The Film Daily (1948)

Ws? Monday, March 22, 194 Ainsworth Appoints Five Allied V.-P.'s (Continued from Page 1) regional vice-presidents from three to five. Object is to give the various regional vice-presidents an opportunity to make a much better coverage of their respective Allied territory. Appointments are as follows: Meyer Leventhal, Baltimore, Md., regional vice-president Eastern division comprising Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania and Eastern potentials. Morris M. Finkel, Pittsburgh, Pa., regional vice-president, Mid-States division, comprising West Virginia, Western Pennsylvania, Indiana and Kentucky. Leo Jones, Upper Sandusky, Ohio, regional vice-president, Great Lakes division, comprising Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. John M. Wolfberg, Denver, Colorado, regional vice-president, Western division, comprising Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado and Western potentials. W. A. Prewitt, Jr., New Orleans, La., regional vice-president, Southern division comprising Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Texas and Southern potentials. Ainsworth's First Address At Northwest Variety Club Minneapolis — North Central Allied has cancelled its convention banquet March 23 at Nicollet hotel, bowing to plans of Northwest Variety Club which had planned use of the hotel's facilities that evening. It will be a stag with NCA's guests Gov. Luther Youngdahl and Mayor Hubert Humphrey attending. Steve Broidy, president of Monogram, will address the convention in addition to maiden address by William Ainsworth, new president of National Allied. "Father's House" Plays 60 Houses Within 90 Days In less than three months, "My Father's House," English language Palestinian film, distributed by Mayer & Burstyn, has played off 60 engagements in Brooklyn, Bronx and Manhattan. So far Randforce Circuit has played the film in 25 theaters; Century Circuit in 12. Other circuits that have shown the film are Prudential, Brandt, Skouras, and Joelson. | Send (Birthday | | QreetlnaA Z)o — |! § March 22 « ♦.♦ Bernice Claire Ralph W. Budd J.J J.J Chico Marx Saul Frifield K J.J Joseph Schildkraut J-J J.J Henry Hobart J-J J.J Carmelita Geraghty J-J <*& PHIL M. DALY Monday Morning Report • • • UNIVERSAL-INT'L has set the first major promotional tieup with commercial television via DuMont's station WABD and KaiserFraser. sponsor of the "Major Bowes Amateur Hour," to plug "All My Sons" which has its world premiere at the Criterion Saturday. . . . With the use of live music for television permissible, ABC now plans to televise the Met. Opera performances. ... © Miami Beach and Miami are extending free golfing privileges to those attending the April Variety Clubs convention. ... • Sarra. who photographs those men of distinction, has entered the television field with the production of a spot announcement for Lucky Strike. ... • Charles "Cap" Palmer, erstwhile of the Disney Studios has signed a new agreement as a writer for Louis de Rochemont Associates. ... • London newspapermen present at last week's Eric A. Johnston press conference missed a bet The MPAA, noting that the agreement called for the elimination of a resented tax, remarked that there had been a tax once which caused this country to sever its ties with the "mother country" Not a British newsman thought to inguire how Johnston might now feel, with another obnoxious levy removed, about "Union Now" PS. EAJ is of Scottish ancestry. T T T • • • UNITED ARTISTS is planning a May or June release of "The Time of Your Life," the James Cagney starrer. ... • There seems to bo a difference of opinion as to Uncle Sam's exact role in effecting the Anglo-American film agreement And both those who insist Uncle Sam played no active part and those who say he did should know. . . . • Eric A. Johnston has no intention of stepping out of the MPAA presidency to take, say, a Marshall Plan post That's what he told a newsman who asked Johnston drew a frying pan-fire parallel. . . . • Edward Arnold will serve as national director of the campaign to raise 60 millions for the world's starving children. ... • Newly organized National Committee for Eisenhower and Unity will lean heavily on films in its campaign to draft Columbia University's new president. T ▼ T • • • ALTHOUGH IT IS ONLY in outline form at present, two publishers have already put in bids on Barnie Estes' proposed book on the industry Titled "The Cycle of Dilemmas" — a commentary and report on the motion picture industry — the book will be a straight objective report Estes, in addition to being one of the industry's better known public relations consultants, is also an established writer on business subjects, his byliners have been published in Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Atlantic Monthly, Tide, Business Week, etc His articles on aviation have been entered in the Congressional Record and used by President Truman's Air Policy Board for guidance His Fortune story on television and short wave broadcasting, although written before (he war, is still a "must" in the network libraries Phil M. thinks it is about time that a book of this kind was published, and knowing Bernie's reportorial abilities, feels sure that both commendations and condemnations will be fair. T T ▼ • • • WHILE ERIC A. JOHNSTON is hopeful the time wUl come when the U. S. film industry's American revenues alone are sufficient to keep it in the black he emphatically does not subscribe to an "economy of scarcity" and thus sees an expanding Hollywood regardless of how much American production there may be in sterling countries. . . . T ▼ ▼ • • • NOW I'VE-HEARD-EVERYTHING DEP'T: Richard Reed, sea and short fisheries commissioner for the State of Maine, solemnly telegraphed Enterprise here Friday that he had instructed his 40 wardens to comb Maine waters to find the most photogenic lobster to appear as Jabberwocky in "No Minor View." AFM-Tele Pact Keep Films Out in Cold Although the agreement reach last week between James C. Petri and the television broadcasters gi» the green light to the use of li music on video, the ban on ^' T_,,pi sentation of feature Hollywdft t/r< uct continues to remain. Existing contracts between t American Federation of Musicia and the film companies, in which t prohibition against tele exhibition contained, do not expire until Sc tember of this year. Clarification the issues and the possible lifti of the ban in return for a percenta of the accruing rentals is likely be worked out during the next s months. Ferenz Fodor, president of T vision Libraries, Inc., outfit wh specializes in Hollywood films : video, has submitted a plan to I trillo which would grant 10 per ct of the earnings to the local Los A geles union which is primarily volved. Meanwhile, a tremendous incre: in the number of films produced j pecially for tele is expected sir there is no prohibition against t type of operation under the new p£ Philly Dinner for Lasky Philadelphia — Testimonial dim in honor of Jesse L. Lasky to ce brate the pioneer motion picture p ducer's 35th year in the indusi will be tendered here by the Golc Slipper Square Club in the Bro; wood Hotel, Tuesday evening, Mai 30. "Search" Preview Tomorrow Metro's "The Search," the fi American film production to be filn in its entirety in American occup Germany, will have a special p view opening at the Victoria Thea at 7 p.m. tomorrow with contimu performances following. Proctor's Schenectady Backs Cables to Italy Schenectady — Tieing in with a city-wide drive to encourage Italians to save their freedom by voting against Communism in the coming election, Proctor's Theater, in conjunction with the Union Star, will open a lobby booth Tuesday, with a cable company representative in attendance. Citizens of Schenectady, especially those of Italian descent, have contributed over $2,200 for the costs of cablegrams and people of the city who have friends and relatives living in Italy will be invited to send messages free of charge, with the stunt backed by radio and press, ano by leading citizens stationed in the lobby, according to Guy A. Graves, city manager for Fabian Theaters. New York Fabian headquarters approved this participation and was urged to follow up the stunt in Albany and Troy.