The Film Daily (1945)

h ^ lursday, August 9, 1945 ^ BAILY ell Plans National sle Cable System (Continued from Page 1) itinental coaxial cable across the 'Q^rn part of the U. S., and a » ./-South backbone cable from licago and St. Louis south to New ■leans. Cable will be able to accom jdate several hundred telephone !54nversations and a two-way tele sion channel at the same time over ch pair of coaxial conductors. Main route cables will include six eight coaxial units, and in some ctions a numbei; of pairs of wires "~ ' addition, according to the esti "Tated need for cii'cuits. Company timates that planned circuits are lOugh to provide the nucleus of a levision network reaching across le country. Sullivan said that the Bell System interested in the best type of •ansmissions for both telephone and levision transmissions, whether it i by wire or radio, and results of -4ie experimental radio relay system ~ Btween Boston and New York may ijjuid wide application over the tele Thone company's national system. " 'lans have been made and approvals ranted for the high frequency-line • f-sight transmission system be ween Boston and New York. Ibri's Three Months' Net :Jp $75,882 to $329,852 B (Continued from Page 1) j'esterday. Earnings are equal to 50 'ents per preferred share and 25 „ :ents per common share, compared vith 50 cents on the preferred and 10 iients on the common in the 1944l:hree months. Net before taxes was ■eported at $568,366. >RC to Use Color Stills All-Color Features All 8 x 10 stills on PRC's "The Inchanted Forest" and "Song of Old i'^yoming" will be in full color gloss. iBlack and whites will be used only 'for newspaper reproductions. Both features are in color. In making the announcement, PRC advanced the thought that advertising an all-color picture with black and white stills was misleading. Innovation was adopted following a nationwide survey of exhibitors by Harry Thomas, vice-president and general sales manager, and Arnold Stoltz, Eastern advertising and publicity director. SERD BIRTHDflV GREETinCS TO: AUGUST 9 Charles Farrell Fred Newmeyer Dorothy Jordan Ed Schwarz Cerrit Lloyd Nat Pendleton Charles Davis Edward Mullin, Jr. ▼ T T RKO Regional Windup • • • FROM AN OBSERVATION POST: The boys who attended the N. Y. Regional sales meet acted like a group oi congenial old friends, gathering yearly to discuss not only their own but the company's problems as well One affiliated producer's representative spoke of Ned Depinet's friendly attitude toward his sales personnel the gracious manner in which he introduced new men in the field to the rest oi the gang also, the departure from the old-fashioned method of driving the men to get results the pushing and forcing incentive to do the job as exemplified in the talks given by Bob Mochrie, S. Barret McCormick, Terry Turner, Perry Lieber, R. J. Folliard, Ralph Austrian, Leon Bamberger, Leo Samuels, Charlie Koerner, Malcolm Kingsberg, A. W. Schwalberg, and M. H. Aylesworth T T T • • • CHIMES: The unfinished print of "Bells of St. Mary's" shown to the conventioners at the Normandie bore many a lumpy throat and ieary eye through the hardened tastes of the sales force Despite the lack of several sequences and the musical score, it was indicated this one would be one of the company's outstanding bids for a record season ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • BONDS AWAY!: Phil Hodes' New York branch copped fourth place for the national capital prize in the Ned Depinet Soles Drive Heading the same district, Charles Boasberg won second prize among district managers and, here's one for the books, took first place in short subject billings not bad for concentrated double feature territory Other winners will be announced during the next three regionals Awards will be made in Wor Bonds T T T • • • COCKTAIL HORS D'OEUVRE: Rutgers Nielson showed us a paragraph in a letter vrhich he received from classmate Lt. Col. Harold G. Hoffman, former governor of New Jersey, now in charge of redeployment in Paris, which tells of his meeting Mickey Rooney and Bobby Breen who in turn told him of a kid in their troupe getting $1,200 from a Russian officer for a Mickey Mouse watch T T T • • • TABLE TALK: Discovery of the Atomic Bomb gave vent to much conversation on the merits and hair-raising aspects Eddie Smith, of the Buffalo office, broke up the dissertation on Uranium-235 with "maybe we won't have to worry about raw stock anymore Hollywood will be able to shoot pictures on atoms" ▼ T T • • • PROMISE FULFILLED: Sixty-nine of RKO's second World War service men and women have returned to their former posts after receiving honorable discharges ▼ T T • • • SHE BELIEVED IN SIGNS: It seems the bill at the Majestic, Columbus, O., was "Standing Room Only" and "The SuUivans" An elderly matron walked up to the doorman and inquired, "How Long will I have to stand?" The doorman, scenting a ribbing, was slow in replying, finally saying that there was plenty of seats "Then why," severely demanded the e. m., "have you o sign 'Standing Room Only' outside?" Credit the yam to Lou HoUeb, manager of the Majestic, with an assist to Pete P. Wood, secretary of the Ohio HO, who relayed it by airpost T T ▼ • • • LET'S NOT FORGET PEARL HARBOR! T ▼ ▼ cofflinc ui Goinc LORRAINE McLEAN, Monogram fashion expert, has left Hollywood for a two-week vacation at Coronado. JACK LEEWOOD, Warners' field rep. for the Seattle territory, Is in Portland, Ore., working on "Christmas in Connecticut" campaign at Broadway Theater. ABE GOODMAN, 20th-Fox ad department production manager, has returned to New York after spending his vacation in Maine and Vermont. VICTOR SEDLOW, member of the art department of 20th-Fox, has returned from the Whte Mountains where he spent h!s two-weeks' vacation. DAVE BADER, 20th-Fox trade press contact, is back from his Cape Ann holiday. MARCO is at the Waldorf-Astoria from the Coast. LOUIS W. SCHINE, E. DOUGLAS LEISHMAN and MAURICE CLECKNER, of the Schine circuit's home office in Cloversville N. Y., were Syracuse visitors. LARRY LANSBURCH is back from Dixon, Calif., where he made a 16 mm. kodachrome short on sheep dogs for George Hirliman of International Theatrical and Television Corp. PERRY LIEBER and CHARLES KOERNER leave today for the Coast. NED DEPINET, ROBERT MOCHRIE, BARRET McCORMlCK and MIKE POLLAR leave for the second RKO regional meeting in Cincinnati today. A. A. SCHUBART left yesterday. "l. p. SALTONSTALL has arrived from Europe. N. PETER RATHVON and JOHN WHITAKER left yesterday for Mexico City. Rathvon and Whitaker To Inspect Mex. Studio (Continued from Page 1) interest in the studio. Other interests of the company in Mexico also will be given attention by the executives. ■'Over21"AtM.H.Aug. 16 Columbia's "Over 21" opens at Radio City Music Hall on Aug. 16. THEATER DEALS Bloom-Share Turn Exhibs. Cleveland, — . — Oscar Bloom and Jack Share, who recently resigned from the local Columbia sales force, announce the purchase of the Cedar and Quincy Theaters from Frank and Roy Gross. Both houses are situated in the residential district and cater to colored patronage. They have belonged to the Gross brothers for the past ten years. Schnee Buys Theater B'l'g. San Antonio, Tex. — A. C. Schnee of New York City has purchased the Ransom & Silsbee building in which is the Palace Theater, operated by the Interstate. San Antonio Alemada Sold San Antonio, Tex. — The Alemada Theater, recently opened by Pablo Garzo, has been sold to Ezell & Underwood of Dallas. House will be operated here by the Interstate Theaters.