The Film Daily (1940)

9t DAILY Friday, March 29, 1940 Vol. 77, No. 63 Fri., March 29, 1940 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. 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, $3.06. 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. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD, Calif.— 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 — Marco-Aurelio Galindo, Av. Coyoacan No. 100B, Mexico, D. F. BUENOS AIRES— Chas de Cruz, Heraldo Del Cinematografista, Corrientes 1309. (Copyright 1940 by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc.) mm m. ( mnnciflL NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 10'/2 10% lOVz + 'A Col. Picts. vtc. (2l/2%) Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. 9% 95/8 9s/s + % East. Kodak 1 51 V2 1 51 Vi 1 51 '/2 — Vl do pfd Gen. Th. Eq 13 13 13 — Va Loew's, Inc 36 35% 35% + i/4 do pfd Paramount 7% 7% 75/8 Paramount 1st pfd Paramount 2nd pfd. . . 9% 9>/4 93/8 + Vs Pathe Film 11% 11 H — Vs RKO T/a 1% 1% 20th Century-Fox ..lift 1 1 '/4 1 1 'A — 'A 20th Century-Fox pfd. 23 23 23 Univ. Pict. pfd 109 103!/2 103'/2 — 5V4 Warner Bros 3% 3% 3% do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith B. F. ref. 6s46 Loew's deb. 3 Vis46 Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. 6s55 Para. Picts. cv. 3 y4s47 87% 86% 87% + % RKO 6s41 Warner Bros." dbs. 6s48 90 89'/2 89V2 — % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts Sonotone Corp 1 % 1 % 1 % + Vs Technicolor 15% 15% 15% + % Trans-Lux 1% 1% 1%+ % Universal Corp. vtc... 6% 5% 5% — y2 Universal Picts 11 11 11 — 1 N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Pathe Film 7 pfd Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45... 73 74 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 653,4 67% Acco untant, 10 years' experience in mo tion picture business seeks con lection. Fami iar with produc tion and distribu tion problems. Box 1701 THE FILM DAILY 1501 B'way N. Y. C. 18 Underwriters to Market j Schine Mgr. Goes to Court Walt Disney Stock Offering Today for "Parole" Ad Gag Total of 18 underwriters, headed by Kidder, Peabody & Co., will market the first public offering of Walt Disney Prod, stock, amendment filed to the company's SEC registration statement discloses. The 155,000 shares of 6 per cent cumulative convertible preferred will be offered by the following underwriters in the amounts indicated: Kidder, Peabody & Co., 30,000 shares; Harriman, Ripley & Co., 25,000; Pacific Capital Corporation, 20,000; Mitchum, Tully & Co., 17,000; William R. Staats Company, 8,000; W. E. Hutton & Co., Lee Higginson Corporation, Graham, Parsons & Co., Stone & Webster and Blodget, Inc.; G. M.-P. Murphy & Co., and Merrill, Lynch & Co., Inc., 5,000 shares each; Alex Brown & Sons, Pacific Company of California, Baker, Watts & Co., 4,000 each; Schwabacher & Co., 3,000; Page, Hubbard & Asche, 2,000; Moore, Leonard & Lynch and Banks, Huntley & Co., 1,500 each. The price at which the shares wil be offered will be disclosed in an amendment to the company's registration statement. The prospectus is dated April 2. Columbia to Sell British Leigh-Olivier Pix Singly British pix, "Three Weeks Together," which Columbia has acquired for late April release, will be sold individually. Film's cast is topped by Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. Based on John Galsworthy's "The First and the Last," feature was released abroad as "21 Days." Ehrlich" and "Rebecca" Finally Set in Chicago Chicago — Loop booking jam will be partly relieved as a result of the setting of "The Story of Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" into the B & K Apollo, to follow "Of Mice and Men," and the scheduling of "Rebecca" for the United Artists theater to follow "Young Tom Edison," current. Ark. ITO Meets April 28 at Little Rock; Will Elect Little Rock, Ark.— ITO of Ark. will hold its annual convention at the Hotel Marion here April 28-29, it has been announced following a meeting of the Board of Directors here this week. O. G. Wren, Little Rock, is president; K. K. King, Searcy, secretary, and W. A. Malin, Augusta, vice president. Officers will be elected at this meeting. It's in Cinecolor "New Hampshire," short produced by Emerson Yorke and distributed by Columbia, was photographed in Cinecolor, not Cosmocolor, as credited in The Film Daily's review. Gloversville, N. Y. — Garson Jaffa, manager of the Cortland Theater, is expected to plead "guilty with extenuating circumstances" today when he appears before a Cortland judge on a charge resulting from teaser ads on "Parole Fixer," a Paramount picture. It is expected that he will make a public apology for the appearance of the ads which indicated that paroles could be "fixed," claiming, however, that the idea originated in the press book. Convicts at Attica prison believed them to be genuine and started to raise a fund. Schine Enterprises and Paramount attorneys are doing everything possible to straighten out the mixup. Academy Award Featurette Ready May 4; Free Trailer Warners will make available a free trailer announcing the fourreel featurette, "Cavalcade of Academy Awards" it was learned yesterday. Subject will be released May 4. Among the Award winners from 1928 on, who are seen in this film, are: George Arliss, Fay Bainter, Lionel Barrymore, Warner Baxter, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Walt Disney, Robert Donat, Marie Dressier, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Janet Gaynor, Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn, Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Fredric March, Hattie McDaniel, Victor McLaglen, Thomas Mitchell, Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Norma Shearer and Spencer Tracy. "Broadway Melody" Opens to Strong Biz at Capitol "Broadway Melody of 1940," opening yesterday at the Capitol, topped biz done by "Babes in Arms," "The Women" and "Northwest Passage," all holdovers there, and ran even with "Boys' Town," Metro reported last night. "Singapore" Held in 18 Keys, Moved Over in 7 Paramout's "Road to Singapore," has been held over in 18 key city engagements and moved over to other theaters for extra playing time in seven other situations, reports yesterday to home office show. Chi. Operators Union Signs Contract With WGN Chicago — Operators union has closed deal with Station WGN to supply operators for films to be shown at its modern studio on Michigan Ave. Chi. Union Exec. Dies Chicago — Joseph Cohn, well known union official here, is dead from a heart attack. com i no mid Gome FRANK LLOYD, director, and members of the cast of Columbia's "Tree of Liberty," GARY GRANT, SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE, RICHARD CARLSON and ALAN MARSHALL leave Hollywood Sunday for Williamsburg, Va., to start filming. GENE RAYMOND is in New York for a week of playgoing. WILLIAM HORNBECK, film editor for Alexander Korda, arrived in New York ^Mcrday on the Conte di Savoia en route to r^Hpyood to cut and edit "The Thief of Bagdadl^^ JACK BENNY leaves the Coast on April 14 for New York for the premiere of his Para, film, "Buck Benny Rides Again." He will be accompanied by writers of the story, WILLIAM MORROW and EDMUND BELOIN and by HARRY BALDWIN and HILLARD MARX. The following day cast members, ELLEN DREW, ANDY DEVINE, PHIL HARRIS, DENNIS DAY and ROCHESTER will entrain for New York. HAROLD RODNER of Warners' New York office left the Coast last night on his return to New York after completing the Will Rogers Memorial Reel. MRS. KNUTE ROCKNE of South Bend, Ind., is leaving for the Coast to consult with Warner Bros, executives on the film to be made on Knute Rockne's life. JACK FLYNN, M-G-M district manager in Chicago, has returned there from his annual Florida vacation. PERRY C. HOEFFLER, Great States district manager in Quincy, III., and his wife have returned there after a vacation in the East. CAPT. JOHN PROUT, technical adviser on Warners' "Fighting 69th," has arrived in Hollywood from New York and will negotiate with Warners for technical work on a new production. MADELEINE WHITE, secretary to Prexy W. Ray Johnston of Monogram, and HAZEL BENTON of National Theaters' statistical department, sail today on the Amazone on a 24-day trip to the West Indies. M. J. SIEGEL, president and board chairman of Republic Productions, leaves New York for the Coast this week-end. A. A. SCHUBART, manager of exchange operations for RKO Radio, leaves New York today for a two-week vacation in Florida, accompanied by his wife. C. M. CUTLER and H. J. CHANON of the lamp department of General Electric, return to Cleveland today from a New York business visit. NAT SALAND, president of Mercury Film Laboratories, flies from the Coast today and will arrive in New York tomorrow. Best wishes from THE FILM DAILY to the following on their birthdays: MARCH 29 Warner Baxter Dennis O'Keefe Robert Sis* Carl Nielsen Arthur Caesar Joseph Cawthorn J. E. Atterson MARCH 30 Anna Q. Nilsson Martin George Smith MARCH 31 Victor Varconi Eddie Quillan Clifford Brooke John Harron