The Film Daily (1948)

IMIl DAILY: Thursday, August 5, 1948 ^AUraCTIMt ==^ ^mF'"^^ PDAILY^ Vol. 94, No. 25 Thur., Augusts, 1948 lOCts. JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M MERSEREAl : 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; Donald M. Mersereau. Vice President and Treasurer; Patti Alicoate, Vice President and Secretary. 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 months, $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. WEST COAST OFFICES Ralph Wilk, Manager 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone: Granite 6607 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older 6417 Dahlonega Rd. Phone: Wisconsin 3271 CHICAGO BUREAU Joseph Esler, Chief C. L. Esler 6241 N. Oakley Ave. Phone: Briargate 7441 STAFF CORRESPONDENTS LONDON — Ernest W. Predinan, The Film Renter. 127-133 Wardour St., W. 1. HAVANA— Jlary Louise Blanco, Virtudes 214. BOXfBAY — Ram L. Gogtay, Kitab Mahal, 190 Hornby Rd.. Fort, Bombay 1. ALGIERS — Paul Saffar. Filmafric, 8 Rue Charras MONTREAL — Ray Carmlihael. Room 0, 464 Francis Theater Bidg. SYDNEY— Bowden Fletcher, 19 Moxoii Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. Phone, UY 2110. BRUSSELS— Jean Pierre Meys, 110 Rue des Paquerettes. COPENHAGEN— John Llndberg, Jernbaneallc No. 3. Copenhagen-Van Loese. ROME— John Perdicarl. Via Ludovlsl 16. Phone, 42758. MEXICO CITY Jay Kaner — c/o American Chamber of Commerce — San Juan de Letnn 24. MnnnciRL (August 4) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Am. Seat 25% 25 25% Columbia Picts 9% 9% 9% East. Kodak 42 4P/2 42 Gen. Prec. Eq 3% 334 3^4 Loew's, Inc I6V4 le'/s IS'A Paramount 22'A 21% 22V8 RKO 8 7% 8 Republic Pict 31/2 31/2 31/2 Republic Pict. pfd... 8% S% 8% 20th Century-Fox ... 193/4 19 1934 20th Century-Fox ppf. 98 98 98 Universal Pict 11 IOI/2 H Worner Bros 10% ^0% }0% NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts. , . . 414 41A 414 RKO 2 1% 2 Sonotone Corp 3% 31/2 31/2 Technicolor 11 34 1134 1134 Trans-Lux 4V2 41/2 4Vi OVER THE COUNTER Bid Cinecolor 4 Pathe 334 Net Chg. + IVs '+"V2 '+"Vs + % + '/s + % V2 + % + Vs + 1/4 + Vs — Vs Asked 43/4 41/2 Keating Quits SRO Berth Cincinnati — SRO's local manager, Jack Keating, has resigned. GIVES YOU THE BEST VALUE IN SPECIAL ICHICAGOI 1327 S WABASH AVE I [THREE COMPL£TELr| I EQUIPPED PLANTS Tos ''-ma comma rhd goihg MAX KING is in Montreal to seek location sites for a forthcoming picture which he will produce for Screen Guild release. JOSEPH SANTLEY has returned to Hollywood from New York after doing further research for "I Don't Care," his original based upon Eva Tanguay, which 20th-Fox will film. J. M. CARROLL, 20th-Fox traveling auditor, is in Cincinnati. BOB ENGEL, DeVry Co. sales manager, has returned to Chicago from a Wisconsin vacation. H. GRACIA ARCINO, DeVry distributor for Uruguay, is in Chicago for conferences with Will DeVry, president, and Norman Olsen, export manager. HERBERT ELLISBURG, owner of the Studio Theater, Chicago, is here from Miami Beach for an annual visit. DENNIS MORGAN, JACK CARSON and DOROTHY MALONE, accompanied by MORT BLUMENSTOCK, Warners vice-president in charge of advertising and publicity, arrived in Houston today from San Antonio. E. R. ZORGNIOTTI, president of Lux Films, will sail tomorrow on the S. S. Queen Elizabeth for a six-week trip to France and Italy. JULES LAPIDUS, Warners Eastern and Canadian division sales manager, is in Toronto today, returning to New York over the week-end. WILLIAM A. SCULLY and MAURICE A. BERGMAN are en route to the Coast for conferences at the U-l studios. MARTIN LEVINE, Distinguished Films exec, has returned to his desk from a three-week Lake George vacation. JOSEPH BURSTYN, foreign film distributor, is on a six-week tour of England, France and Italy, with an eye toward buying product for U. S. distribution. GEORGE E. FREEMAN, manager of Loew's Poll Theater, Springfield, Mass., is in Hampton Beach, N. H., on vacation. BILL STERN and TED HUSING have arrived in England to collaborate on the commentary for "The 1948 Olympic Games" which E-L will distribute here. WILLIAM E. OSBORNE, Far Eastern rep. for Vionog am Int'l, has arrived in Sydney on a tour which is to take in New Zealand, Australia, N. E. I., Singapore, Siam, French Indo China, Hong Kong, Shanghai, India, Egypt. Goldstein to Preside at AA-Mon. Chi. Meet Maurice Goldstein, AA-Monogram general sales inranager. heads the New York delegation which will attend the companies' joint meeting of branch managers and franchise holders opening Saturday at the Drake Hotel, Chicago. Meeting continues Sunda y. Goldstein, who will preside, will be accompanied by Edward Morey, Harold Mirisch, Lloyd Lind and Sol Francis. On the agenda are such matters as current field liquidation, sales policy to be employed for "The Babe Ruth Story" and determination of the sales policies for 1948-49. YOUR FILM DAILY DELIVERED TO YOU IN LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY Bf MANNING'S DELIVERY SERVICE A SPECIALIZED MESSENGER AND DELIVERY SERVICE HO-7155 ROBERT M. GILLHAM, SRO's Eastern publicity chief, left the Selznick studio yesterday for New York. CHARLES SCHLAIFER, 20th-Fox ad-publicityexploitation director, leaves at the week-end on a combined business-vacation trip which will take him to New Hampshire, Boston and Cape Cod. He returns after Labor Day. NED E. DEPINET has arrived on the Coast by plane from New York. SAM M. FORGOSTON, of M-G-M's advertising production department, leaves tomorrow for a vacation in Canada. ROSS DOYLE, of M-G-M's publicity department, leaves tomorrow for a fishing and boating trip in Maine. TOM O'BRIEN, NATKE general secretary, sails for New York tomorrow aboard the S. S. Queen Mary. BEN KALMENSON, vice-president of Warners in charge of sales, arrived in Chicago yesterday on the first leg of a tour of the company's Western exchanges, winding up at the Burbank studios. He will be gone about two weeks. ED HINCHY, in charge of Warners playdate department, left yesterday for New Haven and Boston. He returns to New York on Monday. FRANK MASEK, NTS Cleveland branch manager, is vacationing in Canada. NICK HUMM, RKO exchange head booker, is vacationing at his Summer home in the Fox River Valley. ELMER HOLMES, of Holmes Projector Co., has returned to Chicago from a Wisconsin Summer vacation. NCA Set to Protest Salesman's Theater Move Minneapolis — Nortlh Central Allied is reportedly readying a protest to the RKO home office over the issuance of a theater construction permit to Wendell Bjorkman, a RKO salesman in this tei-ritory. NCA claims that Bjorkman is promoting the project for its "nuisance value," and proposes to ask RKO to clarify its position regarding company salesmen eng'aging in such competition with customers. No protest froimi NCA relative to the above action has been received by the RKO home office, it was learned yesterday. A company spokesman pointed out, however, that RKO policy has been to prohibit any salesman from holding an interest in a theater. Continuance of such policy would invalidate the NCA objection since Bjorkman, if the allegations concerning his intention to build a theater are true, would have to make choice between continuing in his present RKO post or operating the theater. f /^ EXCHANGE SERVICE Physical Handling ot Film inspection — Receiving — Shipping is part of 'BONDED'S 3-WAY SERVICE" • film Storagm • Film Bxchange Service • Air Conditioned Screening Room FILM STORAGE CO.. INC. I6OO BROADWAY, NfW YOHK CITY CIRClt 6 0081? 3.4 iONDED Green's $375,000 Trust Suit Settlement Nears Pittsburgh — Settlement of the $375,000 suit for damages brought against the major distributors by David N. Green, theater operator here, is expected to be signed within a few days on the basis of an a-greement reached last week. fev'^f It is reported that Green wiii drop the action in return for $40,000 plus an improved clearance and run arrangement for his two neighborhood houses. B. & H. Execs. Dine, Meet Chicago — Bell & Howell executives held a dinner meeting at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, last nig'ht on the eve of the two day sales meeting starting today at the Sherman Hotel. NEW YORK THEATERS -RADIO CITY MUSIC HAll _ Rockefeller Center "A DATE WITH JUDY" Wallace BEERY . Jane POWELL Eliz.iboth TAYLOR . Carmen MIRANDA Xavier CUGAT . Robert STACK A Metrn-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture BABE RUTH STORV^ -BEIMREVOII i ASTOR I Con! 'F*rformo«««f op Mc« AlAN DONNA LADDREEO. ^ffon A Grvot Lav» Stry Vm Cemai Stialng Tlitwf^l Qmt^ 1 ^^f?^A40(//Vr . MI0NIGH1 FEA Ccrnel Linda Anne Kirk WILDE . DARNELL . BAXTER . DOUGLAS "THE WALLS of JERICHO" 4 20t/i Century-Fox Picture ON VAHIETY STAGE— DICK HAYMES ON ICE STAGE— CAROL LYNNE ARNOLD SHODA . FRITZ DIETL 50th St.