The Film Daily (1943)

In Today's Issue, The Equipment News Section DO NOT R£MOV£, Intimate in Character International in Scope Independent in Thought The Daily Newspaper Oi Motion Pictures Twenty-Five Years Old 84, NO. 2 NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1943 TEN CENTS "BUYING^ CLINICS" JM ALLIED IN EAST Warners' Open Door Policy to Stand — Bernhard Is "Workable, Equitable/' Says Bernhard; Sees Post-War Attendance Gain Continuance of Warners' "open door" policy in the company's business relations with them was promi s e d exhibitors "in the most emphatic terms" yesterday by Joseph Bernhard, vice-president of the firm. Speaking at the Waldorf Astoria at the opening session of the first of three regional meetings to be held this year by the company, Bernhard said that Warnerspolicy of co-operation would be continued because it had been found (Continued on Page 4) JOSEPH BERNHARD 50% of PRC Program Finished by October Declaring that "We have no limitations on budget, we have the 'gosign' from our financial backers," A.rthur Green'blatt, sales chief of PRC, yesterday told delegates to the (.Continued on Page 4) New Jersey Allied Told Of Industry's War Effort West End, N. J. — Full impact of vhat the industry is doing and has lone in the war effort was brought (Continued on Page 4) Crawford to Warners Under a Long Termer West Coast Bui:, THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Warners has signed Joan Crawford, long under contract to Me,tro, to an exclusive longterm contract. Her first film for the company will be "Night Shift." "But the glory of the Present is to make the Future free — We love our land for what she is and what she is to be." 40 Pix for Recaptured Lands OWI to Direct Distribution, Exhibition Recommended That NEIC Act as an Advisory Body That the National Entertainment Industry Council act as an advisory and consultative body at a minimum of expense and formality was the principal recommendation made last night by the continuation committee at its regular Thursday night session. It also recommended that any organization be allowed to resign at any time, and that a co-ordinating committee be named to carry on the work of the Council between meetings. Thirty-three bodies in the amuse (Continued on Page 6) Superimposed title and some dubbed versions of 40 American films ' will be handled in countries recap■ tured from the Axis by the Overi seas Bureau of the OWI, it was decided yesterday at a meeting of foreign managers and OWI representatives at the MPPDA offices, i OWI will rush the films to strategic points for quick showing on the heels of the occupying military | forces, in addition to administering j booking and exhibition until normal • commercial channels are open. Some trade quarters had held out for comipany distribution. If more than 40 features are found (Continued on Page 6) Regional and Local Meetings Planned; Ask Scouts Aid to Combat Vandalism By AL STEEN Associate Editor, THE FILM DAILY West End, N. J. — Plans to create 'buying clinics' among the Eastern units of Allied were completed at the Eastern Regional Conference held here yesterday in conjunction with the annual meeting of New Jersey Allied. Clinics will be conducted by selected exhibitors who are considered the most competent film buyers in each region. These men will give advice on buying and tell the others (Continued on Page 6) BIR Will Approve Certain Pay Increases Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Pay increases will be approved for salaried employes by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, it was announced yesterday, if em (Continued on Page 6) $811,499 More Cut from OWI's Domestic Branch Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — There was a slim possibility last night that the OWI motion picture bureau might have more than $50,000 with which to (Continued on Page 4) "Great John L" Angeled by Crosby West Coast Bur., THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Bing Crosby, Frank Mastroly and James Edward Grant will produce "The Great John L," based on the life of John L. Sullivan. Grant, who wrote the original, is expected to complete the screenplay in two weeks, but actual production will not start from four to six months. The picture will be a million dollar production, with Crosby its chief backer. Permission to picturize Sullivan's life was received from the executor of his estate, but pic will not be a fight story. ^