The Film Daily (1945)

Wednesday, July 11, 1949 WB Theaters Resign From All State Units (Continued from Page 1) with the Allied units to which the circuit has been paying dues are expected to get under way shortly. The Warner houses took no formal part in the activities of the Allied units but they contributed financially for legislative purposes. ^ While it is reported that Warners' membership dues in the MPTOA were paid through some arrangement with the MPPDA, from which Warner Bros. Pictures has resigned, a spokesman for the MPPDA denied the report. Indiana Moves to Enforce New State-wide Curfew (Continued from Page 1) lature this year, is now being called to the attention of parents by enforcement officials. The measure is so all-inclusive in its scope that it defines as a "delinquent child" any person under 18 on the streets after 10 p.>m. "unless for the purpose of lawful business or occupation." For first ofi'enders, parents will be contacted and forced to call for their curfew-violating off-spring at ^police stations. Repeaters will be arraigned in Juvenile Courts in communities where they exist. Officials stressed that parents could be charged with contributing toward the delinquency of a minor for failure of their children to abide by the curfew law. Effect of the measure on teen-age attendance at theaters is problematical, with local conditions expected to be a major factor. Metropolitan Theas. Takes Over Million Dollar Thea. (Continued from Page 1) politan will take over the Pan-Pacific which he will add to the other houses he operates personally. Metropolitan, Fox West Coast principal, and Corwin's personally-operated houses all are affiliated. Maj. Martin Back to WB West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Maj. Robert D. Martin, Signal Corps, has returned to Warners studio to resume his post as head of the decorative lighting department. Ed Sticht, acting head, carries on as his assistant. Sears Quits Union Post Cleveland — Irwin Sears, Paramount booker, has resigned as F-5 business agent. He is succeeded by John C. Wein. IN NEW POSTS LEE GUIN, operator, )oy, Detroit. HOLLYWOOD SPEAKING Bt RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD LIAL WALLIS has acquired "Desert ' ' Town," first novel by Ramona Stewart, 23-year-old University of Southern California graduate fcr early production. Wallis has signed Betsy Drake, 21 -year-old stage actress, to a term contract and will star her in "Desert Town.' Miss Drake will play the lead in the Mt. Holyoke Mass. Little Theater production of "Kiss and Tell" before going to H:llywood. "Desert Town," soon will be serialized by Colliers. Ramona Stewart will start on the screenplay this month. e • John Farrow has been assigned by Paramount to direct "California," which will star Alan Ladd and Betty Mutton. Farrow starts on "California" as soon as he completes "Calcutta," now in work. • • William Pine and William Thomas have bought the screen rights to "Big Town,' for eight years top half-hour dramatic radio show, from which they will produce two pistures a year for the next seven years. Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor originated the two leading characters in the air show, Steve Wilson, dynamic managing editor, and Lorelei, girl reporter. Maxwell Shane, who wrote many of the scripts for the radio shew, has been assigned to the screenplay. • • Warner Baxter, veteran of the Crime Doctor series, will star again in "The Crime Doctor's Warning,'' the fifth in Columbia's sequence of mystery thrillers. • • Warren William and Peter Cookson have been signed for the male starring roles in "Suspense," Monogram psychological drama. Elisha Cook, Jr., Johnny Strong and Francis Pierlot have also been set in the film. • • William Wilder has signed Ruth Ford and Hillary Brocke for featured roles in You'll Remember Me,' his next Republic production. • ® Michael Kanin will write the screenplay of RKO Radio's "Mexican Honeymoon,'' Vicki Baum's modern romantic comedy with a Latin-American background. Robert Fellows is producing it, with Warren Duff as associate producer. • • Producer Charles R. Rogers has signed Archie Mayo to direct his forthcoming film fantasy, "Angel On My Shoulder" with Paul Muni and Claude Rains, an original story by Harry Segall. • • Samuel Goldwyn has engaged Charles Cane for the role of Willard, the reporter, in "The Kid from Brooklyn. CLIFFORD SANFORTH, co-producer with Leonard' Picker of Columbia's Technicolor, "The Bandit of Sherwood Forest," has opened negotiations with a major for production and distribution^ of "Virgin of the Gods,' an adaptation of T. A. Willard's novel and Paul Castleton's stcry, "Kansas." • . ■ • Sgt. Ellsworth Primeau, former projectionist here for Charlie Chaplin' and Natalie Kalmus, is the new post organist for Maxwell Field's personnel service at Montgomery, Ala, • • Sam Levene, just back from Europe where he played "Three Men On A Horse'' for General Hodge's First Army, reports that the world's most exciting motion picture is nearing completion. Directed by Carol Reed, British ace director, it is called "From D-Day to V-E Day." All Allied Forces are contributing footage to make it the most complete cinematic story of a war ever assembled. It will run two and a half hours. • • ToiTi Noonan, who reached Hollywood unheralded six months ago, has been signed to a long-term RKO Radio contract and cast importantly in "Riverboat Rhythm. ' • • Monogram has signed Nestor Paiva for a featured role in "Suspense," which Alfred Zeisler is directing. • 9 Harry Sauber has signed Keye Luke, for the cast of his coming PRC production, "How Do You Do?", which will star Bert "Mad Russian" Gordon and Harry Von Zell, with Ella Mae Morse and Claire Windsor. • • Jane Allen, who co-authored "Thanks, God, I'll Take It From Here," is back from New York after huddles on having her novel serialized in a national magazine before it hits the bookstands. Miss Allen this week will meet with executives of Jesse L. Lasky Productions on her story, in which Claudette Colbert and John Wayne will star for RKO, and next month goes to work on the final screenplay. • • Bathing beauty pictures, modeled exclusively for Motion Picture Magazine by 15 of Hollywood's most curvaceous star and starlets, appear in the July Bathing Beauty issue. A close-up of the cover girl, Esther Williams, was written especially for this issue by Sidney Skolsky. • • It's back to nature for Loren Tindall who, instead of his usual suave and debonair leading man assignments, will play the gangling, backward youth of the forests in Columbia's production of Gene Stratton Porter's hardy perennial, "Girl of the Limberlost.' Para. Cincy Party Tuesday Cincinnati, 0. — Mrs. Fanny Voss, head inspectress will be guest of honor at Paramount's "One-third of a Century" party, honoring personnel and exhibitors associated with Paramount 30 years or over, July 17. Mrs. Voss has served 30 years. Meet on Chi. Operator Pact Chicago — Theater owners will meet today with officials of the Chicago operators' union to discuss terms for a new contract. Marx Brothers to Tour West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Marx Brothers "Stage Shakedown" tour for their coming film, "A Night in Casablanca," will open at the Orpheum, San Diego, Aug. 14 and will be followed by an engagement at the T and D Theater in Oakland. Their company will include 20 people. Marx Bros, will do four appearances daily at San Diego, three at Oakland. "A Night in Casablanca" will be produced by David L. Loew with Archie Mayo directing. Metro Sales Parley Looks to V-J Day (Continued from Page U sales managers at the Blackstone Hotel, calledby William P. Rodgers, vice-president and general sales chief.' Rodgers, Edwin W'. Aaron, circuit sales head, and 'Edward K O'Shea, Eastern sales' manager, are due from New York this ihor'nihg. Others., to attend the ineetings include John J. Maloney, Central sales manager; Rudolph Berger, Southern sales chief; George A. Hickey, West Coast supervisor; John E. Flynn, Western sales manager; Sam Shirley, Chicago district manager, and a small group of home office execs. M. L. Simons, editor of The Distributor, is already here to prepare two special issues of the house organ to be published during the conferences. There will be no general meeting of branch managers but field forces will be kept in touch with developments through the special Distributor issues. Charles Hayman Passes; Buffalo Pioneer Exhib. (Continued from Page 1) try, died yesterday morning, following a heart attack on Friday. He failed to regain consciousness after being stricken and he passed away at St. Mary's Hospital, Niagara Falls. Hayman started in the industry as an actor in "The Great Train Robbery" which he helped to direct and later became an independent newsreel cameraman. He produced the first Billy Anderson picture and then operated tent shows in New England and the Southwest, ultimately owning a string of exchanges. As an exhibitor, Hayman started a small up-state circuit. He owned the Arcade Theater, Niagara Falls, and later re-built the Cataract Theater and built the Strand. He operated the Lafayette Theater in Buffalo for 13 years. He was a director of the MPTOA and president of the Buffalo and Albany unit for seven years. He is survived by his widow, tw^o sons and a daughter. Funeral will be held thsi afternoon in Niagara Falls. Born in New York City, Hayman entered the film industry at the age of 15 by photographing news events, splicing 10 subjects into a single reel and selling it to penny arcade peep shows in 14 St. He later was intimately acquainted with D. W. Griffith, Jesse Lasky, Carl Laemmle and Adolph Zukor. FEmmE TOUCH VIOLA MITCHELL, assistant manager. Cinema, Detroit. DELLA WATTS, cashier, Cinema, Detroit.