The Film Daily (1948)

=a FILE COPY timate in Character emotional in Scope dependent in Thought -1FDAILV The Daily Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Twenty-Nine Years Old Ij:^' NO. 37 NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1948 TEN CENTS )AI OHDSTOn TO U.K. FOR TOP L6V6L COnFRBS Valsh Calls for Squashing1 o£ Collusion Charge ISE Prexy, Hutcheson, idelof, Doherty Appear lore House Group ' 7shington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — With IATSE Presi -:::t Richard Walsh calling upon -;irman Carroll D. Kearns to aban ^ any intent to charge collusion '~T ,veen his union and producers to :k out" other employes, and none he leading characters looking for ]e Committee to accomplish any ig toward settlement of the Holly SkOd studio jurisdictional troubles, hearings before the House Labor (Continued on Page 6) Tom Clark to Speak At TOA Board Meet Attorney General Tom Clark yesterday accepted the invitation of Ted R. Gamble, president of TOA, to speak at the TOA directors meeting at the Hotel Ambassador, Los Angeles, on March 9. Subject matter of Clark's address was not disclosed. public Net Profit i>wn to $570,200 :: .epublic's net profit for the year fjied Oct. 25, 1947 was $570,200.09, ] n nearly 50 per cent from the $1, :-:, 940.41 earned in the 48 weeks ;.:;ed Oct. 26, 1946, it is reported. •-rj'nings in the last fiscal year were al to 9 3 f 10 cents per common :r re, after provision for preferred (Continued on Page 3) :&T East-Midwest Video ik Set for This Year :> 1T&T expects to link the East and r Midwest for network television -jthe end of this year, Bartlett T. ■'-' ler, vice-president, in charge of long lines department, revealed ^terday in announcing extensive (Continued on Page 3) Rocky Mt. Allied Joins in MPF Nix Denver, Colo. — Rocky Mountain Allied's board yesterday voted to fall in line with the National Allied stand on the Motion Picture Foundation and also voted to support the Lewis bill in Congress forbidding ASCAP the power to tax theater seats. An extensive membership drive to bring the local unit to full strength for its annual convention in Denver May 18-19 was authorized. National Allied's board was invited to meet here about the same time. Pix Use to Build Brotherhood Urged Hollywood could create a brave new world by setting in motion forces that are diametrically different from those released by Hitler. Leaders of the amusement industry at yesterday's luncheon of the Conference of Christians and Jews at the Hotel Astor were urged by Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman to glorify brotherly love, decency and democracy, and through the glorification of noble ideals destroy the crippling effects of bigotry, hate, stupidity and greed. Dr. Liebman who wrote the best(Continued on Page 6) Leaving Friday With O'Hara in Move to Start Impasse Off Dead Center Position via Meetings With Attlee, Cripps, Wilson and Film Leaders Eric A. Johnston, MPAA-MPEA president, and Joyce O'Hara, his executive assistant, will fly to London on Friday for a projected series of top level conferences, both Government and industry, looking to the ending of the Anglo-American film impasse, it was learned yesterday. The conferences will be exploratory rather than negotiatory, it is understood, but this by no means minimizes their importance, or the potentialities. In London, Johnston is expected to conferr with key men in the Labor (Continued on Page 7) ASCAP Asks Dismissal Of Gov't Trust Action Denying all allegations in the Government's trust action filed last June, ASCAP, in answers filed yesterday in Federal Court, asked that the suit be dismissed. ASCAP pointed out that certain agreements between it and foreign music societies are now extant, and that ASCAP, in anticipation of the Government suit, re(Continued on Page 7) Zone First Run Plan For "Norfhside 777" Chicago — "Call Northside 777" will be available in the Chicago metropolitan area March 19 for first runs in each of 16 key zones, it was announced yesterday by J. H. Lorentz, central division sales manager of 20th-Fox. Theaters are to be selected on the basis of competitive negotiations in each zone. It was pointed out by Lorentz that previously, in connection with "Daisy Kenyon" and "Captain From Castile," the Andy Smith plan of licensing pictures in a number of key (Continued on Page 3) Rodgers Calls for M-G-M Sales Conference on Coast West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — William F. Rodgers M-G-M vice-president and distribution chief, has called a five day sales conference here beginning March 1 in order to preview and discuss the company's forthcoming product. Rodgers made the decision to hold the conclave in the wake of high enthusiasm among studio executives for the company's new pictures. Field sales managers, their territorial assistants and home office executives (Continued on Page 7) Urge Indiana Houses To Get Tele Sets Indianapolis — Associated Theater Owners of Indiana is advising exhibs. in this state to install tele receivers in theater lobbies as a "preparedness" measure. Allied unit points out that with WLWT, Cincinnati, and WGN, Chi(Continued on Page 7) Blast Jackson Park Petition Attorneys Answer Contempt Charges Calif. Theaters Ass'n Votes TOA Affiliation Robert W. Coyne, TOA executive director, announced yesterday that the California Theaters Association of Northern California had voted to affiliate with TOA. Roy Cooper of (Continued on Page 7) Chicago — Counsel for major distributors struck back at contempt charges filed Jan. 16 by Attorney Thomas McConnell, acting for the Jackson Park Theater, before Federal Judge Michael Igoe here yesterday, challenging the allegations contained in the McConnell petition. Appearing for Paramount, Edward (Continued on Page 6) Senate Extends Theater Building Controls 14 Mos. Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — The Senate last r.ight passed a rent control bill which would extend for another 14 months (Continued on Page 3) House Com. Plans H'wood Red Hearings Washington Bur., THE FILM DAILY Washington — The House UnAmerican Activities Committee will begin a new series of hearings on Communism in Hollywood early next month, it was reliably learned yesterday. The sessions will get under way immediately following the District Court trial of John Howard Lawson. slated for March 8, first of the 10 Hollywood individuals to be tried for contempt of the Committee. Among those to be called is Herbert Sorrell, head of the CSU.