The Film Daily (1941)

Tuesday, July 1, 1941 Tues., July 1, 1941 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor r 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 lecpnd 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, $3.00. 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. 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, Le Film, 29 Rue Marsoulan (12). MEXICO CITY— MarcoAurelio Galindo, Depto. 215, Calle del Sindicalismo, 99, Tacubayo, D. F. riNANCIAL (Monday, June 30) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat ■ ■ Col. Picts. vtc. (2</2%> 4% 47/8 47/8 — i/g Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. 8% 83/4 83/4 East. Kodak 1343/8 1343/8 1343/g + l/8 do pfd ; Gen. Th. Eq 12% 12% 12% — V4 Loew's, Inc 293/4 29% 293,4 — 1/4 pfd 10% 10% io% 10% 5B% Paramount 11 Para. 1st pfd Para. 2nd pfd 10% Pathe Film 10 RKO 33/8 RKO $6 pfd 52 20th Century-Fox 20th Century-Fox pfd Univ. Pict. pfd 18i/2 I8V2 18Vi Warner Bros 33,4 334 33,4 do pfd 61 1/2 61 1/2 61 1/2 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Keith B. F. ref. 6s46 Loew's deb. 3i/2s46. 1043/4 104% 1045/8 Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. cv. 3i/4s47 95!/2 95Vi 95 % Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 95 95 95 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. ... % % % Radio-Keith cvs V4 7-32 7-32 Sonotone Corp 1 % Technicolor 8% Trans-Lux Universal Corp. vtc Universal Picts N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45.. 6^ 64% Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 55 59 85/1 8% Rites for Mrs. Welman Cleveland — Mrs. Frances Welman 73, mother of Victor Welman, secretary of Local 160, IATSE, died Friday at the home of her son in Bay Village. Funeral services were held yesterday. Koerner to Inspect RKO Theaters in 21 Cities Para. Wont Back Play Paramount has decided against backing a musical by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson entitled "Good Will Gertie," it was reported yesterday. Charles W. Koerner, general manager of RKO Theaters, will leave tomorrow for an extensive inspection tour of the circuit's houses in the Mid-West, the Great Lakes area and West Coast. During the survey, Koerner plans to visit some 39 theaters scattered throughout Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Champaign, Chicago, Des Moines, Kansas City, St. Paul, Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Dubuque, Minneapolis, Marshalltown, Omaha, Sioux City, Waterloo and New Orleans. PRC Director-Franchise Holders Open 2-Day Meet Two-day meeting of PRC directorfranchise holders got under way yesterday at the company's New York office. Company business, new product plans and sales plans were on the agenda. Attending from out of town were: Jack Adams, Sr. & Jr., Dallas franchise holders; Ike Katz, Atlanta; Bill Flemion, Detroit; Harry Asher, Boston; Herb Given, Philadelphia; Lee Goldberg, Cleveland; and M. Lefton, Pittsburgh; all of whom are also franchise holders and directors. Lieut. Costello Retires As Chicago Film Censor Chicago — Police Lieutenant Harry Costello is retiring as Chicago's film censor. He has been with the police department 37 years. The new pix censor will be announced next week. iVew $20,000,000 JB. F. Keith Corp. Albany— B. F. Keith Corp., New York City, a consolidation of Greater New York Vaudeville Theaters Corp., and B. F. Keith Corp., has been chartered by the Secretary of State with $20,000,000 capital. New corporation is a step in the reorg. of RKO's principal theater subsidiaries. Warner H. O. Executives To Attend Montreal Meet Grad L. Sears, Carl Leserman, Roy Haines, Ben Kalmenson and Norman Moray will represent the Warner home office at the company's Canadian sales meeting to be held in the Mount Royal Hotel, Montreal, July 15-17, with Wolfe Cohen, Dominion manager, presiding. Factors said involved in the decision to hold the meeting apart from the later American sales convention in Chicago include the fact that Warners will cling to full-program selling in Canada and a desire to conserve Canadian currency, if in a modest way. The Canadian territory will be represented by Joseph Plottel, Toronto branch manager; Alfred E. Piggins, district booker; Harry Law, salesman, Toronto; Glenn Ireton, district press representative; Lewis McKenzie, St. John branch manager; Philip Sherman and G. Kieley, manager and salesman, Montreal branch; Louis Geller and Frank Davis, manager and salesman, Winnipeg branch; Harry Kohn, manager, Calgary branch; and I. "Babe" Coval, manager, Vancouver branch. cominG ODD G0II1G HAL B. WALLIS leaves the Coast within a week for Ottawa to complete arrangements for filming in Canada of location work on a new Warner air film based on the RCAF. JOSEPH HUMMEL, Warner foreign executive, left Mexico City yesterday for Cuatemala, leaving there tonight for Rio de Janeiro. BYRON HASKINS, Warner cameraman, and other technicians, have left the Coast for Norfolk, Va., to shoot material at the Navy base there for a new Warner air film. WILLIAM GERMAN, vice-president of Jules Brulatour, has returned from the Coast after a two weeks' business trip. JAMES A. FITZPATRICK is in Maryland filming material for new travelogues. LEE GOLDBERG, JACK ADAMS, JR. and SR., M. LEFTON, HERB GIVEN, HARRY ASHER, IKE KATZ and BILL FLEMION are in town for a two-day meeting of PRC director-franchise holders. ARTHUR W. KELLY, HASKELL MASTERS, DAVID "SKIP" WESHNER and MONROE GREENTHAL are in San Francisco. CASEY ROBINSON, Warner writer, and his wife, have returned to the Coast after a sixweek vacation in New Hampshire. WILLIAM O'TOOLE, former manager of the Ideal, Roxbury, Mass., now working for his Harvard Ph.D. will visit his parents, the Tim RALPH SMITH, Essaness district manager in Chicago, and his wife, have returned to that city after a vacation on the Coast. WILL METHE, of the B & K Berwyn Theater, Chicago, his wife, CHARLEY NESBITT, of the B & K Tower, and MRS. NESBITT, are taking a Southern vacation. DAVE GRIERSDORF left for San Francisco last night. HARRY M. BESSEY, Altec Service secretarytreasurer, has returned to New York from a week's business trip through the Middle West. CHARLES W. KOERNER leaves tomorrow on a circuit inspection trip that will take him to the West Coast. LOU BROWN, Loew-Poli New Haven publicity chief, is on vacation in Washington and Old Comfort, Va. ANNE DONNER of 20th-Fox, New Haven, vacations this week in Ridgefield, Conn. WILLIAM GUTHRIE, Warner Bros, location manager, is in Pensacola, Fla., with a camera crew for massed airplane shots to be used in "Dive Bomber." LOU SCHAEFER, Paramount Theater manager, New Haven, is back after a visit to his son, Robert at CamjJ Blanding, and several stops in Florida. Republic Releasing First Two 1941-42 Pix in July Republic will release the first of its 1941-42 product this month. Pix are "Mountain Moonlight," with Weaver Bros, and Elviry, which goes out on the 12th, and "Hurricane Smith," with Ray Middleton and Jane Wyatt, on the 20th. Other July releases: "Gangs of Sonora,'\J-0th; "Sunset in Wyoming," 15th| "en Nights in a Barroom," 24t&y and "Rags to Riches," 24. Republic has delivered 51 of its announced 58 for this season. Max Milder to Return To English Post July 19 Max Milder, Warners' managing r director in Great Britain, will cut E short his stay here and Clipper back C to Europe July 19, according to present plans, it was learned yesterday. Milder will immediately start work at Teddington on "The Life of Winston Churchill," based upon the Prime Minister's own autobiography, "My Early Life." "Flying Fortress" is another picture on the Warner i schedule with "So This Was Paris" * now being completed. Meet in Chicago Today On Service Men's Cuts Chicago — Representatives of the circuits and indie exhibitors are meeting here today at the call of Jack Kirsch, prexy of Illinois Allied, to consider reduced admissions for service men in uniform. No 111. Film Legislation Springfield, 111.— The Illinois Legislature closed its session last night without having passed any film legislation. C. G. D1CKERS0N Herald-Leader Lexington, Kentucky ^^£J says — "It is indeed a valuable compendium of everything that pertains to the motion picture industry. I do not believe any similar volume has contained such a wealth of information." 1941 YEAR BOOK of Motion Pictures Now Being Distributed FREE To Subscribers of I THE FILM DAIL* 1501 Broadway I New York Bollywood Offict 64,25 Bollywood Blvd. Bollywood, California