The Film Daily (1945)

1 TSm Tuesday, July 24, 15 Vol. 88, No. 15 Tues., July 24, 1945 lOCents 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, 9-7120, 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 Wardour 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. nnflnciRL (Monday, July 23) NEW YORK STOCK Col. Plots, vtc. (21/2%) 22 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. . . 285/8 East. Kodak 173 1 Gen. Prec. Eq 26 Loew's, Inc 26 Paramount 31 RKO 8% RKO $6 pfd 983/8 20th Century-Fox . . . 277/8 20th Century-Fox pfd. 345/8 Universal Pict 253/8 Warner Bros 16Vi NEW YORK CURB Monogram Plots. . . . 3% Rado-Keith cvs \% Sonotone Corp S'/i Teohnioclor lO^A Trans-Lux 4% MARKET Net Lowr Close Chg. 22 22 285/8 285/8 — 72 173 26 26 253/4 253/4 — 301/4 301/4 — 83/8 8 1/2 — 971/2 971/2 275/8 275/8 . 341/4 341/4 — % % + 1/2 3/4 V4 % 'A % i 251/4 251/4 — 5/8 ' '/4 Vs 16 16 — MARKET 3% 37/8 — 15/8 15/8 . 31/4 31/4 205/8 205/8 — 3/g 45/8 45/8 Robert Schless Here to Confer with Geo. Weltner Robert Schless, Paramount division manager for Continental Europe, Middle East and French North Africa, is here from his Paris headquarters to submit a report on business conditions abroad to George Weltner, the company's international president. The foreign executive will participate in several weeks of home office conferences. He is due to return to Paris late in August. LEADING THE MIDWEST IN PERSONALIZED DISTRIBUTION | ILLINOIS INDIANA-WISCONSIN-MISSOURI SAUL GeLDMAN'S V A R lETY PICTURES 1325 S. WABASH CHICAGO 5. ILL. 1 commG nno Goinc EDWARD C. RAFTERY, UA president, is scheduled to arrive on the Coast today from New York JAMES R. GRAINGER and A. W. PARRY leave today for Montreal to attend a two-day meeting of circuit heads. BEN KALMENSON, general sales manager for Warner Bros., and ED HINCHY, head of the playdate department, will arrive in Washington this morning for conferences with Robert Smeltzer, distr'ct manager, and other sales department and theater executives. LOUIS B. MAYER is in Chicago for the Sportsman Park meeting. CLIFF WORK, vice-president and studio head of Universal, will arrive in Hollywood today from New York. NORMAN ELSON, vice-president of TransLux Theater Corp., will spend today and tomorrow in Washington and Philadelphia. MARVIN SCHENCK, M-G-M talent head in the East, is due back from Chicago tomorrow. WILLIAM R. FERGUSON, M-C-M exploitation drector, is slated to return today from Boston. MEL HEYMAN, of M-C-M's publicity department leaves Friday for a vacation at Skowhegan, Me. DOROTHY DAY, M-C-M fan magazine contact, is due back the latter part of the week from the Coast. Abbott-Costello Remain In Personal Appearances Reports that Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, currently appearing at the Roxy, would cease to work as a team on the stage in the future were denied yesterday. It was announced at the same time that the comics were booked for three engagements following the end of their Roxy stint. Tomorrow they will leave for Baltimore for a week's stand at the Hippodrome there beginning Thursday. There will follow a week at the Earle, Philadelphia, with a three-day windup at the Steel Pier, Atlantic City. Napa Plans Suit Forcing Blumenfeld Tax Payments Napa, Calif. — Preparation for court action to force payment by Blumenfeld Bros, of this city's two-cent admission tax is announced by City Attorney Nathan Coombs. Circuit claims their request for a referendum placed the ordinance "in abeyance" but Coombs seeks payment of the tax while the law was in effect. City Council has already taken preliminary steps to repeal the ordinance. Ellwood Peavey Quits Ideal Chicago — Elwood Peavey is leaving Ideal Pictures Corp. to open his own distribution business at 543 Diversey Parkway, Chicago. REEVES SOUND STUDIOS, INC. )0 PROADWA-, K Y 19 Circle 6-6686 Complete Film and Disc Recording Facilities E. M. SAUNDERS, assistant general sales manager at M-G-M, will return from the Coast July 30. CHARLES SCHLAIFER, assistant director of advertising-publicity-exploitation of 20th-Fox, returned to the home office yesterday after spending several weeks at the Coast. )ACK BRODER, Detroit circuit owner, has left for a business trip to Hollywood, to be gone about two weeks. lAMES FITZPATRICK and his camera crew have arrived in England to begin production of six Technicolor Traveltalks for M-C-M. NORTON V. RITCHEY, president of Monogram International, who has been conferring with lack Lament, manager of Monogram Pictures de Mexico, S. A., for the past two weeks has left for Hollywood to attend studio conferences. JOHN S. ALLEN, Washington district manager for M-C-M was in town yesterday for home office conferences. AL DAFF left London yesterday for New York. EVELYN KEYES, currently appearing in Columbia's "A Thousand and One Nights," arrives in New York today. HOWARD PIERCE, former production manager for United Detroit Theaters, now living at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., returned to Detroit for a visit. BILL BISHOP has returned to his M-G-M Chicago publicity post from a Wisconsin vacation. W. F. KRUSE, B & H film d'vision manager. Is vacationing in Wisconsin. DORIS ARDEN, film editor of the Chicago Times, is spending her vacation in Mich gan. Allied'IndependentI Parleys Aug. 21-23 (Continued from Page 1) unaffiliated exhibitor associations I attend the conference, as well' Allied leaders. Whether Robert L. Wright, spei assistant to the Attorney Gen who will prosecute the film act will be invited to attend has not li determined. Last year Wright tended the joint ConferenceA] meeting in Bretton Woods. Proposed Czech Film Monopoly is Protested Major American film compai will protest, through the State partment, a proposed monopoly motion pictures by the governw,, of Czechoslovakia, it was lear yesterday. The monopoly progr said to be similar to the one aire adopted by Yugoslavia, is being j pared and would be detrimental) American film interests. Meanwhile, the Soviet Film Ci mission . has signed an agreeni| whereby the Russians will lease stages in Czechoslovakia studios Darandov and Hostivar for the i] duction of Russian pictures, studios formerly were used by Ij First Russian picture will start] August. BIGGEST \ THE BIGGEST BIRD IS THE OSTRICH THE BIGGEST MOTION PICTURE EVER MADE IS -•