Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1942)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1942
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000325
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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DTiursdav, February 26, 1942 Motion Picture Daily 7 ^Suspicion' at $18,500 Holds Frisco Pace 9 Sax Francisco, Feb. 25. — Business jntinued brisk under influence of jod weather and continued defense "vity. "Suspicion" took §18,500 in second week at the Golden Gate, id "Bugle Sounds" and "Mr. and Irs. North" pulled $15,900 in the cond week at the Fox. Estimated receipts for the week nding Feb. 17-19: Suspicion" (RKO) GOLD EX GATE— (2,850) (44c-49c-65c) 7 lays, 2nd wetrk. Stage: vaudeville. Gross: 8,500. (Average, $15,000) Bedtime Story" (Col.) Go West. Young Lady" (Col.) ORPHEUM— (2,440) (20c-35c-40c-S5c) 7 Gross: $8,800. (Average, $8,000) Men in Her Life" (Col.) Three Girls About Town" (Col.) CXITED ARTISTS— (1,200) (20c-35c-40c:) 7 days, 3rd week. Gross: $7,000. Vverage, $7,500) The Bugle Sounds" (M-G-M) Mr. and Mrs. North" (M-G-M) FOX— (5,000) (20c-35c-40c-55c) 7 davs, 2nd ■ek. Gross: $15,900. (Average. $16,000) Bahama Passage" (Para.) The Night of January 16" (Para.) ST. FRANCIS— (1,400) (20c-35c -40c-55c) 7 ys, 3rd week. (Moved over from Para)unt). Gross: $4,800. (Average. $4,500) Son of Fury" (ZOth-Fox) The Perfect Snob" (20thFox) PARAMOUNT— (2.740) (20c-35c-40c-55c) 7 ys. Gross: $12,400. (Average, $11,500) Sullivan's Travels" (Para.) Road to Happiness" (Mono.) WARFI ELD— (2,680) (20c-35c-40c-55c) 7 vs. Gross: $12,800. (Average. $12,000) Forgotten Village" ( MayerBurstyn) ."LAY— (400) (15c-35c-45c) 7 days. Gross: 100. (Average, $1,000) Wind' Cincinnati Smash at $13,700 Cincinnati, Feb. 25. — "Gone With le Wind" pulled a big $13,700 at the KO Capitol at advanced prices, -ouisiana Purchase" had an excelnt $6,800 second moveover week at «.ith's. Estimated receipts for the week ding Feb. 18-21: iahama Passage" (Para.) kKOALBEE — (3.300) (33c-40c-50c) 7 ys. Gross: $12,000. (Average, $12,000) on of Fury" (20th-Fox) <KOPALACE — (2.700) (33c-40c-50c) 7 ys. Gross: $11,000. (Average. $10,000) ing Your Worries Away" (RKO) <KO SHUBERT— (2,150) (33c-44c-60c) 7 Stage: Connee Bos well and acts. ;: $11,400. (Average. $10,000) ujne With the Wind" (M-G-M) <KO CAPITOL — (2.000) (40c-55c) 7 davs. ;: $13,700. (Average, at 33s-40c-50c) 500) ise and Shine" (20th-Fox) IKO GRAND— (1.500) (33c-40c-50c) 7 Gross: $3,300. (Average. S5.000) Jl Through the Night" (W. B.) *KO LYRIC— (1.400) (28c-43c) 7 days. 1 week. Gross: $3,400. (Average. $4,500) orth to the Klondike' (Univ.) orrowed Hero" (Mono.) :KO FAMILY— (1.000) (15c-28c) 4 days. 3ss: S1.200. (Average. $1,300) our Jacks and a Jill" (RKO) o Hands on the Clock" (Para.) KO FAMILY— (1.000) (15c-28c) »SS: $800. (Average. $800) :>uisiar.a Purchase" (Para.) lEITH'S— (1.500) (33c-40c-50c) 7 davs. 2nd Mc Gross: $6,800. (Average, $5,000) 3 days. dropping Stage Shows CINCINNATI, Feb. Is. When Irtmy Kay and his orchestra closes current engagement at the 2,150R RKO Shubert this week, the 3se will discontinue stage shows. I play straight pictures. Off the Antenna T NSTALLATION has started on the 100,000-watt shortwave transmitter in A San Francisco formerly operated by General Electric in Schenectady. From its new location, the transmitter, under the call letters, KWID, will be beamed to Japan. Associated Broadcasters, operators of KSFO, San Francisco longwave station, will operate KWID. G. E. has a 50,000-watt station, KGEI, in the same city, and is completing another 100,000-watt transmitter for Schenectady. • • • Purely Personal: Raymond Gram Swing, Mutual commentator, will start a belated vacation April 6. John Gunther will substitute for three weeks. . . . Bob Marks, CBS page boy, has been promoted to the post of official timer for the network's television programs. . . . Ed Paid has been named program director of WCFL, Chicago. . . . Peter Grant, chief announcer for WLWWSAI, Cincinnati, will start military service March 8. . . . Jose Crespo has joined the CBS Spanish language staff. . . . Syd Cornell has been named program manager for U'KRC, Cincinnati, to succeed Brad Simpson who resigned to enter the advertising agency business. • • • WKBW and WGR, Buffalo stations, have gone on a 24-hour basis with late night and early morning programs designed for defense workers on late shifts. • • • WISE, Asheville, N. C, has joined Mutual as the 199th affiliate. The station operates on 1,230 k.c. with 250 watts. KFXJ, Grand Junction, Colo., another Mutual affiliate, has notified the network that it has raised its power from 250 to 1,000 watts and changed its frequency to 1,230 k.c. • • • Program News: The Blue zsill offer a second nczi-s show from Washington for cooperative sponsorship. The series with William Hillman and Ernest K. Lindley -will be heard Mondays through Fridays 7:30-7:45 P.M. It will become available for local sponsorship on March 16 but will start on a sustaining basis Monday. Tlie H. R. Baukhagc scries, the first Blue cooperative show-, noii' has 12 local sponsors. It started Feb. 16. . . . Prominent historians will be Iteard in a new sustaining series, "Living History" which will be heard over CBS Tuesdays. 4:15-4:30 P.M. starting next week. . . . Lynton IVells will start a new commentary series, "The World This Week," over CBS television tomorrow. It will be heard Fridays 8-8 :30 P.M., with appropriate visual aids on the television screen. . . . Andrew Jcrgens Co. has renewed "The Thin Man" over 78 NBC stations for an additional year. Da Dow Je Bun! ~D LUE Network announcers have begun signing off remote and sustaining programs with catch phrases in Spanish and Chinese as a goodwill gesture. Phrases like "Tsao Shun" (Chinese for "Good Morning"), "Hasido un gran gusto" (Spanish for "Ifs been a great pleasure"), and "Da dow je bun!" ("Down with Japan!"') are being aired by the announcers with the Chinese supplied by the local Chinese consulate. Not to keep listeners mystified, the translations also are given. Working on Plan for N. Y. Opera Company Everett Crosby, talent manager, Edward Arnold, film actor, Frank Chapman, husband of Gladys Swarthout, and one or two others are reported working together on a proposal to establish an opera company in New York which would replace and substitute for the Metropolitan, providing the financing for such a project can be arranged. The group's plan is reportedly based on the premise that the war may trim the Metropolitan to a point where it may cease to function a year from now. The group has approached certain Broadway theatre interests in the matter but their project has not yet become definitive, it is said. 'Scandal' Garners $9,500, New Haven New Haven, Feb. 25. — The LoewPoli, with "Design for Scandal" and "The Bugle Sounds," took $9,500. and the Roger Sherman drew $6,400 with "Dangerously They Live" and "Sing Your Worries Away." Estimated receipts for the week ending Feb. 19: "Remember the Day" (ZOth-Fox) "Secrets of the Lone Wolf" (Col.) COLLEGE— (1.627) (40c-50c) 7 days, week. Gross: $2,700. (Average. $2,700) "Design for Scandal" (M-G-M) "The Bugle Sounds" (M-G-M) LOEW-POLI— (3.005) (40c-50c) 7 days Cross: S9.500. (Average. $8,000) "Louisiana Purchase" (Para.) "Mccn Over Her Shoulder" (20th-Fox) PARAMOUNT — (2.373) (40c -50c) 7 days. 2nd week. Gross: $4,500. (Average. $4,500 "Dangerously Thev Live" (W. B.) "Sing Ycur Worries Away" (RKO) ROGER SHERMAN— (2.067) (40c-50c) 5 days. Gross $6,400. (Average. $5,000) "Major Barbara" (U. A.) SHUBERT— (1.680) (40c-55c) 7 days. Gross $4,200. 4 BIG WEEKS AT THE N.Y. GLOBE THEATRE 2nd Seeks Permit for Station in Topeka Washington, Feb. 25. — The Jayhawker Broadcasting Co., Inc.. has asked the FCC for a construction permit for a new 940-kilocycle. 1.000watt station at Topeka, Kan. The commission also was asked by Station KXO, El Centre Calif., to authorize a change in frequency from 1,490 to 1.230 kilocycles and increase of power from 100 to 250 watts. 3 Companies Formed Albany, Feb. 25. — Three companies have been formed here. Thev are Studio Theatre Corp., Theatre Crafts, Tnc. and "V" Newsreel Corp., all Manhattan companies. I Call It 1 jayi LEE MORTMAER, Doily Mirror^ TOPS normal business oy w *1 PARIS CALLING You ve "got to be I be DEFYING THE NAZI HEELS! A Charles fC Feldman Group fVo</uef<"o Elizabeth'0""9 Randolph BERGNER. SCOTT basil RATHBONE GALE SONDERGAARO • EDWARD CIANNELLI • CHARLES ARNT LEE J. COBB Oifected by EDWIN L MARIN . Produced by BENJAMIN GIAZEB A UNIVERSAL PICTURE