The Film Daily (1945)

1HE< umrasMm It HIMDOM SSSB ^|P^*gm«iuiiYcaaaag Vol. 83, No. 9 Fri., July 13, 1945 10 Cents JCHN 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 Marcti 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, 9-7120, 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 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. MONTREAI^— Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. nnnnciflL (Thursday, July 12) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat Col.Picts. vtc (2'/2%) 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 NEW YORK Monogram Picts Monogram Picts. pfd. Radio-Keith cvs Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux 223/4 223/4 2234 51 51 51 -f 1/2 5 5 5 .Y75'. 1751/2 175'/2 — i" 281/4 28 28 26% 261/2 263/4 323/4 321/2 325/8 91/8 9 9 993/4 995/8 993/4 285/8 283/8 285/8 351/2 353/8 351/2 27 265/8 263A -f 1/4 171/8 16 1/2 171/8 + 5/8 CURB MARKET 41/8 41/8 41/8 10 95/8 10 + 1/2 1% 1% 13/4 33/8 33/8 33/8 217/8 211/2 21% + % "On Stage" Hits Record At Chi. Palace Opening Chicago — World premiere of Universal's "On Stage Everybody" at the Palace Theater here Wednesday broke all opening day records, according to the theater management. This engagement was the first of approximately 150 pre-release openings and will be followed by others in St. Louis, Detroit, Des Moines, Omaha, Minneapolis and other key cities. Picture was based on a Blue Network talent quest feature for 60 weeks and during the final 26 weeks the 10 winners, who appear in the picture, were selected. Kuhn-Loeh Offering WB's Decca Stoch The 43,759 shares of stock in Decca records, which Warner Bros, sold to Kuhn-Loeb and a group of bankers, are being offered to the public at v43 a share. Warners received $1,8COO0O for the stock. Sale is in line with the WB policy to divest itself of sundry holdings not directly connected with the production, distribution or exhibition of pix. Jap Suicide Planes In Navy's New Short "The Fleet That Came to Stay," the first official film of the Navy's fight against Jap suicide planes, will be released on July 26, thus reaching the nation's theaters less than a month after Okinawa was secured, the WAC announced yesterday. Paramount will distribute for the OWI and WAC. The short runs 21 minutes. It was produced by Navy Photographic Services headed by Captain Gene Markey, USNR. The footage was taken by 103 fleet photographers under the most hazardous conditions. Most of the scenes were filmed under direct fire of the Kamikazas as they blazed in for the kill. This is the first time the Navy has brought to the screen a motion picture of a complete air-sea battle, sea forces against land planes. Monogram Calls Eastern Regional for Week-End Monogram will hold an Eastern regional sales meeting at the Warwick Hotel tomorrow and Sunday, simultaneously with a West Coast meeting at Del Mar, Calif. Ed Morey and Morey Goldstein will preside in New York and Steve Broidy in California. A Midwestern meeting will be held at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, July 21-22. Attending the New York sessions will be managers, salesmen and bookers from New York, Boston, Buffalo, Albany, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Cleveland. The Chicago meetings will include personnel from Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Dallas and Denver. Zukor Speaks in Philly Philadelphia — Veteran employes and territorial exhibitors who have played Paramount pictures for 30 or more years were honored yesterday at a reception in the Hotel Warwick Locust Room. Adolph Zukor, Paramount board chairman introduced Ulrik F. Smith, local branch manager, with the company more than 30 years; Earle W. Sweigert, district manager, a 28-year employe; Harry Hottenstine, night shipper, 28 years with Paramount, and Clara Kraftson, assistant cashier, with 26 years service. DAILY Friday, July 13, 1945 Scratch'pad . . . jottings (Continued from Page 1) fill-in selling job, and more money may go f r air time, but it will not be at the expense of the newspapers. Radio, needless to say, was not the only helping hand. Don't forget that the strike period saw some excellent pictures on the screens, and that they benefited not a little from word-of-mouth. And don't pass up, either, the contribution to business made by trailers and other promotional media. 0 ELSEWHERE in today's FILM DAILY you'll ^ find a story which points up the crying need for an all-industry organization to deal with tax matters. For perhaps the first time on record, a county in the State of Washington — has slapped on an admission levy. The rate is 5 per cent and it is operative in all municipalities where a similar ordinance is not in effect. Let county boards of commissioners and supervisors across the country get hep to that, and exhibitors well may be in for a helluva time. 0 /2L-2 MEMOS: Department of Justice men ^^ reported very active in the Philly and Chicago territories in connection with the pending New York equity suit. . . • Industry newcomer Donald M. Nelson is understood penning a tome on the country's armament effort for Fall publication.... Don't be surprised if it kicks up a controversy. . . O .The Washington grapevine affirms that Thurman W. Arnold has no desire to become U. S. Patent Commissioner ind that the post probably will go to Casper W. Ooms, Chicago patent attorney, and reportedly the choice of Secretary of Commerce Henry W. Wallace. . . • The North American Philips Co. affiliate of the Dutch Philips Works, while pursuing tele research has no immediate plans to manufacture tele sets. . . .Philips-RCA recently negotiated a new pact by which RCA can use Philips patents. Wallis Planning October Start on Hellman Play (Production of Lillian Hellman's "The Searching Wind" is planned for an October start by Hal B. Wallis, the producer said yesterday before leaving for Hollywood after a New York visit. Wallis is taking back with him the completed draft of Miss Hellman's screenplay. "Love Lies Bleeding" is also planned for Pall production by Wallis. Lizabeth Scott has been set for one of the four pi'incipal roles. While here, Wallis conferred with Paramount executives on final release and advertising plans for "You Came Along." UA Chicago, St. Louis Meetings Postponed Chicago — The UA sales conference set for Chicago Sunday and Monday has been postponed and J J. Unger, who was to have presided, been called to New York for conferences. The St. Louis meeting has also been postponed. COminC and Goinc HOWARD DIETZ, SI SEALDER, WILLIAM R FERGUSON, H. M. RICHEY, ALAN M. CUM MINGS, WILLIAM C. BRENNER, JOHN ). BOW EN and ROBERT LYNCH of Metro arrived i Chicago yesterday from New York. LOU GINSBERG, of Amalgamated Theate booking and buying service, New Haven, ani MRS. GINSBERG, are on vacation in Vermont CORP. JERE LaVINE, son of Harry LaVine Monogram manager. New Haven, is homewar( bound after four years in the service. JOHN MILJAN, is en route to Hollywood from New York after a seven-month USO toui of the Mediterranean area. TED TOD, Warners' rep. in Washington, re turns to that city today after several days o home office conferences with Mort Blumenstock WILLIAM ORNSTEIN, M-G-M's trade presi contact, arrived in Chicago yesterday to at tend the sales meet which began in the Black stone Hotel PHIL DO'W, assistant to Eastern Sales Mana ger Harry L. Gold, leaves today to attend the UA sales sessions in Boston. EDWARD UGAST, special UA home officel foreign rep. and publicist, leaves Sunday on a Latin-American tour to plug IBSY. MARGUERITE KUELLINC, secretary to Tony Mute, Washington, D. C. Supervisor for Movietonews. Is spending her vacation in New York MAURICE N. WOLF is in Chicago from Boston. HERMAN RtPPS has arrived in Chicago from Albany. EDWARD SCH'NITZER stopped over in Chicago en route from the UA meeting at Port Aransas, Tex., to New York. HUGH HERBERT and BILL BOYD are Chicago visitors. Birmingham Theaters Counter Press Strike Birmingham, Ala. — Radio spots and exploitation standards were brought into play by local exhibitors as the city's three daily papers suspended publication because of a strike of composing room employes. Papers, the Post, News and AgeHerald, announced that they would suspend until the crews return. Waiiams on Air Today Phil Williams, March of Time's director of advertising and publicity, left here Wednesday for a vacation wiht his family in Siasconset Beach, Mass. He will take time out today to appear on Marjorie Mills' noontime program over WBZ-WBZA, Boston and Springfield, which has been prepared as a salute to MOT's tenth anniversary. Williams will return to New York July 25. SEEKING A DEPENDABLE SOURCE OF SUPPLY FOR YOUR THEATRE TICKETS? INTERNATIONAL OFFERS: Dependable service . . . Low cost . . . 47 year's experience serving theatres, I stadiums, amusement parks, etc. We can supply your needs. 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