Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1944)

2 Motion Picture daily Tuesday, October 17, 1944 Petersen To Speak At Mayer Dinner Howard C. Petersen, executive assistant ;to Under Secretary of War Patterson, will be a guest speaker at the farewell dinner to be given to Arthur Mayer by the industry tomorrow at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here. Petersen will represent the Secretary of War whom Mayer has been serving as civilian film consultant for the past several months until his appointment as aide to Stanton Griffis as deputy commissioner for the Red Cross in the Pacific Islands area. Goetz Pulls 'Window' After Censors' Cut Hollywood, Oct. 16. — World premiere of "Woman in the Window" at the RKO Palace, Cincinnati, Thursday, has been cancelled because the William Goetz-Leo Spitz International Pictures, producers of the film, refuse to make eliminations ordered by the Ohio censor board at Columbus. Goetz said he sees the picture ruined on the basis of the censor board's demands, adding International intends to fight the issue, through RKO, distributor of the film. Hickey, Rosenwald, Goldstein Arrive Three M-G-M field executives arrived here yesterday to spend a week at the home office visiting departmental heads. They are: George A. Hickey, Western district manager, in Los Angeles ; Benn Rosenwald, Charlotte manager ; Maurice Goldstein. New Haven manager. Next Monday, Frank Downey, Detroit manager, and Harry Shumow, Milwaukee manager, will arrive for similar visits. Willkie Burial Service In Rushville Today Funeral services for Wendell L. Willkie will be held at the Wyatt Memorial Home, Rushville, Indiana, today, following the return of his son, Lt. (j.g.) Philip Willkie to the United States after overseas duty. Willkie, in addition to his political career, was also chairman of the board of 20th Century-Fox. Preliminary services were held a week ago at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York. Internment will be in Rushville Cemetery. Winchell as Birdwell Leon Fromkess, president of PRC, began, at the weekend, overtures to secure Walter Winchell to enact the starring role in "I Ring Doorbells," film biography of Russell Birdwell, at a proffered salary of $25,000 per week, according to the Birdwell office here. U. S. Seizes 'Tabif Washington, Oct. 16. — The Alien Property Custodian reports the seizure of the German film, "Tabu," held by Paramount as trustee for the heirs-atlaw of F. W. Murnau, deceased. Personal Mention JOHN BALABAN and Dave Wallerstein of B. and K. Theatres, Chicago, are visiting in New York. Sol A. Schwartz, general manager of RKO out-of-town theatres, and his assistant, William Howard, left yesterday for a Midwest tour and will return at the weekend. • W. C. Gehring, 20th Century-Fox Western sales manager, has returned from St. Louis, where he was a patient at Barnes Hospital for several weeks. He will rest at his home before returning to work. • Marietta V. Barrett of the staff of Quigley Publications has resigned to join Radio-Keith-Orpheum in the office of J. Miller Walker, secretary of the corporation. • Louis Shanfield, head of the 20th Century-Fox art department, and W. J. McHale of the advertisng department, returned from the Coast yesterday. • J. H. Feldhans, operator of the Iowa Theatre, Omaha, has been appointed Justice of the Peace in that city. • H. A. Ross, president of Ross Federal Service, has left New York for company meetings in Chicago, Memphis and Los Angeles. • Lt. Col. Hal Roach of the Army Air Corps, who recently returned from overseas, is now in New York with Mrs. Roach. • Norman Elson, general manager of Trans-Lux Theatres here, will return to New York tomorrow from Washington. • Gus King and his partner, Oscar Howell, of Capitol City Supply Co., have returned to Atlanta from Chicago. • Beatrice Rappaport, secretary to Phil Reisman, RKO vice-president in charge of foreign sales, is on a two-week vacation. • A. Montague, Columbia general sales manager, will leave Hollywood on the Superchief for New York today. • Mitchell Rawson of the M-G-M home office publicity department returned from the Coast yesterday. • Spyros Skouras, 20th Century-Fox president, left Hollywood yesterday for New York. • Harold Bernstein, formerly of the Plaza, Cincinnati, has moved to California. • Russell Birdwell arrived in New York yesterday from the Coast. • Alfred Hitchcock arrived in New York yesterday from Hollywood. • Leon Gordon, M-G-M writer, will leave for the Coast Oct. 26. NICHOLAS M. SCHENCK, president of Loews, Inc., arrived in New York yesterday from the Coast. • Capt. Walter Lloyd, former manager of the M. and P. Allyn Theatre, Hartford, Conn., has returned after after 18 months with the Army in North Africa and has left with Mrs. Lloyd to spend 10 days at an Army rest camp in Tampa, Fla., before reassignment. • Lane Patton and A. J. Rademacher, Altec Service New York branch managers, arrived in Hollywood yesterday. Warren Conner, district manager, and M. G. Thomas, Cincinnati branch manager, are en route to the Coast. Lieut, (j. g.) Julius Gordon, USN, president of the Jefferson Amusement Co., Beaumont, Tex., is here on leave from Boston, accompanied by Victor Pelisek of the same company. • James A. Rudulph, copywriter of the Newell-Emmett agency, son of Gerry Rudulph, former advertising manager of Fox Films and RCA Photophone, was married Sept. 10 to Florence Barrett. • Peter Shayne, former president of the Chicago projectionists union, has recovered from illness and is now employed at the Downtown Theatre, Chicago. • Irene Dunne, arrived in New York yesterday from the Coast. She will go to Canada this week for a War Bond Rally and then return to California. • Fred McLendon of the McLendon circuit, Union Springs, Ala., has returned from Washington, D. C, accompanied by U. S. Senator George Andrews. • Jack Kirby, Paramount Atlanta district manager, and Bill Finney, division manager of Loew's Theatres there, are on the sick list. • Henry Willson, executive assistant to Daniel O'Shea, president of Vanguard Films, Inc., arrived in New York yesterday. » Joel Levy, out of town Loews's booker, returned to New York yesterday after a 10-day trip upstate and to Canada. • Charles E. Kessnich, M-G-M district manager, returned to Atlanta yesterday after a week in ew York. • Darryl F. Zanuck will attend the opening of "Wilson" at the Apollo, Chicago, Friday. • R. J. Ingram, Columbia Southern district manager, has left Atlanta on a tour of his territory. • Harold Hopper, M-G-M studio executive, arrived in New York from the Coast yesterday. Nevin and Hochstein Hearings Nov, 20 Isadore Nevin, former bookkeeper ■for George E. Browne, ex-president of the IATSE, and Harry Hochstein, former morals inspector in Chicago, both indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for perjury in the Bioff-Browne union case, had their hearings in the U. S. District Court here postponed yesterday until Nov. 20 by Judge Samuel Mandelbaum. NEW YORK THEATRES The Season's Surprise Hit 1 "MY PAL, WOLF" with SHARYN MOFFETT Jill Esmond Una O'Connor George Cleveland Charles Arnt Claire Carleton An RKO Radio Picture BRANT'S REPUBLIC B'way between 51st and 52nd Streets Phone CO-5-9647 RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Showplace of the Nation — Rockefeller Center GREER GARSON — WALTER PIDGEON in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "MRS. PARKINGT0N" Edward Arnold Agnes Moorehead Cecil Kellaway SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION First Mezzanine Seats Reserved Circle 6-4606 PARAMOUNT'S "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" starring Gail RUSSELL Diana LYNN with Charlie Ruggles Dorothy Gish IN PERSON— FRANK SINATRA plus Eileen Barton RAYMOND PAIGE and his orchestra ^ PARAMOUNT presents ^ Joan Fontaine Arturo de Cordova 'Frenchman's Creek* ^ R IV0 LI, B'way & 49th St ^ PALACE B'WAY & 47th St. "MUSIC IN MANHATTAN" ANNE SHIRLEY DENNIS DAY PHILIP TERRY ft ON SCREEN IN PERSON^ rPEARL BUCK'S HENRY WAGON ARMETTA \ SEED' HARRIET 1 Katharine HEPBURN ^ Turhan Bey H0CT0R, MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, President and Editor-in-Chief; Colvin Brown, Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Executive Editor. Published daily except Saturday, Sunday and holidays by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue. Rockefeller Center, New York, 20, N. Y. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address, "Quigpubco, New York." 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