The Film Daily (1945)

1 19^ EtilLY Tuesday, August 7, 1 Atlas Pix Portfolio Shows $57t,535 Gain (ConHnued from Page 1) common stock as of June 30, compared with $21.98 at the end of 1944. Values at both date were computed after provision for the outstanding preferred stock. Values of motion picture issues owned by Atlas increased $571,535 during the first six months of this year, a comparison of the company's securities in portfolio reveals. Total value of Atlas' Walt Disney Productions and RKO stocks was $13,711,933 on June 30, compared with $18,140,398 for the same issues on Dec. 31, 1944. iCompany owns 30,850 shares of Walt Disney Productions preferred, worth $678,700 on June 30, $478,175 on Dec. 31; 1,329,020 shares of RKO common, worth $12,459,562 in June, $12,293,435 in December, and 327,812 RKO option warrants, worth $573,671 in June, $368,788 in December. Since December, Atlas has purchased 25,000 shares of Walt Disney common stock, and an option to purchase another 25,000 shares at $12.50 per share by Dec. 31, 1949. This asset is carried at $250,000. Polio Bars Children In Trenton, Jenkintown Trenton, N. J.— Total of 44 infantile paralysis cases, resulting in eight deaths since July 1, caused the City Commission to bar all children under 16 from theaters. Notice applies to all public gatherings and swimming pools and playgrounds have been shuttered. State Department of Health has reports of 207 polio cases this year with 171 reported since July 1. Jenkintown, Pa. — Stanley-Warner's Hiway Theater has been ordered to ban children under 18, because of the incidence of infantile paralysis. "Ecstacy" Back In Clu. Chicago — Erb Ellisburg, owner of the Studio Theater, says Chicago Censor Board has reversed its decision banning "Ecstacy" and he will reinstate film at studio theater. Ellisburg also says that David Saul Kafter will be architect of a new theater he will build in Miami Beach. Alexander Pins OBE on Col. ''Ken'' Clark Col. Kenneth W. Clark, director of press relations of the MPPDA on leave to the Army, has been awarded the Order of the British Empire. The decoration was pinned on his tunic by none other than Field Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean Theater and Canada's new Governor General. RKO Opens Regional Meet! • • • UMB'RELLA NOTES: Saint Swithin must have followed Charlie Koemer, production chief, and Perry Lieber, studiio publicity head, to the opening session oi a three-day meet at the Waldorf-Astoria, to give them a California greeting The prodigal purveyor of rain also effected an unwitting tieup to start the day's activities when 25 execs., whose "Taxi!" calls were unanswered after screening at the Normandie, did the next best thing They piled into a waiting film delivery truck sailed down Park Avenue with the "Spanish Main" to dock at the Waldorf T T T • • • WALDORF SALAD: Getting an earful as the boys worked up an appetite travelling from the Sert Room session to the luncheon set in the Wedgwood surroundings Bob Wolf, the company's general manager in Great Britain said that he just received a cable revealing "Enchanted Cottage" to be a London success, as well as "Three Cabol leros" enjoying a 10th week "Will likely stay for 16 weeks," echoed Leo Samuels, Disney's foreign chief Augmenting the Disney contingent, Charlie Levy and Leo Katcher, Eastern publicity and story and talent heads, respectively, were bursting with product T T T • • • MALCOLM KINGSBERG. just returned from a West Coast trip, thumbnailed next year's product with, "It's going to be a great year!" ... • Dave Grover, Boston salesman, was all smiles, celebrating 27 years as an RKO employe. . . • Frank Drumm drew our ear on the two-reel "tolerance" subject, "The House I Live In," which was screened along with "Annapolis," This is America series, and the Technicolor feature "Spanish Main.". . • Cornering Rutgers Nielson in one of the Park Ave. alcoves, the publicity manager pointed out that the regional meet is being held in strict compliance with ODT regulations: "In addition to the home office executives and local exchange sales personnel, representatives of only eight nearby branches made the trip" T T T • • • AMONG THOSE whose faces were caught behind the lobster and rice entree at surrounding tables were N. Peter Rathvon, flanked by Ned Depinet and Charles Koemer; Bob Mochrie, Mike Poller, Arthur Jefirey, Harry Michalson Charles Zagrans and Eli Epstein, >of Philadelphia , Al Schwalberg, of International Pictures; Nat Levy, Herb Wappcrus, Sid Kramer Seymour Poe, Sol Lesser's Eastern rep Phil Reisman Charlie Boasberg, Phil Hodes, lohn Dacey, Charlie Penser, Louis Kutinsky, of the New York branch Don Velde, of National Screen Service Incidentally, NSS will host a cocktail party and buffet supper in the Wedgwood Room today William Heinemann, assistant to James Mulvey, of the Goldwyn office: Leon Bamberger and, among others, John Hextz, Jr., of the Buchanan agency T ▼ T • • • PUTTING ON one major film opening campaign at a time is enough for the ordinary company But Mort Blumenstock's gang over at Warners has become so ambidextrous at this sort of thing that it is handling two such big-scale promotions simultaneously on two different pictures in two different cities One is tonight's "Pride of Marines" world premiere in Philadelphia The other launches the state-wide opening tomorrow of "Christmas in Connecticut" in the state of the same name with ceremonies centering in Norwalk T ▼ T • • • WE'RE AVENGING PEARL HARBOR! PRC Lists 34 PIx For 1945-46 Season (Continued from Page 1) teries and five pictures in nati color. Among the titles announced JHr« "Enchanted Forest" in naturaTT , "Grand Central," "Quebec," 'K^ of the Chorus," "Heritage," "0 and for All," "How Do You I "Club Havana," "Devil Bat's Daui ter," "Sorority Girls," "Flam Jungle," "I'm From Missouri," "1 sic Hall Varieties of 1946," "Qn of Diamonds," "The Flying Serpei "Detour," "Bombshell from Braz "I Ring Doorbells." i Also "Strangler of the Swani "Valley of Lonely Women," "1; Mummy's Daughter," "The Lost iC! tinent," "The Vanishing Gangstei two Little Roughnecks productic three Michael Shayne detect dramas, eight Buster Crabbe acti stories, four all-star Westerns il four outdoor pictures in color; "iS(i of Old Wyoming," "iRomance of West," "Beggar's Gold," and "K tucky Mansion." En route to the Coast studio ' conferences with Leon Fromke Thomas will stop over to visit changes at Cleveland, Dallas, Dem Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, Francisco, Seattle and Portland. jl Goldfinger Group Gets Two Lansing Theaters Lansing, Mich. — Announcement made of the lease of the Orphe and Downtown theaters by the I/ii sing Realty Company, a newly orgi ized firm headed by S. Goldfinger Chicago. F. Sweet, Detroit, taken over management of the t houses from William Potts and J. McKernan, who purchased the th ters several months ago from E. C. Jarvis interests. Sweet said the Lansing Realty I has no Lansing interests represenl and that it is affiliated with \ Michigan Newsreel Co., the Midw> Newsreel Co., and the Pacific Ne^i reel Co., each of which, however, said, is an independent corporati Sweet remains until a local mana| can be named. There will be no policy change either house "for the presen Earlier this year the Downto' theater, formerly the old Gard« was remodeled by Potts and 1 Kernan and re-opened as a newsrj theater. Later, the policy Vi changed, and the house now sho feature pictures. fEflimE TOUCH CAYLE RICHARDSON, stenographer, Warn Omaha. CEAL WOLBACH, biller, M-C-M, Omaha. MARTY MOHATT, biller, Columbia, Omaha. BETTY STARR, cashier. Monogram, Omaha. JANE FUCCIO, filing clerk, Columbia, Omat