Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1942)

Motion Picture Daily Friday, February 27, 1942 Personal Mention SAM PINANSKI, of M & P Theatres. Boston, was in town yesterday. • Robert T. Kane is en route to New York from the Coast. • Jules Lapidus, Universal district manager, has left for Boston. He will return Monday. • William Dieterle is expected to leave here tomorrow for the Coast. Edward Arnold has left for Call fornia. • Norbert E. Murray of the Boston 20th Century-Fox exchange is the father of a son, born at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. • Phyllis Page, manager of Loew's Sheridan Square Theatre here, is a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore. • Garson Kanin, Philip Martin and Jack Shaindlin have returned from Washington. • Joseph P. Burke, 20th CenturyFox traveling auditor, is in Boston IATSE Had $439,168 Cash At End of Last Fiscal Year NEW YORK THEATRES RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 50th St. & 6th Ave. SPENCER TRACY . KATHARINE HEPBURN "WOMAN OF THE YEAR" COLE PORTER Leonidoff's colorful tunefllled revue. Symphony Orchestra, direction of fsTwezzanine Seats Reserved Circle 6-4600 paramount Presents Madeleine Stirling CARROLL-HAYDEN i„ 'BAHAMA PASSAGE' IN TECHNICOLOR! PARAMOUNT IN PERSON ALV1NO REY AND BAND KING SISTERS Extra GIL LAMB TIMES SQUARE Adolphe MENJOU Geo. MONTGOMERY Ginger ROGERS ROXIE HART' PLUS A BIG pAVV 7th AVe" STAGE SHOW If. W ■ &. 50th St. B WAY & 47th St. PALACE GARY COOPER BARBARA STANWYCK BALL OF FIRE The IATSE had $439,168 in cash at the close of the last fiscal year, ended last July 31, according to the annual report issued privately to union officials. No mention is made in the report of the two per cent special assessment funds which were under the exclusive jurisdiction of George E. Browne, convicted former president. Receipts during the fiscal year were $436,810 while disbursements totaled $363 016. Receipts included $329,806 for the general fund; $81,044, convention transportation and per diem fund, and $41,743, Special Class B fund. Browne Gets $26,349 The largest disbursement was $44, 184 for legal fees but it was not indicated to whom or for what they were paid Browne received $26,349, ot which $20,000 was salary ; $2,352 hotel expenses; $1,645 transportation, and $2,352 per diem expenses, according to the report. . Each vice-president received $l,uuu annual salary plus traveling and per diem expenses. A total of $21,763 was expended for the seven vice-presidents. Felix D. Snow of Kansas City, seventh vice-president, received the largest total, $5,467, while Richard Walsh then third vice-president but now president in place of Browne, received the second largest, $4,426. Louis Krouse, secretary, received $18 377 of which $15,000 was salary, $904 hotel expenses, $1,509 transportation, and $904 per diem expenses. William Bioff was described in the report as an organizer and received $15,549, of which $5,720 was regular salary $5,200 added salary, $4,36» hotel expenses, $261 transportation. Gus Eyssell Host at Trade Press Party Gus Eyssell, president and managing director of the Radio City Music Hall, was host last night to publishers and editors of the trade press at dinner at the Music Hall, following which the party attended the Rangers-Detroit hockey game at Madison Square Garden. . Among those present were Golyin Brown Jack Alicoate, Sam Sham, Maurice Kann, Chester Bahn, Jack Harrison, Jack Pulaski, Roy Chartier, George Morris, Don Mersereau, Russell Downing, vice-president and treasurer of the Music Hall ; Leif Jorgensborg, Charles Lewis and James Cun ningham. Rallies for Defense In 7 Bronx Houses NY Circuit Heads Form Defense Unit A committee of New York City circuit heads was set up yesterday to coordinate theatre preparations for possible air raids. The committee consists of executives who attended conferences conducted by Arthur J. Benline, Acting Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Housing and Building, several weeks ago and again yesterday. The group will act as clearing house for ideas and may prepare a manual for theatres in the city, Benline said. J. Berry Walters of RKO heads the committee. Week's Grosses On BVay Strong, Aided by Holiday "A GREAT SHOW." — Herald Trihune 50c, $1 & $1.50 no HIGHER 2ND YEAR — 2ND EDITION of the Sensational Musical Icetravaganza It happens on ice at America's Only Ico Theatre Center Theatre, Rockefeller Center. CO. 5-5474 Eves except Mon. Mats. Sat., Sun. & Wed. 501 Sea" tor Every Perl. 50c. EVGS. AT 8:40 On Sunday at 10 A. M., seven Bronx film houses will be open to the public for the first of a series of neighborhood defense rallies, according to the Greater New York Civilian Defense Volunteer Office. Part of a program of community education in civil defense, the programs will include the showing of air rajd defense films, and speakers to explain local defense activities. It is an experimental plan which may be expanded to other communities, it was said. The theatres participating are the Tuxedo, |„i, Thorn, Ward, Crotona, Blenheim, Ogden and Fordham. While Broadway grosses resumed more normal levels after the tremendous business of last weekend, the full week's intake still was very strong. The heavy weekend increase was attributed in part — by about 10 per cent — to the higher admission scales prevailing at most houses for the threeday holiday weekend. Holiday prices were in effect for morning shows at the Roxy throughout the week. The Radio City Music Hall, an ex ception, did not increase scales but ran extra shows. Favorable weather and the large influx of visitors contributed to the banner business. "Captains of the Clouds" with Blue Barron's orchestra finished its second week at the Strand with an estimated $42,000 and begins a third week today. "Woman of the Year" with the stage show at the Music Hall ended its third week with an estimated $104,000. It began a fourth week yesterday. "Roxie Hart," with a stage show, drew an estimated $69,600 in its first week at the Roxy and started a second week yesterday. The second week of "Mr. V" at the Rivoli was good for an estimated $21,000 and that also holds over. "A Gentleman at Heart" ends its first week at the Globe tonight with an estimated $8,700 expected. It continues. At the Rialto, "Our Russian Front" and "Frisco Lil," now in its third week, finished its second with an estimated $7,500. Sales Meeting Of 20th-Fox to Start Saturday {Continued from page 1) light of their recent extended studio visit. Sales, merchandising and advertising plans for the new prodr^| will be outlin H^, District a n u ' branch managers who have not already met Connors will have an opportunity to do so at the meeting. The home office delegation which will leave k ^■Bftjgpr this afternoon Bk "^Hlfaft^, will include, in mm jHBk addition to B» jBHHk Kent. Connors and Wobber, William Sussm a n , Eastern division manager; William C. Gehring, Central division manager; William Kupper, Western division manager ; their assistants, Clarence Hill, Ted Shaw and Eddie Collins ; A. M. Botsford, director of advertising and publicity; Rodney Bush, exploitation manager, and Roger Ferri, editor of Dynamo, company house organ. Tom Connor! Fitzgibbons Heads Canada Film Council Thomas Lamb Dies; Designed Theatres Thomas W. Lamb, one of the foremost theatre architects in the country, died suddenly yesterday afternoon of a heart ailment. He was 71 years old. He is credited with having drawn plans for more than 300 theatres, among them several on Broadway, and the Madison Square Garden, as well as theatres abroad. He designed theatres for Loew's, Warners, RKO and other circuits. Toronto, Feb. 26.— J. J. Fitzgibbons, president of Famous Players Canadian Corp., has been officially appointed permanent chairman of the advisory council of the film trade in the Wartime Prices and Trade Board of Canada. The announcement of Fitzgibbons appointment was made today by R. G. McMullen, Administrator of Theatres and Films in the price board. The advisory council now is organized in permanent form. The only ! change in the original setup being that of Fitzgibbons^ who succeeds Morris Stein, general manager of Famous Players Canadian, as chairman. 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. Don, Advertising Manager; Chicago Bureau, 624 South Michigan Avenue, C. B. O Weill, Manager; Hollywood Bureau, Postal Union Life Building, Villiam R. 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