The Film Daily (1946)

^ DAiiy Monday, August 12 Vol. 90, No. 30 Mon., Aug. 12, 1946 10 Cents cominc nno coinc lOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : Associate Publisher 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 Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer; Al Steen, Associate Editor. Entered a» second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 1, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United Sut«i outside of Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, S15.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communicatisus 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 BWd., Phone Granite 6607. WASHINGTON— Andrew H. Older, 6417 Dahlonega Road, Wash. 16, D. C. Phone Wisconsin 3271. Manning Clagctt, 2122 Decatur St. NW. Phone, Hobart 7637. CHICAGO, 45, 111.— Joseph Esler, 6241 N, Oakley Ave., Phone Bnargate 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, Filmafnc, 8 Rue Charras. STOCKHOLiI — 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, i9 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. W. Pbone, UL 2510. BRUSSELS — Jean Pierre Meys, 110 Rue des Paquerettes; MOSCOW. Ray mond A. Davies, Hotel Metropole. FINANCIAL g (Aug. 9) ; NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Bell & Howell Columbia Picts East. Kodak Gen. Prec. Eq Loews, Inc Paramount RKO Republic Picts Republic Picts. pfd.. 20th Century-Fox 20th Century-Fox pfd. Universal Pict. , Warner Bros 273 8 311'4 240 34 343/4 381/4 213/4 123/4 171/2 541 8 67 431-4 4634 2738 2738 31 31 240 240 34 34 341/2 343/4 371/4 38 211/2 215/8 123/8 121/2 171/2 171/2 5358 535/8 Net Chg. — 1/4 6634 43 li 461,; 67 431/4 461/2 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 8 Radio-Keith cvs. . 91/4 Sonotone Corp 41/2 Technicolor 22 Trans-Lux 5^/s OVER THE CO Pathe Industries Cinecolor 7% 91/8 41/2 213/4 5S/g UNTER 7% 91/4 41/2 . 22 55/8 Bid . llVi . 91/2 Asked 121/4 10 Resume SOPEG Talks Today Meetings for a new wage agreement covering 2,500 employes in the home offices of seven major companies will be resumed this afternoon by members of the negotiating committee of the Screen Office and Professional Employes Guild, Local 109, CIO, and officials of the film companies. JACK COHN, ABE MONTAGUE, ABE SCHNEIDER. LEO JAFFE. and |. A. McCONVILLE, of Columbia left New York over the week-end for Coast studio conferences with Harry Cohn. MALCOLM KINCSBERC, SOL A. SCHWARTZ, and WILLIAM M. HOWARD will go to Chicago Wednesday for the reopening of the renovated RKO Grand there with "Caesar and Cleopatra." S. BARRET Mccormick, RKO Radio director of advertising and publicity, who has been in Hollywood for the past week on studio conferences, is expected back in New York today. ICHN L. FRANCONI, of Dallas, JOHN W. MANCHAM, of Atlanta, and J. FRANCIS WHITE, JR., of North Carolina, visited Film Classics' home offices last week. AL ZIMBALIST, national ad head of Film Classics, Inc., has returned from a two-week vacation trip in South Carolina. WILLIAM C. HIGCINS, traveling auditor for Film Classics, Inc., is now visiting New Orleans. WILEY FADAN, Loew artist on Ernest Emerling's staff, is vacationing in Washington and Boston. He is accompanied by his wife and son. BUDDY ROGERS planed from Hollywood Friday to New York for the UA convention, taking with him a print of "Susie Steps Out." HOWARD STRICKLING, M-C-M studio publicity head, has returned to the Coast after a 10-day visit in the East with his wife. WILLIAM B. ZOELLNER, head of M-G-M's reprint and importations division, is due in Pittsburgh today from Cincinnati. WILLIAM GLEICHER, head of M-G-M's theater auditing department is in San Francisco. He is due back in New York the end of the month. Hellinger to Tour for Seven "Killers" Previews (Continued from Page 1) show the film at special press previews. Included in the itinerary will be Chicago today, Detroit tomorrow, Xew York Wednesday thru Friday, Boston 19, Philadelphia 20, Washington 21. and Cincinnati 22. In Chicago and Detroit, Hellinger will have, as his special guest, Burt Lancaster, star of "The Killers," and in New York will have both Lancaster and Edmond O'Brien, who portrays the role of Reardon, in the film, as his greeters. In Boston. Hellinger and O'Brien will take over the handshaking. Seven Features Produced In Chile During Year Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — The year 1945 saw the release of seven full length motion pictures made in Chile and introduction there after a lapse of many years of "dubbed" pictures from the U. S., the Department of Commerce announced over the weekend. The Department also noted that U. S. pix are "retaining their popularity" in Czechoslovakia. WHENEVER SPECIAL rouwANT TRAILERS ^SAmc&,/^^SrS/>ecla^fy{^ffff/; SEND YOUR NEXT ORDER TO. FILMACK CHICAGO S. ILL. LCU BROCK left Hollywood Friday for Chicago to gather material for his first independent picture, "Split Personality." SAUL ELKINS conferred in New York over the week-end with Norman H. Moray, WB short subject sales manager. HARRY A. SEED, Midwest district manager for Warners, and JACK SHUM,.,W, Chicago branch manager, stopped off in New York following the Atlantic City convention and returned to Chicago over the week-end. FRANK FAYLEN will arrive in New York from Hollywood today for a two-week vacation, his first in three years. LILLIAN and DOROTHY GISH have arrived in Stockholm. JUNE DUPREZ is here from Hollywood. EUGENE ARN5TEIN, secretary and treasurer of Film Classics, Inc., is back 3( his desk after a weeks combined business and vacation trip which took him to Chicago, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. KURT NEUMANN, producer-director for Sol Lesser Productions, will arrive here today by plane from the Coast to confer with Osa Johnson and Frank Buck regarding the forthcoming production tentatively titled "Tarzan and the Huntress." JACK CCETZ arrived on the Coast from New York and is staying at the Beverly Wilshire. H. A. SILVERBERC, NSS manager in Chicago, has returned there from his Michigan vacation, LCU PATZ, NSS district manager, has left Chicago for a vacation at Crystal Falls, Mich. PCC May Co-op on Gov't Pic, "Message on Famine" Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — With the Government-made film "Message on Famine," now in the cutting stage, there were indications over the week-end that the Pacific Coast Conference of Independent Exhibitors will join with other exhibitor groups in backing OWMR's picture program. A letter seeking the group's support has been dispatched to R. H. Poole, president, by Arch A. Mercey, OWMR picture chief. It was predicted here that the Pacific Coast group would agree to co-operate with OWMR. PRESS BOOKS SERVICE PHOTO-OFFSET •PRINTING TRANS-CONTINENTAL FILMS, INC. 33 W. 42nd St., N. 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