The Film Daily (1945)

"SWB? Wednesday, September 19, 1945 Vol. 88, No. 55 Wed., Sept. 19, 1945 10 Cents )OHN 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 pest-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. MONTREAI^Ray Carmichael. Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. finnnciftL (Tuesday, Sept. 18) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Am 'Spj ¥ Col.'Picts.'vtc.'(2y2%) Columbia Picts. pfd. Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd.. East. Kodak 1 do pfd Gen. Prec. Eq Loew's, Inc Paramount RKO RKO $6 pfd 1 20th Century-Fox . . . 20th Century-Fox pfd. 20th Century-Fox ppf. Universal Pict Warner Bros. NEW YORK Monogram Picts. . . Monogram Picts. pfd. Radio-Keith cvs. . . 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Sharpe, vi^ho has been a producer at the North Hollywood studios during the past year, will make his new headquarters at the company's New York offices. Sharpe will analyze story properties with a view to their appeal in the international as well as do/mestic markets. Reisman and Koerner Talk UK Production with Rank London (By Cable)— Phil Reisman and Charles Koerner of RKO Radio, who met with J. Arthur Rank yesterday to discuss stories, directors and stars of two films to be jointly produced by RKO and Rank, will extend their European itinerary to Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Sweden as well as France, it was disclosed yesterday. Moray to WB Studios For Short Subject Talks Norman H. Moray, short subject sales manager for Warners, left yestei'day for the Coast to confer with Jack L. Warner, executive producer, and Gordon Hollingshead, chief of short subject production, on forthcoming product. Moi'ay will make a tour of principal exchanges before returning to New York. MPA to Discuss Home For Films' Aged, Sick Creation of a fund for a home for the aged and the sick in the film business will be discussed tomorrow by the Motion Picture Associates at the first night meeting held by the charitable organization since its inception in 1919. The place: the Capitol Hotel. Hold Service Today For Bernhard's Mother Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Bernhard, mother of Joseph Bernhard, general manager of Warner Bros. Theaters, will be held at 10 o'clock this morning in Rivei'side Memorial Chapel, Amsterdam Ave. and 76th St. Mrs. Bernhard died Sunday at her home here. Tire Ration Ends Dec. 31? Washington Bineaii of THE FILM DAILY Washington — ^Barring strikes and other contingencies in the tire industry, OPA officials said here yesterday that it may be possible to lift tire rationing by the year's end, and that truck tires may come off the ration list in advance of passenger car tires. Demand for new tires is far outstripping supply OPA and WPB channels say. Managers Guild to Expand Organization in Met. Area The Motion Picture Theater Operating Managers and Assistant Managers Guild, originally created to represent managerial help in RKO houses in this area, is extending its organizational activities to cover managers and assistants in all theaters in the metropolitan area, it was disclosed yesterday by George Dunn, chairman of the guild. First evidence of its expanded activities is the filing with the State Labor Relations Board of a ipetition for certification as collective bargaining agent for managers, assistant managers and relief managers employed by the Cinema Circuit Corp. and its affiliated companies operating a chain of 10 houses in the metropolitan area and Westchester. A hearing on the petition is expected to be' held within the week. Six Coast Labor Reps. Confer With Green Today Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — A delegation of six Hollywood labor representatives sympathetic with the striking set decorators will meet here today with William Green and other high AFL officials, with sessions with NLRB Chairman Paul Herzog and Labor Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach also scheduled for today or tomorrow. The group arrived here yesterday morning and visited a number of California Congressmen in order to discuss the strikers' case with them. In the delegation are Jack Adams of the SPG, Campbell Forsyth of the Machinists Local 1185, Walter Scheibel of the Painters Local 644, James Vincent of the Carpenters Local 946 and Victor Gagelin and Otto Siegel of the Set Decorators Local 1421. Woodward of WE Dead; Hold Rites Tomorrow Funeral services for Franklin T. Woodward, 63, consulting patent attorney for Western Electric, will be held at Port Washington Methodist Church, Port Washington, L. I., tomorrow, at 3 p.m. Affiliated with the WE patent department since 1908, Woodward was general patent attorney for the company from 1937 until last June when, because of poor health, he became consulting attorney. Survivors include his widow, the former Katherine Rochet; two sons, Paul, who has not been heard from since his capture by the Japanese in the Philippines, and William Radin, and two daughters. FOR SALE 35 MM. SOUND TRUCK UNLICENSED WRITE OR WIRE: BOX 700, FILM DAILY HOLLYWOOD 28, CALIFORNIA cominc aid come MAURICE "RED" SILVERSTEIN, formerly Universal's supervisor in the Caribbean, has returned from eight months' OWI film distribution service in the UK and Europe. WILLIAM B. LEVY leaves Friday for Hollywood where he will spend the next three weeks Disney studio conferences. DAVE EPSTEIN has shifted to the Belmont Plaza. EDWIN W. AARON, M-C-M circuit sales head leaves tomorrow for Milwaukee, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. He| will be gone several weeks. JOEL BEZAHLER, home office assistant to J. E. Flynn, Western sales manager, is due back Sept. 26 after visiting M-C-M exchanges Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver and Salt Lake City. RUDY BERGER, Southern sales manager foi M-C-M, leaves here today for Washington, and will leave Washington Friday for his headquarter; In New Orleans. MIKE SIMONS, editor of LO and the Distributor, Loew-M-G-M publications, returned yesterday from Cleveland, Columbus and Indianapolis JOHN ALLEN, 16 mm. distributor in Rochester, was in town yesterday. FRANK McNAMEE arrived yesterday from Washington. VICTOR FRANCEN, on completion of his role in Warners' "Confidential Agent" in about two. weeks, will make his first New York trip three years. ANN RONELL, wife of Lester Cowan, leaves New York today for Chicago. COWAN leave! New York tomorrow for Chicago. THOMAS S. McCONNELL, attorney in thi Jackson Park Theater case in Chicago, has come East for conferences. PHYLLIS THAXTER, M-C-M player, is vsitinj her parents. Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. Sidney St. Felix Thaxter in Portland, Me. ANITA LOOS is in town from the Coast for conferences on her play, "The Birth of Addie Bemis." LEE SHUBERT and J. J. SHUBERT have arrivec in Chicago from New York to attend openint of the new Shubert Theater tonight, with tht Olsen-Johnson show, "Laffing Room Only." IRVING MAAS, vice-president of 20th-Fo) International Corp., arrived in New York yesterday after a seven-week's tour of Centra America. DEEMS TAYLOR and his wife arrived on th« Coast at the week-end to attend the annual meeting of ASCAP. Abbott Succeeds Krouse As Local 307 President Philadelphia— lATSE Local 307 operators, has elected Harry S. Abbott president. He succeeds Louis Krouse, who has retired. Abbotl Oliver was named vice-president; William Freedman, secretary-treasurer; Horace Johns, business manager. EX-SERVICEMA]\ Seeks good production connections in California, or anywhere. 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