Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1941)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1941
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000184
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
October 27, 2022
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2 motion Picture Daily Wednesday, January 29, 1941 Personal Mention Coast Flashes Hollywood, Jan. 28 Shirley Temple, Ann Southern and Eleanor Powell will be starred in "Panama Hattie," current Broadway musical, which M-G-M announced today it had acquired for $140,000. Arthur Freed will produce. • Joseph M. Schenck, chairman of the board at 20th Century-Fox, left tonight by train for Kansas City where he will take a plane to New York. • Commander Arthur Jarrett of the Royal Navy and British Ministry of Information will arrive tomorrow for conferences with Darryl Zanuck and William Goetz on "The Eagie Flies Again," 20th Century-Fox production dealing with the Royal Air Force. • Harry Sherman returned here today from Chicago, where he attended the Balaban & Katz testimonial dinner for Barney Balaban late last week. Meet in Chicago on Greek Relief Drive Chicago, Jan. 28. — The progress of the current drive throughout the country for the Greek Relief Fund was the subject of a meeting here tonight. Among the theatre executives who were in attendance were the following : John Balaban, of Balaban & Katz ; James Coston, Warner Theatres ; Van Nomikos ; Harold Fitzgerald, operating head of Wisconsin Amusement Co. ; Harry Reckos ; Spyros Skouras, head of National Theatres, and others. SIDNEY R. KENT president of 20th Century-Fox, is expected tomorrow from Hollywood. • James R. Grainger, president of Republic, is in Dallas. He will stop over in Washington prior to returning here on Monday. • Robert Weitman, John Barry, Sidney Phillips, I. E. Lopert, Taylor Holmes, Robert Nathan, Leif Erickson, Nat Karson, Brock Pemberton, Max Gordon and John Golden at Sardi's yesterday for lunch. • Ralph Hughes, assistant manager at the Regent Theatre, Ottawa, has enlisted in the Royal Canadian Engineers. Louis Nizer and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt lunching at the Hotel Algonquin yesterday. • Nate Blumberg, Charles Stern, Harry Gold and Joseph Pincus having lunch yesterday at Lindy's (51st St.). • Abe Montague, William Moses and Lou Weinberg at Lindy's (next to the Rivoli) yesterday for lunch. • James Smith, Douglas Rothacker, William Barnett and Charles Paine lunching yesterday at the Tavern. • George Keenan, manager of the Grand Theatre, Ellsworth, Me., is visiting here. NEIL F. AGNEW, Paramount vice-president and distribution head, left for Toronto last night for several days of conferences with J. J. Fitzgibbons, managing director of Famous Players Canadian Corp. • Del Goodman, newly appointed Canadian sales manager for Paramount, will leave for Toronto on Friday to assume his new post. • Abe Schneider, Columbia treasurer, will return to New York today from a three-week vacation in Florida. Lester Cowan will arrive from the Coast by plane tomorrow. • George Skouras. Richard Rodgers. Max Dreyfus, Max A. Cohen and Alexander Woollcott lunching at Nick's Hunting Room in the Astor vesterday. Ben Simon, manager for 20th Century-Fox in New Haven, and Mrs. Simon are taking their vacation in short motor trips. • The "grippe list" in the New Haven area includes : Earl Wright. 20th Century-Fox ; Jack Brassil, Loew Poli Theatre ; Timothy O'Toole, Columbia manager ; Edward Ruff, Paramount manager; Thomas Malt.er. manager of the Lenix, Hartford ; Randy Maller, Strand, New Britain ; Jack Sanson, State, Manchester ; Frank Mullen, Al Davis and Ethel Phillips of M-G-M, New Haven. • FrxLEY McRae. trustee of the houses owned by the estate of Harry M. Brouse, has been elected president of the Ottawa branch of the Canadian Red Cross. U.A. Motion Up in Oklahoma Friday A hearing on United Artists' motion to dismiss the Government's amended complaint in the Griffith Amusement Co. anti-trust suit will be held in Federal court at Oklahoma City on Fridav. Edward C. Raftery of " O'Brien, Driscoll & Raftery, United Artists counsel, is en route to argue the motion. The court is expected to reserve decision following the hearing. Meanwhile, answers of LTnited Artists, Columbia and Universal to Government interrogatories in the Oklahoma City action, which were to have been due Saturday, are being deferred until the motion to dismiss is decided. Brothers in Theatre Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 28. — Charles T. Rook, manager of the Charles Theatre, has disclosed the association with him as associate manager of his brother, Albert E. Rook. =NEW YORK'S FINEST= Edison Motion Picture Studio HAS EVERYTHING! Large and small sound stage — Latest equipment — Rehearsal rooms — Private projection theatre — Executive offices — Conveniently located. MODERATE RATES Phone CHIckerlng 4-8116-7-8 Newsreel Parade T ATE developments in the interJ~j national situation shown in the nczv issues include the British victory at Bardia, an Axis attack on British ships in the Mediterranean and the arrival in Canada of ATaci prisoners of war. Also recorded are the arrival of Lord and Lady Halifax at Annapolis on a British battleship, and Harf Hopkins' visit to Prime MinisVjf Churchill in London. The contents: J MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 41— Halifax arrives. Italian prisoners taken at Bardia. British ships in Mediterranean battle. Hopkins in London. King George and Queen Elizabeth in Sheffield. Nazi prisoners in Canda. Spring fashions. Skating in Wisconsin. Bob-sledding in Maine. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 239— British Mediterranean fleet fights off attack. Bardia falls. London clears debris after attack. Ship launched on banana peels. Halifax arrives. Bob-sled runs. Skiing. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 44— German airmen in Canada prison camp. Probe St. Louis plane crash. Texas quadruplets have second birthday. Halifax here from London. Col. Lindbergh testifies to House committee. Churchill receives Hopkins. London after air raid. Greeks advance in Albania. Mediterranean battle. Bardia captured. New Yorkers leave for winter sports. Track meet in Boston, Bob -sledding in Maine. RKO PATHE NEWS, No. 44— Bardia falls. British ships in the Mediterranean fight off attack. Hopkins visits Churchill. British envoy arrives on warship. German prisoners in Canada. Plane crash in St. Louis. Bicycling under water. Basketball star displays skill. Ice skating meet in Wisconsin. UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL, No. 949 Halifax arrives. Bardia taken. Hopkins in London. Wounded British fliers in London. Nazi prisoners in Canada. Boat launched on banana peels in Beaumont. Fiesta in Texas. Rodeo in Florida. Bob sledding in Maine. Horowitz Leaves Circuit in Indiana Indianapolis, Jan. 28. — Morris Horowitz has retired as president of the Fountain Square Theatre Co. and is succeeded by Bennett E. Sagalowsky, with whom he established the firm 12 years ago, and who has been treasurer. * Directors named Earl Cunningham and J. A. Sagalowsky vice-presidents and E. C. Dean secretary-treasurer. The company began with the Fountain Square and later added the Sanders and the Granada. Cunningham manages the three houses. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Published daily except Saturday, Sunday and holidays by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York City. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address, "Quigpuhco, New York." Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Colvin Brown, Vice-President and General Manager; Watterson R. Rothacker. VicePresident; Sam Shain, Editor; Alfred L. Finestone, Managing Editor; James A. Cron, Advertising Manager; Chicago Bureau, 624 South Michigan Avenue, C. B. O'Neill, Manager; Hollywood Bureau, Postal Union Life Building, William R. Weaver, Editor; London Bureau, 4 Golden Square, London Wl, Hope Williams, Manager, cable address "Quigpubco, London." All contents copyrighted 1941 by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc. Other Quigley publications: Motion Picture Herald, Better Theatres, International Motion Picture Almanac and Fame. Entered as second clasi matter, Sept. 23, 1938, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year $6 in the America! snd $12 foreign. Single cople* 10c. AMERICAN'S SOUTHERN SUNSHINE ROUTE * Five American Flagships daily take you along the Southern route across Virginia, Tennessee, and through the sunshine of Texas and Arizona to Los Angeles and the Pacific Coast. Save days of time, enjoy every minute of your trip. For reservations, call your Travel Agent or HAvemeyer 6-5000. 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