Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1943)

Page scan 000251 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 #:
000251
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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r friday, May 7. 1943 Motion Picture Daily 9 i)r.Thorp Arbitrator ttiTalent Pay Dispute ' Dr. Willard L. Thorp, director of conomic research of Dun & Bradfcreet, and editor of Dun's Review, as been selected as the third arbitraBr in the pending settlement of a lontroversy with respect to talent Sites to be paid members of the p*onerican Federation of Radio Artists Clpearing in "My True Story," a Tllue Network program in cooperation vith McFadden Puublications. Dr. Thorp was selected by the two >ther arbitrators, Roy Durstine, presi lent of Roy S. Durstine, Inc., New t'urk advertising agency, appointed by the Blue web, and Dr. Robert Lynd, >rofessor of sociology at Columbia Jniversity, appointed by AFRA. -1 tarings, under the auspices of the \merican Arbitration Association, are •cheduled to begin May 18. JIT Releases OWl Short on May 13 "Doctors at War," an Office of War Information short subject, will be released through Universal May 13. The subject was formerly known as 'Army Doctor." "Wings Up," a two-reel picture of the Army Air Force Officers Candidate School in Miami, Florida, with narration by Captain Clark Gable, will be released by the OWI May 27. It is a War Activities Committee release. Off the Antenna P ROGRAMS and people add up to great human interest stories. For exr ample, there's Enny De Vries, who is on the Blue Network Saturday afternoons. Enny, a Belgian, was Europe's most popular torch singer. She used to visit the United States annually for a six months' vacation, and in 1925 she became an American citizen. When the war brought her back to this country permanently after the war started, she was unknown here as a performer although a wealthy star in Europe. So when she started for the Blue, the Belgian Government in Exile here, decided to help her by sending out postcards to listeners over the country with this inscription : "Belgian Singing Star Enny De Vries will be heard every Saturday from 2 to 2 :30 P.M. on the 'Musette Music Box.' Listen and then write to WJZ, New York. Her Future IN America Depends Upon You." • • • Purely Personal: The William Morris -Agency is once more booking Kenny Baker. . . . Paramount is screen testing announcer Dick Stark this week and it may be that "Abie's Irish Rose" and "Hour of Charm" will have to start looking for a new man to speak their commercials George Mc Garctt. wjio supervises ten of Y & R's top shows, is slated to don khaki June 1. . . . In keeping with the dignity of the Guild Theatre from which he is now airing the IVOR Edelbrau Beer show, Ray Bloch has added five violins to his swing orchestra. . . . Miller McClintock. President of the Mutual Broadcasting System, has been appointed a member of the Executive Committee of the Federal Radio Educational Committee. • • • Program Jottings: Four new stations have become affiliated with the Blue Network bringing the total of affiliates to 155. . . . They are WSOO and WLAV of the Michigan Network, WROK in Rockford, Illinois, and KTEM in Temple, Texas. . . . Fulton Lewis, Jr., has just signed a 52-week contract to broadcast news from Washington for St. Joseph's aspirin. CBS Board Declares 30-Cent Dividends The CBS board of directors yesterday declared a cash dividend of 30 cents per share on present Class A and B stock of $2.50 par value. Dividend is payable on June 4, 1943. Crossley Co, 1st Qtr. 1943 Net $1,125,230 Cincinnati, May 6. — Net profit of $1,125,230 for the three months ended March 31, after deducting all charges and taxes, is reported by the Crossley Corporation here. New Carson Show To Replace Berle The Milton Berle CBS Campbell Soup program leaves the air after a 13week run and will be replaced by a new package show featuring Jack Carson starting June 2. Carson is leaving the Camel Caravan program in which he appeared with Herb Shriner to become the leading performer of the new program. More important though is that Foote, Conn and Belding has enticed the Campbell account away from Ward Wheelock, who has held it for a good many years, and was supposedly in no danger of losing it. The new agency acquired Carson's services from MCA through Hal Hackett. The supporting cast has not as yet been set. Rooney Air Show Off; MGM Price Too High Negotiations carried on for a show to be built around Mickey Rooney by the Young & Rubicam Agency for Lever Brothers have been dropped because the agency could not meet M-G-M's price for Rooney, it is said. The show was being sought as a replacement for the Tommy Riggs program which it is anticipated will shortly have to leave the air because its star is slated for Army duty. ted and Produced by SOL LESSER* Directed by FRANK BORZAGE -screenplay by delmer daves • a frank borzage production