Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1941)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jul-Sep 1941
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000326
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:
July 11, 2024
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2 Motion Picture Daily Monday. August 18, 19 Personal Mention GRADWELL L. SEARS, Warners general sales manager, is expected to leave for the Coast this week. • Albert J. Richard, editor of Paramount News, returns today from a two-week vacation in Miami. William P. Montague, assignment editor, left on Friday for two weeks at Martha's Vineyard. • Leon Netter, Paramount theatre executive, is expected back from Houston early this week. • Gabriel Pascal arrived from England via Lisbon by clipper over the weekend. • Irving Kumin of the Warner studio casting department is in town. • Pete Lewis of the New York Film Board of Trade starts a vacation today in Connecticut. • Sam Badamo, who resigned recently as manager of Loew's College Theatre, New Haven, has joined the Lockwood-Gordon theatre interests in Providence. • A. Strobl and Mrs. Strobl are due back here about Sept. 1 after two weeks in Hollywood and a tour across the country. Review "Our Wife" ( Columbia— 1940-41 Release ) Hollywood, Aug. 17 SOMEWHAT off the beaten path of Columbia's sophisticated comedies, and in the direction of propriety, this John M. Stahl production accounted for a consistent hubbub of amused response when previewed to a midweek audience at the Alexander Theatre in Glendale. Its avoidance of the questionable materials and connotations commonly resorted to in the field of sophistication seemed to benefit rather than limit the production. Assuredly it widens its exhibition usefulness. Starred in the film is Melvyn Douglas, again portraying the masculine object of two feminine affections, with Ruth Hussey and Ellen Drew enacting the ladies in competition for his attentions. Charles Coburn, sparking the proceedings with the best comedy lines in the script, John Hubbard, Harvey Stephens and Theresa Harris are the others in the cast. The story brings Douglas and Miss Hussey into proximity on shipboard under amusing circumstances, then moves to a Long Island home, owned by Douglas, to which comes his not yet completely divorced wife. Miss Drew. In an effort to retain hold upon him, by way of sharing in the financial proceeds of his success in the realm of music, the wife pretends to incur paralysis of the lower limbs. Miss Hussey's efforts to prove that the wife is faking are unavailing, but an accident exposes the fraud and the story ends as the audience wants it to. Irving Starr acted as associate to producer-director Stahl. Running time, 95 minutes. "G."* Roscoe Williams "G" denotes general classification. Col. Film at Paramount The Columbia picture, "Our Wife," has been booked by the Paramount for an early Broadway opening. This is the first Columbia picture to play the house and one of the few pictures other than Paramount's to be booked there. JAMES ELLISON -JERRY C0L0NNA -DOROTHY LEWIS BARBARA JO ALLEN (Vera Vague) • ALAN MOWBRAY • PHIL SILVERS featuring THE ICE CAPADES COMPANY with INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN SKATING STARS including BELITA • LOIS DWORSHAK • MEGAN TAYLOR VERA HRUBA JOSEPH SANTLEY — DIRECTOR SCREEN PLAY BY JACK TOWNLEY, ROBERT H.ARARI, OLIVE COOPER • ORIGINAL STORY BY ISABEL DAWN' AND BOYCE De GAW • ADDITIONAL DIALOGUE BY SHAVELSON AND JOSEFSBERG A REPUBLIC PICTURE PRC Holds Regional Sessions in Dallas Dallas, Aug. 17. — Producers Releasing Corp. is now completing four features and one western on the 1941'42 program, Arthur Greenblatt, general sales manager, told the PRC regional meeting at the Adolphus Hotel here yesterday. Franchise holders and salesmen attending the regional meeting are : Jack Adams, Sr., Jack Adams, Jr., Robert Adams, Walter Quade and Chick Turner, of Dallas ; E. B. Walker and Robert McGraw of Oklahoma City ; B. Busby, D. Jones and F. Lawrence of Little Rock. The next regional meeting will be held in Kansas City, Aug. 23-24, with representatives of exchanges in Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Omaha, and Minneapolis attending. Baltimore Club's New Quarters Are Ready Baltimore, Aug. 17. — The Variety Club here is preparing to move into its new quarters atop the Stanley Theatre during the last week in August. The former clubrooms in the Belvedere Hotel have been abandoned. The new location was formerly The Penthouse, an exclusive night club, and prior to that was known as Sherry's, when it was operated by Edwin Sherwood, now district manager for Ascap. Complete new decorations, remodeling and an elaborate bar are included in the renovation. B. & K. Closes for First 20th-Fox Five Chicago, Aug. 17. — Clyde Eckhardt, local branch manager for 20th Century-Fox, has concluded a deal with Balaban & Katz for the first block of five 20th Century-Fox features for the new season, for the B. & K. first-run Loop and neighborhood houses here. Golden Fights Ticket Tax on Service Men John Golden, theatrical producer and co-chairman of the Amusement Division of the Defense Recreation Committee, has protested the Senate bill requiring service men to pay the 10 per cent tax on admissions to amusements, even though they get free tickets/*' Golden urged the public tB join a movement to defeat the^ measure, now before Senate Finance Committee. 'JekylV Pre-Release On Holiday Weekem\ M-G-M is pre-releasing "Dr. Jekyl1 and Mr. Hyde," its first new seal son film, in 24 situations on Aug. 2q 29 and 30, rather than release oi Sept. 1, the start of the season, t(j permit theatres to play the film ov the holiday weekend. The bookings follow : Aug. 28 : Grand, Atlanta ; Regent! Harrisburg ; Loew's, Wilmington Poli, Hartford; Poli, New Haven Poli, Worcester ; Poli, Bridgeport Valentine, Toledo ; Loew's, Canton Colonial, Reading; Century, Balti more ; State, Boston. Aug. 29 : Poli, Waterbury ; Mid land, Kansas City ; Palace, Memphis Loew's, Louisville ; Loew's, Akron State, Cleveland ; State, St. Louis Penn, Pittsburgh ; Loew's, Dayton State, New Orleans ; Vendome, Nashville. Aug. 30 : Great Lakes, Buffalo. Disney Shuts Studio In Layoffs Dispute Hollywood, Aug. 17. — The Walt Disney studio will close tomorrow for two weeks as a result of disagreement between the company and the Screen Cartoonists Guild on employes to be laid off in accordance with the arbitration settlement in the recent strike. The action was taken by Gunther Lessing, Disney vice-president, after a vote of the board of directors and under a threat of the union to "take action against us," according to Lessing. The studio has agreed to have the matter arbitrated by James F. Dewey, Federal labor conciliator, but the union has rejected arbitration, Lessing said. 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, "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; 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; Leon Friedman, Manager; London Bureau. 4 Golden Square, London Wl; Hope Wil I Hams, Manager, cable address "Quigpubco. London." All contents copyrighted 1941 by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc. Other Quigley publications: Motion Picture Herald. Better Theatres, International Motion Pic ture Almanac and Fame. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 23. 1938, at the posi office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign. Singlf copies 10c.