The Film Daily (1945)

IB londay, August 6, 1945 -^ DAILY !)me Army Material !9on to be Surplus (Continued from Page 1) (ler surplus items in the European Uater, is now in process. Determination of service needs in ? pacific comes first, said the Diion's Washington office, if the -MDment is not needed in other I ^'ches of the service, for occupan forces or in the Pacific it is de II ed surplus. First chance after Government :encies have had the refusal or suris equipment goes to non-profit iking, and charitable institutions. w or no takers are expected from is field for overseas equipment, iwever. . Manufacturers of trade marked loducts will be given first oppor nity to buy back their own prod ts for resale abroad. No surplus "iperty can be shipped and resold Tiiis country. If shipping space can orocured, however, there will be I estriction on resale in South nerican countries, for example, of ms bought in Europe. Equipment not bought by the man aeturers from whom it was orig . illy procured, will be available to e Government of the country where is located. Manufacturers are getting the first ■ ack at their own products to give em a chance to build up markets 1 their products as reconversion in as new material on the market, '1 to keep their trade names in the nopean buyers mind. Items not purchased by any of ese favored buyers will be avail* Je to anyone but not for resale in e U. S. : The Liquidation Office warns that mplete lists of items declared sur. us may not be steadily or promptly ailable in this country though an I-uncement will be made as to the Ind of equipment available and its tation. The office suggests that — lyone desiring to keep in close Ij uch with surplus announcements in Ijiurope with the intention of buying, jiitain an agent in Paris, London or 'ome, which will be the clearing a mses for all transactions. low Metro's "Grapes" on 17th M-G-M's "Our Vines Have Tender grapes," will be tradeshown Aug. 17, all exchange areas except New ■rk and Los Angeles, where it was eened on July 18. No release date s been set. lERD BIRTHDflV GREETinGS TO: AUGUST 6 Luclle Ball Leo Carrillo Victor Francen Hoot Gibson Louis K. Sidney Bernie Brooks Frank Tuttle Mort Wormser Marjorie Morrow T T T Monday Hominy Chit-Chat • • O THE PERSONAL TOUCH: Those film commitments oi Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse standing in the way of personal sponsorship, the two have sold their new comedy, "I'd Rather Be Left," to LeLand Hayward for Fall Broadway production. . . • Another civic honor for Crescent's Tony Sudekum: he's been named to the Nashville City Park Commission. . . • Stewart Cheney, due in this week from the Coast where he's been designing the settings for Sam Goldwyn's "The Kid from Brooklyn," is tying up with Al Katz, film publicist, to produce a musical based on lohn Steinbeck's "The Wizard of Maine" Steinbeck, now w^orking on a film in Mexico City, heads for New York in October to collaborate on the musical's book with Life Magazine's George Frazier. . . • Elizabeth Rannells is filling in for Henry Murdock, the Chicago Sun's vacationing pix critic. . . • Elia Kazan, who directed 20th-Fox's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," already has two Broadway chores set for the coming season One is the staging of "Walls of Jericho" for Kermit Bloomgarden and George Heller, the other the Theater Guild's "Dunnigan's Daughter" T T ▼ • • • CUFF NOTES: J. Arthur Rank will be re-elected president of the British Film Producers Association at its general meeting on Aug. 15. . . • Col. Drew Eberson is in town on leave. . . • Alwyn W. Knight, assistant director of public relations for the American Red Cross, has joined Fawcett. . . • Maj. Mann Holiner, formerly Hollywood radio director for Lennen & Mitchell, is rejoining the agency as vice-prexy in ch-3r;;a of all radio activities cmd will headquarter on the Coast The Major has been director of the program section of the Armed Forces Radio Service T T T • • • TELLING ABOUT TELE: CBS Television has designated Ben Feiner, Jr., as assistant director of tele programs, with orders to concentrate on the development of new program ideas. . . • Lt. Col. K. R. Swinton of Canadian Broadcasting thinks eight 20 kw tele transmitters in the Dominion could serve about 40 per cent of its population. . . • Premiere of the new CBS-Encyclopaedia Britannica tele series "The Wcrld We Live In," over WCBW tomorrow night will have round table discussion as a curtain raiser Dr. V. C. Arnspiger, Britannica Films vice-prexy, will be moderator, and participants will include James Lawrence Fly, erstwhile FCC commissioner, now Associated Muzak chairman, and Lennox Gray of Columbia University's Teachers College, e That new DuMont tele show, "At Ease," which Ben Pulitzer ties will sponsor over WABD, starting Aug. 15, will have a format tailored to a serviceman audience William K. Wells will write the series, Allen Prescott w^ill emcee. . . • Irving Kane's Viewtone Co. may be the first in the tele field with a low-cost, table model receiver Showing a 5 x 7 inch image, midget model's cost is tentatively set at S175, may be lower Viewtone presently is in the radar and electronics field. T ▼ T « • • NOMINATED AS TRADE AD OF THE WEEK: 20th-Fox's spread in Friday's FILM DAILY on "Don Juan Quilligan" Wotta wow! . . © Presentation to the nation of the original copy of the Bill of Rights by Barney Balaban, President of Paramount, is the subject of a 15-page article by Milton M. Plumb, Jr., in the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. . . © Steve Ellis, WMCA's sports announcer who also handles the mike on NBC's Friday nite telecasts of the fights from Madison Sq. Garden, won his own "Battle Royal" in getting the sports and special feature spot at M-G-M's "News of the Day." . . » • • WE'RE AVENGING PEARL HARBOR! T V T Nazi Picture Sale Said Still Open (Continued from Page 1) that the matter is under consideration. McNamara said a primary purpose of the APC is to make available for the benefit of Americans enemy property in this country. He indicated that he was dissatisfied about the protests in May and June which caused APC to cancel its projected auction of a number of these films. He said he believed that there was considerable misunderstanding that no pix were to have been released without prior approval of the Office of Censorship. ' He would not say how soon a decision on the Voltairean ACLU complaint will be made, but he refused to say that it will probably not be made within a few days. More than a month ago five Congressmen expressed strong disapproval of the plan to release these films, with Ellis E. Patterson and Helen Gahagan Douglas, both of Hollywood, stating in strong terms that the pix should not be released at this time regardless of whether they were made under Nazi auspices or earlier. Just as American films serve to make friends for America, they said, German films even though not designed as propaganda, serve the same purpose for Germany. This is no period to be putting out films designed to make Americans feel more friendly toward Germans, thej^ said. Rep. Hugh Delacy of Washington remarked at that time that a love scene in an American Film shown an American audience is just a love scene, while a love scene in even the most inconsequential German film is propaganda because it tends to create sympathy towards the Germans. Knoxville Netvspaper Asks Sunday Movies Knoxville, Tenn.— After 25,000 local theater patrons crowded the Bijou and Tennessee Theaters on a single Sunday afternoon, as guests of local merchants, to see war propaganda films only, the Knoxville News-Sentinel made a strong editorial plea for legalized Sunday movies. It said in part: "The large majority of those who attended Sunday's simultaneous shows at the Bijou and Tennessee were entertainment-thirsty, in search of diversion to break the monotony of a dull Sunday in Knoxville. We have a hunch that if a really representative vcte were cast at a Sunday movie referendum, the proposal would carry by a convincing majority. The NewsSentinel disagrees with those interests who insist that it is immoral to see a movie on Sunday. If movies are immoral on Sunday, they are also immoral on week-days."