The Film Daily (1945)

TMii •^ DAILY Tuesday, August 21, l| Vol. 88, No. 35 Tues., Aug. 21, 1945 lOCents 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 Louist Blanco, Virtudes 214. HONOLULU— Mrs. Annabel Damon. MEXICO CITY — Arthur Geiger, Augu-sto Compte 5, Mexico, D. F. SAN JUAN — E. Sanchez Ortiz, San Sebastian No. 3. MONTUEAI. — Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. MnnnciRL i {Monday, August 20) ; NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Am. Seat Col. ricts. vtc. (21/2% > Columbia Picts. pfd.. Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. . East Kodak 1 do pfd Gen. Prec. Eq Loew'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 Picts Monogram Ficts. pfd. Rado-Keith cvs Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux High Low Close 23 21 Vs 21 '/g — 213/4 213/4 213/4 — Net Chg. 1% 29 28 Vz 28 1/2 — 751/2 175 175 — 253/4 253/4 253/4 — 26 255/8 253/4 . . 32 301/2 31 — 91/4 87/8 87/8 — 993/8 987/8 993/4 -I 28 271/2 271/2 — 353/4 351/2 351/2 .. V2 247/8 24 24 — 147/8 147/8 147/8 ., CURB MARKET 37/8 33/4 33/4 — " 95/8 9% .. 17/8 17/8 — 33/8 33/8 — 191/2 20 — 41/2 41/2 — 95/8 21/8 31/2 20 41/2 New $44 Daily Scale? Chicago— A new wage scale of $44 per day is understood to have been agreed upon for newsreel cameramen in this area. This would be an increase of $6 over the old rate of "effective'' says B_ ''keep our eye on your cash" ^ UNlCOM CASH CONJTROL SYSTEMS LTD 1501 BROADWAY RKO's Fourth Regional Meeting Opens in L. A. /) est Coast Bitrcan of 1 H H 1-lLU IVAILV Los Angeles — RKO Radio's fourth and final three-day regional sales conference opened yesterday at the Ambassador Hotel. Meetings are being attended by home office and studio executives and managers and salesmen from the exchanges in San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City, Portland and Los Angeles. Representatives of Samuel Goldwyn Productions, International Pictures, Inc., and Walt Disney Productions also will be on hand. Sessions are being conducted by Ned Depinet who presided over the three previous parleys. The delegates were guests at a luncheon yesterday at the RKO Radio studio, tendered to them by Charles W. Koerner. After a tour of the Gower Street plant, the delegates visited the Walt Disney studio. Today will be given over to business sessions at the Ambassador Hotel. Tomorrow, a luncheon in the East Gold Room at the hotel will be followed by the 1945-46 product announcement. Winners in the Ned Depinet sales drive will also be announced. At night, the delegates will have dinner and attend the revue at Earl Carroll's Hollywood night club. Cinematography Congress Opens in Brazil Aug. 30 Basel, Switzerland (By Air Mail) — The International Congress of Cinematography will be held here Aug. 30-Sept. 8. Nations invited to participate are the U. S., Britain, France, Russia, Belguim and Italy, and production representative of each are expected to be presented. During the Congress, all local film houses will feature the latest available international attractions. Study will be made at the conclave of the rehabilitation of the European film industry, and high on the agenda will be topic of educational films' reestablishment in Europe. "Blithe Spirit" May Bow In Winter Garden Oct. 1 J. Arthur Rank's screen production of "Blithe Spirit" will be the first tenant of the Winter Garden under the reported United Artjsts deal to take a lease on the house. The British film would open about Oct. 1. Schneider Funeral Today Funeral services for Mrs. Rose Schneider, 76, mother of Irving Snyder of Sterling Sign Co., which prepares lobby poster work for Loew's and other circuits in metropolitan New York, will be held today from Park West Memorial Chapel, 79th St. and Columbus Ave., at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Rochelle, N. J. Snyder is brother-i/ilaw to Charles, Joe, Harry and Martin Moskowitz, popular industry executives. lA Has Not Participated In Confab to End Strike H-'crf Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Commenting on published reports that an early settlement of the studio strike is indicated, Roy M. Brewer, International representative of lATSE, said there are no conferences being held in which lA is participating and that Prexy Richard F. Walsh, who left Chicago last week for New York, has . not participated in any conferences. Inasmuch as President William Green of A F of L was dirceted by the Executive Council to arrange conferences with interested parties, it is expected that conferences will be arranged in due course. Brewer declared, however, "to the best of yet been arranged." ments for such conferences has as yet been arranged. CIO groups picketed theaters at Huntington Park over the week-end and CIO will also picket houses at San Pedro Ocean Park and Long Beach. Jack L. Warner Statement Memorializes Roosevelt IVest Coast Bureau of 'IHt FILM OAILY Hollywood — Expressing hope for new era of democratic understanding and mutual tolerance among peoples of various races, creeds and causes. Jack L. Warner issued a post-war statement memoralizing President Roosevelt and the fighting men who won the war. He voiced an implicit warning that a repetition of the late war is possible if prejudices and injustices which fomented it are not guarded against. He also made a strong plea for living observance of the principles expressed in this nation's basic documents. Connors and Gehring Will Attend Des Moines Meet Des Moines, la. — Tom J. Connors, vice-president in charge of sales, and William G. Gehring, Western sales manager, of 20th-Fox are expected to attend a district meeting of branch managers to be held in Des Moines, Aug. 30 and 31, following the world premiere of "State Fair." The premiere will be held at Des Moines, Aug. 29 and in 65 other Iowa theaters the following day. Eranch managers from Minneapoolis, Omaha, Kansas City as well as Des Moines will attend the two-day meeting. W. Rutland, Vt., House Asks Cut in Clearance Charging unreasonable clearance, Newman R. Robinson, owner of the Town Hall Theater, West Rutland, Vt., has filed a demand for arbitration in the Boston tribunal. The firstruns in Rutland now have 90 days clearance over the Town Hall and Robinson, in his complaint, asks that the clearance be reduced to 30 days. The five signatories to the New York consent decree are named defendants. COffllHG and GOIfX BILL WASSERMAN, Warner Theater assil booker in Cleveland is vacationing in Califtl His mother and father, MR. and MRS. IS| WASSERMAN, who had been visiting in Clf land, returned with him. CORP. MIKE PECERELLO, former assistail the Bijou, New Haven, in on furlough afte| months in the artillery in Europe. MA|. HUGH MACUIRE, former RKO bo] New Haven, now connected with lend-lease [ gram in Washington, in New Haven for a GEORGE WEBER, Metro office manager, Haven, is spending part of his vacation In York. SPYROS SKOURAS and DONALD HENDERll 20th-Fox executives, returned here yest<| from the West Coast. CHARLES 0. JULIAN, RKO rep. in India,! recently arrived in New York, left for couver, B. C. over the week-end, for a • with his family whom he has not seen for 10 years. CHARLES S. CHAPLIN, UA's Canadian manager, left Toronto yesterday for a weeks' tour of Dominion exchanges in conne(| with the current Crad Sears Sales Drive. W. STEWART McDonald, assistant treail of Warners, left for the Coast over the w| end for conferences with Harry M. Warner, returns after Labor Day. SAM MARX, M-C-M .producer, arrives froiril Coast today after making a stopover at W| !ngton. HOWARD STiRICKLINC, head of M-Cl studio publicity department, arrived yestel from Boston and leaves Thursday for Hollwool E. K. O'SHEA, M-C-M Eastern sales head,] esterday for Buffalo. C. E. CARRIER left yesterday for Philadel| and Washington, returning Wednesday MAJ. REGINALD iBAKER, president of tain's KRS (distributing organization) left last night for a two-day trip to Toronto will return to Toronto and will return to York Thursday. JIMMY WAKELY leaves Hollywood tomoi| for a p. a. tour of Texas theaters. BEN DREXLER, Brandt circuit booker, turned to his desk from a two-week vacation. Information Film Ass'n In Non-theatrical Field The Information Film Assbciat; is in process of organization on national basis, drawing its memb ship from producers, artists a technicians in the documentary, e( cational and industrial film fie Nominating, finance, administrati constitution and steering committi are to be appointed by the organizi committee. In addition to seeking ways a means to increase film production the field, the unit proposes to ra standards of production; to carry research to determine where and h^ factual films can more fully sei the public interest; to facilitate terchange of ideas among film-ma ers in America and abroad; to esta lish a system of awards for o; standing accomplishments in the fie and to protect the freedom of t screen. WANTED Thoroughly experienced secretory for film executive. Reply, giving details of experience, salary required. 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