP BARRY has left New England where he will work t for Autumn presentation. JAMES V. BOYLE, of RKO Radio's publicity department, leaves New York on the week-end for a two-week vacation in Lexington, N. Y. HAL NORFLEET, Republic publicist for the Dallas territory, is in New York for a threeweek vacation. York for n a new New Play THE THEATRE "Roars of Pleasure" Atkinson, Times. WHAT A LIFE with EZRA STONE as Henry Aldrich MANSFIELD, W. 47th St. Mats. Wed. and Sat. Circle 6-0640 "A MUST GO ENJOY IT."— Walter WincheU GYPSY ROSE LEE Comedy Farce with Music I MUST LOVE SOMEONE ■with JAMES RENNIE— IRIS ADRIAN Air -Conditioned. and JACK WHITE Vanderbilt, W. 48th St. Evs. 8:40 Mats. Wed. & Sat.