The Film Daily (1944)

m DAILY Monday, July 24, 19 I ■ I 1 ■ i \ I ■ • i ■i i ■ ■I i Commercial Tele for Hub, DuMont's Plan (Continued from Page 1) station to operate on frequencies between 401,000 and 417,000 kilocycles. The experimental transmitter is to be built in New York. The Albuquerque Broadcasting Co. of New Mexico also has filed an application for an experimental station to be operated on Channel No. 1. Approximately 20 NBC affiliates have applied for tele station permits. First series of commercial television fashion shows will be telecast over the DuMont station, WABD, New York, Aug. 2, 9 and 16 and sponsored by Aldens Chicago Mail Order Co. Sale of Shorts Program Ahead of Features Rapped (Continued from Page 1) ater Owners of Eastern Pennsylvania. The Allied unit charged last week that exhibitors '"have complained that several major distributing companies are now selling the full season of 1944-45 short subjects far in advance of their feature product." Sidney Samuelson, general manager of the unit, declared that "some salesmen are making statements that only those exhibitors who 'co-operate' with the distributing companies by buying the shorts will receive consideration on adjustments long overdue." He added that "inasmuch as most major distributors, through their responsible officials, have publicly stated that they always stand ready to take care of exhibitors who are 'hurt' by their deals, the current situation is incomprehensible. Either the home office executives do not know what their field representatives are doing and saying, or else exhibitors have been misled by these promises," he said. Asserting that "any serious effort to sell short subjects at this time can only be an attempt to evade the terms and violate the spirit of the consent decree," Samuelson said that Allied had in its hands several complaints which are being investigated and, if found to be accurate, will be submitted to the "proper authorities. "Soldier" Frisco Bow Aug. 15 World premiere of Paramount's "I Love a Soldier" will be held Aug. 15 at the Fox Theater, San Francisco. SEP BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO... July 24 Dailey Paskman Nick Tronolone Alan Curtis Michael Hoffay Politics, et al • • • PETE J. WOOD, the Columbus humorist who doubles as secretary of the Ohio ITO, and whose letters really should be collected and published, has just engaged in an exchange oi thoughts with Cecil B. De Mille's Girl Friday, Gladys Rosson It seems, way back in April, Pete told Cecil B. that he was extremely puzzled why De Mille gave the President a hall dollar in connection with "The Story of Dr. Wassell" In late June, Gladys explained that her boss uses the Virginia Dare-Sir Walter Raleigh half-dollar as an award to anyone on his staff who submits an outstanding idea during the. production or editing of one of his pictures "Mr. De Mille felt," said Gladys, "that the President was entitled to one because it was from him that Mr. De Mille got the idea for the film" Which moved Pete to rejoin with an expression of surprise that F. D. R. is now on C.B.'s staff and an indication of curiosity as to whether F. D. R. was aware that the producer was a delegate "to the Republican extravaganza produced in Chicago" T T T • • • FROM MISS ROSSON came a July reply which pointed out that not only did De Mille present F. D. R. with that half-dollar but also with a clay tablet Indited Miss Rosson further "It was found at Drehen, a suburb of Nippur, where there was a receiving station for the Temple of Bel It is a receipt for taxes that were payable in sheep and goats and dated about 2350 B. C, early in the Ur Dynasty of Kings, who ruled from about 2400 to 2100 B. C The President was simply enchanted with the gift, especially when Mr. De Mille told him that it was definite poof that the Democratic Party was over 4000 years old! The last words are provided by Pete, replying to Gladys "While today we do not pay our taxes in sheep and goats, some of them smell just as bad" // you want specifications, drop Pete a line T T T • • • THIS AND THAT: Director Edmund Goulding plans an indie remake of Joseph Hergesheimer's "The Bright Shawl," old Dick Barthelmess hit. . . • CBS has signed Una Mae Carlisle, songster; Southern Sons, Negro quartet, and Ray Sneed, Harlem dancer, for a series of three tele shows on WCBW, starting the 27th. . . • Didja know that Lord Rothermore is now a member of the British 20th-Fox board? ... • Jane Withers makes her Broadway bow, come November, in Dave Wolper's "Have a Good Time" Also set for it is Kenny Bowers, who has obtained a release from Metro. . . • Gal on current Collier's cover is Aina Constant, who makes her pic bow in Metro's "The Canterviile Ghost.". . • Femme lead in 20th-Fox's "A Bell for Adano," goes to Gene Tierney. . . • That report REO may restore vaude at the Palace sounds as cock-eyed as the erratic departure time oi the 6:44 p.m. train on the Long Island Railroad. . . • PRC has signed Ralph Murphy to direct "The Town Went Wild.". . • Lew Gensler will re-appear on Broadway next season as co-producer with Irv Jacobs of a new comedy, "In This Very Room," by Harold Goldman. . . • Those inviting blasts of cool air coming out of theater lobbies on torrid days would be still more inviting if they did not smell stale Why not scent 'em? It could be done, to the box office's benefit T T ▼ • • • A THOUGHT FOR TODAY, by Arthur L. Mayer, writing in the current Harper's Magazine: "Certainly, no man like myself, who has peddled films for 25 years, can have anything except a profound skepticism concerning popular taste, or its receptivity for new ideas and experimental technique" T ▼ T • • • AVENGE PEARL HARBOR JACK COHN, Columbia's executive v president, and JOSEPH A. McCONVILLE, company's foreign head arrived from the C , Friday. JOSEPH COTTEN, returning to the Coast t New York, will arrive in Chicago today. EDWARD L. ALPERSON, UA producer is I from the Coast. STANTON GR1FFIS, OWI film bureau cl leaves Chicago for Hollywood today, ace panied by TAYLOR M. MILLS, assistant cl i for a series of studio conferences on fit j OWI releases. H. M. BESSEY, vice-president of Altec vice, is vacationing with his family at Nantu Island. PFC. H. SWAN, former manager of B & K i 1 Theater, was a visitor in Chicago last week PFC. JOSEPH SWANSON, son of Cloria Sv I son, is in Chicago visiting his mother wtv currently appearing in a play at the Blacks' i Theater. B. J. LOUER, Columbia district manager, < cago, has packed a rod and reel for his pre vacation at Spooner, Wis. RUBEN CARAMBULA, of Uruguay, en d to Hollywood to work with Walt Disney st on several children films, has taken time out a visit to Northwestern University at Evans! III. JOE ABRAMSON, Allied secretary, and wife have returned to Chicago from a visi their son, a cadet at the Santa Ana, C air base. HENRY R. DANZICER, office manager Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim, film atton left today for two weeks vacation. TED BALDWIN, Columbia publicity heai special events, is back at his desk today two weeks vacation. JOHN DOERR, booking manager, and HARRIS, maintenance supervisor, Alliance cuit, Chicago, will leave for the Coast Thu on a business trip. JULIEN DUVIVIER has arrived from the C to work with Edward Chodorov on the s treatment of the latter's play, "Decision.' will produce and direct the film for Sa Bronston. JENNIFER JONES is on her way here the Coast. Accompanying her is ANITA CO HENRY L. NATHANSON, president of I Films, and TED J. COULD, general sales m ger, are due from Toronto tomorrow for Mhome office conferences. SAM KESTENBAUM of PRC is in New H for the opening there of "Minstrel Man" ''The Contender" at the Bijou. O HENRY BRICGS is in town for a week his up-state farm. W. A. SCULLY, F. J. A. MCCARTHY, MAU! BERGMAN and HERC MclNTYRE returned the week-end from Montreal. SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE arrived this ing from the Coast. CERALDINE FITZCERALD got in from wood on Saturday. MICHAEL O'SHEA is in town from the MURRAY BLUTREICH, cashier at RKO's exchange, started his two weeks vacation day. ABE LUDACER, manager of Loew's Park, land, is a N. Y. visitor on his vacation. SID STOCKTON, local M-C-M exchange fice manager, is enjoying his two weeks vac in Roanoke, Va. SOL KRAVITZ, Warner Bros, special rep en route to Memphis. JOE FELDER, local Monogram branch man starts a two weeks vacation upstate today. ARTHUR STERLINC, field auditor for M-l is vacationing. THEATER DEALS Moe Goldman, owner of the 5 St. Playhouse, has acquired the 4 St. Theater at 157 W. 48th St. I merly known as the President, house is now being redecorated will open in September as the Pi< dilly, with a policy devoted to B ish films. ft*