The Film Daily (1946)

12 DAILY Monday, July 22, 1946 $3 1/2 Million Bally Coin Back of IP Pix (Continued from Page 1) Friday following confabs between International and UWP exces. Emphasis will be placed on keycity newspaper ads and trade paper advertising, featuring both directpicture ads and institutional-type copy. National and fan magazines, dio, billboards, national exploita ^jf^n and promotion are other media to b° included. It was also decided to lay special stress on exhibitor relations for the disbursement of campaign funds. Range, $3-400,000 Campaigns will range from $300,000 to $400,000 per film, with an estimated average of $350,000 for each picture. Extra institutional ads, promotion and stunts will be an important adjunct of the overall advertising publicity picture. Already under way are promotional campaigns for Betty MacDonald's number one non-fiction best-seller, "The Egg and I," and "Bloomer Girl," the recent Broadway musicalcomedy hit. Details for national advertising campaigns on 'The Dark Mirror" and "Bella Donna" were worked out over the week-end when Les Kaufman and Monroe Greenthal met with Paul Radin and Saul Bass of Buchanan & Co. Present at the preceding meetings were: International's William Goetz, William Dozier, John Beck, Jr. and Les Kaufman; UWP's William J. Heineman and Greenthal. Loew $12,579,245 Net Jump of 25% (Continued from Page II 1946, gross sales and operating revenues were estimated at $45,754,000 compared with $41,460,000 for the same period last year. Comparative earnings statement for 40 weeks ended June 6, 1946, as against similar 1945 period, shows company's share of operating profit after subsidiaries' preferred dividends as $27,490,835 compared to $23,551,812; reserve for contingencies, $3,800,000, and like amount in the 1945 span; reserve for depreciation, $2,754,590, compared to $2,789,192; company's share of profits before Federal taxes, $20,936,245, compared to $16,962,620; and reserve for Federal taxes, $8,357,000, compared to $7,650,377. SICK REPORT MAX WESTEBBE, Albany district manager for RKO Pictures, suffered a possible fractured leg Friday when he was hit by an automobile. Police reports said Westebbe walked into the road from between two parked cars. £0 MORGAN, former theater tax Internal Revenue Bureau collector In Chicago, who is now on sick leave, has gone to Delavan, Wis. to recuperate. Holly woodVine Yard ;By RALPH WILK; fVest Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY HOLLYWOOD %A/EEK-END studio roundup: Gladys George joins the cast lined up by Sam Goldwyn for "The Best Years of Our Lives" Paramount will dip its "The Black Knight," a free adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe," in Technicolor's dye vat Robert Fellowes will produce the adaptation by Aeneas MacKenzie Paul Lukas and Helmut Dantine will be going to Quebec to appear in "The Stronghold" for Canada's new producing company, Canadian Prods Metro is loaning John Hodiak to Hal Wallis for "Desert Town " Eagle-Lion has assigned Tom Conway to its "Mattea wan" Gene Raymond joins Eagle-Lion as a director; first stint will be "Concerto of Death" If Howard Lindsey and Russel Crouse can turn the trick, Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert will star in Paramount's version of "State of the Union" Radio commitments will bring Harold Vermilyea to New York when he finishes his role in "The Emperor Waltz" David Hempstead's first production under his association with David O. Selznick probably will be a screen version of Henry James' "The Wings of the Dove," a novel published in 1902 Jesse Lasky, jr., and Fredric Frank have completed the final script for "Unconquered," Paramount's Technicolor frontier epic which Cecil B. DeMille will put before the cameras on July 29 Robert Ryan, RKO player, has acquired a screen treatment of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, "The Wrecker," by James S. Scheer, and will try to interest RKO in buying the photoplay as a vehicle for him In appreciation of Dorothy Lamour's christening last February of the Douglas plane made for the Government-sponsored Air France, the inaugural ship of the airline will bring to the U. S. a medal inscribed to the actress and a gift of Parisian perfumes J. Edward Brom berg has been signed for the role of patron of the Hotel Verdun in "Arch of Triumph" Launching the casting of Barry Benefield's novel, "Eddie and the Archangel Mike," Producer Robert S. Golden has announced the signing of Jack Shea for the role of Shamus, the pious Irish wharfman Rights to use the symphonic composition, "The Temptation of St. Anthony" by Paul Hindemith are being sought by Loew-Lewin for use in De Maupassant's "Bel Ami" Enterprise has signed Katherine Scola to develop the screenplay of the Ginger Rogers film, "Wild Calendar" Gotham's Avenue of the Americas, nee Sixth Avenue, is to receive official recognition on the screen for the first time in Roy Del Ruth's production, "It Happened on Fifth Avenue." For protection, however, in case the title is changed before it is released, Del Ruth will shoot it as Sixth Avenue also Agnes Christine Johnson has been signed to write the screenplay of "The Maze," novel by Maurice Sandoz, which Jeffrey Bernerd will produce fcr Monogram Frances Rafferty and Richard Martin have been signed by Buddy Rogers and Ralph Cohn of Comet for "Adventures of Don Coyote" leads Sons of four well-known fathers are currently playing roles in Jeffrey Bernerd's "Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" at Monogram. They are: Alan Hale, Jr.; Fred Datig, Jr.; William Beaudine, Jr., and Emmett Vogan, Jr Mary Hatcher, 18-year-old singing star of "Oklahoma!", has been assigned the title role in Paramount's "Variety Girl" Burgess Meredith, co-producer with Benedict Bogeaus on "A Miracle Can Happen," will play a starring role besides his executive duties Russell Hayden and his bride, Lillian Porter, have returned to Hollywood from their honeymoon in Santa Barbara and Hayden has signed a new contract with Pine Thcmas Lee Frederick, former pitcher for the Chicago Cubs and later a Broadway leading man, has received his discharge from the Navy and resumed his RKO Radio contract Bert Granet, producer of RKO Radio's "The Locket," is vacationing in Mexico City Robert Pirosh will write the screenplay for RKO Radio's "The Gibson Girl," which Warren Duff will produce Frenk Fenton is to do the screenplay of RKO's "Memory of Love," to be produced by Harriet Parsons And Herman J. Mankiewicz is down as screen writer of "Alice Adams," which Bert Granet will produce with Laraine Day in the starring title role The three Biblical episodes filmed by Anson Bond Productions are now being edited by Harry Coswick, Assistant to the producer. These titles, "Woman of Samaria," "The Nativity," and "Parable of the Sower" are the first in a series which will be distributed to churches throughout the world by the American Bible Society. Double Tax Delegates Leave for Europe (Continued from Page 1) under way in three European countries beginning this week. Led by Eldon King, top U. S. tax negotiator, an American delegation will leave for Brussels today to dis-j cuss double taxation treaties with the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. King successfully negotiated tax treaties with Great Britain and France. In the case of France, particularly, the tax treaty was considered a victory for the American pix industry. MPAA offices said there were no taxes on remittances in the three countries, but blocked funds created a tough problem and clarification of tax questions would speed unfreezing of these funds. Funds are believed blocked in the Netherlands and Luxembourg. MPEA already is struggling with pix problems in Holland. Impasse centers around the Bioscoop Bund organization of Netherlands film distributors. Holland has been one of the industry's toughest nuts to crack. On the question of double taxation of individuals, the U. S. delegation will begin negotiations backed with the precedent set by Congress in exempting actors and entertainers from double taxation in Gx'eat Britain. King, who will head the delegation, will fly from New York today. British Imports Will Boost Pix Production Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — An important boost to production, through trade with Great Britain, was seen in the recent British announcement that import of raw stock and many other commodities up to 20 per cent in value of average yearly shipments in the years 1936-38 will be permitted. American manufacturers desiring to take advantage of this plan are advised to list their exports to Britain during these three years with the Department of Commerce, which will certify them for British import licensing. STORK REPORTS Akron — -A son, Millard Luis, was born July 12 in St. Thomas Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. Millard Ochs. Father is manager of Warner Bros. Strand there. Steubenville, O. — A son was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sho-. penns. Father is manager of the Capitol Theater.