Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1943)

Page scan 000250 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Apr-Jun 1943
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000250
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:
May 30, 2024
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8 Motion Picture Daily Friday, May 7, 19' Hollywood By WILLIAM R. WEAVER Hollywood, May 6 GOVERNOR EARL WARREN of California affixed his signature this week to a bill requiring that talent agents be licensed by the State Labor Commissioner, at a nominal fee, and that they post a bond as a measure of protection for clients. Effect of the regulation is to safeguard ethical agents and honest talent against fly-bynights who, heretofore and in a quite limited way, could set up quick shop and by means of guile create confusion and distress before being caught up with and eliminated. The real news in the matter, however, is that the bill was favored by all parties and welcomed to the statutes. Nobody remembers a precedent for this spectacular circumstance of leigslation in these historic parts. // Universalis Maria Montes-J on Hall-Sabu combination doesn't make history the reason will net be lack of faith or persistence. With "Arabian Nights" and "White Savage" in exhibition, "Cobra Woman" in work and "AH Baba and the Forty Thieves" preparing, the studio has announced IRWIN WHEELER "The present and promised flow of war pictures ..." Out today in MOTION PICTURE HERALD "Zorya," which is about Gypsies, and an. untitled film about Turkey as fifth and sixth in sequence. All in Technicolor, of course. . . . Mary Pickford, off to dedicate a juvenile home in Memphis and to tour six Canadian cities, has engaged Sam Clark as personal representative. . . . Eddie Buzsell is off to Boston to inspect a play before going to New York for the premiere of "Best Foot Forward," which he directed for MGM. . . . Martin Mooney, crack craftsman, is scripting "Danger — Women at Work," PRC, as a vehicle for Arline Judge, Patsy Kelly and Cobina Wright, Sr. "Salute to a Hero," story of an Army nurse, is an addition to the 20th Century-Fox production agenda with Maureen O'Hara to star. . . . That studio has rented 12 offices in the California Bank Building to house readers and junior writers, for whom the studio lacks, and under building restrictions cannot build, quarters. . . . Frick and Frack, ice comedians, have been signed for Monogram's Belita vehicle, "Lady, Let's Dance." Canadian Industry Seen Unaffected By New War Labor Draft Toronto, May 6. — New essential employment regulations of the Dominion Government Department of Labor drafting specified employes of theatres, film exchanges and several other businesses into war or farm industries is not expected to make a great deal of difference to the entertainment field because theatres and film companies have already gone through manpower adjustment through voluntary enlistments in the armed forces and resignations of men and women to take up munition work. An outstanding example is the fact that more than 700 employes of Famous Players have joined the colors and others have gone to war plants out of a peacetime payroll of approximately 2.000 people. Those remaining are over age, too young or physically unfit for factory or farm work. Practically all ushers now are schoolboys or girls. The same situation is largely found in film distribution circles, although some may be taken from film offices. Houck Telenews Mgr. Seattle, May 6. — William Houck, prominent local theatre manager, has been named manager of the Telenews Theatre here, succeeding Charles Shutt. transferred to Denver by the Telenews Corp. Conservation Note Rochester, May 6. — The Lake here went in for three attractions this week. The program consisted of "Arabian Nights," "How's About It?" and "At the Front in North Africa," the Col. Darryl F. Zanuck, 41-minute film in Technicolor. F&M-Leahy Suit im Missouri Reverseo St. Louis, May 6. — The Missour Supreme Court has upheld fees total ing $75,000 to John S. Leahy, St Louis attorney and his two associate for services to Fanchon & Marco, St Louis theatre operators, in connectioi with theatre leases and a film bookin; dispute in 1934. The decision reversei the ruling of the St. Louis Circui Court, which awarded Fanchon £ Marco recovery of $32,000 paid t< the lawyers as a part of their fee am ordered cancellation of $42,800 in un paid notes for the balance. Rep. Plans Big Ad Campaign on'Mother Republic announces a widespreai advertising campaign in connectio: with its production, "Prodigal's Moth er." Outdoor billboard advertising i to supplement cooperative newspape advertising campaigns in key citiej throughout the country, and advertise ments in fan and general magazine;