The Film Daily (1941)

all Thursday, February 13, 1941 W DAILY Alias Corp. Boosts RKO Common Holdings -. ig (Continued from Paae 1) sl2 warrants for common and 35,:• 481 shares of 6 per cent convertible ■ preferred after adding 2,900 shares Mhis class. ^ederick L. Ehrman disposed of 600 shares of the $1 par common, leaving him 200 shares and L. Lawrence Green disposed of 2,000 shares. leaving him 2,250 shares. Ehrman iisposed of 75 shares of the 6 per .ent convertible preferred and now i holds no shares. Malcolm Kingsberg reported exi :hanging 10 shares of Keith-AlbeeOrpheum 7 per cent cumulative con. t-ertible preferred for an equal num>er of 7 per cent cumulative preerred voting trust certificates. Michael J. Meehan put 9,000 shares : )f 7 per cent cumulative convertible oreferred in a trust for his children, leaving him 17.004 shares. Kings, . berg's transaction left him 490 ;' bpij shares of 7 per cent cumulative m[j|j],:onvertible and 10 voting trust certificates. Kent Acquires 1,000 Shares Of 20th-Fox's Common Stock Washington Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Washington — Sidney R. Kent has acquired 1,000 shares of 20th Ceny-Fox common no par value stock, is reported in the SEC's semionthly summary of security transIons and holdings. The deal gives ent 3,180 shares of common no r value. Loew's Inc. reported Al Lichtman las acquired 100 shares of common 10 par value, representing his enire holdings in that class. Loew's ;lso acquired an additional 4 shares if Loew's Boston Theaters $25 per common to give the parent company 117,787 shares. Pathe Film Corp. report states Robert M. McKinney holds 11 shares if $1 par common and Louis Philips lolds no shares, directly, but has 100 shares held by his wife. Robert L. Gordon disposed of 500 hares of Trans Lux $1 par common :nd now holds no equity securities vhile Walter Siemers acquired 200 hares bringing his total to 1,200 ■-'■? hares. Report of General Theaters Equip nent Corp. states Edward C. Dela ; ield has acquired 200 shares of apital no par value and now holds 00 shares. lottile Opens Albany Office Pittsfield, Mass.— Michael C. Sotile, operating a theatrical booking gency of this city, has opened a ranch office at 18 S. Pearl St., Alany, N. Y. H. L. Hickman of Alany is in charge. «ohen Named Branch Head New Orleans — Harold F. (Baby) 'ohen, former RKO salesman and lore recently handling advertising rms, has been appointed Gulf tates exchange manager for Monoram Southern. Trailers, Short Aid Defense 7,500 Theaters to Run Recruiting Reels (Continued from Paae 1) pledged their support in showing the pictures and it is expected that this number will be increased shortly to 10,000, according to Francis Harmon, co-ordinator. The distributors' division of the motion picture committee, of which William A. Scully is chairman, has grouped the nation's 31 exchange centers into six districts, one distributing company to act in behalf of all distributors in each area in handling the defense reels. 300 Prints of Trailers Available Three hundred prints of the oneminute trailers are being made available. Titles are "The Infantry", "The Air Corps", "The Armored Forces", "The Coast Artillery", "Flying Cadets Nos. 1, 2 and 3", "The Field Artillery", "Overseas Commands", "The Signal Corps", "The Medical Department" and "The Quartermaster Corps.' "Power for Defense", the 10-minute short, tells the story of the use of TVA power for defense industries in the Southeast. Sponsored by the OPM, reel was produced by a unit embracing Arch Mercey, whose services were borrowed from the Office of Government Reports; Philip Martin, Jr., and cameramen Floyd Crosby and Carl Prvor, with Robert Horton, chief of OPM publicity, as consultant. Narrator is Thomas Chalmers, who functioned for both "The Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River." Carriers to Handle Them Gratis Film Carriers, Inc., with the ap proval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, has volunteered to handle the physical distribution of the pictures without charge. Special red, white and blue labels, bearing the shield of the committee, are to be fixed to all film shipments. Exchanges which will handle the short and trailers in the various territories are as follows: United Artists, Cleveland. Buffalo, and Charlotte; Universal, Cincinnati, Washington, Indianapolis and Minneapolis; Columbia, Albany, Boston, Des Moines and Omaha; Warner Bros., Pittsburgh, New Haven, Philadelphia, and St. Louis; Loew's, Inc., New York, Memphis, Detroit and Salt Lake City; Paramount, Atlanta, New Orleans, Chicago and Portland; RKO, Dallas, Oklahoma City, San Francisco and Seattle; 20th Century-Fox, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Denver. Members of Distribs.' Division Members of the Distributors Division are: William A. Scully, chairman, Neil F. Agnew, George Dembow, Ned E. Depinet, William F. Rodgers, Gradwell Sears, and Herman Wobber. Serving on the Theaters Division are: Joseph Bernhard, chair-man, E. V. Richards, co-chairman, A. H. Blank. Harry Brandt, Si H. Fabian. John H. Harris, Ed Kuykendall, Sam E. Morris, Charles C. Moskowitz, John J. O'Connor, R. J. O'Donnell, Spyros Skouras, R. B. Wilby, and Nathan Yamins. Condor Pix to Guaranteed Guaranteed Pictures Co., Inc., has acquired exclusive world distribution rights to the following Condor Productions, formerly released by Grand National: "Capt. Calamity," "Devil on Horseback," "We're in the Legion Now," all in color: "Love Takes Flight," "Yellow Cargo," "Navy Spy," "Gold Racket," "Bank Alarm," "King of the Sierras, action drama; and "Trailing Trouble" and "Boots of Destinv," Ken Maynard westerns. All pictures will be made available to independent exchanges for release during the current season. Acquire Horowitz Interests Indianapolis — Bennett E. Segalowsky, president and director of the Central Indiana Corp., has announced purchase by the corporation of the entire interests of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Horowitz in the Fountain Square Theater Corp.. the Fountain Realty Co. and the Indiana Central Coi*p. The transaction terminates an association of 20 years with Horowitz. Leonard, Sturges Get Pacts We<t Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Robert Z. Leonard has a new Metro pact; Preston Sturges ditto Paramount. Leonard's next is "Two Women"; Sturges, "Sullivan's Travels." Extend Amusement Tax Gettysburg, Pa. — The Gettysburg borough council has continued in force for two more years the amusement tax ordinance which would expire in March. The ordinance, which compels all money-making amusements in the town to pay a license fee into the borough treasury, netted the borough almost $4,500 in 1940. WB Has Urge to Shift Titles West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood ■ — Title changing is ramnant at Warners. "No Hard Feelings" is now "A Shot in the Dark," "Mother's Boys" is "Three Sons of Guns," and "The Return of Miss Pinkerton" is "Nurses Secret." Fellerman Heads Big "U" Club New officers of the Big "U" Club, elected Saturday, are: President, Harry Fellerman; vice-president, Fred Meyer; treasurer, James Davidson; secretary, Rose Youngfield; sergeant-at-arms, Tom Goff. To Handle Argentine Pix Havana (By Air Mail) — Justo Suarez, manager of EFA, distributing company, has closed a contract with AFA, Argentine firm, for distribution of its product in Cuba. Minneapolis V. C. Names Committees Minneapolis — Ben Blotcky, chief barker of Twin City Variety Club here, has named the following 1941 committees: House — William Elson. chairman, and Hy Chapman, Maitland Frosch and Buzz Rubel. Charity (Heart) — Joseph Podoloff, chairman ; Harry Dryer and M. Frank McCormick. Publicity — Lester Rees, chairman ; Morris Abrahams, Cedric Adams, Lowell Kaplan, Robert E. Murphy, Earl Pomeroy, Merle Potter and Jules Steele. Entertainment — Charles Rubenstein and Lowell Kaplan, co-chairmen: A. A. Kaplan, Ben Meshbesher. Buzz Rubel. William Volk, Sidney Volk and Charles Weiner. Sports — Gil Nathanson, chairman : Fred Abelson, Don Buckley, Frank Eisenberg, Gordon Greene, Charles Jackson, Paul Mans, LeRoy Miller, Joseph Numero and Sol Torodor. Law — Sam Helpern, chairman ; Joseph Finley, A. A. Kaplan, Samuel Maslon and Edmund Ruben. Shut-In — Harry Dryer, chairman ; William Frank, Maitland Frosch, George Granstrom, Hiller Hoffman, Lowell Kaplan, S. Kaplan and Max Torodor. Finance — M. Frank McCormick and Edmund Ruben, co-chairmen : Henry Baker, Ben Berger, Ben Friedman, A. A. Kaplan, Max Torodor and William Workman. Membership — Maitland Frosch, chairman ; Ben Berger, Sim Heller, LeRoy Miller and Gil Nathanson. Atlantic City committee — William Elson, chairman; Maitland Frosch, A. A. Kaplan and Max Torodor. Hoffberg Pix to Dezel Chicago — Albert Dezel has just returned from New York where he has concluded a deal with Hoffberg Productions to handle "Mile Ma Mere" (Virgin Bride) and "Schools for Husbands" in the entire middlewest. Robert Snyder has joined the Dezel Roadshows as special representative in the Chicago area. Mexico Scribes Organized Mexico City (By Air Mail) — Association of Film Commentators of Mexico, representing both film writers for newspapers and magazines as well as film radio commentators, has been formed here with Roberto Cantu Robert, editor-publisher of Cinema Reporter, weekly trade paper, as president ad interim. E. M. Loew Offices Shifted Boston — E. M. Loew's headquarters, long in the Union Bank Building here at 216 Tremont, has moved into the Metropolitan Theater Bldg. at 260 Tremont, one block nearer the theatrical and film district. Elaborate offices have been fitted up on the fifth floor of the "Met." Sam Stokes Promoted McAlester, Okla. — Sam Stokes, manager of three Robb & Rowley theaters here for the past 13 years, has been promoted to manager of 13 theaters in Corpus Christi, Tex. Stokes is succeeded by Alex Blue of Palestine, Tex. $10,951 Gatelee Estate Springfield, Mass. — John F. Gatelee, motion picture projectionist and prominent labor leader, left an estate of $10,951, according to an inventory filed with the registry of probate here.