Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1941)

Motion Picture Daily Thursday, October 23, 194 Mexican President Is Real Screen Fan Mexico City, Oct. 22.— President Manuel Avila Camacho is a real film fan. With his immediate family, he attends films at least twice a week. He goes as a private citizen. He also sees pictures at his home here. His predecessor, Lazaro Cardenas; '* rarely attended pictures. Home Will Handle 'Starr9 Roxy Opening "Belle Starr'' is the next 20th Century-Fox film opening which will be handled under direction of Hal Home, it was learned yesterday. The picture is scheduled to follow the present run of "A Yank in the' R. A. F." now in its fifth week at the Roxy. Horne is now handling the opening of "How Green" Was My Valley" at the Rivoir Theatre next Tuesday. The theatre. is closing Sunday night so that it can be decorated for -the opening. It is reported that 20th CenturyFox under Horne will spend about §10,000 alone on the decorations and the front of the house. An additional $25,000 will be spent in advance advertising, it is reported. Two-Way Broadcast Planned for 'Valley5 A two-way trans-Atlantic broadcast has been arranged between Captain Richard Llewellyn in England and prominent persons who will be in the premiere audience of "How Green Was My Valley," it was announced yesterday. Captain Llewellyn is author of the book on which the 20th Century-Fox film was based. The broadcast will start after the showing and will be heard locally on WMCA. Cohan 'Much Improved' George M. Cohan is "resting comfortably" at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital where he underwent an operation on Saturday, it was reported late last night. Earlier in the day, Dr. Miguel Elias, Cohan's physician, said his condition was "much improved." Walker Touring South New Orleans, Oct. 22. — Postmaster-General Frank C. Walker, who is making' a business tour of the south, arrived here Monday. BROADWAY PLAYS Personal Mention "BRILLIANT! . . . MIRACULOUS!" — Danton Walker, News GERTRUDE LAWRENCE in the Musical Play "LADY IN THE DARK" ALV1N, 52 St. W. of B'way— Mats. Wed. &. Sat. Mail Orders Promptly Filled "A GREAT SHOW" — Herald Tribune Z(\c $1 & $1 .50 PLUS TAX OU , VX **• VX NO HIGHER 2ND YEAR— 2ND EDITION of the _ Sensational Musical Icetravaganza It happens on ice at America's Only Ice Theatre Center Theatre, Rockefeller Center. CO. 5-5474 Eves, except Monday. Mats. Wed.. Sat. & Sun. 501 Seats for Every Pert. 50c. EVGS. AT 8:40 MAJOR EDWARD BOWES was host at a luncheon in the Empire State Bldg. yesterday for Dr. A. H. Giannini and a group of mutual friends. Dr. Giannini will leave for the Coast today. • Barney Balaban returned from the Coast yesterday. Robert M. Gillham is due from the Paramount studio today. Harry Goldberg is due today from Cleveland and Philadelphia. Sam Hacker is in Philadelphia. OHN HAY WHITNEY for California Sunday. leaves Darryl Zanuck is expected here Monday. • Mrs. Y. Frank Freeman will arrive at the Waldorf-Astoria today from Atlanta Tor a two weeks stay before returning to the Coast. _ » Christy Wilbert of 20th CenturyFox has left for St. Louis. Morris Helprin Coast today. leaves for the Lewis Play Gets One Performance Establishing what is considered to be a new low-run record for a Broadway show this season, "Good Neighbor," a play financed and directed by Sinclair Lewis, closed after only one performance, the one on opening night, Tuesday. Last night the show failed to open. It "is understood that the venture cost Lewis about $26,000. Sam Byrd was the producer. Jack Levin is the author. The play was unanimously criticized adversely by the reviewers. Previously "The Distant City" held the low-run record for this season with two performances. Large Turnout for Mayor Is Expected Acceptances to date indicate a large attendance for the luncheon honoring Mayor F. H. LaGuardia at the Hotel Astor next Monday, John Golden, chairman of the Theatrical, Motion Picture and Radio Committee, which is sponsoring the event, announced yesterday. The Mayor will be the only speaker, it was announced. His address is scheduled to be broadcast over WHN, 1:35 to 2:15 P. M. Autry Host at Rodeo Gene Autry will give a luncheon at the Hotel Lincoln Saturday and Sunday to 300 youngsters selected in New York theatres, in cooperation with Republic, to which Autry is under contract. After the luncheon on each day the youngsters will be Autry's guest? at the Rodeo at Madison Square Garden. City Manager Shifted Charlotte, N. C, Oct. 22.— Jack E. Austin, city manager at Burlington, N. C, for North Carolina Theatres, Inc., will be city manage^ here, effective Nov. 1. Norris Hadaway of the National Theatre in Greensboro succeeds him in Burlington, and Clyde Wooten succeeds Hadaway. Musicians Pledge Aid to British Union Jacob Rosenberg, president, and William Feinberg, secretary of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians here, have cabled the Musicians Union of Great Britain a pledge of "unstinted support" in the fight against Hitlerism. "We pledge our voice and strength to help make America conscious of its own great stake in your ultimate victory," the cable read. The message was in reply to a cable from the English union, appealing for "the greatest possible effort in the cause of liberty and democracy." RKO Gets $1,500,000 2% Short Term Loan RKO has closed arrangements with Bankers Trust Co. for a short term loan of $1,500,000 at 2 per cent. The interim financing is said by Company officials to have been made necessary by the company's large production inventory resulting from the slower liquidation of pictures at the outset of the new decree selling method. Lehmans to Attend Opening of 'Dumbo* Gov. Herbert H. Lehman and Mrs. Lehman head the list of invited guests who are scheduled to attend the opening of the Walt Disney-RKO feature cartoon. "Dumbo," at the Broadway Theatre tonight, according to an announcement by RKO. The opening is being presented as a benefit for the Vocational Service for Tuniors. Starting tomorrow morning, the film will be shown on a continuous-run policy. Dimmick Is Winne; Of S.M.P.E. Meda George Jessel Is Father Hollywood, Oct. 22. — Lois Andrews Jessel, wife of George Jessel, gave birth to a seven-pound daughter at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital here today. Goldwyn Signs Wood Hollywood, Oct. 22. — Samuel Goldwyn today announced the signing of Sam Wood to direct "Treasure Chest." starring Bob Hope. Wood will report after completing "For Whom the Bell Tolls" for Paramount. (Continued from paye 1) RCA Laboratories vice-president, rea the citation for Dimmick, given fo his outstanding contributions to th motion picture. The Journal Awar was given for the best paper publish e during the year in the SMPE Jouma on "The Effects of Ultraviolet Li^ on Variable-Density Recording W. Printing." At the banquet, William C. Kunz mann, for many years convention vice president of the SMPE, was give a testimonial certificate. The convention yesterday voted t add the name of the late Edwin 5 Porter to the honor roll of distin guished pioneers of the society. Por ter, who died last year, was Thoma Edison's first photographer, and actei in that capacity on the early film "The Great Train Robbery." The laboratory technical sessioi yesterday morning featured papers 01 a new electrostatic air cleaner for filn use ; a precision densitometer ; 01 analysis of developers, and processing solutions for films. No technical session was held yesterday afternoon. Grierson Takes Over Canada Film Bureau Toronto, Oct. 22. — John Grierson I head of the Canadian National Filn Board, also will direct the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, following the transfer of Captain Frank Badgley, former Bureau head, to other work. Badgley has been appointed to a position at Ottawa in the; Department of Pensions and National Health. The bureau for many years has beer, responsible for the production and distribution of official Government films. Carroll Rites Tomorrow Funeral services will be held in Hollywood tomorrow for Major James Henderson Carroll, 50, brother of Earl Carroll, who died in Washington Tuesday of a heart ailment. General manager for Earl Carroll for a number of years, James Carroll returned to active Army duty a year ago. He served as a captain in the first World War. Form Theatre Firm Hartford, Conn., Oct. 22. — Certificate of incorporation has been filed for the Eastwood Theatre Co., Inc., of East Hartford, naming Adelyn Hitchcock, Florence Parker and Gerald R. Steinberg, all of Norwalk as incorporators. 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; Warterson R. Rothacker, VicePresident; Sara 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 Williams, Manager, cable address "Quigpubco, London." 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