The Film Daily (1945)

^ US' DAILY Thursday, September 6, 194!; Vol. 88, No. 46 Thurs., Sept. 6, 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 tree) 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, 111., 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, Augusto Compte 5, Mexico, D. F. SAN JUAN — E. Sanchez Ortis. MONTREAL — Ray Carmichael. Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. FinnnciflL ^^^i {Wednesday, Sept. 5) ^^^ NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Am. Seat IS'A 25V^ 25|/4 Col. Plots, vtc. (21/2%) 24'/2 24 241/4 Columbia Picts. pfd. Con. Fm. Ind 47/8 43^ 47/8 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd... 30 297/8 297/8 East. Kodak 182 181 2/4 182 do pfd Gen. Prec. Eq 271/2 271/2 271/2 Loew's, Inc 273^ 271/2 275/8 Paramount 34 33% 34 RKO 1034 103/8 105/8 RKO $6 pfd 1033/i 1033/8 1033/8 20th Century-fox . . . 287/8 283/4 287/8 20th Century-Fox pfd. 36I/4 36I/4 36I/4 20th Century-Fox ppf Universal Pict 253^ 253A 253^ Warner Bros 18 175/8 18 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram I lets 414 4 4 Monogram Plots, pfd. 95/8 95/8 9% Rad:o-Keith cvs. ... 3 23/4 27/8 Sonotone Corp 31/2 3% 33/8 Technicolor 237/8 23 235/8 Trans-Lux Net Chg. — '/4 + Vz + 1 — Va + 1/4 — 1/8 — 1/8 + 1/8 + Va — Va + % — Va + 1/4 Leo Katcher Heads West Leo Katcher, Eastern talent and story head for Walt Disney Productions, leaves for Hollywood tomorrow, for a month of conferences with studio executives on future product and acquisition of new story properties and live talent. EX-NAVY — Good radio and motion picture background. Actor, director, announcer. College graduate, experience: Pasadena, Cleveland playhouse. Student Maria Ouspenskaya — Interested position with future. Write: Servicemen's Box No. 300 THE FILM DAILY, 1501 B'way., N. Y. cominG flno come A. W. SMITH, JR., Eastern sales manager of iOth Century-Fox, is back in the home office, following a tour of exchanges under his supervision. NATE BERNSTEIN, Chicago circuit theater operator, has returned from a M.amI Beach trip. IHIL GRAVITZ, Metro booker, New Haven, is vacationing in Brooklyn. DAVE KAUFMAN, Loew Poli artist. New Haven, Is dude ranching in New York's vicinity. JULES FIELDS, publicity manager of 20th-Fox, IE back in the home orfice from two weeks' .acation spent In New England. VALENTINE WILLIAMS, M-G-M screen writer, returned yesterday from Lcndon after completng an assignment for SIR ALcXANDtR KOKUA, .<no is due to arrive from London Sept. 13. CHARLES K. STERN, Loew's assistant treasurer, will leave for Washington Sept. 14. MARVIN SCHENCK chief talent scout for ,v1-0-M in the tcst, arrived on the Coast yesterday for a br.et stay. JOEL BEZAHLER home office assistant to ;. E. Flynn, M-G-M Western sales manager, is in Chicago en route to Salt Lake City. FRANK ARTICOLA, of the M-G-M sales juditing depaitment, has arrived from Chicago. GEORGE McKENNA and CHARLES WRIGHT jt tiie oasil ciicuit in Bufra.o were .n town ycslerday conferring with E. K. O'Shea, Easrern ..aies manager tor M 0-M. N. BERNARD FREEMAN, general manager for M-C-M in Australia and Nerf Zealand, ar.ived here yesterday via tne Coast for home jitice conferences. H.;NkY LARTICUE, M-C-M's managing director in France, due last week, has delayed his drrival until ihe middle of the month. LOU HOLTZ is expected to arrive here today from the Coast. BiLLY WlLuER has left London en route to Hollywood and iS scheduled to arrive there next week. LEON BRITTON, RKO Radio's manager for Argentina, leaves Buenos Aires tomorrow via ^.ane for New York for home office conferences with Phil Reisman. E. T. GOMERSALL, assistant general sales manager of Universal, left for Detroit yesterJay, returning to the home office on Monday. W. STEWART McDonald, WB's assistant treasurer, is due back in New York next weekend from Coast conferences with Harry M. Warner. HERBERT PICKMAN, Warners' field rep., arrived in New York yesterday to work out of the iiome office. ROY HAINES, Western and Southern division iales manager for Warners, is back from a Mid.vest exchange tour. JOAN CRAWfORD arrives in New York from .he Coast at the end of the month. JOHN M0OJ?E, Paramount exchange manager, Aew Haven, spent a few days at Buzzard's Bay. JACK DAVIS, Republic district manager, is in New Haven for two days. NORMAN ELSON, vice-president of Trans-ux Theaters Corp., goes to Washington today, returning to town Saturday. ERNcST PELSON, 20th-Fox auditor, is a Vancouver, B. C., visitor. BILL JONES, RKO Vancouver manager, and ECClE DODD'ERICH, Calgary manager, are .leading for Montieal to attend the Canadian jaies meeting. CHARLES S. CHAPLIN, newly appointed UA .anadian general manager, is in Vancouver conferr.ng with Harry Wolfte. I. COHEN, formerly manager for M-C-M in I'he Philippines and who came to the U. S. as an exchange prisoner on tne Gripsholm, is now ■ n Detroit vis ting relatives preliminary to his .eturn to the Philippines. HA.^ HADLEY and MRS. HADLEY left here for a two-week's trip to Boston. C. MERWIN TRAVIS, MPSA exec, secretarytreasuier, left the Coast by plane yesterday for Washington and New York. Local 110 Would Strike Suit Brought by Parker Chicago — Operators' Union Local 110 has filed a motion to strike the case of Ray Parker who is suing in Superior Court for his reinstatement into the local and for a reversal of the action of the local which fined Parker an amount equal to the cost of a union hearing, and suspended him for a year. Union has also filed an answer to the cross bill filed by Ora D. Begg, secretary-treasurer of the local. Union's answer holds that Begg's cross bill does not state a cause for action, that the court has no jurisdiction, and that there was no conspiracy on the part of union officers. Increases in union officers' salaries were said to have been voted at a regular meeting of the organization and approved by all members voting including the secretary-treasurer. British MOI Reviewed 36,000 Pix During War London (By Cable)— Over 36,000 motion pictures were reviewed by the Ministry of Information during the war years, according to the last report on security film censorship, issued yesterday. Local 306, Companies in "Better Understanding" A "better understanding" regarding what both sides want was reported to have been reached on Tuesday at a conference seeking the resumption of negotiations between Local 306 and the film companies for contracts for circuit operators and those engaged at home offices, exchanges and local studios. The demands of the union and counter-proposals of the companies were submitted to analysis at the meeting, the second between both parties at which Richard F. Walsh, lATSE head, was present as arbiter. Another meeting is scheduled to be held in a few days. Picket 27 L. A. Theaters; Union Rep. Coming to N. Y. West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Roger McDonald, a member of the Screen Set Designers' Local 1421, is en route to New York to organize Eastern theater picketing. Other picket co-ordinators will be sent up the Coast and into the Northwest to supervise picketing of theaters. Conference of Studio Unions reports that 27 theaters in the Los Angeles area were picketed Tuesday night. ]V. Y. THEATERS -WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO "p^E'-A'TL'^ri!," TECHNICOLOR Dis'rlbuted by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. 3rd SMASH DCPffDf If B'WAY , WEEK KCrUDLH^ at5lstSt.| RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Showplace of the Nation Rockefeller Center EDWARD G. ROBINSON MARGARET O'BRIEN "OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES" with Jacke "BUTCH" Jenkins A Metro-Coldwyn-Mayer Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION Paramount oresonts ED GARDNER'S "DUFFY'S TAVERN" Featuring 32 Hollywood Stars IN PERSON The Andrews Sisters • Tim Herbert VIC SHOEN And His Recording Orchestra pAMMOUAfT Danny Kaye in "Wonder Man" in Technicolor .4ST0R B'way & 49 St. • Continuous m Popular Pric0$ M]n£ B'WAY & 47th St. Gary Cooper Loretta Young "ALONG CAME JONES" INTERNATIONAL PICTURE Released by RKO ON SCREEN JAMES SYLVIA SIDNEY 'BLOOD ON THE SUN' IN PERSON EOSyLLIHN HARVEST MOON OINC£ WINNERS R I VOL I i Open 9;30 A, M; Dana Jeanne Dick Vivian ANDREWS CRAIN HAYMES BLAINE RODGERS and HAMMERSTEIN'S "STATE FAIR" A 20th Century-Fox Picture in Technicolor PLUS ON STAGE— CONNEE BOSWELL CONDOS BROS. Extra! GENE SHELDON BUY MORE R O X Y ^*^ '^''^' ^ BONDS 50th St.