Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1942)

2 Motion Picture daily Wednesday, February 25, 1942 Coast Flashes Hollywood, Feb. 24 GEORGE J. SCHAEFER, Ned Depinet, Joseph Breen, Charles Koerner and Edward Alperson, RKO executives, have returned from a week of conferences at La Quinta on all phases of company operation, and are continuing their sessions at the studio. Kenneth Thomson, executive secretary of the Screen Actors Guild and chairman of the Hollywood Victory Committee, in a report to Guild members today declared the "record will show that actors are giving the nation's war effort its voice." He defended the actors against "Congressional shooting" and reviewed the numerous activities of actors in the war effort. • Jack Hively, Paramount director, left tonight to join the Army at Wright Field, Dayton, O., where he will direct training films. Paramount has signed Raoul Pene Du Bois, Broadway set and costume designer, to a contract. He is due here from New York tomorrow. Don Hartman has been signed by Samuel Goldwyn to a five-year contract as a writer and production assistant. He will start with Goldwyn on the termination of his Paramount contract in July. He has been with Paramount seven years. Rouben Mamoulian has completed his contract as director at 20th Century-Fox and left the lot. Personal Mention FLY to LOS ANGELES over the BUSINESS ROUTE of the NATION More passengers, mail and express fly United's central, year 'round Main Line Airway than any other coast-tocoast air route. 3 Mainliners to Los Angeles daily. UNITED AIR LINES Airlines Terminal: 80 E. 42nd St. 649 Fifth Ave. 69 Wall St Hotel Pennsylvania MU-2-7300 ^ or travel agents, hotels noteis j NATE GOLDSTEIN of Western Massachusetts Theatres is in town from Springfield. • F. J. A . McCarthy, Universal Southern division manager, left New Orleans yesterday for Atlanta. • Ben Kalmenson, Warner general sales manager, is in the Midwest. • Leonard McLaughlin, manager of the Maryland Theatre, Baltimore, is spending the week here. • J. Wesley Himmler, owner of the Himmler Theatre, Dallas, Pa., has been appointed to the Dallas School Board. • Rita McGarry, secretary in the Comerford home office in Scranton, Pa., and John P. Mackin were married last week. LOUIS PHILLIPS, Paramount home office attorney, returned from Florida yesterday. • Monroe Greenthal returned from the Coast yesterday. • Walter Immerman, general manager of Balaban & Katz, Chicago, has been confined to his home with a severe cold. • Jerry Becker, manager of the Trans Lux Theatre, Philadelphia, and Beth Luhr were married recently. • Gil Golden has left for Louisville. Harry Lefko, son of Sam Lefko, RKO salesman in Philadelphia, has joined the Army. • John Rorick, assistant at the Rialto ill Scranton, Pa., has been drafted. Pa. Exhibitors Will Meet on High Rents Philadelphia, Feb. 24. — A meeting of independent exhibitors in this territory has been called for March 3 at the Broadwood Hotel here to protest against high film rentals and other alleged price discriminations practiced in this area by distribution companies. The meeting is an outgrowth of a luncheon conference at the Warwick Hotel today sponsored by Eastern Pennsylvania Allied and attended by 38 exhibitors representing over 140 independent theatres, who constituted themselves a committee of the whole to sponsor the meeting. Sidney E. Samuelson presided at today's meeting and quoted statistics which showed that film rentals being asked in the Philadelphia territory are five to 15 per cent higher in the percentage group and that the number of percentage pictures are two to three times as many as elsewhere. Samuelson is one of the three national Allied representatives on the United Motion Picture Industry, currently attempting to work out an industry harmony program in New York. Mandel Acquires Mono. Franchises Chicago, Feb. 24.— Irving W. Mandel, former Republic franchise holder here and at Indianapolis, has acquired the Monogram franchises for the same territories, effective with the new season, he stated today. Mandel will take over May 31. Henri Elman, the present franchise holder, has just returned from conferences with Monogram officials in Hollywood. He had no comment to make. Metro Sets Trade Shows for 5 Films M-G-M has set dates for trade shows on the next group of five features. The five films and the dates of showing follow : "Kid Glove Killer" and "I Married an Angel," March 10 in 16 exchange cities, balance on March 12; "Rio Rita" and "Fingers at the Window," March 13, and "Mokey" on March 20. Rep. Opens Sales Meet Here Today The regular two-day quarterly sales meeting of Republic for the Eastern and Central districts will get under way this morning at the New York Athletic Club. H. J. Yates and New York executives will be in attendance. Among franchise holders and branch managers who will be present are J. H. Alexander and Sam A. Fineberg, Pittsburgh franchise holders ; Jake Flax and George Flax, Washington franchise holders ; Arthur Newman, Albany branch manager ; M. E. Morey, Boston ; Jack Bellman, Buffalo; Sam Seletsky, New Haven ; Morris Epstein, Sidney Picker, New York ; Sam P. Gorrel, Cleveland ; George H. Kirby, Cincinnati ; Sam Seplowin, Detroit, and Max Gillis; Philadelphia. Three Are Fined for Copyright Violation Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxe yesterday fined Louis Colasuono $1,000 and placed him on probation for a year, and fined Antonio Cardillo and Sol Jaffe $100 each after the three had pleaded guilty to an indictment charging criminal violations of the Copyright Law in the unauthorized exhibition of films. Convictions of the three followed a national investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Copyright Protection Bureau of the circulation of so-called "hot" films in 39 cities throughout the country, according to Jack H. Levin of the latter organization. Qualifies Plea for Free Admissions Albany, Feb. 24. — Assemblyman Stephen Jarema stated here last night that his resolution introduced in the N. Y. State legislature last Tuesday asking that theatres be requested to admit service men free of charge, is designed to apply only during slack periods, such as Monday nights. He said, "It would be absurd to ask the theatre people to provide free seats on weekends, for instance, when such action would directly cut into their livelihood." Newsreel Parade PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S address is the principal subject of the midweek issues, which also have coverage on the submarine attack on a tanker near Aruba, the destroyer Shaw reaching the West Coast from Pearl Harbor and the A. E. F. en route to Ireland. Her are the contents : MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 49— Roosevelt's speech. Sub attack in Caribbean. U. S. troops at sea. Destroyer Shaw on West Coast. Train Chinese pilots in Arizona. Ice -boating in Michigan. Chicago girls work off excess pounds. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 247— Nazis shell West Indies. Roosevelt speech. Troop ships to Ireland. Trains collide in Florida. Chicago girls take reducing exercises. Ice-boating in Chicago. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 52— Winnipeg stages sham invasion. Sub attack in Caribbean. Pre-War French leaders on trial. Pearl Harbor hero writes home. President Roosevelt speaks to the nation. RKO PATHE NEWS, No. 52— President Roosevelt addresses the country. Sub attack in Caribbean. Troop' convoy to Ireland. Destroyer Shaw reaches port. Track meet in New York. UNIVERSAL. NEWSREEL, No. 81— Tanker attacked in Carribbean. Destroyer Shaw reaches West Coast. Twin destroyers launched in Boston. A. E. F. to Ireland. Train collision in Florida. "Invasion" staged in Winnipeg. Defense drive in Concord, Mass. President Roosevelt's speech. Stoltz Is Honored By Ad Club of Utica Utica, N. Y., Feb. 24.— Arnold Stoltz, manager of Warner's Avon Theatre and winner of the 1941 Quigley Award for showmanship and exploitation, was honored here by the Utica Advertising Club. On hand for the dinner honoring Stoltz were C. J. Latta, Warner zone manager, and Charles A. Smakwitz, Warner zone publicity director. Col. Promotes Harnick Toronto, Feb. 24. — Harvey Harnick, former branch manager of Columbia Pictures at Calgary, has been appointed assistant at the Canadian home office here to Sam Glazer, who recently became sales manager after long affiliation with United Artists in Canada. 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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