The Film Daily (1948)

TOEl DAILY Monday, September 13, 1948 Vol.94, No. 51 Mon., Sept. 13, 1948 lOCts. JOHN W. ALICOATE Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU : 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; 5 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. Fredman. The Film Renter, 127-133 Wardour St., W. 1. HAVANA — Mary Louise Blanco. Vlrtudes 214. BOMBAY — Kam L. Gogtay. Kitab Mahal, 190 Hornby Rd., Fort, Bombay 1. ALGIERS — Paul Saffav, Filmafric, 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL — Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francli! Xavler St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy. 411 Lyric Theater Bid?. SYDNEY — Bowden Fletcher, 19 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. Phone, UY 2110. BRUSSELS— Jean Pierre Meys, 110 Rue des Paquerettes. COPENHAGEN — John Llndberg, Jembanealle No. 3, Copenhagen-Van Loese. ROME-— John Perdlcarl, Via Ludovlsl 16. Phone, 42758. MEXICO CITY — Jay Kaner — c/o Ameilcan Chamber of Commerce — San Juan de Letran 24. FinnnciflL = {September 10) = NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net Chg. 1/4 + Vi High Low Close Columbia Picts 91/3 9 9 East. Kodak 43% 431/8 431/3 Gen. Prec. Eq I41/2 143/8 MB/g Loew's, Inc 16% 16 16% + 1/3 Paramount 23% 22 221/2 — 1/2 RKO 8 7% 7% Republic Pict SVs 3 3V8 Republic Pict. pfd.. . . 7% 71/2 71/2— 1/4 20th Century-Fox . . 203^ 201/8 203/4 + 1/2 20th Century-Fox pfd. 333/4 333^ 333/4 .... Universal Pict 10 91/4 91/2 Universal Pict. pfd... 603/'8 591/2 603/8 Warner Bros 11 IO3/4 lO'/g NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 4 4 RKO 1% 13A Sonotone Corp 3'/2 i% Technicolor 13l/i 13 Trans-Lux 4% 4% OVER THE COUNTER Cinecolor . . Pathe 4 13/4 33/8 13 45/3 Bid 3% 4 Asked 4 41/2 Lightfoot to Paramount As Aide to Shuford Herbert C. Lightfoot has been added to the Paramount advertising staff as an assistant to Stanley Shuford, ad manager. Lightfoot served in the public relations branch of the Navy during the war and more recently with 20th-Fox Int'l in Latin America. "Red River" Into Capitol Howard Hawks' "Red River," opens at the Capitol Theater Sept. 30. cominc nno come ERIC A. JOHNSTON and JOYCE O'HARA arrived in Stockholm by air Friday enroute from Paris to Moscow. PATRICIA ROC, J. Arthur Rank star, arrived in New York Friday by air from Toronto and planed out to Paris Saturday. FLORENCE ELDRIDGE arrives in New York today aboard the S. S. Queen Mary after completing her role as Queen Isabella in Rank's "Christopher Columbus," to be released here by U-l. MAURICE A. BERGMAN, U-l Eastern advertising and publicity director, and CHARLES SIMONELLI, U-l Eastern exploitation manager, left New York at the week-end for Chicago and Columbus. TERRY TURNER, RKO exploitation director, is in Chicago to ready the world premiere of "Station West." LEON J. BAMBERGER, RKO sales promotion manager, will address theater managers of the Pioneer circuit in Carroll, Iowa, Sept. 22. A. J. O'KEEFE, U-l assistant general sales mancgar, left for the Coast over the week-end. 20th-Fox Inaugurates New Format in Pressbooks With an appropriately tinted cover — green — 20th-Fox has begun distribution to exhibs. of a press book for "Luck of the Irish" that inaugurates a new format for all such future exploitation material. Prepared by the home office ad-publicity department under Charles Schlaifer's direction, the new and different press book will play an important part in the company's "Lucky Month" campaign. About the size of a legal folder, there is a simplified art treatmentindividualization of story material, cross-indexed exploitation suggestions set up as a card file; scene cuts are grouped on one page. It aims for simplification and easy workability, providing a complete all around exploitation program for all types of theaters. Front cover is a replica of the 24-sheet used on "Irish" while the back cover shows posters and accessories. Publicity material is slugged for various newspaper departments. Delegates Reach Coast For Fox Sales Parley West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Los Angeles — Headed by Prexy Spyros P. Skouras, delegates to the 20th-Fox national sales conference arrived here over the week-end from 37 U. S. cities to discuss sales and promotion plans on forthcoming productions. The first sales meetings will start tomorrow with General Sales Manager Andy W. Smith, Jr., leading the discussions. To Complete Your Year Book File We h 1920 Wid's ave an extra copy of YEAR BOOK then . Will sell. Write Box 221 the 1919known as THE FILM DAILY, 1501 New York 18, N. Broadway Y. EDWIN W. AARON, assistant general sales manager for M-G-M, left over the week-end for a vacation on the Coast. WILLIAM B. ZOELLNER, head of M-G-M short subject sales, reprints and importations, has returned to New York after a series of meetings with sales managers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Washington. VICTOR SAVILLE, M-G-M director, arrived from the Coast over the week-end and leaves tomorrow aboard the S. S. Queen Mary for London for advance conferences on "The Conspirators" which M-G-M will film in England. JACK SOGG, M-G-M Cleveland branch manager, left over the week-end for his headquarters after spending a few days at the home office. WILLIAM HEBERT, Samuel Goldwyn's Hollywood ad-publicity director, trains in today from the Coast for a two-week Eastern vacation. ALBERT MANNHEIMER, director of exchange operations for Film Classics, Inc., left last night on an inspection tour of tie Milwaukee and Chicago exchanges. WILLIAM DANZIGER leaves for the Coast V/ednesday. Nat'l Tele Film Council Receives N. Y. Charter Albany — National Television Film Council, Inc., has been chartered here by the Secretary of State as a nonprofit organization comprising all industries affiliated with television. Prime purpose of the Council is to stimulate interest and advance the use of film in the video field. Directors, who will serve until the first annual meeting of the corporation include Melvin L. Gold, Myron Mills, Jay Williams, Sally Perle, Robert Wormhoudt, Irwin A. Shane, Robert M. Paskow and Jack Glen. Highest Canadian Scale For New Toronto Odeon Toronto — W. C. Tyers, manager of new Odeon-Toronto Theater Friday announced the regular policy, with general admissions scaling from 35 to 80 cents, and reserved seats 80 cents at matinee and $1.20 for evenings. This is the highest range in Canada. House has no stage show but will have organ recitals each performance by Al Bollington. Rites for Joe Citron Funeral services were held Friday for Joseph L. Citron, 49, manager of Loew's Olympia, who died suddenly Thursday following a heart attack. Interment was in Beth David Cemetery at Elmont, L. I. YOUR FILM DAILY DELIVERED TO YOU IN LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY BY MANNING'S DELIVERY SERVICE A SPECIALIZED MESSENGER AND DELIVERY SERVICE HO-7155 Blumenstock to Coast For Warner Parleys Mort Blumenstock, Warners vicepresident in charge of advertising and publicity, leaves tomorrow for the Burbank studios where he will confer with Harry M. and Jack L. Warner on forthcoming releases. Among the features to be discussed will be "Johnny Belinda," ,"^une Bride," "Fighter Squadron,'l^^he Decision ' of Christopher B^S^e," "One Sunday Afternoon" and "The Adventures of Don Juan." N. J. Allied to Ratify Conciliation Tomorrow Ratification of the Smith conciliation plan as a means of settling differences that may arise between 20th-Fox and New Jersey exhibitors is expected to be made by the Allied board at a meeting in the organization's offices here tomorrow. President Ed Lachman will preside over the session which vdll take formal cognizance of the report of its Film Committee which met with Andy W. Smith, Jr., 20th-Fox distribution chief, last week and favors adoption of the program of conciliation. NEW YORK THEATERS _ RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL _ Rockefeller Center "A DATE WITH JUDY" Wallace BEERY . Jane POWELL Elizabeth TAYLOR . Carmen MIRANDA Xavier CUGAT . Robert STACK A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION Barbara Stanwyck Burt Lancaster my WRONG NUMBER' A Paramount Release Z^/^^/TA^Oosyr ROSALIND RUSSELL in "THE VELVET TOUCH" A FREDERICK BRISSON PRODUCTION Released through RKO RIVOLI B'way & 49tli St.