Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1945
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000488
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:
November 03, 2022
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2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, March 2, 1945 Amateur Contests Return to Chicago Chicago, March 1. — Weekly amateur shows as business stimulants, are making a eomeback in film houses here. The feature is used to supplement weak film programs. The Downtown, Loop theatre, offers amateur shows on Fridays, the Oriental, on Mondays. Outlying theatres are staging amateur contests both to bolster business and to keep people away from the downtown area on Saturdays. The neighborhood theatres include : Logan, with shows Tuesday and Saturday, and the Oak, Fox, East, and Park-, way, on Saturdays. Personal Mention Kernan in New Job, Given a Luncheon William E. Kernan, who on Monday will become affiliated with Donahue and Coe, here, was tendered _ a luncheon yesterday at the Hotel Bristol by his RKO associates. RKO executives attending included Malcolm Kingsberg, James M. Brennan. Harold Mirisch, Al Dawson, H. Russell Emde, Charles B. McDonald, William J. Kernan (father of the guest of honor), John Hearns, Lou Goudereau and Joseph di Lorenzo (master of ceremonies). Kernan was presented with a watch and scroll, on behalf of the group, by Harry Mandel. James A. Procaccini, member of RKO's statistical department, has been promoted to the post vacated by Kernan. Elect Shapiro SOPEG Chairman in Merger Sam Shapiro of 20th Century-Fox has been elected chairman ; Herman Liveright, Paramount, vice-chairman ; Grace Walsh, RKO was reelected secretary and Otto Langer, Loew's, was elected treasurer of the Screen Office and Professional Employes Guild, Local No. 1, United Office and Professional Workers of America. Sidney Young, who headed SOPEG before it merged with UOPWA Local No. 1. was elected secretary-treasurer of UOPWA, and Ellen Davidson was elected Guild representative of the SOPEG. ' Vet s* 9 Citizenship Award to Shore Dinah Shore, radio-screen star, becomes the first entertainer in America to receive the 'Citizenship Medal' award of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Commander-in-Chief Jean A. Brunner announces. Formal presentation of the medal, which is awarded to citizens with the highest records of service to the country, will be made by Brunner during one of Miss Shore's "Open House" broadcasts this Spring. The honor is being accorded the singer in tribute to her morale-building services to our fighting men and women. TOM CONNORS, 20th CenturyFox vice-president in charge of distribution, will return to New York today from a Southern business trip. • Ned E. Depinet, RKO Radio Pictures president, is resting comfortably at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles, where he expects to remain for two or three weeks. • Lt. James O'Shea, son of M-G-M's Eastern sales manager, has been assigned to the Louisville Air Base after 18 months overseas. • Colonel Robert L. Scott, author of "God Is My Co-Pilot," will arrive in New York today for a series of radio appearances. • William F. Rodgers, Loew's vicepresident in charge of distribution, arrived on the Coast yesterday for a 10-day stay. • Edward M. Schnitzer, United Artists Western sales manager, has returned to New York from a Midwestern trip. • Sgt. Tom Evans, U. S. Army, formerly of the Penn Theatre, WilkesBarre, Pa., and Jeanne Linzay have married. • Norman H. Moray, general sales manager of Warners Vitaphone shorts, will leave the Coast today for New York. • Joseph Deitch, film buyer for TriStates Theatres, Des Moines, is in New York. • Sam Shirley, M-G-M Chicago district manager, will leave here today for Chicago. Carl Floyd of Stein and Floyd Theatres, Atlanta, is the father of a 7^2 -pound boy. • Jack Bowen, M-G-M New York manager will leave here today for a Miami vacation. GEORGE L. BAGNALL, United Artists vice-president, will leave the Coast today for a two-week New York visit. • E. C. Grainger, president of the Shea Circuit, will leave March 10 for a vacation at Boca Raton, Florida. Jack Shea, booker and buyer for the circuit, will return to New York Monday from Boston. • Lt. John Scully, Jr., son of John Scully, Universal New England district manager, has been freed by the Russians from a German prison camp in Poland, his family has been notified. • Nicholas Goggin, Cazenovia, N. Y., exhibitor, is in a Syracuse hospital with serious injuries sustained when he fell from his roof while shoveling snow. • Ruth Gillis, assistant to Mike Simons, editor of The Distributor and Lo, M-G-M publications, will leave New York today for a Miami vacation. • E. K. O'Shea, M-G-M Eastern sales manager, and Mrs. O'Shea, will leave New York today for Boca Raton, Florida, for a vacation. • Edgar B. Hatrick, M-G-M News of the Day executive, is vacationing at Colorado Springs. • John Murphy, assistant to Joseph R. Vogel, Loew vice-president in charge of out-of-town theatres, is in Miami on vacation. • Tom Walsh, general manager of the Comerford upstate New York theatres, is the father of a boy, his third. He has one daughter. • Jacob Wilk, Warner Eastern story and talent head, returned to New York yesterday from the Coast. • Herb Elisburg, operator of the Studio, Chicago, is in Miami recuperating from an illness. Briskin on Navy Film Assignment Washington, March 1. — Samuel Briskin, lieutenant-colonel in the Army and formerly executive producer for Columbia and RKO, has begun a three-week assignment on Navy motion picture production at the request of Secretary of the Navy Forrestal. Briskin's duties will be in connection with the operations of the Navy Photographic Science Laboratory and allied phases of Navy film production. Navy Photographic Services is headed by Capt. Gene Markey, USNR. To Honor Magill Philadelphia, March 1. — Mort Magill, United Artists branch manager, will be feted at a luncheon to be held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on March 5. The affair, in recognition of his recent promotion as branch head, will be sponsored by Motion Picture Associates. Monogram and PRC Making OWI Film Hollywood, March 1. — Phil Karlstein, Monogram director, will film an untitled short subject for the Office of War Information and the War Activities Committee, on lend-lease. The film, which will be produced by Monogram, is the joint effort of the latter and PRC and was arranged for by I. E. Chadwick, president of the Independent Motion Picture Producers. Ryan Starts First For New Company Hollywood, March 1. — Phil Ryan's first picture for his recently-formed company will be "Perilous Holiday," current Collier's serial by Major Robert Carson. The film is scheduled to go into production in the Spring and will be made, in part, in Mexico City. Major release is anticipated. NEW YORK THEATRES 2ND WEEK The Greatest Lode of Thrills in Town! "THE BIG BONANZA" starring RICHARD ARLEN ROBERT LIVINGSTON JANE FRAZEE wiih George "Gabby" Hayes A Republic Picture First N. Y. Showing REPUBLIC THEATRE B'way, Bet. 51st & 52nd Streets i RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 8howplace of the Nation . Rockefeller Center "A SONG TO REMEMBER" PAUL MUNI • MERLE OBERON Introducing CORNEL WILDE A Columbia Picture la TECHNICOLOR SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION ON SCREEN 'MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS' Judy GARLAND Margaret O'BRIEN IN PERSON VINCENT LOPEZ and ORCH. r Paramount presents Veronica Sonny LAKE TUFTS Eddie Marjorie Bracken Reynolds "BRING on the GIRLS" In Person The Ink Spots Ella Fitzgerald Buck & Bubbles Cootie Williams and his Orchestra . PA*AMO£t#r s i r j PALACE B'WAY & 47th St. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett Raymond Massey "Woman in the Window" AN INTERNATIONAL PICTURE — A RKO RELEASE SAMUEL GOLDWYN Presents BOB HOPE 'THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE' in Technicolor ASTOR Continuous Doors open Broadway & 930 A.M. 45th Street Popular Prlees WALT DISNEY'S 'The THREE CABALLEROS' in TECHNICOLOR Released by RKO Radlt Picture* NOW Brandt's GLOBE r BETTY SMITH'S A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN PlCTUR $V$7?I&££ ft GAY, SPRINGTIME REVUE ROXY 20, 7lh Ave. & 50Hi St. i 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.'* Martin Quigley, President; Colvin Brown, Vice-President; Red Kann, Vice-President; Theo Sullivan, Secretary; Sherwin Kane, Executive Editor; James P. Cunningham, News Editor; Herbert V. Fecke, Advertising Manager; Chicago Bureau, 624 South Michigan Ave., Hollywood Bureau, Postal Union Life Bldg., William R. Weaver, Editor; London Bureau, 4 Golden Sq., London Wl, Hope Burnup, Manager; Peter Burnup, Editor; cable address, "Quigpubco, London." All contents copyrighted 194S by Quigley Publishing Co., Inc. Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture Herald, Better Theatres, International Motion Picture Almanac, Fame. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 23, 1938, tt the post office at New York, N. Y„ under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year, $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign; single copies, 10c.