The Film Daily (1941)

13,151 Thursday, February 13, 1941 To Adopt 9 O'clock 3 Plan Nationally (Continued -from Pape 1) !';B ( , feasible, to its theaters throughout > m the country. In some spots, transportation facilities do not merit the i,:n K ' policy, but where such a condition J«d|s not exist RKO intends to adopt ■ plan. :..., ' The "nine o'clock plan" went into ' effect last night in Rochester, N. Y., k sen where RKO operates the Palace, Cen^ is i tury and Regent Theaters. On Saturday nights, the last main feature will start at 10 o'clock. The associate feature will follow. a 'ill U i •kith sCrat feh IS Il iCotj ■■' a lour of farter Mjj h\, I Hit -:: will Regional Sales Meetings Follow "U" Convention (Continued from Pape 1) head, will meet with his men in Cleveland on Saturday, in Philadelphia on Sunday and New Orleans on Tuesday. William Heineman, Western sales manager, will hold two meetings of the sales staffs in his division. First was held yesterday in Chicago and the second will he held in San Francisco on Tuesday. It was announced at the final session Tuesday that both division managers would spend more time in the field during the coming year. Mrs. Rowland S. Robbins Stricken in Miami Beach (Continued from Pape 1) attack of the flu which had developed into pneumonia. Besides her husband, Mrs. Robbins is survived by her mother and sister. Accustomed to divide her time between the North and South, Mrs. Robbins was spending the Winter at her Miami Beach home, 3300 Collins Ave., when stricken. Simple funeral services will be held today at Philbrick Chapel, Washington Boulevard, Miami Beach. Gable-Lamarr Again Co-stars West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr, will again be co-starred by Metro in "The Uniform." Clarence Brown will direct this Hans Kafka story. Hunt Stromberg is listed as producer. FEB. 13 Tom Gerety John Wray From THE FILM DAILY to FEBRUARY 12 Wallace Ford William Collier, Jr. Tom Moore Barry Trivers Betty Jaynes Howard Bretherton Dorothy Mathews • • • "HOLLYWOOD Who's Who," just off the presses of Dell Publishing Co., should be a boon to movie editors and of great interest to pic fans Book is to be published twice a year and contains 1,000 portraits and 1,000 brief biographies with special stories by Howard Dietz, Will Hays, Samuel Goldwyn, Walt Disney, technicians, and the stars themselves It's a honey for quick references ▼ ▼ T • • • BROUSING through initial issue one finds results of a probe 'mong the Coast's so-called "400" — stars, directors, writers, producers, etc So here's what the greats think of one another: Most Popular, Gary Cooper; Most Sophisticated, John Barrymore; Shyest, Fred MacMurray; Least Affected, Barbara Stanwyck No. 1 Gad-About, Paulette God dard; No. 1 Stay-at-Home, Charles Chaplin; No. 1 Flirt, Connie Bennett; No. 1 Practical Joker, Carole Lombard; No. 1 Life of Party, Bob Hope Best Dancer, Cesar Romero; Most Intellectual, Paul Muni; Most Beautiful, Hedy Lamarr; Handsomest, Robert Taylor; Best Figure (Ed. Note: Outside of GWTW's "take") Betty Grable Ideal Wife, Myrna Loy; Favorite Legit Actor, Alfred Lunt; Favorite Legit Actress, Helen Hayes; Favorite Movie Actor, Spencer Tracy; Favorite Movie Actress, Claudette Colbert Best Film of 1940, "The Great McGinty"; Best Male Supporting Player, Albert Basserman; Best Female Supporting Player, Hattie McDaniel; Did Most for the Industry, Cecil B. DeMille. • • • SPEAKING of new publications the first issue of an intimate New York mag. titled "Don Freeman's Newsstand" has just been released by Associated American Artists Publication, a quarterly, is unique in that it's a one-man journal of Manhattan created in its entirety by a young artist, Don Freeman Among the many personalities of stage, screen and nite life whom Freeman has pictured in the first issue are Ethel Waters, Paula Lawrence, Jimmy Savo. • Ork leader Horace Heidt has shipped sets of his patriotic recordings to 10 of the principal draft camps in the U. S and presented an 11th set to Capt. James Roosevelt for the Marine and Naval base, San Diego Latter, who's producing "Pot O' Gold" which co-stars Heidt and his Musical Knights with James Stewart and Paulette Goddard declared the gift of records would play a part in maintaining a high morale among the men drafted for service T ▼ T • • • THE Columbian Club, Columbia Pictures' social org., will hold its 11th annual formal dinner dance on Washington's Birthday in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Phil Weissman, club's prexy and chairman of the entertainment committee is arranging novel features for the affair. . . • Yes, and the Columbian Club has nothing on Ed Rosenbaum of Columbia's Philadelphia exploitation staff for staging shindigs for Ed is holding the grand opening of his new apartment there next Sunday from "4 p.m. till bedtime" For many years, Ed has been living in a hotel "out of a trunk," as it were and he's so 'thusiastic re having a home that he has issued a real showman-flavored printed invitation for the premiere of "Rosey's Roost" and crediting Wanamaker for furniture, Gimbels for piano, Victor for radio, Edison for lights and even Kresge's for screws and nuts ** « « » » *> Chain Tax Measure Introduced in N. Y. (Continued from Page \) on chains under the present Department of Taxation and Finance: over two and not more than five "stores", annual license fee for each store in excess. $50; in excess of five and less than 10. $100; in excess 10 and less than 25, each in excess $250; each in excess of 25, annual license fee $1,000. Sen. James Crawford hoppered a bill requiring licensing of contractors engaged in construction, installation, alteration, maintenance and repair of air conditioning systems. Bill provides for inspection of such systems in buildings of all classes with penalty for failure to comply. Assemblyman Dutton S. Peterson introduced outdoor advertising regulation bills affecting zoning and state highways. RKO Sets Release Dates From March 14 to May 9 RKO Radio has set the following release dates for latter half of March, April and the first two weeks of May: "A Girl, a Guy and a Gob," March 14; "Footlight Fever," Mar. 21; "Melody for Three" (a Dr. Christian picture), Mar. 28; "Repent at Leisure", April 4; "The Devil and Miss Jones", April 11; "Robbers of the Range", April 18; "They Met in Argentina", April 25; an untilted Leon Errol picture, May 2; "Tom, Dick and Harry", May 9. The company notified its exchanges that Walt Disney's next featurelengh cartoon, "Reluctant Dragon", might be released within the above period. Pittsburgh Variety Club To Hold Banquet Nov. 2 Pittsburgh— C. C. Kellenberg, Variety Club chief barker, has announced that Sunday, Nov. 2, has definitely been selected as the date of the annual banquet. "John Doe" Sneaked; May Play Music Hall The Capra-Riskin "Meet John Doe," which Warners will distribute, had an Eastern sneak preview Monday night for Warner execs., circuit officials and others at RKO's Keith's Theater, White Plains. General reaction put the picture in the socko class, it was said Tuesday. "Doe," which is to be sold separately, is expected to go out at top terms, but these presumably have not been set as yet. Radio City Music Hall, which has played all previously Capra films, is regarded as the likely New York outlet.