The Film Daily (1942)

Wednesday, July 1, 1942 Vol.82, Nc . 1 Wed. July 1 1942 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MCRSBREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor 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. Metsereau, Secretary-Treasurer. Entered a;secoml class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at thi posl 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. Adddess 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: I'ilmday, New York. Kepresenlatives: HOLLYWOOD, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Thone Granite 6607. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. L. PARIS— P. A. Harle, Le Film, 29 Ru<Marsonlan (12). MEXICO CITY— MarcoAmelio Galindo, Depto. 215. Calle del Sindicalismo, 99. Tacubayo, D. F. FINANCIAL (Tuesday, June 30) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat S% 8% Ws + % Col. Picts. vtc. (2!/2%) Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd East. Kodak do pfd Gen. Free. >Eq Loew's, Inc 40 Vs 40'/8 40 y8 — Vs do pfd: Paramount Para. 1st pfd.. . . RKO RiKO $6 pfd 20th Century-fox Univ. Pict. pfd.. Warner Brcs. . . . do pfd 14i/2 h% 14l/2 31/g 2% 41 1/2 41 1/2 93/4 9V2 153 153 5i/8 5 100 53 5i/8 99% 100 NEW YORK BOND MARKET Para. B'way 3s55... 61 y2 61 Vs 61 Vs + T^ra. Picts. deb. 4s56 99% 99% 99% + Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts Radio-Keith cvs. ...5-32 5-32 5-32+1-32 Sonotone Corp 1% 1% 1% ■■ Technicolor 7 7 7 Trans-Lux % Vs % Universal Corp. vtc N. Y. OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES Bid Asked Met. Playhouse, Inc. 2nd deb. '45.. 64 67 Roxy Thea. Bldg. 4s 1st '57 61% 641/4 Skouras, Connors, and Lawrence Flying to Coast CLOSE THAT DEAL TOMORROW BY TELEGRAPHING TODAY VIA. tostal Telegraph CHARGES FOR TELEGRAMS 'PH0HED IN APPEAR ON YOUR TELEPHONE BILL. Spyros Skouras, president of 20thFox; Tom Connors, vice-president in charge of distribution, and Laudy Lawrence, the company's foreign distribution head, fly to the Coast tomorrow for conferences with Col. Darryl Zanuck, production chief, and other studio executives on production plans for the new season. They will be on the Coast indefinitely. Hal Home, publicity and advertising chief, who was to have sat in at the conferences, will remain behind to complete the campaigns for the first block-of-five releases for 1942-1943. Three Para. Distribution Changes Made by Agnew Three changes in Paramount's distribution setup were announced yesterday by Neil Agnew. Hugh Braly, formerly district manager for the Pacific Coast, is shifted to the Rocky Mountain district, with Del Goodman, foimer Canadian sales manager, succeeding. Braly succeeds Manny Brown, who has been named branch manager of the Buffalo office. "Miniver" in Cleveland At Regular House Scale Cleveland — In line with the policy enunciated by Nicholas M. Schenck, Loew's State will show Metro's "Mrs. Miniver" at regular prices, previously announced b.o. scale boost being cancelled. Jan Struthers is set for a personal appearance at Loew's State Theater here July 9 in connection with the run of "Mrs. Miniver," which was adopted from her novel with the same title. Schwartz, Rinzler Head N. Y. Theater USO Drive 20th-Fox Sales Staff Now All on Sixth Floor The USO's New York theater drive which will be staged the week of July 23 will be headed by Fred Schwartz, Century circuit head, and Sam Rinzler, president of the Randforce circuit. It will be their job to obtain personal pledges from exhibitors in the metropolitan area to take up a collection at each show during the week of the drive. N. Y. MPTO to Meet Monday Buffalo — MPTO of New York meeting requested by WAC, postponed at last minute from Monday, will be held next Monday, July 6 at 2 p.m. in the Variety Club of Buffalo. All exhibs., branch managers and film salesmen in the Buffalo territory are asked to attend. Prexy A. Charles Hayman said J. Myer Schine, Si Fabian and Harry Brandt, all of WAC, will be speakers. Alterations will be completed and 11 new offices ready tomoirow for the division sales managers of 20Fox and their assistants on the sixth floor of the home office building. All the sales heads then will have offices adjacent to Tom J. Connors, vicepresident in charge of world-wide sales instead of on different floors in this building. Connors has been in his enlarged quarters several days and the following division managers and sales executives move in tomorrow: William J. Kupper, executive assistant to Mr. Connors; Eastern Division Sales Manager William Sussman; Central Division Sales Manager William C. Gehring, Eugene McEvoy, T. A. Shaw, C. A. Hill, W. J. Cark, E. H. Collins, Martin Moskowitz and Jack Sichelman. IA "B" Membership Only To Exch. Workers— CIO The IATSE is offering exchange white-collar workers only "B membership" in the union in its campaign to biing them into its fold, it was charged yesterday in CIO circles here. The United Office and Professional Workers of America, a CIO affiliate, announced on Monday that it would challenge the IA's right to invade the white-collar field by instituting a counter-drive to organize under its banner all the white collarites in the nation's film exchanges. Harmon to Address Trade In St. Louis Next Week St. Louis — Fred Wehrenberg, president of the MPTO of St. Louis, Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois, has called a meeting of the entire industry in the St. Louis territory to be held at Fanchon & Marco's St. Louis Theater on July 8. Mass meeting will be addressed by Francis S. Harmon, WAC executive vice-chairman. E. C. Mills Leaves Ascap E. C. Mills has resigned as chairman of the administrative committee of Ascap, effective today. He had charge of the society's foreign relations and wielded authority in a consulting capacity. The position will be discontinued, according to officials of Ascap. Except for a three year period from 1929 to 1932, Mills had been with Ascap since 1919. YDD Tradeshows July 27 "Yankee Doodle Dandy" will be nationally tradeshown on July 27, it was announced yesterday by Ben Kalmenson, Warner Bros, general sales manager. Selling and merchandising plans are now being completed. COminG and GOInG Newsreels In Cincy Strand Cincinnati — The Strand has been renamed "the Telenews Strand," and will open with newsreels exclusively. to Washington J. W. BARRITT, U. S. Office of Education, in charge of films, is spending a short vacation in Virginia. in Nassau, the MARCO arrived in New York from the V yesterday. » HARRY M. KALMINE, assistant general man3ger of Warner Theaters, returns today from Pittsburgh. WOLFE COHEN, Canadian district manager for Warners, arrived in New York yesterday from Toronto for home office conferences. He will return to Canada the latter part of the week. JUDY CANOVA is at the Warwick. MONTY WOOLLEY returns to Hie Coast July 12. JUDY GARLAND is in Chicago. JACK FLYNN arrives here today for M-C-M conferences. JACK KIRSCH has returned to Chicago. AL JOLSON is in Chicago, having returned from a trip to Alaska. 20th-Fox Seeks Pixgoers' News, Radio Preferences Twentieth Century-Fox will try to get a line on the film public's news and radio preferences via a 10-page questionnaire which Richard Condon, the company's publicity manager, will send out to all exploitation and theater men in cities of 100,000 or over. The exploiteers and exhibitors will be delegated with the duty of having the questionnaires filled out by the local papers and radio stations. One purpose of the questionnaire is to find out which programs are preferable for the merchandising of star talent. Quote AND Unquote ! No. 18 "I am sure I will find the 1942 Year Book of Motion Pictures a big help in making up my movie page during 1942." Lois June Joslin The Odessa American, Odessa, Tex. THE 1942 FILM YEAR BOOK Now Being Distributed