Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1943)

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8 Motion Picture Daily Friday, January 8, 1943 Half of Para. Preferred to Be Redeemed {Continued from page 1) of four per cent debentures, due in 1956. Paramount subsidiaries have funded debts amounting to approximately $3,000,000, and the Canadian subsidiary a funded debt of $6,000,000. The first preferred stock is convertible at the rate of one share for seven shares of common, but shares which are drawn for redemption on Jan. 22 must be converted prior to March 18. The company stated that the redemption is in line with its plan, conceived some time ago, to eliminate all securities having a prior claim over the common stock on the company's earnings. Exhibitors, Stations Aid Prisoner Drive Rochester, Jan. 7. — Exhibitors and radio men are on the committee for the test campaign for War Prisoners' Aid to be conducted here on behalf of the War Activities Commjttele with the VMCA beginning Feb. 1. The general committee includes : Jay Golden, chairman, Lester Pollock and Bud Silverman, exhibitors, and William Fay, Charles Siverson, Al Sisson and Jack Lee of WHAM; Clarence Wheeler, Gunnar Wiig. Jack Barry of WHEC, Mort Nusbaum of WSAY; Donald_ McConville of Eastman Kodak Co. and Milton Williamson of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. Seek Independents In 48-Hour Week (Continued from page 1) which the voluntary stretching of work week from 36 to 48 hours, minimum work guarantees and other measures similar to those being promulgated with major studios would be adopted. New RCA Phila. Branch Philadelphia, Jan. 7. — RCA will establish a branch office here for its RCA Service Company, Inc. Application for a certificate of authority to do business in this state has been filed with the State Department. The branch office will deal in servicing of telegraphic, radio and motion picture equipment and other electrical apparatus. Alan Ladd to Be Inducted Hollywood, Jan. 7. — Alan Ladd will be inducted in the Army, Jan. 18, necessitating postponement of "Incendiary Blonde," Texas Guinan's biography in which he was to have costarred with Betty Hutton, the studio announced. Miss Hutton gets a role opposite Bob Hope in "Let's Face It" instead. Veteran Mg'r Resigns HAjiTFOED, Jan. 7. — Michael Abdulla associated with the Palace Theatre, New Britain, for over 30 years and manager of the house, has resigned because of illness. FDR Congress Talk Heard by 14,290,000 President Roosevelt's message on the state of the nation to Congress yesterday was heard around the world and by 14,290,000 persons in the United States, according to a survey by C. E. Hooper, Inc., and released by CBS. This rating of 27.7 compares with 59.6 or 34,652,200 persons who heard the President's war message on Dec. 8, 1941. The address was sent by the networks to Latin America while it was being delivered with running commentary in Spanish and Portuguese. Columbus Theatres Win Clearance Cut Arbitration awards reducing the clearance of prior runs in Columbus over the Champion and Drexel theatres in that city have been entered at the Cincinnati tribunal by John C. Dempsey, arbitrator. The complaints were filed by the Champion and Drexel Amusement companies, operators of the two houses, against the five consenting companies and subsequently were consolidated as a single complaint. The arbitrator dismissed Loew's from the proceedings and directed that the maximum clearance which can be granted the Eastern Theatre, Columbus, by the four distributors is 45 days after the last playdate' at the Columbus downtown first runs. The effect of the award is to advance availability to the Champion and Drexel by seven days. Meanwhile, Paramount, RKO and Vitagraph have filed appeals from the award at the New Orleans tribunal which found that the conditions on which they had offered product to the Lakeview Theatre there violated the terms of Section 6 of the consent decree. The Lakeview won a similar award last year, which was appealed and after being affirmed by the appeal board was remanded to the New Orleans arbitrator with instructions to determine whether the distributors' offers of product complied with Section 6. South Chicago House Reopens Tomorrow Chicago, Jan. 7. — H & E Balaban will reopen the Joy Theatre in South Chicago for Saturday and Sunday showing of Mexican films starting Saturday. D. H. Badke, manager of their Commercial Theatre in the same district reports a successful early show policy Saturdays at 9 :30 for steel mill workers. An increase in admission prices last Summer did not hurt business as payrolls in the district are up. Sunday crowds are at practical capacity in the industrial area but the Saturday rush it is said comes after shopping centers are closed. 2 Conn. Firms Dissolve Hartford, Conn., Jan. 7. — The Strand Theatre of Thomsonville, Inc., and the Torans Amusement Company, Inc., of Griswold, have filed final certificates of dissolution with the Secretary of State, it was learned. Relaxation of Wage Rule in Prospect (Continued from page 1) salary increases provided for up to annual ceiling level of $67,200. [Motion Picture Daily on Jan. 5 reported that this provision had been approved by the Treasury Department and the Office of Economic Stabilization.] 2. If an actor has an option coming up and the increase that it calls for brings him above the ceiling level, the companies may pay him an increase but reduce the number of weeks he works, but in no case should earnings exceed the ceiling. 3. Freelance players may be authorized to bargain freely for their services and get normally what hey have been getting up to the ceiling but with the Treasury Department watching to see that there is no inflationary trend in bidding for services. Problems of free lance players are so varied that a special setup may be necessary to adjudicate their cases under governmental wage directives. Kenneth Thomson, executive secretary of the Screen Actors Guild, who returned from Washington today, will report Monday night to the Guild board the results of his conferences with Washington officials. Now Theatre Can't Be Razed for Alley Springfield, Mass. — Jan. 7. — In a complicated real estate deal that dates back to the time of the last war, the Gilmore Associates, owners of theatres in this area, and the city of Springfield reached an agreement that an 8-foot non-existent passageway, over which the back of the Capitol Theatre is built, would be deeded to the Associates for a consideration, and the Associates in turn deeded to the city rights "to another passageway blocked off for years. Aside from its complicated procedure, the deal in effect only assures the owners of the Capitol that the back of the building can never be torn down to make room for the passageway it now blocks. The Associates paid the rent due the city up to 1944 and an additional $1,200 in consideration of the transfer of title. OWI Man to Speak At Radio Luncheon Dr. Herman S. Hettinger of the Office of War Information will speak at a meeting next Thursday of the American Marketing Association Radio Luncheon Group at the Hotel Sheraton. "What Radio Time Buyers Want to Know," Dr. Hettinger's study released by the National Association of Broadcasters, will be his subject. The meeting is first in a series designed to aid new agency-advertiser personnel to adapt itself to increased wartime responsibilities, it was announced. George H. Allen is chair 'Spangled Rhythm' In $115,000 Week; BVay Still Terrific Col. Makes Russian Film Hollywood, Jan. 7. — Columbia is the first studio to produce a picture based on fighting in Russia. It is "The Boy from Stalingrad," based on the activities of child guerrillas. Sidney Salkow is directing. (.Continued from page 1) which garnered an estimated $125,000 for the third week and started a fourth week yesterday. With one exception, the attractions on Broadway were holdovers during the past week. "In Which We Serve" at the Capitol grossed an estim^ $75,000 for its second week, and* \ i film started a third week yesterday. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" at the Strand with Jimmy Dorsey and his band as the stage attraction was expected to collect close to $56,000 in its second week ending today. "Arabian Nights" was expected to garner a handsome $32,000 for the second week ending tonight at the Rivoli. "Casablanca" started its seventh week at the Hollywood yesterday after grossing an estimated $28,700 in the sixth week. The film will be followed by "Air Force." "For Me and My Gal" earned an estimated $23,200 for its 11th week at the Astor. "Jacare" is expected to gross close to $9,300 for its second week ending tonight at the Globe. "Silver Queen" opens at the theatre tomorrow. "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" was the only new film of the week. It drew an estimated $3,400 for Monday through Wednesday at the Rialto. Brazil Official Sees Radio Amity Force Radio's importance in cultivating better understanding among the Americas was discussed by Captain Amilcar Dutra director of the radio division, Department of Information and Press of Brazil, in an interview yesterday in the offices of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Visiting here at the personal invitation of Nelson Rockefeller, Dutra said there are 4,627,000 receiving sets in Brazil, and 100 stations. Programs from the United States, he stated, are the most popular foreign broadcasts. Goulding to 20th-Fox Hollywood, Jan. 7. — Edmund Goulding, former Warner director, today signed for a one-picture deal at 20th Century-Fox, and will direct "Claudia." Mexico Station Head Greeted, Falls Dead Mexico City, Jan. 7.— Birthday felicitations by numerous friends and clients who called at his office all day long are believed to have so taxed the weak heart of Ricardo Vazquez, owner and chief announcer of radio station XECD at Puebla City, near here, that he dropped dead just as he was starting for the microphone. Vazquez's body lay in state at the station for a day, during which the station did not onerate. Many notables of radio, the screen and the stage, as well as business and the state government attended the funeral.