Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1941)

psdav, July 8, 1941 Motion Picture Daily 7 irst 20th-Fox lock-of-Five itet for Season {Continued from page 1) | present Hollywood preview style "m strike a snag in the Governht's interpretation of the consent iree trade show requirements was tas a possibility here today. .. lie studio sent an inquiry to the he office to clear up the point. Stuopinion is that such showings, ich are planned for all exchange fters, should be considered permise on the same ground as test ecnings given to product usually theatres near Hollywood as films in the editing stage. ' J The studio feels the trade shows planned would parallel these shows on essential points. i 'way Bonanza Still n; 'York' Out Front (Continued from page 1)_ gross was an estimated $27,500. Business at the Paramount with aught in the Draft" and ■ Will adley's orchestra, Jane Froman and uny Kave on the stage amounted to estimated $25,000 Saturday and nday. Friday's gross was about 5.000. The show finishes its second iek tonight with a gross in the phborhood of $70,000 expected. "Blossoms in the Dust" and a stage ow at the Music Hall also contini strong after the Fourth. The turdav and Sunday business was but $35,000. The film is now play',' a second week and will be held. At the Roxy, "Moon Over Miami" j "Major Bowes' Star Parade" on • stage also did very big over the ^ekend. Business Thursday through ;mday was about $33,600. 7. B. Meet to Open In Chicago July 28 (Continued from fane 1) e arrangements for the meeting and complete plans for the Chicago adshow of "Sergeant York." A home office delegation including ''.ars, Carl Leserman, assistant genii sales manager; Roy Haines, Easti and Canadian sales manager, and ,irman Moray, short subject sales mager, will attend the Canadian re)nal meeting to be held July 15 and in Montreal. Wolfe Cohen, Canadian trict manager, will preside. Chile to Preserve Screen Neutrality The Government of Chile for the duration of the war will not permit the showing of pictures having any bearing on the ideologies of belligerent nations, or reflecting on their methods of government, according to word received here. The announcement was made in Santiago after a meeting at the office of the Governor of Santiago Province, attended by all distributors of foreign films in Chile. 33 Promoted by Metro in Eastern, Southern Areas (Continued from page 1) formerly cashier; Ansley Padgett, formerly second booker ; Wilton W. Spruce, formerly cashier, and H. A. Arata, formerly first booker. Also promoted to positions as salesmen are three bookers and two checking supervisors. At Charlotte, supervisor David H. Williams and former Washington booker Pete Prince have been assigned to sales duties. At Atlanta, the new salesmen are Marvin Gaddis, formerly third booker, and Clarence Deaver, formerly fourth booker, and at Dallas, Vernon L. Smith, formerly checking supervisor. L. R. Gilland, formerly chief booker at Charlotte, has been made office manager at that exchange. Other promotions are : Washington : Paul Wall, fourth booker to third booker; Victor Wallace, student booker to fourth booker; Anna Ridgely, assistant cashier to cashier ; Jack Hurwitz, clerk to bookkeeper. Charlotte : Max Holder, second booker to head booker ; Vincent Thompson, student booker to second booker ; Ashby Bell, assistant shipper to third booker. Atlanta : James Stanton, Jr., fifth booker to third booker ; Harris B. Wynn, checking supervisor to fourth booker; Fred Hull, Jr., student booker to. fifth booker. Dallas : Carl Swenson, fourth booker to cashier; Charles Kelley, fifth booker to fourth booker ; John Porter, Jr., student booker to fifth booker. New Orleans : Herbert Schlesinger, second booker to chief booker ; Samuel Wright, third booker to second booker ; John G. Simpson, checking supervisor to third booker. To fill the positions left open by promotion of checking supervisors, the following checkers were named : Dallas, Sterling Lord; Atlanta, James A. Tomlin ; New Orleans, H. F. Mosley. Conciliator Seeks Disney Settlement Hollywood, July 7. — Stanley White, Labor Department conciliator, who arrived over the weekend, conferred with the Disney studio and the Cartoonists Guild with a view to effecting a settlement of the strike, now in its fifth week. The studio today continued to refuse to negotiate with strikers' spokesmen, charging they were responsible for failure of the settlement last week on terms approved in principle by both sides. The studio's stand as expressed to the conciliator is that the matter has now involved 14 unions in addition to the cartoonists and further negotiations must be with all groups involved. 'Sonata* Select Film "Moonlight Sonata." film in which the late Ignace Paderewski appeared, is released in the United States by Select Attractions, Inc., and not by United Artists, as was reported in a recent issue of Motion Picture Daily. WB Studio Surgeon Dies Hollywood, July 7. — Dr. Carl E. Conn, 66, head of the surgical staff at Hollywood Hospital, and staff surgeon for the Warner studio, died yesterday. Phila. Complaint Ruled Clearance Philadelphia, July 7. — After arguments all morning as to whether the complaint was one of clearance or for a better run, with Arbitrator W. A. Wiedershein deciding in favor of the complainant, hearing on the clearance complaint of Edward I. Singer, operator of the Hill here, was completed late today. Attorneys were requested to file briefs by July 17. The complainant asked that maximum clearance be set for Warners' Segwick, which has seven days over the Hill. Irving Cohen was counsel for Paramount and Stuart Aarons for Vitagraph, with RKO and Warner Theatres not represented. Attorney Arbitrator In Columbus Hearing Cincinnati, July 7. — Anthony B. Dunlap, local attorney, has been appointed arbitrator in the complaint filed by Fred W. Rowlands, Columbus, O., circuit operator, against the five consenting companies, seeking adjustment of the seven-day clearance which Neth's Markham holds over his Parsons. No date has been set for the hearing. Rowlands' clearance complaint against the five consenting companies involving his Main and Neth's Eastern, will be heard on Thursday. Trade Given Priority on Previewing (Continued from page 1) such cases where deadlines make such advance showings necessary ; 3. That, as the result of discussions with syndicate heads and newspaper publishers throughout the country, it was found that the consensus of their opinions was that the lay press and radio commentators be shown the pictures for review when they open for public exhibition in their local theatres. Therefore, this has been adopted as the practice. The distribution heads and directors of advertising and publicity for the five connsenting companies, who participated in the discussions here were : William F. Rodgers and Howard Dietz, M-G-M ; Gradwell L. Sears and S. Charles Einfeld, Warners ; Neil F. Agnew and Robert M. Gillham, Paramount ; Herman Wobber and Charles E. McCarthy, 20th Century-Fox, and Ned E. Depinet and S. Barret McCormick, RKO. Tri-States Takes Two in Nebraska Omaha, July 7. — O. A. Johnson, owner of the Rivoli and Oil City Theatres at Falls City, Neb., has sold both houses to Tri-States Theatres of Des Moines, A. H. Blank circuit. Edward Forester will be manager. The two houses will be in Joseph Kmsky's Tri-States district. Ion POISON PEN y\a REPUBLIC JUUcxF