The Film Daily (1948)

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W*^ DAILY Wednesday, September 22, 1$48 Name Five-Man Board For U. K. Finance Co. (Continued from Page 1) lion pounds available pending formation of a full corporation. Davenport was finance adviser to Sir Alexander Korda and M-G-M when they were linked during the war. Stopford is a former finance counsellor to the British Embassy in Washington, while the others are city personalities. British Lion, it is learned, has circulated stockholders seeking permission to borrow up to two million pounds from the Government for film production. Judge Igoe Says No Case In Jackson Park Suit Chicago — Federal Judge Michael Igoe, after listening to arguments from Paramount attorneys regarding the subsequent run of Paramount's "Foreign Affair," which was , awarded to the "B-run" Tivoli Theater for subsequent run and not to the Jackson Park Theater, said that the Jackson Park decree was plain and there was no case before him. If Attorney Thomas McConnell, for the Jackson Park Theater, wanted to bring contempt proceedings regarding the exclusive award of the film to the Tivoli Theater by the Paramount exchange. Judge Igoe indicated he would entertain the proceedings. Film Row observers predicted last night that Jackson Park Theater will get the film, too, for a day-and-date run without contempt proceedings. B & K Tells Barnes Year Needed for Monroe Data Chicago — B & K attorney told Federal Judge Barnes in the Monroe Theater anti-trust case hearing yesterday that it would cost $20,000 and 12 ■ months to prepare the data wanted of the 12 years' bookings from 1933 to 1945 for 53 B & K theaters which showed 2,100 films in that time. Judge Barnes said he could see no reason for B & K film companies not supplying data, wanted by Seymour Simon, plaintiff's attorney. He added that the defense could get the information wanted within reasonable time. Attorney Simon will next interrogate Johnny Jones, of the JLS Circuit, which operates the McVickers Theater, Loop house concerned in the Monroe suit. Youngsters Return to 1%. Carolina Theaters Charlotte — With the opening of North Carolina's schools today, health authorities have lifted the ban on children attending public gatherings because of high polio incidence. Theaters are again permitting children to attend programs as the ban has now been discarded generally. HOLLVUJOOD-VmE VflRD By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX Director John Stahl is just about ready to dub himself Colonel Stahl and go on a strict diet of corn-pone, hawg chittlin's and Southern fried chicken. . . . The reason for this is that Stahl is beginning to feel like a Professional Southerner, having just been assigned the directorial reins on "Waltz Into Darkness," George Jessel Production for the Westwood lot. . . . The William Irish story has a New Orleans period setting, which is exactly the background of "The Foxes Of Harrow," which Stahl made last year. ... It looks like the director's cast will be headed by Cornel Wilde and Linda Darnell. . . . Stahl figures he'll be talking you-all like a native of New Orleans by the time he gets through megging this melodrama. . . . Yarn will have Linda in the role of an adventuress who meets a bride-to-be on a boat bound for New Orleans where the stranger is going to marry a man she has never laid eyes on. . . . Linda cunningly murders the marriage-bound girl who had accepted a proposal via correspondence, and then impersonates the dead woman on her arrival at her destination. . . . Stahl has made a long string of outstanding boxoffice successes ranging back to his "Back Street," a classic of its type, and ranging up through his current 20th Century-Fox directorial achievement, "The Walls Of Jericho." * * * THE TREND of public and international events during the next few weeks will determine whether any changes will be made in Producer-Director Roy Del Ruth's production slate. . . . Joe Kaufman, associate producer for the company, has already made one trip to Washington for conferences with State Department officials on the advisability of moving up "The Washington Story" on their shooting schedule in the light of current events. . . . Yarn, a comedy-drama much of which transpires around the Russian embassy in Washington, is now slated to follow "Red Light" on Del Ruth's line-up of productions for Allied Artists release. . . . Meanwhile, Del Ruth's "The Babe Ruth Story" is continuing to hold-over for record grosses in key opening releases, and the Allied Artists high command is very happy about the whole thing. ... in fact, opening reactions and indications resulted in AA ordering 200 more prints of the horsehide epic. This brings the total number of prints on "The Babe Ruth Story" to 500, which is getting up there near the record for an independent production. . . . Del Ruth has given them all something to shoot at. Minneapolis Eyes First Early Availability Dates Minneapolis — Exhibitors here are standing by on any further early clearance deals pending the success or failure of the first two stands, Variety and Homewood, experiment with the 28-day run which starts this week with "Easter Parade." Some moviegoers in the two neighbodhoods have protested the increase in prices from 40 to 60 cents, which accompanied the earlier playing dates. Doubts were cast whether nabe theatergoers really cared about seeing the pix about a month earlier than usual for only 10 cents less than first-run loop prices. However, exhibitors are awaiting first concrete results of public acceptance of the earlier runs. Ohio ITO Names Caravan, Com. Columbus, O. — Allied Caravan Committee of the ITO of Ohio, announced by P. J. Wood, secretary. Chairman of the new committee is Urban Anderson. Other members include Jack Armstrong, Jerry Anderson, E. L. Biggio, Frank Slavik, H. L. Russell and Leo T. Jones. Detroit Woods Switches To Second Run Policy Detroit— Woods Theater, East Side neighborhood house, opened last Winter by United Detroit Theaters, is being switched from a key to a second-run policy. Change will give Detxoit nine second-run houses. Distribution of ownership is of significant interest because of the recently filed SIMPP suit involving UDT and Cooperative Theaters. Of the nine, UDT will now have five outright — the Riviera, Cinderella, Fisher, Madison, and Woods, while sharing the Royal with the Wisper & Wetsman Circuit which is a member of Co-op. The latter group controls two others — W & W's own Roosevelt and the Cohen Circuit's Hollywood, while the ninth is the RKO Uptown, lone unit of the RKO Circuit in Detroit. Novak Hoppers Tax Repealer St. Louis — Alderman Herman Novak has presented to the Board of Aldermen his bill to repeal the five per cent city ticket tax. Measure will not be pressed until validity of the new city earnings tax ordinance is upheld in the Missouri Supreme Court. B'way First-Run Houses Diminishing (Continued from Page 1) been lost as possible showcases. Loew's State, which at one time occasionally played first-runs along with a stage show policy ha^ ^en converted into a de luxe houi ^or top quality product. In addition, the Rialto screen has been turned over to the exclusive use of Film Classics, the Victoria is in the process of overhaul leading to its debut as a topflight house, and the Winter Garden, as of Oct. 1, will once again become a legitimate outlet under the Shubert aegis. Producers of medium budget product, finding themelves frozen from Broadway runs, have already indicated their intention of starting right in with the large circuit houses. Universal's "Feudin', Fussin', Fightin' " is currently making its first metropolitan appearance on the RKO Circuit as the second feature with "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid," and other opuses are likely to be played off in the same manner. Sole advantage of the system is the elimination of the high ad-publicityexploitation expenses that accompany a Broadway opening and it is felt by some observers that films will not suffer appreciably when this factor is cancelled out against the revenue that would accrue in the firstrun engagement. ACT Complains to BOT on Foreign Cutting, Dubbing (Continued from Page 1) the Board of Trade yesterday. Question arose over a production, "OK Agostina," being made in Italy by Ludovico Toeplitz by a British formed company and with a British cast and technicians. Allied Drops Board Meeting Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — National Allied has called off its scheduled September meeting of the board of directors, Abram F. Myers, counsel and board chairman, announced. Executive committee will meet next month, probably here, and the Fall board meet will be held in New Orleans at the end of November. Election Returns via Video in 12 Areas ABC will bring a comprehensive television coverage of the nation's Presidential election results to viewers in 12 metropolitan areas on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 2. Under the sponsorship of Kaiser-Frazer, returns and analysis will be telecast over both Eastern and mid-Western networks; the former comprising New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Boston, and the latter including Chicago, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo.