The Film Daily (1943)

Tfflt DAILY Friday, July 9, 1943 Vol. 84, No. 6 Fri., July 9, 1943 lOCents JOHN W. ALICOATE : : : : Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York 18, N. Y., 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 should remit with order. Address 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 addressFilmday, New York. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD, 28, Calif.— Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. WASHINGTON— Andrew H. Older, 520 Third St. N.W., Phone District 1253. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. PARIS— P. A. Harle, Le Film, 29 Rue Marsoulan (12). HAVANA — Mary Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. HONOLULU — Eileen O'Brien. BUENOS AIRES— Dr. Walter P. Schuck, Casillo de Correo 1929. MEXICO CITY— Marco-Aurelio Galindo, Apartado 8817, Mexico, D. F. FINANCIAL (Thursday, July 8) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. 161/2 163/8 161/2 + 1/8 18 17% 17% + i/2 Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (2V2%) Columbia Picts. pfd.. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. East. Kodak 1 do pfd 1 Gen. Prec. Eq toew's, Inc Paramount RKO ■RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox 20th Century-Fox pfd. Univ. Pict. pfd Warner Bros do pfd NEW YORK Para. B'way 3s55. . . iPara. Picts. deb. 4s56 NEW YORK Monogram Picts Radio-Keith cvs Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux Universal Picts 3 171/2 66 80 22 6II/2 291/4 9% 943/4 21% 327/8 3 3 17 17 651/2 166 80 180 22 22 61% 61 1/4 + + Vs — Vi + 1 + '/4 % 28V2 29 + % 9 91/4 + 941/2 943/4 + 2H/4 21% + 32% 325/8 + Vs '153/4 891/2 BOND 771/2 CURB 33/4 13/4 3% 13% 14% 15 893/8 893/8 MARKET 77% 771/2 MARKET 3% 33/4 + 1/4 l3/4 13/4 3% 3% + 1/s 123/4 13 19% 19i/8 19% + Lehman Corp. Adds 15,000 Shares of 20th-Fox Com. Addition of 15,000 shares of 20thFox common to the Lehman Corp. stock portfolio in the June quarter is revealed in the investment house's financial statement for the fiscal year ended June 30. Gambles Opening New House Portland, Ore. — The new 750-seat Vanport Theater is scheduled for opening on July 15. Theater will be operated by the Ted R. Gamble interests, and will be under the personal supervision of Willard Gamble. Scratch-pad . . . jottings (Continued from Page 1) endured a night that was 100 per cent nightmare. A DMITTEDLY, the war has made severe ** and unusual demands on the railroads. . . . But so has it upon the nation's theaters. . . . Yet contrast the physical condition of the theaters with that of the railroad coaches (at least on this particular railroad, which, incidentally, is one of those advertising in the dailies). . . . And compare, further, this industry's attention to the welfare of the armed forces with that described and you'll be just a bit prouder of film biz. Clearance Reduction Ordered in Ohio Case Arbitrator Robert H. Sanborn has ordered reduction of the clearance granted Warners' Ohio and Sigma Theaters, Lima, O., to three days over the Capitol, Delphos, O., in an arbitration hearing before the Cleveland tribunal. Sanborn further stipulated that the Capitol may play pictures released by RKO, Loew's and Paramount not later than 21 days after Cleveland release date. Award came from an action brought by E. L. Staub, owner of the Capitol against Vitagraph, RKO, Loew's and Paramount which protested the 14 days' clearance granted to Lima houses. Action against Vitagraph was dismissed and the costs divided between the complainant and the defendants. 16 mm. Pix for RCAF Camps New Dom. Exhib. Headache Ottawa — Increased competition is seen for theaters in the announcement 16 mm. films will be available at upwards of a hundred camps of RCAF simultaneously with the release of the same product to firstrun commercial theaters in a new arrangement for distribution of narrow prints throughout the Air Force by Government-recognized auxiliary services. Complaint had been that airmen had to wait several months after theater premieres before 16 mm. features were shown in camp theaters. RCAF has organized a distribution system of its own similar to that of film exchanges to expedite bookings. "U" Signs Tex Ritter For Seven Western Pix West Coast Bureau of THE' FILM DAILY Hollywood — Universal has signed Tex Ritter to star in seven westerns for the 1943-44 season. They will be made by associate producer Oliver Drake, who made seven for last year's release, in which Ritter was co-starred with Johnny Mack Brown. Fuzzy Knight will again head the featured supporting cast. Congress Votes to Adjourn Tomorrow Washington Bur., THE FILM DAILY Washington — The House late yesterday joined the Senate in approving a recommendation that Congress be adjourned until Sept. 14, unless summoned for a special session before then. $1,000,000 Slander Suit Against 306 Dismissed Supreme Court Justice Morris Eder yesterday dismissed the $1,000,000 slander action brought by the Scoop 14th St. Theater Corp., owners of the City Theater, against Local 306, operators. The court granted the corporation leave to file an amended complaint in a damage action against the union, also naming as a defendant Herman Gelber, head of Local 306. The damage action seeks $2,200 a day for 22 days of an alleged unlawful strike called by the union on April 30. The court dismissed the slander action on the grounds that the corporation did not state sufficient facts to constitute a cause of action. The plaintiffs had charged that a Local 306 picket had called the owners of the house "tools of Laval." Five "U" Features to Get Relay-Runs in Criterion Several of Universal's top productions will occupy the Criterion's screen during the next few months, it was announced yesterday by that company. "Hers To Hold," with Deanna Durbin and Joseph Cotten in the top roles, follows the current "Bombardier" into the house. Subsequently, the Abbott and Costello comedy, "Hit the Ice," is ticketed for the stand. Other "U" attraction in the chain of bookings are Howard Hawks' "Corvette K-225," starring Randolph Scott; Walter Wanger's "We've Never Been Licked," with Noah Beery, Jr., Richard Quine, Anne Gwynne, and Martha O'Driscoll; and the Technicolor opus, "Cobra Woman," starring Maria Montez, Jon Hall and Sabu. COminG and G0IF1G "man Warners Will Re-Issue Two James Cagney Films "The Oklahoma Kid," starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart and "Torrid Zone," starring Cagney and Ann Sheridan, are scheduled for re-issue by Warners to augment next season's lineup. "Oklahoma Kid" is tentatively down as a September release with "Torrid Zone" expected to follow a few months later. Current high popularity of the stars plus fact that Warner Bros, has several thousand more accounts now than when the pictures originally came out are understood to be among the reasons for reviving them. CHARLIE EINFELD leaves Coast today for New York. BRYAN FOY, Director, BOB MONTGOMERY, JACK GOLDSTEIN and JULES FIELDS are in Chicago for the premiere of "Roger Touhy, Gangster." CHARLES MORRISON leaves the Coast ^"day for New York to confer with Jimmy Wat the company's presidency. HARRY M. KALMINE, assistant general" ager of the Warner circuit, has gone to Pittsburgh for the dinner given for Clair Meeder, who has been named assistant to Joseph C. Petrillo, head of the American Federation of Musicians. He'll be back on Monday. OSCAR F. NEU, head of Neumade Products Corp., is back from an extended business trip to the Middle West. JOHN R. WOOD, JR., business manager of the March of Time, has gone to Washington for the cocktail party for Charles E. Peppiatt, newly installed 20th-Fox branch manager there. GLORIA SWANSON is playing at the Erlanger, Buffalo, in "Let Us Be Cay," the Rachel Crothers comedy. W. E. J. (Bill) MARTIN, drama editor of Ihe Courier-Express, (Buffalo, and MRS. MARTIN are on a Great Lakes vacation cruise. DAVE COPLAN, United Artists Canadian division manager, returns to Toronto today after a short visit to the home office. STEPHEN SLESINCER, head of Stephen Slesinger, Inc., has returned from Hollywood. Skouras and Silverstone To England Late in Month Accompanied by Spyros Skouras, 20th-Fox prexy, Murray Silverstone, vice-president in charge of foreign distribution, plans to leave late in the month on a long-contemplated trip to England. In the event that company business prevents Skouras from going, Silverstone will make the trip solo. Trip, plans for which were formulated shortly after Silverstone joined the company, has been marking time pending completion of the National Theaters deal, among other things. Remodel Rio Theater Rio de Janeiro — Luiz Severiano Ribeiro Circuit is remodeling the Palacio Teatro in the center of the city. A NEW SERVICE GEORGE L. 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