The Film Daily (1948)

^ DAILY; Friday, September 10, 1948 ^1 Delay Para, Tele Plans For Midwest Network (Continued from Page 1) increased labor costs have necessitated a delay in the original plans announced last Winter. TV cover of the Notre Dame games from South Bend will be provided as scheduled. It is pointed out, however, that planning of the network setup will continue, but that other "long range" plans of the Balaban & Katz station will come under equal consideration in the coming months. Norma's "Blood Brother' To Be Shot in Arizona West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster announced that Norma Prods, has purchased the book, "Blood Brother," by Elliott Arnold. Picture will be one of the biggest on Norma's schedule and will be produced by Julian Blaustein. Present plans call for shooting to start in the Spring, with most of the film made in and around Tucson, Ariz. The story is semi-documentary, with a historical background. TV News Course by Cassirer Henry Cassirer, CBS-TV news editor, this Fall will conduct a 15-week course on television news at the New School for Social Research. Cassirer will cover general news presentation and production problems, with stress on films and other methods of televising news. WVV#V#V#V#*>V#V#V#* ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ^xjk Send Sirthday. Qreetlng.3 ZJo^" « September 10 Lily Damita Matty Kemp Al St. John Carlo Vannicola Edmond O'Brien Robert W. Perkins Carter Blake John E. Ryder Nat Rochlln Beverly Whitney Eleanor White September 11 Herbert Stothart Ruth Weisberg September 12 Alice Lake Maurice Chevalier Lindsley Parsons Sylvan Simon September 13 Jesse L. Lasky Edwino Booth Ciaudette Colbert Al Adams Lynn Carver Jay H. Zimmerman Elaine Anderson Mel Torme Dick Maymes September 14 Robert Florey Phil Reismon Alfred Santell Don Jose Majica Glenn Tryon Keith Douglos William Colby Mose Gumble Douglas Kennedy September 15 George Brown Al. Norton Goldsmith Robert T. Kane Louis Gasnier Pete Lewis Jean Renoir Penny Singleton Charles Cohen Jack Sogg J. E. Farrow Tom Conwoy Clifton Young September 16 Neely Edwards Alexander Korda Sam Spewack Jackie Cooper Wally Caldwell Harry M. Kalmine E. (Whitey) Lange Jerry Wald Janis Paige Lauren Bacall }j( if Friday's Fade-out • • • CINECOLOR's color directors herecdter will appear on all screen and other production credits as "Cinecolor consultants." . . . New title originated with Arthur Phelps of Cinecolor. ... • Wilmington, Del., moviegoers have a much better understanding of what makes the industry wheels revolve as a result of a feature article vrritten for the Wilmington Sunday Star on assignment by Henry L. ShoUy, Film Daily's local staffer. . . . Highly informative and authoritative, the article also supplies the answers to the wide variety of questions 'which patrons ore wont to ask exhibitors and house managers. . . . Both the MPAA otnd the TOA should find it extremely interesting from the industry public relations viewpoint. ... • AT&T has placed its radio relay between Boston and New York into commercial service after experiments on transmission of video and telephone. ... So your next phone call to the Hub may travel by radio vtraves. T T T • • • JOHNNY (RKO THEATERS) CASSIDY has bought a cottage in Southold, L. I., a town without a movie! . . . That makes lohnny a fellow townsman of radio's Senator Ed Ford, cnnong others. . . . • Something of a Coast record for tie-up displays would seem to have been set for today's simultaneous opening of "The Babe Ruth Story" at Warners' Hollywood, Downtown and Wiltem. Lou Lifton's department garnered more than 4,000. . . . Bill (Metro) Ornstein is vacationing in up-stcrte Clarksville. . . . Sylvan Goldfinger, manager of Chicago's Telenews Theater, has given the lobby Presidential poll stunt a new twist. . . . Costs a penny to vote. . . . Proceeds go to the La Rabida Sanitorium. T ▼ T • ' • • GIFT SHOPPE DEP'T: Ye Editor, back from the tradiUonol Summer respite, found awaiting him three gifts which point up the newest trend in film merchandising tie-ups, to wit: A Happy-Go-Lucky Horace statuette which Charley {20fh-Fox) Schlaifer assures "brings you 'The Luck Of The Irish.' "... A Venus statuette, sent along by Ava (Venus) Gardner as "a vibrant, high voltage voluptuary — a veritable preview of 'One Touch of Venus.' "... A pair of very cute Tom and Jerry bookends, provided thoughtfully by Maxwell (Metro) Weinberg as a reminder of the Technicolor cartoon series. . . . Also to hand, but not in the ploster category is a two-inch piece of rope, a Warnerpresented momento of the filming of "Rope." . . . Yessir, being editor certainly has its recompenses. ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • WALL ST. JOURNAL reported yesterday that City Investing Company has acquired a site for a de luxe legit, theater which will seat at least 1,500, maybe 2,000. . . . House, air conditioned, will aim for a weekly $50,000-$60,000 gross. . . . Come to think about it, legit, operators have been stupid in failing to borrow a leaf or two from the exhibitor's book. ... • The story of the small town which inherited a fortune has been turned into a film script by Fred Dickenson and Michael Raymond (both newspapermen of King Features Syndicate). It is titled "Cinderella City." . . . Two of the major studio story depcnlments are considering the script. . . . Raymond in collaboration with Tom Sells already has sold two originals to Hollywood. ... • Among screen, stage and radio personalities to receive Air Force citations for their USO Camp Shows services overseas are Bing Crosby, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, James Stewart, Al Jolson, Frances Langford, Bill Robinson, Joe E. Brown and Bob Hope. . . . Awards will be made by Gen. Henry A. Arnold at the first Air Force reunion at Madison Square Garden, Sept. 25. Theater Safe, $2,500 Mssing Gastonia, N. C. — Safe containing $1,000 in cash and $1,500 in checks was reported missing from the Carolina Theater, West Gastonia. RECs "Rachel" Into Mayfoir RKO's "Rachel and the Stxanger," Loretta Young, Robert Mitchum starrer, will open locally at the Mayfair. Hi Hopes Raised of Film $$ from Argentina (Continued from Page 1) shortage have combined to stymie normal trade between the countries so that there has been little hopt that film dollars could be sent tc New York in the near future''^ . Maroglio's trip, it is said^^'noHB in connection with visits to Govern ment officials but will be directe( at meetings with banking official; and others who have refused to di business with Argentina agains dollar payments a year or more ii the future. Trip, however, is tied to the cmrent visit in Washington of Jame, Bruce, U. S. Ambassador to Bueno; Aires. Bruce has been attempting tc accelerate ECA purchases in Ar gentina in order to help the Peror Government to obtain dollar ex change, which in turn would helj; trade between the U. S. and Ar gentina. Film distributors here have an ac cumulation of profits earned since exchange permits were banned on Aug. 22, 1947. While film import permits were refused in May of this year, that situation was relieved when the Peron Government las1^ ^ month again granted pix import permits, although still withholding dollar remittances. Import vacation had little effect on U. S. film distribution, as distributors here had a backlog of unreleased features. Waldman's N. Y. Branch Top FC Drive Winner (Continued from Page 1) Waldman and his New York branch Other winners and their exchange; were: second, $1,250, D. J. Edele.' St. Louis; third, $850, Robert P Abelson, Los Angeles; fourth, $650,| Sam Sobel, San Francisco, and fifth $500, B. A. Slaughter, Jr., Charlotte A new sales drive, "The Josep' Bernhard Sales Drive," now is under] way in honor of FC's president. Diamant to Star Records West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Jules A. Diamant has resigned from Butler Bros., to become general sales manager of Hollywood Star Records in connection with its merchandising of its "talking pictures." CHARTEReO I RELIANCE PRODUCTIONS, INC., Brooklyn; capltal, 200 no par shares; to produce films; by Bernard Sommer, Murray Keyles, Lillian Nadler. PARIS-NEW YORK FILM EXPORT CORP.. Queens County, N. Y.; capital, S20,000 in SI 00 shares; to distribute films; by Harry H. Edwords, Noa Wachsman, Louise A. Sedley. CINCINNATI SWEETCO, INC., Cincinnati; to' operate theater concessions; Nicholas Schaefer, president; Robert J. Libson, vice-president; Mike Spanagel, secretary, and Maurice White, treasurer. WESTCOT THEATERS, INC., Syracuse, N. Y.; capital, 250 no par shares; by Albert D. Gilbert, Bertha Gilbert, Herbert N. Slotnlk.