Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1945)

Page scan 000536 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1945
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000536
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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2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, March 9, 1945 Personal Mention NATE J. BLUMBERG, Universal president, will arrive in New York from Hollywood about April 1. This will be his usual Spring visit. • Carl H. Clausen, of Paramount^ home office advertising-publicity department, and Mrs. Clausen, yesterday announced the engagement of their daughter, Gloria Ann, to Lt. George W. Kelly, Army Air Force. • William Pierce, Jr., advertisingpublicity director for Lester Cowan Prod., will leave Hollywood by train this weekend for two weeks of business in New York • Sidney Blumenstock, assistant exploitation manager of 20th CenturyFox, and Earl Wingart, assistant publicity manager, have returned to New York from Philadelphia. • Harry M. Kalmine, Warner assistant general manager, left here yesterday on a trip to Pittsburgh, Charleston and Fairmont, W. Va. • John W. Hicks, Jr., Paramount International president, is expected to return to New York from California early next week. • Charles Reed Jones, Republic advertising director, and Evelyn Jones celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary this week. • Prudence Dillon, of E. K. O'Shea's staff at M-G-M, will leave New York today for a Miami vacation. • William Heineman, general sales manager for Samuel Goldwyn, left here last night for Detroit and Chicago. • Joe Oppenheim, manager of the Parkway, Chicago, is the father of a second son, Paul Graham, born Feb. 26. • Joseph H. Seidelman, president of Universal International, returned to New York yesterday from Mexico. • Al Daff, Universal International vice-president, will leave here today for a week's stay in Montana. • Harold F. Cohen, Monogram Southern exchanges special representative, is visiting New Orleans. • Tom Comerford, Comerford Theatres executive, is a patient in the Mercy Hospital, Scranton. • Clem Perry, J. J. Theatres general manager, has returned to New York from a vacation. • Rex Williams, United Artists exploitation director, is on a trip to Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Memphis. H. C. Kaufman of the Columbia sales department, is visiting Atlanta from New York. Nick and Weston on Federal Parole St. Louis, March 8. — John P. Nick, former vice-president of the IATSE. and local 'boss' of theatre unions, and Clyde A. Weston, his business agent have been paroled from their five-year Federal prison sentences, it was learned here today. Both were convicted under antiracketeering laws. Nick was at Leavenworth prison and Weston at Terre Haute. The sentences had six months to run, with credit for good behavior. The men were found guilty in 1937 of extorting $6,500 from theatre owners on promises to drop demands for union wage increases. Coming Events Lunch for Ferguson On 21st Anniversary William R. Ferguson, M-G-M director of exploitation, was given a surprise anniversary luncheon at the 21 Club, here, yesterday, on his 21st year with the company. Participating were: Charles K. Stern, M-G-M assistant treasurer ; Edward Carrier of the royalty department; Capt. Volney Phifer, special representative ; Warren Slee of the Chicago exchange; Floyd Fitzsimmons, Albany; Jack Gilmore, Buffalo ; Ed Gallner, Philadelphia, and Burt McKenzie, Boston. Betty Lou Bandlow, second prize winner in M-G-M's "20Year Anniversary Bathing Beauty Contest," will be guest today at a luncheon at the Astor Hotel to be attended M-G-M home office executives, in addition to the five visiting field promotion men. Zigmond Will Join Buchanan Agency Kansas City, March 8. — Jerry Zigmond, manager of the Newman, first run Paramount, here, for seven years, is leaving to join the Buchanan Advertising Agency, New York, which handles the Paramount account Zigmond, however, will not join Buchanan at once ; he has been given a leave of absence by Paramount to work on the Seventh War Loan drive, this activity to extend until the drive is over. Zigmond has been head of the public relations department of the area War Activities Committee here since its organization. He has been with Paramount 18 years, almost all of that time as manager of theatres, in Kansas City, Denver and other Midwest and Western cities. Ohio Crest Floods Louisville Theatres Cincinnati, March 8. — As the swollen Ohio River began to ebb from a crest of 69.2 feet here today, the peak of one of the Midwest's worst floods passed downstream to Louisville, where the auditoriums of two theatres, the Broadway and Park, were covered with water. Other houses there continued to operate. Today — Monogram press luncheon, Warwick Hotel, New York. Mar. 9-10 — Warner sales meeting, New York home office. Mar. 10 — Deadline for filing draft deferment requests for essential workers. Mar. 13-15— Pacific Coast Conference of Independent Theatre Owners' annual meeting of trustees, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. Mar. 14 — Universal's annual stockholders' meeting, Wilmington. Mar. 15 — Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' annual awards, Hollywood. Mar. 15-21 — Industry Red Cross 'War Fund' week. Mar. 16 — Industry Advisory Committee raw stock meeting with War Production Board, Washington. Mar. 16 — New York Building Code meeting, New York. Mar. 26 — Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America's annual board meeting, New York. Mar. 29 — Loew's annual stockholders meeting, New York. Pal Coming Here To Talk Product Hollywood. March 8. — George Pal, Paramount "Puppetoon" producer, will leave here for New York tomorrow to discuss next season's production activities with Oscar Morgan, Paramount short subjects sales manager, and other Paramount executives. In addition to lining up the 194546 program of color "Puppetoons," Pal plans feature "Puppetoons" based on children's books, combining actors with his puppets in live action on which he has been working for some time. Pal also will confer with his foreign representative, Arthur Padron, recently arrived in New York from Europe, to make plans to reopen his own studios in Eindhoven. Holland, where Pal started before the Bernerd Gets Mono. Producership Status Hollywood, March 8. — With Jeffrey Bernerd converting his set-up from independent status to a straight studio producership, Monogram is moving toward a completely companycontrolled policy. The recent acquisition of Philip Krasne's interest in the "Cisco Kid" and "Jimmy Wakely" series was a step in the same direction. Once taking product from 10 independent producers. Monogram is now utilizing only three outside sources : Banner Productions, King Brothers and James Burkett. NEW YORK THEATRES Arcady Boytler Hurt Mexico City, March 8. — Arcady Boytler, the Russian who began in Mexican pictures 20 years ago as an actor, now a producer, was seriously injured by an automobile here. 2ND WEEK The Greatest Lode of Thrills in Town! "THE BIG BONANZA" starring RICHARD ARLEN ROBERT LIVINGSTON JANE FRAZEE with George "Gabby" Hayes A Republic Picture First N. Y. Showing REPUBLIC THEATRE B'way, Bet. 51st & 52nd Streets RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 50th St. & 6th Ave. RITA HAYWORTH "TONIGHT AND EVERY NIGHT" JANET BLAIR * LEE BOWMAN A Columbia Picture in TECHNICOLOR SPECTACULAR 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 PALACE B'WAY & 47th St. Dick Powell Claire Trevor Anne Shirley "Murder, My SweeF AN RKO RADIO PICTURE SAMUEL GOLDWYN Presents BOB HOPE 'THE PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE' in Technicolor Continuous ASTOR Doors open 8:30 A.M. Broadway 4 * 45th Street Popular Prices WALT DISNEY'S 'The THREE CABALLEROS' in TECHNICOLOR Released by RKO Radio Pictures NOW • ■ Brandt's GLOBE BETTY SMITH'S A TRIE GROWS IN BRCX)KiyN,.sJ PICTUR OwSTZ&f ' A GAY. SPRINGTIME REVUE ROXY 7th Ave. & 50th St. { MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, President and Editor-in-Chief; Colvin Brown. Publisher: Sherwin Kane, 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. 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 1945 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, at 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.