Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1945)

8 MOTION PICTURE DAILY Wednesday, September 19, 1945 60 for Board Of Academy New Theatres {Continued from page 1) action to increase the production of all types of building materials, expansion of WPB inventory controls over scarce materials to prevent hoarding, and extension of OP A control to set dollar-and-cents prices on all types of building materials. As the announcement was released, WPB Chairman J. A. Krug issued a warning that the shortage of buildingmaterials still existed and would continue through the rest of the year. « "It should be impressed on the public that construction not urgently needed should be deferred," he said, "and that no construction should be started during the balance of the year, unless there is reasonable assurance locally that materials will be available." Reports recently reaching Washington indicate that several hundred theatres are in the blue-print stage throughout the country, and that both major companies and independents have selected spots for new houses. (Motion Picture Daily has reported details of projected new theatre construction and remodeling in recent weeks. Additional reports of such plans received from various parts of the country appear elsewhere in this issue.) Modernizing (Continued from page 1) remodeling of theatres throughout the country, supplementing those published in Motion Picture Daily on Aug. 22, Sept. 13 and yesterday, follow : Ripley, Tenn., Sept. 18. — Aubrey Webb is constructing a theatre here and Strand Enterprises, operator of West Tennessee houses, is converting the former Libby building into a theatre. Both will open around Oct. 1. Kallet Circuit Plans Utica Area Drive-In Albany, N. Y., Sept. 18.— In addition to resuming wartime-suspended construction on a Drive-In near Syracuse, the Kallet Circuit has laid plans for another Drive-In outside of Utica which Mike Kallet, owner, hopes to have in operation by next spring. Town Gets First Sound Jonesboro, Tenn., Sept. 18. ■ — Tennessee's oldest town has its first sound film theatre, the Jackson, opened by the Sevier Theatre Corp., of Johnson City. Video iii Newark Plans Newark's first new theatre following the war will be built by the Belray Enterprises, Inc. Provisions are being made to have television equipment. E. M. Box to Rebuild Valley Head, Ala., Sept. 18.— The DeSoto Theatre, owned by E. M. Box, of Ft. Payne, was completely destroyed by fire recently. The owner plans to rebuild as soon as possible. Comerford Buys Hall Scranton, Sept. 18. — The Comerford Circuit has purchased the parish hall of St. Joseph's Church, Minooka, Pa., from the Scranton Catholic Diocese. With Building Bars Down, 'U' to Build Chicago, Sept. 18. — Coincident with the announcement from Washington today of the lifting of all restrictions on building construction, Universal reveals that plans are all set for the construction of an exchange building on Michigan Boulevard, near 12th street, with work to begin within the next two months. F. T. Murray, manager of branch operations, and Nate Blumberg, 'U' President, were in town today to close the deal. DuMont Suspends to Switch Video Lanes Television stations now operating in the U. S. face the possibility of being forced to suspend operations for an indeterminable period, which might run as high as a month or more, while they adjust transmitters and equipment from present channels to the newly-fixed channels for which the Federal Communications Commission will shortly announce standards and regulations. This became known with yesterday's announcement of Dumont's New York Television station WABD that it will suspend operations from Sept. 20 to Dec. IS while it switches operations to new studios being constructed in the John Wanamaker New York department store; it will also adjust its present equipment for the channel switchover. The FCC authorized this step. Raibourn Cites Need Of Television 'Webs' Paul Raibourn, in charge of Paramount's television activities, declares that the entire resources and 'knowhow' of Paramount will ba marshalled behind its television efforts, writing in an article, entitled "Television Networks Now Are Vitally Important," in the September issue of Television Magazine. American University To Use Screen, Radio Washington, Sept. 18. — Motion pictures, radio programs and comic strips will be tried out at American University here, this year, as new tools for teaching current economics. The course, made possible by a grant of $24,500 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will be directed by N. Arnold Tolles, who will resign as assistant commissioner of labor statistics in the Department of Labor Oct. 1. Mestanzas Incorporate Albany, N. Y., Sept. 18. — Foreign Screen Corp. has been incorporated to conduct a theatrical business in New York. Incorporators are : Horatio A. Mestanza and Eliane Mastanza and Joseph C. Budner. Harold S. Budner, New York, was filing attorney. Change' Main' Tradeshow RKO Radio will tradeshow "The Spanish Main" on Wednesday, Oct. 3, instead of Sept. 26. Thomas Host at PRC Exhibitor Luncheon Local exhibitors and trade press representatives were guests of PRC's home office management at a luncheon held at Dinty Moore's here yesterday. Harry H. Thomas, PRC vicepresident in charge of distribution, and Arnold Stoltz, advertising-publicity director, were hosts at the occasion, which preceded an exhibitor preview of "The Enchanted Forest," the company's initial Cinecolor production. Exhibitors in attendance included : Jack Harris, Bob Jonassen, Leon Rosenblatt, Sam Einhorn, Irving Ludwig, Sam Steifel, Larry Morris, Harold Klein, Bernard Meyerson, Bernard Brooks, Hal Blumenthal, Sam Goodman, Lucille Tannenbaum, John Benas, Frank Lynch, Alan Daly, Sam Rinzler, Harold Rinzler, Irving Kaplan, Herbert Fenton, Ed Seider, Moe Seider, Walter Higgins, Al Suchman, Lee Newbury, Irving Dollinger, Harry Lowenthal, George Gold, Lou Gold, Maury Miller, Henry Brown, Joseph Siccardi, Ed Lachman, Maurice Maurer, J. J. Thompson, and Jules Ziegler. Other PRC executives present included Lloyd Lind, assistant general sales manager ; George Fleitman, secretary ; John W enisch, New York branch exchange manager, and William Katz, New York branch exchange personnel manager. Griffith (Continued from page 1) memos were hearsay insofar as the defendants were concerned. "Griffith came into these towns," Kupper said, "but Griffith never got one inch of our film; despite the fact that Griffith was a big buyer of our product in other situations, he never got it in those towns as long as the other operators continued to operate, and they still do today." Kupper spent much time describing selling operations before and after the consent decree, and under the old NRA code. Vaught asked to see a copy of the code, apparently feeling that if the defendants had abided by its stipulations their actions now subject to prosecution might have been condoned by another Governmental agency during the 1933-39 period. Eastman Closing in Tribute to Lovejoy Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 18. — Eastman Kodak Co.'s three plants and office buildings will be closed tomorrow in tribute to the memory of Frank W. Lovejoy, chairman of the board of directors, who died Sunday. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at two P. M. in First Universalist Church, with Eastman officers and business associates acting as honorary bearers. 'Diary' in January Chicago, Sept. 18. — Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard, part owners and co-stars of "Diary of a Chambermaid" have revealed that they are making arrangements for a premiere of the picture at the Oriental Theatre here in January. Miss Goddard will spend several weeks in New York and then report to Paramount for her next picture. Hollywood, Sept. 18. — Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces 60 nominees for election to the board of governors for the coming year. Ballots will be mailed to the entire Academy membership and polls will close at midnight, Sept. 29. i Twenty board members are to be elected from the 60 nominees. Nominees are : actors branch : Charles Boyer, Donald Crisp, Henry j Fonda, Greer Garson, Jean Hersholt, George Murphy, Walter Pidgeon, Rosalind Russell, James Stewart, with three to be elected ; directors' branch : Frank Capra, Michael Curtiz, Frank Lloyd, Garson Kanin, Henry King, Mervyn LeRoy, Leo McCarey, John M. Stahl, William Wyler, also three to be elected. Other Branches Producers' and executives' branch : Merian C. Cooper, William Dozier, Y. Frank Freeman, Samuel Goldwyn, Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Gene Markey, Joseph Sistrom, Hal B. Wallis, with three to be elected ; science branch, art direction: Bernard Herzbrun, ! W. B. Ihnen ; photographic: Charles G. Clarke, Farciot Edouart ; sound: Thomas Moulton, Douglas Shearer ; film editors : Anne Bauchens, Hector Dods ; equipment : Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus, with three to be elected. Writers' branch : Charles Brackett, Philip Dunne, Sheridan Gibney, Nun £ nally Johnson, Norman Krasna, Mary C. McCall, Jr., Jane Murfin, Robert E Riskin, Lamar Trotti, also three to be elected. Music branch: Nat W. Finston, Ray Heindorf, Werner Janssen, Jerome Kern, Dr. Miklos Rozsa, Max J Steiner, Herbert Stothart, Franz Waxman, Meredith Wilson, with three to be elected. Short subjects j branch ; Gordon Hollingshead, George Pal, Jules White, with one to be I elected. Public relations branch : Harry Brand, John LeRoy Johnston, Howard Strickling, with one to be elected. The newly elected board will elect officers for the coming year at its first meeting, early in October. Western Electric' s Woodward Dies Here Franklin T. Woodward, general patent attorney for Western Electric from 1937 until his recent appointment as consulting patent attorney, died here yesterday morning following a heart attack. Woodward, 63, had been in failing health for some time. Funeral services will be held at three P.M. today, from the Port Washington Methodist Church, Port Washington, L. I. Woodward is survived by his widow, the former Katherine Rochet of Antwerp, Belgium ; two sons, Paul, who has not been heard from since his capture by the Japanese in the Philippines, and William Redin, and two daughters, Mrs. Theodore Bardacke, and Kathryn Virginia. Kroger in Exhibition Memphis, Sept. 18. — Bill Kroger, Paramount salesman for many years,' has bought the Shannon Theatre afl Portageville, Mo.