The Film Daily (1946)

Ws? Tuesday, July 23, 19-^ Vol. 90, No. 16 Tues., July 23, 1946 10 Cents JOHN W. ALICOATE : : : : Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate Publis<ier 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 Publiiher; Donald M. Meriereau, Secretary-Treasurer : Al Steen, Associate Editor. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-o0ke at New York, N. Y., under the act of March J, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United Sutes outside of Greattr New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, J15.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communicatiens to THE FILM DAILY, 1501 Broadway, New York 18. 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 Bird.. Phone Granite 6607. WASHINGTON— Andrew H. Older, 6417 Dahlonega Road, Wash. 16. D. C. Phone Wisconsin 3271. Manning dagett, 2122 Decatur St. NW. Phone, Hobart 7627. CHICAGO, 45, 111.— Joseph Esler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briargate 7441. LONDON —Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127133 Wardour St. W. 1. HAVANA— Mary Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. BOMBAY— Ram L. Gogtay, Sandhurst Bldg. ALGIERS— Paul Saffar, Filmafric, 8 Rue Charras. STOCKHOLM — Gunnar Ruud, Jaktvarvsplan 30.g. HONOLULU — Eileen O'Brien. MEXICO CITY— Airi Andrade, Mexico City Herald, Colon 14. D. F. SAN JUAN — E. Sanchez Ortis. MONTREAL — Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bldg.; SYDNEY, Bowdin Fletcher, 19 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. W. Phone, UL 2510. BRUSSELS — Jean Pierre Meys, 110 Rue des Paquerettes; MOSCOW, Raymond A. Davies, Hotel Metro9ole. FINAHCIAL iMon., July 22) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Bell & Howell ISVi 28 28i/i -f Vi Columbia Picts 28 27 27 — 34 East. Kodak 236 Vj 235 235 Loew's, Inc 341/2 333/8 34 -f % Paramount 361/4 355/s 3534 — 1 RKO 21 20Vi 205/8 — 3^ Republic Picts 1234 12V2 125/g + Vs Republic Picts. pfd. . 19 19 19 4 Va 20th Century-Fox ... 51 Va 51 51 Vi 20th Century-ox pfd. 64 64 64 20th Century-Fox ppf.l 051 2 1051/2 lOSli + Vs Universal Pict 411/2 4OI/4 401/4 — 1/4 Universal Picts. pfd.. 9714 963^ 963^ — 14 Warner Bros 441/2 431/2 4334— 34 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 8I/4 81/3 8'/8 Sonotone Corp 434 4% 45.J — 1/3 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Pathe Industries 113,4 1234 Show "Big Sleep" Aug. 12 "The Big Sleep," starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, will he nationally tradeshown bv Warners Aug. 12. MERVIN ASH & CO. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK CURB EXCHANGE (ASSOCIATE) CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE Telephone: HAnover 2-3050 61 BROADWAY NEW YORK comiriG nno Goinc DAN CASEY, Universal general sales manager in Australia, arrives Wednesday for conferences with Universal International executives. He is accompanied by RAY GROVES, Western Australia branch manager, who won the Seidelman sales drive in Australia in 1945. SIR ALEXANDER KORDA has arrived in New York from the Coast. JOHN FREDERICS arrived in Hollywood yesterday with hats commissioned by Samuel Goldwyn for "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." CHARLES KORVIN, star of International's "Bella Donna," returned here yesterday from a straw hat appearance at the Barter Theater in Abington, Va., and will leave Friday for the Coast. DAVID LEAN, a J. Arthur Rank partner in Cine-Guild, will return to England tomorrow from New York. HARRY HOEFFLER, city manager in Quincy, 111., for Great States circuit, has motored to Minnesota with his father and mother. LESTER KROPP, manager of the Melba. St. Louis, his wife and daughter have gone to Tuscaloosa Ala. to spend a vacation. HERB WASHBURNE, St. Louis manager for National Screen Service, has gone to Minnesota for a vacation. He is due back about Aug. 1. THEODORE ZOHBEL, Republic auditor, has completed a three-month Cleveland stay and has moved on to the Indianapolis branch, |. S. JOSSEY and KROGER BABB of Hygienic Productions, have returned to Cleveland from a two-week visit in California. WILLIAM N. SKIRBALL. head of the Skirball circuit, is in Cleveland from his ranch in California. TED BALDWIN, exploitation-promotion manager of Vanguard Films, is vacationing. MORTON VAN PRAAG, has returned to Chicago from an Eastern business trip. PRESIDENT JOHN McNABB, of Bell & Howell, has returned to Chicago from a Summer vacation. WILL BISHOP, Metro's Chicago publicity director, is on an Eastern vacation trip. SIDNEY BRATTER, manager, the Castle, Irvington, N. J., left Sunday for the Colony Club. West End, N. ). DANIEL A. BASILE, owner, the Rex, Irvington, N. J., is spending several days at Rocky Point Landing, L. I. STEVE MYERS, relief assistant at the Rex, Irvington, N. J., will leave the first of August for Ocean Grove, N. J. BEN BROSKIE, manager, the Liberty, Irvington, N. J., returned Monday from Atlantic City. JAMES LEVITT, assistant manager, the Sanford Theater, Irvington, N. J., leaves the last of July for a vacation at the Jersey shore. MAURICE LINDSAY, house staff, Sanford Theater, Irvington, N. J., has returned from a short vacation in Massachusetts. SOL C. SEIGEL, Paramount producer, is here for a week or 10 days. AL SUCHMAN, Eastern sales manager for Samuel Goldwyn Productions, returned here yesterday from a business trip to Boston. RUD LOHRENZ, UA's mid-Western district manager, and SID ROSE, Chicago branch manager, will return to Chicago today from home office conferences. lOHN EBERSON is in Washington today. MILTON KUSELL, Eastern sales manager of Vanguard Films, is on a one-week vacation. JAMES R. GRAINGER, Reoublic executive vice-president and general sales manager, left last night to visit the Detroit and Chicago branches. He returns to the home office on Thursday. Senate Okays Bloom Bilbi Clears State Dept. Pix Hargrove of Eastman Paid $113,125 in Year Philadelphia — Eastman Kodak's annual report to the SEC disclosed yesterday that President Thomas J. Hargrave was paid §113,125 during the last fiscal year. Perley S. Wilcox, board chairman both of Eastman and a subsidiary, Tennessee Eastman Coi-p., was paid §79,965. A salarj' of 879,568 was received by Albert" K. Chapman, vicepresident and general manager. Warners Aquatennial Short Minneapolis — Warner Brothers is filming a two-reel short of the Aquatennial in color. Saul Elkins, WB writer-director, is here to supervise the film and Ray-Bell Films of St. Paul is shooting the short for Warners. Shooting is done in 16 mm. Kodachrome. which will be enlarged and printed in -35 mm. Technicolor. Release is scheduled for next Summer. Examine Korda Today In Chaplin Litigation Sir Alexander Korda will be examined today in connection with the §2,000,000 suit brought by Charles Chaplin against David 0. Selznick and 20th Century Fox. Chaplin brought suit against Selznick for disposing of talent and storj' properties to 20th Century -Fox. claiming that the talent and properties should remain with United Artists. The motion to examine Korda was granted to Selznick by Justice Samuel Null. Crash Kills Dr. Hatfield Indianapolis. Ind. — Dr. Sidney J. Hatfield, 66, physician, surgeon, and owner and operator of the Dream Theater in Brightwood, was killed when his automobile was in collision with another car at Willits, California. Not Just Today But Tomorrow Too — Washington Bureau of THE FILM DA. Washington — The House finally passed the embattled Bi Bill providing statutory authc for the State Department's inte tional information program. bill, held in the legislative pro for nearly a year, spells out the partment's rights in regard/ ■ and other informational medr employed in spreading the Ameri story through the world. It is provided that in all cases State Department be prepared step out of the picture when priv industry is ready to take over job. A_19-million dollar budget for eration of the service during the n 12 months was provided seve weeks ago. Kostelanetz Resigns From Justice Dep't Attorney (Jeneral Tom C. CIe announced with "deep regret" y terday his acceptance of the resigi tion of Boris Kostelanetz from t! Department of Justice. Kostelan3 had risen in the course of his ni years with the Department to t: post of Chief of the War Frauds S(' tion of the Criminal Division a had acquired a national reputati as one of the ace prosecutors of t Justice Department. Kostelanetz going into private practice wiHoward F. Corcoran, former Unit States Attorney for the Southe District of New York. Brooklyn's Hopkinson To Green and Hyams Joseph Green, owner of the Irvi: Place Theater, and Michael Hyan London theater chain operator, ha taken over the management of t Hopkinson, at Pitkin and Hopkins Aves., Brooklyn under a lease to t Amber Realty Corp., and will chan. to present Yiddish stage show poll to one of American and foreign filn it was announced yesterday. The new policy will be inaugurat in September after an expenditu. of §50,000 for complete re-decor tion and the installation of a coolir system has been made. SITUATION DESIRED Writer interested in theatrical publicity position. 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