The Film Daily (1939)

1W ALLIED MAY SPURN D OF G'S PARLEY BID wu DAILY Thursday, July 13, 1939 (.Continued from Page 1) prexy, or other Allied representatives will respond to ihe Department's invitation. The Film Daily was so advised yesterday by Abram F. Myers, Allied's board chairman and general counsel, who denied that Colonel Cole would come to Washington for a meeting with Dr. Willard Thorp of the D of C next Wednesday. Assailing the Commerce meetings as an effort on the part of the majors to forestall action on Neely's bill, Myers said: "What's the sense of proceeding with investigation of the motion picture industry by the Commerce Department when the Justice Department has been investigating all along? The majors wanted to play one Department against the other, but after secretary Hopkins' letter to Senator Neely, they have lost interest." The Allied General Counsel expressed doubt if the majors will follow up the conferences inasmuch as Hopkins wrote Neely that the meetings were not intended to interfere with consideration of the block-booking bill. The Neely bill may come up for Senate consideration today; measure is automatically the unfinished business of the upper house after the disposition of the social security amendments. Majority Leader Alben Barkley told Neely that there has been no effort to sidetrack the bill and that, personally, he "not only has no intention but no desire in any way to interfere with its consideration." Tully Promoted Rico D. Tully, formerly National Supervisor, has been appointed Branch Manager and Director of Research of the Portland, Ore. area, effective immediately. He is to replace F. B. Gamble, forced to resign because of ill health. R F Transfers Briggs R. L. Briggs, former supervisor and research salesman for the Portland, Ore., Branch of Ross Federal, has been transferred to the Seattle Branch, where he will act as research salesman. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthdays: JULY 13 Carl E. Milliken Sidney Blaekmer Cornelius Keefe with PHIL At. DALY; • • • MAN IN the Iron Mask parades to offices of the various film editors and reviewers on ihe metropolitan papers and the editors of the trade papers it was a strong novelty plug for the United Artists' picture of the same title, with the production opening at the Music Hall the Masked Man had a large crowd trailing him all over the streets, and clogging up corridors of buildings as he made his way about town T T ▼ • • • INVITATIONS have been sent to all film men in the New Haven district to attend the fourth annual Connecticut MPTO golf tournament at Racebrook Country Club on August 1 the activities will begin with a nine-hole qualifying round at 10 a.m., with luncheon at 1 p.m. followed by an 18 hole tournament play entertainment and awarding of prizes in the evening the committee on arrangements consists of Irving C. Jacocks, Jr., Ed Levy, Edward Raffile, Lou Anger, Leo Bonoff, Harold Eskin, B. E. Hoffman, Adolph G. Johnson, Arthur Lockwood, Sam Rosen, Harry F. Shaw, Max Tabackman ▼ T T • • • THAT stunt of the "encore" performance of "The Mikado" at the Palace Theater went off in fine order a special trailer explained that the encores of the pop numbers would be given, the first time such a thing had been tried on the screen there were four encores with an extra projection machine cutting in with duplications of the big singing numbers it went very smoothly, and the audience seemed to enjoy the novelty it was the idea of Louis Pollock of Universal's publicity dep't Johnnie O'Connor of the RKO Theaters arranged for the Palace tryout T ▼ ▼ • • • LARGE and attractive window card is being distributed to some 5,000 dealers throughout the country by the House of Westmore in a tieup with Warners on "Daughters Courageous" the large chain stores are in on the tie-up the card plugs the Westmore cosmetics which these stores handle, and features the three Lane Sisters and Gale Page, using different kinds of makeup to suit their particular coloring and hair styles ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • AS a charter member of the Sidewalk Superintendents' Club of Rockefeller Center we are proud to announce that the club has entered upon its final duties, supervising the fourteenth and last building of the Center the blasting is now going forward on the Sixth Ave. site at the corner of 48th St the club's headquarters have been shifted fourteen times we members of course meeting on the sidewalk in front of each new construction job a charter member of this Club can easily be recognized anywhere his head is constantly shifting from side to side, following the movements of the Lorain Diesel giant shovel as it scoops up the rocks and dirt, swings around and dumps the load in a waiting truck, and then swings back again members can never land jobs in Hollywood studios, for their heads are constantly saying "No" instead of "Yes" ...... ▼ T T • • • IT is true that a grandchild was born to Moe Streimer of United Artists please ignore all previous notices, as this notice is Official the emergency banquet thrown at the Tavern yesterday was by way of a celebration, and most of the United Artists home office staff seemed to be there there was some talk of sending the luncheon bill to Moe. . . • President J. Don Alexander of the Alexander Film Company reports that the export department handled by Charles Light will double this year the foreign sales over the 1938 figure and the 1938 sales doubled those of 1937 which gives you a slight idea as to the sort of job Charlie Light is doing in over 30 foreign countries on ad films DRT€ BOOK July 24: Clyde Eckhardt silver anniversary din ner, Casino Room, Congress Hotel, Chicago July 24: mit Cincinnati Variety Club outing, Sum Hills Country Ciub. July 24-27: Famous Players Canadian managers convention, General Brock Hotel, Niagara Falls, Ont. July 27: ITOA all-industry outing, Indian Point, tourna July 28: Cleveland Variety Club/*'' 'Jt ment, Beechmont Country Clt i Aug. 1 : Fourth annual MPTO of Connecticut golf tournament, Race Brook Country Club, Orange. Aug. 1-4: Schine Enterprises convention, Cloversville. Aug. 4-7: Cibraltar Denver. Enterprises convention, Aug. 8-10: National Theaters regional convention, Kansas City. K. sales convention, Aug. 10: RKO Radio U. Trocadero, London. Aug. 14-16: National Theaters regional convention, Los Angeles. Aug. 21 : Cincinnati Variety Club golf tournament, Summit H .lis Country Cub. International Film Festival, Cannes, Sept. 1-15: France. Sept. 14-16: Biological Photographic Association convention, Mellon Institute for Industrial Research, Pittsburgh. Oct. 1-7: Film industry's Colden Jubilee. Oct. 15: Pittsburgh Variety Club banquet, William Penn Hotel. Oct. 16-19: SMPE Fall convention, Hotel Pennsylvania. Nov. 29: Motion Picture Associates dinner dance. Hotel Astor. Big-Screen Television For 3 More London Houses London (By Cable) — Baird televisian installations are to be made in three more London theaters — the Gaumont, Haymarket, the Gaumont Palace, Hammersmith, and the Gaumont Palace at Lewisham — doubling the number of theaters having Baird large-screen tele installations in London. Scophony recently announced it would install tele screen in the Swiss Cottage, Odeon, also a suburban house. CEA Silent on Maxwell's Proposal for Production London (By Cable)— CEA officialdom maintained strict silence yesterday on the proposal by John Maxwell that the exhib. organization line up 1,000 theaters and form a production company. Maxwell is prepared, he says, to finance an approved scheme of this nature. WEDDING BELLS West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Los Angeles — Betty Warner, younger daughter of Harry M. Warner, was married here yesterday to Milton Sperling, screen writer.