Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1941)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1941
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00052
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:
August 29, 2022
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2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, October 8. V) Short Subject Review "Bomber" {Office for Emergency Management) A DOCUMENTARY, or "defense report," this is an item of importance for theatremen to exhibit. While the screen merely depicts aircraft workers engaged at the Glenn L. Martin plant, the soundtrack carries a significant message — an admonition to aggressors to steer clear of the U. S. The value of the short is not only in what is being seen but also, and primarily, in the fine commentary which Carl Sandburg has contributed. He has given a degree of interest to a subject which might have been dull as theatrical material in spite of its significance. The short was made by the film unit of the Office for Emergency Management and is being released by various exchanges around the country through the Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for National Defense. Running time, 8 mins. Available now. Todd Signs Powell For Musical Show Michael Todd has signed Dick Powell for a role in Todd's new musical show, "And So to Bedlam," which will go into rehearsal on Oct. 15. Powell joins Ned Sparks, Gypsy Rose Lee and Jed Prouty in the cast. Forms Theatre Firm Richmond, Oct. 7. — Capitalized at $50,000, the Hull Street Theatre Corp. has been organized here to conduct a general amusement business. M. G. Thalhimer is president. Personal Mention LOUIS B. MAYER, M-G-M vicepresident in charge of production, is here from the Coast. • Joseph M. Schenck is expected in town today. • Sam Pinanski will return to Boston today following a five-day visit here. • Hal Horne has returned from the Coast. • Herman Wobber, 20th CenturyFox director of distribution, is expected at the studio today from San Francisco. • John Boland is in town. He is continuing to Chicago. • H. C. D. Main, Ontario supervisor of Odeon Theatres of Canada, at Toronto, is the father of a daughter, born this week. • C. F. Deane, former manager of the Rialto, Abbott and Uptown theatres in Huntington, W. Va., will leave shortly for London to serve with the British as a radio operator. • Morris Jacobson of the Strand Amusement Co., Bridgeport, Conn., has returned from a brief vacation. • Bernard B. Keeney, son of C. G. Keeney, manager of the Park Theatre, Reading, Pa., has been accepted for training in the Royal Canadian Air Force. 5 \J COOL, COMFORTABLE WAYS TO GO TO Los Angeles THE Sections) (Two Sections) SOUTHERNER ™l COUNTRY SWClAl ..:„n<. C S3©* , e..\0 pm 4:55 ff««?d 1.27 •» 7.52 am and 7.5' 4:10 pm . • • ' 1:20 am . . • • 7:44 am 11:15 Pm . • • ' 8:24 am 3:12 pm 6:45 am . . • • 4:41 pm ' . • • * 12:45 am , call your ttJX*&3»~*~* AMERICAN AIRLINES 4*c. ROUTE OF THE FLAGSHIPS TJ. CONNORS, Eastern, Canadian • and Southern division manager for M-G-M, returned to New York yesterday. Edward C. Raftery of O'Brien, Driscoll & Raftery returned to New York yesterday after seven weeks on the Coast. • John J. Friedl of Minnesota Amusement Co. is here for Paramount home office conferences. O. R. Hanson is in town. • Mary Ransone, vice-president of University Films, is in Columbus, Ohio. • George Sobel, prominent Philadelphia exhibitor, has been elected Junior Vice Commander of the Clair Post, American Legion. • Patrick S. McMahon, operator of the State Theatre, New Britain, Conn., was given a bachelor dinner this week at the Red Quill Inn. • Ruth Schwerin is now associated with the Tom Fizdale publicity office. • Fay Reeder, Fox West Coast theatre manager in Sacramento, won the low net prize in a recent American Legion golf tournament there. • Joseph Ehrlich of the 20th Century-Fox home office is in Providence this week. • Frank Lyons, assistant at the Hippodrome in Bridgeport, Conn., has taken a defense job. Fay Resumes Stage Show in Providence Providence, Oct. 7. — Edward M. Fay will revert to his traditional policy of film and stage programs at Fay's Theatre beginning Friday. The stage presentations will be built around an orchestra led by Al Jahns. For the remainder of the show, acts will be booked by Fay from week to week. For the past year or so, Fay's has played double-feature action programs at a 15-cent to 35-cent scale. For the new combination shows, the house will be scaled at 20 cents, 33 cents, 44 cents, and IS cents for children at all times. 'Dumbo' Opens at Broadway Oct. 23 "Dumbo," new Walt Disney feature released by RKO, will open at the Broadway Theatre here on the evening of Oct. 23, according to Ned E. Depinet, RKO distribution head, and Roy Disney, vice-president of Disney Productions. Following the premiere the film will be shown on a continuous run policy at the theatre, replacing "Fantasia" Disney film now in its 11th month. Enlarge RKO Exchange Washington, Oct. 7. — The RKO exchange building here is being enlarged under the supervision of Robert J. Folliard, branch manager. Newsreel Parade rT*HE midweek issues of the nen\ ■* reels offer a resume of Wo> Series highlights as U'cll as coverage important football games, which sp> is now slated to supplant baseball sports material in forthcoming rei War news comes chiefly frovf~t I Near East. The contents: ^' v'P MOVIETONE NEWS, No. » — Supre ' Court convenes. Army maneuvers in Soi Carolina. Windsors in Alberta. Bri'; troops in Near East. War casualties arri in Sydney. World Series. Football: Per Harvard, Tulane-Auburn. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 207— Wr Series. Notre Dame-Indiana, Fordham M. U. football. War games in South Cai lina. Roosevelt supports charity dri' Supreme Court in session. Churchill grc-i young adventurers in England. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 12-Windsr at Alberta ranch. Parachutist perched al j Wyoming mountain. Conway, N. H., g J found after eight-day search (shipped sen rately). War situation in Cyprus, Iran a Tobruk. World Series. RKO PATHE NEWS, No. 12— Siege Tobruk. New justices in Supreme Cou Churchill and boy adventurers. Winds' in Alberta. "One Foot in Heaven" pi J miere in Washington. Cyprus prepares invasion. Fordham-S. M. U., Duke-T< 4* nessee football. World Series. ■ UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL, No. 21— \\ games in South Carolina. Iran campaij Windsors in Alberta. Washington p miere of "One Foot in Heaven." O! State-U. S. C, Duke -Tennessee footb: World Series. Phila. Club Auxiliar Will Install Toda Philadelphia, Oct. 7. — The Ladi Auxiliary of the Variety Club w install officers for the coming year a luncheon tomorrow in their clu room in the Bellevue-Stratford Hot' The incoming president is Mrs. Elm Wilschke with Mrs. Charles Zagra retiring from the office. The latest a tivity of the Auxiliary was the pu chase of a $1,000 bus-ambulance transport crippled children to and fro the public schools. Frank L. McNamee will be gener chairman of the Variety Club's annu banquet on Dec. 11 at the Belle vu Stratford. In Chicago Theatre Poi Chicago, Oct. 7. — Ben Newman h; succeeded Robert Montgomery as pre representative of the Oriental Theat here. MOTION PICTURE DAI IY (.Registered U. S. Patent Office) Published daily except Saturday, Sunday a: holidays by Quigley Publishing Compan Inc, 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller CentiNew York City. Telephone Circle 7-31C Cable address. "Quigpubco, New York." M; tin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisht Colvin Brown, Vice-President and Genei Manager; Watterson R. Rothacker, Vi< President; Sam Shain, Editor; Alfred Finestone, Managing Editor; James Cron, Advertising Manager; Chicago Burea 624 South Michigan Avenue, C. B. O'Nei Manager; Hollywood Bureau, Postal Unic Life Building, William R. Weaver, Edito Leon Friedman, Manager; London Burea 4 Golden Square, London Wl ; Hope W liams. Manager, cable address "Quigpubc London." All contents copyrighted 1941 i Quigley Publishing Company, Inc. Oth Quigley publications: Motion Picture Heral | Better Theatres, International Motion P; ture Almanac and Fame. Entered as secoi class matter, Sept. 23, 1938, at the pc 1 office at New York, N. Y., under the act March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per ye $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign. Sing ! copies 10c