The Film Daily (1946)

United Newsreel 2l9t Floor 28 V/est 44th Street IJew York 18, N. Y .llntimaie in Character |lnt«rnational in Scope Independent in Thought The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Twenty-Eight Years Old PDAILV E NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. 1946 TEN CENTS VDGE HOLDS RUN GOES WITH MANAGEMENT •cophony Defendants Agree to Consent Decree? Ileported Ready To Accept » of J's Demand; to Drop heir Plea for Dismissal Defendant sources in the Scophony iti-trust suit were reported to have dicated yesterday they will accept epartment of Justice's demand for consent decree and abandon their ea for a dismissal of the case. Defendants, it was reported, have jreed, in substance, to the Governent's original bill of complaint, but (Continued on Page 10) Mans Expansion of iagle-Lion and PRC Expansion of both Eagle-Lion and RC Pictures, Inc., is planned by athe Industries, with PRC remainig as a separate company, it was aid yesterday by Robert R. Young, ead of Pathe Industries which conols both organizations, who arrived (Continued on Page 9) Detroit Operators to ^ote on Strike Tomorrow Detroit — Second meeting of exhib[or and projectionist delegates leached a deadlock yesterday, with pe expectation that the operators (Continued on Page 6) Interstate Readies Dallas Tele Station Dallas, Tex. — Interstate Theaters, Inc. expects to place Texas' first television station in operation here during September. Basic equipment has arrived and is being assembled in the circuit's Jackson St. warehouse for the purpose of experimenting in studio techniques. The station has not yet been licensed, but FCC action is expected momentarily on Interstate's application. The station will televise commercial programs of local studio origin and films. FUnt Stock Values ShrinU Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Falling Market Value of film stocks shrunk hundreds of thousands of dollars in yesterday's wildly falling stock market. Biggest film drcp on the stock market was Eastman Kodak common, off 7'/2 points, smallest was American Seating, off 1 point. Columbia Pictures was off 2 points; Bell & Howell, IVi; General Precision Equipment, S'/z; Loew's, iVi; Paramount, S'/s; RKO, 2; 20th-Fox common, 4%; 20th-Fox pfd., 2; Universal common, 3'A; Warner Bros., 214. Monogram registered the biggest drop on the curb market, 1%; RKO cvs. was off 1V4; Sonotone, 14; Technicolor, I'A; Trans-Lux, Vi. Range of declines in industrials was from fractions to 15 points. Greater PRC Growth Envisioned by Tliomas Atlantic City — The PRC sales convention got under way here at the Ambassador this morning with an opening address by Harry H . Thomas, president, in which he called the delegates' attention to the fact that the past year was the most successful in the growth of the company and declared that with the advent of the new season, there are assurances that it will be an even greater period of expansion. "The entire industry is looking to PRC this com( Continued on Page 3) HARRY H. THOMAS 20tli-Fox Parley on Single Selling Oct. 15 The entire publicity, exploitation and advertising crew of 20th-Fox will convene at a three-day meeting scheduled to get under way Oct. 15. The purpose of the conclave will be to key the department to the new system of selling individual pictures. In addition to the home office staff, (Continued on Page 3) Philly's Film Theaters In General Price Hike Philadelphia — Local first runs and subsequents upped admission prices last week following the lead of Stanley-Warner houses. New tops at S-W houses are: week-days, $.85, Saturday, Sunday and holidays, $.94. With exception of vaudefilm Earle, $.99. S-W neighborhood houses (Continued on Page 9) lO New Tiiles Among ''V's''2S 12 Top British Pix Also for 1946-47 Lineup Believe China May Abide By Remittance Agreement Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — With major companies apparently still adamant on withdrawing from distribution in China, the State Department yesterday indicated that the Chinese Gov(Continued on Page 8) Marked by 10 new titles, Uni\ersal's revamped 1946-47 program, reflecting changes resulting from the merging of production interests of International Pictures with "U," and the subsequent cancellation of the Universal Enterprise distribution agreement, was announced yesterday. Announcement calls for the pro(Continued on Page 8) Ball Case in Pennsylvania Dismissed; Right to Sell Preferred Customer Upheld Pittsburgh — When a longtime exhibitor customer of a distributor acquires a new and larger theater, with at least as good a location as his former and smaller theater, no distributor is under any obligation to abandon such a customer in favor of a stranger who takes over the operation of the smaller theater. That, in summary, was the decision of Federal Judge R. N. Gib(Continued on Page 10) B'way Holiday 'Talies' Set New Record Times Square area theaters bulged with a Labor Day and week-end business which will swell the weeks' grosses to such proportions as will establish a new high in theater records along the main stem, a survey yesterday indicated. Outstanding returns, among the box office attractions, was reported (Continued on Page 8) Canadian Theatermen War on % Rentals Toronto — An organized movement on part of theater operators is reported launched to dispute the new form of film rental agreements on percentage features for the coming season. It has become known that the board of directors of the Motion (Continued on Page 6) f otocf-iVeb. AITO to Dear Berger of IMC A Eldora, la. — Allied Independent Theater Owners of Iowa-Nebraska has scheduled a meeting at the Fontenelle Hotel, Omaha, for next Monday. Ben Berger, president of North Central Allied, will be a principal speaker.