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GAIL Gail Kubik has won the American Academy in Rome Award which KUBIK will give him two years of study in Europe. Mr. Kubik, who has achieved distinction in many musical forms, first attract- ed attention with his film scores during the war, notably with AMT5RICA AT WAR and MEMPHIS BELLE made for the 0. W. I. A recent film score written for G-MAN (Film Classics), is receiving much attention and is one of the works which brought him the Rome award. He has just completed scores for GERALD MC BOING BOING and THE MINER'S DAUGHTER in Columbia Pictures clever cartoon series 9 JOLLY FROLICS . JACK Jack Shaindlin, New York Film Music Director, has been signed SHAINDLIH as Instructor at the City College of New York Film Institute for the fall term of 1950. Shaindlin, whose latest directoral efforts include the 20th Century-Fox production, FAIRWELL TO YESTERDAY, Louis deRochemont's LOST BOUNDARIES and HKO's GOLDEN TWENTIES is also Musical Director for THE MARCH OF TIME series of Film Short subjects and 20th Century-Fox eastern products. The new City College course will in- clude screening sessions of worthwhile musical sequences, attendance at music recording periods under Mr. Shaindlin's direction, visits by film com- posers and musical directors and actual score-writing by the composer- pu- pils. The course will commence in September and will run for twenty conse- cutive weeks, once weekly. MUSICAL (Jregor Rabinovitch, who has produced the film operas THE LOST FILMS ONE, HER WONDERFUL LIE and FAUST AND THE DEVIL in Italy for Columbia Pictures, has acquired the rights to the music of Guiseppe Verdi as preparation for making a film biography of the composer. The picture is planned for release next year, the fiftieth anniversary of Verdi's death. Aleksander Ford, director of BORDER STREET, the Polish film on the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, is working on a Polish version of the life of Chopin. Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell are directing an English film version of Offenbach's TALES OF HOFFMANN, for London Film Productions. Two members of the New York City Opera Company will sing,-Robert Romueville as Hoffmann, Ann Ayars as Olympia. The latter role is to be danced by Moira Shearer of THE RED SHOES fame. Sir Thomas Beecham will conduct. FILM MUSIC An Indiana exhibitor is furthering a proposal that National Screen TRAILERS Service produce and distribute ten minute sound track reels con- taining music from forthcoming Hollywood films, to be used partic- ularly in theatres where there is an present an extensive use of records. FILM MUSIC FILM MUSIC NOTES is building up an international circulation. NOTES This is probably due in part to its use by the Unesoo Library in Paris, the Canadian B roadoasting System and the Air Bulletin of the Department of State which reaches sixty countries. Among the countries appearing in our subscription files are Africa, Australia, Brazil, ( anada, China, Columbia, England, France, Hawaii, Holland, India, Italy, the Philippines and the West Indies.