Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1955)

Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, November 16, 19! fed PERSONAL MENTION LOUIS PHILLIPS, Paramount vicepresident and general counsel, returned to New York yesterday from Hollywood. • Gus Harris, of Mercury Film Laboratories, became a grandfather this week with the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lawson at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Mrs. Lawson is Harris' daughter. • John Davis, managing director of the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, and Kenneth Winckles, joint assistant managing director of JARO, returned to England by plane yesterday from New York. • Myron N. Blank, president of Theatre Owners of America, has returned to Des Moines from New York. Robert Livingston, TOA secretary, will return to Lincoln, Nebr., from New York today. • Dr. Renato Gualino, president of the International Association of Motion Picture Producers, and Mrs. Gualino will return to Italy today aboard the "Andrea Doria." • Sir Henry French, managing director of British Film Producers Association, returned to London from New York yesterday via B.O.A.C. Monarch. • Arthur Silverman, 20th CenturyFox assistant general sales manager, has entered Mt. Sinai Hospital here for treatment of a throat condition. • Leo Cohen, European distributor and representative there of Hoffberg Productions, has arrived in New York by plane from Paris. • Milton A. Mooney, head of Cooperative Theatres of Ohio, will leave Cleveland with Mrs. Mooney on Nov. 18 for Europe. • Terry Turner, special consultant to RKO Radio on radio-TV exploitation, has returned to New York from the Coast. Heston to Receive ( Continued from page 1 ) achievements in motion pictures within the period 1915-1925. Presentation will be made by another famous him veteran, Jesse L. Lasky. Prior to receiving the First Festival of Film Artists Award for DeMille, Heston will attend a special dinner at the Gencssee Valley Club. Start 'Sampling' on Fox's 'Miss Dove' More than 12,000 educational leaders and community opinion makers in 10 key cities were present at special, advance theatre showings of 20th Century-Fox's "Good Morning, Miss Dove" as one of the largest film "sampling" and public relations campaigns of its kind got underway yesterday. The drama starring Jennifer Jones and co-starring Robert Stack will be previewed in 50 domestic and six Canadian centers in the next two weeks. Showings, arranged in cooperation with the Federation of Motion Picture Councils and Better Films Committees, were staged yesterday at the Memorial, Boston; Paramount, Syracuse; Fox, Philadelphia; United Artists, Detroit; Hippodrome, Cleveland; Century, Chicago; St. Louis, St. Louis; Fox, San Francisco; Carolina, Charlotte; and the Florida, Jacksonville. Changes Announced In RKO Theatres William W. Howard, vice president of RKO Theatres, yesterday announced the following promotions and transfers of theatre managers: Dave Levin from manager of the RKO Albee, Providence, R. I., to city manager of Grand Rapids with headquarters in the Regent Theatre; Philip Nemirow from the Chester, New York City, to the Albee, Providence, and Richard Clark from the Castle Hill, New York City, to the Chester. Other RKO managerial shifts, all in the New York City area, are Jerome Leige from the Marble Hill to Castle Hill; Nicola Constabile from Greenpoint to Marble Hill, and Philip Smith to manager of the Greenpoint. Next Allied Artists Sales Meet in L.A. Los Angeles will be the site of the next in the series of Allied Artists regional sales meetings centering on the company's current production and distribution expansion plans. Morey R. Goldstein, AA vice-president and general sales manager, has arrived in California from Chicago, where he presided at sessions, to conduct the L.A. meetings next Saturday and Sunday at the Beverly Hills Hotel. A A sales personnel attending the L. A. meetings will include Harold Wirthwein, Western division sales head, and branch managers R. C. Carlson, Portland, Ore.; E. D. Cruea, Seattle; M. J. E. McCarthy, Los Angeles; James Myers, San Francisco; Don Tibbs, Salt Lake City, and Jack Felix, Denver. Anniversary Film Festival for Mexico From THE DAILY Bureau MEXICO CITY, Nov. 15.-An international film fair is being arranged for here starting Nov. 28 by the Mexican Association of Cinematographic Journalists to commemorate the golden anniversary of the Mexican picture industry. Up to now, 20 countries have promised to enter pictures and seven others may participate. The Mexican film industry actually began in 1905, but most say the trade is only 25 years old, contending it didn't really start until 1930, with the production of a talkie. Stand Succeeds Mees In Eastman Research ROCHESTER, Nov. 15.-Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, head of research for Eastman Kodak Co. for the past 44 years, notified the company's board of directors at its regular meeting today that he is giving up the post of vice-president in charge of research and will leave for Honolulu in a few days, where he will make his permanent residence in retirement. Dr. Cyril J. Staud was elected vicepresident in charge of research by the board, succeeding Dr. Mees, who will remain a board member. Dr. Staud has been director of Kodak Research Laboratories since 1947 and, like Dr. Mees, is an authority on industrial and color photography. Among other honors, he is a fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. Dividends Declared The Eastman Kodak board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of 60 cents a share and an extra dividend of 25 cents a share on the common stock and the regular 1% per cent dividend ($1.50) on the preferred stock. Both dividends will be paid on Jan. 3, 1956 to shareholders of record on Dec. 3. The total cash dividends per share declared this year on the common stock outstanding amounted to $2.35. This is 30 cents more than in 1954. It was also announced that an employee wage dividend, estimated at $32,175,000, will be shared next March by about 51,000 Kodak men and women in the United States. Eligible persons will receive $30.25 for each $1,000 earned at Kodak during the five-year period 1951-55. New Head of CINES ROME, Nov. 15.-Dr. Aldo Borelli, former editor of important Italian daily newspapers, has been named president of CINES, the government owned and operated film production company here. Must Add Vaude Mexico City's Theatres Ma} Boost Prices Special to THE DAILY MEXICO CITY, Nov. 15. Trac reaction is mixed to the announe< 2f ment by the National Exhibitors A sociation of the partial end of tl 32-cent admission price for local th< atres that was enacted in Decembe 1952. First run theatres are to 1 allowed to charge 48 cents but mu present vaudeville with every shov The association quoted Mayor Ernesllti1111 P. Uruchurtu as granting permissic for the hiked charge. Revealing that the Mayor had bee asked by some exhibitors to allow tl 48-cent charge, the association sai he declared he believes the mixin of pictures and vaudeville at a high rate will please many— the public, be wai cause it will get full money's wort! exhibitors, because of more trade, an many professionals who will fin steady work. Vaudeville faded fror local cinemas in 1940. Not All Pleased While some exhibitors are de lighted, others complain of increaseilw costs and trouble in booking an presenting vaudeville, and say th only beneficiaries will be the govern ment, from more taxes from theatre and distributors of foreign film: mostly American, because, generally imported pictures do the best businesfi here. The trade expects the new polk to start on or about Jan. 1. Lightstone is Name® Fox Vancouver Mgr. Gordon Lightstone has been ap pointed manager of 20th Century Fox's Vancouver exchange, succeed ing James E. Patterson. 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