Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1945)

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Tuesday, March 27, 1945 Motion Picture Daily 17 Federal Tax Returns Up to $26,298,412 (Continued from page 1) ness) increased to $26,298,412, from $24,354,560 in the preceding month. The upsurge was in sharp contrast with a year ago, when collections dropped from $16,744,936 in January to $12,094,185 the following month. Admission-tax collections now are are running at the rate of $360,000,000 a year, slightly better than estimated by the Treasury when the current rates were put into effect. Receipts for the first eight months of the Government's fiscal year aggregated $237,662,562 against $120,630,825 in the corresponding period a year ago, an increase of $117,031,737. The improved January business evidenced by the February collections was spread throughout the country rather than in Metropolitan centers, it was indicated by the special report for the Third New York (Broadway) District which showed a decline in revenue from $4,766,726 in January to $4,049,158 last month. The decline applied to all classifications of admissions, receipts from box office admissions dropping from $4,083,825 to $3,450,642; tickets sold by brokers from $51,054 to $32,913; tickets sold by proprietors in excess of established prices from $1,014 to nothing. To Honor Fanny Brice Columbia Broadcasting and Benton and Bowles advertising agency will honor Fanny Brice, Danny Thomas and the 'Toasties Time' cast at a reception at the Hotel Ambassador here this afternoon. Curfew Violators To Be Penalized (Continued from page 1) make the first step by imposing 'zero' employment ceilings. WPB itself, it was said by a spokesman, will not initiate any such cases. An official of the Board said that no cases have yet been received, but an agreement has been reached that when a certification is sent in by the WMC it will be turned over to the compliance division for investigation. The investigation would include a hearing at which the Government would be required, to provide that current, fuel or other materials needed to promote the war effort were being used improperly through a violation of the manpower ceiling. While the procedure could be applied to theatres or other places, it was explained that it would operate in this way : Upon violation of the curfew, the WMC would fix a zero manpower ceiling ; thereupon, if the the establishment continued to operate, it would be held to have violated its ceiling and to have improperly used power or fuel, whereupon it would be certified to the WPB which, after investigation, could order its supplies cut off. Yergin With 'Reporter' Hollywood, March 26. — Irving Yergin today became editor of The Hollywood Reporter under an arrangement which is understood to give him a sharing arrangement. Yergin recently came West as an executive assistant to Charles Einfeld, director of advertising and publicity for Warners. His deal to join William R. Wilkerson, however, had been on and off for a number of months. Treasury Has New War Drive Poster Washington, March 26 . — The sketch for a poster, "Movie Goers — Keep on Buying Bonds," shows a typical American soldier, battle-weary, but determined, in an advance through a wrecked German village. As his fellow infantrymen trudge on, he pauses for a moment to wheel around and face from the screen the comfortable audience in his home town theatre. Superimposed on the screen and curtain are the words, "You buy 'em — we'll fight 'til we beat 'em!" The poster is an official U. S. Treasury poster 40-by-60 inches, and was produced at the direction of Ned Shugrue, director of the motion picture and special events section of the War Finance Division. National Screen Service will distribute the poster to theatres. R. J. O'Donnell, Southwestern chairman for the War Activities Committee, suggested the poster, and Ray Beall prepared the original sketch and layout. RKO Revives Foreign House Publication RKO Radio's foreign department publication, The Foreign Legion, has been brought back into circulation after a lapse due to the war. It is under the editorial guidance of Mike Hoffay, foreign publicity manager ; the publication was resumed during March. Highlighting the reappearance of The Foreign Legion, dormant since June 29, 1940, is an outline of the "Phil Reisman Studio Appreciation Drive," now under way and continuing until June 2. Each article in the publication is printed in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. Appoint Lesser N.Y. 7th Loan Chairman (Continued from page 1) was unanimously endorsed at a meeting of New York area WAC members. In announcing Lesser's acceptance, Pinanski said : "I am informed that all exhibitors are behind him 100 per cent. Lesser has given the national committee an assurance that the Metropolitan area will go over the top in this biggest of all war drives." Lesser stated yesterday that organization meetings will get under way here tomorrow when chairmen will be appointed for the various committees. A member of the executive committee of the New York area War Activities Committee since its inception, Lesser has been chairman of the Broadway-Times Square Theatres in the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth War Loans, and has been active in all Red Cross, March of Dimes, National War Fund and other drives. Mahoney Child Actor Licensing Bill Dies Albany, N. Y., March 26. — The Mahoney bill, which would have established a system of licensing, by local educational authorities, of children under 18 performing in various kinds of entertainment, has been killed in the Senate's education committee. This measure would not have affected New York City. Also killed in the committee was another bill designed to put the director, officers and employes of the State Education Department's motion picture division under civil service. One of the thrilling production high lights from "Earl Carroll Vanities," spectacular, new Republic supershow, starring Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, and featuring Woody Herman's band of the year. ADVT.