Variety (May 1946)

86 PICTUBKS W« <lne8«Iny, May 15, 1946 ScJuUadiic ROTO Reaches more high school youth than any other teen-age publication *A fact rvcoqnixtd with advertising by Coca-Cola, General. Electric, Wheaties, General Motors, Ansco, Westinghouse and many ethers. PIX BIZ, TOO? WHY NOT? Bciudaitic ROTO A tabloid siie rotogravure supplement to high school newspapers from coast to coast—published monthly October thru May—more than a million circulation. 400 N. MICHIGAN AVE. CHICAGO 11. ILL. PACIFIC COAST: NED BRYDONE-JACK Inside Stuff-Pictures Jake Wilk, • Warners'-eastern studio representative in charge of s\ory material and talent, got himself a nice anonymous plug in a reconf issue of "As Wall Street Sees 11," N. Y. publication designed especially for stock- brokers and their clients. Pointing out that WB's recent 2-for-l stock split now makes the old stock offer a yield of almost d.!>'<'-, the journal declared that Warners is "especially fortunate" in thai it.has an unreleased inventory of 21 features, all of which cost less than current 'high production costs, aiid has "probably the biggest and best story library in the industry." -Points out that all stories were acquired at much lower costs.than authors now are willing to sell. "Wall Street" underlines its opinion that WB is .xindcrpriced on the basis of its financial position, earnings and dividends. That plan-of' Armando. Mexican artist and New York advertising H' t director, for producing bilingual lilms in Mexico, would include Mrs. N. Peter Rathvori, wife of the RKO prexy, only in an unofficial and advisory capacity. Mrs. Rath von has made a number of trips to Mexico and is fa- miliar with native culture there. Howevclf, if she accepts .Armando's in- vitation, she will have no financial interest in the films, nor will RKO, it was announced last week, ' By coincidence three Paramount stars will play against themselves, in her pictures from this studio oii Broadway, first-runs. ■ Ray Milland is Production of "Forever Amber" may be resumed sooner than expected with the possibility of Gene Tierney or Linda Darnell in the lop role. Late report from the Westwood lot is that filming will get under way in July, with Darryl F. Zannek as supervisor and William Perlberg handling the actual producer chores. Denied pic would be scrapped because of current censorship wave. ' / Understood the .Viscount I.ascclles, member of the British royal family, is breaking out as a screen writer. Report is that the nephew of King George VI has hired a Los Angeles attorney to submit his yarn to.Hie film studios. One studio is reported to have offered $85,000 for the story. Top film feinme on a major lot is causing no end of annoyance to the itudio by refusing to pose for portraits unless a certain still pholog does the shooting. Photog has left the lot and is now working for another studio which the old studio hates. Copy of Variety, dated 1921. draws a featured role in the Belly Hullon starrer, "Perils of Pauline." at Paramount. Paper is used in a sequence in which Pearl While consults Varikty for show business news din ing her stay in Paris. Bill to outlaw daylight saving lime everywhere in the U. S. has been in- troduced in the House by Rep. Dudley G. Roe tD., Md.). Measure is not expected to get anywhere. Big Names for Vets' Rally at Garden, N. Y. Emergency rally to be run to-' morrow (16) at Madison Square Garden, under sponsorship of the Veterans' Council ol the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences fit Professions, will feature a Jerome_ Chodorov-Walter Bern- stein dramatic sketch titled "Voice of the Vets." Cast of the drama which swings at double-talking diplomats will be headed by Frank Sinatra, Howard Da Silva, Susan Reed, Olivia De Havilland, Gene Kelly and the Golden Gate Quartet. Program will also include talks by Sen. Claude Pepper, Ralph In- gersoll, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. and Marion Hargrove. Meet will publicize vets' demands for extension of OPA, support of the United Na- tions and Big Three unity. Hit the Buzzer, Hoppy! Hollywood, May 14. Now you know when William Boyd is starting out to gallop "The Devil's Playground," the first of his new series of "Hopalong Cassidy." It starts May 16 up on the Lone Pine location, regardless of rattlesnakes. Last film troupe'up in that neigh- borhood was chased out by rattlers which were climing out of hiberna- tion without benefit of press agantry. STREAMLINED LENSING ? Hollywood, May 14. Hunt Stromberg's "Dishonored Lady" will use the first postwar camera delivered in Hollywood since V-J Day. Apparatus, ordered in 1944. a B & C Mitchell, arrived at General Service Studios a few weeks ago. FBI's Meller Continued from pare 3 Wall St.'s Music Continued from page 1 week, and they are bring kept so secret top employees in the firms involved know-nothing. All thai, can be gotten from some men is a faceti- ous "there's seven wise men in Gotham" with a lot of bucks to spend. There's no question among top- most music men that certain major catalogs can be purchased for the right price. They also, feel that if the figures mentioned in the reports batting about are correct there'll be a couple of deals in the near future. the preceding week. Since FI has exclusive 16m distribution rights for the films of that company, Haight figured immediately that the print in question must have been sold il- legally and took his findings to the FBI. -Government men got on the case at once and accepted Haight's offer to use FI men. FI, with a sales or- ganization that blankets the coun- try, was considered the best check on any illegal sales. FBI furnished several FI salesmen with marked money and the latter immediately went "underground," to act as front men to rent prints from the culprits both in New York and Philadelphia, centres of the ring. After working on the case until last month, the FBI figured it. had enough evidence for the crackdown. An FI man was sent out to buy one of the prints and the Government men followed, to catch the culprits in action. Sale went through as .scheduled, the FI man ■ signalled to the FBI agents who closed in and caught the black-marketeers with the marked money in their pockets. Only prints rented or bought by the FI men throughout the proceedings were those that had never been re- leased for 16m distribution by the majors. Isolated cases of illegal sales are still being reported and the FBI is continuing its work on the case, Haight said; Only last week, he dis- closed, .a mountain resort in Penn- sylvania, again solicited fox business, reported that it had run a narrow- gauge print of a majors' picture last week, when the only legal lBm print of the picture in the east was run- ning in Massachusetts. To preclude the possibility of any more prints turning up in the black market, Haight said, the majors have now ruled that all 16m films going to the Armed Forces overseas must be returned to them for des- truction. Heretofore, an affidavit of destruction signed by a commanding officer was the sole requirement. Number of prints that found their way back to this country and Into the black market,- Haight said, waf evidence that, even though the of- ficer might have signed Ihe affidavit in good faith, the GIs were still sell- ing the prints oft the back of trucks. Radio's Losses S Continued from pa|» .1 eos run. Dinah Shore, already cancelled by General Foods, another of the big advertisers in radio, is being offered to other possible clients. Indications are that all three of these shows will be back on the air--bul the lab will be picked up by people who haven't spent much money on the air hitherto. One network exec declared he was entirely unworried by the sit- uation. "There may be some tem- porary loss in billings," he said, "but the money will come back. We have eight outfits with big hunks of money wailing for one 9:30 p.m. slot on our schedule, and their money is as good as the stuff we got from Ihe old bankrolled." The division of big accounts be- tween the two leading agencies in radio billing—Young & Rubicam and J. Waller Thompson—is said to have hit Y&R more than it has JWT. for the simple reason that the former has more accounts whose products involve food and fals. Cancellations and shakeups are reported to have already resulted in loss of a score of jobs at the Y&R agency. One of the hopeful signs in the radio picture in Ihe last week lias been the fact that Kate Smith, w hile sponsored by General Foods, has had her evening show contract renewed by GF. That was taken by. some as indication that, though GF is expected to be affected heavily in ils radio spending soon, the firm is not dropping property rights in stars that had been built over a period of years. Burns & Allen are going off for the summer at end of M«y. being replaced on June 6 with a musical summer show featuring Meredith Willson. When B&A come back in the fall, it was reported, they may go to a bankroller new to radio, or they may be taken over by filch to replace the Cass Daley show, wljiqh would further strengthen NBC's Sunday night comedy parlay. Doug, Jr.'s Own Indie Hollywood, May 14, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., currently star in "Sinbad the Sailor" at RKO, is organizing his own production company with a program o( three pictures annually. Clarence Erickson, business man. ager lor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.. jj emerging from retirement to func- tion in the same capacity for Junior who will produce, direct and sUr. ' New York Theatres Don* CLARK - Jonii PAIGE ZacJiQry SGOTt la Warner'. Broa. illt "HER KIND OF MAN" la FeriHiD CARMEN CAVALLARO AVit HIS OKCHKHTHA rioi j.knnv kJTvx BEN ROCHEI.I.K and JTANK BKKBK ■"'way at 47th St. STRAND iUmnuyhmiy Luclllt ■ALL Sunn wiiiiim lEifl BtNDlX 'The Dark Corner' A iOth Conliiry-Foi Picture PI.U8 ON HTittH -StORSt J letIt MERRY MAC! Eilri! ROSARIO 4 ANTONIO __ROXY"UT* i 8U BETTE DAVIS In Warner Broa. 1111 "A STOLEN LIFE" With Glenn HMD • Dana CLARK Waller (RINNAN * Charlie RUOGLES filrti'ted by Cattle Bernhardt HOLLYWOOD r«uilniions . B*wmy at Mnl Sir**! M.DVTI pn^ST HYKAYI r ParHmouM .Prasenle Alup VWohNa Willi* n) J',Al>U . J, ARK - -rfjelMt'X "THI ILOf DAHLIA" A. Oeoi-He Marshall Production In PerMiii DUKE ILLINGTON And HIh On.-lisi.lra STAMP * Hl'tMI'f Klira— TIIK .Ml 1,1.H Bl I-AHAMOCIVT, ROS. 1'linoa Square JJI.KTTJ DDAKD PeraaiOBOt Bfeeente Tit HAT MILLAND "KITTY" A MITCHELL LEI8EN Prmlui'tloa "•mSST r I VOL I 491 h 81. "fUH, FANTASY, WNml-thH, Nt£ WALT DISNEY'S . COMIOY MU3CA1 FEATURE P . S GLOBE, | TICNNKOlaa BETTY GRABLE'B 'RING' Hollywood, May 14. Betty Crable's next «larrer at 20th-Fox will be "No Wedding ping,* to be produced by Gene Markey from his own story. Picture will be Markey's first pro- duction since his return from Navy service. RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL "THE GREEN YEARS'' (poctacalar Stag* rroaWlaae PALACE B WAY ft 4 7th 51 GINGER ROGERS "HEARTBEAT" with Jraii Pierre AumMt Adoloht eWnltu Ai-icaanl-by RKO RADIO I'iviui'n