The Film Daily (1948)

Intimate in Character International in Scope Independent in Thought Th< 9 Dally Newspaper Of Motion Pictures Now Thirty Years Old -^ DAILY VO'_j4. NO. 59 NEW YORK, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1948 TEN CENTS IBIBOURn flSKS UHf, DUBL TV OUinERSHjP TOA Seeks ASCAP Formula at Executive Session 500 Exhibitors Gather to Mull Trust Suits, Video, 16 mm.. Markets Expansion By WILLIAM SNYDER FILM DAILY Staff Writer Chicago — Preliminary discussions leading to a new approach to the ASCAP problem in the light of recent court decisions will get under way here this afternoon when the TOA executive board meets in the Drake Hotel to prepare for tomorI'ow's opening session of the oi'ganization's annual convention. TOA leaders, concerned by the confusion that has arisen from the decisions of Judge Vincent Leibell, in New York, and Judge Gunnar H. (Continued on Page 8) 700 RE-ISSUES IN REALART BACKLOG Termed Biggest in Industry — Company Unlikely to Enter Production, Says Budd Rogers RKO British Returns Set New High Record London (By Cable)— RKO U. K. business in the past 12 months easily beat the record figures established two years ago, Bob Wolff, chairman and managing director for the company in England, said at a meeting of RKO's British sales personnel. Wolff reviewed company activities (Continued on Page 4) Baseball Fever Affects Cleveland Theater Going Cleveland exhibitors will be happy when the American League pennant race is over. Bob Snyder, Realart franchise holder in that city, said at (Continued on Page 7) Kreisler in London To See Pix Leaders London (By Cable) — Bernard B. Kreisler, former American sales exec, who has reached here on his post-war survey of the European film market for Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, will confer with J. Arthur Rank, Sir Alexander Korda, Sydney Box, Maurice Ostrer, Sidney Bernstein, and Herbert Wilcox. Kreisler will stay for three weeks or so before returning to New York. He has been abroad for a year for the 16-country study. Distribution kinks have been ironed out, activities have been co-ordinated, and a "closer feeling of relationship" has been achieved since the formation of Realart Pictures a year ago, Budd Rogers, exec, veepee and sales chief, told the industry press yesterday at the company's third session of its first annual convention at the Hotel Warwick. In the rush of getting off to a quick start last year, mistakes were bound to be made, Rogers noted. But with 12 months of observation. Realart, with its 22 franchise holders, has forged a smoothly functioning machine, he declared. Rogers Presented Camera Evidence of this teanawork was shown shortly before Rogers gave his press interview when Sherman S. Krellberg, franchise holder for New York, Albany and Buffalo, arose during luncheon to present a 16 mm. Victor camera, as a token of esteem (Continued on Page 8) Open Small Business Trust Unit in N. Y. Organization of a New York section of the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice is announced by J. Francis Hayden, area chief of the division. John T. Kelly, Justice Dept. special attorney, will head the section, which is a branch of the small business unit set up in Wash(Continued on Page 7) Variety Reps, to Inspect Rogers Memorial Hospital Murray Weiss, Boston engineer and a national canvassman of Variety Clubs Int'l, and "Chick" Lewis, publicity director for the international organization, leave next Tuesday night for Saranac Lake to make a personal inspection of the physical (Continued on Page 4) Rathvon Tailcing Deal With Eagle Lion By RALPH WILK West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — N. Peter Rathvon who recently stepped down as pres1 ident of RKO Corp., has engaged in "strictly preliminary" discussions with President Arthur Krim _ of Eagle Lion with a view to producing (Continued on Page 6) Paramount Veepee Tells FCC Capital is Anxious To Finance Expansions By ANDREW H. OLDER Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Paramount VicePresident Paul Raibourn asked the FCC yesterday to make television stations stay on the air longer hours. His proposal came at the end of testimony in which he called for expansion of TV into the higher frequencies, with many more channels, and for permission from the FCC for single licensees to operate stations in the same city on the low and the high frequency bands, pro(Continued on Page 6) Small Effect in Any Devaluation of Franc Company Toppers Lunch With Eastman's Curtis Company presidents and MPAA toppers lunched at the Astoi yesterday with Maj. Gen. Edward P. "Ted" Curtis, vice-president of Eastman Kodak in charge of world-wide sales of motion picture film. General Curtis, who discussed (Continued on Page 4) Confectioners Lean on Theaters Net 9.2% of Chain Outlet Candy Sales Dollar exchange from the frozen earnings of U. S. pictures in France would not be affected by any further devaluation of the franc, it was pointed out yesterday, in the wake of reports of speculation in Paris concerning devaluation of the French currency. On the other hand, dis(Continued on Page 7) House Committee Checking On Confidential Reports Omaha — Willis J. Ballinger, counsel for the House Small Business Committee, has been instructed to secure additional information on Confidential Reports, it is reported in the wake of the Committee's (Continued on Page 7) 20th-Fox Asks Summary Judgment vs. V^albrook Washinnton Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Twentieth CenturyFox asked the Federal District Court here for a summary judgment dismissing the move by the Walbrook (Continued on Page 7) Theater sales account for 9.2 per cent of all candy distributed through chain outlets, according to a report by Philip P. Gott, president of the National Confectioners' Association, to the Affiliated Chain Drug Stores meeting in the Hotel New Yorker here. Candy sales now may constitute (Continued on Page 6) MPAA Theater Lists On Biennial Basis MPAA will make its census of U. S. film theaters on a biennial basis, Robert W. Chambers, director of the Association's Research Dept., announced yesterday. Department made public its first official survey early this year, with the next canvass to be published two years from then. There had been some talk of making annual surveys of theaters, it is learned, but the last decision is to make them every second year. it