Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1949)

Motion Picture Daily Friday, July 8, 1949 'Brave Big Draw in First Southern Date "Home of the Brave" last night was heading for a §4,000 opening day at the Majestic, Dallas where the film dealing with anti-Negro discrimination launched its first playdate outside the Northern tier of states. United Artists reported here yesterday. The audience was about 75 per cent white, it was said. "Red River," playing" the same house did $1,250 on its opening. 'Mighty Joe' to Open At 358 Theatres RKO Radio's "Mighty Joe Young" will have a "world premiere" on July 13 in 35S theatres in New England and Upper New York State. Terry Turner, national director of RKO exploitation, has a force of six field men working under Harry Reiners, Eastern supervisor, on the ballyhoo. Merian C. Cooper, who produced "Mighty Joe" with John Ford, is personally taking part in the campaign, attending press and radio interviews and exhibitor gatherings. Stage Shows End At N. Y. Strand Warner Brothers' "The Fountainhead" will open for an indefinite run at the New York Strand Theatre today with stage shows discontinued indefinitely for the first time since they became a part of house policy in August, 1938. Twice before Strand stage shows were withdrawn temporarily to permit the booking of double features. Warners' 'Colorado Territory" ended a two-week run last night. Buffalo Variety Party Buffalo, July 7. — The local Variety Club will hold its annual picnic Monday at the Auto Club in Clarence, N. Y. Sam Geffen of National Screen is general chairman. Myron Gross, chief barker, is honorary chairman. Members of the committee are : Art Bailey, Howard McPherson, Phil Panoff, Murray Whiteman, Dick Walsh, Menno Dykstra, Harry Berkson and Jack Chinell. To Mental Films Post Ottawa, July 7. — A year's leave of absence to work as film officer for the U. S. Joint Mental Health Film Board has been granted Robert Anderson, who directed the Canadian Film Board's mental mechanism series, including "Feeling of Rejection," "OverDependency" and "Feeling of Hostility." Reuben Rosenblatt St. Louis, July 7. — Reuben Rosenblatt, manager of the Monogram branch here, died suddenly Tuesday from an unexplained cause. Rosenblatt, born in Orange, N. J., entered film distribution in 1923 and joined Monogram last year. Personal Mention CJ. FELDMAN, Universal-Inter• national Western sales manager, is in Chicago front New York en route to Lake-o'-the-Woods for a vacation. • Irving Rubine, W. R. Frank Productions advertising-publicity director, will be in Indianapolis today from New York. • Robert Strickland, president of Strickland Film Co., Atlanta, and Oscar Barker are visiting New York and Rochester. • Neil L. Halliday is managing the Lyric Theatre, Lexington, Ky., which was recently acquired by Vance Schwartz. • James L. Cunningham has been appointed advertising manager of the Screcnland unit of J. Fred Henry Publications. • L. J. Duncan, president of Al-Dun Amusement Co., West Point, Ga., is confined to his home by illness. • Roger Gagnon has been appointed manager of the Plainfield Theatre, Plainfield, Conn. • Mrs. Robert W. Coyne will leave here tomorrow on a European vacation trip. • Art Golasa, Motion Picture Daily's Detroit correspondent, is honeymooning at Miami Beach. WILMA TOTTEN, of Motion Picture Herald's Managers' Round Table, will observe a birthday today. • Ken M. Leach, president of the Alberta Theatres Association, Calgary ; W. J. Singleton, general manager of Associated Screen News, Montreal, and H. A. Friedman, Odeon Theatres associate at Edmonton, are visiting in Toronto. • Sam Rosen, partner in the Lockwood and Gordon Theatres and owner of Rosen's Film Delivery, New Haven, has returned to that city with his associate, Sam Weber, from a Florida -fishing trip. • Harold Wirth wein, MonogramAllied Artists Western sales manager, has returned to Hollywood from a tour of exchanges in Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha and Des Moines. • Robert Weitman, Paramount vicepresident and managing director of the Paramount Theatre, left here yesterday for a brief vacation and will return on Wednesday. • J. L. Hunter, formerly Paramount branch manager at Toronto and at present owner of three theatres at Hamilton, Ont, has leased the Colonial Theatre, Toronto. • Peter Perakos, circuit owner of New Britain, and Mrs. Perakos recently observed their 43rd wedding anniversary. Summer Schedule Heavy at 20th-Fox Hollywood, July 7. — Six films are now in work at the 20th CenturyFox studio, with 24 stories currently being readied for cameras. Highlygeared production activity will continue through the summer. Pictures now shooting are : "Wabash Avenue," "Oh, Doctor !", "Whirlpool," "Turned Up Toes," "Front and Center" and "Warpaint." Shooting abroad are : "The Black Rose," "Quartered City" and "Night and the City," with production vicepresident Darryl F. Zanuck now in Europe to supervise them. 5 Kodak Appointments Rochester, N. Y., July 7. — Appointment of a new manager and four assistant managers in four Eastman Kodak subsidiaries was announced here today. Paul H. Lesle becomes manager in Davenport, succeeding George S. Rogers. Appointed assistant managers were : F. M. Cornwell, in Chicago ; L. C. Mungham, Montreal ; W. H. Falconer, and H. J. McEvoy, New York. Pressburger in Mexico Mexico City, July 7. — Arnold Pressburger, British producer, is here preparing for the production of "It Was on a Friday," which will be made in English. 66 Arrests Made for 'Blue Law' Violations Hattiesburg, Miss., July 7. — A drive to enforce the state's "blue laws" brought 66 arrests to employes of the six theatres here. Most of them were arrested as many as four and five times. They were charged with operating the theatres after six P.M.; the law only allows them to run between one P.M. and six. To Screen 'Vets' Short There will be a special screening of_ "How Much Do You Owe?," the Disabled American Veterans' short subject which the motion picture industry is seeking to place on the screens of all of the nation's theatres late in September as a public service, at the Universal home office. Kester Gets Account William Kester and Co., in association with Donohue and Coe, New York, has been selected as the advertising agency for the Shirley TempleDavid Niven "A Kiss for Corliss," Collin Miller-Marcus Loew II production to be distributed by United Artists. New Greenthal Account The Little Carnegie Theatre here has appointed the Monroe Greenthal Advertising Agency to handle all of its advertising. Argentinians Seek Deals in Europe Paris, July 4 (By Airmail).— J. J. Guthman, general director of Cinematografica Interamericana of Buenos Aires, has arrived in Paris from Rome at the head of a delegation of Argentine producers. In Rome he had concluded an important trade arrangement with the Italian industry. His chief aim here is to arrange for an exchange between the two industries. Guthman, who represents the Argentine Film Producers' Association, has been talking with both the French Foreign Office and the Cinematograph Department of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Other talks are going on here with Spain, Italy and the USSR. None of them seems particularly promising at this moment. Prices Same Since '37 Knoocville, Tenn., July 7. — Pointing out that its admission prices have not changed since 1937, the Tennessee Theatre here states in an advertisement that admissions cannot be lowered as long as the Knox County five per cent admission tax prevails. NEW YORK THEATRES -RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center 'June HAVER Ray BOLGER Gordon MacRAE « "LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING" Color by TECHNICOLOR A Warner Bros. Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION 'STONES' mary Jane saunders J. Arthur Rank presents "THE RED SHOES" Color by Technicolor liJOU THEATER, 45/A Street West of Broadway All Seats Reserved, Mail Orders Twice Daily Extra Matinees Saturday and Sunday Late Shew Saturday Evening 11:30 An BAGLE LION FILM Release The Louis de Rochemont production of "LOST BOUNDARIES" Beatrice Pearson Mel Ferrer AST0R Bwa?and Air Conditioned 45th St. EDWARD G. 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