The Film Daily (1948)

riLt COPY p NOT REMOVE if: Intimate in Character International in Scope Independent in Thought The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Twenty-Nine Years Old FDAILY OLf^, NO. 27 NEW YORK, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 9, 1948 TEN CENTS npusTRV in finflL buttle vs. divestiture Vew Rate Schedule Announced by ASCAP -TO A ~ ees Lower Than Previous ilera'emand; Old Rates Stay riesjevel for Many Theaters A new schedule of ASCAP rates, ;i )plicable for a period of 10 years, -as announced at the weekend fol;; wing five months of negotiations 'C'tween representatives of the SoAj-ety and the Theater Owners of :. merica. Ill Rates under the plan, which will be Hjfered to all of the nation's theaters, ■e considerably lower than the fees ■ked by ASCAP last September, hen the decision to request an inease was initially announced. The new scale does not raise fees r almost half of the country's thea'Continued on Page 7) 12 Big Screen Video lets Ordered by FWC Fox West Coast Theaters has or ■red 12 Vision Master projection f fonllevision receivers, it was revealed I riday by Alfred Emerson, president ™ .{: Colonial Television Corp. Deal as set in Los Angeles by Raomatic, • olonial's distributor in that area. It also learned that an RKO theater ■ i the Coast has ordered a Vision aster receiver. Emerson said that projection re(Continued on Page 5) [jj kouras Sees British Pix i [ationalization Shortly Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY J Washington — Spyros Skouras, ^^th-Fox head, told company toppers i nd MPAA president Eric Johnston I Mist week that he looks for new steps I nvard nationalization of the British ^^ix industry within a comparatively (Continued on Page 6) ■ ■' Harris Group After Film Center Building Joseph Harris board chairman of Realart, and treasurer of the U. S. Film Export Corp., has formed a syndicate which proposes to acquire the Film Center Building at 630 Ninth Ave., it was reliably learned at the week-end. Supreme Court of tfje WL. &. October Term, 1947 ON APPEAL Civil Action No. 87-273 U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, against PARAMOUNT PICTURES, INC., PARAMOUNT FILM DISTRIBUTING CORP., LOEWS, INC., RKO CORP., RKO RADIO PICTURES, K-A-O CORP., RKO PROCTOR CORP., RKO MIDWEST CORP., WARNER BROS. PICTURES, INC., WARNER BROS. DISTRIBUTING CORP. (sued herein as Yitagraph, Inc.), WARNER BROS. CIRCUIT MANAGEMENT CORP., TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORP., NATIONAL THEATERS CORP., COLUMBIA PICTURES CORP., COLUMBIA PICTURES OF LOUISIANA, INC., SCREEN GEMS, INC., UNITED ARTISTS CORP., UNIVERSAL PICTURES CO. (sued herein as Universal Corp. and Universal Pictures Co., Inc.), UNIVERSAL FILM EXCHANGES, INC., and BIG U EXCHANGE, INC., Defendants. THE COURT Chief Justice FRED M. VINSON. Associate Justice HUGO L. BLACK. Associate Justice STANLEY FORMAN REED. Associate Justice FELIX FRANKFURTER. Associate Justice WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS. Associate Justice FRANK MURPHY. Associate Justice ROBERT H. JACKSON. Associate Justice WILEY B. RUTLEDGE, JR. Associate Justice HAROLD H. BURTON. COUNSEL FOR THE INDUSTRY JOHN W. DAVIS, one-time Presidential candidate, Loew's. WHITNEY NORTH SEYMOUR, Paramount. GEN. WILLIAM DONOVAN, RKO. LOUIS D. FROHLICH, Columbia. THOMAS TURNER COOKE, Universal. EDWARD C. RAFTERY, United Artists. JOSEPH M. PROSKAUER, Warners. JAMES F. BYRNES, former Secretary of State, and one-time Supreme Court Justice, 20th-Fox. Supreme Court Will Hear Top Legal Talent Argue Equity Decision Appeals Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — The motion picture industry faces the crossroads of its future today when the U. S. Supreme Court begins its oral hearings of the 10-year-old demand of the Department of Justice's anti-trust division to write finis to the existing structure of distributionexhibition relations. At the bottom of the many facets lyf trade practices under review — clearance, block book(Continued on Page 5) Vote to End Theater Construction Controls Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Theater and other recreational building may soar to from $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 per year with the lifting of controls, Housing Expediter Tighe Woods estimated in a letter to Senator Harry Cain, Washington Republican, last week. The letter was written to express (Continued on Page 7) Kranze Names Max Roth FC Midwestern Div. Head B. G. Kranze, Film Classics vicepresident and world-wide sales chief, Friday announced the appointment of Max Roth as Midwestern division manager effective immediately. His (Continued on Page 5) COUNSEL FOR THE GOVERNMENT Attorney General TOM C. CLARK. ROBERT WRIGHT, Department of Justice motion picture specialist. Assistant Attorney General JOHN F. SONNETT. COUNSEL FOR AMICUS CURIAE PETITIONS HERMAN M. LEVY, TOA-MPTOA general counsel, MPTOA. ABRAM F. MYERS, Allied general counsel, CIEA (Continued on Page 7) RKO's 58th St. Will Have Tele Tonight New York will see its first theater video as a regularly scheduled program attraction tonight when RKO Theaters offers a 15 to 25 minute television show at the 58th St. Theater. House will bring in a sports event at 8:40 p.m. Equipment will be Colonial Television's Vision Master projection receiver which already has been used on the West Coast. Twelve by 15 foot screen will be used.