The Film Daily (1945)

M. p. Production 0i8t« 28 W. 44tb St* 21st floor Hew York H. T. Intimate In Chardet*^ International in Scope Independent in Thought ai—— ^— The Dally Newapaper Of Motion Pictures Twenty Seven Years Old )0L. 88. NO >K •/-e NEW YORK. FRIDAY. JULY 20. 1945 TEN CENTS PIX TO ENTER U. S.-HELD GERMANY SHORTLY Five Boston Suits Allege False Returns on % Pix Reeling 'Round-' I WASHINGTON ;= By ANDREW H. OLDER = —WASHINGTON REVELATION that the Russians have been * moving right in with entertainment pix Germany has not made American proicers any happier over the continuing ban I showing of our entertainment features ere. Although our producers are appreinsive about the advantage this policy is lUnd to give the Russians in the German Im market of the future, they are not inined to lock upon it as simply a move by e Russians to grab off a head start on Geran screens. Instead they see it for what is — an intelligent device to aid in the iving of Nazism and the Fascist thinking at made Germany such a menace from the inds of the conquered people. And they've en telling our authorities for many weeks lat entertainment pix can play an impornt part in the re-education of Germany. he fact that the Russians are going after le problem in this vigorous and realistic shion, is thought in some quarters, may jl'P to breakdown the resistance of our rmy and hasten the day when Hollywood latures will again be shown in the Amerim zone in Germany. A/HILE policy is still not set for the dis''' position of surplus films by the Army, is interesting to note that plans are going lead rapidly for the distribution of surplus dio equipment at extremely low prices Tiong schools and colleges. This surplus j^uipment is expected to boost the use of idio in education, just as distribution of rmy film and projection equipment is exacted to expand the market for those items (entually. Although the Navy is shooting i much as 200,000 feet of color film per jionth, only a portion of it is being printed |i black and white. It's too much of a job, ith color facilities over-taxed and manower short even in the Navy printing labs. e e ^L/ASHINGTON received new recognition ■ " last week when Ted Tod, veteran Midest newspaperman and Warners' field rep (iijsentative, was appointed Washington story :out for Warners. He will cover the thousnd or mere Washington newspapermen nd magazine writers just as thoroughly, ONj)parently, as they cover the political scene ere. Because of the day-by-day activity [ere, and the rich stacks of the Library of (Continued on Page 8) Name Green and 4 Corps. Operating Houses in Melrose, Medford, Watertown Boston — Charging fraudulent reports on grosses received on percentage pictures played, five actions were instituted in the U. S. District Court naming Irving Green and four corporations operating the Coolidge Theater, Watertown; Melrose, Melrose; Park, Everett, and Fellsway, Medford. Suits, filed by Warners, Loew's, RKO Radio, 20th-Fox and Paramount, charged defendants with furnishing distributors "intentionally false and inaccurate statements" (Continued on Page 5) Metro to Re-Vamp its Clieclcing Plan In a move to put auditing and checking of percentage dates on a more business-like basis, M-G-M will shortly put all checkers on a straight salary basis, will make assignments from the home oflBce, and has arranged with a national reporting service to augment the checkers, E. K. (Continued on Page 5) Monogram's New Program Of 41 Pictures Outlined West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Monogram's 1945-46 program of 41 films was revealed by Steve Broidy, vice-president and general sales manager, at the second (Continued on Page 8) SOPEG Loses Fight For Rep. Closed Shop The American Arbitration Association has ruled against the claim of the Screen Office and Professional Employes Guild, CIO, that it was entitled to a cbsed shop under its contract with Republic covering the company's workers at the home office. The SOPEG, which now has a 70 per cent union shop, sought a closed shop en the ground the company signed a closed-shop agreement with the lATSE covering front-office workers at some of its exchanges. Orders Cartoonists To Join Coast Strilce West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — The Screen Cartoonists Guild is the first of local organizations affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America ordered to join the studio strike. The Guild's executive board was (Continued en Page 6) Skinner-Kimbrough Case Vs. Para, is Reversed Albany — ^By a six to one decision, the Court of Appeals reversed here yesterday the judgment of the Appellate Division in the suit of Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough against Paramount Pictures and remitted the matter to special (Continued on Page 8) $40r000r000 Beiinancing Will Retire $13,000,000 in Loew's Debentures New Contract Signed by Laboratories, Local 702 The new agreement between the Motion Picture Laboratory Technicians Union, Local 702, lATSE, and the Eastern film processors was formally signed yesterday at the Warner Bros, home office. The contract, (Continued on Page 5) A $40,000,000 re-financing program under which Loew's, Inc., will retire $13,000,000 in outstanding 3 per cent debentures and a subsidiary's 3% per cent mortgage debt of $10,850,000, at the same time adding $16,150,000 to working capital, was announced yesterday. Program involved the sale of $28, (Continued on Page 9) Expect Army-OWI to End Ban Against Entertainment Films; 21 Features Ready Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — End of the ArmyOWI ban on showing of entertainment features in American-held Germany is expected shortly, it was learned here yesterday, with a block of 21 American features already culled for speedy release there. The Army has been swamped by the demand of the German populace for pix, and queues four and five blocks long are waiting to see newsreel and shorts programs. The 21 pix were (Continued on Page 9) Repubiic Coin in Britisli-Lion Films! West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — That the solution of the future British-American film relations lies in American companies investing in British producing organizations, was the statement made by Samuel W. Smith, head of British(Continued on Page 61 Execs. Back on the Job After European Junket Back in New York yesterday for their first full business day since departing local Film Row on June 17 for an official visit to Europe as (Continued on Page 6) 20th-Fox Declares 3 Cash Dividends Three quarterly cash dividends were declared yesterday by 20th-Fox. The first calls for payment of $1.12!/2 per share on the outstanding prior preferred stock, payable Sept. 15 to stockholders of record Aug. 31. The second amounts to 37'/2 cents per share on the outstanding convertible preferred and is payable Oct. 1 to stockholders of record Aug. 31. The third, payable Oct. 1 to stockholders of record Aug. 31, is 50 cents per share on the outstanding common.