Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1941)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, August 22, 1941 Coast Flashes Hollywood, Aug. 21 ABE MONTAGUE, Columbia general sales manager, and Joseph A. McConville, foreign manager, leave tomorrow for New York after studio conferences. Jack Cohn, vicepresident; Abe Schneider, treasurer, and Leo Jaffe, assistant to Schneider, plan to remain through next week. • Contract covering working conditions and minimum wage scales for writers has resolved itself into a 27page document which the Screen Writers Guild bargaining committee and producer attorneys are still ironing out. • William H. Pine left for New York by plane tonight to discuss sales and exploitation plans for Cecil B. deMille's "Reap the Wild Wind," on which he was associate producer, and for "Flying Blind," which he and William Thomas produced for Paramount release. • Lester Cowan today signed Louis Hayward for "Brighton Rock," adapted from the Graham Greene novel. No release has been set. RKO Sales Heads Leave for Studio Ned E. Depinet, vice-president of RKO in charge of distribution; A. W. Smith, Jr., sales manager, and Cresson E. Smith, Western division sales manager, left by plane yesterday for the Coast. They will confer with studio officials on forthcoming productions and are expected back at the end of the month. Personal Mention Edward Corcoran Dies Edward M. Corcoran, of Paramount-Richards Theatres, New Orleans, died Monday while vacationing in Miami, it was learned here yesterday. He was with Paramount in New York before joining Richards. NEW YORK THEATRES RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center BETTE DAVIS "THE LITTLE FOXES" From Lillian Hellman's Stage Success ON THE STAGE: Leonidoff's Festival. Symphony orchestra under the direction of Erno Rapee. 1st Mezzanine Seats Reserved Circle 6-4600 AMECHE MARTIN Z ul 1/iC4 COLONNA THORNHILL "JutB0Y$\ **• """" W*!££vt\ THE 4 INK SPOTS PARAMOUNT Held over 4tk week JACK BENNY <» 'CHARLEY'S AUNT' A 20th Century-Fox Picture ★ PLUS BIG STAGE SHOW ★ At the POX Y 7t>> Ave' COOL & 50th St. WILLIAM A. SCULLY, Universal vice-president and general sales manager, and Fred Meyers, Eastern sales manager, left for Boston yesterday. They are expected back Monday. • Sam Dembow, Paramount home office theatre executive, is in Boston. • Stanton Griffis, chairman of the Paramount executive committee, is in Bermuda. He is expected to return immediately after Labor Day. Sam Pinanski of the M. & P. Circuit, Boston, is here for Paramount home office conferences. .• Alex Kalafat, exhibitor of Garret, Ind., is in New York. • Edward Rivers, former advertising head for Hamrick-Evergreen Theatres, Seattle, is now located in Evansville, Ind. • Harold Grott, manager of the Met Theatre, Baltimore, leaves next week for his vacation. • Ann Gross is the new secretary to Joseph T. Manfre, Paramount branch manager in Des Moines, succeeding Mrs. Isabel McCurran, resigned. AH. BLANK and G. Ralph •Branton of Tri-States Theatres, Des Moines, are here for Paramount home office conferences. • Al Daff, Universal Far Eastern manager, will leave for the West early next week for a vacation before returning to the Far East. He has been here on an annual visit for the past two weeks. • Tom Waller of the Paramount publicity department left yesterday for New Orleans and will visit the Fleischer studio in Miami before returning to New York next week. • Jack Schwartz of the West End Theatre, Bridgeport, Conn., is back from a tour of Williamsburg and Washington. • William Benson, New Haven Universal salesman, is visiting at Saratoga Lake. • Russell Moriarity, former assistant at the Plaza Theatre, Worcester, Mass., is now stationed at Nova Scotia on defense work. • Matthew Kennedy, Paramount New Haven projectionist, vacationed in Canada. Nathanson Denies U.A. Finance Move Toronto, Aug. 21. — N. L. Nathanson today denied he was in any way involved in the financing of United Artists. He said he was not interested in other corporations, the inference being he is busy with the organization and expansion of his own interests in Canada. The information is also forthcoming that Nathanson is not financially interested in the move by Gabriel Pascal to produce in the Dominion. Nothing is known of Pascal's plans in authoritative circles here. Richey, Lee to Speak At W. Va. Convention White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Aug. 21. — Henderson M. Richey, director of exhibitor relations for M-G-M, and Claude Lee, public relations representative for Paramount, are scheduled to address the convention of the West Virginia Managers Association which will be held here Monday and Tuesday. An address will also be made by Ed Kuykendall, president of the MPTOA. S. J. Hyman of Huntington, W. Va., is president of the organization. Korda Signs Collins For Picture Survey Alexander Korda has engaged Ted Collins, radio producer, to conduct a survey of the prospective minimum and maximum popularity of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book," which Korda will produce, according to an announcement yesterday by United Artists. Korda is scheduled to arrive from the Coast early this week and will discuss the operation of the survey with Collins at that time, United Artists stated. Collins produces the Kate Smith programs and Henry Aldrich series. His survey for "Jungle Book" is expected to take more than six months, it was stated. Griffith Is Holding Meeting on Sept. 17 Kansas City, Aug. 21. — The second annual convention of H. J. Griffith, Inc., will be held Sept. 17 and 18, at the Ambassador Hotel here. A number of business topics, with speakers, have been arranged, and there will be entertainment for the women, as well as for the entire attendance. Romance Comes to Singapore 71 /[ AURICE SIL VERSTEIN , M-G-M manager in the East Indies, and /VI his bride, Betty Bryant, Australian star of the film, "40,000 Horsemen," are en route to New York from Singapore on a combined honeymoon and business trip. Miss Bryant zms induced to make a personal appearance in connection with the picture's Singapore opening by Al Daff, Far Eastern manager for Universal, which is distributing the picture outside the United States. Daff induced Silverstcin, the only unmarried American film man in Singapore, to act as Miss Bryant's escort during her stay there. Daff left for New York soon after. At Honolulu a cablegram caught up ivith him advising him that Miss Bryant and Sih'erstein were to be married. Newsreel Parade jy~ NUDSEN visiting a new air•/v plane factory in Buffalo, and Mrs. Roosevelt at a Girl Scout camp in Massachusetts are the highlight domestic items in the weekend issues of the newsreels. Soldiers in training, and miscellaneous other events fill \ the issues. The contents follow : T | MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 100— Secretary Stimson addresses draftees. Knudsen sees 2,000th fighter plane turned out in. the Curtiss plant in Buffalo. Soldiers get first-hand instruction in chemical warfare at Ft. Lewis, Wash. Mrs. Roosevelt visits Girl Scouts encampment in Otis, Mass. U. S. Marine cadets go to sea aboard training schooner. Aerial defenses in New Zealand. Logging season in California. Evening gown fashions by Vyvyan Donner. Rough water swim at La Jolla. Calif. Mock wedding on aquaplane at Cypress Gardens, Fla. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 298— Knudsen opens factory for 500 planes monthly at ; Buffalo. "Molotov cocktail" tried by U. S in tank tactics. Cousin of King George in America with wife. R. A. F. cadets in training here get home by radio. Petain rests on Riviera as turmoil stirs France. Santa Barbara holds goodwill fiesta. Girl Scouts honor First Lady. The Hardys now Hollwood's No. 1 family. Hawaiian wins rough water swim at La Jolla, Cal. Runabouts race for TJ. S. title at Seattle. Lou Nova trains Yogi style. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 103— World's largest speedboat regatta at Redbank, N. J. Mrs. Roosevelt sees hemisphere jamboree of Girl Scouts at Otis, Mass. Anti-tank battalion shows "gasoline cocktail bomb" and new smoke screen at Ft. Lewis, Wash. Facts on the Philippines today; show islands on the alert; Philippine Army, Navy patrol flights and first films of America's Gibraltar of the Pacific, Corregidor Island. Lou Nova training for title bout with Louis at Pompton Lakes, N. J. RKO PATHE NEWS, No. 103— First Lady guest of Girl Scouts at Otis, Mass. Troops return to Brooklyn from war games. Bumper war harvest in Britain. Lord Mountbatten arrives. Curtiss Wright opens new plant in Buffalo. Ready-built homes for workers in Middle River, Maryland. Pictures of bathing beauties at Venice, California. Swimmers in rough water derby at La Jolla, California. "Yogi" Nova trains for Louis bout at Pompton Lakes, N. J. UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL, No. 8 — Knudsen dedicates new Curtiss plane plant in Buffalo. Freighter for Britain launched in Richmond, California. Gasoline for Russia at San Pedro, California. Chimp aluminum drive in Buffalo. Lumber mills work at top speed at Ft. Bragg. N. C. U. S. troops launch attack at Ft. Jackson, S. C. Anti-tank demonstration at Ft. Lewis, Wash. British flying students graduate at Lakeland, Cal. Model plane contest at Buffalo. Lou Nova trains at Pompton Lakes, N. J. National outboard championship at Seattle, Wash. Aquaplane wedding at Cypress Gardens, Fla. 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, 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. 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