The Film Daily (1945)

Mr. Cteorge Borthv/ick M. K Productions Diet y. 44th St. ^^^Jovf Intimate in Character International in Scope Independent in Thought The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Twenty-Six Years Old -1? DAILY I^OL 87. NO. 39 NEW YORK. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1945 TEN CENTS WANTSJNDIES IN NEW DECREE HUDDLES '^Thinli Internationally/' Goldwyn Tells British English Labor Moves to Jar Hollywood Technicians Japped by U. S. Producer I London (By Cable) — A friendly but inn warning to British industry eaders to think internationally instead of nationally was sounded here .-esterday by Sam Goldwyn. Goldwyn, who said he was in Engand on a fact-finding mission for ;he Foreign Economic Administra;ion on reverse lend-lease with no [•eference to films, believes that Britain should be proud of the for( Continued on Page 3) Screen Guilds Play Major Role in France Paris (By Air Mail)— The formation of screen guilds in France is playing an important role in the reorganization of the film industry ihere. Creation of the Syndicat Francais des Producteurs de Films was prompted by producers to handle all professional questions for those (Continued on Page 2) Fenn. Legislature Will Get Sunday Pix Bill Knoxville, Tenn. — Defeated in their efforts to obtain Sunday movies by I'eferendum election, proponents plan :o have a bill introduced in the Tenlessee legislature now in session. Trans-Lux to Builsl Ifladison Ave. House As cne of its initial steps in an expansion move, Trans-Lux will build a theater on Madison Ave. between 59th and 60th Streets, directly across the street from its present newsreel house. Plans call for the showing of features in one of the theaters and newsreels and shorts in the other. Theater will be started as soon as the Office cf Civilian Requirements gives the green light. WORK HEADS "V" STUDIO BOARD Move Designed to Sitnplify and Strengthen Executive Operation, Says Prexy Nate J. Bluniberg West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Creation of an advisory board to supervise the over-all production of Universal's studio was announced at the week end by Prexy Nate J. Blumberg. The board will be headed by Cliff Work, vice-president and general manager of the studio, and i t s personnel will include executives representing all activities within the organization. Dan Kelley, who has been in charge of talent, writei-s and directors, has been named liaison between the advisory boai'd and producers of top-budget productions and produc CLIFF WORK tion executives. Robert Speers, casting dirctor, succeeds Kelley in the latter's former post. The advisory board will include Martin Murphy, studio and production manager; George Bole, production executive; Edward Muhl, associate executive; John Joseph, national director of publicity and advertising, and Harold Brewster, comptroller, as well as Kelley and Spears. Bole will co-ordinate the activities of Edward Dodds, Robert Faber, Ben Pivar, Milton Schwarzwald and Howard Welsch. In announcing the board's formation, Blumberg said: "We are constantly increasing the number of top productions, adding each year to our over-all budget, extending in every detail the scope of our activities. This new arrangement has been made to simplify and strengthen our studio's executive operation." Times Sq. Theaters Obey Curfew Order Although Mayor LaGuardia offered operators a week's leeway to adjust their business in accordance with the Byrnes' "Curfew-at-midnight" order, effective last night, theaters in the New York Times (Continued on Page 6) Should be Permitted to Assist in Drafting Document, Says ITOA's Prexy Independent theater leaders should be invited to participate in the negotiations for a new consent decree, Harry Brandt, ITOA president, said yesterday. The decree, Brandt pointed out, was designed to protect the independent exhibitor but it has not accomplished its purpose. If the independents are to be protected, Brandt said, they should be asked to sit in on the negotiations, not for the purpose of being asked opinions, but to assist in drawing up a (Continued on Page 3) RC Meets Under W Predict New Records With Red Cross meetings of the motion picture industry in full swing, indications based on enthusiasm are that the business will go well over the top in the forthcoming fund campaign. N. Peter Rathvon, national chairman, told 160 persons at a meeting (Continued on Page 6) in "Bring on the Girls" I To be Para. Easter Pic Toronto — While applications have been filed for approximately 100 post-war theaters throughout Canada, there is little likelihood that building permits, men and materials (Co'ntinued on Page 2) CbUL Solon Blasts Curfew Unnecessary Penaity,^^ McDonough Asserts // Sheehan to Leave Rep.; Outside Producing Ends W^est Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Howard Sheehan has resigned as executive producer of (Continued on Page 3) Washinaton Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — By letter to War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes and verbally on the floor of the House, Rep. Gordon McDonough of Hollywood yesterday registered sharp protest against application of the midnight (Continued on Page 3) Philadelphia — "Bring On the Girls," has been set for general release on March 30 as Paramount's Easter holiday attraction, Charles (Continued on Page 6) G. B. Shatv to Metro: S£eei» Your Thousand London (By Cable) — Rejecting, by postcard, a Metro offer of 1,000 pounds to broadcast from this city to the U. S. on Oscar Wilde as a promotional plug for "The Picture of Dorian Gray," George Bernard Shaw wrote that in Wilde's name and "Dorian Gray" Metro had "first rate publicity ready-made" and that the 1,000 pounds "would be worse than wasted." ^ IT'S YOUR RED CROSS AISD IT'S YOUR CAUSE— PLEDGE YOUR THEATER'S CO^OP TODAY