Variety (Dec 1941)

WcdneaJay, PeiEcnihcr 31, 1941 55 NmI Nlpnpi I"^ U S entry Into the war and defl- -lie' lineup of Latin-American . minion with Uncle Sam has set Nazi . ^eets south ol the border Into lAnzy > S activity In an effort to seU neu- ^ity Swastika sheets, especially taArgenUna, which so far has main- Sined the most reserved atUtude ol ' mv country, are doing verbal nlpups SSuy to prove to Latins fltjt of all Jhrwar isn't any of their business, Mcondly that Ifs Just an effort by Uncle Sam to involve Latin-America, and thirdly that the Yanks are. losing anyway, so why bother. Tone oi Goebbels-mspired rags has tecome increasingly strong since declaration of war, with many dailies obviously working on the theory that • It's now or never. Many are taking chances in their editorial tone that . liiey'd never tried earlier. Idea being ' that if the clamp is going to come, (hey might as weU be stopped lor . something good. , „ , „ Pampero, No. 1 Nazi afternooner In South America, published in B. A., has gone into high gear not only In editorial tone but in circulation hypo. . Daily is being pushed particularly in -the interior, where distrlbs appar- ently have unlimited funds to put the \ Eheet ahead of pro-democratic-dailies. Fast cars are posted at many .interior stations to rush sheet to the stands SO to 60 minutes before other dailies . regardless of the fact that each sale represents a definite cost loss. Canadian Sorlbe Visslnc' Former newspaperman at Montreal and Vancouver and news editor of the Calgary, Alberta, Albertan when he Joined the air force in 1940, Ser- jeant Pilot William Temple Hall has been reported missing while on ac- tive duty overseas with RCAF. I Former sports editor of the Cal- "gary, Alberta, Herald, Regimental \ Sergeant-Major Ralph B. "Wilson, ' Calgary tank regiment, has been made a,press liaison officer with the 1' rank of lieutenant. uary by Whittlesey House, under the title 'Shakespeare Without Tears.' John Mason Brown has written the Introduction. . Another Week for Phllly Ledger • The Federal Court Monday night (29) gave the Philadelphia Evening Ledger another week's extension to And fresh capital to continue its existence. The postponement of receivership was granted on a promise made over the phone by a New England pub- lisher that he would submit a bid for the paper. ScDily's New Colnmn Frank Scully is authoring a new humorous column, 'Keep 'Em Smil- ing,' which is being offered to news- papers by Key Features. Latter is a new outfit headed by Monte Bourjaily, former chief of United Features. ' ■ Chi Son's 450,eM dro. Circulation of the Chicago Sun, new Marshall Field-Silllman Evans i a.m. paper, has apparently steadied at around 450,000 copies. Paper started with sales running above ' 850,000 and for several days couldn't fill the demand even at that number. In order to get a break at the stands the Sun has had special hawk- , ers working along with regular newsboys at the corner newsstands In the loop. War Affeots Xmas ■ Boston Traveler suspended Its tra- ditional Christmas front page ol the past 16 years because of war condi tions. . In a.page-one editorial, the Trav- 'eler sUted: 'We have decided with ,much reluctance that we must keep page one of the Traveler lor' mo- mentous news of the day. We are suspending the traditional Christmas page unUl the time when men of good will hive brou^t peace on earth once more..." .l«fisett C*ntlnue»-on-WMCA The Brooklyn Eagle's resort sec- Uon, which rates third among U. S. dallies, accounts for that dally con- tinuing on WMCA, New York, the only other paper o^.tte-statlon out-. ■ ride of The N. Y. Times, which nbw las an on-the-hour newscast hookup with the radio station. When the Thnes came, even the «. Y. Dally News' Ben-Gross was oropped. Jo Ranson of the Eagle, nowever, continues with his regular Saturday afternoon stint on U. S. travels and resorts. Local Wrllen> Book Sales Uicai boy' note has cropped up F°'?'"en«ly In book sales reported wthe Detroit stores. Leading the Mst seller flcUon list In Detroit is S: ^- Jackson's "The Paper Bag.' topping the local non-flcUon list Is Wheels.' **^"''all's 'Armies on n^?* a"«hors are members ol the oefroit News steff-MarshaU as 'war commentator both lor the newspaper Md over station WWJ, whUe Jaik- On "l^ondMctor ol the -Listening In on^Detrblf column In the same interprets Shakespeare SDM«? all o' Shake- plays and dis- ?^lng Shakespeare as a practical ?^ 0' he theatre Irom today's wmt of view has been completed by Margaret Webster, director of 'Mac"- and other Shakespearean sue ■^to, and will be published in Jan Time Spotlights Censorship Tin^e mag last week took an un- usual step to inform its readers that war censorship now prevails in the United States and that 'For the first time' in nearly 19 years of pulilica- tion, Time finds itself unable to tell its readers freely and frankly all the things it knows.' The admission was made In three italics paragraphs on the first news page. has been a bit reticent about dis- cussing'his Capital-flights and also hedges on the subject of which war songs will outlast these yaps—the japsaps. Lois Andrews (Mrs. George Jes- sel) was back from the Coast with her baby, to be met. at the port by George indlgnantly'denylng that the tot was moved eastward because of bomb-scares. Miss Andrews Is pres- ently vauding' at the Flatbush thea- tre, Brooklyn. June Havoc, who left the stage for the screen some six months ago, blew in to spend the last days of December with he- daughter, April, but airport newsipen never caught up to her, so fast did she trav^ from j)laneside to daughter's side. Defense Films -continued from page 3; CHATTEB Rose Franken closed a deal to write six more 'Claudia' stories for Red Book. Lillian Hellman Is the subject of 'The Happy Tragedist,' Sidney Car- roll's pieces In January Esquire. Russell Birdwell, flhn press agent, wrote a book, 'Women In Battle Dress,' based on femme war work In England. — J. H. Temez. representing El Uni- versal and eight provincial news- papers in Mexico, is in Hollywood for feature stories. Gene Farrell is the Newark (N. J.) Star-Ledger's new city editor, replac- ing Jacob Mogelevcr. Farrell comes from the Staten Island Advance. Jean Hersliolt awarded a degree of Doctor of Literature by De Landas University at Santa Ana, Cal., for his work in collecting and publishing the works of Hans Christian Ander- sen. J Thornton Delehanty, HoUyivood correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, will add a similar chore for Newsweek to his duties, starting tomorrow (Thursday). He'll work in association with Tom Wen- ning, Newsweek's film ed. Airlines j^^Contlnued from page and most airline riders In general may soon be in for a terrific Federal blast because of their eccentric habit of reserving plane space and then cancelling at the last minute—too late lor any one else to get the seat. Rumor—and only rumor—has it that habitual offenders may be barred from the cloud-chasers for the duration. Lynn Gets Tm Dlzxy Jeffrey Lynn had the airport res- ervation olerks-'dizzy tiiese last few days while trying to make up his mind whether to leave the town of Knickerbocker and knick-knacks and, at the last sitting. It was said he had cancelled his fourth outbound reservation but might go to L. A. any hour. Errol Flynn skywayed out to the Coast just In time to make the Gloria Vanderbilt-Pat dl Clcco wedding. He; too, had the scorekeepers punch drunk between shifting reservations and his current tendency of using a phoney name while he is cloud- chasing. Dl Clcco and his bride are, hourly, expected into New York, where, 'tis said, they'll greet 1942 and then Journey on to Washington to see what makes the nation tick, Buddy Westmore came in the sTWAtoliner route from L. A. In time to join Rosemary Lane in an 'I do' chorus in a, nearby Flushing church earty Sunday (28) ayem. The week's flying roster also in eluded Edmund O'Brien, Nancy Kelly's man, who blew in from L. A. on TWA, and Phyllis Brooks, who was skedded to go to the other end Of the car line Monday (29) evening on a TWA flying carpet. Berlin's D. C. Trips Irving Berlin chose American Airlines Monday (29) morning to make another of those fast trips to Washington, D. C. The musician which exchange in each city shall take care of a certain film. This is rotated around so that each ex- change in each city will eventually have handled at least one, pic or group of pix. OEM unit is only one of a number of Government film-making agencies. Others are the Coordinator pi In- formation (Donovan office), Coordi- nator of Inter-American Affairs (Rockefeller office), Department of Agriculture, Army Signal Corps and the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. It is to coordinate and prevent over; lapping and repetition by theM agen- cies that Lowell Mellett was named by the President two weeks ago as Coordinator of Government Films. OEM unit is a service agency to all the OEM subsidiaries, such as the Office of Civilian Defense, Office of Production Management, Defense Health and Welfare Service and oth- ers. Its job is to enlighten the nation by making "defense reports on film^, just'as other agencies send out press releases. Creating morale and enthu- siasm is, of course, the ultimate, aim. Already Made Among pix the unit has made are 'Bomber', nine-minute reel highlight- ing the making of a plane, filmed in the Martin Bomber plant In Balti- more and with commentary by Carl Sandburg; 'Altmiinum', nine minutes on processing strategic airplane ma- terial; 'Army in Overalls', seven min- utes on work of the CCC in defense; 'Power lor Defense', 10 minutes on the Tennessee Valley hydroelectric plant; 'Pots to t>lanes', three-minute trailer on use to which recently-col- lected aluminum pots were put OEM unit is headquartered at 1600 Broadway, N.Y., where it has offices, three cutting rooms, negative and positive rooms and equipment. It has one camera crew which shortly is expected to be expanded into three. Boss of the setup, as director of information for the OEM, is Robert W. Horton, formei* Washington cor- respondent for the N. Y. World-Tele- gram. Under him, in active charge until a couple weeks ago when Mel- lett was handed his new post, was Arch Mercey, Mellett's assistant Mercey, who was Washington chief of Lorentz's U.S. Fihn Service, will actively handle the new coordina- tion job for Mellett Formerly assistant to Mercey and now pinch-hitting for him is pro- ducer-director-writer George Gercke, another Lorentz alumnus. Technical supervisor is Philip Martin, still an- other ex-Lorentz man. Other mem- bers of the staff are Kanin, who's a H'-a-year-consultant, producer' and director and gives ell his time to it; Guy Bolte, writer and director, also once associated with Lorentz and be- fore that a scripter for CBS; Marc Asch, asslstaiit to Martin as cutter and soundman; Bob Jahn, chief cut- ter, out of Hollywood; Joe Josephson, distribution; and Carl Pryer, ASC, chief cameraman. That's the entire setup outside of clerks and secre- taries. Lab work, sound recording, music and use of studios is all done on a contract basi;. No screen credits are given, the title stating merely that the pictures are made by the OEM Film Unit Danny Richards Batons While Berigan's Away Danny Richards, vocalist with Bunny Berigan's band, will lead that outfit on dates while Berigan is on the Coast dubbing in trumpet work for Jackie Cooper's part In 'Young Man With a Horn.' Film is based on the life of Bix Belderbecke. Band has been sold without its leader for two. days at El Rancho, Chester, Pa., Jan. 9-10 and other dates are pending. Berigan has to be on Coast, by Saturday (3) and stays two weck.<;. 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