The Film Daily (1947)

Wednesday, February 5, 19 DAILY Vol. 91, No. 25 Wed., Feb. 5, 1947 10 Cents JOHN 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. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 menths, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications 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 Blvd., Phone Granite 6607. WASHINGTON— Andrew H. Older, 6417 Dahlonega Road, Wash. 16, D. C. Phone Wisconsin 3271. Manning Clagett, 2122 Decatur Place NW. Phone, Hobart 7627. CHICAGO, 45, HI.— Joseph Esler, 6241 N. Oakley Ave., Phone Briargate 7441. LONDON —Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 127133 Wardour St. W. 1. MANILA— Homer Stuart, Hotel Manila. HAVANA — Mary Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. BOMBAY— Ram L. Gogtay, Gaiety Bldg., opposite Victoria Terminus, Hornby Road, Fort, Bombay 1. 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. MONTREAL— Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavier St. VANCOUVER— Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bldg.; SYDNEY— Bowden Fletcher, 19 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. W. Phone, UY 2110. BRUSSELS— Jean Pierre Meys, 110 Rue des Paquerettes; MOSCOW— Raymond A. Davies, Hotel Metropole. COPENHAGEN— John Lindberg, Jernbanealle No. 3, nnflncifiL (Tues., Feb. 4) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Am. Seat 22% Bell & Howell 23% Columbia Picts 21% East. Kodak 229i's do pfd 195 Gen. Prec. Eq 23% Loew's, Inc 26Vi Paramount 29% RKO 15% Republic Pict 8% Republic Pict. pfd.. . 15% 20th Century-Fox . . . 36% Universal Pict 29% Universal Pict. pfd... 90 % Warner Bros 17% NEW YORK CUR Monogram Picts 5% RKO 5 Sonotone Corp 3% Technicolor 1 8V2 Trans-Lux 4% OVER THE COUNTER Bid Asked Cinecolor 5% 6% Pathe 8% 9% Net Low Close Chg 22% 22% -j_ % 23% 23% _j_ % 21 % 21% a. % 228 228% -f V? 195 195 + 1 23% 23V4 V4 26 26 — v4 29 29 — % 15% 15V4 — % 8 8 — Vr 15% 15% _| % 35 35 — 1 28 1/4 28% — % 90% 90i/7 _L 2i/7 1714 171/4 'A 3 MARKET 5V4 5V4 4% 4¥4 V* 3 3 Vr 17'/7 18% -+ % 4V4 4% + Vs cominG add goirg U'U «5"»y «"jj tGO B WAY. N,Y C, GiHGLE 6-0081-2-3-4 O iJ». DONNA REED is visiting New York with her husband, TONY OWEN. HARRY K. McWILLIAMS, Columbia's exploitation manager, is confabbing with theater heads in Toronto on forthcoming showing of "The Jolson Story." OSCAR A. MORGAN, short subjects and Paramount news sales manager, entrained yesterday for a week's swing through the Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and St. Louis territories. LEON J. BAMBERGER, RKO Radio sales promotion manager, returns from Washington today. VERA CASPARY will arrive in New York tomorrow by plane from the Coast, and returns there Sunday. EARL ROBINSON has arrived from Hollywood, where he finished a musical scoring job for M-G-M, to complete his series of symphonic tone poems for the "Roosevelt Story" produced by Tola Productions. WILLIAM C. GEHRING, 20th-Fox Western sales manager, is at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., for a checkup. BEN BERGER, president of North Central Allied and STANLEY KANE, NCA executive director, are in New York conferring with sales managers about policies and exhibitor problems. WILLIAM B. ZOELLNER, head of M-G-M's reprints and importations, is back from a Midwestern trip. ROBERT TAYLOR, M-G-M star, and his wife sail today on the Queen Elizabeth. BURTUS BISHOP, JR., M-G-M district manager with headquarters at Dallas, has been in Memphis the past two days and today leaves for Kansas City and a brief visit there. RALPH WHEELWRIGHT, of M-G-M's studio publicity department, leaves Washington today for the Coast after several weeks in the East conferring with Howard Dietz, Si Seadler and Herbert Crooker. MITCHELL RAWSON, of M-G-M's publicity department, has returned to Washington after returning here Monday from a brief trip there. JOE PASTERNAK, M-G-M producer, has gone to Canada until Friday when he returns to remain until Feb. 12, at which time he will head for a Nassau vacation. HARRY ROSENQUEST, of the Warner circuit film buying staff, is in Chicago for a few days. LOUIS J. KAUFMAN, Warner Theaters' executive, is on a business trip to Cleveland and Pittsburgh. He returns to New York next Monday. Bogeaus-Lupino Form Arcadia Productions NAT D. FELLMAN, executive of Warner Theaters, left yesterday for Cleveland, returns to New York at the end of the week. JOHN J. GLYNN, vice-president of WarnerInternational, has left New York for a visit to the company's branch offices in Colombia, South America. He will be away about three weeks. GEORGE STEVENS, one of the producer-director owners of Liberty Films, Inc., has returned to Hollywood after a visit to New York. ROBERT CURRIER, manager, Des Plaines Theyesterday. DIANA LYNN arrives in New York Friday from Chicago for radio appearances. DENNIS MORGAN and JACK CARSON, are in Phoenix, Ariz., to take part in the Phoenix Open Golf Tournament. STACY KEACH, test director for Arthur Willi, RKO Radio's Eastern talent head, is on a talent quest that for the next two weeks will take him to Savannah, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Waco, Corpus Christi and Dallas. JOHN HOUSEMAN, RKO producer, sunning in Florida returns to West Coast on Monday to start shooting on "That Girl from Memphis." WILL DeVRY returned to Chicago from Mexican business trip. CHRISTY WILBERT, advertising manager of 20th-Fox, returned to the home office yesterday from the Coast where he attended studio conferences. Formation of a new production unit with Benedict Bogeaus and Ida Lupino, to be known as Arcadia Productions, was announced yesterday. Production schedule calls for one picture a year for three years, to star Miss Lupino. "Queen's Necklace," company's first, will mark Miss Lupino's first venture in production. WOMAN SPEAKS ON 44 SCREENS BALABAN & KATZ BOOKS WOMAN SPEAKS SHORT FILM OVER ENTIRE CHICAGO EREA CIRCUIT OF THEATRES — OTHER LARGE CIRCUITS PLAYING WOMAN SPEAKS. Dieterle Heads Selznick Group on Eastern Trek 'Vest Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — The parade of talent heading East for David O. Selznick's picturization of "Portrait of Jenny" continued yesterday when Director William Dieterle and Joseph McMillan Johnson, art director and production designer, left for New York where the film will be produced. Dieterle and Johnson, who followed Joseph Cotten, will be joined soon by cinematographer Joseph August, technical supervisor James Stewart, production manager Dewey Starkey, producer David Hempstead, and scenarist Peter Berneis. Jennifer Jones, who received the Look achievement award last night as the best actress of 1946, plans to leave for New York at the week's end. Churchill Suggests U. S. Film Import Cut (Continued from Page 1) president of the Board of Trade < Churchill's war-time Cabinet. "We are very anxious," rep Dalton, "that more good Bri films be produced. We would lij£-< fill our screens with them, buti moment, production is not sunSl' and we have to continue taking fi from America." NOW AVAILABLE! 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No plans have been m regarding physical distribution foreign countries and it is lil SRO will make a deal for that \\ some organization. Jeffrey Back from Trip Arthur Jeffrey, Eagle-Lion's ] ploitation manager, has returi to the home office after a fcj week trip in connection with I world premiere engagement of '| A Joke, Son" in Austin, Tex., subsequent openings in Hous] Dallas and Ft. Worth; Tulsa Oklahoma City, Okla., and Menrr Tenn. JEJTEKSOl KENTUCKY AVE. NEAE BEAC ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Special Rates Whiter-Spring Season American and European Plan* Plantation Cocktail Lonnf* Dally Concerto— Son Decks JOHN B. RTTKBi G*m. Mat. ■BNTCCKY AYI-NKA* BSACB ATLANTIC CITY. N, J. M DmJly Per C (Two In Baomt European Plan — Open AU Tee Mew Coach and Tom arm