Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1941)

Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, October 7, 1941 Coast Flashes Hollywood , Oct. 6 WALTER WANGER, retiring president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, today announced the newly elected members of the board of governors. They are : actors, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Rosalind Russell ; directors, Frank Capra, Frank Lloyd, Sam Wood; producers, Y. Frank Freeman, David O. Selznick, Darryl Zanuck; writers, Howard Estabrook, James Hilton, Norman Reilly Raine ; science, John Aalberg, Farciot Edouart, Ray Wilkinson. The board will meet Oct. 30 to select the officers. • Dennis Morgan will be starred in Warners' "Robinson Crusoe," the studio announced today. Industry participation in the local Community Chest campaign _ was launched today with the formation of a studio publicity committee headed by Arch Reeve of the Association of Motion Picture Producers. Members are Gene Simmons, 20th CenturyFox; Eddie Manson, Warners; John Del Valle, Paramount ; Connie Krebs, RKO ; Bill Rogers, Republic ; Irving Fein, Goldwyn ; John Leroy Johnston, Wanger ; Dave McCoig, Universal ; Erie Hampton, Columbia ; Barrett Kiesling, M-G-M. Personal Mention Dolores Costello Signed Hollywood, Oct. 6. — Dolores Costello has been signed by Orson Welles for the feminine lead in "The Magnificent Ambersons," which he is producing for RKO. LEO SPITZ left last night for California. He will be gone about two weeks. • William A. Scully, Universal vice-president and general sales manager, and William J. Heineman, assistant general sales manager, are due from the Coast tomorrow. • Lieut.-Comm. Eugene Zukor will leave for the Coast today following a visit with his parents here. • Ruth Rich, secretary to Gus S. Eyssell of the Radio City Music Hall, was married Saturday to Edward Deutsch, manufacturer, in New Jersey. Following a wedding trip Mrs. Deutsch will return to the Music Hall. • H. M. Richey, director of exhibitor relations for M-G-M, left for Detroit by plane yesterday. • Jack Horwitz of the • M-G-M Washington exchange has been drafted. • Joseph Reed, Jr., son of the Connecticut theatre operator, and Mollie Stewart of Needham, Mass., were married recently. • Mary Gaffney, secretary to Fred Lynch, Music Hall publicity director, and Columbia R. Sileo, wife of the theatrical photographer, return today from a vacation in Mexico. • Norman Elson, general manager of Trans-Lux Theatres, leaves today for Philadelphia and Washington. y FRANK FREEMAN, Para1 • mount studio head, leaves for Washington today, after a day's conference with Barney Balaban, Paramount president, at the home office yesterday. • A. M. Botsford, 20th Century-Fox advertising and publicity director, is expected from the Coast today. • James R. Grainger, president of Republic, left for Toronto by plane yesterday. • Lester Krieger, assistant to Ted Schlanger, Warner Theatres zone chief in Philadelphia, has been discharged from the hospital after suffering a heart attack, and is now recuperating at home. • Cecil Felt, operator of the Bluebird, Philadelphia, left over the weekend for Panama. • Dale Woodruff, former assistant manager of the Rialto, Allentown, Pa., has been released from the Army after a year's service. • John G. Gentile, former theatre operator in New Haven, Conn., is a patient at Undercliff Sanitorium, Meriden. • Leon J. Rubenstein of Ruby Camema Exchange was operated on yesterday at New York Polyclinic Hospital. • Natale DiFrancesco, owner of the Cheshire, Stamford, Conn., is ill at the Stamford Hospital. Kentucky Outlaws Games as Lottery Frankfort, Ky., Oct. 6. — Ban! Night has been outlawed in Kentuck) theatres as a lottery in an agree.11 judgment entered in Fayette Circui* court at Lexington. Attorney General Hubert Meredith immediately warned all theatres to stop the practice at once on penalty of "promp' and vigorous action." /T The agreed judgment was filed last week in the suit brought May 2v1 by the Attorney General against j Schine Lexington Corp., which oper-j ates about 20 Kentucky theatres. At torneys for the company agreed t' accept without appeal the court" judgment that the game is "a lotter; and gift enterprise violative of th< Kentucky Constitution." In return, the Attorney Genera agreed to drop his original demam for forfeiture of the Schine charte and a $100,000 fine. Lexington theatres already hav posted signs saying that the game har been discontinued by court orde: Frankfort theatres are making plan to discontinue it. No official state ment on the subject will be made b] the Attorney General's office, it wa said, but officials expect theatres t follow the spirit of the judgment That will preclude "door prizes" anr other variants based on drawings i connection with admissions. NEW YORK THEATRES RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center DEANNA CHARLES DURBIN LAUCHTON "IT STARTED WITH EVE" ON STAGE: "Dreams" — Russell Markert's clever, imaginative revue. Symphony orchestra under the direction of Erno Rapee. 1st Mezzanine Seats Reserved Circle 6-4600 CHARLES BOYER Olivia Paulette DeHAVILLAND GODDARD "HOLD BACK THE DAWN" A Paramount Picture PARAMOUNT IN PERSON XAVIER C U G A T AND BAND JAY & LOU S E I L E R TIMES SQUARE ★ TYRONE POWER "A YANK in the R.A.F." with BETTY CRABLE A 20tk Century-Fox Picture R0XY PLUS A BIG STAGE SHOW 7th AVENUE 50th STREET Doors Open 9 a.m IPALACESnhst To 1 P. M. ERROL FLYNN FRED MacMURRAY "DIVE BOMBER" SONJA HENIE GLENN MILLER and BAND "SUN VALLEY" SERENADE" Albany Club Holds Meeting Next Week Albany, Oct. 6. — The revived Albany Variety Club, which will retain its designation as Tent Number Nine, will hold its formal organization meeting at the Ten Eyck Hotel here next Monday. The Ten Eyck probably will be selected as permanent headquarters. Temporary officers, pending permanent selections next week, are Moe A. Silver, Warner Circuit zone manager, temporary chairman ; Herman Ripps, M-G-M branch manager, temporary secretary, and Louis R. Golding, temporary treasurer. On the temporary board of directors are Si Fabian and J. Myer Schine. Metro Will Show Two Films Oct. 21 M-G-M will hold trade showings of two more new season films, "Shadow of the Thin Man" and "Two-Faced Woman" on Oct. 21 in all exchange centers. The films will be shown as a double feature in all cities except Philadelphia, where "Shadow of the Thin Man" will be shown morning and afternoon on Oct. 21 and the other film twice on Oct. 22. Autry Here for Rodeo Gene Autry, Republic star, who will appear in the rodeo at Madison Square Garden beginning tomorrow, arrived from the Coast yesterday. Reservations Heavy On Clark Testimonial Philadelphia, Oct. 6. — The allindustry testimonial dinner on Oct 27 at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel for James P. Clark, under the auspices of the Variety Club, promises to be a sell-out. It is beginning to take on the aspect of a city and state dinner with officials sending in reservations Clark, head of Horlacher's Film Delivery Service and the independent Clark Distributors film exchange, last month was elected chairman of the City Democratic Committee. Korda Signs Benny For Lubitsch Film Alexander Korda has signed Jack Benny for the starring role in the Korda production, "To Be Or Not to Be," which will be released by United Artists. Ernst Lubitsch will produce and direct the film. The picture will go into production Nov. 1, with other roles to be cast shortly. Cowan May Produce More Miller Play Gilbert Miller and Lester Cow; may produce screen versions of seeral of the former's forthcomii Broadway plays if they present i unusual production problems, Cow stated yesterday. One of the new plays consider for film production, it was stated. "Brighton Rock," on which the k Sidney Howard was working at t time of his death. Cowan produced Miller's "Lad in Retirement" for Columbia. Lift Paralysis Ban York, Pa., Oct. 6. — The ban children under 16 attending fil because of the paralysis danger, \\ been lifted. A similar ban at near Hanover was lifted Friday and th( tres there were well attended the fi; -J evening. Screen OEM Short Today "Bomber," short subject produced by the Government Office of Emergency Management, will be screened this afternoon at the Warner home office, for the Theatres Division of the Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for Naitonal Defense. Carl Sandburg is the commentator for the reel, which depicts America's airplane bomber industry. Six hundred prints are ready for showing. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (.Registered U. S. Patent Office) Published daily except Saturday, Sunday holidays by Quigley Publishing; Comp Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Cer New York City. Telephone Circle 7-3 Cable address, "Quigpubco, New York." } tin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publis Colvin Brown, Vice-President and Gen Manager; Watterson R. Rothacker, V President; Sam Shain, Editor; Alfred' Finestone, Managing Editor; James Cron, Advertising Manager; Chicago Bur 624 South Michigan Avenue, C. B. O'lS Manager; Hollywood Bureau. Postal U Life Building, William R. 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