Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1955)

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'ednesday, November 16, 1955 Motion Picture Daily 7 mi Oipson (Continued from page 1) Ireece. He said he would make freuent visits to Batavia. The Dipson organization controls leatres in New York, Pennsylvania, Vest Virginia and Ohio. From 1922 i 1930, the company sold nine thea,i'e leases in various communities to arner Brothers in a transaction reorted to have involved over $1,500,00 in Warner Bros, debentures .hich were paid at par in 1939. Wide Wide World' To Spot 'Persuasion' Allied Artists' forthcoming "The : ,k friendly Persuasion" will be featured \n Sunday, Nov. 27, to the viewers if NBC's hour-and-a-half "Wide Vide World" television network show. The program, all "live," will devote en minutes to the William Wyler iroduction, and will feature the picture's stars, Gary Cooper and Dorothy *IcGuire, supporting cast members vnthonv Perkins, Phvllis Love, Mark Hichman and Richard Ever, and pro■% lucer-director William Wyler. "The riendly Persuasion" portion will emanate from die San Fernando Valey "location" site where the picture s currently in production. tac -hie The significant developments in television and their meaning . . . Every Monday in Television Today Right at the start of the week — through an interpretive new style of trade paper journalism — this concise report of the significant news and events keeps you posted quickly and easily. Television Today Published every Monday in conjunction with Motion Picture Daily Television — Radio aivith Pinky Herman. IN the year since its first broadcast last November, Ted Ayers, producer of "Face the Nation," and his production staff have flown more than 150,000 miles in order to bring to the "mike" and camera leading figures in local, national and world-wide affairs. Program is CBSeen Sundays at 4:00 P.M. and heard on that radio network same evening at 10:05. . . . Stanton M. Osgood, formerly with NBC as manager of television film production, and from 1950 to 1954 in charge of that firm's large screen closed circuit TV operations, has been named director of production for Theatre Network Television, Inc. by prexy Nathan L. Halpern. . . . The Orange Bowl football classic, which will be televised from Miami, Monday, Jan. 2, featuring the teams of Oklahoma and Maryland, will be CBSponsored by Buick. . . . Art Baker's unusual and entertaining series, "You Asked for It," ABChanneled coast to coast for Skippy peanut butter, will embark on its sixth year Sunday, Jan. 1, 1956. it it i^ TViewers of NBC's "Wide Wide World," hosted by Dave Garroway Sunday, Nov. 27, will be treated to several location scenes in the San Fernando Valley where producer William Wyler is shooting the Allied Artists production, "The Friendly Persuasion," costarring Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire. Cooper will be heard singing for the first time. . . . Max Liebman's next Spectacular for NBC-TV will be presented Sunday, Dec. 4 and, titled "The Maurice Chevalier Show," will feature in addition to the Gallic songster, Jeannie Carson, Marcel Marceau and Pat Carroll. The musical revue was written by William Friedberg and Neil Simon with Art Linkletter, host. . . . General Electric's "20th CenturyFox Hour" program Wednesday, Nov. 30 will costar Thelma Ritter and Gene Lockhart in "ChristoDave Garroway pher Bean " . . , jan Miner and Terry O'Sullivan, who play "man & wife" roles in "Julie," Westinghouse "CBStudio One" next Monday night, are man and wife in real life. This is the first time they've ever appeared together on TV as Mr. and Mrs. it it ■& Meridian Productions, Inc. has signed to deliver via a long-term deal, 26 to 52 ninety-minute dramatic spectaculars for the 1956-57 season. The initial telefilm will go before the cameras on the Goldwyn lot sometime next month and the series, titled "Command Performance," will use both published and new stories. ABC veep Bob Weitman will supervise the series which will be filmed all over the world. . . . Don DeFore. president of the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences, in honoring the 1954 "Emmy" winners yesterday at the Plaza Hotel, presented an "Emmy" to President Eisenhower for his "distinguished use and encouragement of television medium." NBC will again televise the Academy Awards in a 90-minute color spectacular March 17. . . . After many years as creative director for Filmack Studios' production division, Tom Rook has been appointed TV sales representative. . . . Bill Haley's Comets, whose Decca platter of "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" is a deejay delight, have been booked into the Brooklyn Paramount starting Nov. 23. ■fr it i? J. P. Stevens & Co., one of the largest and oldest fabric manufacturers in the country, becomes the first of that industry to climb aboard the TV bandwagon. CBStarting New Year's Day, J.P.S. becomes the third co-sponsor of "Omnibus," together with Scott Paper Co. and Aluminium Ltd. of Canada. . . . News will soon be forthcoming from ABC dealing with facts concerning a half dozen or more new TV programs for 195857 season. . . . Sam Goldwyn and Kim Hunter will be interviewed by Conrad Nagel between preview scenes of "I Died a Thousand Times," "Frisky" and "Rebel Without a Cause" Friday TVia WABD (10:30 P.M.). . . . Talented Tedd Lawrence, who ho;ted his own musical show for more than a year at the Versailes nite club in New York and later turned in a stellar two-year stint as announcer for the Guy Lombardo Show, starts a new Monday through Friday musical series over WABC this week. . . . The Arthur Godfrey radio and TV shows will originate from Miami Beach the week of Nov. 21. Janette Davis, Carmel Quinn, Frank Parker, Tony Marvin, Will Roland and Bert Farber will accompany the red-head to the environs of the Kennilworth Hotel and Miami Beach Auditorium whence the programs will emanate. Myers Pleads (Continued from page 1) for today's general meeting, was rescheduled to address special evening business session after die plane in which he was flying to Indianapolis was grounded for several hours at Harrisburg, Pa. His mission was to explain, not to sell, the control measure to be presented Congress, Myers insisted. "I would like to know before the year is over that at least 1,000 exhibitors in the United States really understand it," he said. Citing "figures diat show the amazing increase in the net earnings of film companies beginning April 1, 1954," Myers charged they had largely confiscated the benefits of die tax reduction and urged exhibitors to compare the figures with the percentage of dieir net increase since diat date. "Get over this timidity about disclosing your private affairs. Then we can proceed widi confidence and real hope of success," he declared. Sees Admissions Separate Myers answered die claim diat die regulation of film rentals would lead to regulation of admission prices with the argument that the latter do not come under interstate commerce classification. Julius Gordon, secretary of national Allied and president of the Jefferson Theatre Corp., Beaumont, Tex., told the ATOI members that his study of regulation in Europe convinced him "that none of us can survive in this business without it." He accused distributors of agreeing "to arbitrate in foreign countries while refusing to do so widi fellow Americans." Reasons for national Allied's qualified withdrawal from COMPO were explained by Marc Wolf, Indiana exhibitor, who was one of the original members of the council. Myers and Shor Today About 200 exhibitors are registered for the convention at die Marott Hotel here. Closed discussion groups for outdoor and indoor exhibitors were on die morning's program. Clinics will be continued on Wednesday morning, widi another open session, at which Myers and Ruben Shor, president of Allied, will be heard scheduled for afternoon. The annual banquet at die Marott will close die convention Wednesday night. TOA to Press ( Continued from page 1 ) 1957 would be a better time for the tax reduction campaign. "Why, if we fight now, by 1957 the tax may be off," Blank stated. Blank said that Col. H. A. Cole's talk with Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn concerning the tax elimination "was unfair to the industry." He said that Allied's withdrawal, "which is harmful," from COMPO was based on this, as Rayburn said diat 1957 would be a better year to wage a tax reduction campaign.