The Film Daily (1945)

Thursday, September 13, 1SH5 Kapital Trade In Berger Testimonial ii\'..JniigtoH Bureau of THE FILM 'DAILY Washington — Industry and civic :hai'ity leaders will pay tribute to Rudolph Berger at a Variety Club j testimonial at the Hotel Statler tomorrow. Berger was recently promoted from Washington district sales manager to M-G-M's Southern division sales manager and will headquarter in New Orleans. Taking part in the program will be A 1 V i n Newmeyer, as toastmaster; Morton Thalheimer, Jay imanuel, Sam Galanty, W. F. Rodg'is, John Maloney, John Russell foung, Dan Holland, A. E. Lichtnan and Fred Kogod. Berger was ocal welfare chairman for Variety. Indicating they will be on hand or the festivities in the Congresional Room of the hotel are William ''. Rodgers, vice-president and genral sales manager of M-G-M. RUDOLPH BERGER Irmy Asks Exhibs. Show ap and German Shorts (Continued from Page 1) )roposed to OWI Head Elmer Davis, hat OWI negotiate with the WAC or theatrical release for the two ^rmy films "Know Your Enemy — 'apan," and "Your Job in Germany." ^he showing of these pix, it is beieved, will prove invaluable in acluainting the American people with he importance of the occupation ob. Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of jOs Angeles and the Independent Committee for the Arts and Sciences iiave been working for more than j wo months to get this film out for heatrical showings. It is believed hat Davis has passed Surles' re ; ommendation on to WAC through ; )WI pix chief Taylor Mills. i 'rank Cuphaver Dead Chicago — Frank Cuphaver, veteran lember of the Chicago operators' nion, is dead. Burial was in Melorial Park Cemetery. SERD BIRTHDflV GREETinCSTO: September 13 Jesse L. Lasky Lynn Carver Claudette Colbert Jay H. Zimmerman Edwina Bootti Elaine Anderson Al Adams Mel Torme Dick Haymes Thursday Tattlings • • • THE S64 QUESTION: Is Sam Goldwyn moving into television, and, if so, just how does RCA-NBC figure in the picture? T T ▼ • • • YIPPI lY YI KI YAY!: Roy Rogers, Republic's King of the Cowboys, opens his Eastern rodeo tour at the Philadelphia Arena tonight and will start his engagement at the Madison Sq. Garden Oct. 3 after a week at the Forxmi in Montreal Roy will entertain boy and girl contest winners from theaters in the respective areas at luncheons, similar to buildup campaigns previously run ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • GONE TODAY, HAIR TOMORROW: Antoinette Spitzer, formerly Eastern publicity director for Walt Disney, has been named publicity director for the Coiffure Creation Council ▼ T T • • • NOSTALGIC NOTE: Mae Murray made a quiet entrance backstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theater during final rehearsals to wish Johnnie Walker good luck on his production "Make Yourself At Home," which opens tonight A touching scene T T T • • • NSS HAS ONE DOWN FRONT ON THE ISLES: Pfc. Selh Kantor, formerly with National Screen Service, Detroit, where his father Arrid Kantor is branch manager, wrote a revue for the Marines which was shown to 35,000 servicemen at Guam and to more than 60,000 in Saipan, Okinawa, and elsewhere Seen by Admirals Nimitz and Halsey. the young author has been asked to write another. T T T • • • WHAT'S IN A NAME? Phil M. notes via an esteemed contemp, that there appears to be a new member of the Skouros clan at 20th-Fox — one Max Skouras ▼ ▼ T • • • ASSURED FUTURE: Danny Kaye hos folded his date book for the balance of the year After finishing "The Kid From Brooklyn" for Goldwyn, Kaye will set his course for on eight-week's tour of soldier camps in the Orient, then whisk back to the Wedgewood Room at the Waldorf-Astoria for a four or five-week stint before returning to the Coast for another Goldwyn film T T ▼ • • • NEIGH! NEIGH!! Ralph W. Budd, Warner's personnel director, whose hobby is show-horses and whose stable includes an exact duplicate of Hirohito's white steed, presented one of his ponies in a firemen's show over in lersey last week Now the horse is receiving fan mail T T ▼ • • • RADIO HAM: T/Sgt. Bill Berns, former Hollywood commentator on Station WNEW, who used to work with Will Yolen at Warners, sent him the following message on a blank form headed "Imperial Japanese Telegraph": Aug. 31 — "They Love Me In Yokohama . . . Next stop Tokyo" T T T • • • "BORN FOR TROUBLE," retitled from "Murder in the Big House," which marked the screen debut of Van Johnson in 1941-42, will be shown again by Warners, along with "It All Came True," starring Humphrey Bogart and Ann Sheridan T ▼ ▼ • • • DON'T TELL PHIL M. that top execs, in this biz can't turn a nifty phrase Witness: "The rungs in his ladder to success were the daggers he planted in the backs of his friends" ▼ T T • • • NOW LET'S WIN THE PEACE!!! Philippine Prod'n Set for Early Boom (Continued from Page II native product, and its popularity in many instances has challenged that of Hollywood offerings, which are still in the ascendency and likely to remain so. Considerable optimism is rife over the potentialities of 16mm. pictures on the theory that this narrower gauge medium, together with its requisite equipment, will be easier to obtain in the immediate future than 35mm. Numerous theater projects are likewise being delayed temporarily as their sponsors and exhibition interests wait on economic clarification. Big-money channels are eager to support such projects because of their promise of revenue. Most of the new structures proposed will not be able to get under way for a year or possibly longer, but it is certain that U. S. and native product will, within the space of two or three years, enjoy far greater opportunities than now, both from the standpoint of larger audiences and more numerous outlets. Record 15,513 Theaters Join "Paramount Week' (Continued from Page I) distribution, announced yesterday. Paramount Week has been observed for 27 years. Reisman and Eoemer To Europe for 6 Weeks Phil Reisman and Charles Koerner are scheduled to Clipper to England and the Continent on Sunday for a five to six weeks' stay. The RKO vice-presidents will confer in London with J. Arthur Rank on the first two productions to be made in England under the RKO Radio-Rank affiliation and in Paris they will huddle with Remauge, head of French Pathe on the production plans which have been set up in France. Other European countries will be visited. Fifth for "Wonder Man" Samuel Goldwyn's "Wonder Man" is being held for a fifth week at the Warfield in San Francisco. CEA to Address Tax Cut Plea to Dalton London (By Cable) — The CEA General Council at its meeting yesterday agreed to send a letter to Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labor Government, and former president of the Board of Trade, on the entertainments tax, which theater operators want reduced. The terms of the CEA proposal will not be divulged until the Chancellor has received the letter. 4