The Film Daily (1942)

Monday, March 23, 1942 <W DAILY 'hilly Indie Mgrs. n Benevolent Group (Continued from Page 1) n >red that a managers' union was iting formed but the report apparitly was unfounded. Another meetS-" Ms scheduled for March 30 at yb P.M. The group is inviting ill independent managers in the terirory to attend. Play Defense Films 5eats-for-Doormen Bill Is Killed in Committee (.Continued from Page 1) eording to custom, identical measires killed by Assembly committees ire not considered there, even if the Senate bill passes and comes to the rwer House. Play Defense Films N. Y. Assembly Passes Discrimination Bill Albany — Assembly has passed the Washburn bill making it a misdemeanor to exclude citizens of the state because of national origin as ♦veil as due to race, color or creed, from employment in defense work or from enjoyment of privileges furlished by theaters. Play Defense Films i.Cal 'Go ilif. Drops State Fair; >v't Will Lease Site Sacramento, Cal. — California's j B8th State Fair will not be held this I Summer, and instead, the fair grounds will be leased soon to the L". S. Government for "uninterrupted continuous" use during the war, Governor Olson has announced. In recent years the state fair has progressively broken all attendance records by liberal use of screen talent. Last year the fair drew more than 600,000 persons for an all-time record with shows built around Gene Autry, Bob Hope, Kay Kyser, Vera Vague and Orson Welles. Play Defense Films Candidate for Congress Jacksonville, Fla. — M. C. Moore, manager of the Riverside Theater, will be a candidate for the House of Representatives in the Democratic primary election to be held in May. Joan Crawford Winfield Andrus ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • OUT of respect to the memory of Sidney R. Kent. Paramount postponed from yesterday afternoon until Wednesday afternoon the cocktail reception in honor of Cecil B. DeMille, welcoming him to New York for the Eastern premiere of his 66th feature film, "Reap the Wild Wind," and celebrating his 30th anniversary as a motion picture producer The party was to have been held in the Waldorf-Astoria's Perroquet Suite, — but the new venue will be that hostelry's famed Jade Room Deferment was exactly the right thing for Paramount to have done, because the passing of Kent cast a deep cloak of sorrow o'er local Film Row, as well as the industry at large Besides, the Kent association had been so close with both Paramount and Cecil B. DeMille ▼ PLAY DEFENSE FILMS T • • • IT is more appropriate, too, to hold the DeMille party on Wednesday That will be the eve of "Reap the Wild Wind" on the Music Hall's screen, for what we prophesy will be a spectacular run Phil M.'s news hound. Little Snooper, got to wandering 'round certain cinema circles hereabouts during the week-end, and came home with word that the smart money is down on the pic's staying at least three weeks at Gus Eysscll's li'l stand T PLAY DEFENSE FILMS T • • • ANOTHER monumental event is the invitation premiere of Lieutenant-Colonel Darryl F. Zanuck's "To the Shores of Tripoli" on Wednesday night at the Roxy, under the aegis of The Greater New York Detachment of the Marine Corps League This, like "Reap the Wild Wind," is in glorious Technicolor, putting features in the Dr. Kalmus medium into New York's two biggest theaters concurrently The 20th-Fox opus, which is a box-office smash and ultra-timely, also has the power essential to a protracted engagement Film's male stars are John Payne and Randolph Scott, and the femme planet is the charming and capable Miss O'Hara, who, in addition to the power of suggestion, is a perfect choice for her role We say power of suggestion because that factor must have entered into casting for a film re the United States Marines this United States Maureen (by adoption) T PLAY DEFENSE FILMS T 0 9 % THE best-promoted Flower Show in local annals has folded its petals Over at the Grand Central Palace, 'most any time of day, could be scene some of filmland's famous "farmers" These celluloid lads were much more interested in the Government-urged Victory Vegetable Garden angles than in' the sweet-scented posies. . . . • Another rendezvous of the pic fraternity these nights is the Music Box Theater on West 45th St. where Luise Rainer, multiple winner of the Academy's golden "Oscars," is starring back o' the footlights in James M. Barrie's "A Kiss for Cinderella". ... • Samuel Goldwy'n <has signed Ray Noble and his band for a night club sequence in the eagerly awaited "The Pride of the Yankees," which another Sam, Mister Wood, is megaphoning with Gary Cooper interpreting Lou Gehrig. ... • Oscar Serlin's production of John Steinbeck's "The Moon Is Down" comes into New York from Baltimore on March 31 to take up tenancy at the Martin Beck Theater. ... • When mail goes out of MPPDA these days, each letter emerging from the stamp meter is surcharged with the following slogan: "Win The War Now; Everything Else Is Chores!" The sooner some theatermen learn the truth and wisdom of this, the sooner they will see to it that Government Defense Films play on every show, every day T T ▼ • • • PLAY DEFENSE FILMS, and— REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR! UMPI Com. of Whole To Meet on Thursday (Continued from Page 1) agreed upon by the sub-committee on trade practices which meets on Wednesday. William F. Rodgers is the general chairman of the committee of the whole. It is the first meeting of the main body since the unity program was set up in New York following the organization meeting in Chicago. Members of the committee of the whole include H. A. Cole, Roy E. Harrold, Sidney Samuelson, Jack Kirsch, Martin Smith, R. H. Poole, Bob White, Harry Brandt, John Rugar, Leo F. Wolcott, (William Crockett, alternate Fred Wehrenberg, Rotus Harvey, Max A. Cohen, Lewin Pizor, Ed Kuykendall, Tom Connors, Howard Levinson, Steve Broidy, Neil Agnew, Abe Montague, James R. Grainger and Ned E. Depinet. Play Defense films 200 Easter Playdates For "The Jungle Book" "An unprecedented number" of day-and-date bookings for Alexander Korda's "Jungle Book" for Easter week is reported by Carl Leserman, general sales manager of United Artists. Approximately 200 cities will see the film during the holidays. Play Defense Films Laurel & Hardy Start West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy begin work on their second feature for 20th Century-Fox today when cameras roll on "AHaunting We Will Go." The comedy team recently completed a 10-week personal appearance tour of mid-west states which began following completion of "Great Guns." TO TUK COLORS! Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Frank Alexander, assistant manager at the Penn Theater, has been inducted into the Army. Peter Scully, Universal contract player, has enlisted in the Marine Corps and assigned to San Diego base. Peter Scully is the second son of John J. Scully, Universal manager at Buffalo, to join the armed forces. John Scully, Jr., is at Fort Bragg, N. C. Rochester — Total number of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. men in the services jumped to 247 last month when 44 more employes enlisted. Cleveland — Charles Albert, Warner theater booker, has been summoned to report for Army duty on March 24.