The Film Daily (1948)

riday, April 9, 1948 DAILY JJA Must Double '47 und, Pix Group Told (Continued from Page 1) ' our collegues who are not Jewish e very active in this campaign." e also observed that some of his !] oreli^ntfiists could give more, but So fi=Ajave given only token contributions. jo I Barney Balaban, national chairLtjjaan of the UJA drive, emphasized !he need for sacrificial giving lest 'r— line 1,500,000 displaced Jews in Europe and the 700,000 Hebrews in Palestine face utter annihilation. Norman Lourie a film man on a Jihort visit here from Palestine de| icribed the overwhelming odds fac!!i!|ng the Hebrew pioneers over there. ' While the Jews in Europe were '■' j slaughtered like sheep for lack of J,'!irms to protect themselves against the Nazis, Lourie declared that such i-iyould not be the case with the Hebrews of Palestine. "Every Jew," pe asserted, "will be involved in the Struggle and he will fight . . . the Jyast majority will be able to defend ',. themselves." Following Lourie's eye-witness reiy cjport, Fabian read a cable he had .ijust received from Edward Warburg, 'head of the UJA, now overseas. Warburg warned against the complacency of America, and of the hearttending need for immediate aid. With the national quota for the 11948 drive aimed at $250,000,000, the amusement industry has pledged itpelf to raise $2,400,000. Last year sijlthe industry raised $1,200,000. Funds t .raised last year nationally were 4125,000,000, falling short of the 1947 quota by $45,000,000. Those who attended yesterday's organizational luncheon were: Barney Balaban, L. J. Bamberger, Harry 'Brandt, Leo Brecher, Irving Caesar, .Max A. Cohen, Edward L. Fabian, jSi Fabian, Dave Ferguson, Emil 'Friedlander, Wm. J. German, Harry ; Goldberg, Leonard H. Goldenson, Max Gordon, Herman Greenberg, Irving H. Greenfield, Monroe Greenthai, Philip Harling, Arthur Israel, Jr., Red Kann, Malcolm Kingsberg, Jack Levin, Harry Mandel, Edward Morey, Michael Myerberg, Louis Novins, Sam Rinzler, Samuel Rosen, Arthur Sachson, Adolph Schimel, Samuel Schneider, Sol Schwartz, Max Seligman, Sam Shain, Sol Strausberg, A. P. Waxman, Max Youngstein, Al Zimbalist, Paul l Lazarus, Sr., Morey Goldstein, Harj old Rodner, Emanuel Frisch, Leonard J Satz and members of the trade press. 1 \»*,»*,**>* ****>***»*♦♦>* WW »+**♦« >♦*#♦♦ > + ♦**♦ **Wf }£♦♦♦♦<♦<♦ V*V#V*V#V«V#V#V#V*» ♦♦*♦♦♦ ♦♦♦>VW«*V*VVVj5 8 Send (Birthday it >, * I Qreeting,& uo — « April 9 Jeff Lazarus Allen Jenkins Sharon Lynn Jim Bannon William G. Stuber April 10 Dorothy Lewis Joe Moskowitz Tony Gablik Tim McCoy J. M. Loeb Nick Stuart Henry Morgan April 11 Kay Schancer u>it& pHIL M. DALY Ringing Down the News Weeh's Curtain • • • WITH THE UNITED STATES leading the light against censorship at the United Nations freedom of information conference at Geneva, Councilman Edward A. Cunningham, Bronx Democrat, picked a helluva time to announce he will introduce a municipal censorship measure in the City Council next Tuesday, didn't he? T T T • • • COLUMBIA EXPECTS big things from its new serial "Superman" Advance reports from the Coast peg it as tops and a surefire top grosser National release is set for July accompanied by what will probably be the biggest serial promotion campaign ever attempted. ... • Add Shape-of-Things-to-Come Dep't: Union Oil has filmed its annual report and will televise it in nine cities on Tuesday, day of its stockholders' meeting. ... • Hour-long memorial program for the late Leo F. Forbstein, Warners studio musical director for 22 years, will be aired April 18 over KFWB, Warners Coast radio station. . . . • DeMille's "Unconquered" reported doing smash biz in Canadian keys. ... • What's this about another New York daily being purchasable? ... • Several majors reported very much interested in Kay Thompson, now that she's a New York sensation at Le Directoire. . . . • Wanna bet that Dorothy Kilgallen's amusing Wednesday column in the N. Y. Journal-American on Hollywood's substitution of animals and birds for humans doesn't turn up in Red Star or some other Russian sheet as further proof of U. S. decadence? T T T • • • THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS have demonstrated the "knowhow" once again of our hard-hitting industry publicists in the case of Lise Bourdin, Parisian model who's bearing the title of "Miss Arch of Triumph." Lise, here to win friends for American Overseas Aid in the United Nations Appeal for Children, is getting a super-buildup in a unique type of operation Nick John Matsoukas, acting for the N. Y. C. chairman of the Appeal, Spyros Skouras, together with UA's Paul N. Lazarus, Jr., Al Tamarin and Enterprise's Fred Polangin, have integrated their forces with a resultant pay-off to both the Appeal and "Arch of Triumph," which is due at the Globe April 20. T ▼ T • • • TELEVISION MARKET continues to pick up speed You can expect still another set manufacturer to enter the field with a cheap small screen direct view receiver in a bid for the mass market And makers of so-called projection sets, more expensive, are getting ready to offer receivers which will sell for not more than $300. ... • Speaking of tele, ABC and Radiodiffusion of France have entered into an agreement covering exchange of video pix. ... • And speaking of ABC, its Chicago tele station, WENR-TV, is now set to start operations Sept. 1, with test patterns being conducted starting Aug. 1. . . . • Didja know Motion Picture Associates in the last two weeks has added 66 new members? ... • Murray Salberg, since November, 1946, press book copy editor and publicity feature writer, has resigned to join the CBS program promotion dep't Monday. ... • The Audio-Visual Screenplay, developed by Producer George Pal as the successor to the shooting script as a guide to production, will be shown to reps of invited studios this afternoon on the Coast. T T T • • • BETCHA IT WOULD BE INTERESTING if you could track down^those actually responsible for the action of the New York Chapter of the League of Women Shoppers, Inc., in circuiting petitions in front of the Capitol Theater in behalf of the "Hollywood 10" Just how far afield can an organization stray these days? Or haven't you noticed what's been happening? T T T U. S. Unlikely to Ask For French Dollars (Continued from Page 1) opening of the agreement on the one point, and it is likely that the American embassy will be instructed to agree to discussions provided other points might also be embraced. Although some American distriutors would like to see something accomplished in the direction of freeing at least a few dollars for French Foreign managers met at the MPAA on Wednesday to consider the reopening of the Blum-Byrnes accord's film provisions, sought by the French, and determined to instruct Frank McCarthy, MPAA European rep., to obtain desired additional information and clarification of some particulars. McCarthy will report to Gerald Mayer, managing director of the MPAA international division. operations, it is not likely that the State Department will raise this point. Whole question of ultimate exchange guaranties — when and if the French economy recovers enough to catch up on some of the balance currently being accumulated — may be gone into, however. Specificially, the American industry is anxious to knock down the socalled "two-year rule," whereby the French refuse to permit the dubbing of any American features more than two years old. In the two years of agreement, only about two dozen exceptions to this rule have been made, and American distributors still have several films which they cannot get to the French market because of the rule. There is every reason to believe the State Department will help in the effort to lift this restriction, especially since the larger distributors have given their assurance that amendment or elimination of the restriction will definitely not mean a flooding of the French market. "Showtime'' at Park Ave. English Films' "Showtime" opens early next month at the Park Avenue Theatre. UJEDDina BELLS Fryman-Davis West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Betty Fryman, accounting department chief at Jerry Fairbanks Prods, was married to Henry W. Davis at the "Little Chapel of the West" at Las Vegas, Nev. May-Young Roland Young and Dorothy Patience May, applying for a marriage license in Jersey City yesterday, said they planned to marry there today. Ardington-Acton Indianapolis — Charles Acton, Republic salesman, was married to Genevieve Ardington in Louisville.