The Film Daily (1948)

£ rsday, N/iarch 18, 1948 Ws? b Mfg. Sales Tax Admission Levy! (Continued from Page 1) ! ii he revision of the Federal income law. Ihairman Knutson for some time DeeiJ)l record as feeling that the "! Serais 'missions tax of 20 per aif t was cut of line. One obvious die, of course, has been the Fed1 Government's need for revenue meet the costs of the Marshall n, the projected heavy spending aerial defense, etc. ta !iL general manufacturers' tax thus m ipht prove the answer, and it is for ibcfL-'t reason that Knutson's commitwill explore it before sending the eral tax measure to the House r some time in May. The corntee is scheduled to start executive fusions in April. J1 S Tele Signs Broadway's crson and Six Directors ,jeven additional appointments to 1 producing and directing staffs of iS Television were announced yesMay by Worthington C. Miner, dilor of CBS Tele. lewcomers, who begin immediate*n intensive study involving utili[.on of the equipment which will available upon completion of the tern's new studios in Grand CenPalace, include Nat Karson, jadway stage producer, director ! scenic designer; directors Ed etf bley and Ace Ochs, and associate ectors Robert Men-ill, Kenneth Iford, Kingman T. Moore and gh Muir Rogers. Lctual studio program operations expected to begin in late April. tytheon Bringing Out b Isw Tele Station Eguip. 'he manufacture of a complete new line of television station ipment has been announced by /theon Mfg. Co. of Waltham, ss. Included in the output are and high power transmitters table camera equipment for both atsdio and pick-up use and station rainal equipment. HEUJ POSTS MATHERSON, manager, Lonsdale, No. Vancouver, B. C. MAM DOLLINGER, B & K publicity department, Chicago. -TER PATS, manager, Palmer Park Thaoter, Highland Park, Mich. ES A. JEFFRESS, manager, Majestic, D«trort. U SAXON, manager, Garden, Detroit. NG MILLS, salesman, SRO, Minneapolis. N SODERBERG, salesman, Columbia, D«s Moines. HK WESTBROOKE, salesman. Paramount, Denver. NETT ELY, Great States manager, Ktvaw, U.K. Pact Clear of Trust Laws Slow Progress Necessary for Best Deal (Continued from Page 1) currence of the MPAA-MPEA and the SIMPP would not be deemed a possible violation of the Sherman and Clayton Acts. It was for this reason that Johnston was accompanied abroad by Allen Dulles, MPAA legal adviser, and for the same reason that long before Johnston went over, there were conferences in Washington in which D of J officials sat in, it was said. Wilson Also Cautious If the agreement was delayed by American caution in this respect, it was also delayed by the desire of J. Harold Wilson, president of the Board of Trade, to make the best possible deal. Wilson, fully aware that he must "sell" the agreement to Commions, pressed for every possible advantage. There is not the slightest doubt but that the agreement will get Parliamentary approval, but before the order revoking the 75 per cent ad valorem tax is adopted, it is certain that some Laborite voices will be raised critically, especially if the Beaverbrook press continues its anti-Hollywood campaign in the interval. When Wilson appeared in Parliament last week to announce the agreement, the report of the day's proceedings discloses that some M.P.'s raised the old cry of "food before films" and a new one, "petrol before films." When Anthony Marlowe, M.P., remarked, "The amount of dollars would have provided a substantial petrol ration^" the official report notes there were cheers from the benches. MPAA Board Convening Johnston is scheduled to preside at a MPAA board meeting this afternoon, following his arrival, and will make a detailed report. A press conference tentatively is scheduled to follow, and on Saturday night, Johnston goes on the air via NBC. Mulvey departs for Hollywood where he will be honor guest next Tuesday at a SIMPP dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel. His detailed report will be given at that time. Unusual press interest in the Anglo-American agreement was instanced yesterday when Customs here was literally swamped with applications for cutter passes. Kenneth Clark, MPAA public relations chief, here from Washington to meet Johnston, Joyce O'Hara and Dulles, had to bring capital influence to bear in order to get a place on the cutter. FSC Ecuador Rep. Named Minister of Economy (Continued from Page 1) of the Ecuadorean Republic by President Ibarra. Olea, in addition to various other film activities, operates a number of 16 mm. theaters exclusively for juvenile patronage. He is also the local representative of Foreign Screen Corp. Goldstein-Kane Will Launch New Agency West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Jack Goldstein has become an associate and partner in the Walter Kane Agency with offices in the Mocambo Building, while he and Kane are making preparations for the formation of a new agency. They will be represented in London by Film Rights, Ltd., and also by a New York office. Kane is a pioneer in the GOLDSTEIN agency field in Hollywood; Goldstein is a veteran of 27 years in the movie industry and was formerly publicity manager for 20th-Fox; advertising-publicity director for David 0. Selznick in the East and for the past two years was studio rep. for RKO in New York. Baltimore Tele Station Gets Nine Net Programs Nine regularly scheduled NBC Television network commercial programs will be carried on NBC's new video affiliate WBAL-TV, Baltimore, starting during the next three weeks. Several of the programs already are seen on WBAL-TV, which last week joined NBC as the fifth station on the East Coast network. THE BIG CLOCK