The Film Daily (1939)

Ws? Tuesday, July 11, 1939 Vol. 76, No. 6 Tues., July 11, 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., Iiy Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alienate, 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 mouths, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscriber should remit with order. Address all com immications to TIIK FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117, 97118, 97119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood. California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 War ilmir 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 Ile'aldo Del Cinematografista, Corrientes 130v f innncirU NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (2i/2%) 85/s 85/8 85/8 — Va Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind 1 Vs 1 Vg 1 Vs — Vs Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. 93/4 9% 9% + Va East. Kodak 164 164 164 + Va do pfd Cen. Th. Eq lli/2 11 Vi llVi + Va Loew's, Inc 41 41 41 — Vs do pfd. Paramount 8% 8% 8% Paramount 1st pfd Paramount 2nd pfd Pathe Film RKO 1% 15/8 1% — Vs 20th Century-Fox . . 18y8 18% 18% + Vs 20th Century-Fox pfd Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 4l/4 4l/4 4l/4 + Vs do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith B. F. ref. 6s46.100'/4 100 100'/4 Loew's deb. 3'/is46 Para. B'way 3s55... 52 52 52+2 Para. Picts. 6s55 Para. Picts. cv. 3 V4s47 88 V4 88 88 — Va RKO 6s41 66'/8 66% 66% — % Warner Bros.' cv. 6s39 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 92 90 90—1 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts Sonotone Corp 1 % 1 Va 1 % — % Technicolor Trans-Lux 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'/2 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 BRvant 9-5600 SECURITY ALCN6 THE WITH PHIL M. DALY, • • • ROLLING UP a strong $14,000 for the week-end "Man About Town" will close its second week at the New York Paramount today with an estimated take of S40.000 according to announcement by Manager Bob Weitman further reports to the home office of Paramount on the lack Benny-Dorothy Lamour starring vehicle at key spots show at the Newman in Kansas City, closing first week with 85 per cent above average weekly biz at the Albee in Cincinnati it rolled up the biggest week-end gross of any Paramount pic since "Double Or Nothing" in Oct. 1937 and these encouraging reports are duplicated in many other key spots, where "Man About Town" is 'way out in front on b.o. top figures for months back proving that there is no such thing as Summer slump when the product is right ▼ T T • • • UPROARIOUS welcome staged by the British public on the occasion of the return of King George and Queen Elizabeth from Canada and the United States, was by no means the exclusive triumph of their Majesties according to Mary Pickford, arriving yesterday on the Normandie she declared that the London crowds used the homecoming as an opportunity to show their admiration for Joseph P. Kennedy, former film solon and currently U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James T T T • • • SMASH souvenir number of the RKO Radio house organ Flash has been put out by Editor Harry Gittleson devoted to the company's recent sales convention 60 pages, printed in offset, including a giant panorama photography of the entire delegation bound with a four-fold and perforated so that it may be removed for framing a pictorial done in Life mag style swell photographic candid camera shots by Joe Heppner Tele and Pix . . . think it over (Continued from Page 1) commercial television's special requirements. Thus the question may be raised, shall the industry as now constituted develop that branch, or shall the potentially highly lucrative field be left to others — radio interests, advertising agencies, producers of sponsored reels, etc. There is, frankly, no attempt to present a solution here; the object, at the moment, is to suggest that, like it or not, the problem exists and must be faced, if not today, most certainly tomorrow. So think it over. 306 and World's Fair Exhibitors in Agreement Agreement between Local 306 and World's Fair exhibitors using motion picture projectors was reached over the week-end, it was learned yestei'day. Under the pact, operators of automatic 16 mm. projectors will receive $12.28 for a six hour day while operators of 35 mm. standard machines will continue to receive $16.83 for a six hour day. Negotiations have been in progress for several weeks. Metro's Chatain Arrives Today Via Yankee Clipper Louis Chatain, member of the board of M-G-M's organization in France, arrives in New York today aboard the Yankee Clipper. He is said to be the first European to make the crossing via the newly-established trans-Atlantic air route. While here, Chatain will confer with Arthur Loew, Metro's foreign department head, and also spend a vacation. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthdays: JULY 11 Walter Wanger Sally Blane cominc aim come WILL H. HAYS, film industry administrator, I has arrived in Hollywood from San Francisco. LOUIS CHATAIN, board member of M-C-M'i French company, arrives in New York today on the Yankee Clipper. DAILEY PASKMAN, special rep. for E. D Marks Music Corp., arrived in New York yesterday from the National Ass'n of Broadcasters'! convention in Atlantic City. (C CHARLES (Buddy) ROGERS, ..panied I his wife, MARY PICKFORD, arrived in New York yesterday from Europe on the Normandie. He is en route to Pennsylvania, Tennessee and. Michigan to fulfill orchestra engagements. Mis: Pickford will remain in New York until early August. HERBERT WILCOX, British producer, who al rived in New York yesterday on the Normandie, leaves today for the Coast. BILLY WILKERSON, publisher of the Holly wood Reporter, arrived from Europe yesterday! on the Normandie. ARTHUR HORNBLOW, Paramount producer] who arrived from Europe yesterday, leaves for] Hollywood today, accompanied by his wife, MYRNA LOY who returns to the M-C-M studio to be co-starred with William Powell in a new "Thin Man" picture. WILLIAM C. CEHRING. Central division sales manager for 20thFox, left New York for Chin cago yesterday. DONALD M. MERSEREAU, general manager of THE FILM DAILY, returns today from Atlantic City. BETTE DAVIS plans a six weeks* New YorW and Cape Code vacation. BURGESS MEREDITH arrives on the Coast tomorrow from New York. NED E. SECKLER, RKO home office representative for Cuba, has sailed for Havana on the! Oriente. MAURICE BERGMAN of Columbia returned yesterday from the Coast. JOHN CONSIDINE, M-C-M producer, is here from the Coast. OSCAR SERLIN, producer of "The City," is back from Hollywood. RALPH DOYLE, RKO's managing director in Australia, left yesterday for Los Angeles on the first leg of his return trip to Sydney, sailing July 19 on the Monterey. I. E. LOPERT of Juno Films left for the Coast yesterday. EARL WINCART, 20th-Fox publicist, returned to the home office yesterday following two weeks' vacation. BERT MAYERS of Fitelson & Mayers is on the Coast. FRANK ORTEGA, editor of Cine-Mundial, and his daughter, EVE, have arrived on the Coast from New York. HAL B. WALLIS, exec, producer for Warners, and MRS. WALLIS (Louise Fazenda) who arrived yesterday on the Normandie from Europe left last night for the Coast. JACK LEWIS of the RKO publicity office is in Los Angeles on vacation and visiting his mother. BERT LAHR is in New York, having completed his role in M-C-M's "Wizard of Oz." EDWIN P. KILROE, representing the copyright committee of the MPPDA and copyright advisor to 20th-Fox, sails tomorrow on the Normandie for Europe. BERT REISMAN, RKO manager for Peru, has sailed on the Santa Rita for his headquarters in Lima. MAX GOMEZ, Mexican manager for RKO who came to New York for the sales convention, has sailed for Mexico City on the Siboney. THE THEATRE 'A MUST, 60 EHJOV IT" =»£ Winchell | MUST LOVE SOMEONE with JAMES RENNIE— IRIS ADRIAN .. r .... , and JACK WHITE VANDERBILT, Evs. 8:40. West 48th Street Mat. Wed and Sat.