The Film Daily (1945)

TIS< fitu DAILY Monday, September 17, 19' Warners Continuing Own ihifkmq Setup (Con^inued from Page 1) are not negotiating with any other checking organization at present, nor do they intend to do so at any future date, as it is the company's intention to continue with its own film checking service. ;!.i 15 Unions Ask Truman To Probe NLRB's Delay West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — President Truman was urged at the week-end to investigate the delay of NLRB in authorizing votes to be counted in the May election to confirm the union desired by Hollywood set decorators as their collective bargaining agency. Wires asking the President to look into the delay were sent by 15 unions of the strike strategy committee. The telegrams charged that NLRB's conduct of the set decorators' case helped to provoke the studio strike and said there now appears to be a deliberate delay in reaching a decision on the collective bargaining election held last May. Two picketing teams are en route to Washington, D. C, to picket theaters in the Capital and also to call the attention of California Congressmen to the strike. Pickets have also been instructed to impress the A F of L Brotherhood presidents' meeting in Washington next week with the importance of the strike. CSU representatives expect theater picketing to be started in Portland, Oregon over the week-end and also in Seattle. Culver and Wife Injlured Detroit — E. S. Culver, until a few weeks ago manager of the HughesDowntown Theater, ' and Mrs. Culver, were reported seriously injured when their car overturned near Cheyenne, Wyo., en route to the West Coast. BACK IN CIVVIES Honorably Discharged EDWARD A. LONG, from the Navy to head the Long Sign Co., Detroit. TONY J. STANKIEWICZ, from the Marines to rejoin his partner in management of the Abington, Detroit. VICTOR BIKEL, from the Army, to RKO booker at the New York exchange. HERMAN HATTON, from the U. S. Marines to manager of the Grand, Macon, Ca. LOU BRAMSON, former secretary to Jack Kirsch, from the Seabees. CHUCK ELDER, from the Army, to Paramount booker, Des Moines. ROBERT R. BERRY, from the Army, to manager, State, Mason City, la. PASQUALE BUCCIERI, from the Army, to assistant manager. Regal, Hartford, Conn. TED BOISENAU. former B & K manager, discharged from Army. CLEVE. INDIES HIT BY STRIKE Seventy Theaters Go Dark As Operators in Association's Houses Walk Out Over Contract Controversy <^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^-^^^^ (Confinued from Page 1) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^-^ a booth shall replace the present two man in booth policy. Vacation issue was only a minor one, Erdmann said, as CMPEA had offered vacation with pay provided one man in booth plan was adopted. Theater owners further stated they had not violated the regional LRB order because this order was now on appeal before the national LRB. Exhibitors also denied the charge of failure to negotiate, countering with the claim that their most recent proposition was presented to union officials, referred to the union board of directors and finally to union membership who voted to strike. Notification to theater owners that no operators would report to work until contracts were signed was interpreted as meaning that the union had closed further negotiation proceedings. Not affected were major circuit houses which negotiated individual contracts and independent theaters not members of the CMPEA. John Marshall is Named "U" Manager in Hungary (Continued from Page 1) gary. Marshall will make his headquarters in Budapest. Recently released from the U. S. Army, where he served for two years in the Medical Department in Great Britain, Marshall is well acquainted with motion picture affairs in Eastern Europe. For five years prior to the beginning of the war he had his own distributing company in Bucharest, Rumania. Lury to Singapore Post For Univ. -International Joseph H. Seidelman, president of Universal International announced Friday the appointment of Major Robert Lury to the newly created post of Eastern supervisor. Major Lury, who will go on inactive duty in November when he will resume his association with' Universal, will have under his supervision the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Siam, Indo-China, Burma and India. He will make his headquarters in Singapore. Major Lury was manager for Universal in Malaya when the war broke out. Upon his arrival in New York, he volunteered for sei-vice in the U. S. Army and was commissioned as first lieutenant in the Military Intelligence. He entered the motion picture field with M-G-M in 1933 in Tokyo. In 1937 he went to the Dutch East Indies as general manager. He joined Universal in 1939 as managing director for Japan and in 1941 was made general manager for Malaya, Indo-China and Siam. Miss Stone to Speak Therese Stone of M-G-M public relations will address the Philadelphia Advertising Women's Club at the Poor Richard Club in Philadelphia today. The post-war destiny of films will be Miss Stone's subject, and this is the first of her Fall schedule of talks on motion pictures before various clubs and organizations. Equipment Manufacturers See Good Market in Cuba (Continued from Page 1) and sound systems, according to an analysis of the Cuban market prepared by Nathan D. Golden, motion picture expert in the Dept. of Commerce, from the reports of James N. Cortada, of the U. S. Embassy, Havana. Present equipment in Cuba is almost entirely of U. S. origin, since there is no domestic manufacture. About 40 per cent of the projectors in use, according to Cortada, were purchased second-hand in the U. S. about 20 years ago. Modern equipment is in only a dozen of Cuba's 391 theaters. In at least 15 per cent of the theaters, replacement of projectors is seen high on the list of post-war projects. Demand is primarily for new projectors, with those who cannot afford to buy new ones planning to get repair parts and operate with their present machines, until they can afford new units. Slightly fewer theaters are good prospects immediately for new sound equinment, while well over half of the island's theaters are reported in need of new arc lamps. Market analysis of one distributor who has operated in Cuba reveals that about 15 per cent of exhibitors are excellent credit risks; 15 per cent good; 60 per cent slow, and 10 per cent poor. Long terms are usual. Very few Cuban exhibitors can afford two-projector installations, but it is felt that the mai'ket would be good for a projector with arc lamps and a single two-unit 35-ampere rectifier to sell at around $2,000. Panic is Averted Carroll, la. — Some 400 patrons in the Earl Theater calmly walked out after the management announced that a fire was blazing in the basement and threatened to spread throughout the building. Manager Charles Gray informed the patrons of the danger and cautioned them that the audience was not In danger. No one was injured in the exit of the customers. Johnston Acceptance Is Seen Tills Week (Continued from Page 1) opinion that Will H. Hays would i! main with the association in an ii portant advisory capacity. Comple details are expected to be announc on Wednesday when the MPPD board of directors holds its a journed meeting. In Washington Friday, Johnst) met with the Chamber of Commer board and reportedly announced li intentions to continue as its heii until his contract expires eig months from now. Marcus to India to Probe Para. Bombay Fire Loss Morey Marcus, Paramount di' trict manager for the Far Easi was scheduled to leave for Ind! over the week-end, according George Weltner, Paramount Inte national president. Marcus will ai sist Marian Jordan, general ma ager for the territory, in re-esta lishing a company office in Bombi, following the August 29 fire in whii, general sales manager Subodh Ga guli lost his life. J. E. Perkins, division managi for the territory, who was in Aui tralia at the time of the disastel has already visited Bombay to i! vestigate the causes and extent < the damage and loss of life, Weltm said. Perkins is now on his way bai, to his New York headquarters. Marcus is flying to Bombay, probably will arrive there Sept. 22. Sober in AAU Post Pincus Sober, of M-G-M's legl department, on Wednesday will 1 elected vice-president of the Metr politan Association of the AAU. B is unopposed for this post on tl ticket which will be voted on We' nesday night. Dislihes End Piece In His Screen Fare Columbus, 0. — Writing in the Columbus Citizen, Columnist Art Robinson, not entirely with tongue in cheek, has advocated here that film houses dispense with tickets and substitute turnstiles, permitting patrons to drop prescribed coins in the latter. In his plea for the switch to turnstiles, he says: "Every time I clean out the pockets of a suit to send it to the cleaner, I find a collection of torn theater tickets, those little stubs the doorman always hands out. To date, i have found no other value for those stubs than as a final check on the emptiness of my pockets." He adds that "the doorman will follow you clear into the theater to make you take the stubs."