The Film Daily (1945)

10 IMti •^ DAILY Monday, August 6, 1! WB Execs, to Philly For "Marines" Dinner Philadelphia — Warners home executives who will attend tomorrow night's First Marine Division reunion dinner and preview of "Pride of the Marines" at the BellevueStratford Hotel, include Joseph Bernhard, Mort Blumenstock, Harry M. Kalmine, Arthur Sachson, Jules Lapidus, Harry Goldberg, Larry Golob and Bill Brumberg. Ted Schlanger, Everett Callow and other officials of the Warner Circuit in Philadelphia also will be present. The city is all primed for the event, with banners strung across the two main thoroughfares — one on Broad St. and the other on Market St.; celebrations planned in outlying sections of the city; issuing of special inserts by seven weekly newspapers; luncheon sponsored jointly by all service clubs, including Lions, Rotarians, Kiwanis and others; City Hall ceremonies, and about a dozen radio broadcasts topped by an international hookup with pickups from various parts of this country and Okinawa. For discharged Marines of the First Division who are now living in other parts of the country, regional dinners and previews of "Pride of the Marines" are being held simultaneously in 25 key cities. All these events are veceiving full co-operation from local civic leaders, newspapers and radio, and in some of the larger cities as many as 200 or more veterans of Guadalcanal will attend the party. And iVoM? It's the Hotel Executives' Turn To Squawk About Studios' Characterization And now it's the nation's hotel men who think Hollywood isn't doing right in its characterizations of hotel execs, in recent pix. Complaint, voiced by Edward Bryce Bell, vice-prexy and managing director of Boston's Hotel Somerset, in the Hotel World-Review, national trade weekly, asserts studios "seem to revel, whenever casting a character representing the hotel business, in selecting an insipid servile jellyfish to play your part and mine in every vehicle they produce containing a part where the scene is laid in a hotel." And, says Bell further, "They portray his 'personality' in the most stupid and asinine conduct — certainly unbecoming our business and our professional standing. Their comedy is an affront to the hotel business and to every hotel manager in America." For the next class squawk, the line will form at the right. Tele Stations Must Bare Financial Data to Gov't Cities definitely set for "Marine" previews include Albany, Boston, Buffalo, Louisville, Cleveland, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit, Memphis, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Indianapolis. Plans for New Orleans, Washington, New Haven, Denver and Salt Lake City expected to be completed over the week-end, and a few other cities pmay be added. Mike Griffin Dead St. Louis— Michael J. Griffin, veteran head of the shipping department of Republic here, died at St. John's Hospital. He had been ill from a heart condition for months. (Continued from Page 1 cial data now required of standard broadcasting stations data will be open to public inspection, but financial reports, network and transcription contracts will not be open. Effective date is Sept. 1. Commissioner Clifford J. Durr dissented from the decision of his colleagues, maintaining that the financial data should also be made public. This is information, he said, to which the public is properly entitled. Broadcasting is recognized in law as "public business" he said, "and I can see no reason why the rewards they (licensees) receive from the use of public property (the airwaves) should be kept a secret from the public which owns that property. "Broadcasters are strongly insistent upon a maximum of regulation by the public and a minimum of regulations by the Government. They should not at the same time seek to conceal from the public the information essential to intelligent public regulation." Memphis Censor Would Rule Film Advertising (Continued from Page 1) Binford in support of his proposed Ownership regulation, "you see paid advertiseI ments with art which implies that it represents some scene in the picture. You see the picture and there is no such scene. Often these pictures are suggestive, or perhaps even a little salacious." Binford has been very much in the limelight since banning a showing of "The Southerner" in Memphis. He described the film as "disgraceful" and "misrepresentative" of the South. Memphis newspapers apparently do not agree with Chairman Binford as they are giving prominence to criticisms of the ban coming from such Southern cities as Chattanooga and Atlanta. Classroom Tele Test Starts Here in Fall Ja(l(son Parl( Court Decision Reversed (Continued from Page 1) the public was drawn to theaters earlier runs. The plaintiff on Mai 10, 1944, was awarded $360,000 t pie damages and the defendants a pealed. Judges Williain M. Sparks, J. W Major and Sherman Minton, in t\ decision, said: "We are again co fronted with absence of proof as the amount of damages suffered the plaintiff as approximate resi of the defendants' acts in this i spect. No evidence which can '. reasonably approved was submitte We find no approved variation of ru for recovery and measure of dar ages as laid down in the case. Ther fore, we feel constrained to rever judgment with instructions to rend( judgment for the defendants." Hubert Van Hook, assistant i Thomas McConnell, attorney for tl Jackson Park, said the case wou! be carried to the U. S. Supreir Court, while Myles Seeley, defen counsel, said the defendants woul fight the action to the finish. The court decision did not sugge; any changes in the Chicago systei of release nor did it reverse the jur finding regarding conspiracy to mair tain the release system. Four Air Shows to Premiere of "State Fair' many TO THE COLORS! * DECORATED * SCT. JOHN WILLIAM SCHUYLER, USA Combat Engineers, son of Jack Schuyler, FILM DAILY Syrac:ise correspondent, awarded the C:;ix de Guerre and Presidential Citation. • COMMISSIONED * 2ND LT. CLEMENT CHARCOT, AUS, youngest son of Michael J. Chargot, Detroit circuit owner. — • — • ARMY * A'?VIN HOFFMAN, shipper, Columbia Pictures, Detroit. SIMPP Members' Flacks Organize Co-op. Group H'cst CiHisf Btncau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood— Publicity directors of members of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers met with Donald M. Nelson, president of the Society, and David M. Noyes, vice-president, and initiated plans to organize themselves in a cooperative group. A temporary steering committee of Charles Daggett, William Cagney Productions, chairman; Irving Rubine representing Jules Levey; George Glass of David M. Loew; Frank Seltzer, Golden Pictures, and John Johnston, International Pictures, was selected by the group. Others who attended the meeting were: John Harkins and Cecil Coan, UA: Lynn Farnol, Samuel Goldwyn; William Blowitz, Mary Pickford; Paul McNamara, Vanguard Films, Murphy McHenry, Edward Small; Bernie Williams, Hunt Stromberg; Helen Ferguson, Constance Bennett; Jerry Dale, Benedict Bogeaus; Joseph Reddy, Walt Disney, and Jerry Hoffman, Sol Lesser. When local schools re-open in the fall, the New York City Board of Education and NBC's television depEitment will join in what is believed to be the first comprehensive experiment in adaptation of tele to classroom education. During the experiment, school officials and tele experts will broadcast a weekly program over WNBT to determine the type of program most suitable for educational purposes. Pupils and teachers will evaluate these programs at NBC's receiving studios. First ones will be in the field of science, and initial broadcast will deal with tele itself. John F. Royal, NBC vice-president in charge of television, arranged the experiments in concert with Dr. John E. Wade, Superintendent of Schools. The programs will begin at junior high school level. board "Love "Pink" Two Mexican Pix Chicago — Chicago's censor "pinked" two Mexican films, of Loves" and "Moureos Padre," dur ing July, the monthly report discloses. There were four cuts in the 87 films reviewed. Des Moines, la. — World premier of 20th-Fox's "State. Fair" will b held at the Des Moines theater, Aug 29, with the film to be shown th following day in 65 othev low; towns. Fox is planning to send a group o Hollywood stars here for the pre miere with George Jessel to serve a master of ceremonies. At least fou network shows will be brought tc Des Moines in connection with the film. Committee sponsoring the activi ties in connection with the premier* include Gov. Robert D. Blue, Mayo] John MacVicar, Gardner Cowles, Jr president of the Des Moines Registeij and Tribune; A. H. Blank, presiden! of TriStates Theater Corp., and G Ralph Branton, general manager ol Tri-States. Seymour Freedman, exploiteer for Fox, has been assigned to work with Walter Hoffman on the premiere plans with Rodney Bush, due from New York to take charge of final details. > "Jones" Cleans Up in Chi. Chicago — International's "Along Came Jones" broke every week-day opening record for the RKO Palace. BACK IN CIVVIES Honorably Discharged A^OLD CANAM, from the Army to doorman at Fagian's Proctor, Troy, N. Y. 0"CE HECK, from the Army Air Corps to partner of Al Mortensen in the Southwestern Theater Equipment Co., Houston, Tex.