The Film Daily (1941)

Monday, August 11, 1941 V "\ DAILY Orders Briefs in Minn. Anli-5 War (Continued from Page 1) ll^ed Artists also being heard at t^^Sime, said they sought only a temporary injunction at present and would leave their action for a permanent injunction and a ruling as to the bill's constitutionality to the October term of Court. Attorneys for plaintiffs pointed out that the United Artists suit was brought on a different basis since it is not a signatory of the consent decree. United Artists, it was claimed, could not exist in Minnesota under the movie bill because it could offer no full season's product for sale at one time as would be required by that bill. Attorneys believed that Judge Hanft went into verbal arguments Friday in order to clear the ground so that he could make an early ruling on the briefs by September 1, thus permitting, provided he grants the injunction, sale of new season's product in Minnesota on the block-of five basis Operator is Indicted On Explosion Charge Meridian, Miss. — Leo Schwartz, operator, was indicted Friday in connection with an explosion in the Royal theater in which six persons were injured, several months ago. Two counts charged Schwartz with assault and battery, the third with malicious mischief. Investigating officers said a makeshift time-bomb was set off under a section of seats while a crowd was in the theater. "40,000 Horsemen" Opens At the Globe Saturday "Forty Thousand Horsemen," Anzac action picture, is to have its American premiere at the Globe Theater on Saturday, for an indefinite run. Depicting the exploits, dramatic and romantic, of the Australian Light Horse cavalry, the picture was made with the co-operation of the Department of Defense and officers and men of the 1st and 2nd Divisions. • • • WITH typical Warner fanfare that company's Technicolor special "Dive Bomber" gets a three-ply world premiere tomorrow night in San Diego and because of the close bond 'twixt the pic and the U. S. Navy the party of Hollywood celebs attending the festivities will be permitted the rare privilege of touring the great Consolidated Aircraft factory which manufactures the flying boats for our Navy and the Catalinas for the British Warner studio execs, will head up the visiting contingent the star segment of which will comprise Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray plus Alexis Smith, Ralph Bellamy, Regis Toomey, Robert Armstrong and Allen Jenkins The trio of stands housing the coincident premieres will be the Fox (for Navy men and their families exclusively) ...... and the State and Plaza for John Q. Public T T ▼ • • • ANOTHER martial note concerning our Navy forces is the selection by the Annual Festival sponsored by the U. S. Naval Station in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii of UA Korda's "That Hamilton Woman" as one of the pix to be shown the officers of the Naval Station were so pleased with Mister Korda's co-operation with 'em that they ups and presented him with a small silver sword The film will sure give the Navy-ites a thrill-broadside what with its recounting of big moments in the career of Lord Nelson T T T • • • ANENT United Artists you gotta hand it to the promotional savvy of Foreign Publicity Director Samuel (Sammy) Cohen When "Cheers for Miss Bishop" received the initial "Loew Mark of Merit" designation from that circuit some months ago the astute Sammy saw no reason why the Richard Rowland opus shouldn't wear the Oscar Doob-concocted verbal "decoration" when it played in theaters overseas So Sammy hullabalooed the "Loew Mark of Merit" in an exploitation manual he shipped on to Australia There, the equally-perceiving Cecil Marks UA's general manager saw to it that "Miss Bishop" was publicized an award winner The powerful Hoyt's Circuit thus clarioned the film '. and even appropriated the "Mark of Merit" idea unto its own exhibited product T ▼ T • • • IT's almost a decade-and-a-half now since Phil M. in company with two of New York's first-line noozepaper critics barged outa the Hotel Astor at the crack of dawn from a movie party and found that the most immediate form of transportation was a horse-drawn victoria On the homeward trek we hadda listen to aged coachman give a spiel to the effect that autos will some day by supplanted by equine-hauled vehicles Well, Sir, the old guy must be laughing currently in face of the announcement by a bunch of society folks hereabouts that they intend driving to the Broadway opening of Metro's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" tomorrow night in horses and buggies Yes, and Mister Ickes' gasoline conservation campaign may make the ole cabby 100 per cent right T T ▼ • • • WHAT to do with spare moments if any: Hie to Keppel Galleries, 670 Fifth Ave., and Kennedy Galleries, 785 Fifth Ave. and gander selected celluloid drawing from Walt Disney's "The Reluctant Dragon" You'll depart loving 'em "still" Selznick Deal Rests With New UA Prexy West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Final closing of the deal whereby David O. Selznick would become an owner-member of United Artists Corp. rests with the selection of a top executive, it is reported here. Selznick, it is said, will not sign the contract until he knows who UA's president is going to be. Meanwhile, rumors of the possible president of the company continue to float around. Alexander Korda is reported to have done some negotiating on the matter in New York last week. He arrived over the week-end and is due to return East this week. Western Pa. MPTOA Sets Up Reviewing Committee (Continued from Page 1) ater Owners of Western Pennsylvania. Plan, which was approved by the board of directors, calls for each committee to attend all trade screenings in a given week and report its criticisms on a card specially prepared for easy classification. It is pointed out by the organization that the system will give the membership ten opinion cards on each picture from which to draw conclusions. Posted on a blackboard in the association headquarters will be a classification on each picture, which will be the average consensus taken from the individual cards. Each card calls for the title, producer, type of feature, period, entertainment value, box-office value, name of comparative feature of last season as regards story and entertainment, remarks, committee number, committee man number and running time. The cards will be unsigned. Although the committee assertedly will work for the benefit of its members, the association urges that all who can should attend the trade shows personally. WEDDING BELLS Oklahoma City— Bob Pfotenhauer, manager, State Theater, was married Aug. 3 to Carole Gayle Wattson, in the bride's home in Oklahoma City. Miss Wattson formerly was associated with the State staff. Oklahoma City — Claude Motley, Western division manager for the Griffith Amusement circuit, with headquarters at Lubbock, Tex., was married Aug. 3 to Miss Sylvia Ainsworth, of Lubbock. They left immediately after the ceremony for a honeymoon trip to New Mexico. Oklahoma City — Madeline Lee Parmeter, cashier of the State Theater, and Rex Graham, fight promoter, were married recently.