The Film Daily (1945)

IHEl •^ DAILY Monday, August 27, 1 Vol. 88, No. 39 Mon., Aug. 27, 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, 9-71310, 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. MOSCOW— Raymond Davies, Hotel Metropole. 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. MnnnciflL ; (Friday, August 24) ^^^ NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. 24 23 24 + V/2 ) 231/4 231/4 231/4 + 1/8 Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (21/2% Columbia Plots, pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. . East. Kodak do pfd Gen. Free. Eq Loew's, Inc Paramount RKO RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . . . 20th Century-Fox pfd. 20th Century-Fox ppf Universal Pict Warner Bros 5 5 5 313/4 311/2 311/2 -f 3/4 180 1791/2 180 + } 271/4 261/2 261/2 261/2 26 .261/2 -f 5/8 34 333/8 34 + 1/2 97/8 91/4 97/8 4 5/8 100 997^ 100 4 % 28% 283/8 287/8 + 1/2 36 357/8 36 -f 3/8 25 ' 25 ■ 25" '.'.'.'.'. 17 167/8 17 -1 1/8 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. ... 3% 37/8 37/8 — l/s Monogram Picts. pfd. 93^ 93^ 93^ -f 1^ Radio-Keith cvs. ... 21/4 21/3 21/4 + I/4 Sonotone Corp 31/2 31/2 31/2 + Va Techncolor 213/8 205/8 213/8+ 3/g Trans-Lux 43^ .43^ 43^ -j 14 To Tradeshow "First Yank" RKO Radio will tradeshow "First Yank Into Tokyo" at its New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco exchanges on Thursday. Wanted Experienced sales control clerk. Reply, stating experience, salary required. Box 245 The Film Daily. 1501 Broadway The STOA . . . shows the tvay (Continued from Page 1) will ^hink twice before they employ such phrases as "she just couldn't say no" or "he's the best husband TWO women ever had." Sure, the catch-lines may be wholly innocent in their intent and application, but the blue-noses probably could convince a helluva lot of people otherwise. And do you wanna bet they won't try? First Belgian Features Since 1938 Shooting Brussels (By Air Mail)— Two fulllength features, the first since 1938, are now in production here with fxill authorization granted by the AngloAmerican military administrators. The productions are "Baraque No. 1" and "Le Pere Damien," and will be dubbed in English for distribution in Great Britain by Sir Alexander Korda. Another industry development of interest is establishment by CineRevue, weekly fan magazine, of the following prizes: 50,000 francs for the best international picture produced in Belgium; 25,000 francs for best Belgian production; 10,000 francs for best male performance; 10,000 for best female performance; and 10,000 francs for the best short. The prizes will be awarded annually, it is planned, commencing in 1946. 20th-Fox Chi. Meet On; Des Moines Parley Next Chicago — ^The third of a series of 20th-Fox district sales meetings got going at the Blackstone Hotel yesterday. On hand from the home office are Tom Connors, distribution boss; L. J. Schlaifer, Central sales manager, and Morris Caplan, branch co-ordinator. Others in attendance at the threeday conference include J. J. Grady and J. H. Lorentz, district managers, and the following branch managers; T. R. Gilliam, Chicago; H. L. Beecroft, Milwaukee, J. J. Lee, Detroit; Ira H. Cohn, Buffalo; L. J. Bugie, Cincinnati; I. J. Schraertz, Cleveland. The next district huddle will open in Des Moines on Thursday, closing on Friday. Connors and his party will reach Des Moines in time for the world premiere there of "State Fair" on Wednesday. Montreal — "It Is a great mistake to send Hollywood or British films to Latin America with Spanish sound tracks" declared Ricardo Cofino, manager of four Guatemala cinemas, when interviewed here. "The LatinAmerican people dislike these psuedoSpanish films because they are so anxious to learn English," he added. Bissell Replaces Miller As Col. Albany Manager Albany — H. C. Bissell, former salesman for Columbia here, has been promoted to branch manager. He succeeds Joseph J. Miller, who recently resigned to become PRC district manager in the Buffalo-Cincinnati-Cleveland territory. Edward Hochstim, also a salesman in the Columbia Albany office, has been transferred to Chicago. Two new salesmen have joined the Albany staff. Charles Dortic, will represent the northern sales territory from Schenectady to the Canadian border, and Si Feld has been assigned to the southern territory from Albany to the Catskills. Bed Purchase Plan for Minn. V. C.'s Hospital Minneapolis — Instead of asking donors merely to contribute toward construction of the proposed heart hospital at the University of Minnesota here. Twin Cities Variety Club, which is sponsoring the new hosoital, will request contributors to buy beds for the hospital — at $10,000 a bed. "Sale" of 33 beds on these terms would cover the cost of the entire structure, B. N. Berger, chairman _ of the club's heart hospital steering committee, announced yesterday. Demands Increase on H'd Writers Mobilization 300 "Incendiary Blonde' Available Prints Dated Three hundred key theaters will play "Incendiary Blonde," Paramount's One Third of a Century picture, during the Labor Day holiday week, Charles M. Reagan, vice-president in charge of distribution, announced Friday. This represents maximum capacity of the Technicolor prints, and demand from exhibitors for bookings has exceeded the available print supply. IVest toast Bureau of IHti hlLM DAILY Hollywood — Since V-J Day Government and war agency demands on Hollywood Writers Mobilization have greatly increased according to Chairman Emmet Lavery who said his organization of 3,500 writers, educators, directors and producers proposes to stay on the job and finish it. I mU TlfKP COMPANY 154 W. 14th ST. N. Y. C. 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