Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1940)

Motion Picture daily Monday, December 9, 1940 Enemy Royalties Held by Canada Toronto, Dec. 8.— To put at rest the rumors with respect to the payment of royalties from Canada to citizens of enemy countries, H. T. Jamieson, president of the Canadian Performing Rights Society, Toronto, has announced that the share of fees for performances in the Dominion to residents of enemy countries is being paid at intervals to the Custodian of Enemy Property of the Dominion Government for disposal in accordance with Government policy. Kelly Leaves for Tour of Branches Arthur W. Kelly, United Artists vice-president and distribution head, left over the weekend on his first tour of company exchanges since assuming his present post. Kelly will visit Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis and Buffalo. He is expected back in New York in a week or 10 days. James Dinner Guest Columbus, O., Dec. 8. — William James, one of the first exhibitors here, but who now is engaged in another business, was guest of honor at a dinner given by his friends at the Variety Club. Max Stearn, who operates the Southern, was toastmaster. Personal Mention PHIL REISMAN, RKO vice-president and foreign manager, arrived from the Coast last Friday. • Leonard Goldenson, Paramount home office theatre executive, returned yesterday from a week's trip in the South. • Nat Holt, RKO Theatres division manager in Cleveland, is due here tomorrow for home office conferences. He will be here about three days. • Monroe Greenthal, new advertising and publicity director for United Artists, returned Friday from the Coast. • I. M. Rappaport, owner of the Hippodrome, Baltimore, will visit here early this week. Dan Nolan, RKO home office auditor, is this week at the Des Moines exchange. • A. W. Anderson was presented a gold and diamond pilot's pin by his staff at the Warner office in Des Moines when he left to take over as Minneapolis manager. • George Lofing, Des Moines Universal booker, has been called into the Naval service, in which he is a reserve officer. Pete Harrison has left for a Florida vacation. FRANCIS L. HARLEY, British managing director for 20th Century-Fox, is expected here about Dec. 20 by clipper for a holiday visit. • Harry Browning, executive of the M. & P. Circuit, has been elected adjutant of the Lt. A. Vernon Macaulay Post of the American Legion in Boston, known as the theatrical post. • William J. Kupper, 20th CenturyFox western division manager, is expected back in about a week from a tour of his territory. • Arch Reeve, who resigned recently as advertising manager for 20th Century-Fox, is en route to the Coast by automobile. • Samuel Hadelman of Capitol and Colonial, Bridgeport, Conn., and Mrs. Hadelman were honored with a surprise party at Baybrook by more than 80 friends, on their fifth wedding anniversary. Charles McCleary, manager of Loew's Parkway, Baltimore, has been discharged from Sinai Hospital, where he was treated for a stomach ailment. R. A. Fielding is on leave from the Spencer Circuit at St. John, N. B., to take a course in aeronautical engineering in Toronto. Name Coast Group On S. A. Relations MAYBE I'D BETTER THINK THAT OVER ! There's no percentage in being uncertain about any phase of your business. How can you be certain whether the equipment in your projection room is functioning at its highest possible efficiency ? 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Committee Planning O'Shea, Bowen Dinner An industry committee under the leadership of Harry Brandt will meet tomorrow at the Hotel Astor to plan a testimonial dinner for E. K. (Ted) O'Shea, newly appointed Central division manager for M-G-M, and Jack Bowen, New York branch manager, who will succeed O'Shea as Eastern district head. Movietone News Shifts Jack Darrock, Movietone News manager on the West Coast, has been assigned to a supervisory post in short subject production in New York. He has been succeeded in Lost Angeles by Arthur De Titta, formerly with the newsreel in Europe. Henry King in New York Henry King, 20th Century-Fox director, is in New York making backgrounds for "The Eagle Flies Again," story of American aviators with the British Royal Air Corps, Hollywood, Dec. 8. — David O. Selznick, Walter Wanger and Frank Capra have been appointed to a committee to carry on with John Hay Whitney plans for the organization of the industry's cooperation with Washington on this country's relations with Latin America. Whitney is the representative here of Nelson A. Rockefeller's coordinating committee of the Government for the Latin and South American republics. Wanger explained the general as-, pects of the situation at a meeting of industry leaders, including the heads of the Actors, Directors and Writers Guilds. Donovan Departs on Government Mission Colonel William J. Donovan, who is chief counsel for RKO, left suddenly on Friday from Baltimore aboard a Pan-American clipper under an assumed name, on what was regarded as an important mission in connection with U. S. aid to the Allies. It was reported on Friday by the New York Post that he would pay an official visit to Marshal Weygand in Algeria and would inspect British forces in the Near East. It was indicated also that he might visit Greece. Some time ago, Donovan, who was World War commander of the 69th Regiment in France, made a secret and important trip to study European fifth column activities on behalf of Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy. William Haynes Dies Utica, N. Y., Dec. 8.— William Haynes, 51, veteran Warner Theatre employe and formerly Philadelphia district manager, died here of a heart ailment. He is survived by his widow and two sons. Pioneer Exhibitor Dead Kentville, N. S., Dec. 8.— Waltei F. Hiltz, 64, who, with Al Clarke of Kentville, as partner, opened and op erated the first motion picture thea tres in the Annapolis Valley, died here after a long illness. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Published daily except Saturday, Sunday anil holidays by Quigley Publishing Company. Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center. New York City. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cabfe address, "Quigpubco, New York." 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