Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)

Page scan 000404 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Apr-Jun 1948
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000404
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 Monday, June 21, 1948 Personal Mention JOSEPH BERNHARD,. Film Classics and Cinecolor president, left here at the weekend for the Coast. • Messmore Kendall, president of the New York Capitol Theatre, and Messmore, Jr., will leave here by plane tomorrow for London, where they will meet Mrs. Kendall, and will then visit France, leaving the son there for schooling and returning here late in July. • Herman Lew and Gael Sullivan of Theatre Owners of America left here over the weekend to attend the Theatre Owners of North and South Carolina convention at Myrtle Beach, S. C, today through Wednesday. H. M. RrcHEY of M-G-M also left here over the weekend for Myrtle Beach. • Spyros P. Skouras, 20th CenturyFox president, who returned here over the weekend from Paris with 20th-Fox International head Murray Silverstone, will be in New Haven today to attend the graduation of his son, Spyros, Jr., from Yale. • Robert Coy'ne of Theatre Owners of America left New York over the weekend to attend the convention of Mississippi Theatre Owners at Biloxi, Miss., today and tomorrow. • Charles H. Lehman, president of Telesonic Theatrephone Co., hearing aid manufacturers, has opened new headquarters at 3 East 48th St., New York. • Edward L. Hyman, Paramount Theatres Service vice-president, and Max Fellerman, theatre department executive, have returned here from Detroit. • Richard F. Walsh, IATSE president, is attending the Texas State Federation of Labor convention in Fort Worth today. • Julian Berman, Loew's International manager in Cuba, and Mrs. Berman are vacationing in New York. • E. J. Mannix, M-G-M studio executive, has left Hollywood for a month's vacation in Hawaii. McCullah St. Johns has resigned as managing editor of Photoplay and Radio Mirror, effective Thursday. • Fred Myers, Universal-International Eastern division sales manager, is in Buffalo from New York. Press Party at Roxy The Roxy Theatre here and 20th Century-Fox will be host to the press at a midnight ice festival tomorrow to inaugurate the theatre's new ice presentations which will supplement the regular screen and "in-person" show. A. J. Balaban, executive director of the Roxy, will be host at a buffet supper. Filming Spurts at Hollywood Studios Hollywood, June 20. — The production index rose to 36 from last week's 32. Eight new films went before cameras and four were completed. Shooting started on "The Strange Mrs. Crane" (John Sutherland Production), Eagle-Lion; "Silver Trails/' Monogram ; "Brothers in the Saddle," RKO Radio ; "Chicken Every Sunday" and "Tucson" (Sol M. Wurtzel), 20th Century-Fox ; "Some Rain Must Fall" (James Nasser) and "Indian Scout" (Edward Small), United Artists and "Criss Cross," UniversalInternational. Shooting finished on "Quick on the Trigger," "WalkingHills," "Undercover Man" and "FBI Meets Scotland Yard" (Edward Small), Columbia. Johnston Asks End of Protectionist Policy Calling for a change from "some moss-backed thinking habits of our own foreign trade," Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, declared here at the weekend that the U. S. should show the way toward a world of freer trade. He spoke on Friday at the convention banquet of the National Federation of Sales Executives at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. "We expect Europe to hack down its artificial barriers and integrate economies, but here at home some of us still think that to export is divine but to import is dastardly," Johnston said, in part, and added: "Every dogma has its day, but our high protectionist dogma is getting mangy and has outlived its usefulness." Quota Approved (C 'ontinued from page 1) on sober calculation. It compares with a current quota figure of 17^4 per cent. Referring to criticism of the order which has come from British exhibitors and from America, Wilson denied that the quota is fantastic and claimed he would be failing in his duty if he fixed any other figure. Lords' approval of the quota will make it law. See Boycott Again {Continued from page 1) circles that the Americans are not satisfied with the ad valorem agreement, which has not yet been given a chance to operate, and also the Americans do not fully appreciate that Britain cannot afford even the $17,000,000 released to them under the agreement. DC Bill Awaits Signature Washington, June 20. — With Senate passage of a bill requiring theatres and other amusement places in the District of Columbia to pay the cost of any extra police or fire service required for "special events," the measure is awaiting the President's signature. The House passed the bill June 8. Newsreel Parade PRESIDENT TRUMAN on his tour, and honoring of Yank dead in France mark newsreel highlights in the current releases. Cardinal Spcllman in Tokyo as well as sports and human interests round out the reels. Complete contents follouf: MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 49^President Truman hailed at Los Angeles; winds up his tour of nation. Italy: President Luigi Einaudi takes charge of Italian army. Cardinal Spellman visits Tokyo. American dead honored in France. American beauties. Miss Atlantic City. Sports: horseracing. Japanese derby. Gymnastics. Austria's Olympics. Water skiing. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 383— UN mediator seeks Palestine peace. President Truman gets an eight-ball from Los Angeles press club. Cardinal Spellman in Tokyo. France honors American dead. Search begins for Miss America. Aqua-ski thriller. Darby day in Tokyo. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 8ft— U. S. Olympic boxing finals. Tennis matches in Britain. Tokyo race track. Memorial for fallen Yanks in France. Truman family on tour. Swedish sailing expedition. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 158— Danish ship hit by mine. French honor Yank heroes in Paris. Puerto Rico's largest _ sugar crop. Flying barnyard takes off. 'Rodeo. Trick pistol-shooter displays skill. Steeplechase thrills. WARNER PAT HE. NEWS, No. 88— People: Gen. Smuts, President Truman. Duke Phillip and Cardinal Spellman. Palestine under truce. Bouncing baby. Potato harvest in California. Frenchman lives up side down. Kids vs. chopsticks. Olympic divers. Great Events: Gettysburg. Rogers Fund Meeting Tomorrow in Boston Boston, June 20. — Representatives of distributors and exhibitor organiza tions of New England, meeting at the Hotel Statler here on Tuesday, will be addressed by William F. Rodgers, M-G-M distribution vice-president ; Abe Montague, Columbia sales head, and Edward Morey, Monogram vicepresident, in an appeal for industry cooperation in the drive for funds for the Will Rogers Memorial Sanatori um. This will be the third in a series of territorial meetings. MPAA Ad Unit Keep Vigil on Censor Bill Although the Cuningham censorship bill to enlarge the powers of New York's license commissioner is expected to die in committee in City Coun cil, the Advertising Advisory Council of the Motion Picture Association of America is watching for attempts to push the proposal through council, according to Charles Schlaifer, chairman of the advisory group, who -has been working with Arthur De Bra of the MPAA against the measure. Charges ICC Violations St. Louis, June 20— U. S. Attorney Drake Watson has filed an information charging 30 counts alleging violations of Interstate Commerce Commission tariff regulations, Title No. 49, Sec. 317, on over-charges for transporting motion picture films, against Burtt's Delivery Service, operated by Clifford, Audrey and Marie Burtt. Buck and O'Brien Head Catholic Actors Gene Buck and Pat O'Brien were reelected president and vice-president at Friday's annual meeting of the Catholic Actors Guild. Also elected were : second vice-president, Jay Jostyn; recording secretary, Ed Begley; historian, Kathryn Givney ; chairman of the executive board, Frank McNellis; social secretaries (Theatrical), Sibyl Bowan; (non-Theatrical), Lillian R. Fallon. * Executive board members fcV^Stj; Martin Begley, Kirk Brown, Fa'fsy Campbell, Donat Gautier, Jane Hoy, Jason Johnson, Tom Kane, Tom McElhany, Mrs. Paul Munter, William G. Norton, Harry B. Oldridge, Jane Taylor. H-63 Meeting Today Reports on progress in negotiations and organizing will be the principal subject of a general membership meeting to be held by IATSE Home Office Employes Local No. H-63 this evening at Palm Garden here. H-63 has made inroads recently into areas in which Screen Office and Professional Employes Guild has been functioning. fly United'* DC-6 Mainliner 300 onestop flight Leave New York 12:15 pm, arrive Los Angeles (Lockheed Air Terminal) at 8:25 pm. Fares are surprisingly low. Flights operate on Standard Time. UNITED AIR LINES NEW YORK & BROOKLYN: Call Murray Hill 2-7300. NEWARK: Call Market 2-1122 or an authorized travel agent. j LOUIS vs. WALCOTT FITE PICTURE VALANCES SIZE: 10x3 FEET $9.75 National Flag Company 43 W. 21st ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. Tel. GRamercy 5-5858 sociate Editor. Published daily, except Saturdays, one Circle 7-3100. Cable address: "Quigpubco, resident and Treasurer; Leo J. 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