The Film Daily (1948)

DAILY : Tuesday, September 21, 1948 Vol. 94, No. 57 Tues., Sept. 21, 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; 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 Wllk, Manager 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone: Granite 6607 WASHINGTON BUREAU Andrew H. Older 8417 Dahlonega Rd. Phone: Wisconsin 3271 CHICAGO BUREAU Joseph Esler, Chief C. L. Esler 6241 N. Oakley Ave. Phone: Brlargate 7441 STAFF CORRESPONDENTS LONDON— Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Ecnter, 127-133 Wardour St.. W. 1. HAVANA— Mary Louise Blanco. Virtudes 214. BOlfBAT — Ram L. Gogtay, Kltab Mahal, 190 Hornby Rd., Fort, Bombay 1. ALGIERS — Paul Saffar, Fllmafrlc, 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL— Ray Carmlchael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xavler St. VANCOUVER — Jack Droy, 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. SYDNEY— Bowden Fletcher. 19 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl. N. S. Phone, UY 2110. BRUSSEL,S — Jean Pierre Meys, 110 Rue des Paquerettes. COPENHAGEN— John Lindberg, Jembanealle No. 3. Copenhagen-Van Loese. ROME — John Perdicari, Via LudoTlsl 16. Phone. 42758. MEXICO CITY — Jay Kaner — c/o American Chamber of Commerce— San Juan de Letnn 24. nnnnciflL ^=S (September 20) NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Net High Low Close Chg. Am. Seat 243/4 241/2 241/2 — V4 Bell & Howell pfd 98 98 98 — s/s Columbia Picts 9 83^ S% — Va East. Kodak 425/8 41 Vs 41 i/s — 13/, Gen. Prec. Eq 133^ 131/2 I31/2 — 1/4 Loew's, Inc 16'/8 ^5% IS'/s — 1/4 Paramount 221/4 21 Vs 21 Vz — ^A RKO . 75/8 71/2 75/8 Republic Pict 31/s 3 31/8 + i/g Republic Pict. pfd 71/3 6% 6% — 3/8 20th Century-Fox ... 20 I91/4 I91/4 — % Universal Pict 9 8I/2 85/8 — 14 Warner Bros }0% 10% 103/8— SA NEW YORK CURB MARKET RKO 15/8 11/2 11/2 Sonotone Corp 31/2 33/8 33/8 ... . Technicolor 123/8 I2V4 123/8 Trans-Lux 47/8 45/8 45/8 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Cinecolor 35/8 Pothe 31^ Asked 4 4 Roiboum to Speak at Conference Paul Raibourn, Paramount vicepresident, will speak tomorrow at the National Industrial Conference Board round table meeting at the Waldorf Astoria. His subject is "The Outlook for Entertainment and Recreation." WBEN on ABC Tele Net Buffalo — Television station WBENTV here became a full affiliate of ABC yesterday, one of three metropolitan video outlets to affiliate with the system on that date. Others were WTMJ, Milwaukee, and WEWS, Cleveland. cominG flno coinc VICTOR SAVILLE, who will direct M-G-M's "The Conspirator/' leaves Hollywood by plane todoy and sails from New York Thursday aboard the S. S. Queen Elizabeth bound for England, where film will go into production latter part of October. MERRIMAN H. HOLTZ, president-elect of NAVED, is spending the month of September in California, visiting Hollywood and San Francisco. MR. and MRS. E. WAGNER are now on a trip through the West Coast territory, calling on Wagner reps. They are making the trip in their own olane and will fly back to be in St. Louis for the TESMA-TEDPA Convention. JERRY FAIRBANKS flew from Hollywood last night to Sun Valley, Idaho, to attend NBC's second annual convention. Piloting his own ship, the producer was accompanied by RUSS JOHNSTON, director of NBC's Television Feature Service. CALVIN LEEDER and SOL KRAVITZ, of Warners home office, are In Atlanta. GEORGE DOLENZ returned to Hollywood Sunday from a visit to Italy for the dual purpose of visiting his family and discussing a bid to do a film In Italy. GILBERT KURLAND, producer, is here from Hollywood. He Is at the Waldorf. JOE YULE leaves Hollywood today for New York City to resume his role In the stage production of "FInian's Rainbow." FREDERICK DE CORDOVA, director of U-I's "For the Love of Mary," trained to New York over the week-end to attend the pic's opening at the Criterion tomorrow. FRANK ROGERS, of Florida State Theaters, has returned to Jacksonville from New York. Spencer Elected Prexy Of Art Directors Group West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — J. Russell Spencer was elected president of the Society of Motion Picture Art Directors at the annual meeting. Other new officers are Daniel Cathcart, vice-president; Addison Hehr, secretary-treasurer; Carl Anderson, warden, and Malcolm Bert, assistant-at-large. New board of. directors includes Albert Nozaki, Frank Arrigo, Carroll Clark, Emerich Nicholson, Edward Carrere, and Edward Ilou. RKO Closing Deal for 5 Pix Starring Grant West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Gary Grant would make five pictures for RKO on a production-profit participation basis under a deal now in the final stages of negotiation. Representatives of Howard Hughes and the actor are said to have reached agreement, with the papers now en route to England for Grant's signature. Rockne-Tivoli Suit Dismissed Chicago — Rockne and Tivoli Theater trust suits were dismissed at the week-end on a motion by Aaron Stein, representing Saul Meltzer. Actions were settled out of court. OUTDOOR ' REFRESHMENT " CONCESSIONAIRES from Coast to Coasti over V4 Century/ Now Specialising) in Refreshment Service for RIVE-IN theatres; SPORTSERVICE, InC, ARTHUR C. BROMBERG and JIMMY HOBBS, of Monogram, in Atlanta, are on a trip to Miami, with Hobbs going on to New Orleans. GEORGE HAUPENT, Columbia home office rep.. Is In Atlanta. Arriving today aboard the Queen Elizabeth will be HOAGY CARMICHAEL, FERNANDEL, FRANCES ROWE and JACK BUCHANAN. NORMAN W. ELSON, Trans-Lux vice-president, leaves today for Washington, returning Thursday. EDWARD M. SCHNITZER, UA Eastern and Canadian sales chief, and his assistant, ABE DICKSTEIN, left for Gloversvllle, N. Y., yesterday for conferences with Schlne circuit officials. KIRK DOUGLAS left New York yesterday for Hollywood. ROBERT J. O'DONNELL arrives in New York today from Boston. LLOYD NOLAN and LT. AUDIE MURPHY were In Boston yesterday for the local Variety Club's Great Heart award luncheon honoring Martin J. Mullln and Sam Pinanskl. WILLIAM F. RODGERS, M-G-M vice-president and general sales manager, returned yesterday from Washington. RUSSELL STEWART, of M-G-M's publicity department, left yesterday for Washington to attend the special Navy Department preview of "The Secret Land." WALTER PIDGEON* Is In town for a brief vacation. MARGARET O'BRIEN Is In from the Coast for a two-week vacation. GEORGE SIDNEY will depart for the Coast Friday with his wife, LILLIAN BURNS, actress. EDWIN W. AARON, M-G-M assistant general sales manager, arrived on the Coast yesterday for a vacation. He Is due back Oct. 11. ALFRED JUNGE, ort director of M-G-M British Studios, is now in Rome In connection with "Quo Vadls." He will return to London shortly and then visit the U. S. Hollywood Committee to Seek VA Hospital Dates West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Marco Wolff, head of Fanchon & Marco, was named overall committee chairman of the special group set up over the week-end to set up a drive to send top personalities to the 107 VA institutions on the Veterans' Hospital Camp Shows list. William Meiklejohn and John Beck were named to represent studios, while Sidney Strotz, NBC West Coast head, will coordinate radio industry efforts. Engineers Oppose Higher Video Frequencies Now Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Engineers are not yet ready to extend commercial television into the "upstairs" bands, the FCC was told yesterday by a representative of the technical study group of the Radio Manufacturers Association and the Institute of Radio Engineers. Filmack CIVES YOU THE BEST VALUE IN ISPECIALI TRAILERS three completely {equipped plants CHICAGO NEW YORK 245 WEST 55 STREET LOS ANGELES I SEND US YOUR NEXT ORDER / Realart Convention Opens; Rogers Announces Product Initial session of Realart Pictures' first annual convention opened in the Hotel Warwick here yesterday with Budd Rogers, vice-president in charge of sales and distribution, presiding. Rogers spoke enthusi ally about the company's product^ j.or the coming year. Topping the list were two Technicolor anniversary specials, "The Phantom of the Opera," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." Also announced were "Saboteur," "I Cover the War," "Crazy House," "My Little Chickadee," "Diamond Frontier," "Frontier Badmen," "State Police," "Armored Car," "Give Out Sisters," "Mr. Big," "North of the Klondike" and "Ski Patrol." Among' those here for the conclaTe are Paul Broder, Jack Broder, Irving' Kipnis, Norman Eisenstein, Joseph Harris, Bill Schulman, Carroll Piiciato. James Harris. Manny Jacobs. John Manrham, Ken R. Smith, R. S Carscallon, Bert Stearn, Milton Brauman. Lee L. Goldberg-. Harold Cohen. H. V. George. Scott Lett, Bol Snyder. Manny Stutz. Nelson Wax, Joe Levine, Joe Wolf. John Franconi Sam Decker, Henri Elman, Harry Price. Fred Sandy. Bernie Mills, Myron Mills. Sherman S. Kre'lberg, Moe Kerman. Joe Felder, Carr Scott, Don Swartz and Jack Zide. Pix Notables on Dais As Lodge Fetes Fabian Entertainment industry leaders and civic officials will ioin in the Cinema Lodge, B'nai B'rith tribute to S. H. Fabian, president of Fabian Theaters, at the Hotel Astor tonight. Among those scheduled to be on the dais are Barney Balaban, Spyros Skouras, George Skouras, Jack Cohn, Malcolm Kingsberg, Joseph R. Vogel, John J. O'Connor, Leonard Goldenson, Harry Brandt, Abe Montague, Samuel Rinzler, Samuel Rosen, David Weinstock, Walter Vincent, Emil Friedlander. ' Also Cinema Lodge past presidents Robert M. Weitman, Jack Levin, Albert A. Senft, Adolph Schimel, Irving Greenfield, Arthur Israel, Jr., and Alfred W. Schwalberg. Rites for Jacob Hirsch Funeral services were held yesterday at Park West Memorial Chapel for Jacob Hirsch, father of Leonard Hirsch, home office assistant to Rudy Berger, M-G-M Southern sales manager. RKO RADIO PICTURES, Inc. MEMPHIS TRADE SHOWING rr rr of Samuel Goldwyn's A SONG IS BORN CRITTENDEN THEATRE WEST MEMPHIS, ARK. WED., SEPT. 29, at 8:30 P. M.