The Film Daily (1942)

Wfe Thursday, August 27, 1942 Vol. 82, No. 42 Thurs., Aug. 27, 1942 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE DONALD M. MBRSBREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New Yorl^ by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-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 shoufd remit with order. Adddess all communication to THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway New York, N. Y. Phone BRyant 9-7117. 9-7118, 9-7119, 9-7120, 9-7121. Cable address: Filmday. New York. Repicsentatives: HOLLYWOOD, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 66Q7. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St.. W. I. PARIS— P. A. Harle, Le Film, 29 Ru. Marsoulan (12). MEXICO CITY— MarcoAurelio Galindo, Depto. 215, Calle del Sindicalismo, 99, Tacubayo, D. F. FINANCIAL (.Wednesday, Aug. 26) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 95/8 95/8 9S/8 Col. Picts. vtc. (2i/2%) 8 8 8—i/8 Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd East. Kodak 127 127 127 — 1 do pfd Cen. ;Prec. Eq 135/8 13i/2 13'/2 — Vs Loew's, Inc 42i/2 42i/8 42i/8 — % Paramount 16 15% 15%— l/8 Para. 1st pfd RKO 2% 2y4 2% RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . . 1 1 1/2 11 1/4 11 14— 3/8 20th Century-Fox pfd Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros 6 5% 5% — 'A do pfd NEW YORK BOND MARKET Para. B'way 3s55 Para. Picts. deb. 4s56 993/4 993/4 99% Warner Bros.' dbs. 6s48 102 10iy2 101 1/2 — l/2 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts Radio-Keith cvs Sonotone Corp 1% 13^ 134 — i/g Technicolor 7'/4 7l/4 71/4 — i/8 Trans-Lux 1 1/4 1 1/4 1 1/4 Universal Corp. vtc. 6% 65/8 65/8 — 3/8 Universal Picts THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS IS Tostal Telegraph CHARGES FOR TELEGRAMS 'PHONED IN APPEAR ON YOUR TELEPHONE BILL. COfllinG MID GOIilG EDGAR DOOB, manager of Loew's Aldine Theater, Wilmington, Del., a home office visitor. LEE BLUMBERG, head of the Warner Bros. field exploitation staff, left last night for Rochester and Syracuse to work on the "Yankee Dcodle Dandy" openings in those cities. STEVE BROIDY vice-president and general sales manager for Monogram, has left Hollywood with MRS. BROIDY for a vacation trip which will include Lake Tahoe, Reno and Yosemite Valley. BOB HOFFMAN, 20th-fox shipper, New Haven, is vacationing at Baybrook. WILLY DE MOND has arrived from the Coast; he returns Sept. 3. More "Dandy" Openings Discussed at WB Meet Milwaukee — "Yankee Doodle Dandy" will have opened in at least 60 Warner theaters by the end of September, all at the advanced s?.ale of $1.10 at night and 75 cents for matinee, it was revealed at the meeting of the Warner circuit's Wisconsin managers held here yesterday. Harry M. Kalmine, assistant general manager of Warner Theaters, presided at the session, with W. Stewart McDonald, Harry Goldberg and Leonard Schlesinger, all from the home office, and James E. Coston, zone manager with headquarters in Chicago, also participating. A similar meeting will be held today in Chicago for the managers in that sector. Cartoon Strip Deals Signed by Loewenthal Chicago — Columbia will produce a serial next year based on the cartoon strip, "Captain Midnight," according to Alfred M. Loewenthal of Famous Artists Syndicate, back at his headquarters here from the Coast after setting new cartoon strip deals. Serial will be in 15 episodes. Universal has signed to make another series of Zach Mosley's "Smilin' Jack" and of "Don Winslow" as well, while Republic will make another series of "Dick Tracy" after Jan. 1, according to Loewenthal. 20th-Fox Auditors Check To Find Drive Winners Sydney Towell, treasurer of 20thFox, has assigned auditors to make an audit this week to determine the prize winners in the championship drive just concluded by Tom J. Connors' distribution department. The audit's results will be announced within the next three weeks to the company's managers, sales and bookers who participated in the drive. IA Reps. Aid Chicago Union Chicago — Vice-president Felix D. Snow of the IATSE, and Frank Stickling, IA special representative are here to co-operate with the Chicago operators' union executives to simplify the unions' by-laws and admit new permit members. Ted Morris Shifted to Coast Chicago — Ted Morris. Metro's Indianapolis publicity rep., has been shifted to the Coast for special duty. Fat Conservation Short For Labor Day Release Newest Victory Film, "Out of the Frying Pan into the Firing Line," a Disney-Technicolor special, 294 ft. in length (three minutes, 16 seconds), will be released Labor Day Week, the War Activities Committee announced yesterday. Minnie Mouse and Pluto are the stars. WPB's Conservation Division produced the reel which dramatizes the necessity for saving of waste kitchen fats to be made into glycerine for the manufacture of explosives. In addition to emphasizing need for this saving, the footage explains in a most amusing and entertaining fashion how to save used kitchen fats and greases, and what to do with them after they have accumulated. Photography, writing, direction, and editing of the film was done by Walt Disney Productions, and distribution" will be via RKO Film Exchanges under the auspices of filmland's WAC. "Tales of Manhattan' In Mastbaum Sept. 4 "Tales of Manhattan," as result of a 20th-Fox pact with the StanleyWarner circuit, goes into the Mastbaum Theater, Philadelphia, Sept. 4 when that house, long dark, reopens, and will follow Columbia's "Talk of the Town" into Radio Citv Music Hall. Some of the film's leading players may come to New York to participate in the Music Hall debut. Nomikos Acquires Grand; Double Features, Policy Chicago — Van Nomikos, Illinois Allied vice-prexy, has added the Loop Grand, 1,200-seater, to his circuit. House reopens Labor Day with a duals policy. Billings Leases 55th St. Thomas V. Billings has leased the 55th Street Playhouse and, after making alterations, plans to open the theater next month. Deal was made by O'Gara & Co., Inc., for the City Bank Farmers Trust Co. Paden Back to Loew's Wiley Paden has been named art director of Loew's theaters. Paden held the same post a few years ago, resigning to open his own art agency. "Talk of Town" Premiere to Launch Hollywood Canteen West Coast Bureau of THE FILM •DAILY Hollywood — Opening of the Hollywood Canteen, patterned after New York's Stage Door Canteen, will be launched at ceremonies at the pre-, miere of Columbia's "The Talk of the Town" on Saturday at the Four Star Theater, followed by a party at Ciro's. Bette Davis will speak I John Charles Thomas will sing*^j National Anthem at the Four Star ceremonies. Social and film luminaries are expected to turn out en masse for the affair. NEW yCRK THEATERS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center CARY GRANT . JEAN ARTHUR RONALD COLMAN THE TALK OF THE TOWN' A George Stevens Prod. . A Columbia Picture Gala Stage Revue . Symphony Orchestra First Mezzanine Seats Reserved Circle 6-4600 The Mighty Story of Today "THE PIED PIPER" 20th Century-Fox Triumph PLUS A BIG D A V V 7th AVENUE STAGE SHOW |f U A T 50lh STREET 62313391 ANN SHERIDAN . 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