The Film Daily (1945)

! 14 WSb Thursday, August 30, 1945 U. S. Distribs. Nix Spanish Proposals (Cont-inued from Page 1) able" by the U. S. distributors, it was learned yesterday. Fayette Allport, of the MPPDA, is reported en route to Madrid for conferences both with the American Embassy and with Spanish Government officials. The U. S. distribs., it is understood, will ask for at least double the 80 permits in counter proposals now being formulated. St. Louis Newspaper Strike Fails to iieduce Crosses St. Louis — Theaters have been little attected by the death of newspaper aavertismg because of the snucaown of three newspapers due CO a strike of paper carriers. One lactor appears to he the practice of ot. Louis raaio stations which run cnrough lists of theaters and their actraccions as a puhlic service. An maication oi how little the striKe has airected theater attendance IS the record of "I'hriil of a Komance" at Lioew's State which in its xourth weeK has played to more people than any attraction in theacer's history with the exception of Gone With the Wind." Chi. Operators, Exhibs. Agree on 3Year Pact (ConHnued from Page 1) year, 2% per cent the second year, and 2% per cent the third year. Theaters seating from 300 to 400 will have a base wage of $2; 401 to 500, base is $2.10; 501 to 650, base is $2.20; 651 to 750, $2.25; 751 to 900, $2.30; 901 to 1,150, $2.40; 1,151 to 1,400, $2.50; 1,401 to 1,650, $2.60; 1,651 to 1,900, $2.70; 1,901 to 2,200, $3.00; 2,201 to 2,500, $3.25. Pay rate for Schoenstadt's, Halfield and Brighton Theaters, Warners Symphony Theater, Essaness Circuit and Joy Theaters and Jack Kirsch's theaters will be settled at a later conferences. The new agreement covers all types of film, including television programs. Sam Myers, North Shore Theaters; Frank Phelps, Warner Theaters; Morris Leonard for Balaban & Katz Circuit; Eddie Silverman, Essaness Circuit; Frank Smith, RKO Theaters; Arthur Schoenstadt of the Schoenstadt Circuit, Jack Kirsch of Illinois Allied Theaters signed for the owners; Eugene Atkinson, business agent, and Dan Carmell, attorney, for the operators. Illinois Allied Theaters members will meet this afternoon to confirm the new agreement. Maj. Stevens Tells Uses pi Aerial Photography iVashitigton Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Aerial photography was described by Maj. Lewis J. Stevens of the Plans and Policies Staff of the Air Corps Intelligence as the primary source of up-to-the-minute strategic and tactical information in a' |alk before the Washington Visual ■War Workers here yesterday. TO THE COLORS! * PROMOTED • CAPT. ROBERT BLOTCKY, son of Benjamin Blotcky, Paramount's Minneapolis branch manager, to Major in the Philippines. Interstate Uses TAadio in 6'. A. JSewspaper {Strike San Antonio — As a result of a newspaper strike caused when members ot the aan Antonio Typographical Union walked out of tne composing rooms of the three local dames, one Interstate Circuit here has increased its announcement schedule xor its local theaters on the local radio stations. Theater officials reported no depreciable drop in attendance as yet. Seattle Attendance Holds; rixhibs. Expect Steady Biz Seattle — Attendance in Seattle theaters has shown no decrease since v'-J Day and prospects in the labor situation here are such that exhibitors believe the present steady business will be maintained for a long time to come. Boeing has shut down its No. 2 plant at Ronton, where 20,000 were employed and is gradually shaving down its force in the No. 1 plant from 40,000. It reports that it will continue a force of 15,000 or more m that plant. Local shipyards have laid off some men, but the heavy repair jobs will employ large forces at these plans for two years or more. The Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton is expected to continue its force of 30,000 men for at least five years, iron foundries are turning to postwar work and the demand from other lines of business and industry ^^e absorbing rapidly the labor turnover. The Port of Embarkation on tKe waterfront continues its usual force and heavy shipments to the Orient will require hundreds of longshoremen and warehousemen. Loews Movie Guide Now Spends $400,000 Annually Loew's Movie Guide, daily newspaper directory of the whole Loew New York circuit, marks its fifth anniversary this month. Close to 100,000 lines of space per year, per paper, are used by the Guide, originated by Oscar A, Doob, at an approximate cost of $400,000 a year. Other distributors have become regular contributors to the budget, cooperating in the extensive neighborhood theater advertising campaign. European Technicians Federation Proposed London (By Cable) — Formation of a Federation of turopean Film Technicians IS seen as a possible result of the visit of British technicians to Paris. Anthony Asquith, presioent, and laeorge tivin, general secretary of ACl represent the British in discussions on the formation of a joint l-rencn-Uritish film technicians' commitree to be extended into the Federation. 3,632 Pix Cos. in '42 Had $i,;}U2,566.UU0 Assets Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Total assets of $1,302,556,000 were reported for the year 1942 by 3,632 pix firms, according to figures released this morning hy Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson. Of the firms reported, 2,559 claimed net profits for 1942 and 1,073 no net income for that year. Assets of those claiming profits amounted to $1,228,715,000. Receipts for the year were almost as great, with the companies reporting net income, listing total receipts ot $1,119,435 and the other 1,073 companies reporting receipts of $73,150,UOO. Gross receipts from operations m 194^ were better than $1,100,000,OOO, with the companies reporting profits showing a total $1,035,487 and the others reporting receipts of $65,113,000. Cost of operations exclusive of salaries, rents, maintenance, taxes, depreciation, etc., was listed as $561,008,000 for the companies showing profits and as $34,819,000 for the other companies reporting. Total deductions listed were $949,292,000 and $77,643,000 respectively. Capital assets were shown as better than $307,000,000 with land listed separately as worth better than $170,000,000. GSS Producing Despite Strike Order West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Although the Conference of Studio Unions ordered its members to strike at the General Service Studios when the plant refused to rehire a plumber who carried an A F of L card and had refused to carry membership in the lATSE, production continued yesterday on Edward Golden's "Tom Brenneman's Breakfast in Hollywood" and Benedict Bogeaus' "Diary of a Chambermaid." "Breakfast" pic is using 120 extras and although the Screen Players Union ordered its members to leave the set. Golden reported that his unit had no trouble in filling the ranks of the missing extras. "Diary" pic will be complete Saturday. Both units filled crew vacancies with lA members. CSU reported that nine publicity men, 47 carpenters, five painters, five designers and decorators and 10 building service men walked out and are observing picket lines at General Service Studios. Metro Now Editing 10, With 11 More in Work West Coast Bureau of THE tlLM 'DAILY Hollywood — M-G-M has 11 productions in work, and 10 in the final stages of editing, according to a checkup. The 11 before the cameras at the present time are: "Bad Bascomb," "The Big Shore Leave," "Boy's Ranch," "The Green Years," "Holiday in Mexico," ''The Hoodlum Saint," "The Postman Always Rings Twice," "Two Sisters from Boston," "Up Goes M a i s i e , " "What Next, Corporal Hargrove," and "The Yearling," in Technicolor. Now in the final editing stagey are "Early to Wed," in Technicolor, "The Great Morgan," "The Harvey Girls," in Technicolor, "Hold High the Torch," in Technicolor, "A Letter for Evie," "The Sailor Takes a Wife," "She Went to the Races," ."They Were Expendable," "Yolanda and thfe Thief" in Technicolor, and a new finale ending for "Ziegfeld I^ollies," N. Y. Cartoonists Guild Ready for Picketing The Screen Cartoonists Guild, Local 1461, International Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and. Paperhangers of America, is prepared if necessary to picket film houses in this city out of sympathy with the studio strike, it was disclosed yesterday by Pepe Ruiz, its business agent. The Guild has offered its assistance to Herbert Sorrell, head of the Conference of Studio Unions, which called the 25-week-old walkout, said Ruiz, who added that his union was awaiting word from the Coast on the offer of help. Ruiz said the Screen Cartoonists Guild was "backing the strike 100 per cent" and intended to do all it could to help the cause of the members of the craft who are on strike. The Conference unions are affiliated with the painters' international. As far as could be learned yesterday District Council No. 9 of the painters was also awaiting word on a proposal to picket theaters here. CSU Orders NSS to Cease "Unfair Pictures" Trailers West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — The Conference of Studio Unions late yesterday ordered National Screen Service to cease making trailers advertising "unfair pictures." National Screen has until tomorrow evening to give its answer. Al Adler with Cummings Alfred Adler, recently returned service man, will handle all M-G-M correspondence on home office prints for transfer to exchanges. He will work under the supervision of Alan F. Cummings, in charge of exchange operations and maintenance.