The Film Daily (1944)

Monday July 3, 1944 "Jfe Heed 700,000 (hairs; o Make But 70,000 i Continued from Page 1 ) r to existing outlets which the Govrnment agency holds to be essential nd therefore in need of such new iquipment. |}Many exhibitors are not anxious, iiwever, to replace their chairs beause of continued vandalism in their heaters. It is less expensive, as hey see it, to re-cover the chairs ihan replace them and have them ipped up. Same attitude appears o dominate now with respect to arpeting, even if it were possible to btain this item in any appreciable ! uantity. An important factor in xhibitors' cleaving to the status quo 3 their conviction that theatergoers rill make allowances for wartime •quipment, and not object to re-covied chairs as long as they do not .ower comfort standards too far. This -heory has been borne out, it appears, by box-office returns nation Manufacturers are unwilling generally to make theater chairs, and '.re unwilling, too, to part with the fock they now have on hand. The OPA price ceiling, they claim, is too ow and does not permit normal irofit. They prefer to hold their I tock until the price control restric " ions are limited. Two manufacturers have, however, ngreed to assemble about 70,000 seats -or immediate marketing at ceilng price, and these now seem to be he only new chairs which will be ivailable for some time to come. That these will be assembled is yet o be decided by WPB, but authority is expected to be granted shorty. They will be medium-grade ■hairs for the most part. Film Classics to Move, Expanding Space 6 Times i Film Classics Inc. will move its lome office to larger quarters at 18 .IV. 48th St., about July 15, expanding six times its present space. Ueorge A. Hirliman, president of the ompany, announced that coincident1 illy with its removal, the staff of I he organization will be increased in ill departments. nn birthday MEETINGS TO... Wynne Gibson Luther Reid Leon Errol July 3 July Louis B. Mayer Gertrude Lawrence George Murphy Joe C. Hornstein Ed Savin Harvey Thew Henry Armetta Mrs. Thomas Meighan Florence M. Alicoate George Sanders A I Perrin t Mary P. Alicoate Gloria Stuart Vince Barnett Barbara Weeks Joseph Ruttenberg Irving Caesar Helen Gilbert Henri Elman • • • CUFF NOTES: Delay in the announcement of the New York SPG arbitration decision could stem from the fact that the attorneys on both sides want to make sure that the phraseology is fool-proof and so will have smooth sailing with the W1B which must pass upon the terms Meanwhile don't credit those reports of a 10 per cent pay tilt. • Is Monogram money going to back a new version of "Greenwich Village Follies" on Broadway? ... • Hope Associates Corp. has moved to 40 E. 49th St. . . • Lt. Joseph Gould, first New York SPG prexy, is reported in England ...... Meanwhile, announcements are out of Lt. Gould's marriage on April 2 to Betty Dworetsky. . . • Annual survey of stockholder annual reports, a feature of the July 5th issue of Financial World, gives the "Highest Merit Award" citation to Columbia and Universal and Honorable Mention to Paramount and B.KO Survey was made by Weston Smith. . . • Despite the Broadway run pressure. Film Classics currently has two Goldwyn re-issues showing, "Dead End" at Brandt's Gotham, and "The Kid from Spain" at Maurer's Victoria That's fast work considering that the Goldwyn deal was inked on June 9. . . • "The White Cliffs of Dover" in seven weeks at the Music Hall garnered approximately $50,000 more than any previous pic which played the theater for the same amount of time Loew's Metropolitan, Brooklyn, 'will open 'with the film on July 13, eight other Loew de luxers here on July 20. . . • Lt. Bob Schulberg, formerly a member of Mort Blumenstock's publicity department at Warners, has been named coach of the 13th Airborne Division's All-Star Baseball Team at Camp MacKall, N. C. . . • Norma H. Moray, daughter of Norman H. Moray, Warners' short subject sales manager, is starting a new movie program over Station WSRR, Stamford, Conn ▼ T ▼ • • • AVENGE PEARL HARBOR! Warner Inventories At All-Time Record (Continued from Page 1) total ever carried by any film company. With the Warner studio continuing production at capacity, while no increase in release schedule is planned for the remainder of this season at least, still another substantial jump in inventory figure is expected in the next financial statement. In the three months covered by the latest statement alone, the increase was about $3,000,000. Among completed pictures in Warners' current record inventory are "Arsenic and Old Lace," "Saratoga Trunk," "Rhapsody in Blue," "Devotion," "Conflict," "The Animal Kingdom," "Mr. Skeffington," "The Horn Blows at Midnight," "My Reputation," "Janie," "Cinderella Jones," "To Have and Have Not," "The Very Thought of You," "The Doughgirls," "The Conspirators," "The Last Ride," "Crime by Night" and "The Adventures of Mark Twain." Latter picture has had only a limited special showing thus far, with general release July 22. Nearing completion are "Objec Home Office Employes Pledge (Continued from Page 1) the Treasury, promising to strive toward a definite goal. Columbia employes' pledge, $232,000, is for a 1,500-bed overseas general hospital. Loew's, with a quota of $325,000, specifies a five-car hospital train. Paramount's $175,000 pledge is to go for one hospital plane and one fighter plane. Republic's $10,290 will buy 10 amphibian jeeps. Twentieth Century-Fox will sell $250,000 for a heavy bomber. Universal's $125,000 will pay for a medium bomber. United Artist's $50,000 will cover an Army fighter plane. Warner's $146,000 will provide a 10-car overseas hospital train and equipment. RKO, with $90,000 will pay for a 750-bed evacuation hospital, while PRC's $10,290 pledge is for three heavy field ambulances. COmmG and G0IDG NORMAN H. MORAY, short subject sales manager for Warners returned to New York from the ^oast over the week-end. MAX MILDER has arrived in London from New York. HERBERT CROOKER, publicity manager at M-G-M, left Friday for a week's vacation in New England. CHARLES LaTORRE and MRS. LaTORRE have arrived from the Coast. LESTER COWAN is back on the Coast from Washington and New York, JIM KEEFE, 20th-Fox field exploitation representative with headquarters in Cincinnati, is in town for conferences with Rodney Bush and Jules Fields. CHARLOTTE STEINBORN, secretary to Emerson Yorke, has left New York for a vacation in Cincinnati, and is scheduled to return in mid-July. EDITH GRAHAM, theatrical editor of the Charleston, W. Va., Gazette, is due July 9 to cover a fashion show in town and to visit a few days with various home office film company executives. Mrs. Graham is a sister-inlaw of Russell Stewart of M-C-M's publicity department. S. W. SINGER, account executive of Buchanan & Co. for International Pictures, left for Hollywood yesterday to confer with William Coetz, Leo Spitz and John LeRoy Johnston on advertising campaigns on "The Woman In The Window" and "Belle Of The Yukon." SOL. A SCHWARTZ, general manager of RKO's Out-of-Town Theaters, is now on a tour of theaters in the Mid-Western territory. Schwartz returns in 10 days. JACK V. SHEEHAN, in charge of the educalional and commercial films for Walt Disney Productions, is at the Waldorf-Astoria from Burbank, Cal. PETER COLLI, Warners supervisor for the Caribbbean area, left New York over the weekend for his headquarters in Havana. CHARLES K. STERN, assistant secretary of Loew's, Inc., left Friday for Baltimore and returns Wednesday. tive, Burma," "Roughly Speaking" and "Strangers in Our Midst," with "Hollywood Canteen," "The Corn is Green" and "Christmas in Connecticut" also before the cameras and three or four others starting within the next month. $120,000 As Ad Starter For PRC Lineup — Fromkess (Continued from Page 1) noted that the over-all advertising budget will be far in excess of the total spent since the company's inception. One pic on the current program, "Minstrel Man," will come in for benefits under the new appropriation made available to Martin Mooney, ad-publicity supervisor. Coast Party for Sammis West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Elsa Maxwell entertained 200 Hollywood "names" in . honor of Fred Sammis, editorial director of Photoplay, in the home which Evelyn Walsh MacLean lent for the occasion. IN NEW POSTS SAM KENNEY, manager, Normandie, New York City. H. B. SELLERS, Warner checking supervisor, Cleveland and Detroit. MORRELL V. MARTIN, Warner checking supervisor, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. PETE DAUCENBAUCH, projectionist, Pec, Pecatonica, III. CLENN HILEMAN, manager, Frank J. Glenn's theaters, Ashley, III.