The Film Daily (1945)

r iiday, August 13, 1945 DCi ill-out Biz in list Luzon Stands (Continued from Page 1) le Roces family, and the Times, fcvar Universal release theater =ited by the Araneta interests, packing them in from 8 a.m. to ..m. (curfew) at 50c, $1, and , American. Normally, different are shown. e Lyric, controlled by the Ru, was badly damaged — particuthe seats, projection room, and n. Seats salvaged from othei •,ers have now been installed, 30 sacks of cement are still 3d to repair shell-holes in walls floor. fhree Houses Unsalvageable e unsalvageable houses are the lue, State and Capitol theaters. bert Perkins, formerly with mount in China and Philippines later with Universal in Japan, aying big role in exhibitors' re, as local officer for OWI's MoPicture Bureau. For first-run ;ers he has at his disposal five from each of eight majors, h he limits to three-week runs. 58 Subsequents Operate r the subsequent-run theaters — 1 Manila and 47 on the rest of n — he issues pre-war products ;ered from a Jap warehouse at Francisco Del Monte. Most of ; films had been banned as toorican. Admission prices to these es are controlled at 25c and 50c. rkins reports that 90 per cent of ;heaters are doing sell-out busi but OWI's policy is to control s, currently double pre-war adions, but a modest increase in of the terrific inflationary trend, ntals follow pre-war policy, OWI serving as sole distributagency. Government's 10 per admission tax is absorbed by ters in view of shortage of small ge. The re-established five ivo (2%c)-per-meter custom fee be paid out of the distributor's Pix to Cameras toast Hiircait of IHE tlLM DAILY )llywood — Five new pictures go production week of Aug. 13, ing a total of 49 shootings. /ip Peace Offer iVtps Pic Stochs Japan's surrender offer produced le heaviest turnover of stocks in /all Street since April 16, with iles approaching 1,800,000 shares. 1 the mixed performance, film shares ere at closing time fractionally off. Most issues in the Street showed mporary strength on Friday mornig, but this was explained as eing due to "the hailing of peace." ater in the day the declines set I, but the drop was no more, genfall speaking, than has occurred n numerous das during the current ar. UOIXYWOOD SPEAKING ^^^ Bt HAiPH wm HOLLYWOOD 1 IBERTY FILMS, INC. in which Frank '" Capra, Sam Briskin and William Wyler 3re partners has purchased an original, "It Happened on Fifth Avenue," by Frederick Stephanie and Herbert Clyde Lewis. Liberty ilso has two other properties, "Flying Yorkshireman" and "Pioneer Woman," the atter an original by Capra. ' • • Robert Buckner has been assigned by Jack L. Warner, to produce the film version of Life With Father." Buckner returns to the studio this week from New Ycrk, where ne conferred with authors Howard Lindsay and Russei Crouse. Dorothy Stickney (Mrs. Lindsay) also arrives this week to test for •he mother role, which she played opposite Lindsay on Broadway. • • Inspired by the La Cienega children's :arnival attended every week-end by such Hollywood great as Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, George Murphy, Preston Foster, Sol Lesser, Peter Tinturin, Albert Dekker, C.nnie Moore and a host of others. Producer George Pal will caricature all these ■figures in his next Jasper Puppetoon for r'aramount. • • Royal Theater Players will be featured in a Kodachrome Feature Production of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." To be pr;duced in 16 mm. by Erman Pessis and Toby Anguish for International Theatrical and Television Corp. e • Irving Yergin, former Hollywood trade paper editor and Warners' Eastern exploiteer, will join lnternati:nal Pictures Aug. 30 as executive assistant to A. W. Schwalberg, general sales manager. • • Ann Ayars, metro player, has been assigned for the role of the countess in "Polonaise," the W. Horace Schmidlapp-Harry Bloomfield musical opening at the Alvin on Broadway on Oct. 4. • • Robert B. Mclntyre will retire as casting director for Samuel Goldwyn Wednesday and will be succeeded by Edward A. Blatt. Mclntyre has been casting director for Goldwyn for 26 years, and for many years also served as production manager. Blatt has served as talent scout for Paramount in New York, and as a director for Warners. • • Brenda Marshall is set to star in "The Glass Alibi," which William Wilder will produce for major company release as his production following "A Strange Impersonation." Wilder will make his debut as a director with this picture, based upon an original story by Mindret Lord. Wilder will place "The Glass Alibi" in work following his return from New York in about two weeks. He is now lining up Broadway stage talent for the picture. Boris Gorelick, outstanding artist, and Lew Keller, formerly with Warner Bros, cartcon department, have joined the staff of United Film Productions. Keller is in production design and Gorelick has been signed for animation. • • Jack Chertok has moved into offices at General Service studio to start preparations and casting for "Strange Woman," the Hedy Lamarr starring vehicle which Chertok will produce under the Hunt Stromberg banner. • • Joan Crawford will be starred in Warners' most recent story purchase, "For Sentimental Reasons," by Starr Paret. • • Preston Foster draws the heavy in Universal's Technicolor version of Ernest Haycox story, "Canyon Passage." • • Pat O'Brien will star in "Galveston" for RKO after he completes "Perilous Holiday," of which he will be the producer as well as the star. "Galveston" is the story of the city before the flood. • • Walt Disney has purchased film rights to "The Magic Bed Knob" by Mary Norton. • • Victor Saville will return to Metro to direct "The Green Years," replacing Harold G. Bucquet, who is ill. • • "Her Kind of Man " is the new title for Warners' "Dancing With Tears,' in which Fay Emerson, Janis Paige and Zachary Scott will be starred. Don Lee Places Order For GE Tele Transmitter Schenectady — General Electric has an order for a 40 kw television transmitter for the Don Lee Television and Broadcasting Systems site on Mt. Wilson, outside Hollywood. Transmitter will be constructed after the war, following FCC permission to go ahead. Winter In Cancer Society Post II est toast Bureau of IHt. Jr'ILM VAILY Hollywood — Norman Winter has been appointed national publicity director of the American Cancer Society. Winter, formerly radio dii'ector of the Lynn Baker Co., is known in radio and agency fields. He is on the Coast at present in connection with the production of a film and radio show on cancer. Foreign Heads Meet with OWI on Pix for Germany (Continued from Page 1) American zone through the Information Control Devision. Goldsmith said that distribution procedure would be similar to the PWB's handling in Italy. Louis Lober, chief of the overseas motion picture branch, is expected to return here from Paris within 10 days with information which may be helpful to the foreign managers at their next meeting. Urge Metro 19-Point Policy lor Industry (Continued from Page 1) Metro presented them to their field force to make sure that they are carried out" impelled him to inquire if it would not be possible for each of the other companies to enunciate a similar "Magna Charta" regarding their own sales policies. In his letter to the sales chiefs, Wood said: "In our opinion, it is very admirable on the part of Metro to reenunciate these 19 points, but more important to us are the lengths to which they are going to see that they are properly applied in the field. For many years Metro has made it a policy to cultivate the good will of exhibitors and exhibitor organizatiins, and that this policy has been a good investment on their part is evidenced by the high earnings of Loew's, Inc. "We believe that the manner in which these 19 points have been presented to the field force of Metro form a basis for a better exhibitordistributor relationship, and we hope that you can see your way clear to provide your exhibitor customers with the same or even a better security of clean and constructive business ethics." The letters were sent to A. Montague, Columbia; Charles Reagan, Paramount; James R. Grainger, Republic; Ned E. Depinet, RKO Radio; Tom J. Connors, 20th Century-Fox; Grad L. Sears, LFnited Artists; William A. Scully, Universal, and Ben Kalmenson, Warner Bros. "Bernadette," "Wilson' Returning to Chi. Loop Chicago — Twentieth Century-Fox has closed a deal with B & K for another Loop run for "The Song of Bernadette" at the Garrick Theater, with Aug. 22 mentioned as the opening date. Negotiations also are reported under wav for another Loop run of "20th-Fox's "Wilson." Esty to Produce Tele Show William Esty & Co., Inc., advertising agency, will produce a weekly experimental program, sponsored by Colgate Palmolive Peet Co., over Du Mont's station WABD. Halfhour programs will start next month. Reds Making ^Crusoe' As Stereoscopic Film Moscow (By Cable) — Third-dimensional films usage is being rapidly expanded in various sections of the USSR, following closely on the recent establishment of theaters for the purpcse of making such pictures available to the public. Installations of the stereoscopic equipment developed by Semyon Ivanov are now being augmented by feature productions suited best to the new technique. One feature, "Robins'n Crusoe" is now being photographed along the Black Sea coast, and Ivanov himself has given demonstrations of third-dimensional potentialities by making a color film of a brain operation.