The Film Daily (1945)

^ DAILY Monday, August 13, 1 Vol. 88, No. 30 Mon., Aug. 13, 1945 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD 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, Secretary Treasurer ; Al Steen, Associate Editor. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free; 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 6607. WASHINGTON— Andrew H. Older, 5516 CaroliHa Place, N. W., Phone Ordway 9221; CHICAGO, 45, 111., Joseph Esler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briargate 7441. LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. HAVANA— Mary Louis. Blanco, Virtudes 214. HONOLULU— Mrs. Annabel Damon. MEXICO CITY — Arthur Geiger, Augusto Compte 5, Mexico, D. F. SAN JUAN — E. Sanchez Ortiz, San Sebastian No. 3. MONTREAL— Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. nnflnciflL {Friday, August 10) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net Close Chg, 221/8 — 1/4 Am. Seat Col. Picfs. vtc. (21/2% Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. East. Kodak do pfd Gen. Prec. Eq LoeNv's, Inc Paramount RKO RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . . . 20th Century-Fox pfd. 20th Century-Fox ppf. Universal Pict Warner Bros NEW YORK Monogram Plots. . . . Monogram Ficts. pfd. Radio-Keith cvs Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux High iLow 23 221/8 ) 231/4 221/4 43/4 41/2 29 283/4 176 175 221/4 — 3/4 41/2 283/4 — 1/4 1751/2 + 1 271/2 263/8 321/2 91/2 98 283/8 351/4 27 251/8 311/2 9 973/8 277/8 35 27 — 1/4 255/8 — % 321/2 + 1/4 91/4 — 1/8 973/4 — 1/2 28 35 — 1/4 251/2 251/8 251/8 — 1/4 177/8 171/8 171/8 — 3/g CURB MARKET 4 4 4 ..... 2 17/8 2 33/8 33/8 33/8 + 1/8 211/2 20 207/8 — 1/8 47/8 43/4 43/4 -f 1/8 Youngstown Fox Reopens Yo'ungstown, O. — Fox Theater, dark two years has been re-opened here by Peter M. Wellman. Policy of subsequent run dual films will be continued with four program changes weekly. House formerly was known as the Victory. It has been remodeled and interior re-decorated. // wonderous // says H ^Y B .T "keep our eye on your cash" UNlCON CASH CONTROL SYSTEMS ■ LTD 1501 BROADWAY MOTION 'PICTURE 'THEATRE commc flno Goinc JOEL BLUESTONE, Universal branch manager, has returned to New Orleans from a two-week's ousiness and vacation trip to New York. LUCAS CONNER, of Warners' New Orleans exchange, is in Atlanta on business. PERRY LIEBER, RKO Radio studio publicity •lead who came tast tor tne company's regional ,aus conference at the Waldorr-Asroria, went jacK to the Coast on Friday. e. B. BUCHANON, sales manager, PushBak ,eat div.sion, Kroenler Co., is in New YorK tor jusiness conferences. tAfE bMERSON, Warners' star, returns to .lie Coast tnis week from a vacation at Hyot ■ ark to start woik opposite Dane Clark in uancing With lears." D..N KALMENSON, WB general sales manager, leiumed over the weeK-end from a tnree-wten r.p around the country inciuaing conrerences it the studio. ROir HAINES, WB Western and Southern di/is.on sales manager, is bacK trom a Miowest rour. £D HINCHY, head of the playdate department, returns today from the Midwesr. iLIZABETH SCOTT, star of Hal WallisI'aramount's "You Came Along," arrived in Denver yesterday by plane for a three-day personal appearance tour in advance of the film. JEAN G. STOLL, general manager of EOS Film Co., Switzerland, left for Foynes, Ireland, rriday by American Export Airlines. While in the U. S., Stoll maae arrangements to distribute films, sheet music and records in 18 European countries. JULES FIELDS, 20th-Fox's publicity manager, left over the week-end for a New England vacation. GUY KIB'BEE is a Chicago visitor. BERNIE LEWIS, head of the promotion service department of 20th-Fox's advertising-publ:city-exploitation, plans to spend his vacation in Maine. MAURICE A. BERGMAN, Universal's Eastern advertising-publicity director, arrived on the Coast Friday by plane from New York. MOREY GOLDSTEIN, Monogram's Eastern division manager, has returned here from a threeday trip to Albany. HAROLD CLURMAN is expected to arrive here today from the Coast to direct Oscar Serlin's next Broadway production, "Beggars Are Coming To Town." MAJ. MAURICE EVANS has returned to New York from the Pacfic zone and expects to be relieved of active duty to resume his actingproducing chores. M. RUBENS, Great States maintenance director, arrived in East St. Louis from Chicago to check modernization plans for the Majestic. CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, star of UA's "Blithe Spirit," is planning to leave London shortly to arrive here in time for the world premiere of the film. IRVING A. MAAS, assistant director of the 20th-Fox international department, left yesterday on a month's survey of Central America. J. J. UNGER, United Artists' Western sales manager, has returned to New York after attending Western sales meetings of the company. RUD LOHRENZ, United Artists' district manager, is on a visit from Chicago. HOWARD LeSIEUR, advertising manager of United Artists, gets back from a vacation today. JOHN BALABAN and family are vacationing at Mercer, Wis. Gaifney Joining Mono. As KG Branch Manager Appointment of Harry Gaffney as Monogram manager in Kansas City was announted at the week-end by Steve Broidy. Gaffney for the last 16 years has been associated with Warner Bros. 'as booker, office manager, salesman and city salesman in Kansas City. He \ takes his new post today. 14,000 Bookings Seen For "Orders from Tokyo" On the, basis of contracts already closed, bookings of "Orders From Tokyo," Technicolor documentary short revealing Jap atrocities in the Philippines, will exceed 14,000, according to Norman H. Moray, WB short subject sales manager for Warner. Picture is being sold by Warners as a regular short. Frank Davis to Manage WB's Winnipeg Branch Promotion of Prank Davis, formerly of the Warner sales staff in Montreal, to branch manager of the Winnipeg office, was announced Friday by Ben Kalmenson, general sales maanger. Davis succeeds G. A. Matthews, resigned. New Disney Insignia For Shipyard Workers Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — West Coast shipyard workers will henceforth be entitled to wear a special war-effort insignia, created by Walt Disney, Artemus L. Gates, under-secretary of the Navy, revealed. ' Schlcdfer and Aides to Coast Charles Schlaifer, assistant director of 20th-Fox's publicity-advertising-exploitation, left for the Coast studios Friday. He will discuss the new season's product and advertising plans for the 1945-1946 pictures with Sypros Skouras, Joseph M. Schenck, Darryl F. Zanuck, and Harry Brand. Schlaifer was accompanied by his aides, Christy Wilbert, advertising manager, and Louis Shanfield, art director. (iLOllE TICKET COMPANY 154 W. 14th ST. N. Y. C. Phone WAtkins 9-1486 PROMPT SERVICE AS USUAL Panama Gity Restricts Attendance by Juvenilesi Panama City (By Air Mail Movie attendance by children uu the age of 16 is restricted to cerl hours of the day and night by a i municipal decree. The new order tablishes the curfew at 9 p.m., p which time no one under 16 will permitted to enter or remain ii theater. Attendance by minors d ing the daytime school hours, as fi: by . law, is also prohibited, Ma Diaz ruled. i Both the offending minors andl exhibs. will be liable to punishm" for violation. lo XEW YORK THEATERS ■WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF ^^piNoccHi© ; ^eaturI^^^ technicolor Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. STARTS DKDIIDIir' B'WAYSIst SAT. REPUBLIC AIR-COOLED RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Showplace of the Nation Rockefeller Center "A BELL FOR ADANO" GENE TIERNEY • JOHN HODIAK WILLIAM BENDIX Directed by Henry King A 20th Century-Fox Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION m Mi I, I BETTY HUTTON . ARTURO DE CORDOVA in Paramount's "INCENDIARY BLONDE" In Technicolor IN PERSON "The Hour of Charm" ALL-GIRL ORCH. Lnder the Direction of PHIL SPITALNY P/iMMou/yr Semuel Goldvryn presents Danny Kaye in "Wonder Man" in Technicolor ASTORI B'way & 49 St,, Continuous ' • Popular Prices "HT B'WAY & 47th St. Gary Cooper Loretta Young "ALONG CAME JONES" INTERNATIONAL PICTURE Released by RKO i^^ ONSCREEN Greer GARSON Gregory PECK in M-G-M's 'VALLEY of ^ DECISION' IN PERSON 'Mm I