The Film Daily (1945)

^ DAILY Friday, September 28, 194! Vol. SS, No. 62 Fri., Sept. 28, '.945 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : : ; : Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate and General Publisher Manager CHESTER B BAHN : : : : : EHItni 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, 6417 Dahlonega Road, Wash. 16, D. C. Phone: Wisconsin 3271. CHICAGO, 45, 111., Joseph Esler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briargate 7441. LONDON — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. I. HAVANA— Mary Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. MOSCOW— Raymond Daviss, Hotel Metropole. ALGIERS — Paul Saffar, Filmafric. STOCKHOLM— Armas Morby, Mastersamuelsg 25. 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. VANCOUVER— Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. nnnnciflL ; (Thursday, Sept. 27) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. 30 295/8 295/8 — 1/4 ) 273/8 263/4 273/g + 5/3 Am. Seat. Col. Picts. vtc. (21/2% Columbia Picts. pfd Con. Fm. Ind Con. Fm. Ind. pfd. East. Kodak do pfd Cen. Prec. Eq Loew's, Inc Paramount RKO RKO $6 pfd 20th Century-Fox . . , 20th Century-Fox pfd. Universal Pict Warner Bros NEW YORK Monogram Picts. Monogram Picts. pfd. Radio-Keith cvs. Sonotone Cofp. Technicolor Trans-Lux 45/8 45/8 45/8 + 1/8 311/2 311/2 311/2 + 1/2 195 194 194 — 1 285/8 281/2 285/8 271/4 267/8 27 385/8 377/8 385/8 + 3/4 111/2 111/4 11 1/2 + V4 1037/8 1031/8 1031/2 — 1/8 303A 301/4 305/8 381/4 38 381/4 -I 1/8 281/4 277/8 281/4 4 % 183/8 181/8 I8I/4 + l/s CURB MARKET 4 37/8 37/8 ■31/8 '3" 'sVs +"Vs 33/4 35/8 33/4 223/4 221/2 221/2 — 3/3 5'/8 5 5 Herbert Hosmer Stricken Des Moines, la. — Herbert 0. Hosmer, 59, employed in the shipping department at the 20th Fox e x change, died following a heart attack. "everything'' says "keep our eye on your cosh" cominG flno coma WILLIAM F. RODCERS, M-C-M vice-president and general sales manager, arrives in Hollywood today after several days in San Francisco. ROY HAINES, Western and Southern division sales manager for Warners, is on a Western tour. He was in Des Moines yesterday and arrives in St. Louis today. JULES LAPIDUS, Eastern division sales manager for Warners returns today from Washington. ROBERT L. LONG, traveling rep. for Film Classics, Inc., has arrived in New York for conferences in the home office after a brief vacation. ED HINCHY, head of the Warners' playdate department, returns today from Cleveland and Pittsburgh. E. K. (TED) O'SHEA, M-C-M Eastern sales manager, is due back from Boston today. W. T. KRUSE, of Bell & Howell's film division, is in New York for business conferences. HOWARD DIETZ, vice-president and director of advertising-publicity-exploitation for Loew's, leaves for the Coast today. WILLIAM R. FERGUSON, M-G-M exploitation director, is going to New Orleans in a few days. ALFRED LUNT and LYNN FONTANNE are due from their Wisconsin farm to start preparation for the openng of "Oh, Mistress Mine." WENDELL COREY, Broadway player, has arrived in Hollywood for screen tests by Hal B. Wallls. HARRY TUCEND, Paramount production executive, is due from the Coast on Oct. 8. JOSEPH LILLEY, Paramount music arranger, is en route from Hollywood on a 10-week leave to be musical supervisor for the Broadway production of "Nellie BIy." CHARLES K. STERN, Loew's assistant treasurer, and WILLIAM GLEICHER, of the M-C-M sales department, leave tomorrow for a trip to Chicago and other exchange centers. Theater Picketing Waits On Building of Pool The labor forces here sympathetic to the studio strike are marking time on the extension of their theater picketing drive pending the organization of a huge pool of pickets dra-wn from some 70 AFL and CIO groups in this area, it was learned yesterday. The strategy committee entrusted with the picketing campaign will not go ahead with its announced plans to picket in full force until it knows exactly how large will be the army of pickets at its command. A spokesman for the strategy committee explained that an enormous number of pickets from which to draw every day is needed to make a success of the picketing campaign. The spokesman said that it wouldn't be known definitely until the iniddle of next week just what the mass picketing plans would be. Monogram Organizes Own Distribution in Argentina Organization of a wholly owned Argentine subsidiary, Monogram Pictures Argentina, and the appointment of Charles Rosmarin as manager were announced yesterday by Norton V. Ritchey, president of Monogram International Corp. New company will distribute Monogram product in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Rosmarin, former Columbia Pictures manager in Venezuela, has spent many years in the Argentine motion picture industry. He arrives from Caracas today for conferences with Ritchey. Wolfe Cohen Touring WB Argentine Branches Buenos Aires (By Cable) — Wolfe Cohen, vice-president of Warners International, arrives here tomorrow to begin a three-week tour of the company's branch offices in Argentina. Cohen has just concluded an extended survey of Brazil. Film Coin Support for City Center Is Sought A move to interest motion picture companies' financial support in the production of plays at the New York City Center of Music and Drama was disclosed in a broadcast over the Mutual Broadcasting System by Newbold Morris, chairman of the board of directors of the civic enterprise and president of the City Council. 3rd Parties File Answers To Rosecan Counterclaim St. Louis — Universal, Columb: and United Artists, third party d( fendants, have filed separate answei in opposition to each of the counte: claims of Adolph Rosecan, operate of the Apollo Theater, which can about as a result of the anti-tru! suit of St. Louis Amusement Co., al, against Paramount and otheri; Original $285,000 damage actJ was dismissed in U. S. District CouJI several weeks ago on a motion by defendants Paramount, RKO, WaJ ners, 20th-Fox, and the America Arbitration Association, but the d fendants Adolph Rosecan, Josef Litvag and Apollo Theater Cor did not file dismissal motions bil instead filed counterclaims again! the original plaintiffs. Rosecan ah named Harry C. Arthur, Jr., Un versal, Columbia and UA as thii party defendants and, as a result the counterclaims, the original plaii tiffs are placed in the role of di fendants. Court is still to pass that phase of the litigation. s C£ t| Dr. Korngold Dead West Coast Bureau of THE FILM BAIL] Hollywood — Dr. Julius Korngol 84, retired dean of European mus critics, is dead. Dr. Korngold can to the U. S. in 1938 to join his so Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Academ Award winner for his "Robin Hooc score.