The Film Daily (1939)

DAILY Tuesday, September 26, 1939 Vol. 76, No. 60 Tues., Sept. 26, 1939 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU Ceneral Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York, N. V.. by VVid'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, $5.0u; 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 BRyani 9-7117, 9-71 f8. 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable Address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood. California— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. London — Fmpsl W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. Paris— P. A. Harle. 1... Cinematographic Francaise, 29 Rue Marsoulan (12). Mexico City — Marco-Aureli" ' alindo, Depto. 19, 5A, Dr. Lucio No. 102. Mexico. D.F. Buenos Aires — Chas. de Cruz. T'c aldo Del Cinematografi ta, Corrientes 1309. f mnnciflL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. lli/2 ny4 ,1V4 + V4 ) 71/4 7 71/4 + 1/4 Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (2i/2% Columbia Picts. pfd.. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. East. Kodak do pfd Cen. Th. Eq.. ...... . Loew's, Inc do pfd Paramount Paramount 1st pfd. Paramount 2nd pfd. Pathe Film RKO 20th Century-Fox . 20th Century-Fox pfd. Univ. Pict. pfd.... . . . Warner Bros do pfd l'A 1'A H/4 8% 8 3/4 8% + Vs 1581/2 158 158 — 1/2 1551/2 1551/2 1551/2 — 41/2 9 9 9 331/2 325/8 33 103 103 103 7'/8 63/4 7 12 10i/2 12 + 15/8 IVi l'/2 l'/2 133/8 12% 13% + % NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith B. F. ref. 6s46 100 100 100 Loew's deb. 3V2s46 . 93 93 93 — 1/2 Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. 6s55 Para. Picts. cv. 3 i/4s47 79% 79 79—1 RKO 6s41 Warner Bros.' cv. 6s39 Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 80 V4 8OV4 80y4 + % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 1 % 1 % 1 Vs — Va Sonotone Corp 1 1/4 1 % 1 % Technicolor 1134 11% 11%— % Trans-Lux 1 % 1 % 1 % Universal Corp. vtc Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Pathe Film 7 pfd 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 SAFETY LLOYDS FILM STORAGE CORP. Storage by Reel or Vault 729 Seventh Ave. New York City BRyant 9-5600 SECURITY Execs. Meet Today to Plan "Night of Stars" Program Leaders of the amusement industry will meet at 4:30 p.m. today in the offices of Marvin H. Schenck in Loew's State Theater Building to crystallize plans for the "Night of Stars," mammoth benefit show to be held on the night of "Nov. 15 in Madison Square Garden for settlement of Jewish refugees in Palestine. Among those who will attend today's meeting are: Ben A. Boyar and Marvin H. Schenck, associate chairmen of the Producing Committee; Jesse Kaye of Fanchon & Marco; Arthur Knorr of the Roxy Theater; Leon Leonidoff of Radio City Music Hall; " Herbert I. Rosenthal, CBS; John Shubert; Harry Mayer, Warners; Frank Roehrenbeck, WHN; Sidney H. Piermont, WHN; Harry Kalcheim, Lester Isaac and Samuel Chotzinoff. Three Majors Get 20 Days to Answer "Govt's" Brief Oklahoma City — Defendants in the U. S. Department of Justice suit against the Griffith Amusement Company and affiliated circuits under the Sherman anti-trust laws, in which the government seeks to prove the company forms a monopoly in distribution of first and second-run motion pictures, have been given 20 days to file a reply to the Government's brief by Edgar S. Vaught, district judge. Specific defendants named in the 20-day grant of time were United Artists Corp., Universal Film Exchange Inc., and Columbia Pictures, Inc. Eddie Golden to Address W.Va. ITO Convention Today Clarksburg, W. Va. — Edward A. Golden, Monogram's vice-president in charge of exchanges, will be guest speaker at the convention and banquet of the Independent Theater Owners Association of West Virginia at the Waldo Hotel here today. Four hundred are expected to attend the business sessions, according to Danny Davis, chairman of the convention committee. R. J. Hiehle is president of the ITOA of West Virginia. Other officers are R. D. Mirks, vice-president and Garland West, treasurer. Jury Trial Ordered A jury trial in December of the suit brought by the International Flight Corp. against Movietone News and Fox Film Corp. was ordered yesterday by New York Supreme Court Justice Isidore Wasservogel. Suit asks for $100,000 damages for alleged negligence on the part of the defendant in handling a plane loaned to them in 1934 to fly films of the assassination of King Alexander of Jugoslavia. Fordham-Waynesburg Game to Start Tele's Season Television's first season of intercollegiate football via NBC, will get under way Saturday, with a telecast of the Fordham UniversityWaynesburg College game at Randall's Island. The telecast will begin at 2 p.m. over Station W2XBS. Other games already booked for telecast by the NBC mobile unit are: Manhattan versus St. Bonaventure, at Randall's Island on Oct. 7; College of the City of New York versus Scranton, Oct. 14 at Lewisohn Stadium; C.C.N.Y. versus St. Joseph's Nov. 18 at Lewisohn Stadium, and Long Island University versus Catholic University, Nov. 23. NBC is also after two distinctly big-time contests and there is also the possibility of one or more professional football contests being telecast. Warners Adding 5 Cents to Hartford Nabe Scale Hartford — Warners have raised admission of all the Hartford nabe houses from 25 to 30 cents. The Cameo, Bristol and the Strand, Manchester will also have an admission increase from 35 to 40 cents The Colonial, Hartford returns to a second-run policy, after a two weeks' trial of a reserved seat, first run, day and date policy with the Strand. Expect ITA of Ontario Will Convene In October Toronto — Annual convention of the ITA of Ontario is expected to be set for the first week in October at a meeting of the association's execs, here Thursday. Tim Donahue Dies Boston — Tim Donahue, Columbia city salesman, died suddenly of a heart attack here yesterday afternoon. He collapsed on the corner of Church and Melrose Sts., in the film district and was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. Para. Sets Circuit Deals Chicago — Paramount has closed seasonal product deals with the Alliance and Anderson circuits in this territory, according to Manager James Donahue. Increase in volume of biz at the local branch has brought the addition of Harold Wise to the booking staff. Miss Shearer in Hospital Norma Shearer will be in the Doctors Hospital for a few days. She is recuperating successfully from the extraction of a wisdom tooth by Dr. Leo Winter, surgical dentist. cominG AIM GOiriG WILL HAYS returns here today. HAROLD SCHUSTER, director, returns to Hollywood this week-end. He returned last week from England. ROBERT BASSELER, story head in England for 20th-Fox, has arrived here from Lop-* S HY GARDNER goes to Hollywood next itu. SYDNEY CLARE, 20th-Fox song writer, is here for a vacation. BING CROSBY returned to Hollywood over the week-end after a vacation here. LEON NETTER, Paramount theater chieftain, and LEONARD GOLDENSON, returned to New York yesterday after a two-week trip in the middle-West. MRS. FOSTER JACKSON, owner of the Elsinore Theater, Elsinore, Cal., was a visitor at the Warner home office yesterday. ANN SHERIDAN arrives here tomorrow morning from Chicago. LIEUTENANT HARRY J. LEWIS, U. S. Army Signal Corp., has arrived in Hollywood to study the picture industry. CHARLES L. GLETT, vice-president of Eastern Service studios, returns from the Coast today. H. M. BESSEY, secretary-treasurer of Altec Service Corporation has returned today from a trip to the Coast. SIMONE SIMON, French actress, is en route to New York to appear in the musical stage play, "The Gibson Girls." AL LEWIS is due here early next month from the Coast with a stage play, "Quiet, Please," which the two film writers, F. Hugh Herbert and Hans Kraly, have written, which he expects to produce here. DAVID A. BADER arrived in New York yesterday on a brief business trip; he's at the St. Moritz. R. V. ANDERSON, special assistant to Short Subject Sales Manager Harry Michalson of RKO Kadio Pictures, is en a tour of several exchanges in the South. 20th-Fox to Release 17 in Three-Month Period Headed by three Technicolor specials, 20th-Fox will release 17 pictures during the next three months, including two re-issues, it was announced yesterday by the company. Technicolor films are "Drums Along The Mohawk," "Hollywood Cavalcade" and "The Blue Bird." Record number of seven will be released during October with the two re-issues going out that month. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthdays: SEPTEMBER 26 Antonio Moreno Edmund Gwenn