The Film Daily (1942)

rursday, March 19, 1942 = IN* DAILY : lircella Switches o Plea of Guilty (.Continued from Page 1 ) .^-defendant with Circella. was postcned until April 6. Judge Moscowitz, in accepting a t-'ge of plea from not guilty to y, continued bail of $25,000 un"April 7, the day fixed for sen;ncing. Circella faces a maximum >itence of 10 years' imprisonment Jnd $10,000 fine. Pursuant to a request of U. S. uttorney Mathias F. Correa which •as consented to by Circella's atn-ney, David V. Cahill, Judge John . Knox will pass sentence upon ircella. Correa made the request ecause, he said, Judge Knox was niliar with the situation since he ad tried similar charges against eorge E. Browne and William Bioff. [owever, if Judge Knox is not availti that day, the judge sitting in the riminal Court will be asked to senMice the defendant, Correa added. . Circella, a former representative '"t Browne in the IATSE, was iXharged with being the "collector" ! Chicago for Browne and Bioff, ccording to testimony of film ex:utives in the extortion trial. The efendant was arrested in Chicago i December, 1941, after a half-year lunt by FBI men. n i Varner District Parleys Aay Replace Convention (Continued from Page 1) rs in Boston, and other members of ne Eastern sales force. This was one of a series of disrict and regional parleys being convicted by Warner sales heads and ^hich will probably take the place jf the annual sales convention this ear. iix-Day School Week Hits n Jaturday Box-office (Continued from Page 1) ( ie children earlier available for in work. Shortage of help is e ng increasingly felt, due both the calling up of farm employes iW war service and their voluntary sparture to enter the better-paid efense industries. ▼ T T • • • UP at the local Normandie Theater yester morn, a capacity, exhibitor-studded audience watched with rapture Paramount's tradeshowing of Cecil B. DeMille's grand and glorious "Reap the Wild Wind" Although this potent and pulse-tingling yarn's action took place almost an even century ago, it has its timely aspects, among them the fact that then, as now, America's sea-lanes were in jeopardy But as against such parallels, there is an amusing contrast, which, as the film goes through its inevitably brilliant release life, is bound to excite both audience and press comment It is the scene which depicts the convalescent sea captain John Wayne, whom Paulette Goddard has taken into her home, after the unfortunate gentleman's ship goes on the rocks, and he himself is brutally battered by the savage salvagers The solicitous Miss Goddard brings to his bedside a tray laden with meat and drink, — the latter apparently coffee Says she: "How many sugars?" "Three," he commands That response brought from the rationed-ones in the audience an unconscious gasp, to which some more jocose folks added good-natured boos directed at John's profligacy! It's a hearty laugh in a right hearty picture V V T • e • ANENT Paramount , instant proof of the popular Australian feeling which followed the appointment of General Douglas MacArthur to post of the Southwest Pacific's supreme commander was given in a cable received yes'day by John W. Hicks, Jr., vice-prexy in charge of Para.'s foreign activities The message, sent by Eiic Solomon, publisher of The film Weekly, and former member of the New South Wales state legislature, read: "Let all sections of motion picture industry in United Stales know all your Australian cobbers i Editor's Note: "cobbers" is Australian slang for Buddies, or pals) thrilled with appointment of General MacArthur as supreme commander of Anzac area. Industry here extending hand of welcome to members of your fighting forces who with Anzacs will defend our common heritage in the Pacific" T T V • • • SPEAKING of the war, let's add a syllable and speak oi Warners: Ralph L. McCoy, Southern and Midwest manager for WB. can qualify as technical advisor on many aspects of aerial warfare He was in the American aviation service in World War No. 1, and saw service in France. ... • John Gariie'.d and Edward G. Robinson appear to be the Treasury Department's favorite Defense Bond salesmen, — when it comes to delivering talks to workers in war plants Both WB stars are hard-hitters who can talk the language of the riveters, steel hands and shopworkers In no time the boys in dungarees are calling the celebs by their first names And sales resistance melts ! .... • The hemisphere solidarity slogan, on the "V" for Victory theme, originated by Gerald R. Keyser of Warners' foreign department, is spreading through Latin-America, with General Motors and other commercial firms joining the theaters in use of the insignia in ads, etc. ... • Warner Bros, were ahead of the news again in making "Dangerously They Live," which comes to the New York Strand soon Pic deals with U-Boat attacks off the Atlantic Coast, and warned against this possibility, although many people contended it wasn't likely to happen. . . . • Ralph W. Budd, WB's h.o. personnel mgr., is seeing to it that his company's boys now in service will not be forgotten by fellow-workers they left behind Among other things, for each WB man now in uniform, Budd has put up a star flag, with the man's name stamped on it, on the h.o. cafeteria walls There are 75 flags up already T T T • • • REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR! Columbia 6-Mos. Net Rises to $737,749 (Continued from Page 1) for the 1940 six-month period, before taxes. For the current period under review Federal income and excess profits taxes amounted to $776,963 and in the 1940 corresponding period Federal income taxes amounted to $67,210. As a result of the Japanese invasions the consolidated investments in branches operated in China, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies and Philippine Islands, have each been written down to $1.00 by a charge against current profits. The corporation's profits in such countries as Spain and Denmark where it continues to be impossible to convert local monies into dollars have not been included as income. In view of the fact that dollars are being currently remitted under restrictive agreements with the Governments of England, Australia and New Zealand, the exact amount, if any, which may be restricted could not be determined at this time. Ralph Austrian Joining WPB in Washington (Continued from Page 1) has been granted a leave of absence to accept a position with the Planning Board of the War Production Board in Washington. Austrian will leave his office on March 20. Warner Zone Conference C. J. Latta, manager for Warner Theaters in the Albany zone, and Charles Smakwitz of the Albany office are in New York for conferences with Harry M. Kalmine, assistant general manager of the Warner circuit, and other company officials. They are expected to return to Albany today. 501 I A Men in Service Latest figures disclose that 501 members of the IATSE have been called into service. WEDDING BELLS Technical Sergeant D. Eugene Punches of the 130th infantry band at Camp Forrest, Tenn., was married to Wanda Wanack of Springfield, 111. Sgt. Punches formerly was employed at the Orpheum Theater, Great States unit at Springfield, 111. Announcement was made yesterday of the engagement of Josephine Langfelder, of the Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim office, to Dr. Mortimer Flamer of Yonkers. Virginia Pine, film actress, and Quentin Reynolds, war correspondent, are to be married in New York on March 26.