The Film Daily (1948)

: Cf^\ DAILY Thursday, September 30, 1941 Vol. 94, No. 64 Thur., Sept. 30, 1948 10 Cts. 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, X. Y., by Wid's Films and Film Folk, Inc. J. W. Ahcoate, President; Donald M. Mersereau, Vice-President and Treasurer; Patti Alicoate, Vice President and Secretary, iintered as second class matter, Sept. 8, 1938, at the post-office at New Y'ork, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New Y'ork $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.U0. 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, 127-1S3 Wardour St., W. 1. HAVAJs'A— Mary Louise Blanco, Tirtudes 214. BOMBAY— Ram L, GogUy, Kitab llalial, 190 Hombj Rd., Fort, Bombay 1. AXGIEBS — Paul Saffar, Filmafric, 8 Rue Charras. MONTREAL — Ray Carmichael, Room 9, 464 Francis Xarier St. VANCOL^TBR — Jack Droy. 411 Lyric Theater Bldg. SYDNET — Bowden Fletcher, 19 Moxon Ave., Punchbowl, N. S. Phone, UT 2110. BRUSSELS— Jean Pierre Meys, 110 Rue des Paquerettes. COPENTiAGEN — John Llndberg, JernbaneaUe No. 3. Copenhagen-Van Loose. ROME— John Perdicari, A'ia Ludovisi 16. Phone, 42758. MEXICO CITY— Jan Kaner — c/o American Chamber of Commerce — San Juan de Letran 21. MnnnciRL ^^S {September 29) = NEW YORK STOCK MARKET High Low Close Bell & Howell ISS/g 18% 18% Columbia Plots 8% 8% &% Columbia PIcts. pfd.. 60 60 60 East. Kodak 42% 41 Vz 42% East. Kodak pfd 157 157 157 Gen. Prec. Eq 131/2 133/8 13 1/2 Loew's, Inc 15% I51/2 15% Paramount 21% 21 14 21% RKO 73/g 7'/4 71/4 Republic PIct 31/8 3 3]/8 20th Century-Fox ... 191/8 19 191/8 Universal PIct 8I/2 814 8I/2 Universal PIct. pfd... 521/2 521/2 521/2 Warner Bros 10 97/8 10 NEW YORK CURB MARKET Monogram Picts 3% 3iA 33^ RKO 1 34 1 34 1 34 Technicolor 12 12 12 Trons-Lux 41/2 41/2 41/2 OVER THE COUNTER Bid Cinecolor 31/2 Pathe 31/2 Net Chg. + % + % — 41/2 + 11/2 + 'A + 1/4 + % + % + Vs + % — V2 + Vs + Vs + Vs Asked 3% 4 Monroe Trust Hearing April 4 Chicago — Federal Judge John Barnes set the Monroe Theater million dollar anti-trust case for hearing next April 4. In the meantime, defendant companies will gather film information demanded by the plaintiff in the case. Theater able at Write f sub-lease for 13 years, avail1927 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, iroposition. Box 237 THE FILM DAILY New York 18, 1501 N. Broadway Y. cominc ono come COL. WILLIAM McCRAW, Variety Club's Int'i executive director, arrives on the Coast tomorrow. FREDERICK BR15S0N has returned to Hollywood from an Eastern trip. VICTOR VOLMAR, Monogram's foreign publicity manager, has returned from a trip to the Coast. BURT LANCASTER and HAROLD HECHT left Hollywood yesterday for publicity events in connection with Norma Production's U-l release, "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands." They are cccompanied by BILL PEIRCE, Norma publicity director. JOHN PUERIFOY, Assistant Secretary of State, Is In Hollywood to confer with Film Classics' toppers on technical elements of "File 649— State Dept." KROGER BABB, president of Hygienic Productions, of Wilmington, 0., accompanied by BILL BEUTEL, vice-president of MCA, and MILDRED HORN, author, are In Hollywood to complete filming arrangements for "One Too Many." RICHARD de ROCHEMONT, producer of The March of Time, arrives from Europe today aboard the Queen Mary. F. A. BATEMAN, Screen Guild general sales manager. Is on a trip to Kansas City, Chicogo, Nashville, St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York. HUGH McDonald, M-G-M booker In Charlotte, and his bride are honeymooning here and will visit Chicago next week before returning home. Four U. S. Majors Selling 16 mm. in Argentina Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Buenos Aires offices of four major U. S. distributors (Universal, RKO, M-G-M and Warners) are among the 10 firms distributing 16 mm. features in Argentina, Department of Commerce Pix Chief Nathan D. Golden reports. United States and Mexican films are being shown widely in 16 mm. versions — with average rental for one feature and shorts 100 pesos per showing. French and Italian films are soon to be made available on the narrow film, but printing of domestic Argentine production is confined almost entirely to 35 mm. thus far. Charges Commies Seek to Dominate N. Y. AFM Local Communist party is out to run or ruin the New York AFM union, Local 802 officials charged in a statement. Situation is said to have been brewing for some time, but was climaxed Monday when the Communist fraction leadership is said to have filibustered to preclude a vote on a resolution under which all candidates for union office would file non-Communist statements. ARE SHOWMENS CHOICE EVERYWHERE! FINEST QUALITY*? DQ SERVICE CAPT. VOLNEY PHIFER, of W. R. Ferguson's exploitation staff at M-G-M, left yesterday for Des Moines. E. C. BOOTH, M-G-M branch manager In Cin cinnati, left last night for his headquarters after several days of home office conferences. JOHN P. BYRNE, M-G-M Eastern sales man ager, is In Boston for a few days, returning here at the week-end. On Monday he will leave for Buffalo. WALTER WANGER arrives In New York from Hollywood on Monday to complete arrangements for the world premiere of "Joan of Arc," at the Victoria Theater on Armistice Day. He will be accompanied by his wife, JOAN BENNETT, and their three daughters, SHELLEY, MELINDA and STEPHANIE. ROBERT CUMMINGS will arrive at La Guardia Field at the controls of his own plane tomorrow for a week in New York before proceeding to Toronto. CHARLES E. KURTZMAN, Loew's Northeastern divisional manager, Boston, and I. B. SCHLOSSBERG, Loew's auditing department. New York, were recent Syracuse visitors. LEO SELIGMAN, treasurer of Favorite Films, leaves Tuesday night on a business trip covering Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo. D. C. COLLINS, manager of WE's Electrical Research Products division, leaves New York for Hollywood today for discussions with Western Electric and studio officials. He expects to return to New York In mid-October. DAVID NIVEN sails aboard the S. S. Queen Elizabeth for Europe on Oct. 8. WB Drive in October Honors Division Heads Ben Kalmenson, Warners general sales manager, has set the month of October as Division Managers' Month in the company's current sales drive which began in May and lasts through Nov. 13. The division managers to be honored with the drive month are: Roy Haines, Western; Jules Lapidus, Eastern and Canadian, and Norman Ayers, Southern. Cash prizes aggregating $35,000 will be awarded the winners in the drive. Linet Lectures Tonight Henry A. "Hank" Linet, Universal's Eastern advertising manager, will be guest lecturer at the American Theater Wing Screen Seminar in New York tonight. His subject will be the organization and functioning of a film company advertising and publicity department. Sessions of the screen seminar are held at 432 W. 44th St '^i^ STORAGE Film Storage in Modern Fireproof Vaults . . . part of "BONDED'S 3-WAY SERVICE" • Film Storage • Film Exchange Service • Air Conditioned Screening Room FILM STORAGE CO., INC. BONDED 1600 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY CIRCLE 6-0081-2-3-4 Exchange Service 630 Ninth Av N. Y. Representative of National Film Service, Inc. Prof. Richter to Receive Venice Award Tomorrow Prof. Hans Richter, director the City College Film Institute, ti morrow will receive a silver statuetl from Italian Consul General Luii Nardi in the offices of Dr. Harry ] Wright, City College presidpnt. Tl statuette, indicative of 19 Venice Award for the ouna .andii contribution to the progress of cini matography, will be presented Professor Richter for his production "Dreams That Money Can Buy." I Ask Nixing of City Movie Tax Chicago — Riverview Company a torneys are asking a mandatoi judgment to restrain this city fro collecting the four per cent amus ment tax. This is the second cas before courts, as bowling alleys ai also contesting the city amusemei tax. NEW YORK theater: _ RADIO CIIY MUSIC HAIL _j Rockefeller Center GARY COOPER, ANN SHERIDAN in LEO McCAREY'S "GOOD SAM" A Rainbow Production, Inc. Picture Released by RKO Radio Pictures SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION Barbara Stanwyck Burt Lancaster mm, WRaKGUfQMBER' A Poramount Rsleaw 7^/JR/^MO(//vr :, James Nasser Pnxus FRED MacMurrav MADELEINE ^ i^ Carroll k ReltaMj Ihro Uniled Artists ' Door* Optn *-M A. M. LOR ETTA YOUNG RKO presents WILLIAM HOLDEN ROBERT MITCHUM 'RACHEL and the STRANGER' MAYFAIR'"^*"* Brandt's 47th St. VICTOR MATURE • RICHARD CONTE "CRY OF THE CITY" A 20th Century-Fox Picture ON VARIETY STAGE— DANNY THOMAS THE SHYRETTOS • MARIE McDONALD ON ICE STAGE— "THE BLUE DANUBE" Starring JOAN HYLDOFT ROXY ^^•'A^-* 50th St.