The Film Daily (1939)

* Monday, July 17, 1939 Vol. 76, No. 10 Mon., July 17, 1939 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : : : Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: 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. Meisereau, Secretary-Treasurer; Entered as second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., undei 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— Ralph 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 — MarcoAjrelio Galindo, Depto. 19, 5A, Dr. Lucio No. 102, Mexico, D.F. Buenos Aires — Chas. de Cruz, Ileraldo Del Cinematografista, Corrientes 130V. f innnciflL (QUOTATIONS AS OF FRIDAY) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (2i/2%) Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 10% 10'/4 10%— Vs East. Kodak 167 166'/2 I66V2 do pfd 174 174 174 Cen. Th. Eq 11V4 11% 11% Loew's, Inc 43% 43 V2 43%— % do pfd Paramount 9% 9% 9% — % Paramount 1st pfd... 93 93 93 — % Paramount 2nd pfd.. 10% 10% 10% Pathe Film 9% 934 ?3A — '/8 RKO 13/4 13,4 13/4 20th Century-Fox . . 20'/2 20 20 — % 20th Century-Fox pfd Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 5 434 4% — % do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith B. F. ref. 6s46 Loew's deb. 3i/2s46..103 103 103 — % Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. 6s55 Para. Picts. cv.3i/4s47 89 89 89 RKO 6s41 Warner Bros.' cv. 6s39 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 90% 90 90 — Vz NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts Sonotone Corp Technicolor 15Vz '5y4 15%— % Trans-Lux Universal Corp. vtc. . 3'/2 3'/2 3% — % Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Pathe Film 7 pfd 100 103 Fox Thea. Office Bldg. 1st '46 Loew's Thea. Realty 6s 1st '47 Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 PROGRESS FILM LIBRARY STOCK SHOTS of Every Possible Description Conveniently Catalogued 1729 SEVENTH AVE. NYC. BRYANT 9-5600 H The Broadway Parade H Picture and Distributor Theater Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — 10th week Astor Man About Town (Paramount f ictures) — 3rd week Paramount Second Fiddle (20th Century-Fox) — 3rd week Roxy On Borrowed Time (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — 2nd week Capitol The Man in the Iron Mask (United Artists-Small) Music Hall Indianapolis Speedway 1 Warner bros. fictures) Strand Bulldog Drummond's Bride (Paramount Pictures) Criterion The Saint in London (RKO Radio Pictures) Rialto Waterfront (Warner Bros. Pictures) Globe Should a Girl Marry (Monogram Pictures) Central The Mikado (Universal Pictures-G & S Prods.) (a-b) Palace News is Made at Night (20th Century-Fox (a) Palace ♦ FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURES ♦ Lenin in 1918 (Amkino) — 4th week Cameo Orage (Merit Pictures) World ♦ FUTURE OPENINGS ♦ Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) — July 18 Capitol The Magnificent Fraud (Paramount Pictures) — July 19 Paramount This Man is News (Paramount Pictures) — July 20 Criterion Each Dawn I Die (Warner Bros. Pictures) — July 21 .Strand They Shall Have Music (United Artists-Coldwyn) — July 27 Rivoli Winter Carnival (United Artisvs-Wanger) (c) Music Hall Frontier Marshal (20th Century-Fox) (c) R0Xy Renegade Trail (Paramount Pictures) (c) .Globe Daughters Courageous (Warner Bros. Pictures) — July 19 (a-b) ........Palace Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (20th Century-Fox) — July 19 (a) Palace Generals Without Buttons (Mayer & Burstyn) — July 18 (b) World (a) Dual bill. (b) Subsequent run. (c) Follows current bill. Brit. Bank Night Prosecution Based on Traffic Obstruction London (By Cable) — First British film theater to be prosecuted for running Bank Night is the Regal Theater in Kettering, South London, whose manager was served with a summons by the Borough Council on a charge of obstructing street traffic, crowds having gathered outside the theater on nights when Bank Night was played. Manager of the theater stated that he had discontinued Bank Night three weeks before receiving the summons, but that doesn't quash the traffic obstruction charge. All Theaters in Dover, O., Now Owned by Fieber & Shea Deal has been concluded by terms of which Fieber & Shea Circuit takes over the State and Nugent Theaters in Dover, O. The acquisition, plus the Bexley located there, give F & S all houses in that town, it was announced on Friday by E. C. Grainger, circuit's general manager. Grainger leaves New York today for a two-week business trip to circuit's houses in Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania. Fannie Brice Files Suit Demanding $750,000 Balm Chicago — Suit was filed here Friday by Fannie Brice, screen and radio comedienne, seeking $750,000 damages from 20th-Fox, Tyrone Power, Al Jolson, Alice Faye, eight theater companies and officials of the film company. Plaintiff charged that the picture "Rose of Washington Square" defamed her character, invaded her private rights, and libeled her via dialogue and scenes. Story, she alleges, is her life story and was used without her permission. She seeks also an injunction restraining further showings of the pix. 20th-Fox Takes Option on 3 More Cobian Films Warners Sign Raft West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Warners have signed George Raft to a long term contract and his next picture will be "The Patent Leather Kid." He sails July 22 on the Normandie for a European vacation. Curran Joins 20th-Fox Charles Curran, formerly with Donahue and Coe Advertising Agency and Warner Bros, advertising department, arrived from the Coast today to take a position on the home office staff of the 20th-Fox ad department. Twentieth Century-Fox has taken an option on three more Spanish language pictures to be made by Cobian Productions. Deal was signed last week between Ramos Cobian and 20th-Fox. Cobian, who also is a large circuit operator in Puerto Rico, recently completed his first Spanish picture for 20th-Fox under the title of "Los Hijos Mandan." He also made one picture for Paramount release. Vanderbilt to NBC NBC will take over on July 24, on a 13-week lease with renewal option, the Vanderbilt Theater, 148 West 48th St., and install the Fred Waring program. Harrisburg Allied Parley Harrisburg, Pa. — Allied Independent Theater Owners of Eastern Pennsylvania will meet tomorrow at the Penn Harris Hotel. cominG imd gomg JOHN JONES, vice-prexy of Jones, Linick & Schaefer circuit, and his wife are motoring from Chicago to the Coast for his Summer vacation. JULES CURLEY, Warner advertising manager in Albany, and his wife are vacationing for two weeks at Cape Cod. MISS BETH MORGENSTERN, office imager for Allied Theaters, Chicago, is lea\ -' "or Colorado and other points West on \ mo weeks' vacation. STANLEY HAND, Altec staff rep, has returned to New York following an extensive trip through the Middle and South-West. DAVID BURNS, American screen comedian well-known in England but comparatively unknown here, is in New York for a home town visit. DR. HERBERT GRAF, stage director for the Metropolitan Opera Co., returned at the weekend from a short trip to Europe. JESSE L. LASKY, accompanied by TERRY TURNER, is in Dallas conferring with R. J. O'Donnell of Interstate Theaters on personal appearances of himself and six film stars to select talent for his next Gateway to Hollywood radio program. MISS RITA CAVE, radio representative of the Odeon Theater circuit of Great Britain, was a visitor at Warner's home office World's Fair Bureau. She is here on vacation and gathering material for her work with the BBC. She returns to England July 26. LEON G. TURROU, forme ace G-man, sailed for New York Saturday after attending London and Paris premieres of "Confessions of a Nazi Spy." MIKE MOODABE, New Zealand theater magnate who has been a New York visitor, is en route to the Coast with his wife to sail for home from Los Angeles on the Monterey next Wednesday. ALLAN LANE is motoring from the Coast to New York after completing his role in RKO's "Conspiracy." RICHARD ROWLAND, after a short visit here, is returning to the Coast. LOU DIAMOND returned at the week-end by plane from the Coast where he conferred on Para, shorts production. DAN CASEY, general sales manager in Australia for Universal, has arrived in Hollywood and is coming to New York shortly for conferences with h.o. execs. RUSSEL CROUSE, having completed the Para, script, "The Life of Victor Herbert," is en route to Skowhegan, Me., for the premiere of "Life With Father" which he co-authored with Howard Lindsay. LEW LANDERS, having completed his threeyear RKO directorial contract, is making a fourweek auto tour of the Northwest. AL WILKIE, Paramount's home office publicity manager, left New York last night for Boston, Albany and Philadelphia where he will hold trade and press meetings on company's forthcoming feature, "Beau Geste." E. C. GRAINCER, general manager of Fieber & Shea circuit, leaves New York today on a two-week business trip to organization's houses in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. HENRY WEINER, Cuban manager for United Artists, arrived in New York at the week-end on the Oriente on a combined vacation and business trip. He was accompanied by his wife. ERIC GREENSPAN, circuit manager in England for Columbia, arrived with his wife from London at the week-end for a New York vacation and to confer with home office execs, on company business. FAY WOODFORD, long associated with films in Syracuse, leaves by motor this week for the Coast on a vacation trip MRS. WOODFORD and their daughter accompany. / \ THE THEATRE "A MUST GO ENJOY IT." — Walter WincJiell GYPSY ROSE LEE C°™X Fa.rce with Music I MUST LOVE SOMEONE with JAMES RENNIE— IRIS ADRIAN Air-Conditioned and JACK WHITE Vanderbilt, W. 48th St. Evs. 8:40 Mat. Wed. & Sat.