The Film Daily (1945)

^ DAILY Tuesday, September 4, 1' IHE NCflSBlPai OF niMCOMi .AUTIIINtHS Vr^^W^DAILY " Vol. 88, No. 44 Tues., Sept. 4, 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 Holiday.? 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, 9-7ia0, 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, III., 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. Schnitzel' Named to Head UA's Sears Sales Drive cominc flno coma B. C. DeSYLVA, Paramount producer, is expected to arrive here today with MRS. DeSYLVA from the West Coast. COL. JAMES STEWART, former M-C-M player, arrived here Friday from Europe on the Queen Elizabeth. NATALIE KALMUS leaves Thursday for England on Technicolor expansion moves abroad. She will be accompanied by Kay Harrison, manager of British Technicolor. ALFRED HITCHCOCK arrived here yesterday from the Coast accompanied by MRS. HITCHCOCK and their actress daughter, PATRICIA. The director plans to make tests of Broadway players for forthcoming production of RKO Radio's "Notorious." BURGESS MEREDITH, star of UA's "Story of G. I. Joe," will arrive in New York iFriday from Hollywood to participate in a buildup for the film's premiere at the Gotham and Globe on Broadway. WILLIAM FERGUSON, M-C-M exploitation manager, gets back from Boston today. RUSSELL STEWART, of the M-G-M publicity department, is due back at his desk today from a vacation. RODNEY BUSH, exploitation manager of 20thFox, and EARL WINCART, a member of his staff, are back from Des Moines. ALLAN JONES and his wife, IRENE HERVEY, left for the Coast at the week-end upon their return from a seven-weeks overseas tour for USO-Camp Shows. AL BONDY returned at the week-end from a New England booking trip. IRVING YERCIN arrived in New York from the Coast to initiate a special advertising-publicity campaign on RKO-lnternational's "Tomorrow Is Forever." HAROLD ZELTNER, salesman for M-G-M in Pittsburgh, will return home today after a week's vacation in New York. FRED L. SHEETS, formerly with Essaness Woods theater, Chicago, now with the U. S. Marines, first division, is spending a dO-day leave there with his mother. Dut(h Slill Hamper Distribs.— Silverstone (Continued from Page 1) ager, revealed. Following his appointment, Schnitzer said that standings for the first month of the drive, which started Aug. 4 and continues through the year, will be announced this week. Schnitzer is working on an itinerary which will take him to the UA exchanges throughout the country. Daily Drive bulletins will be sent to all UA branch managers and standings will be announced every two weeks for the rest of the drive, Schnitzer said. Final details of the prize distribution were worked out last week, following Leserman's return from Hollywood, at a meeting attended by J. J. Unger, Western sales manager Harry L. Gold, Eastern sales manager, and Fred M. Jack, Southern sales manager. Promotional material is being prepared by Barry Buchanan, advertising-publicity director, and will be sent to exchanges at regular intervals. (Continued from Page 1) Urges of the Netherlands Association' of Cinema Owners that there are absolutely no restrictions on the importation of American motion pictures now that the royal decree requiring a license has become invalid. Silverstone pointed out there is a big difference between allowing pictures to be imported into Holland and making it possible for them to be shown. Urges had gone on to say that by making large amounts of foreign exchange available for the purchase of films abroad the Netherlands government had removed the main drawback to a more extensive importation of American films. Screen Guild Will Pick Sales Chief at Parley REEVES SOUND STUDIOS, INC. Production plans, distribution methods and the selection of a general sales manager will be discussed at a three-day meeting of Screen Guild Productions, Inc., stock-franchise holders, to be held at the Park Central Hotel, Sept. 20-22, John J. Jones, president, revealed Friday. Those expected to attend include Jones; John W. Mangham, Robert L. Lippert and Arthur Lockwood, vice-presidents; M. S. Schulter, treasurer; John L. Franconi, secretary, and Jack Engel, J. F. White, Jr. and Bert Stearn, directors. U. S. Takes Hand in Czech Film Impasse (Continued from Page 1) plans call for complete nationization of distribution and what little production there is, but no quota system or other discriminatory regulations have been set up. No formal discussion concerning the handling of our pix has yet been held. The Department has also queried Rome concerning the final approval of the new regulations concerning pix imports into Italy. The policy awaiting final Government approval there is described as eminently satisfactory but final publication has been held up pending Government clearances. The wire does not indicate that the Department is apprehensive, Francis C. Dewit, State Department Tele Communications chief, said Friday. First Ruggles British Feature Starts Friday London (By Cable) — Productioi Wesley Ruggles' initial feature England will start Friday at So; City, Shepperton, the producer-di; tor revealed Friday. Picture will a Technicolor musical, "Lon Town." Production at Sound City ma the first industry use of the pi since it was taken over by the Ministry at the start of the v Studio has been badly blitzed there is sufficient stage space av able for the Ruggles production NEW YORK THEATERS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 50th Street and Sixth Avenue Irene DUNNE Alexander KNOX • Charles COBUR 'OVER 21" A Columbia Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION American distributors have indicated they will refuse to do business with the recently established Czech State Film Monopoly. Meanwhile, the Czechs have signed an agreement with the Soviets which gives the Russians 60 per cent of available Czech playing time. BETTY HUTTON • ARTURO DE CORDOV. in Paramount's "INCENDIARY BLONDE ■ n Technicolor IN PERSON "The Hour of Charm" ALL-GIRL ORG Under the Direction of PHIL SPITALNY P4PAMOU/^r ■'■' I Somuel Goldwyn HannY Kaye in "Wonder Man" in Technicolor .4ST0I B'way & 45 I Continutn Popular ' Prieat * Para, to Spend Million To Pre-Sell Four Aces 1600 BROADWAf, N. Y. Complete Film and Disc Recording Facilities Lt. Com. Zukor Out of Navy Released from active duty, Lt. Comdr. Eugene Zukor, son of Adolph Zukor, on Friday left Washington for his home in Hollywood, where he will resume his duties at Paramount as an associate producer, a post he left after Pearl Harbor to enlist in the Navy. Advertising and promotion campaigns to pre-sell four top Paramount attractions have been budgeted at more than $1,000,000, it was announced Friday. Drives will be put behind "Incendiary Blonde," "Love Letters," "You Came Along" and "The Lost Week-end." Campaigns include national magazine advertising and extensive radio and newspaper co-operative advertising. Magazine advertising breaking in this month and last calls attention to the company's One Third of a Century anniversary. MM BWAY 47th SI Gary Cooper Loretta Young "ALONG CAME JONES' INTERNATIONAL PICTURE Released by RKO ON SCREEN NEW ADVENTURES OF THE BLIND DETECTIVE! FIRST N. Y. SHOWING M-G-M's 'THE HIDDEN EYE' ^ with EDWARD ARNOLD IN PERSON OTHER BIG ACTS _ 305E?5l ' ^"r J..,llOI k So^?f\>No^^'*^'" aucrto" aif"' RIVOl Open 9.30 A. M ^.ci'way «. ■>'><h