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 #:
000136
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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Motion Picture^ Daily Wednesday, October 22, 19 Coast Flashes Hollywood, Oct. 21 GEORGE J. SCHAEFER, president of RKO, is expected to fly back to New York today in order to be on hand for home office conferences tomorrow. • Merchandising plans for "Sullivan's Travels," "The Remarkable Andrew" and "The Great Man's Lady" were discussed today by Paramount executives at the final session of a field exploitation men's meeting at the Hotel Ambassador. The field men left for their posts tonight. Darryl F. Zanuck plans to leave Sunday by American Airlines for New York to attend the opening of "How Green Was My Valley." It is expected also that Zanuck will testify in the Browne-Bioff trial. Cary Grant will be starred with Ginger Rogers in RKO's "Arms and the Man" to be produced by Gabriel Pascal, it was announced today. Oscar Straus has been signed to compose the music. The Grant-Rogers deals are apart from the former's commitment for one picture and the latter's for two at RKO. Bette Davis flew today to Minneapolis, where her husband, Arthur Fapfisworth is reported critically ill of pndfimonia. Personal Mention WATTERSON ROTHACKER, Hollywood vice-president of Quigley Publications, is in town from the Coast. • Jules Lapidus, Universal district manager, left yesterday for Boston, and is due back on Thursday. • Norman Lewis, Philadelphia exhibitor, is recuperating at his home after a recent illness. • Chauncey B. Nelson, personnel director of Fanchon & Marco in St. Louis, has taken a leave of absence to direct Berkeley Hall, prep school at Beverly Hills, Cal. He will return to his post next July 1. • Herman Schuster, former operator of the Grant, Philadelphia, will move to Miami. • Joseph Phillips, assistant at the Strand in Scranton, has been drafted. WALTER WANGER has postponed his planned trip to England and is remaining in New York. • David Weinstein, manager of the Cedar, and Robert Zimmerman, manager of the 56th St-, Philadelphia, have been appointed sector wardens in conjunction with civilian defense. • Irving Cohen, Paramount home office attorney, left for Detroit yesterday. • Stanley J. Mayer, 20th CenturyFox exchange manager in Des Moines, has returned to his office after a brief illness. • Samuel Gross, 20th Century-Fox Philadelphia branch manager, will lead the Red Cross drive there this year. • Harold Weisenthal, Universal booker in Philadelphia, recently became the father of a daughter. Moneyhun Is Named Botsford's Assistant Frank Moneyhun yesterday was appointed executive assistant to A. M. Eotsford, director of advertising and publicity of 20th Century-Fox. Moneyhun joined the advertising department of the company in January, 1939, and has been handling pressbook, cooperative and national magazine advertising. He has been in theatre work since 1922, when he was assistant advertising manager of the Orpheum Circuit. 5 \J COOL, COMFORTABLE WAYS TO GO TO Los Angeles (Two Sections) THE SOUTHERNER 1HE SUN COUNTRY SPEOM Los Angeles • 11:15 P111 8:24 am 3-.12 pi° 6:45 am 4:41 pm 12:45 am Terminal, «u ,MM^/wm0$^^^ AMERICAN AIRLINES JW. ROUTE OF THE FLAGSHIPS 'Love on the Dole* Acquired by U. A. "Love on the Dole" has been sold to United Artists for U. S. and Latin American distribution by Lou Jackson, head of Anglo-American Pictures, London. The deal is the second to be closed by the two, the U. S. and Latin American rights to "Pimpernel Smith" having been sold to United Artists earlier. Canadian distribution rights to the pictures are not included. These rights will be turned over to the new Canadian company which Jackson is forming in association with N. L. Nathan 1,000 Attend Annual Boston Film Frolic Boston, Oct. 21.— Close to 1,000 persons were in attendance at the annual Motion Picture Frolic held at the Hotel Bradford last night. The evening program included entertainers from the various night clubs and Vaughn Munroe and his orchestra who played for dancing. Jack Martin was general chairman of the committee in charge which included Clara Decone, Lorretta Duffy, Alvin Fucillo, Bertha Harris, Elmer Foster, Matthew Moriarty, Michael Hochberg, Samuel Eisenberg and Joe Barrilla. St. Louis Bill to Tax Grosses Is Killed St. Louis, Oct. 21. — A bill providing for a one per cent tax on gross receipts of theatres in St. Louis was killed by the Legislative Committee of the Board of Aldermen by a unanimous vote. In Canada Circuit Post Toronto, Oct. 21. — Meyer Axler, secretary of the Independent Theatres Association of Ontario and official of the Exhibitors Booking Association, has been appointed director of the maintenance and purchasing department of 20th Century Theatres, a subsidiary of Famous Players Canadian Corp. Newsreel Parade 7 HE newsreels in the midweek \ sues concentrate on U. S. ope A Hons in guarding Iceland, and on A actions to the damage to a U. S. ct stroyer by a Nasi submarine. On t home front, the visit here of the Dv and Duchess of Windsor and i\ leading football games capture att?\ Hon. The contents: MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 13— U. S. djj fense convoy arrives to guard Iceland. Ne' of the war in England. Prisoner exchan halted. U-boat captured by plane in t Atlantic. New hurricane fighter plane prov power. Skating fashions. The aircraft ca !f rier Hornet commissioned at Norfolk. Nav | Cornell, Penn-Princton football. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 211— Keari? torpedoing stirs Navy ; Knox lauds he ' I victims. At sea with U. S. convoy troo guarding Iceland. Prisoner exchange stoppe ;j R. A. F. blast German warship. Navy-Co ' nell, Georgia-Columbia football games. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 16— 21 U. J sailors casualties on torpedoed Kearny. Co | gress acts, as Republican Senators urge r peal of Neutrality act. American convoy i route to Iceland, and German Navy films U-boat in action. Marines and U. S. Am forces on duty in Iceland. Windsors vis1 Naval Academy; Duke inspects C. C. C, tours Manhattan. Navy-Cornell, Michigai Northwestern, Princeton-Pennsylvania foo ball games. RKO PATHE NEWS, No. 16— Carri(| Hornet ready for U. S. Navy. U. S. forc< guard Iceland base. Windsors here on N. V visit. Shipyards at Newport News, Va., an ; Portsmouth, N. H., rush new battleship U. S. and Britain launch new planes. Brill ish-Nazi prisoners' swap fails. Girdiro, highlights of Michigan-Northwestern, Navy' Cornell games. UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL, No. 25— Cor, voy to Iceland. On the war front — repatri ated prisoners, the Sterling bomber, Britis hurricanes, captured U-boat. Justices visi White House. Windsors in N. Y. Footba highlights — Georgia -Columbia in N. Y.l Navy-Cornell in Baltimore; Michigan Northwestern in Evanston, 111. Newsdealer Strike Settlement Reachet Settlement of the controversy be tween eight daily newspapers an< Manhattan newsdealers, which kep those papers off most newsstands it the city for more than a week, war announced yesterday afternoon by Mayor F. H. LaGuardia. The sale o papers was resumed immediately. / compromise was reached, and after e three-day recess negotiations are to bi resumed to settle final details. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Published daily except Saturday, Sunday anc holidays by Quigley Publishing Company Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center New York City. Telephone Circle 7-3100 Cable address, "Quigpubco, New York." Mar tin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Colvin Brown, Vice-President and Genera 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 Unior Life Building, William R. Weaver, Editor Leon Friedman, Manager; London Bureau, 4 Golden Square, London Wl, Hope Williams, Manager, cable address "Quigpubco, London." All contents copyrighted 1941 by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc. Other Quigley publications: Motion Picture Herald, Better Theatres, International Motion Picture Almanac and Fame. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 23, 1938, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign. Single copies 10c.