The Film Daily (1945)

1W' Vol. 88, No. 27 Wed., Aug. 8, 1945 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher UONALD 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 pust-oltice at New York, N. Y., under the act o{ March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage freej 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 6b07. WASHINGTON— Andrew H. Older, 5516 Carolina Place, N. W., Phone Uidway 9221; CHICAGO, 45, 111., Joseph E^,ler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briargate 7441. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St.. W. I. HAVANA — Mary Louise Blanco, Virtu.les 214. HONOLULU— Mrs. Annabel D:imon. MEXICO CITY — Arthur Geiger, Aui!U.3to Compte 5, Mexico, D. F. SAN JUAN — E. Sanchez Ortiz, San Sebastian No. 3. MONTREAL — Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. finflnciflL (Tuesday, August 7) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Col. Picts. vtc. (21/2%) 221/8 221/8 221/8 Columbia Picts. pfd. . SOVi SOVz SOi/j Con. Fm. Ind 45/8 45/8 45/8 Con. Fm, Ind. pfd. . 29 28% 29 East Kodak 172 1713/4 172 Gen. Prec. Eq 261/4 . 25% 26I/4 Loew's, Inc 26% Paramount 32 RKO 91/8 RKO $6 pfd 98 20th Century-Fox . 281A 20th Century-Fox pfd. 351/4 Universal Fict 251/2 Warner Bros 16% NEW YORK CURB Monogram Picts. . . . 3% Monogram Picts. pfd. 91/4 914 Radio-Keith cvs. ... 1% 1% Sonotone Corp 3% 3% Technicolor 20 I8I/2 Trans-Lux 4% 4% 251/2 31 8% 971/2 271/2 35 25% 311/2 9 97% 275/8 35 245/8 24% 163/8 I6I/2 MARKET 33/4 33/4 91/4 1% 33/8 20 45/8 Net Chg. — l'/8 — Vl — Vs — % + Vz — 1/4 — Vs — % — 1/4 — 1/4 — 5/8 — % — % — % — Vs Daytz Made Sales Mgr. For Warners in Boston Boston — Bill Horan, WB branch manager, has promoted Al Daytz from the sales staff to the post of city sales manager. Daytz succeeds Jerry Wechsler, recently prom'oted to branch manager in Cleveland. W ART FOR ADVERTISING Its WEST 46i» ST. N.Y.C, PH(h BRtoi 9-41S3-4 Raw Film Exports Show Slight Jump (Continued from Page 1) year's total for the same period was 21,584,666. Last year's total export of raw film was 120,545,243 linear feet, compared with 174,100,885 in pre-war 1938. Import of raw film, which ran to 165,593,481 linear feet m 1938 and 18,261,974 in 1944, was negligible in the first five months of 1944 and zero in the first five months of this year. We have imported from Canada alone since we entered the war and mainly from Canada in peace time. Majority of our exports of 35 mm. raw film in the first five months of this year went to the USSR, totaling 9,595,792 linear feet, of which 4,806,381 were positive and 4,789,792 negative. We exported film to Russia in 1944 and a minor amount in 1938. ^Second largest importer of U. S. raw film was Mexico with a total of 5,211,578 linear feet in the first five months of this year, of which 4,547,635 feet were positive and 663,943 negative. The figure almost equals last year's entire export to Mexico, 5,238,899 feet. Exports to Spain have gone from 1,500,000 feet in the first five months of last year to 449,840 for the same period this year. Other principal exports this year have been to Canada, which received a total of 515,974 feet, most of it negative; the United Kingdom, 9,595,792. Brazil, Argentina and Egypt, am'ong the larger importers from this country in 1944, have bought negligible amounts so far this year. Of photographic goods generally our export total for the January-May period this year was valued at $12,879,060, compared to the 1944 valuation of $9,765,387 for the same .period. Our imports of these goods, as always, were very small — $630,199 worth in the first five months of 1944, $370,657 in the same period in 1945. Total for 1944 was $844,709. Export of photographic goods compares favorably with pre-war figures. Last year's figure of $27,256,181 is substantially higher than the 1938's $19,876,000. Our imports of these goods in 1938 were also up substantially, $8,712,000. Most of our pre-war imports were from Germany. IP to Spend $400,000 To Herald "Tomorrow" West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — International Pictures' advertising exploitation budget for its . forthcoming RKO release, "Torommow is Forever," has been set at $400,000, a new high for the company. National magazines, billboards, painted signs, radio and trade paper advertising are embraced by the budget, set after studio conferences attended by William Goetz, Leo Spitz, A. W. Schwalberg, Bob Goldstein, John LeRoy Johnston and John Krimsky DAILY 1 Wednesday, August 8, , Beeiintf 'Round . WASHINGTON (Continued from Page 1) incorporated in the new MacArthur, Eberson says, were gained from studying theater construction in Australia, India and Burma during his recent 30 months of service in that part of the world. .. .Seating will be better than a thousand, with 660 widelyspaced seats en the spacious sunken ground floor and the rest on a compact balcony barely above street level. ... Exterior will be in white stone, with intricate fluorescent lighting, promising an attractive front. . . . The plans are designed to bring the booth as close as possible to the screen for the best projection, and the booth itelf will be equipped for three-dimensional pix and tele. .. .Warners hopes to be ready to open by Christmas, but is not rash enough to make any promises as to date these days. "Furlough" to RKO The National War Fund short subject for 1945, titled "Furlough," will be released to theaters throughout the nation beginning Aug. 23, through RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., according to an announcement from WAC. The picture, which was produced by RKO-Pathe, is designed to inform theater audiences in advance of the National War Fund drive which will take place this year during the month of October. cominc and com EDWARD M. SCHNITZER, United Artist: office executive, flew back from the coir Canadian sales meeting yesterday. RICHARD F. WALSH, head of the lAl due in Chicago on Friday. MARRY C. ARTHUR, general manager Fanchon & Marco-St. Louis Amusement C cuit, will return to St. Louis from tm! Coast about Aug. 20. y^. EVELYN KOLEMAN, assistant to Stev wards. Republic's director of publcity, \x, turned to New York after a four-week's 1 the Coast. JAMES A. MULVEY leaves for New York after conferences with Sam Coldwyn in wood. A. PAM BLUMENTHAL, producer of shorts for Warners leaves Friday for the i FRANK iBRUNER, Warners' field rep. ,fc Southwest, leaves Dallas today for Hou work on "Christmas in Connecticut" JOSEPH R. VOOEL and OSCAR A. DO" be among Loew and M-C-M executives a roadshow opening of "Ziegfeld Follies" in ton, Monday. BERNARD FREEMAN, M-C-M's managin rector for Australia and New Zealand, HENRI LARTICUE, managing director in F are due in New York this month. Russian Pic to Danubia Danubia Pictures has acquired distribution rights to the four Russian subject "Capture of Bi pest" with English narration. i, BIGGEST THEATRE IS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL BIGGEST' MOTION PICTURE EVER PRODUCED... M'^ 0^ ' • * • * -f *•****.***