The Film Daily (1945)

Wednesday, September 5, 19^ Vol.88, No. 45 Wed., Sept. 5, 1945 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate Publisher and General Manager CHESTER B. BAHN :::::: Edtor 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, El., Joseph Esler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briargate 7441. . LONDON — Ernest W. Fred man, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardoui St., W. I. HAVANA— Mary Louise Blanco. Virtudes 214. MOSCOW— Raymond Davies, Hotel Metropole. HONOLULU— Mrs. Annabel Damon. MEXICO CITY — Arthur Geiger, Augu^to Compte 5, Mexico, D. F. SAN JUAN — E. Sanchez Ortis. MONTREAL— Ray Carraichael. Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. nnflnciRL (Tuesday, Sept. 4) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. 253/4 25 251/2 + 1/4 241/4 237/8 241/4 -f 1/2 43/4 301/2 821/4 1 Am. Seat Col. Plots, vtc. (21/2%) Columbia Ticts. pfd.. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. East., Kodak 1 do pfd Cen. Prec. Eq 28 Loew's, Inc 277/s Paramount 33% RKO 10% RKO $6 pfd 1031/2 1 20rh Century-Fox . . . 28% 20th Century-Fox pfd. 36I/4 20th Century-Fox ppf Universal Pict 25% Warner Bros I8I/4 NEW YORK CURB Monogram Picts. . . . 41/3 Monogram Plots, pfd. .... Radio-Keith cvs. ... 3 Sonotone Corp 31/^ Technicolor 231/2 I rans-Lux 43/4 45/8 43/4 + Vs 29% 297/8 — 5/8 81 181 — 1/2 271/2 271/2 — 3/4 271/4 2734 331/4 3334 + 1/4 10% 103/4 02 1031/2 + l/s 2834 2334 — i/s 35% 361/4 + 1/2 251/, 25% +■'% 177/8 18 MARKET 41/8 4% Co-op. Theaters on Coast To Serve 50-75 Houses 27/8 3 33/8 33/8 — , % 225/8 233/8 .+ 7/„ 41/2 41/2 — V4' British Complete Pix For Germany, Austria London (By Cable) — Special British features for distribution in Germany and Austria have been completed, it was learned yesterday. West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Co-operative Theaters, Inc., which was recently formed with a capitalization of $500,000 and which will be chiefly a booking combine, expects to service between 50 and 75 theaters. Although three of its four temporary officers, vicepresident George Diamos of Tucson, Secretary, T. E. Tobin and Treasurer Stanley Steck of Los Angeles, are members of the board of directors of ITO of Southern California and Arizona, it is pointed out Co-operative has no connection with ITO. In addition to booking Co-operative plans a central employment service and may eventually acquire theaters. Oriental as First-Run Won't End Product Jam Toronto Educators Want "More Suitable" Juve Pix Toronto — More suitable films for juvenile consumption at Saturday matinee shows will be sought at a conference with film distributors and officers of theater associations which has been asked for by the Toronto Board of Education, which has appointed a committee to meet with representatives of the Canadian film industry. . ' The agitation started with the recent engagement of "Dillinger" at a Toronto first-run theater. Chicago • — Opening of the Loop Oriental Theater with first-run United Artists product is not expected to relieve Chicago's product jam. Under the deal, theater opens with an extended run of "The Story of G. I. Joe." Meanwhile "Incendiary B 1 o n d.e" has gone into a fourth week at the Chicago Theater. "Along Came Jones" is in its fifth week at the RKO Palace and will shift over to the Grand for more Loop time. "Valley of Decision" is in its fourth week at the State Lake, while "A Bell for Adano" moves over from the Roosevelt to the Garrick for a second Loop run. "Wonder Man" at the Woods, is about to go into its tenth week. Natalie Kalmus to Europe On Expansion Moves Bill Peirce Resigning As Cowan Adv. Head West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Los Angeles — Bill Peirce, director of publicity and advertising for Lester Cowan Productions, Inc., has resigned, effective at the termination of his contract Sept. 20. Meamvhile, Peirce will put the finishing tbuches on "G. I. Joe" campaign. Peirce has plans which he will announce later. No successor has been named to his job. Six More Pix Fill Para.'s 1945 Production Schedule West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Paramount's policy of carefully planned production is continuing without interruption in transition from the war period to the post-war period. Plans for balance of 1945 production schedule call for six features to start by Oct. 1. Three pictures are now in production. West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Natalie Kalmus, Technicolor color director, leaves for England tomorrow and will be accompanied by Kay Harrison, manager of British Technicolor. Harrison has been in Hollywood for the past month on matters involving expansion of the British plant. Mrs. Kalmus, with Harrison, will be engaged with problems of expansion abroad, particularly pertaining to color control, and it is expected the work they will undertake will be in progress for more than a year. Walsh Sits as Arbiter In 306-Companies Dispute Another conference on the resumption of negotiations between Local 306 and the film companies for contracts for circuit operators and those employed at home offices, exchanges and local studios was held yesterday. It was the second meeting between union and employers with Richard F. Walsh, lATSE head, sitting in as arbiter. The negotiations were halted when an impasse was reached. The contracts between the employers and Local 306 expired on Friday. PRC Board May Name New Prexy Tomorrow A meeting of PRC's board of directors has been reported scheduled for tomorrow at which time a successor to Leon Fromkess as president, as well as other new executives, are expected to be named. Ralph Stilt Under Knife Ralph Stitt, 20th-Fox exploiteer, recuperating from an operation at Bridgeport Hospital. Buries New Monogram Manager in Portland West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Moses Buries, formerly with the Monogram exchange in Los Angeles, has been appointed manager of the Portland branch, according to Howard Stubbins, franchise holder for the Pacific Coast. cominc aid GoinG Newsreel Editors Back From Army Tour Abroad The newsreel editors, who left here for Europe on a montli's tour of inspection, returned 'yesterday via Army's Air Transport Command, landing at LaGuardia Field 6:35 p.m. WILL H. HAYS, who arrived from the Coa over the week-end, leaves for Washington t< day. S. BARRET Mccormick, RKO Radio tlirecti of publicity and advertising, is expected back New York tomorrow after a visit with t family in Denver, en route back from the RK i<adio regional sales meeting in Los Angeles. B. C. DeSYLVA, accompanied by MRS. C SYLVA, arrived yesterday in New York to cot far with Paramount home office executives c special releas'ng and exploitation plans. f( "The Stork Club." They will be here for aboi a month. A. J. BALABAN and MRS. iBALABAN ai Chicago visitors from New York. WALTER VINCENT returned to New Yoi yesterday from Maine. MAJ. RECINAiD BAKER, president of Br tain's KRS (distributing organization), is plai nlng to sail from here for England within tw weeks. BETTY HUTTON and her bridegroom, THEO ^ORE S. BRISKIN, left Chicago for a. four-wee honeymoon lii Miami, Fla. The coupte' will the leave for the Coast where Miss Hutton will sta work ori Paramount's "California." BERNARD FREEMAN, Australian executive f M-C-M, is due in Chicago today from the Coas J. ROBERT RUBIN, M-G-M general counse 'eturned yesterday from a vacation at Sara toga.: JACK DONAHUE, M-C-M dance director, h; arrived from the Coast. . ,, DOROTHY DEE, of M-C-M's publicity depart ment, leaves the end of the week on a vacatioi HARRY L. COLD, Eastern sales manager United Artists, is in New Haven. VIVIAN BROWN, publicist for the Loew Theater, R'chmond, Va., is a New York visito COL. JIMMY STEWART is planning to vis Hollywood within two weeks from his home Indiana, Pa. NATALIE SCHAFER, is en route to New Yo from fhe Coast to review possible stage roles forthcoming productions. • T' SHE'PARD TRAUBE has returned here frtjin two-week's vacation in Canada to start hearsals for the road company of "Angel Street SAM KATZMAN arrived in Chicago from tli Coast. ■*?'5 CORP. JOHN DOMBE, of the Brooklawn, F»ii| 'ield, Conn., is at Ft. Devens awaiting relea: on furlough after many months overseas. GERTRUDE TRACY, manager of Loew's Clevi land, is visiting Mollie Steckels, manager of th Palace, Meriden, Conn. A. J. O'KEEFE, Universal's Western sah tianager, arrives in Chicago today from L< Angeles, and returns to New York on Friday. FRED MEYERS, Eastern sales manager fc Universal, left the home office yesterday f( Boston. JACK MclNERNEY, New York Paramount lubl'city chief, returned to his desk yesterd, morning, from Murray Bay, P. Q. 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