The Film Daily (1942)

0 *\ DAILY Friday, January 2, 19421 : Dave Fleischer Quits As Studio Chieftain (Continued from Page 1) been appointed executive general manager. The present executive production staff, headed by Seymour Neitel and Isadore Sparber, has been augmented by the addition of Dan Gordon, and other additions to the story department will be announced shortly. Fleischer subjects are released by Paramount. Its "Mr. Bug Goes to Town" will be released next month. A heavy program is planned for the 1942-43 season. Reports that Paramount would take over the operation of the Fleischer studio in Miami could not be confirmed Wednesday. Cuban Exhibitors' Union Will Revise Trade Code (.Continued from Page 1) by a four-man film industry commission in August and rejected by the Union. The Union has named a committee to prepare the revisions and has asked exhibitors outside of Havana to send in suggestions. The Havana committee is composed of Jose Valcarce, for the first-run theaters; Edelberto de Carrera, president of the Union; Humberto Lopez, for the second-runs; Celestino Diaz, for the third-runs, and Ricardo Vinalet for the fourth-runs. Extends Time for Filing Oriental, Alcyon Briefs Chicago — B & K, Paramount, Twentieth Century-Fox, and McViekers Theater attorneys have been given time extension, to Jan. 9 to file answers in the Oriental Theater arbitration case. Arbitrator Drennan Slater granted Sam Myers theater circuit attorneys an extension to January 5 to file their briefs in the Alcyon Theater case. JANUARY 2 W. Ray Johnston Vera Zorina Walter A. Futter Moo Silver JANUARY 3 George B. Seitz Dorothy Arzner Anna May Wong Paul Benjamin Eddie Gribbon Marion Davies JANUARY 4 Sam Dembow Virginia Colleen Alicoate Some Recollections of the Bygone Year: • • • BOB O'DONNELL AND KARL HOBLITZELLE'S aid to the under-privileged kids in Texas Ned Depinet's promotional letters in behalf oi RKO Radio product Jimmy Grainger's magnificent selling job for Republic Monroe Greenthal's swell ad campaign for "The Shanghai Gesture" Mary Louise (San Antonio News) Walliser's wedding A. M. Botsford's transfusion of life-blood into 20th-Fox promotion H. M. Warner's patriotism Radie Harris's li'l Red Riding Hood coat Charles (Barnes Printing) Stuart's card announcing a family addition Will Hays's oration before the Indiana Society of Chicago William S. Hart's speech at an Ampa luncheon Exploitation of tab reels by Universal's Bernie Kreisler The Joe Hornstein-Hal Hode work on the Picture Pioneers' dinner whereat Wendell Willkie and Jimmy Walker were honor guests V V V • • • BARNEY BALABAN'S enthusiasm for the Red Cross and Federation Preview Theater's efficiency Si Seadler's pencil sketches Legal talent which screened the industry from Witch and other hunts Herb Berg's service to Ye Trade Press Arthur Mayer's horror pix and contrasting sense of humor Monogram (not a film company) designed by Hap and Bob Hadley Akron, O., motion picture operators' union posting alluring cash award for first U. S. airman to drop a bomb on Tokyo Hoy land Bettinger's films of the Province of Quebec Besa Short's vitalizing of shorts Lou Lifton's keeping up communications with New York albeit headquartering in Sunny Cal Charley Pettijohn's tie P. A. Mc-Guire's energy Jimmy (Rivoli) Dunn's gallantry in personally ushering an elderly lady to a loge seat. T T T • • • "CHICK" LEWIS'S ace job in nationally spotlighting the Variety Clubs The film producer who walked into a Manhattan steak house, saw a Sailor and a Marine enter and patriotically asked them to be his guests, when up suddenly slithers an FBI gent and sez it's agin' regulations. — but the film producer allows it is like hell, and proves his right to host the two unknown service men by producing irrefutable evidence that he's in Government ranks himself, and the Government's duty is to feed the armed forces Aileen Brenon's smart raiments (especially when green) Gus Eyssell making a transcending art of theater management Harry Sherman making ditto of westerns Toni Spitzer's publicity prowess on Disney and Dumbo Barret McCormick's steamer rug at the Louis-Nova fight Emerson Yorke's defense films Charley Einfeld's red leather, midget radio The Sunday breakfasts with Jack (RKO) Lewis Evelyn Koleman's grabbing of agate lines W. G. Van Schmus's studio parties at the Music Hall V V Y • • • NIGHT "Citizen Kane" bowed on B'way with Orson Welles the idol of adoring thousands as he exited from the premiere, and how, the following morn he walked into a big B'way barber shop and not a soul even recognized him. . . .THE FILM DAILY'S poll of the nation's pic critics re war propaganda which went a long way toward killing the Senate sub-committee's probe Feed-bag sessions with John Eberson M-G-M's first Exhibitor Forum in Columbus where 250 exhibs. sat in a room for eight hours and loved it The Warner junkets to Littleton, N. H., and Washington and Universal's trade press trek to Detroit The "Yank in the R.A.F." premiere at the Roxy with a carnival thrown in The Variety Club convention in Atlantic City Yes, recollections of a bygone year! V ▼ V i) Film Story Editors Wary of B'way Plays (Continued from Page 1) story requirements are concerned Eastern editors are on the lookou mainly for comedies and moral plays. Serious and realistic sfc"1 does not appeal to them any lc' '( As one astute observer pu u. there isn't much left to choose frorif the present crop. Such plays a "My Sister Eileen," "The Wookey!l and "Claudia," have already beeir sold and Columbia has the inside track for the outstanding corned; | hit, "Junior Miss," he said. All feelers for bidding havi' slowed down until the story editor ( can size up the new scripts fo laughs and for themes that wil bolster morale. Those are the onk, kinds of plays that will be consid . ered by story eds. for the duration Detroit Theaters Cut Scales for Service Men (Continued from Page 1) uniform. Agreement was secure through the joint lead of Unite; Detroit Theaters and Co-Operativi Theaters of Michigan. New scal< for service men only at second-run: is 25 cents; keys, 20 cents; and sub sequent-runs, 15 cents. Warners to Pay 96 Va Cent Dividend on Preferred (Continued from Page 1) the Warner Bros, board of directors : All officers of the parent compan; = and the subsidiary, Stanley Co. o America, were re-elected for th ensuing term. GE and Bondy Renew General Electric has announcec the renewal of its contact with Al 0, Bondy, Inc., Film Center Building, as its exclusive theatrical distributor of the G-E institutional films. Tht^ Bondy organization has been hand'tf ling the G-E pix for 11 years. [^ U. K. Thriller for PRC Here "Angel of Terror," one of Edgai1 Wallace's best-sellers, will be made '■ in England by Pathe and distrib ■ uted by Producers Releasing Corp < over here. Martin Mooney is adapt ing the story for the screen. Attendance in "Frisco Bach on Even Keel San Francisco — Show business in this city pretty well back on even keel — although by no means good. Marquee lighting is permitted providing all lights can be switched off on a second's notice. Worst wallop theaters are getting is that customers still don't like to take their cars out after dark for fear of being caught in blackout. I III