The Film Daily (1945)

Friday, July 6, 194! Vcl. 88, No. 4 Fri., July 6, 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 Marcn 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-?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 CaroUna 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 Wardout 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. MONTREAI^Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. Morgenthau Resigns, Vinson May Succeed Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgentnau, Jr., will leave his post probably next month, it was revealed by President Truman yesterday. His successor has not yet been named, although it will probably be Judge Fred M. Vinson, now head of OWM. Morgenthau, who has led the Treasury through the giant war finance program, has wished to leave the cabinet for months because of his own health and that of Mrs. Morgenthau. Last week he told the White House that he would like to leave earlier because he did not relish the constant speculation on how soon he would be replaced. President Truman accepted his resignation reluctantly, the President said yesterday. It is not believed that the change will have any , great effect upon Treasury policies as regards taxation or even personnel, since Vinson is known as a leader in the antiinflation fight. Thompson Resigns as UA Midwest District Mgr. Wyler Acquires Interest In Capra-Briskin Co. Resignation of T. R. Thompson as United Artists district manager iu the St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha territories was announced yesterday by Carl Leserman, general sales manager. The territories will be taken over by Rud Lohrenz, Chicago district manager. Mrs. Ella Walters Dies Hartford City, Ind. — Mrs. Ella Walters, wife of Frank Walters, owner of the Main Theater, Dunkirk, died at her home here. For many years she was associated with her husband in the operation of Hartford City theaters. Other survivors include a brother and a grandson, now on Okinawa. West Coast bureau of THE FILM DAILY Holly wood^Lt. Col. William Wyler has become a part owner of Liberty Films which was formed by Frank Capra and Sam Briskin. He will become active in the new company when he is discharged from the Army and completes a one-picture commitent with Samuel Goldwyn. Both Capra and Wyler will be producer-directors and each will make for Liberty a minimum of one picture a year. Company's policy will be to make only important pictures and to produce as many as acquisition of suitable story properties will justify. No plans for distribution have been announced although negotiations are in progress. WB Ad Sales Week July 15-21 Week of July 15-21 has been set by Warners for this year's Ad Sales Week. The drive on advertising accessories is an adjunct of the company's sales drive, which started April 1 and will run throughout July. Ben Goldman, who handles accessory sales, will head the Ad Sales campaign. says s gigantic tr L R R i^lTE'=M°s''.''LT°o. M^T lb N"-"piC TTJR EH'H E ATRi 1501 BROADWAY ---- NEW YORK CITY CASH CONTROL Garner Day in Harrisburg A War Bond Rally Event Today will be Peggy Ann Garner day in Harrisburg, Pa., where the 20th Century-Fox star of "Junior Miss" and "Nob Hill" will be guest of honor at the culmination ceremonies of "The Cavalcade of Youth" at the Forum Auditorium. Miss Garner will be officially greeted by Pennsylvania's Governor, Edward Martin, and Harrisburg's Mayor, Charles Milliken. Jerome Pickman, executive assistant to Hal Home, will accompany the star to the combined motion picture industry and Treasury Department's War Bond rally, which will be directed by Henry L Marshall. Chi. V. C. Tourney July 10 Chicago — Variety Club annual golf tournament will be held at Hickory Hills Golf Club on July 10. Committee in charge includes Jack Kirsch, John Balaban, Jack Rose, Irving Mack and Edward Brunnel. SAG Approves 2,557 to 15 Modifications of Basic Pact West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — ^By a vote of 2,557 to 15, members of Screen Actors Guild have approved modification of the Guild's basic 10-year contract with the major producers. Approval of salary increases for several classifications will be sought under the wage stabilization law in a joint application by the Guila and the major studios. Salary increases, to be retroactive to April 1, 1945 include minimum rate for day players increased from $25 to $35 per day, minimum rate for free lancers increased from $100 to $115 a week, minimum rate for stock players increased from $50 to $60 per week, for the first six weeks, and to $75 per week thereafter. Tele Engineers Invited to Standard Policies Parley Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Television engineers were invited yesterday to attend an engineering conference in Washington Friday of next week to discuss with the FCC technical engineering standards for the poSt-war television service. The standards for FM, fassimile and tele will have to be adopted by the FCC this Summer, and next week's discussion has been set up to permit industry engineers to raise whatever questions they may have and to offer suggestions. George P. Adair, FCC chief engineer, will preside. This conference will concern itself primarily with technical matters, with policy matters to be discussed later. "1001 Nights" Breaks House Records at Debut Columbia reports that its Technicolor comedy extravaganza, "A Thousand and One Nights," broke every known opening day house record when it premiered at the Hillside and Pantages Theaters in Los Angeles on the Fourth. Attendance figures exceeded those piled up by such previous Columbia record breakers as "Cover Girl" and "A Song to Remember." The film has its New York premiere at Loew's Criterion, July 11. Other pre-release dates set for the ^ame day include Loew's State and Orpheum, Boston; Lafayette, Buffalo and Spreckles, San Diego. RCA Service Meeting Monday RCA Service Co. executives and district service managers open a 10day conference Monday at the Seaview Country Club, Absecon, N. J., W. L. Jones, vice-president, announced. Discussions will cover service field engineering operations, training programs, new test equipment and markets in the fields of motion picture sound and projection, radio and television broadcasting and reception, electronic power heating, electronic industrial controls and others. cominc ui come PHIL WILLIAMS, publicity and advertising di lector for The March of Time, has returned t New York from Nantucket. LINN UNKEFER, assistant to Perry Lleber i RKO Radio's studio, leaves New York today f( Hollywood, following two weeks in the East I connection with series of "Back to 'Bataan premieres. EVELYN KOLEMAN, Republic fan magazin contact, left New York yesterday for a visi at Republic's North Hollywood Studios. ALFRED HITCHCOCK Is en route to London t prepare for the production of a film to sts! Cary Grant. JOHN DALL, star of the Broadway hit, "Des Ruth," will leave here Monday for the Wai ner Bros, studio where he Is now under con tract. ARTHUR JEFFREY, Eastern publicity mana ger of International Pictures, has returned her^ from a tour of Southern key cities. ^; EDDIE YARBROUCH, 20th Century-Fox fi exploitation representative stationed In San Fran Cisco, is visiting New York for a few days. JOSEPH R. VOCEL, Loew's vice-president, re turns Monday from the Coast. E. K. "TED" O'SHEA, Eastern sales manage: returned yesterday from Buffalo. ANGELA GREENE, who has just finished oni of the leading roles in Warner's, "The Timi the Place and the Girl," left the Coast yestet day for New York. BEN KALMENSON, general sales manager fc Warner Bros., has arrived in Memphis on an ex tended tour of the Southern and Southwester territory, with Dallas as his next stop on Monda; ROY HAINES, Southern and Western divlslo sales manager, leaves New York on Sunday fc Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City and other points. DENNIS MORGAN, Warner Bros, star, lei New York yesterday for the South to begin six-week hospital and camp tour under auspice of USO. BETTY HUTTON, WILLIAM DEMAREST an BARRY FITZGERALD are in Chicago for Para. 33rd anniversary meeting there. Houseman Signs RKO Pact! Permits SHAEF Assignmem West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAIL Hollywood — John Houseman ha; signed an agreement to produce on important picture annually for RK( Radio. Unusual terms of the com tract will permit him to go to Europ to undertake an assignment in oc cupied Germany as head of films theater and music for the Psycho logical Warfare Division of SHAEP Upon completion of this war jo he will return to undertake his firs RKO production. He recently com pleted a producer contract at Para mount where he made "Miss Susi \ Slagle's" and "Blue Dahlia," the lat ter starring Alan Ladd. Kenneth Ray Resigns as Ohio Chief Film Censor Columbus, O. — Kenneth C. Rajj State director of education and-chi© film censor for Ohio, will leave Stat service on Aug. 15 when his term ex pires. No announcement has beei| ^ made of his successor. Ray, who ha ( been director of education for fiv ', years, will become educational direc tor of the Grolier Society, Inc., main taining offices in ^Columbus. iir