The Film Daily (1945)

Huddle on Govt.-Pix Co-operation Policy West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — A series of conferences lon means by which Government and motion pictures will be able to co-operate in a sound operating policy will be held this week between Francis Alstock and directors of the Motion Picture Society for the Americas. Alstock, who arrived from Washington over the week-end, schedules conferences with Harold Hopper, president, and C. Merwin Travis, executive secretary and treasurer. Similar meetings will be held with Y. Frank Freeman, chairman of the board; Eddie Mannix and Joseph Breen, vice-presidents; Cliff Wiork, Jason Joy, George Bagnall, Ben Kahane, Mervyn LeRoy, Harx-y M. Warner, Trem Carr and others. DAILY Tuesday, September 25, 1941 Stars Over America Victory Tour Planned (Cont-inued from Page 1) Drive; Oscar A. Doob, campaign director; Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood chairman; Ken Thomson, Hollywood Victory Committee; George Murphy, Screen Actors' Guild, and others. Plan embraces more and bigger stars than in any previous tour, with more cities visited and more of the public reached than ever before. Fabian and Doob will fly to Hollywood Wednesday night with Fabian scheduled to fly back Friday. Doob will -^-emain in Hollywood to attend a mass meeting of actors, directors and producers scheduled for Sunday night. Donohue & Coe to Serve Victory Loan Campaign E. J. Churchill, president of Donahue & Coe, Inc., national advertising agency, Friday volunteered to place the resources of his organization at the disposal lof Oscar A. Doob, Victory Loan campaign director. 0. A. Kingsbury was appointed liaison between the WAC drive committee and Donahue & Coe. He named Carl Rigrod to handle radio activities for the drive. William Schneider was put in charge of creative art for posters, ads and campaign book, with Jac Thall, Al Weisz, Lloyd Seidman and others assisting. SERD BIRTHDflV GREETinCSTO: Sept. Robert Wyler Arthur James Fay Wray Albert Kaufman Barbara Lynn 25 Robert Condon Al Cooke Paul Culick lack Level Harry Mayer Hazel Anderson PHIL M. DALY ODE TO AN ELEVATOR STRIKE by a 24,th Floor Victim ■Ljiittle pigeon; please beware Of any message asked to bear. Your route may bring you past our way — Did you ever read a message in a pigeon filet? ▼ T T • • • "OSCARS OF INDUSTRY": Universal and Columbia will take first and second prize respectively for their 1943 annual report as winners of the "movies" classification in the Financial World Annual Report Award, to be presented at a dinner Oct. 2, in the Waldorf-Astoria. T T T • • • WHY WE WOULDN'T WANT ERIC JOHNSTON'S JOB: "Paul Mantz besides being a good pilot is also a business man. He flies our stars to their weddings and back for divorces. On one side of his card is his price to Las Vegas and on the other, the fare to Reno" — From Hedda Hopper's syndicated column Swell industry publicity, that T ▼ ▼ • • • IN MEMORIAM: Among the group of 20th-Fox home office executives who will pay tribute to Wendell L. Willkie at the dedication of Freedom House's Willkie Memorial Building, 20 West 40th St, on Oct. 8, will be W. C. Michel, Tom Connors, and Murray Silverstone The occasion will mark the first anniversary of Willkie's death Sumner Welles, former Under Secretary of State, will speak from the balcony of the building in an outdoor ceremony T y T • • • KAY KYSER and his band are scheduled to play at the 100th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Annapolis Naval Academy on Oct. 10 ▼ T T • • • MRS. TED LEWIS, chairman of the women's division for the 12th annual "Nights of Stars" show, has a $35,000 advance sale It's a record high before printing of tickets The event is sponsored by the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York for overseas needs, the upbuilding of Palestine, and refugee aid ▼ T T • • • LOWELL THOMAS will be the narrator of "This is Our Cause," one of the features of the testimonial dinner to be tendered Jack Cohn on Sept. 27 ▼ T T • • • TIME MARCHES FORWARD: Roy E. Larsen, president of the company that produces The March of Time, has arranged to absorb the payment for more than 1,000 employes of Time, Inc., who subscribed to the Associated Hospital Service of New York, on an additional plan offered by the United Medical Service . . 9 Incidentally, in promoting community welfare and employer-employe relationship. Bob O'Donnell's Interstate Circuit has booked Stanley Neal's "Every Two Seconds," a film short describing the hospital plan This is the first gratis reel reported to be booked by the Texas chain T T ▼ • • • IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION: Pocket Books, Inc., is attempting a post-war step in the right direction with the aid of a nontheatrical film short titled "It's All Yours," starring Ralph Bellamy, to be shown in connection with a nation-wide exhibit of good "teen age" books in schools and libraries Idea is to get high school kids into the reading habit Also, promote wider appreciation of films. T ▼ ▼ • • • NOW LET'S WIN THE PEACE! ! ! DATE BOOK Sept. 27: Television Broadcasters Assoclatio board meeting. Oct. 2: West Virginia Managers Association coni vention, Danjel Boone Hotel, Charleston, W Va. Oct. 9: New York equity suit against eigh majors goes to trial. Oct. 9: Allied Theater Ow^ners of New Jerse convention, Ritz Restaurant, Passaic. Oct. 20-29: Fourth Conference of the Inter-Ai?^ can 'Bar Association, Santiago, Chile. l^ll Oct. 22-23: Allied Theater Owners of Texa convention. White Plaza Hotel, Dallas. Oct. 22-23: Allied MPTO of Western Pennsyl vania convention, William Penn Hotel Pitts burgh. Oct. 23: Motion Picture Theater Onwers of On tario convention. King Edward Hotel, Tor onto. Nov. 5-7: Allied Theaters of Michigan annui meeting, Detroit, Nov. 13: Night of Stars, Madison Square Carder Nov. 14: Monogram stockholders meeting. New Italian Film Decree Due Today (Continued from Page 1) unhampered distribution of Ameri can motion (pictures in Italy. George Y. Canty, State Dept. pic ture officer, said about a week agi that he had every confidence that th i;ew situation in Italy "will meet thi approval of American distributors.' He commented that publication o the decree was held up because Ital; was still under military control am OWI was still handling the distribu tion of entertainment subjects. Shlyen, Out of Air Corps, Resumes Box Office Post Kansas City — Jesse Shlyen re sumed duties yesterday as managinj editor of Box Office Magazine, na tional motion ipicture trade weekly after nearly three years in the Ai Corps, serving 18 months abroad He was discharged Saturday at Jef ferson Barracks, Mo. A. Jules Benedic, acting managinj editor in Shlyen's absence, will con tinue in an editorial capacity. See Chi. "G.I. Joe" Mark Chicago— A gross of $60,000 1 expected to be reached for the firs week of UA's inaugural first-rui policy at the Oriental with Leste Cowan's "Story of G.I. Joe." Thi; will establish a new record for thi house, it was reported. Leningrad Filnt Lah. Hits PrC'War Level Moscow (By Cable) — Word has been received here from Leningrad that the volume of film printing at the huge laboratory there has now reached pre-war production levels. The report declares that 315 prints of the picture, "Berlin Conference," and 115 prints of the new attraction, "Days and Nights," have now been made. A