The Film Daily (1944)

WH^EuLY Thursday, September 7, 194 All THE KM All THI TIME DAILY=» Vol. 86, NO. 47 Thurs.. Sept. 7, 1944 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate Publisher and 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, SecretaryTreasurer; Al Steen. Associate Editor. Entered at 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. Subscribers 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 address: Filmday, New York. Representatives: HOLLYWOOD, 28, Calif. —Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. WASHINGTON— Andrew H. Older, 5516 Carolina Place, N. W., Phone Ordway 9221; CHICAGO, 45, 111., Joseph Eiler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briargate 7441. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. HAVANA— Mary Louise Blanco, Virtudei 214. HONOLULU— Mrs. Annabel Damon. MEXICO CITY— Marco-Aurelio Galindo, Apartado 8817, Mexico, D. F. SYDNEY—Allan White. SAN JUAN— E. Sanchez Ortiz. MONTREAL— Roy Carmichael. COfllMG ADD GOMG WILL H. HAYS is expected to arrive in New STEVE BROIDY is expected back from Boston York Monday from the Coast. today. SPYROS SKOURAS, TOM CONNORS, W. J. KUPPER, HAL HORNE, A. W. SMITH, JR., L. J. SCHLAIFER, SAM SHAIN and BOB MONTGOMERY are in the contingent of 20th-Fox home office representatives leaving today for Washington for the opening of "Wilson" there. WILLIAM F. RODGERS and E. K. O'SHEA, left for Chicago yesterday. WILLIAM C. GEHRINC, Western sales manager, 20th-Fox, will arrive in Des Moines tomorrow to set opening dates for "Wilson" in the Midwest, and is expected to return to New York on Sept. 14. SAM LEFKOWITZ, UA's New York district manager, left yesterday for a several-day business trip to Philadelphia. CONSTANCE BENNETT is in town conferring with Grad Sears on her first release through United Artists. SHIRLEY TEMPLE and MONTY WOOLLEY were guests of honor at the Harvest Moon Ball yesterday in the Garden. GUS S. EYSSELL, managing director of Radio City Music Hall, leaves New York for the Coast on Sept. 11 for his annual previewing of forthcoming product. NAT LEVY, RKO division manager, is due to arrive in Charlotte, N. C, today en route to Jacksonville. BELITA, Monogram star, arrives in New York today on her current personal appearances tour accompanied by her mother and also by her dancing partner, MAURICE ST. CLAIR. DIANA LYNN will arrive in New York Tuesday, instead of Monday. EDITH HEAD, head designer for Paramount studio will arrive in New York next Monday from Hollywood. BEN SERKOWICH, Capitol Theater publicity head, was back at his desk yesterday after a Coast trip. DAVID E. ROSE, Paramount managing director in Great Britain, arrived in London yesterday from New York. NATHAN E. GOLDSTEIN, president of Western Massachusetts Theaters, Springfield, Mass., affiliated with Paramount, was a New York visitor yesterday. FRANK SINATRA will leave the Coast for New York on Sept. 24, after completing his starring role in M-G-M's "Anchors Aweigh. finnncifit (Wednesday, Sept. 6) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (2y2%> Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd . . East. Kodak do pfd Gen. Free. Eq Loew's, fnc Paramount RKO RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . . . 20th Century-Fox pfd Warner Bros NEW YORK Par. B'way 3s55 NEW YORK Monogram Picts Radio-Keith cvs Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux Universal Pictures High Low Close 17 163,4 16% 19 183/4 183/4 5Vs 4% 4% 223/4 22i/2 22y2 . 16514 1641/4 1641/4 Net Chg. Vi Vl V* Va 1 221/4 213/4 213/4 631/2 63 631/g 265/8 263/i 263/4 8% 8y2 8i/2 91 1/4 88 88 25 'A 24i/8 241/2 3H/2 311/s 31 1/4 127/8 121/2 121/2 BOND MARKET CURB MARKET 33/i 33/4 33/4 .1% 1'A 2% 27/8 225/8 205/g 205/g 3% 35/8 . 354 205/g 20 l'/4 2% — 2 20 — 1' 'A Brilliant Tele Future Seen in South America Schenectady, N. Y. — A brilliant future for television in South America was predicted by three young Latin-American engineers, in this country on scholarships, while on a tour of the General Electric plant. Trio said that two experimental tele stations were in operation in South America before the war and more are planned when hostilities cease. They noted that the populace is anxious to know more about the medium and that advanced television and electronics courses are taught in universities. PCC of ITO Sets Trustee Meeting for Sept. 19-21 West Coast Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Hollywood — PCC of ITO announces its quarterly trustee meeting will be held in Seattle, Sept. 19, 20, 21. Trustees present will be L. O. Lukan, Leroy Johnson, Seattle; M. W. Mattacheck, William Graepher, Jr., Portland; Rotus Harvey, Ben Levin, San Francisco; Hugh W. Bruen, George Diamos, Los Angeles, R. H. Poole, executive secretary, Los Angeles; J. M. Hone, secretary of ITO, Washington, North Idaho and Alaska; O. J. Miller, secretary of ITO of Oregon, will also attend the meetings. Agenda includes the consent decree, territorial zoning, clearance, inflationary film rentals and theatre equipment. Talk Compromise Today On WB-Local 23169 Pact A compromise will be sought today on a new agreement between Warner Bros, and Motion Picture Office Employes, Local 23169, AFL, following submission of the terms of the contract to the membership at a meeting at the Hotel Capitol Tuesday night. The company had offered an increase of six per cent for each of the two years of the contract, or 10 per cent for one year, with the union asking for 10 per cent for each year. The membership voted to ask for eight per cent for each year. Massce-Barnett Office At La Guardia Field Massce-Barnett Co., film forwarders, have opened an office at La Guardia Field in a move to expedite air express shipments and facilitate entry of the company's clients into the country. Phil Reisman Hosts Hawkinson Luncheon A luncheon celebrating his quarter century of continuous service with the company will be given for Robert K. Hawkinson of the RKO Radio export department at Toots Shor's today by Phil Reisman, the company's foreign distribution chief. N. Peter Rathvon, Ned Depinet, James A. Mulvey, William Levy and A. W. Schwalberg will be among the RKO executives and representatives of independents releasing through the company who will be on hand. Lt. Col. Frank E. Cahill Inactive, Rejoins WB Rites for Abe Brown, Oldest RKO Employe Abraham Brown, 75, oldest RK employe, was buried yesterday ; Mount Neboh Cemetery after se vices at the Fairchild Chapel, Brooi lyn. Brown who had been associate with RKO Theatres since the da: of Percy Williams and through t'i Keith regime, was in charge of v< Brooklyn billposting and other ou door advertising work, died Saturda at his home in Shinnecock Hills, 1 I. He is survived by his wife, Bess; L., and two sisters, Emma an1 Martha. RKO was represented at the sei; vices by Sol A. Schwartz, Harr Mandel, Charles B. McDonald, Joh A. Cassidy, Miss Blanche F. Living ston, Miss Elizabeth Laus, Marti Monroe, William J. Kernan, Williar F. Sandford, and James Dolan, al of the home office, and Manager Laurence F. Greib and Leon Kelmei NEW YORK THEATERS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Showplace of the Nation-Rockefeller Ctnt«r HELD OVER — 8th WEEK M-G-M's Production "Dragon Seed" KATHARINE HEPBURN WALTER HUSTON ALINE MaeMAHON AKIM TAMIROFF TURNAN BEY Spectacular Stage Presentation 1st Mezz. Seats Reserved. Circle 6-4600 Lt. Col. Frank E. Cahill, Jr., former executive officer for the Pictorial Service of the Army Signal Corps, has been reverted to inactive duty. He resumed his relationship with Warners this week as director of sound for the company's theaters. Health Director Urges Ban of "I Love a Soldier" Oklahoma City — H. Grady Matthews, State Health Director, yesterday urged that church and social organizations act to get the Paulette Goddard Sonny Tufts picture, "I Love a Soldier," banned on the ground that it glorifies "pick-ups" and contributes indirectly to the spread of venereal diseases. Horse Throws Williams; Back Severely Injured PARAMOUNT presents Fred MacMURRAY Barbara STANWYCK Edward G. ROBINSON "Double Indemnity" IN PERSON THE ANDREWS SISTERS MITCHELL AYRES AND HIS BAND PAXAMOMr DARRYL F. ZANUCK'S 'WILSON' IN TECHNICOLOR PLUS ON STAGE FRED WARING AND HIS PENNSYLVANIANS BUY MORE BAVV 7th Ave. & BONDS ■VW/VI 50th St. 12J. B'WAY & 47th St. Bonita Granville Jean Brooks Kent Smith Glenn Vernon YOUTH RUNS WILD' Little Rock, Ark.— K. Lee Williams, president of K. Lee Williams Theaters, sustained a serious back injury when thrown from a horse at his ranch near Dequeen. He is in a Dequeen hospital. ON SCREEN M-G-M's New Musical 'MEET THE PEOPLE' LUCILLE BALL DICK POWELL IN PERSON ED SULLIVAN & HARVEST MOON DANCE WINNERS TOMMY DIX