The Film Daily (1945)

Monday, July 2, 1945 DAILY Vol. 88, No. 1 Mon., July 2, 1945 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 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. 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, 9-7-120, 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 Esler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briargate 7441. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St , W. I. HAVANA — Mary Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. HONOLULU— Mrs. Annabel Damon. MEXICO CITY — Arthur Geiger, Augusto Compte 5, Mexico, D. F. SAN JUAN — E. Sanchez Ortiz, San Sebastian No. 3. MONTREAL — Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. FinnnciflL (June 29) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. 221/2 221/2 221/2 + 1/8 24 23 23 — 1/2 Am. Seat Col.Picts. vtc. (21/2%) Columbia Picts. pfd.. . Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd-. . . East. Kodak do pfd Gen. Prec. Eq.. Loew's, Inc Paramount RKO ■ RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . . 20th Century-Fox pfd. 20th Century-Fox ppf. Universal Pict Warner Bros 5 434 43/4 — 1/4 31 30 301/2 179 1781/2 1781/2 — 1 196 196 196 — 2 271/4 271/4 271/4 + 1/4 261/2 26 261/8 331/8 311/4 317/8 — % 91/4 87/8 9 — Vs 1001/2 100 100 — 11/4 283/8 28 281/8 — 1/8 351/4 351/8 351/8 1/2 263^ 261/4 261/4 — 3^ 17 163/8 165/b — % NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 41/2 41/8 Monogram Picts. pfd. IO1/4 IO1/4 Radio-Keith cvs 13^ 13/4 Sonotone Corp 314 3'/8 Technicolor 213/4 21 1/2 Trans-Lux 5 47/8 101/4 13/4 31/4 21% 5 "John L." Opens Saturday "The Great John L." will have its New York premiere at the Gotham Theater Saturday. colossal cominG nno GOinG JOHN JOSETH, director of Universal's advertising, publicity and exploitation, is expected to arrive here today from the Coast. JOHNNY JONES, president of Screen Guild Productions, left Chicago for the Coast Friday for conferences relating to future production plans. CLIFF ALMY, sales manager for Warner Brosin the Philippines, arrives in New York about July 15. Almy recently was rescued from a Jap prison camp. SAM CLARK, West Coast exploiteer for Warner Bros., leaves Los Angeles today for San Francisco. IDA LUPINO, Warner Bros, star who has been on a hospital and War Bond tour in the East, leaves New York today for the Coast. KARL E. ZINT, newly appointed vice-president of Western Electric Co. of Mexico, left New York yesterday by plane for Hollywood and will arrive in Mexico City on July 20. LYNN UNKEFER, assistant to Perry lieber, publicity head of RKO Radio's studios, is visiting the home office from Hollywood. 20th Century-Fox' stars WILLIAM EYTHE and LLOYD NOLAN and Director HENRY HATHAWAY are en route to California. LOUIS de ROCHEMONT producer, is returning over the Fourth to join them on the Coast. GEORGE BROWN, Paramount's director of studio advertising is expected to arrive on the Coast tomorrow after his two weeks' visit here. DANIEL T. O'SHEA, president of Vanguard Films, has arrived here from Hollywood. JOHN HODIAK arrived in New York Friday. HAL WALLIS arrived in New York from Hollywood yesterday. SAM LEFKOWITZ is in Washington today. HARRY COLD returns today from Detroit and Cleveland. 2 WAC Shorts in Work Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Frank Davis and Henry Blankfort, Hollywood screen writers, have arrived in the Capital to do research and prepare scripts for two new shorts to be released on the War Activities Committee-OfRce of War Information program. Republic , . . sees *^one worlii" (Continued from Page 1) have been well entertained and have said so. For the good of the cause, word of this has found its way bacic to London. Wrote Ernest Betts, one of Britain's better critics, in the Daily Express (circulation more than 3,000,000) the other day, "Its reception over there makes it clear that much of the talk about hostility to British pictures in America is baloney." And war-time baloney, filled with cereal, at that. M. P. Academy Night At H'wood Bowl Aug. 4 West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — President Walter Wanger, of the Academy of M. P. Arts and Sciences, yesterday announced that the Academy would sponsor the Hollywood Bowl program the night of Aug. 4. Academy Night is being presented by the Hollywood Bowl Association in co-operation with the Academy as a regular concert of symphonies under the stars season. All of the music presented that night will be from the finest musical scores of great motion pictures. Extend Montague Drive 2 Months; Ends Aug. 30 Extension of the ''Montague 20th Anniversary Campaign" for an additional two months is announced by Columbia. The current sales and billings drive, which started March 16 and would have ended on June 28, will now end on Aug. 30. Purpose of the company extending the drive is so that several important features be included. Among these attractions are "Over 21" and "A Thousand and One Nights." Two New Pix Starting West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Two new pictures go mto production this week. Making a total of 40 shooting. Rites Today for Johnson, General Register Exec. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Walter B. Cooke Funeral Home, 117 West 72nd St., for E. Bruce Johnson, 61, executive vice-president of General Register Corp., who died suddenly of a heart attack in his office here on Friday morning. In 1917, he was a co-organizer of First National Pictures, Inc., and three years later became its vicepresident and foreign manager, following his resignation from Turner and Dahnken, his former affiliation, and served in the dual posts at First National until 1929. Thereafter, he operated his own film import and export business here for five years, and then engaged in the film exchange business in San Francisco. In 1937 he joined General Register as Pacific Coast division manager. Surviving are his widow, Genevieve, and a daughter, Eleanor. His remains, will be sent to the West Coast. Munson Now Brigadier Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Promotion of Col. E. L. Munson, Jr., chief of the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, to the rank of Brigadier General has been confirmed by the Senate. General Munson is in charge of Army training and informational films, the distribution of the film industry's 16 mm. grift films, and the maintenance of the still and motion picture records of the war for the War Dept. Executive Position Wanted Cultured young American woman, experienced radio broadcasting, editing and legit theater; creative ability, knowledge European countries; was with U. S. Government duration of European war; interested in assisting busy executive in L("s Angeles, New York, London. Write Box No. 432. Film Daily, 1501 Broadway, N. Y. C. N. Y. 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