The Film Daily (1945)

^B 1^ DAILY Monday, August 20, 1 Vol. 88. No. 34 Mon., Aug. 20, 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, Tnc. 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., Plione 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, Augusto Compte 5, Mexico, D. F. SAN JUAN — E. Sanchez Ortiz, San Sebastian No. 3. MONTR EAI^Ray Carraichael, Room 9, <64 Francis Xavier St. nnflnciflL ;^^^ (Friday, August 17) ^^^ NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Am. Seat Col. Ficts. vtc. (21/2%) Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. . . East. Kodak 1 Gen. Prec. Eq Loew's, Inc Paramount RKO RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . . . 20th Century-Fox pfd. Universal Pict Warner Bros. PIcts. . NEW YORK Monogram Picts. . . . Radio-Keith cvs. . . . Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux High Low Close 23 22% 23 + 23 221/2 221/2 -f 291/2 293/8 293/8 -I 76 1751/2 1751/2 + 27 261/4 261/4 — 263/8 255/8 253/4 — 32 311/8 313/4 — 91/2 91/8 91/8 — 99 981/4 981/2 — 28 271/2 273/4 + 351/2 351/2 351/2 + 25 Vi 245/8 25 — 17 161/8 163/8 — CURB MARKET 3% 37/8 35/8 21/8 2 2 — 31/2 31/2 31/2 211/4 207/8 207/8 — 43/4 41/2 43/4 Net Chg. Vi Vi Vi Vi Vi V4 Vs V4 'A V4 1/4 % Vi Louis H. Harrison Named B'nai B'rith District V.-P. Chicago — Louis H. Harrison of the Goodman & Harrison circuit, has been elected vice-president of District Grand Lodge No. 6, B'nai B'rith which covers eight states in the Middlewest and three provinces in Canada. Harrison will be the director of membership for the coming year to add a quota of 10,000 new members to the District which now numbers 41,500. Local 306, Circuits Meet A second meeting between Local 306 and circuit representatives in negotiations for new contracts covering operators is scheduled to be held today in the office of Major Leslie Thompson of RKO. cominc and GoinG STEVE BROIDY, Monogram's vice-president and general sales manager, has arrived from the Coast. RICHARD F. WALSH, head of the lATSE, was back at his desk from Chicago on Friday. ALEX SCHREIBER, Detroit theater operator, was in town over the week end. JOHN P. BYRNE, M-C-M district manager with headquarters in Detroit, and FRANK ). DOWNEY, Detroit branch manager, arrive today for several days of home office conferences. JULES LAPIDUS, Eastern division sales manager for Warners returns today from a tour of the Cleveland territory. RUDY BERCER, Southern sales manager for M-C-M, left Atlanta over the week end for his New Orleans headquarters. HOWARD STRICKLINC, M-C-M studio publicity chief, and RICHARD POWERS, who recently left Ascap to join Leo's music department, arrive here today from Boston. BILL FERGUSON is due back from Boston today, having made the trip there from Pittsburgh. CHARLES K. STERN, Loew's assistant treasurer, gets back today from a vacation at Swampscott, Mass. E. 0. WILSCHKE, Assistant to the Vice-President of Altec Service Corp., has returned to New York from a business trip to Altec District offices in the South and Midwest. ALLEN KOHAN, Warners field rep. for the Cincinnati area, returns to that city today from Lexington, where he worked on "Pride of the Marines" campaign. PAUL KELLY, arrives in New York on Sept. 7 from the Coast. JOHN DALL leaves the Coast Friday for a roadshow tour in 'The Hasty Heart," to which Warners own screen rights. SAM LEVENE is expected to arrive here from the Coast this week to sign contracts to appear in the stage version of ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan," now titled "A Raincheck for Joe." CHARLES COHEN, of M-C-M's publicity department, is on vacation this week. HAROLD MORTON, Loew's State manager, Syracuse, N. Y., returned there from a vacation n Providence, R. I. OEORCE TOPPER, Chicago circuit operator, has returned from an Eagle River vacation. ARTHUR STEACALL, Essaness circuit supervisor, is at Wauwasee Lake, Ind., on vacation. LOUIS LO'BER, chief of the OWI motion picture division overseas branch, has returned to New York from a trip through the European theater of operations and is expected back at his desk early this week. RODNEY BUSH, 20th-Fox exploitation manager, left over the week end for Des Moines to handle the exploitation details on "State Fair." PCC Plans Fund to Fight "Unwarranted Expansion" Portland, Ore. — A plan to establish a special unlimited fund to protect members from "unwarranted theater expansion and invasion" was adopted by the trustees of the Pacific Coast Conference here last week. The fund also will be used to guard against losses in clearance and run, discriminatory sales policies and alleged unfair trade practices. The members condemned the practice of double billing of "A" pictures by large circuits and demanded that independents be given the same privileges as the affiliated houses. New B & H Catalogue Chicago — Bell & Howell has issued a new Pilmosound Library catalogue of 112 pages, and containing more than 2,000 titles. XEW YORK THEATERS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 50th Street and Sixth Avenue Irene DUNNE Alexander KNOX • Charles COBURN "OVER 21" A Columbia Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION BETTY MUTTON . ARTURO DE CORDOVA in Paramount's "INCENDIARY BLONDE" In Technicolor IN PERSON "The Hour of Charm" ALL-GIRL ORCH. L nder the Direction or PHIL SPITALNY pAMMOi/^r B'WAY 47th St Gary Cooper Loretta Young "ALONG CAME JONES" INTERNATIONAL PICTURE Released by RKO SamuGl Goldvryn presents Danny Kaye "Wonder Man" in Technicolor ASTOR B'way &. 45 St. Continuous • Popular Price* ON SCREEN Greer GARSON Gregory PECK in M-G-M's 'VALLEY of DECISION' IN PERSON BENNY RUBIN EXTRA I SARA ANN McCABE BUY * MOBE WAR BONDS Five New Pix to Start IVcst toast Bureau of THE I-ILM DAILY Hollywood — ^Five new pictures are set to start this week, inaking total of 48 shooting. Projector Mirs. to Meet Chicago — Manufacturers of pi jectors are planning to meet he this week to discuss the post-w situation as it affects them. • • *