The Film Daily (1945)

T :b^ DAILY Thursday, July 26, 19 Vol. 88, No. 18 Thurs., July 26, 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, 9-7120, 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 Louisa 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. nnnnciflL ^^_ {Wednesday, July 25) __^ NEW YORK STOCK Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (21/2%) Columbia Picts. pfd.. Con. Fm. Ind Con Fm. Ind. pfd.. . East. Kodak 1 Gen. Prec. Eq Loew's, Inc Paramount RKO RKO ?6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . . . 20th Century-Fox pfd. Universal Pict Warner Bros NEW YORK Monogram Picts Monogram Picts. pfd. Radio-Keith cvs Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux High MARKET Net Low Close Chg. 221/2 221/2 221/2 -1 1/2 5 291/2 731/4 1 261/2 26 303/8 8 1/2 99 28 347/8 253/4 161/8 CURB 4 '13/4 3 1/2 21 43/4 5 + 3/8 291/2 291/2 + 3/4 723/4 173 261/2 261/2 + 1/2 255/8 26 + 3/8 301/8 301/8 83/8 8I/2 + 1/8 987/8 99 + 1/2 27% 28 + 3/8 341/2 347/8 + 3/8 251/2 251/2 4 % 16 I61/2 + 1/2 MARKET 37/8 4 -I 1/8 15/8 1% 31/2 31/2 201/8 21 -f 7/g Josephson Gives Up Belmont Difficulty of obtaining suitable film product has forced Gilbert Josephson, former managing director of the Belmont Theater, to surrender control of the house. He is negotiating for a Broadway theater where he will present Mexican films with Latin-American stage shows. o.u»Bf .tivicf V y eta rrAui.i.* neiAei t c A AoiKnoN tooM lOM ocNAMci oamivnoH suvn cominG flno GOinG NICHOLAS M. SCHENCK, Loew's prexy, returns today from Chicago. E. C. GRAINGER, president, and JACK SHEA, buyer and booker for the Shea circuit, have returned from a swing of houses in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. DAVID ROSE, Paramount's managing director for Great Britain, is expected to leave here tomorrow for London. MARVIN SCHENCK, M-G-M's Eastern talent head, returned here from his trip to Chicago. AL ALTMAN, his assistant, will be back Monday from a vacation. LEWIS T. ROGERS, 20th-Fox special sales representative, is an Atlanta branch visitor from New York. FRANK BRUNER, Warner Bros, field representative for the Southwest, arrived in Dallas yesterday. IRA EPSTEIN, Warner exploiteer working out in Indianapolis, is in Louisville. PVT. ROBERT MITCHUM, whose latest picture before joining the armed services was RKO Radio's "West of the Pecos," is spending a furlough in New York. LT. ALLEN STEIN, USNR, former M-G-M studio executive who supervised the filming of "The Fighting Lady," is visiting friends in Chicago. LOUIS and JERRY MAYER and EDWARD MANNIX leave Chicago today for the Coast. New Receiver Named for Spokane Nu-Rex, Empress Spokane — Fred Lewis, attorney who was formerly acting attorney general of the State of Washington, has been named general receiver of the Nu-Rex and Eimpress theaters by Superior Judge Ralph Foley. He succeeds Glen E. Cunningham, who had asked to be relieved as temporary receiver. With his appointment goes the power to work out some plan to satisfy all creditors. The receivership for the theaters began in June at the request of James A. Pike, owner of three-fourths of the property, in a suit he started to dissolve a partnership with Edwin F. Bramel, who purchased a onefourth interest in the business a year ago for $5,000. From June 21, when Cunningham took charge, until July 7, when he closed his report, the theaters operated at a profit of $96, except that $435 for film rental and lights was not paid. "Incendiary" Tops Year's Mark at Paramount Debut Paramount's "One Third of a Century" celebration release, "Incendiary Blonde," in its world premiere yesterday at the New York Paramount Theater, ran up the biggest non-holiday opening day's business at the theater in the past year, Robert M. Weitman, managing director, announced. Gross for the initial day topped onening day's business of "Going My Way," "Miracle of Morgan's Creek," "Salty O'Rourke" and other smash hits. "Salty O'Rourke" opened last Easter Week. GEORGE WOOD, field man for Warners in the St. Louis territory, arrived in Des Moines yesterday. SONJA HENIE, freshly returned from a USOCamp Shows overseas tour, flew to the Coast yesterday afternoon. RUDY BERGER, Southern M-G-M sales manager, arrived in Washington yesterday from New Orleans, where he concluded a two-day regional meeting. lOEL BEZAHLER, assistant to J. E. Flynn, Western sales manager with headquarters in Chicago, returns today from a trip to Chicago and Minneapolis. BYRAN LEE, of M-G-M's exploitation department leaves tomorrow for a vacation around Westport and Lake Champlain. CHARLES A. SAVINI, brother of R. M. Savini, Astor Pictures president, has returned to Pearl R ver. La., after spending two weeks here and Margate, N. J., home of their mother. RITA HAYWORTH has left on a USO hospital our which will wind up Aug. 2. Rushing Pic Biz in Norway Reported by Sonja Henie With the people there once more able to indulge their taste for American film entertainment denied them under the Nazi occupation, picture houses in Norway are today doing a land-office business, Sonja Henie, just back from a two-month USO-Camp Shows tour of that and other European countries, reported yesterday at a press interview. The films shown were "quite new," she said. Miss Henie flew to the Coast later in the day to start rehearsals for a 12-week tour of "Hollywood Ice Revue," sponsored by herself and Arthur Wertz. She will open in Indianapolis on Nov. 12. At the close of the tour she will begin work in "The Countess of Monte Cristo," an International production to be released through RKO Radio. Production on the film was halted by the studio strike. Harry Silverstadt Dies; B'klyn Musical Director Harry Silverstadt, 47, for 18 years musical director of Loew's Metropolitan Theater, in Brooklyn, and associated with the WHN Artists Bureau for the past five years, died yesterday, at Saranac, N. Y., after a short illness. Silverstadt, who began his musical career at Keith's Colonial in New York City, is a brother of Frank Silver, who wrote "Yes, We Have No Bananas!" His wife and a daughter also survive. 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