Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1939)

2 MOTION PICTURE DAILY Tuesday, September 12, 1939 Praise to WB For Modifying Sales Policies (Continued from page 1) in spite of the obstacles they have encountered. "The distributors' committee has not been dissolved," he says, "and a practical solution to at least part of our problems may yet be found through earnest effort of those who are working toward these ends." Discussing the recent rejection of the proposed industry trade practice code by the Department of Justice, the bulletin questions whether or not the Department's action was not "just the prosecutor's strategy to scare the distributor defendants out of adopting proposals that might weaken the Department's position in its law suit by removing the abuses complained of." The bulletin discloses that the M.P.T.O.A. board of directors' meeting at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Oct. 23 and 24, will consist of closed sessions for freer discussion "of matters of general interest." Approve 'Beau Geste' Toronto, Sept. 11. — The Ontario Provincial Board of Appeal had concurred in the approval of "Beau Geste" by the chairman of the Board of Moving Picture Censors for the showing of the feature in Ontario. Following the outbreak of war the picture was recalled, along with "Nurse Edith Cavell" regarding which there has been no further declaration. PROUD WORDS: "I FLY UNITED Distinguished overnight sleeper and scenic daylight flights to LOS ANGELES. The Continental, leave 5:45 pm, and "The Overland Flyer," leave 9:45 pm. Finest meals aloft. Call travel agents, hotels, or UNITED AIR LINES 58 E. 42nd Street Phone MU-2-7300 i Purely Personal ► WILLIAM KUPPER, 20th Century-Fox western division manager, has returned from a tour of branches with M. A. Levy, Kent drive leader. W. C. Gehring is accompanying Levy this week, and William Sussman continues with the drive leader next Monday. • Herman Finkelstein of Schwartz & Frohlich, Ascap counsel, leaves for Lincoln, Neb., today with Louis D. Frohlich to prepare for trial there next Monday of music society's attack on the constitutionality of the state's anti-Ascap law. E. C. Mills and John Paine of Ascap will leave for Lincoln on Friday. • Orson Welles flew in from Hollywood Saturday for a three-day stay here in connection with his broadcast with Helen Hayes, which was aired last night. For the next four or five weeks, Welles will fly from the Coast to New York each week-end. • Davidson Taylor, assistant to Bill Lewis, CBS vice-president in charge of programs, will speak before the Congress of American Musicological Society at CBS Radio Theatre No. 1 on Friday. • Herbert Wilcox, producer, and Anna Neagle, star of "Nurse Edith Cavell," will attend the premiere of the film at the Alusic Hall, following the run of "Golden Boy," currently plaving. • Boris Morros planed out of Hollywood yesterday for New York to confer with George Schaefer on his next picture. Morros will produce for RKO release. • Harry Joe Brown, 20th CenturyFox producer, and his wife, Sally Eilers, leave tomorrow for the Coast. Miss Eilers has been in Summer stock at Cape Cod. • Al Rosen, manager of Loew's State, yesterday underwent a tonsilectomy at Medical Arts Center, his second operation in three weeks. • Joe Pincus, 20th Century-Fox talent chief, and Joe Holten and Charles Goetz of his staff are back from scouting Summer stock. • Charles Buckley, Fox West Coast legal counsel, has returned to Los Angeles after conferring here with Spyros Skouras. • Jules Koexig, manager of the Liberty Theatre, and Mrs. Koenig are the parents of a seven-pound boy. • Oscar Morgan returns to New York from Chicago this morning by United Airlines. • Paul Ross and Gertrude Lanza of the CBS Artists Bureau have resigned from the staff. • Jack Benny is due in town today. He will be here two weeks. • Kenneth Clark of the M.P.P.D.A. returned from vacation yesterday. Jim Cunningham is on a vacation. CLIFF WORK, vice-president of Universal in charge of studio operations, left for the Coast last night. • W. French Githens, head of Newsreel Theatres, Inc., is expected in New York today after having been in San Francisco during the past six weeks for the opening of the new Telenews Theatre by the Pacific Coast Newsreel Corp. • Gary Cooper plans to attend the opening day's performance of "The Real Glory," in which he is starred, at the Rivoli on Broadway on Thursday, coming from Southampton for the screening. Joseph Vogel, Charles E. McCarthy, William Orr, William Rodgers, Edward Saunders, Russell Holman, John Hicks, Toby Gruen at Nick's Hunting Room in the Astor for lunch yesterday. • B. M. Silver, president of Colonial Pictures, Ltd., Toronto, has gone to New York to close for Canadian distribution of a number of independent features. • Stanton Griffis, chairman of the Paramount executive committee, is believed to have obtained passage on the Washington which is due here Saturday. • Herman Wobber, 20th CenturyFox sales chief, and Walter J. Hutchinson, foreign director, returned from the Coast yesterday. • Reginald Reubenson, film importer and exporter, whose headquarters are in London, is in New York on business for about six weeks. • John Dacey, RKO short subjects salesman, returned to his desk yesterday after a week's absence due to illness. Two Attorneys Held In GTE Bond Theft Wilmington, Sept. 11. — Court of Chancery here has been notified of the arrest in New York of two attorneys charged with violation of the national Stolen Property Act in connection with the alleged theft of $20,000 in bonds of General Theatres Equipment. The bonds disappeared from courtroom files late in 1935 during the G.T.E. receivership case, but were recovered five months later. Men arrested were George Turley, a New York attorney, and Chester G. Bollenbach, Bloomfield, N. J., attorney. The hearing was set for Sept. 18. Settlement Looms In Endicott Strike Hearing before the State Labor Relations Board yesterday on the complaint of M. P. Division of Theatrical Managers, Agents and Treasurers Union against the Endicott circuit (Nelson & Renner) was postponed until tomorrow. The union is now conducting a strike against Endicott houses. Discussion yesterday centered around possibility of a settlement. Ira Meinhardt represented the union and Ralph Weiner represented Endicott. War Revision Faces British Rule on Films (Continued from page 1) conversation. The C.E.A. branch will meet tomorrow. The weekend opening of film houses in areas of greatest safety was gj^r erally successful, although the llk_. hours of the evening, presenting trans ■ portation problems in view of the blackouts, reduced attendance. The result of the first two days of operation under the wartime schedule has resulted in the suggestion that in view of the transportation and traveling difficulties for patrons at night in some areas, it might be more practicable to set the closing hour at dusk instead of 10 P. M. A new film now in work at the Denham Studios is believed to be the first of the British propaganda films. No details have been released but stills sent to newspapers bear the caption, "Merle Oberon and Ralph Richardson photographed in a film now being made at Denham showing Britain prepared." Miss Oberon appears in the uniform of a Red Cross nurse and Richardson as a British flying officer. No mention is made of the title of the picture or of the producing company of the film being made at the Alexander Korda studio. Calgary Is Schaefer Sales Drive Winner Calgary, Detroit and Buffalo branches of RKO finished in that order in the George Schaefer sales drive, according to final audited figures. Announcement of the winners was made by Jules Levy, general sales manager. H. F. Taylor is branch manager at Calgary, J. Sharkey at Detroit and C. Boasberg at Buffalo. Thirteen branches went over their quotas, including Montreal, New York, Washington, New Haven, Albany, Toronto, Denver, Charlotte, Memphis and Los Angeles, beside the three winning offices. San Francisco took first place in the "Fisherman's Wharf" contest. Cincinnati won the Ad Sales Bonus Plan. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Published daily except Saturday, Sunday and holidays by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., Rockefeller Center, New York City. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address "Quigpubco, New York." Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Colvin Brown, Vice-President and General Manager; Watterson R. Rothacker, Vice-President; Sam Shain, Editor; James A. Cron, Advertising Manager; Chicago Bureau, 624 South Michigan Avenue, C. B. O'Neill, manager; Hollywood Bureau, Postal Union Life Building, Boone Mancall, manager, William R. Weaver, editor; London Bureau, 4, Golden Square, London Wl, Hope Williams, manager, cable address "Quigpubco, London." 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