The Film Daily (1945)

^ Dl&ILY Friday, July 6, 19^ 18 Features Form Backlog at Metro (Continued from Page 1) Technicolor, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly; "Hidden Eye," with Edward Arnold; "The Great Morgan," with Frank Morgan. Others completed and slated for release after the Summer include "Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood," starring Abbott & Costello; "Dangerous Partners," "The Harvey Girls," in Technicolor, starring Judy Garland and John Hodiak; "Her Highness and the Bellboy," starring Hedy Lamarr and Robert Walker; "Hold High the Torch," in Technicolor, with Elizabeth Taylor; "John and Mary," "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes," starring Margaret O'Brien and Edward G. Robinson; "Perfect Strangers," starring Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr; "They Were Expendable," starring Robert Montgomery; "Weekend at the Waldorf," starring Ginger Rogers and Lana Turner with Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, Edward Arnold, Phyliss T h a X t e r , Keenan Wynn, Robert B e n c h 1 e y , Leon Ames and Lina Romay; "Yolanda and the Thief," in Technicolor with Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer and Frank Morgan; "Ziegfeld Follies," in Technicolor and staiTing Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Home, Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams and William Powell with Edward Arnold, Marion Bell, Bunin's Puppets, Cyd Charisse, Hume Cronyn, Robert Lewis, Virginia O'Brien, and Keenan Wynn. Seven others are now before the cameras and include "Early to Wed," "A Letter for Evie," "The Postman Always Rings Twice," "She Went to the Races," "This Strange Adventure," starring Clark Gable and Greer Garson; "Two Sisters from Boston," and "The Yearling," which Clarence Brown is working on in Florida. Gregory Peck, who had heen working with Brown in Florida, has returned to the Coast. Brown is expected to wind up shooting exteriors in Ocala in another month and then will head for Hollywood. mm mnm (JIIEETIIS TO: July 6 Al Wilkie Sam Lefkowtz Don M. Mersereau Juanita Stark Jay Blaufox Frank E. Carbutt July 7 George Cukor Ricardo Cortex Raymond Hatton Jackie Searl Ruth Ford July 8 Eugene Pallette Louis C. Ingram Craig Stevens George A. Smith Faye Emerson Lon Young Glen Langan Bradley King • • • MRS. LOUISE LEONARD, manager of Loew's Mayfair Theater, will be the guest of honor on Monday at a luncheon tendered by the managers of the Broadway picture and presentation theaters Affair is in honor of her 20 years as a Broadway manager Monty Salmon is chairman of the event, which will take place on the penthouse roof of the Piccadilly Hotel ... • Tonight the Mayfair celebrates its 10th aimiversary and Judy Garland and her directorhusband, Vincente Minnelli, will be on hand to cut the birthday cake . . . • Forty-three governors huddling at Mackinac Island, Mich., were given an advance glimpse of Metro's "Weekend at the Waldorf" the other night ... • Berne Giler, former contract writer for Columbia and Hal Roach, has written a musical, "The Girl From Nantucket," slated for Broadway in the Fall . . . • After an absence of 15 years, Spencer Tracy is returning to Broadway in a play by Robert E. Sherwood, "Out of Hell" ... • Jay Gove of Metro's home office is on the sick list . . . • T. Arthur Rank, who has had his share of dinners and banquets during his American visit, vrill have to face another one when he returns to England The British producers are giving a "welcome home" dinner in London on August 1 , . . • Here's news for the foreign departments: RCA has announced the re-establishment of radiotelegraph service to Prague, extension of the service to three more provinces in Italy and the lifting of the ban on telegraph addresses to Australia and New Zealand ... • Lester Cowan and a party are hopping off this morning via Air Transport Command for the opening of Ernie Pyle's "Story of G.I. Joe" in Indianapolis ▼ TV • • • WE'RE AVENGING PEARL HARBOR; Monogram Is Undecided On Its Dubbing Policy (Continued from Page 1) from the public below the border are in favor of dubbed versions, a number of articles opposing the practice have appeared in Latin-American publications. Bernard J. Gates, special representative for Monogram in Latin America, is now on an extensive tour of the territory during which he is conducting a survey on dubbing among the people he contacts. His findings are expected to be a factor in the company's final decision. Monogram dubbed six pictures in New York last year and will dub "Dillinger" shortly. Norton V. Ritchey. Monogram International president, left for Mexico City Wednesday in order to determine, among other things, whether the pictures should be dubbed there or in New York. RKO Managers Meet Omaha — John Redmond, RKO divisional manager here, is holding a special parley this week for the following theater managers in his territory: A. H. Talbert, Cedar Rapids; John Dostal, Davenport, la.; Walter Ahrens, Marshalltown, la.; Robert Whelan, Sioux City, la.; Jerry Bloodow, Waterloo, la.; W. C. Sears, Minneapolis; and Will Singer and Pinky Mcllvaine, Omaha. Allen G. Smith Returns To Nat. Theatre Supply (Continued from Page 1) has rejoined the company, as of July 1. Before he was called to Washington in 1942, Smith was representing the company in the Southwest territories. He had been associated with National since it was formed in 1926. In addition to looking after National's interest in Washington, Smith will be of assistance to those subsidiaries of General Precision Equipment Corp., which manufacture theater equipment and supplies. These include Strong Electric Corp., of Toledo; J. E. McAuley Mfg. Co. of Chicago, manufacturers of projection lamps; and Hertner Electric Co. of Cleveland, manufacturers of generator motors. The War Production Board, in accepting Smith's resignation, has asked that he make himself available from time to time as consultant for the WPB'on problems, affecting the industry as a whole. Charles W. Goodman Dead Cleveland — Charles W. Goodman, 59, RKO Palace Theater stage manager, died at his home in Willoughby. Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, three sons, a daughter, his mother and a sister. Two of his boys are on overseas duty. Wail St. Interest High in Pix Slocics (Continued from Page 1) it has been maintained at consistei ly high levels, has brought abo greater confidence in the shares film companies. Higher average qui ity of product also is cited. Te vision is discounted as a very ii probable competitor, thereby pit ing no dark clouds on the horizon that score. Wider distribution of motion p ture shares, such as that made p( sible by the three-for-one split-up Loew stock, also is cited as a cc structive institutional move, and t favorable interest rates obtained large re-financing operations, such the $37,000,000 Warner Bros, lo for retirement of all mortgages, : fleets the even more conservati bankers' views on the stabili achieved by the film industry. Resume Film Shipments To Manila in Late July (ConHnued from Page 1) of the resumption of service and ea company is preparing shipments i the initial voyage. Service to the Philippines ^ halted with the attack on Pei Harbor. Minn. Amusement Co. Asks 2 Theater Permits Minneapolis — ^Minneapolis Amui ment Co. yesterday applied to Wl for permission to build new theatt at Eau Claire, Wis., 800 seats, a Rochester, Minn., 1,000 to 1,200 sea These are in addition to the Miu' N. D. and St. Paul plans receni announced. President John J. Friedl nounced application will later made to build new houses at Ma kato, Minn., 800 seats, and Aust: Minn., 800 seats. Joseph Coles Dead Akron, O. — Joseph Coles, manag of the Nixon Theater, died in Ci Hospital. STORK REPORTS Birmingham, Ala. — A son wj born here Tuesday to Mrs. Mickc Rooney, the former Betty Jane Ra.' of this city. Rooney, now an Arm corporal, is in Germany. Nat Sanders, president of Englig Films, Inc., became a grandfather r< cently when his daughter Enid gav birth to a son, Andrew Steven Wyso at Doctors Hospital. Detroit — Noel W. Sanders, opers tor of the Echo Theater, has a bab girl. W0^^ A