The Film Daily (1945)

■^ O^ DAIIY ; Tuesday, July 31, 15 20th-Fox Sets 27 For 45-46 Release (Continued from Page 1) general release run after having played limited engagements, brings the number of films to be released in 1945-1946 to 28. In addition to "Wilson" the Technicolor productions listed for the new season include "State Fair," "The Dolly Sisters," "Leave Her to Heaven," "Enchanted Voyage," "Kitten on the Keys,' "Cluny Brown," "Smoky" and "Centennial Summer." Besides the already announced "A Bell for Adano," "Wilson," "Junior Miss" and "The Way Ahead" for August and "Captain Eddie" and "Caribbean Mystery" for September release, the schedule is as follows: "State Fair," "The House on 92nd Street," "And Then There Were None," October; "The Dolly Sisters" and "Col. Effingham's Raid," November; "Dragonwyck" and "Fallen Angel," December; "The Spider," "Leave Her to Heaven" and "Walk in the Sun," January; "Doll Face" and "Enchanted Voyage," February; "Kitten on the Keys" and "American Guerrilla," March; "Cluny Brown" and "Chicken Every Sunday," April; "Smoky" and "Claudia and David," May; "The Razor's Edge" and "Shock," June; "Centennial Summer"and "Dark Corner," July. The release schedule was set up following conferences at the studio between Tom J. Connors, distribution chief, and Darryl F. Zanuck, production boss. The company reports that the backlog of product is the heaviest at the start of any of the last six Industry Leaders Join Cohn Dinner Sponsors (Continued from Page 1) nouncement was made that Nate Blumberg, Harry Brandt, Si Fabian, Harry Kalmine, Billy Rose, Charles Schwartz and Harry Thomas added their names to the roll of distinguished industry leaders. Event will serve as the springboard of an Anti-Defamation LeagueAmerican Jewish Committee fund raising campaign. STORK REPORTS Columbus, O. — ^Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hardgrove announce the birth of a son, James Arthur. The baby was born on the birthday, July 15, of the Hardgroves' first child, Grace Frances. Hardgrove is manager of the Southern theater in Columbus. Omaha — Mr. and Mrs. Sol Francis report the birth of a five-pound boy, John Stephen Francis. The father, who makes his home here, is a home office rep. for Monogram. HOLLYWOOD SPEAKING Br RALPH wnjc —HOLLYWOOD pOBERT E. SHERWOOD, for the past four '^ year Director of the OWI's Overseas Division has been engaged by Samuel Goldwyn to write the screenplay for "Glory For Me,'' a novel by MacKinlay Kantor. Goldwn plans to commence screening Dec. 1. • • The tune-title, "Along The Navajo Trail," has been selected for a forthcoming Roy Rogers' outdoor musical at Republic, replacing the title, "The Gay Ranchero.", • • Edwrard H. Griffith vi^ill return to Columbia to direct the forthcoming Pat O'Brien film, "Perilous Holiday," a story about blackmarket activity on the U. S. Mexican border. • • Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Powell will be starred in Metro's "A Date With Judy," which will be based on the radio program of the same name. • • Dennis O'Keefe has withdrawn from the lead if Columbia's "Hail the Chief" and instead goes into a comedy-romantic part in "Doll Face'' for Twentieth-Fox. Aliyn Josiyn replaces O'Keefe in the Columbia pic. • • "Man, the Builder," first Hugh Harman feature-length Animaction film slated for Technicolor, is in the sketching rooms. Harman recently completed a series of ship-building Animaction films, directed by Robert Y. Allen for the Office of Education. Series of shorts on medical subjects will go before cameras next. • o Director Felix Feist characterizes RKO's :oming giant Western jubilee film, "Show Business Out West" as a Western without 3 chase, without cattle and without rootin' shootin', and as a picture about show business without show business. Not one stage >r theater appear in the whcle story, yet a (Toupe headed by Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis hie themselves across country enterjining. • • With one Jasper Puppetooon recently released and three other Jasper productions en route to release, George Pal, who produces the Technicolor short for Paramount has begun conferences with his writers on his 1946-47 shooting schedule. • • There has been no appreciable let-up in the production of films for the Overseas Motion Picture Bureau of the OWl, according to Robert Riskin, its recently resigned chief who still acts in a consultant capacity to the government agency. However, Riskin states, the major effort of the Overseas Motion Picture Bureau is now directed towards the Pacific area, where this method of psychological warfare is playing a large role. • « John Raitt, singing star of the New York stage hit, "Carousel,'' will be starred by PRC when he returns to Hollywood in an peretta titled "Night Was Made for Music." The locale is post-war Paris. • • Twentieth-Fox is setting up a p. a. tour for Richard Crane with "Captain Eddie," in which he plays a featured role. Dates are in West Coast cities, with the tour opening in two weeks. Gay Forester goes to Republic to play a features role in "Dakota,'' after completing her part in "You'll Remember Me," the William Wilder production. • • "Dear Sir," The first in the cartoon series to be made by United Film Productions from the material in the best seller book by Juliet Lowell, was test-screened at the Hollywood Paramount. United Productions plans 10 pictures a year to be made out of the material in the book and from additional material in the hands of the author. Three New Pix Houses For Baltimore County Baltimore — Three new film houses are planned for Baltimore county in early post-war days. Frank H. Durkee, head of the Durkee Enterprises, announces the purchase of six acres of land in Parkviile, just beyond the Baltimer city line, where an 800-seat house will be erected. Owners of the New Essex Theater, namely Louis A. Cohan and Abraham Cohen, plan to erect a new theater at Essex, adjacent to Baltimore City, and also one at Middle River, in Baltimore country. Both will be houses of approximately 800 seating capacity. An architect already has plans completed. Walter Reade to Build New Red Bank Theater Newark, N. J. — ^Walter Reade has applied for a permit to erect a large theater building in Broad st., near Harding road. Red Bank. House will be similar in design to the Reade theater in Morristown. Reade owns Red Bank's two present houses, the Carlton and Strand. Eastman German Plants To Make Army Cameras (Continued from Page 1) instruments and manufacture of cameras for use of occupation troops, according to an announcement yesterday by Thomas J. Hargrave, company president. The announcement followed receipt of permission from the Army to reopen the plant at Stuttgart which is in the American zone. The plant was damaged by bombs but is now fairly well repaired. Kodak's plant investment in Germany amounted to between six and seven millions before the war. Wilbur England Elected Wilbur B. England, personnel director of RKO Theaters, has been elected president of the National Harvard Business School Alumni Association. Hart Original for 20th-Fox U^cst Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Twentieth CenturyFox has engaged Moss Hart to "develop, write and direct" an original script to be produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. ic i Business Bonanza On in Costa Rica (Continued from Page 1) average senorita will not be cont( with a monthly menu of less th three pix. Even less credible is the per c ita monthly movie expenditui about 50 cents — a colossal figure i Costa Rica. Spanish Pix Preferred But one major difficulty would cC front the American exhibitor wi United States producer ties: the ci' rent unquestionable preference of t' Costa Rican masses for Mexican a:; Argentinian films. Here, as elsewhere in Latin Amc ica, the Spanish-language film wi its Latin-American performers roles portraying the drama or hum of Latin-American life, finds a qui audience. That's why there's a fe( ing in some trade circles here th Spanish dubbing of Hollywood p' may help materially. 11 Houses in Capital San Jose supports 11 houses wii a weekly attendance which equai and frequently exceeds the citji population. No less than 49 pe formances, the double of the wee day showings, are required to accorj modate San Jose audiences on Su; days. Few of the provincial capitals a:; without less than two theaters an rare is the smaller town without least one. Sirens are sounded to pri claim the beginning of movie pei formances in 30 minutes. Opening the show is indicated by anothi blast. Costa Ricans attend their movi(i in couples and groups, rarely, if evei individually. The country's film bus ness is benefitting somewhat fro: the gradual disappearance of tl chaperonage tradition, with its coi! sequent stimulation of dating f^i movie attendance. All films are reviewed by a churc censorship board. $3,200,000 Seventh Sale Sets Rose Circuit Mark Chicago — Manta Rose theater ci;| cult's final report on the Seventh We Loan, shows, $3,200,000 in sale breaking all previous circuit record THEATER DEALS Baughn Sells to Thacker Walthill, Neb.— The Sun, owned b W. Baughn, has been sold to A. I Thacker who owns two houses i: South Sioux City, Neb. Zinn Leases the Gloria The 600-seat Gloria theater, 39 Court St., Brooklyn, has been ac quired under a long term lease b, Walter Zinn from its present opera tor, Samuel Koenig. Brokers for th lessor were Berk & Krumgold.