Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1945)

2 Motion Picture daily Tuesday, March 6, 1945 Heavier Taxes Are Proposed for Ohio Columbus, O., March 5. — A bill to produce approximately $10,000,000 additional annual revenue in retail sales tax collections, without increasing the present impost, has been introduced into the upper Legislative branch by Senator James Matzenbaum, of Cleveland. The measure, which, if adopted, would be in the form of an amendment, would require vendors to maintain separate records of all sales and the tax collections thereon, and pay the actual amounts to the State Treasurer. The current tax is more than three per cent, Senator Matzenbaum pointed out, citing that a one-cent tax on a 10-cent purchase amounts to 10 per cent tax, with larger amounts in proportion, whereas the vendor is required to file semi-annual reports and remit only on the equivalent of a straight three per cent, based on gross sales. Theatres, likewise, pay a three per cent excise admission tax on gross receipts. No Ontario 10% Tax On Tickets After All Toronto, March 5.— It appears that all of the talk about the restoration of the 10 per cent amusement tax by the Ontario Government was a mistake. At least that is what a deputation of the Ontario Federation of Labor was told when it waited on Premier George Drew and the Provincial Cabinet at the Parliament Building. When the subject of reviving the amusement levy was brought up by the labor men with accompanying objections, the reply from the Government was there had been no intention of reviving the tax this year "to help pay for the new education subsidy." At first thought this declaration was taken to mean there would be no amusement tax but the qualifying part of the statement regarding the $20,000,000 subsidy for schools in Ontario still has the theatre men guessing. 'Stars & Stripes' Book May Be Made a Film Hollywood, March 5. — Steve Slesinger is en route to New York following preliminary negotiations for the sale of screen rights to "Stars and Stripes," book based on the official Army publication, which was launched first in World War I as a weekly and now appears as a daily with 11 editions ranging from London to Algiers. Staff members, all of them Afmy. men, are due in New York this week from overseas to do further work on the book. Nebraska Tax Killed Omaha, March 5. — Nebraska will have no sales tax at least for another two years. The measure, LB 336, which would have provided a two per cent sales tax effective July 1, was killed in the Legislature's revenue committee at Lincoln. Personal Mention j. J. FITZGIBBONS, president of Famous Players Canadian Corp., is a grandfather, his daughter having given birth to a girl in Memphis. • Harold L. Groves, field director of the new Confidential Reports, Inc., who recently resigned from Copyright Protection Bureau after 16 years, will leave New York this week for a countrywide tour for the new organization. • Harry Stevens, of Life Magazine's advertising staff, has left New York for Hollywood. • Joan Roggen, formerly with RKO, has joined the advertising denartment of Paramount. • Fred Meyers, Universal Eastern sales manager, is in Washington this week. • Edward M. Schnitzer, United Artists home office executive, will leave New York today for Toronto. • Sam Lefkowitz, United Artists New York manager, left yesterday for Philadelphia and Washington. George Bagnall, United Artists vice-president, arrived here yesterday from the Coast. • Roy L. Brauer, Universal branch manager at Atlanta, is visiting in Tennessee. • Charles P. Lester, National Screen Service Southern manager, is in Atlanta after a trip to Florida. GS. EYSSELL, president and • managing director of Radio City Music Hall, will leave for the Coast Saturday to see new product. • Leon Fromkess, PRC president, who left New York Sunday for the Coast, stopped off in Chicago for two days en route. He is expected back in New York next month. • Harry R. Lubcke, director of television for the Don Lee Broadcasting System, is in Washington and will visit New York before returning to the Coast. Robert Knepton, Warner contract manager in New England, has left Hartford for a two-week vacation in Augusta, Ga. • • Lt. Louis C. Ingram, Jr., son of the Memphis M-G-M branch manager, has been awarded the Air Medal after eight missions over Japan. • Austin C. Keough, Paramount vice-president and general counsel, has returned to New York from California. • Eric Van Dyck, Loew 83rd Street manager, celebrated his 15th anniversary at that house March 4. • Ted Markoff, manager of the Colchester Theatre, Colchester, Conn., is the father of a daughter. • Harry Shaw, Loew's Poli New England manager, celebrated his 21st wedding anniversary this week. Reisman Is 1st U. S. Film Man in Paris Phil Reisman, RKO vice-president in charge of world distribution, has arrived in Paris from London, it was learned here yesterday, being the first ranking American commercial film executive to reach that city since 'D-Day'. For many months, U. S. foreign department executives have waited for French visas. Reisman is expected to confer in Paris with Marcel Gentel, RKO's French manager, and will inspect other branches and agencies there and in Belgium. Since E. T. Carr of the J. Arthur Rank organization was permitted to cross the Channel in order to carry on commercial activity there, some industry quarters here felt that the American industry was being discriminated against, but, with the granting of a French visa to Reisman, letting down the bars to the Continent is expected, with only limiting factors those of transportation. Name J. J. Chisholm ASN Ontario Head Toronto, March 5. — Appointment of J. J. Chisholm as district manager of Associated Screen News for Ontario is announced by B. E. Norrish, president and managing director. Chisholm is one of the company's senior producers. Kalmenson to Hold Home Office Meet Ben Kalmenson, general sales manager for Warners, will conduct a sales conference at the home office on Friday to outline distribution plans and policies for the remainder of the season. Home office executives and district managers who will participate : Mort Blumenstock, Roy Haines, Jules Lapidus, Norman H. Moray, I. F. Dolid, Ed Hinchy, Stanley Hatch, Norman Ayers, Robert Smeltzer, Charles Rich, Harry A. Sneed, Hall Walsh, R. L. McCoy, Doak Roberts, Henry Herbel and Ralph Clark. HaysReturnSfA nnual MPPDA Meet Mar. 26 Will H. Hays returned to New York yesterday from his regular Winter visit to Hollywood, and will continue with MPPDA executive staff members on the writing of his annual report to the board of directors and company members. The annual board meeting is scheduled for March 26. Astor Cinemas Dissolves Albany, N. Y, March 5. — Astor Cinemas, Inc., of New York, has been dissolved. Attorney Harry G. Kosch, New York, recorded the notice. NEW YORK THEATRES 2ND WEEK The Greatest Lode of Thrills in Town! "THE BIG BONANZA" starring RICHARD ARLEN ROBERT LIVINGSTON A JANE FRAZEE ( wifn * George "Gabby" Hayes A Republic Picture First N. Y. Showing REPUBLIC THEATRE B'way, Bet. 51st & 52nd Streets RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Shswplace of the Nation . Rockefeller Center "A SONG TO REMEMBER" PAUL MUNI • MERLE OBERON Introducing CORNEL WILDE A Columbia Pleture la TECHNICOLOR 8PECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION ON SCREEN 'MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS' Judy GARLAND Margaret O'BRIEN IN PERSON VINCENT LOPEZ and 0RCH. ^ 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 PAIACE 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 TechnJco/or ASTOR Continuous Doors open 8:30 A.M. Broadway & 45th Street Popular Prices WALT DISNEY'S 'The THREE CABALLER0S' in TECHNICOLOR Released by RKO Radio Pictures NOW Brandt's GLOBE 'Dillinger* Shown Friday Monogram will give its first trade screening here of "John Dillinger" on Friday morning at the Normandie Theatre, following with a buffet luncheon at the Warwick Hotel, for exhibitors and the press. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, President and Editor-in-Chief; Colvin Brown, Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Executive Editor, Published daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Holiday* 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. 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