The Film Daily (1946)

DAILY Thursday, July 18, B. G. Kranze to Head UWP Sales in East IVest Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — William J. Heineman, vice-president and general sales manager of United World Pictures, yesterday announced the appointment of Bernard G. Kranze as the company's Eastern sales manager. Kranze relinquishes his present position as Eastern Central district manager of RKO Radio to assume his new duties with United World next Monday. Kranze first entered the motion picture industry in 1924 starting at the Paramount Long Island Studios. In 1925 he joined RKO as New York City salesman, subsequently was Branch Manager of Albany, then Cleveland and finally Eastern Central district manager. B. C. KRANZE The Film Daily yesterday reported that Kranze was expected to join United World. Soviet Film Attendance 525,000,000 During 1945 Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Admissions to the 15,425 motion picture theaters in Russia during 1945 totaled approximately 525,000,000, according to the Soviet press. "Large numbers" also saw pix in clubs, schools, military establishments and similar places. The Department of Commerce noted that there are now 16 producing studios in Russia. News and documentary pix are made in studios in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Rostov and 12 other cities. The studios in Moscow, Leningrad, Novosibirsk and Kiev have special facilities for the production of popular science films. The Department also said that more than 3,000,000 meters of film were taken by Red Army photographers during the war on different fronts. Roshon Opens Exchanges Chicago — Roshon Film Service has opened a new exchange in Tampa, Fla., with Mac Cowart as manager; also one in Portland, Ore., making 20 branch offices for the concern. SEND BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO: )uly 18 Keith Richards Mildred Coles Phyllis Brooks Arthur Levy Robert Uynch Jane Frazee Paul Perez Charles A. Stimson Richard Dix Cene Lockhart Lou Menelik William Cabanne A Reporter's Report • • • CUFF NOTES: So you want some fun, huh? Well, then read what some of the boys who ore now screaming agoonst the sales provisions of the New York equity suit decree were saying back in the days when Congressional hearings on the Neely bill were in progress. ... • Inflcrtion is hitting Times Square hotel menus in more ways than one, pal One hotel yesterday in boosting the price of capon and chicken liver patty to $1.25 on its luncheon menu with o sense of the eternal fitness o' things dubbed the patty, "Fmanciere". ... • Add Things to Worry About Dept.: N. Y. Journal of Commerce reported yesterday that lumber prices are expected to rise 15-20 per cent over old ceilings if markets ore allowed to seek their own levels. . . . • Dinah Shore will be back on the N. Y. Paramount stage next Wednesday for the first time in five years Which is much, much loo long, Dinah. ... • Vincent Trotto, general factotum at National Screen Service, has been appointed Honorary Judge to help select "Miss Toronto" at a contest being held in that city Saturday Trolta, who knows about these things intimately, says he isn't stepping out of character by becoming International minded He just wants to see what Canada has to offer in the way of pulchritude T T • ▼ • • • THIS AND THAT: Abe Montague vnll raise the curtain on Columbia's 1946-47 sales policy at an industry press conference Monday. ... • Coast SAG board's action in appointing a tele committee to investigate the problem of union jurisdiction over acting in tele is logical when you consider that tele necessarily will draw heavily on pix for its programs. ... • That's a titilating description the UA titilating publicists have cooked up for Jane Russell — "possessor of the world's most publicized assemblage of pulchritude". ... • Film scouts rushing to Newport, R. I., to see Johnny Heath play the Humphrey Bogort role in "Casablanca." ... • Credit Com. Larry Cowan, manager of the Troy Proctor, with a helluva good stolf morale builder in a 'Tain and Pleasure Fund" Employe-supported, it will be drawn upon for personnel birthdays, marriages, births, sicknesses, deaths. . . . • Exhibs. around the country are drawing on their own ingenuity for tieups with Warners' 20th sound aimJversary F'r instance, "Skip" Avery, Maine theater operator, has dug up a privately owned print of "The Great Train Robbery" to play at the Winthrop Gull and the Kennebunk Anchor during the August anniversary week, . . • PRCs "Down Missouri Way" will have a "pre-world premiere" showing in Missouri State Penitentiary for its 2700 prisoners on the 31st And no wisecracks, please! Series of state-wide premieres follows the next day. ... • A number of persons who came to see "Centennial Summer" at the Roxy yesterday wound up seeing "Anna and the King of Siam" at the Music Hall by mistake It all happened because the opening-day line at the Roxy was so long that it merged with that at the Music Hall This created considerable confusion It made oo difference to 20th-Fox, however, because both films bear its trademark. T T T • • • ODDS AND ENDS: Mid States Circuit has discovered that the application of showmanship makes possible the sale of higher priced candy That's important in these inflationary and sugar-short days Using cellophane containers for flash, the circuit is reported getting 25 and 50 cents almost as easily as nickels and dimes in the past . . . • Add Signs o' the Times Dept.: Hedda Hopper's staff reports that of 400 pix on Coast production schedules. Just about three deal with important post-war themes. ... • Attention, Pete Smith: Ed Fisher, Loew theater publicist in Cleveland, swears his newly acquired spaniel is such a confirmed tobacco addict he raids ash trays for cigar stumps. . . . ▼ T T Prolonged Swedish Strike in Prosped (Continued from Page 1 ) Carl A. Nelson, a leader of Swedish film industry, who be3' being a producer and distrit operates a chain of 24 house5--i«; country's larger cities. co' The strike followed a breakd of negotiations between the Swe Film Association and the the workers' union. The employes holding out for a 100 per cent • increase. Generally speaking, S ish theaters are operated in the ning only. Besides more money employes are demanding a five week. They now work six weekly. According to Nelson, jectionists, to cite but one inst; earn ?150 monthly for a fiveday. Nelson said there was a likel: that the Swedish government t step in to hasten a settler although the government domake it a policy to interfere in ' arguments. Interviewed at Universal or. first trip to the United States : years, Nelson disclosed plan; build a four-stage studio of his outside of Stockholm next y There he will turn out four tures a year. He proposes to 1. two pictures made by his produc, company, Monark E^lm, distribt in the United States this year. , Nelson estimated Swedish film ] duction at 50 per year. He repoj that six American pictures to Swedish are shown in his coun adding that British product i popular there. Film business in Sweden is conti ing on the same high level as C; ing the war, according to Nelsoi In addition to studying the An ican film situation Nelson is buy equipment here for his contempla studio. He plans to pull out for he around July 25. i Legion Loses Sundcry Pix Pier Eatonton, Ga, — The request of Eatonton Post of the Amerit Legion for Sunday movies here !f been denied. FAMOUS FIRSi TAIKINQ Fim THE first out-of-town theater to o.|j.with sound after the world premierjil "Don Juan" at the Warner Theater, ^f York, was the Globe, Atlantic City, wlr presented the same Vitaphone attraction Aug. 6, 1926, just a month after New York opening. Other key city theaters that were f to get sound and "Don Juan" in their spectlve situations included McVicke Chicago, Sept. 16, 1926; Capitol, St. U Oct. 1; Colonial, Boston, Oct. 29; Lafayei Detroit, Dec. 8.