Motion Picture Herald (Jan-Feb 1945)

PICTURE CROSSES A statistical compilation and comparison of BoX'OMce Performance in first-run theatres i6 Figures directly below picture title compare dollar gross with average gross and show relative percentage of all engagements tabulated. Rgures opposite theatre names represent percentage of tabulated grosses to average weekly business based on the six months' period ending October 31, 1944. SYMBOLS: (DB) Double Bill— associate feature title; (SA) Stage Attraction; (MO) Move-Over Run; (AA) Advance Admission. INDEX: Over-all performance percentage figures from previously published final reports appear in Service Data section of Product Digest. See last column of Release Chart for Index. HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN (WB) Final Reports: Total Gross Tabulated $1,237,200 Comparative Average Gross 1 ,005,400 Over-ail Performance 123.0% BALTIMORE— Stanley, 1st week 124.8% BALTIMORE— Stanley, 2nd week IU.8% BALTIMOKE— Stanley, 3rd week 96.2% BOSTON— Metropolitan 104.0% BUFFALO-Buffalo 131.4% CHICAGO— Roosevelt, 1st week 120.1% CHICAGO— Roosevelt, 2nd week .■ 115.3% CHICAGO-Roosevelt, 3rd week 110.5% CINCINNATI— RKO Albee 122.2% CINCINNATI— RKO Capitol, MO l5t week . . . 110.4% CLEVELAND— Hippodrome 150.8% CLEVELAND— Allen, MO 1st week 140.2% CLEVELAND— Warner's Lake, MO 2nd week . . 109.3% DENVER— Denver 94.7% DENVER— Esquire 50.0% DENVER— Aladdin, MO 1st week 116.6% INDIANAPOLIS— Indiana 123.0% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Downtown, 1st week . 142.7% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Downtown, 2nd week . 155.0% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Downtown, 3rd week . 133.6% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Downtown, 4th week . 91.9% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Hollywood, 1st week . 157.4% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Hollywood, 2nd week . 155.6% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Hollywood, 3rd week . 143.6% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Hollywood, 4th week . 83.8% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Wiltern, 1st week . . 129.1% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Wiltern, 2nd week . . 132.9% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Wiltern, 3rd week . . 142.4% LOS ANGELES— Warner's Wiltern, 4th week . . 77.2% MILWAUKEE— Warner, 1st week 102.0% MILWAUKEE— Warner, 2nd week 95.2% MILWAUKEE— Warner, 3rd week 95.2% NEW YORK— Strand, 1st week 150.9% (SA) Lionel Hampton's Orchestra NEW YORK— Strand, 2nd week 152.1% (SA) Lionel Hampton's Orchestra NEW YORK— Strand, 3rd week 141.5% (SA) Lionel Hampton's Orchestra NEW YORK— Strand, 4th week 100.4% (SA) Lionel Hampton's Orchestra NEW YORK— Strand, 5th week 87.2% (SA) Lionel Hampton's Orchestra OMAHA— Brandeis 119.4% PHILADELPHIA— Mastbaum, Ist week .... 212.5% PHILADELPHIA— Mastbaum, 2nd week .... 113.7% PITTSBURGH— Stanley, 1st week 121.8% PITTSBURGH— Stanley, 2nd week 126.2% PITTSBURGH— Warner, MO 1st week 113.6% PROVIDENCE— Majestic, 1st week 133.8% PROVIDENCE— Majestic, 2nd week 118.1% PROVIDENCE— Carlton, MO 1st week .... 138.8% SAN FRANCISCO— Paramount, 1st week . . . 128.0% SAN FRANCISCO— Paramount, 2nd week . . . 92.9% SAN FRANCISCO— St. Francis, MO 1st week . . 95.0% SEATTLE— Orpheum, 1st week 207.2% SEATTLE— Orpheum. 2nd week 117.1% WASHINGTON— Earle, Ist week 157.5% WASHINGTON— Earle, 2nd week 101.7% WASHINGTON— Earle, 3rd week 81.8% • PRINCESS AND THE PIRATE (RKO) Final Reports: Total Gross Tabulated $958,800 Comparative Average Gross 825,100 Over-all Performance 116.2% BALTIMORE— Hippodrome, 1st week 127.8% (SA) Vaudeville BALTIMORE— Hippodrome, 2nd week 102.7% (SA) Vaudeville BOSTON— K^-ith's Memorial, 1st week 92.6% (DB) My Pal, Wolf (RKO) BOSTON— Keith's Memorial, 2nd week 92.1% (DB) My Pal, Wolf (RKO) BOSTON— Keith's Memorial, 3rd week 110.6% (OR'* Mv Pal, Wolf (RKO) BUFFALO— 20th Century, 1st week 155.3% BUFFALO— 2nth Century, 2nd week 90.9% CHICAGO— Woods, 1st week 204.6% CHICAGO— Woods, 2nd week 180.0% CHICAGO— Woods, 3rd week 146.6% CHICAGO— Woods, 4th week 93.3% CHICAGO-Woods, 5th week 113.3% CHICAGO— Woods, 6th week 191.3% CHICAGO— Woods, 7th week 140.0% CHICAGO-Woods, 8th week 110.0% CINCINNATI— RKO Palace, 1st week 126.7% aNCINNATI— RKO Palace, 2nd week 84.5% CINCINNA'n— RKO Lyric, 1st week 96.5% CINCINNATI— RKO Lyric, 2nd week 122.8% CINCINNATI— RKO Lyric, 3rd week 79.0% CLEVELAND— RKO Palace, 1st week 176.9% (SA) Vaudeville CLEVELAND— RKO Palace, 2nd week 98.7% (SA) Vaudeville KANSAS CITY— Orpheum, 1st week 107.1% KANSAS CITY— Orpheum, 2nd week 95.2% KANSAS CITY— Orpheum, 3rd week 95.1% LOS ANGELES— Hillstreet, 1st week 167.5% (DB) My Pal, Wolf (RKO) LOS ANGELES— Hillstreet, 2nd week 108.1% (DB) My Pal, Wolf (RKO) LOS ANGELES— Hillstreet, 3rd week 97.2% (DB) My Pal, Wolf (RKO) LOS ANGELES— Hillstreet, 4th week 78.3% (DB) The Unwritten Code (Col.) LOS ANGELES— Pantages, Ist week 202.6% (DB) My Pal, Wolf (RKO) LOS ANGELES— Pantages, 2nd week 124.1% (DB) My Pal, Wolf (RKO) LOS ANGELES— Pantages, 3rd week 98.0% (DB) My Pal, Wolf (RKO) LOS ANGELES— Pantages, 4th week 84.9% (DB) The Unwritten Code (Col.) MINNEAPOLIS— State, 1st week 94.3% MINNEAPOLIS— State, 2nd week 94.3% MINNEAPOLIS— Lyric, MO 1st week 138.3% OMAHA— Brandeis, 1st week 119.3% (DB) My Pal, Wolf (RKO) OMAHA— Brandeis, 2nd week 119.2^ (DB) My Pal, Wolf (RKO) PHILADELPHIA— Stanley, 1st week 178.2% PHILADELPHIA— Stanley, 2nd week 126.3% PROVIDENCE— RKO Albee, 1st week 127.7% (DB) Falcon in Hollywood (RKO) PROVIDENCE— RKO Albee, 2nd week 112.7% (DB) Falcon in Hollywood (RKO) PROVIDENCE— RKO Albee, 3rd week 86.4% (DB) Falcon in Hollywood (RKO) SAN FRANCISCO-Golden Gate, 1st week . . . 134.2% (SA) Vaudeville SAN FIL\NCISCO-Golden Gate, 2nd week . . . 116.6% (SA) Vaudeville SAN FRANaSCO^Golden Gate, 3rd week . . . 84.8% (SA) Vaudeville SAN FRANCISCO-Golden Gate, 4th week . . . 70.6% (SA) Vaudeville ST. LOUIS— Fox, 1st week 105.2% (DB) Murder in the Blue Room (Univ.) ST. LOUIS— Fox, 2nd week 131.5% (DB) Murder in the Blue Room (Univ.) ST. LOUIS— Shubert, MO Ist week 106.7% (DB) Murder in the Blue Room (Univ.) WASHINGTON— Keith's, 1st week 229.1% WASHINGTON— Keith's, 2nd week ISO.fH WASHINGTON— Keith's, 3rd week 100.0% • EXPERIMENT PERILOUS (RKO) First Reports: Total Gross Tabulated $158,100 Comparative Average Gross 123,000 Over-all Performance 128.5% BUFFALO— 20th Century, 1st week 173.5% (DB) Girl Rush (RKO) BUFFALO— 20th Century, 2nd week 115.7% (DB) Girl Rush (RKO) KANSAS CITY— Orpheum, 1st week 111.1% (DB) Girl Rush (RKO) KANSAS CITY— Orpheum, 2nd week 95.2% (DB) Girl Rush (RKO) NEW YORK— Palace, 1st week 180.7% NEW YORK— Palace, 2nd week 119.7% NEW YORK— Palace, 3rd week 107.3% OMAHA— Brandeis 116.6% (DB) Minstrel Man (RKO) PROVIDENCE— RKO Albee 124.0% (DB) Girl Rush (RKO) Stand-By'' Bam May Be Curbed By WLB Order More than 1,000 musicians employed as "si by" orchestras in combination film-stage houses during engagements of "name" bands vi be dropped under a Regional War Labor examiner's report handed down last Thursdr a dispute between James C. Petrillo's Ame Federation of Musicians and Station WOV, York. The report by Dr. Herbert R. Northrup, s hearing officer, sharply criticizing the soii AFM "feather-bedding" practices and resi^ waste of manpower, particularly in war time.j ever, must be upheld by the regional board perhaps the national board before it become official WLB order. The hearing was held on the applicatio^_ WOV for release from its current obligatic}: the AFM's New York Local 802 to empl musicians. ) According to an AFM spokesman in New jurisdiction of the union's members in film the having stage show policies is left to the indiVi locals. New York theatres which would be aflf include the Paramount, Capitol, Strand and L^ State. These theatres use "name" bands and I pay for "stand bys" when the bands they boo? not members of Local 802. Outside New York, film houses having show policies are obliged to make wider u "stand-by" orchestras when using "name" since the bands do not have membership ii^ locals having jurisdiction in the particular ci Theatres would save thousands of dollars yf if the WLB were to make Dr. Northrup's r| an official order, and the effect on radio stal throughout the country would be widespreal was said. AFM wage scales range from app[ mately $42 weekly a man in Utica, N. Y., to' or more in New York. ' Officers of the lATSE, meanwhile, weref pected to study the report's bearing on the ac( tion that the Alliance itself practices "feaj/ bedding" in the hiring of stagehands in the^ Last week in St. Louis, exhibitors wrote to ^^j ington offering to the war effort the servic^ 167 stagehands and projectionists held "not nee by St. Louis area theatres. Officials of Loc| stagehands, and Local 143, projectionists, rel to release any of the men. In Washington, a three-way clash between] Petrillo, the National Broadcasting Companyl the Blue Network, and the National Labor 1 tions Board appeared likely last week as a he^ was ordered for January 30 in New York ot fight brewing since the Board last November C" fied a rival union for the "platter turning" jof the studios. The companies, under pressure Mr. Petrillo, refused to recognize the board'^, tion. Mr. Petrillo has charged that the rival tij the National Association of Broadcast Engit and Technicians, "is controlled by the compani lATSE Favors Salesmen's \Jn\i Plans for Television, 16mm International Alliance of Theatrical Stage c ployees executive committee members, hoi: their mid-winter meeting in Minneapolis last V indicated January 18 that they were favorably posed towards the organization of film sales under the union's banner. Requests for cha: from salesmen's groups were studied but it undecided at that time whether they were t([ granted or deferred before adjournment last urday. Richard F. Walsh, president, said the lA would enter the television and 16mm fields, plans along those lines were formulated ai sessions. He declared that as far as lATSE wac m> cerned there would be no unionization of th|managers. Several requests from managers' gri were denied. Mr. Walsh said he emphatically opposed to bringing house managers into the I 48 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, JANUARY 27,