The Film Daily (1948)

"^ DAILY Thursday, September 23, 194!| k See Go Ahead for TV In Dominion Nearing Montreal — Television in Canada may receive the go-ahead signal within the next two weeks, informed spokesmen point out. Governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. are to convene here in the near future for the purpose of considering several applications for video stations. Following CBC recommendations, nothing would remain in the way of TV here, except the formality of a sanction from the Department of Transport. Interest in television has been raised because of the telecasts from stations in Buffalo. A number of Canadian homes in Toronto already are receiving programs from that source. In light of this interest, Canadian radio manufacturers, who head the list of video station applicants, are making extensive plans for the coming of TV, to the point that one manufacturer, Canadian Admiral, has already demonstrated a combination radio-record player which will have a matched TV receiver when video is okayed on this side of the border. Variety Reps, to Inspect Rogers Memorial Hospital (Continued from Page 1) plant of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital as a preliminary step toward Variety's take-over about Jan. 1. It is possible that they will be accompanied by a medical expert who at the same time will discuss the institution's requirements with the hospital staff. The reports when completed will be submitted to International Chief Barker Bob O'Donnell and Variety's other officers and national canvassmen, and will serve as a guide for the subsequent steps. It is expected that a new nonprofit corporation will be established to meet the legal requirements for the take-over. O'Donnell and Lewis conferred Tuesday with Abe Montague and Charles Reagan of the distributors emergency committee formed in behalf of the hospital. Proposes Premieres Pay Hospital Costs St. Louis — A proposal that receipts from six or more premieres in New York first-runs be used to defray expenses of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, is advanced by Thomas James of the Comet Theater. James proposes that each distrib. donate one feature a year, with the premieres to be backed by the New York industry as annual charity events. He suggested th;;t such a development might result in the establishment of a Variety Tent in New York, which could make the hospital its charity project. ^Ai-^ «»^ PHIL M. DALY Steve Broidt/i Pathfinder • • • IN THESE DAYS when the more timid are in retreat and there is not infrequent resource to the crying towel, it is good to read that Monogram and Allied Artists will release 61 features during the coming season. . . . Pcrtently, to increase your program to a new high and raise your distribution sights at a time when the business portents are variously interpreted both by those who should know and those who obviously do not require guts and confidence, sagacity and that special brand of optimism peculictr to the bom showman. . . . Steve Broidy has long qualified as the latter, to be sure. . . . And Steve has his own reasons for planning 51 for Monogram, 10 for Allied Artists. ... It is of interest, too, thcrt virtually all will be made in the United States That means jobs in Hollywood. . . . And when you make jobs there, you boost morale not a little. ... It is hardly necessary to add that without morale, you don't get the sort of product that pays off for the exhibitor as well as the distributor. ... So a doff of the old chapeau to Broidy, et al And may their tribe, like the Monogram AA program, increase! T T T • • • THAT ESPRIT DE CORPS which the Realart gang has been manifesting around the Warwick Hotel this week is really something to cheer. . . . There's a gang going places, aware of the fact, and determined to move along still farther. . . . And under the very able leadership of Joseph Harris, Pcrul Broder, Budd Rogers aiul others in the top echelon, Realart's lads will. . . . Just as thar's gold in California's hills, thar's gold in the right re-issues today. ... No secret about that. . . . For 'em, there's a brand new^ audience awaiting. . . . An audience that has grown up since the first time 'round. T T ▼ • • • EDDIE CANTOR receives the UJA's 1948 citation for humanitarianism during a special CBS broadcast Sunday, with Samuel Goldwyn making the presentation. ... • Eastman Kodak is honoring its longservice employes with a three-day program at Rochester this week. ... • Westinghouse is upping tele and radio set prices early next month. ... • Paramount's product again being played by the Skouras circuit. ... • Allied Artists hosts New York fan mag. editors, staffers today, party honoring Lloyd Nolan and Lt. Audie Murphy. ... • Daily Film Renter of London paid a glowing columnar farewell to Dave Golding, FILM DAILY alumnus who has just completed a tour of service in Britain for Transatlantic. ... • That "Wheels A-RoUing" pageant at the Chicago Railroad Fair is being filmed for posterity by six camera crews from Dudley Pictures. T T T • • • IS ERIC POMMER shortly to step down as fihn chief in the American zone of Germany? ... • How many licensed femme projectionists are there in the United States? . . . That question stems from the fact that Teresa Ross, 18, mans the booth of her Dad's Russellton, Pa., house .... • "Jerry" (J. Philip) Bahn, son of FILM DAILY'S editor, whom Coach Art Valpey had rated Harvard's top defense end this season, saw his Crimson football career terminate yesterday when Boston surgeons operated on his fractured right arm to place a splicing plate. . . . Fracture was sustained in scrimmage last week-end. . . . "Jerry" has the sad and dubious distinction of having broken both a leg and arm for Harvard. . . . Leg mishap was last year. ... • Didja know that the SIMPP first began to work on that Detroit suit two years back? . . . Starting point actually seems to have been a Hollywood conversation between Donald Nelson, then SIMPP prexy, and Roy Rubin, long-time secretary of Local 199, lATSE, Detroit, and brother of Edna Rubin, then Nelson's secretary. . . . Nelson asked a series of questions, apparently casual, but evidently far from it. DATE BOOK ■| fAMOi Today: Realart sales force and franchise holdet first annual convention. Hotel Warwick! !ol New York. [ Sept. 24-25: Theater Owners of America con vention, Drake Hotel, Chicago. Sept. 27— MPTO of St. Louis, Eastern Missouitd & Southern Illinois convention, Hrtel Jefi fc ferson, St. Louis. Z' ^ "r Sept. 28: Circus Saints and SinnersV / neon meeting, Gene Autry as the Fall Guy, Wol dorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. ■■ Sept. 28: "Night of Stars" committee honor Robert M. Weitman with luncheon. Hots Astor, New York. Sept. 28-30: Theater Equipment and Supplj ;., Manufacturers ' Association and Theote*^ Equipment Dealers Protective Associatio annual conventions and trade show, Jeffei son Hotel, St. Louis. Sept. 28-29: Kansas-Missouri Theaters Associa f tion annual convention, Kansas City. K Oct. 14: Kansas City film industry testimoniot 'f dinner for Gus Eyssell, Radio City Musi| Hall prexy, Muehlbach Hotel, Kansas City Oct. 17: Annual dinner dance. Motion Pictur Bookers Club, Hotel Commodore. Oct. 17: Motion Picture Bookers Club ninth an: nual dinner-dance. Commodore Hotel, Ne' York. Oct. 25-29: SMPE holds 64th semi-annual con vention. Hotel Statler, Washington, D. C. fjj| Washington. Oct. 27-28: Kentucky Association of Theate Owners Convention, Seelbach Hotel, Louis ville. Nov. 1-2: Allied Theater Owners of Texas con vention, Dallas. Nov. 15: "Night of Stars" benefit performanc for United Jewish Appeal of Greater Ne< York, Madison Square Garden, New York Nov. 27-28: Fall board meeting of Nationc Allied, New Orleans. Nov. 29-Dec. 1: Allied States Association Theater Owners convention, Roosevelt Hote New Orleans. I«r £ Company Toppers Lunch With Eastman's Curtis k m Continued from Page 1) i ;.j Eastman's non-inflam. acetate filn said it would be made available oi a limited basis for features in earl 1949. Full industry use was sai likely to require from two to thre years. In addition to the non-inflam benefit, new Eastman film is said ti|ial; ofl'er greater durability, Eastman is planning the erectioi lie of a huge acetate plant in Tennesse^t it was disclosed RKO Sets New Record for U. K. Returns Last Year (Continued from Page 1) since the advent of the ad valoreit tax in August, 1947, and reveale the lineup of product to be release in the new season. A Luscious Morsel! Follow up of that steak special emphasizing the "Red River" opening at the Capitol had Sammy Cohen, UA's foreign publicity director, memoing a note to Howard LeSieur, advertising and publicity director, "Whatever is going to happen to Hollywood if the press is going to eat up all the character actors.'" Memoed Howard right back, "I don't know but I'm putting in my order right now for Lizabeth Scott." !lt Bll k Hai far k