The Film Daily (1947)

w Thursday, July 17, 1947 CUiLY Exhib. Heads Cautious Regarding Kirsch Plan (Continued from Page 11 their reaction at this time. Others, who declined to be quoted, expressed the opinion that the Kirsch remarks were in the nature of a "feeler," noting also that Kirsch had been at pains to point out that he was speaking only for himself and that Allied itself was not committed to the system. Resembles Forum Plan One exhibitor leader commented that the Kirsch plan bore a very close resemblance to the Forum plan originating with Fred Wehrenberg, St. Louis circuit operator and president of MPTOA. It was recalled that Allied had been invited to participate in the setting up of the Forum but that Allied had never acknowledged the invitation. Robert H. Poole, executive secretary of the Pacific Coast Conference, told The Film Daily that should it receive an invitation to participate in a program such as Kirsch proposed, the matter would be submitted to its trustees for consideration and action. Excellent for TTO Prexy One exhibitor who found the Kirsch plan "excellent" was Henry Reeve, president of the Texas Theater Owners, Inc. Reeve, commenting that Allied had refused to have a part in the earlier Forum, said: "Why that effort should have died merely because they did not want in, still is a puzzle to many of us who are primarily interested in the welfare of exhibition and exhibitors rather than in any personal element involved. It kind of makes me think of our kid days and the pick-up nine on a side ball games. The kid with the new ball or bat says — 'I want to be captain or I won't play.' "It seems as if there's a lot of that behind our exhibition troubles today. Meanwhile, the many, many small exhibitors in our country suffer needlessly. We can only hope for the best and try to obtain it. I wish we could get down to a more real and honest effort for our mutual good. Perhaps we can. "The credo of the Texas Theater Owners has always been that we are for anything and everything that is good for the motion picture industry, no matter from what source the effort to do that good comes." :^ ^ end v->l ftkda^ %Q' ree iin 9 Oo July 17 V y John Carroll Samuel A. Shirley Fred Armington Amelita Ward Irene Manning June Vincent James Cagney Frank Whitheck Jack Conway Al Bondy Herschel Stuart Helen Mason n ">^ PHIL M. DALY Thursday's Tidings • • • ARTHUR H. SCHWARTZ, a partner in the industry law firm oi Schwartz & Frohlich, has just been chosen chairman oi the Executive Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New York Schwartz, who fills the post vacated by Ed^ward J. Lombard, elevated to the Supreme Court bench, has had a distinguished legal and public career. ... • lames Forrestal, of General Aniline & Film Corp., Ansco division, has been elected vice-president and renamed to a three-year term as director of the National Association of Photographic Manufacturers. ... • Barbara Day, daughter of E. L. McEvoy, Universal short subjects sales manager, has been named director of publicity for the Fred Astaire New York dance studio Miss Day has been associated with United World Films. ... • Retail newsstand prices of Motion Picture Magazine will be reduced from 15c to 10c per copy with the August issue. ... • RCA is reported preparing to relax Latin-American credit terms, -which could start a trend in the equipment field. ... • The New York Herald-Tribune reported yesterday that department stores are dissatisfied with the profit margin allowed them on television receivers. ... • Si Fabian categorically denied that he had renewed negotiations toward the purchase of United Artists Somewhat miffed by rumors reported as facts, Fabian commented: "Grant's on the Coast Pickford's on the Coast Chaplan is on the Coast Kelly is on the Coast So who could I be negotiating with?" T T T • • • LOOKS LIKE a Canadian building race between Famous players Canadicm and Odeon is shaping up Para.'s subsidiary has 21 new theaters under construction, 14 -with associates or partners, and four set for late Fall completion. ... • "The Ford Theater," new hour which bows in over NBC in October, will adapt great films for radio as well as plays, novels, stories. ... • RKO has signed Albert Sharpe, no-w before the cameras in RKO's "Portrait of Jennie" here, for two pix. O Lots of entertainment in Dorothy Lamour's new air show, "Front and Center". ... • When a film company (20th-Fox) is forced to change the title of such a literary classic as "Bob, Son of Bcrttle" because exhibs. report patrons deemed it a war story, you begin to wonder if the mental age of the film audience really has risen. ... • Emily Post Dep't.: H. O. publicist for a film company -was barred from riding up a midtown hotel elevator on a business call because he was cootless T T T • • • DON'T BE SURPRISED if JAR's "Black Narcissus" finds a Broadway outlet in the Fulton Theater At any rate, reports are around that U-I is talking a deal -with City Investment Co. . . . • Ccmadian Broadcasting Corp. network is now carrying a new Hollywood program, "Flicks and Flashes," conducted by Susan Fletcher and originating in CJOR, Vancouver Miss Fletcher was assistant stage manager here for both Maurice Evans and Gilbert Miller. . . , T T ▼ • • • WITH THE U. S. CENSUS BUREAU reporting 60,050,000 civiUan jobs in June, folio-wing the May report of 58,300,000 jobs by the U. S. Employment Service, it could be that that depression you hear about in industry circles is a state of mind, couldn't it? Judging from titles of its forthcoming pix. Eagle Lion leads the Rainbow Parade -with "Red Stallion," "Green For Danger" and "Out of the Blue.". . . • Charles Chaplin might like to know that James Agate, distinguished British critic, bequeathed his canes which CC once o-wned, to the Savage Club Seems as how George Robby presented 'em to Agate. . . . T T T $25,000,000 Quota Set or Monogram and AA relea !at (Continued from Page 1 the quota as "a modest esti: our capabilities." He sai "Black Gold," second AA release, will be given the same handling as "It Happened on Fifth Ave." an3 already has 90 openings set in the same deluxe houses where "Fifth Ave." played. Carrying out a policy of diversifying and enlarging output, Broidy said the companies enter 1947-48 with the largest group of producers in the history of the studio. Among those to be represented on the AA slate are Roy Del Ruth, Maurice and Frank King, Jeffrey Bernerd, Nat W. Finston, Ted Reed, Jack Wrather, James S. Burkett, Hal E. Chester and Edward Nassour. Monogram's producer list includes Wrather, Bernerd, Burkett, Chester, Nassour, Jan Grippo, Lindsley Parsons, Walter Mirisch, Barney Gerard, Will Jason, John C. Champion, , Blake Edwards, Barney A. Sarecky, Bennett Cohen, Irving Allen and i Carl Krueger. Warner-Pathe Newsreel Deal Near Closing Stage (Continued from Page 1) Warners will have the advantage of taking over a running concern with many years of experience, as well as an enviable reputation. As to whether the new reel will be in color as had been predicted in the industry, it was regarded doubtful that Warners would venture out of the traditional black and white as they initiate their new reel. Conferences between the two companies' counsels are expected to continue for several days, with the final word of the decision remaining in abeyance for at least another week. \ Sniderman Named Mgr. Of New RKO Theaters Kv. (Continued from Page 1) ton-New Brunswick-Washington district, Sol A. Schwartz, general manager, announced yesterday. Leo Koken, manager of RKO Keith's, Flushing, succeeds Sniderman as division manager of the Manhattan group that includes the Coliseum, Hamilton, Regent and Alhambra Theaters. Sol Sorkin, manager of RKO Keith's, Washington, replaces Koken in Flushing. SICK LIST 3 SAM SEPLOWIN, Republic's Central division sales manager, and MRS. SEPLOWIN are in a Toledo hospital recovering from severe cuts sustained in an automobile accident while the couple were en route to the ITO of Ohio convention in Cedar Point.