The Film Daily (1945)

:^ &&ILY Thursday, September 13, 1945 AuniiNiws AlLTHEHMt Of niMDOM^^WBIft*"^^ Vol. 88, No. 51 Thurs., Sept. 13, 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 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. comiDG flno GOinG Representatives: HOLLYWOOD, 28, Calif. —Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Phom Granite 6607. WASHINGTON— Andrew H. Older, 5516 Carolina Place, N. W., Phone Ordway 9221; CHICAGO, 45, 111., Joseph Esler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briar gate 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 JUAM — E. Sanchez Ortis. MONTREAI^-Ray Carmichael. Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. finflnciflL (Wednesday, Sept. 12) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat iOVi 29Vl 301/8 + Wa Col. Picts. vtc. (21/2%) 24'/2 24 241/2 + % Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind 4% 41/2 41/2 Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. SOS/g 30 301/8 East. Kodak 194 191 193 +3 do pfd Cen. Prec. Eq 293/8 29 29 — 1/4 Loew's, Inc 275/8 271/4 271/2+ Vs Paramount 35% 343/8 351/4 + 3/4 RKO 103/4 101/2 105/8— Va RKO $6 pfd 1033/8 103 1033/8 20th Century-Fox . . . 2934 29 293^ + Vi 20th Century-Fox pfd. 37 36 37 -| 1 20th Century-Fox ppf.1051/2 IO51/2 IO51/2 + ZVa Universal Pict 261/4 26 26I/4 + 14 Warner Bros 18 173^ 18 + 1/2 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. . . . 4i/8 4 41/3 + 14 Monogram Picts. pfd. 93/8 93/8 93/3 — Vs Radio-Keith cvs. ... 3 23^ 3 + V4 Sonotone Corp 31/2 33/8 33/8 Technicolor 2314 221/2 23 Trans-Lux 53/8 5 53/8 -| a/g E. K. O'SHEA, M-C-M Eastern sales manager, has been compelled to postpone his trip to Boston, due to a recurrence of an old illness. MIKE SIMONS, editor of Lo and the Distributor, left yesterday for Cleveland, Columbus and Indianapolis. ROY ROGERS and wife, JOAN BENNETT and WALTER WANCER, MRS, MYRON SELZNICK, FRANK MORGAN and wife were Chicago visitors. BURGESS MEREDITH left for Chicago yesterday and will return here with his wife, PAULETTE GODDARD, for several months stay. RUTH HUSSEY arrived from the Coast to start rehearsals for the iBroadway production, "I'd Rather Be Left." MONDAS METCALF, screen actress, returned from a USO tour of England and France, and delivered a talk on the "foxhole circuit" at Hadley, Mass. yesterday. GLADYS ROCKS, now managing National Theatre Supply, New Haven office, is vacationing at Otis Lake, Mass. MARVIN SCHENCK, Eastern talent head for M-G-M, returns from a Coast visit next Wednesday. CHARLES K. STERN, assistant treasurer for Loew's, leaves Friday for Washington, returning here Monday. MORTON van PRAAG, of Supreme Pictures Exchange, Chicago, is a New York visitor. JOEL BEZAHLER, home office assistant to J. E. Flynn, Western sales manager with headquarters in Chicago, is now visiting the Salt Lake City office pinchhitting for Carl Nedley, branch manager, on vacation. Bezahler will visit the Denver off.ce before returning to New York. ART MOGER, GEORGE BANNON, GEORGE FISHMAN, I. Q. CROSS, ED SCHOEN, and IRA EPSTEIN, all Warner field publicists, left their headquarters yesterday to go to Cloversville, N. Y., Oklahoma City, Bethlehem, Pa., Cleveland, Marion, 0., and Louisville respectively on "Rhapsody in Blue" campaigns. JACK LEEWOOD is in Portland to launch Warner's "Christmas In Connecticut" through rhat territory. RKO Takes Calif. Studio Space; CSU Pickets It Hollywood — With RKO taking a 60-day lease on California Studio space, the California plant was listed as unfair by CSU and a picket line was established at the studio. X. Y. THEATERS Paul Nathanson Ordered to Take Complete Rest F. J. Harris Seriously 111 Pittsburgh — Prank J. Harris, president of the Harris Amusement Co., is seriously ill at the Mercy Hospital here. ART FOR ADVERTISING 165 WEST 46th ST. N. V. C. PHO: BRokt 9-4153-4 Toronto — Paul Nathanson, copartner with J. Arthur Rank in Odeon Theaters of Canada, has been directed by his physician to take a complete rest, it was announced at Odeon's first national convention here yesterday. Tom Bragg, vicepresident, is presiding in Nathanson's absence. All phases of circuit operation are being discussed at the parley. It was said yesterday that the manpower situation within the chain was considered satisfactory to meet coming needs but there was no elaboration of that statement nor was there any announcement of the circuit's construction plans. Schenck and Rodgers Off to Coast Sept. 21 Nicholas M. Schenck, president of Loew's and M-G-M, is scheduled to head for the Coast Sept. 21, on his periodic visit to the company's studios. He will be accompanied by William F. Rodgers, vice-president and general sales manager, who is also making one of his regular trips West. Wausau, Wis„ Theater Seeks Clearance Relief Zabin Joins Posner as V.-P. James B. Zabin, who recently resigned as general manager of Cinema Circuit, is now associated with the Posner Advertising Agency, as vice-president. Zabin was formerly on the executive staffs of Grey Advertising Agency and Buchanan and Co. He is co-author of "Understanding Advertising" and a past vicepresident of Ampa. Available Soon Young lady with exceptional background in motion picture industry desires position with major company or major company producer. Qualified as personal representative of producer or as executive secretary to top executive. Salary expected, $75.00 per week. BOX 500, FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, N. Y. 18. A clearance complaint against the five consenting companies and a some run complaint against 20th Century-Fox alone have been filed in the Milwaukee tribunal by Sheldon Grengs, operating the Hollywood Theater, Wausau, Wis. Complainant charges that his contracts call for no clearance but can play product only when available. It is claimed that the Hollywood is forced to play product ranging from 90 up to 180 days after first-run Wausau. He asks that the Hollywood be given the right to play 21 days after first-run. Grengs further charges that 20thFox has refused to license product to the Hollywood on terms and conditions not calculated to defeat the purpose of Section VI of the New York consent decree. McElhinney of 20lh-Fox Safe Joseph McElhinney, 20th CenturyFox International manager in Singapore when Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japs, is safe, according to a cable be sent to Murray Silverstone. McElhinney, who was held in a Jap concentration camp in Singapore, is now in Bombay, and will leave shortly for New York. WANTED — MOTION PICTURE LETTERER AND ARTIST Mediocre men need not apply. Must be fast and good. Good salory. Write: BOX 400 THE FILM DAILY 1501 Broadway, New York RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Showplace of the Nation > Rockefeller Center EDWARD G. 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