The Film Daily (1945)

Monday, September 17, 1' 5 Vol. 88, No. 53 Mon., Sept. 17, 1945 10 Cents )OHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate Publisher and General Manager COmmG flRD GOIDG 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. 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. Fredman, 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. OSCAR A. MORGAN, Paramount short subjects' sales head, returns to his desk today, following a 10-day vacation at his Summer home in the Thousand Islands. A. J. O'KEEFE, Universal's Western sales manager, will leave here today for Chicago and Minneapolis. HERMAN STARR, vice-president in charge of Warner 8ros. music firms, leaves today for the Coast to confer on forthcoming musical films. ED HINCHY, head of the Warner Bros, playdate department, spent the latter part of the week at the Buffalo and New Haven exchange, and will visit the Boston branch today. 'ED MOREY, Monogram assistant sales chief, left over the week-end for Boston. W. STEWART McDonald, Wamer Bros, assistant treasurer, arrives back in New York today from the Coast. ROY HAINES, Western and Southern division sales manager for Warner Bros., left over the week-end for a Western tour. His first stop is Cincinnati. CECIL B. DeMILLE, Paramount producer-director, will depart from Hollywood tomorrow for Pittsburgh with stopovers in Chicago, on an extensive search for locations for his forthcoming picture, "Unconquered." MOREY GOLDSTEIN, Monogram Eastern division manager, leaves tomorrow for a 10-day trip to Cleveland and Cincinnati. WB Zone Managers Meet Here Tomorrow finnncinL (Sept. 14) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Am. Seat Col. Picts. vtc. (21/2%) Columbia Picts. ptd. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. . . East. Kodak (eVia) . . do pfd Gen. Prec. Eq Loew's, Inc. Paramount RKO RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . . . 20th Century-Fox pfd 20th Century-Fox ppf Universal Pict Warner Bros NEW YORK Monogram Picts. . . . Monogram Picts. ptd. Radio-Keith cvs Sonotone Corp Technicolor Trans-Lux High Low Close 30 295/8 295/8 251/2 241/2 253/8 Net Chg. — Vs + % 41/2 41/2 41/2 307/8 303/8 303/8 1933/4 1931/2 1933/4 — 1/4 + 1/4 293/8 273/8 353/8 103/4 1041/2 1 293/8 37 1051/8 1 26 18 CURB 4 syz 3 35/8 223/4 51/4 283/4 28 3^ 267/8 267/8 343/4 35 101/2 105/8 04 1041/2 291/4 293/8 361/2 37 05 1051/8 26 26 173/4 177/8 MARKET 4 4 91/2 91/2 27/8 27/8 31/2 35/8 221/8 223/4 51/8 51/4 — Vi 1/4 '/8 + Vi + '/4 + 1/2 — 3/8 — 1/4 1/8 + '/s -f " '/4 + 1/4 + '/8 Fovir New Pix Starting West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Four new pictures start this week, making total of 48 shooting. EX-SERVICEMAN Seeks good production connections in California, or anywhere. Several years film experience in So. America as supervisor and director. Two years with AAF Motion Picture Unit in Culver City as special effects cameraman. Speaks Spanish and Swedish. Serviceman's Box 600, THE FILM DAILY 1501 Broadway, New York City A meeting of Warner Theaters zone managers and home office executives will be held here tomorrow, with Joseph Bernhard, general manager, and Harry M. Kalmine, assistant general manager, presiding at the sessions. Other home office executives participating will include Clayton Bond, Harry Goldberg, Frank N. Phelps, Abel Vigard, W. Stewart McDonald, Harry Rosenquest, Louis J. Kaufman, Frank Marshall, Nat D. Fellman, Herman R. Maier, Rudolph Weiss, Frank Cahill, Jr., and Martin F. Bennett. Zone managers arriving for the meeting are James Coston, Chicago; I. J. Hoffman, New Haven; Frank Damis, Newark; C. J. Latta, Albany; Ted Schlanger, Philadelphia; Moe Silver, Pittsburgh, and John J. Payette, Washington. Paramount Week Film Shipments at 38,749 Releasing fewer pictures than ever before in its history, Paramount not only set an all-time company record by placing its product on the screens of 15,51.3 theaters during the recently completed Paramount Week but also set a new record for film shipments with a total of 38,749 for the week, Charles M. Reagan, vice-president in charge of distribution announced Friday. This figure of 38,749 shipments is 39 per cent above last year's Paramount Week shipments, Reagan's figures revealed, although the company released more product during the 1943-44 season than it did during the current film year. Para, to Tradeshow Second Block Oct. 4-5 Paramount's second block of pictures for the 1945-46 season will be screened for the trade in all the exchange, cities Oct. 4 and 5, it was announced Friday by Charles M. Reagan, vice-president in charge of sales. Included in this group are "Hold That Blonde," "The Stork Club," "People Are Funny," and "Kitty." Lt. Floyd Henry Liberated Lt. Floyd C. Henry USNR, former Paramount manager in the Philippines, who has been a prisoner of war since May, 1942, has been found alive and in good health in Toyama Prison Camp. RKO Tradeshowing Secc Group of Pix Sept. 25-27 RKO Radio will tradeshow its ond group of pictures for the 194 season on Sept. 25 to 27. Feat included in the group are Alive," "First Yank Into Tok "Isle of the Dead," "The Spa Main," and "Wanderer of the Ws land." Move M-G-M Dept. Eddie Carrier, head of Mroyalty department, moved his h quarters over the week-end from Loew Building to the fifth floo the Mayfair Theater building. is the second unit which has m^ out of the building in recent mo because of expanding activitiei various other departments, first unit to move was Dave Bll publicity department for Loew's ternational Corp., now housed a1i Capitol Theatre building. NEW YORK THEATERS HELD OVER! STRICTLY A FAMILY AFFAIR . . . What a family . . . What an affair . . . LOVE, HONOR and GOODBYE Starring VIRGINIA ^ EDWARD BRUCE "^ ASHLEY Featuring Victor McLaglen A REPUBLIC PICTURE Directed by ALBERT S. ROCELL Associate Producer HARRY GREY AIR COOLED GOTHAM at 47th St. -WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO 'p'i'-AS-t^ril." TECHNICOLOR Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Sth FUN ___,,„,._ B'way 51st St. FILLED REPUBLIC Doors open WEEK 8:30 A.M. ON SCREEN JAMES CAGNEY SYLVIA SIDNEY 'BLOOD ON THE SUN' IN PERSON ED HARVEST DANCE WINNERS RIVOLI RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Showplace of tihe Nation Rockefeller Center EDWARD G. ROBINSOt MARGARET O'BRIEN "OUR VINES HAVE TENDER CrRAPES" with Jackie "BUTCH" Jenkins A Metro-Coldwyri-Mayer Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE -PRESENTATIO' Paramount presents ED GARDNER'S "DUFFY'S TAVERN" Featuring 32 Hollywood Stars IN PERSON The Andrews Sisters • Tim Herbij VIC SHOEN And His Recording Orchesti; P4^AMOC//Vr Saxauel Goldwfyn prejenfs HtmnY Kaye in "Wonder Man" in Technicolor km B'way & 4. Continm • Fopuli Priemi U'^^^iUm "BACK TO BATAAN Starring JOHN WAYNE ANTHONY QUIh An RKO RADIO PICTURE BUY ^ MORE V. VICTORY BONI