The Film Daily (1945)

^*\ DAILY Monday, July 9, 1945J Vol. 88, No. 5 Mon., July 9, 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-?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. Fred man. The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardoui 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. nnnnciRL (FriJoy. July 6) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc (21/7% Columbia Picts. pfd.. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. . . . East Kodak do pfd Gen. Free. Eq Loew's, Inc Paramount RKO RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox 20th Century-Fox pfd 20th Century-Fox ppf. Universal Pict Warner Bros ) 23 223/4 223/4 — % 43/4 311/2 1761/2 193 271/4 26 321/2 91/8 1007/8 281/4 351/4 26 V4 163/4 43/4 43/4 — Vs 311/2 311/2 + 1/8 1761/2 1761/2 1 93 1 93 27 257/8 323/8 27 253/4 32 87/8 100 277/8 351/8 + 1 — 1 + 100 281/8 351/4 1 Vs 26 261/4 163/8 163/4 + 1/8 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Wi Monogram Picts V/b 4Vs Monogram Picts. pfd Radio-Keith cvs 1% Sonotone Corp 3% Technicolor Trans-Lux 434 434 43^ 1% 1% + Vs 31/4 33/8 1/4 Lewis Rosenblatt Dies New Haven — Lewis Rosenblatt, 45, of Brighton, Mass., brother of Harry Rosenblatt, Metro manager, New Haven, died at Brighton, July 3. Attention! Read and Write! Young Man with 15 years exchange operation experience booking, cashiering and accounting wishes to connect with film company or circuit. In replying state salary and other conditions, if any, identified with position. Box 235, FILM DAILY 1501 BROADWAY, N. Y. C. cominc flno Gomc ROBERT M. CILLHAM, Paramount's advertising1 publicity chief, is expected to arrive on the Coast tomorrow from New York. LOU JACKSON, chairman of the Anglo-American Film Corp., and managing director of British National Films, is expected to arrive here today by plane from London and will stop at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel CHARLES PRUTZMAN, Universal attorney, arrived on the Coast from New York for studio conferences. GEORGE IVAN WOODHAM-SMITH, legal adviser to J. Arthur Rank, arrived yesterday in advance of Rank and his party from San Francisco ROBERT C. ALEXANDER, resident manager for Paramount Films de Espana, S. A., in Madrid, and PETER COURET of Paramount-Mercurio Films, S. A., Paramount distributor in Spain, were due in New York over the week-end SONJA HENIE is expected to return to the United States this week from an entertainment tour of Army hospitals in Denmark. S/SGT. SABU DASTAGIR, known to moviegoers as Sabu, arrived in San Francisco from the Southwest Pacific after completing 42 missions as a ball-turret gunner on a B-24 Liberator. He will receive a furlough to visit his home in Hollywood , HARRY GRAHAM, Universal's Southern division manager, is a home office visitor from Atlanta. KAY HARRISON, of Technicolor Corp., arrived in New York by plane from London yesterday. LUCILLE BALL, M-C-M actress, arrived from the Coast and is staying at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. ANN RUTHERFORD is a New York visitor from Hollywood. CHARLES RYAN, assistant zone manager for Warner's Chicago theaters, will leave Friday for a three-week vacation. L. J. KAUFMAN, Warner Theaters' exec , is on a business trip to Cleveland. GEORGE RIGAUD, who plays in "Paris — Underground," arrived in New York from Hollywood Saturday. IRA EPSTEIN, field representative for Warners in the Indianapolis exchange territory, is in Louisville working on 'Corn is Green" opening at Mary Anderson Theater. FRANK BRUNER, Southwestern exploiteer for Warners, is in Houston for openings of "Conflict" at the Majestic and "The Corn is Green" at the Metropolitan EDGAR KENNEDY, RKO comedian, returns to Hollywood on Wednesday after two appearances in New York City and Washington, D. C. at Seventh War Bond rallies. LOU WEINBERG, Col. circuit sales executive, left Friday for a business trip to seven of the company's exchanges in connection with the "Montague Twentieth Anniversary Campaign." BETTY HUTTON arrives this morning from the Coast. HAROLD LLOYD was the Shrine meetings. a Chicago visitor for Col. Drew Eberson in From Pacific War Area San Francisco — Col. Drevi^ Eberson, of the U. S. Army Engineers, and before entering the service the partner of his father in the architectural firm of John and Drew Eberson, specialists in motion picture theater design and operational equipment, arrived here on Friday by plane from the Pacific theater of war. He is expected to arrive in the East later this week, reporting to Camp Dix, and will then be accorded a three months' furlough. Following his service in the Army, Col. Eberson plans to re-enter business with his father. Lothar Wolfi Promoted Lothar Wolff, former March of Time chief film editor, now on leave to the U. S. Coast Guard, has just been promoted from lieutenant (j.g.) to lieutenant. He is at present in charge of the U. S. Coast Guard motion picture unit in New York. COMPANY 154 W. 14th ST. N. Y. C. Phone W Atkins 9-1486 PROMPT SERVICE AS USUAL Sets Dates for Two UA Regional Sales Meetings Following a successful meeting of the Southern division exchanges, Carl Leserman, United Artists general sales manager, has announced dates for two regional sales meetings for the Western territory under the supervision of J. J Unger. The first of these meetings will get under way on July 13-14 at the Park Plaza Hotel in St. Louis with branch managers and salesmen from Omaha, St. Louis and Kansas City in attendance. Second meeting, scheduled for the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago on July 15-16, will be attended by branch managers and salesmen from Indianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis. Vinson Named As New Secretary of the Treasury Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — The White House announced Friday that Judge Fred Vinson will succeed Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., who resigned on Thursday. The Morgenthau resignation was a sudden decision reached during an interview between Morgenthau and the President Thursday noon. It was not disclosed whether Judge Vinson will retain his post as head of OWM, although this is thought a fair possibility. Four New Pix to Start West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Four pictures start this week at the studios, making total of 33 shooting. House Passes Tax Relief Bill Unchanged! (Continued from Page 1) panies, too, will benefit from the pro vision for current re-payment of th( 10 per cent credit. The higher bas< will be effective Dec. 31, 1945, anc may be prorated. The bill goes now to the Senate where early action is expected. There has been no sign that the Whitt House will oppose its enactment. r\. V. TUEIA I i^^ltS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Showplace of the Nation Rockefeller Center "A.BELL FOR ADANO" GENE TIERNEY • JOHN HODIAK WILLIAM BENDIX Directed by Henry King A 20th Century-Fox Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION Robert Lizabeth Don CUMMINGS SCOTT DEFORE in HAL WALLIS' Production "YOU CAME ALONG" A Paramount Picture .n Person STAN KENTON ^^^ PMAMOU/^r SS*S=» OH SCREEN VEMNICA SONNY LAKE . TUFTS EDDIE MARJORIE BRACKEN . REYNOLDS 'BRING ON the GIRLS' IN COLOR! IN PERSON LEE CASTLE and ORCH. BILL JOHNSON Samuel Goldv^yn presents Danny Kaye in "Wonder Man" in Technicolor ASTOR B*way & 45 St. Continuous • Popular Prices B'WAY & 47th St. Starts Tomorrow Robert Young Laraine Day "THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS" An RKO RADIO PICTURE