The Film Daily (1945)

1N|i DAILY Friday, August 31, 194; Vol. 88, No. 43 Fri., Aug. 31, 1945 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : : : : Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate Publlshsr and General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Editor Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays at 1501 Broadway, New York IS, 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 cla.<:s 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, 9-7ia0, 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. Film Background Music Courses in Hunter College The evening and extension division of Hunter College will give two courses on background music for motion pictures starting Sept. 18, becoming what is believed to be the first college to make the subject part of its curriculum. The courses will be known as "Background Music for Plays and Motion Pictures" and "Film Music Appreciation: Critical Survey." Mortimer Browning, authority on background music, will conduct the courses. Sentencing of Zevin Postponed to Sept. 20 nnnnciflL ; (^Thursday, August 30) ^^^^ NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net Low Close Chg. 25 253/4 -4 1/2 237/8 237/8 -f 3/8 High 253/4 237/8 43/4 30V2 813/4 1 Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (21/2%) Columbia Picts. pfd. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. . East. Kodak 1 do pfd Cen. Prec. Eq 273^ Loew's, Inc 271/2 Paramount 33iA RKO 101/2 RKO $6 pfd 1033/8 1 20th Century-Fox . . . 28% 20th Century-Fox pfd. 36 20th Century-Fox ppf Universal Pict ISV'i Warner Bros 177/8 NEW YORK CURB Monogram Picts. . . 414 Radio-Keith cvs. . . . 2% Sonotone Corp 31/2 Technicolor 22% Trans-Lux 43y4 41/2 41/2 — 1/2 291/4 291/4 — 1 1/4 803/4 181 34 + 11/4 273/4 273/4 271/8 271/2 + 1/2 33 331/8 97/8 101/2 + Vb 001/2 1033/8 + 31/8 281/4 28% + 3/8 36 36 -1 1/4 251/4 251/4 -f'" 1/8 17% 177/8 -1 1/2 MARKET 41/8 41/8 — 1/8 2% + 1/4 31/2 + Vs 223/8 + 13/8 43/4 21/4 3'/2 21 43/4 Goldwyn Denies He's Investing in Television West Coast Bureau of THE FILM VAILV Hollywood — Samuel Goldwyn denies a published New York report that he is investing heavily in television. Albany TroUey Strike Ends Albany — The Albany-Troy trolley strike was settled yesterday and service resumed. Employees get the back pay awarded by the WLB. Theaters Wednesday suffered only nominal loss, patronage being equivalent to that on a bad rainy day. The sentencing of Isadore Zevin, former secretary to George E. Browne, one-time president of the lATSE, was postponed yesterday by Federal Judge J. Waties Waring until Sept. 20. Zevin was indicted for giving false testimony to a special Federal grand jury investigating the disappearance of a $1,000,000 special assessment fund collected from members of the lATSE during the Browne regime. Walters Leaving NTSC To Start Own Business Cleveland — Effective Sept. 15, Lou H. Walters leaves National Theatre Supply which he joined in 1926, to open his own theater supply business in another territory. Walters has been in the theater supply business for 35 years. Recently he had been appointed manager in charge of the Drive-In Division of National Theatre Supply Co. He has been manager of the Cleveland office for 10 years. Details of his new enterprise will shortly be announced. Newsreel Editors Back From War Tour Tuesday The newsreel editors, who left here Aug. 3 for Europe on a month's tour of inspection, are expected to return Tuesday, it was reported yesterday. The group includes Al Richards, Paramount; Walton Anient, Pathe; Thomas Mead, Universal; Edmund C. Reek, Fox Movietone; Michael Clofine, M-G-M's News-of-the-Day; and Richard De Rochemont, March of Time. Films With "Message" To Be Debated on Air Question "Should Hollywood Make Movies Designed to Influence Public Opinion?," will be debated Sept. 6 over WJZ on the "America's Town Meeting" network broadcast. Constance Bennett and Robert Riskin will argue for the affirmative, while Ben Hecht and Donald Crisp will take the other side. Army Analyzes Chemicals To "Break" Color Process Army Signal Corps technicians are studying a German print made with a new color process and analyzing various captured chemicals in an effort to work out the method employed. Film, titled "Lady of My Dreams," was produced by Ufa in 1942 and is believed to have been shot in a manner similar to black and white film and printed in a process somewhat similar to Technicolor. GE to Start Tele Set Production After Oct. 1 Bridgeport, Conn. — 'Production of television and FM receivers will be started by General Electric soon after Oct. 1, L J. Kaar, manager of the receiver division, announced. Tele sets, to be available some months later, will range from directview receivers to large screen jobs. 20th-Fox Not Reviving "Mr. Moto" Film Series West toast Bureau of THt. FILM iUAlLY Hollywood — Representatives of 20th-Fox denied published reports that the studio is making plans to resume production of the "Mr. Moto" series, dropped as a result of the Jap angle during the war. COminC and Goinc CHARLES SKOURAS, head of National The aters, got in from the Coast yesterday. WILL HAYS leaves the Coast today for Nei York. LAURITZ MELCHIOR, Metropolitan Opera ten or, will leave the United States next month fi revisit his native Denmark. LEOPOLD STOKOWSKl and his wife, t« former GLORIA VANDERBILT de CICCO, ar planning to leave the Coast within two weel< for a delayed wedding trip to South America. AL FINESTONE is en route to the Wes Coast from New York to take up his new dutie in the Paramount studio publicity department. ALFRED W. SCHWALBERC, International Pic tures' general sales manager, returned to He\ York from Hollywood following conferences wit William Coetz and Leo Spitz on their forth coming RKO release, "Tomorrow Is Forever." Legion of Honor for Richard de Rochemont Richard de Rochemont of Marcl of Time has been made an Officer o: the Legion of Honor for his service: to France. The honor was bestowe< upon him at a dinner given for hin in Paris by the France Forever So ciety, of which he is the national president in the United States. BIGGEST! THE BIGGESTi ^ .... -.^.^w.*,. 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