The Film Daily (1945)

IHEl DAILY Wednesday, August 15, 19 Vol. 88, No. 32 Wed., Aug. 15, 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, SecretaryTreasurer; 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 Carolina 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 Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. HONOLULU— Mrs. Annabel Damon. MEXICO CITY — Arthur Geiger, Augasto Compte 5, Mexico, D. F. SAN JUAN — E. Sanchez Ortiz, San Sebastian No. 3. MONTREAL — Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavief St. Defer Readers' Stand Action Meeting of the membership of the Screen Office and Professional Employes Guild, CIO, to consider action on the opposition of the readers' chapter of the union to handling story material from Hollywood as result of the studio strike has been postponed to Monday because of the excitement over the Jap surrender news. The meeting was to have been held this week. The readers' stand has the endorsement of the executive board of the SOPEG. Victory! Atom Bomb Short On Sept. 1 "Miracle Makers," Warners short dealing with the cyclotron at the University of California which played an important part in developing the atomic bomb, has been set for general release Sept. 1, it is announced by Norman H. Moray, short subject sales manager. Earlier prerelease bookings will be made if prints can be tmmed out sooner. Victory! Houseman Leaves OWI John Houseman's resignation from OWI as chief of the film, theater, and music control division of the American zone of occupation in Germany, was confirmed here yesterday by OWI officials. Houseman will now take up a post with RKO Radio as a producer. Eastman Kodak Profit Soars to $11,043,307 ART FOR ADVERTISING 185 VVEST 46i« ST. N.V.C. PHCh BRwi 9-4153-4 Rochester— A net profit of $11,043,307 for the six periods ended June 16, equal to $4.39 per common share, was reported yesterday by Eastman Kodak Co. and wholly owned subsidiary companies in the U. S., Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Panama and South America. This compares with a net of $9,224,506 for the six-month period ended June 10, 1944, when profit per common share was $3.66. Net sales and fees for the 1945 span amounted to $145,975,671 as against $130,065,839 in the corresponding span of 1944. T. J. Hargrave, president, and F. W. Lovejoy, board chanrman, told stockholders that the first six periods of 1945 (24 weeks) witnessed the largest deliveries of company's photographic products for military requirements since the beginning of the war. They also called attention to the recent disclosure by the Secretary of War that the Tennessee Eastman Corp. has operated one of the three major plants engaged in the production of the atomic bomb, and added that for security reasons no further details can be made now, but that when the story can be told "stockholders will be very proud of this unsual contribution by the company to the total war effort." Victory! "Before Sun Goes Down" Wins Metro Novel Award "Before the Sun Goes Down," a novel by Elizabeth Metzger Howard, has been selected as the second Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer annual novel award winner. The book is to be published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Under the terms of the award, the author receives a minimum of $125,000, with a possible additional payment of $50,000, depending on book sales. Last year's winner was "Green Dolphin Street" by Elizabeth Goudge and published by Coward-McCann, Inc. Victory! International Appealing Denial of Suit Dismissal International Pictures, Inc., yesterday appealed from the denial of its motion to be dismissed from a breach of contract suit brought by Samuel Sager and Harold Evans Hartner. Plaintiffs asked $1,105,000 for alleged breach of contract involving the filming of a picture based on the U. S. Air Transport Command. JOB HUNTING VET Energetic, young, ambitious, college, wants work in sales promotion, publicity, or ad agency. Write Box 243, FILM DAILY, 1501 B'way "Ziegfeld" Has $20,000 Advance Sale in Boston Boston — ^A $20,00 advance sale for Metro's "Ziegfeld Follies" has been chalked up, following the world premiere of the picture here Monday night at the Colonial Theater. The premiere was conducted with all the fanfare of a pre-war Hollywood opening, with lights, parades and civic leaders on hand. Seats are selling at $2.40 each. Picture opens its second roadshow engagement at the Nixon Theater, Pittsburgh, on Aug. 26. As in Boston, the engagement will be limited to two weeks. The premiere celebration here was climaxed with an informal luncheon yesterday for local exhibitors at the Ritz Carlton and hosted by William F. Rodgers. Victory! "Here Come the Yanks" New Title of "Furlough" "Here Come the Yanks" is the new title of the National War Fund short formerly titled "Furlough," the WAC announced yesterday. Release date has been set back from Aug. 23 to Aug. 30. Picture was produced by RKO-Pathe and will be distributed by RKO Radio. Victory! Charles J. Cole Dead Waukegan, 111. — Charles J. Cole, 55, head of the Cole Ticket Agency, Chicago, is dead here. cominc ni Goinc GERMINAL BARRAL, feature writer Havana's Bohemia Magazine, leaves Miami Be at the week-end for Hollywood to do a series star interviews. FRANK N. FHELPS, Warner Theaters execut is in Philadelphia today and will be in Wa ington tomorrow. IRA EPSTEIN, field rep., for Warner Bros the Indianapolis territory, arrives in Bloomingt Ind., today to work on "Corn Is Green" "Christmas in Connecticut" campaigns. HANNAH GINSBERG, secretary to Carl C Warner exchange manager, New Haven, is va tioning at Stockbridge and Tanglewood. EDWARD EVERETT HORTON motored to bany yesterday from his Summer Home at L George. JOSEPH SALMON, veteran Skouras mana| is back at the Riverside Theater after a thr month vacation in Florida where he recove from a recent illness. Victory! Schwarz Funeral Tomorrow A Solemn Requiem Mass will celebrated tomorrow at 11 a.m. St. Catherine of Sienna Church, 4 East 68th St., for Mrs. Eleanor Ma) Schwarz. Interment will follow St. John's Cemetery, Long Isla City. Mrs. Schwarz is survived by husband, Edward, a member of C lumbia's adv. dept. Body is reposi at the Frank E. Campbell Funei Church, Madison Ave. at 81st St. 'BIGGEST! ^ THE BIGGEST BUILDING IS THE EMPIRE STATE THE BIGGEST MOTION PICTURE EVER MADE IS