Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, July 6, 1960 PERSONAL MENTION MRS. LISA LEWIS, wife of Roger H. Lewis, United Artists vicepresident, gave birth at Lying-in-Hospital yesterday to a nine-and-a-halfpound boy, Joshua Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis also have a daughter, born a year ago. Clem Perry, executive assistant to Ilya Lopert, president of Lopert Films, is in Hollywood today from New York. • Isador M. Rappaport, head of Rappaport Theatres, Baltimore, has left there for the Coast. • L. J. Duncan and Sidney Laird, of West Point Amusement Co., West Point, Ga., have returned there from New York and Washington. • A. M. Schuman, pioneer Florida exhibitor, and Mrs. Schuman have returned to their Daytona Beach home from Connecticut. • Mike Mindlin, producer, will leave New York today for Paris. • M. H. Fritchie, branch manager for National Theatre Supply in Cleveland, has left there on his annual vacation. Berlin's Golden Bear To March for 'Wind' Special to THE DAILY BERLIN, July 5 (By Cable)-Fredric March won the Golden Bear as Best Actor in the Berlin Festival for his portrayal of the prosecuting attorney in Stanley Kramer's "Inherit the Wind," a United Artists release. The awards, announced today, included the "Youth Festive" award to "Inherit the Wind" as die picture best suited for the youth of the world. gems of showmanship!... by national screen servi< July Is Best ( Continued from page 1 ) film companies shows 27 releases set for July, 20 for August and 18 for September. This compares with 25, 15 and 13 for the same months last year. In quantity the majors will release 172 films through September, compared with 175 last year. Foreign-made films continue to dot the release schedules, it is pointed out, with four for each month in July, August and September. "The figures continue to bear out TOA's prediction that the total releases for 1960 will not be much more or much less than the very lean 224 of 1959," the bulletin observes. "Further, figures on films put in production by the major companies indicates a continued thin diet for at least the next six months." Compared with 1959 TOA publishes a comparative release schedule for the number of films set through September this year as compared with 1959. It shows 16 films for January as compared with 22 last year; Feb., 22 and 22; Mar., 14 and 23; Apr., 17 and 17; May, 19 and 18; June, 19 and 20; July, 27 and 25; Aug., 20 and 15; Sept., 18 and 13. A round-up on current production in Hollywood shows 63 films placed before the camera thus far in 1960 as compared with 87 last year and 115 in, 1959. Pictures still shooting in 1960 total 30 and 15 are scheduled for a July-Aug. start. In conclusion TOA notes: "All the foregoing figures again point up dramatically the very, very tight product situation, and the necessity of exhibition creating new sources of films." Service Pins Presented To 140 Schine Personnel Special to THE DAILY GLENS FALLS, N. Y., July 5.Some 140 employees of Schine Enterprises were awarded service pins at the Queensbury Hotel here, honoring long service for the company at the home offices in Gloversville or in the field. Those spotlighted for the most extended periods of work included: Harry King, of Gloversville, the first employee to be hired by J. Myer Schine when the latter opened the old Hippodrome, in that city, in 1917; George V. Lynch, now chief film buyer for the Schine circuit, who was an usher in an out-of-town theatre backin 1919. Four generations of Schines were represented at the dinner. Schine Enterprises, Inc., has an outstanding record for longevity of employment. AA to Make Seven Pictures Abroad Allied Artists announced it will un , dertake the most ambitious overseas filming program in company's history during the next 12 months with seven major pictures scheduled to be made on overseas locations. Among the films will be "The Capri Story," with all footage to be made on the famous island; "Armored Command," a World War II story of the 7th Army with locations in France and Germany; "Street of Montmartre," slated for late summer shooting in the French capital; "Billy Budd," the Melville classic sea story scheduled for England and the Mediterranean locales; "Marco Polo," to be based in Hong Kong with locations in Burma, Thailand and India; "The Big Wave," a Pearl Buck story set in Japan, and "Crash Boat," a World War II naval drama to be made in Hawaii. All Wisconsin Allied Officers Are Re-elected Special to THE DAILY ELKHART LAKE, Wise, July 5.All officers of Allied Theatre Owners of Wisconsin were re-elected at the annual convention here last week. They include Edward E. Johnson, president; Dean Fitzgerald, vice-president; Evelyn Gutenberg, secretary; Oliver Trampe, treasurer; Sig Goldberg, national director; and Ben Marcus, director-at-large. On the board of directors are Gerry r ranzen, Floyd Albert, Martin Holzman, William Charboneau, Harry Melcher, Otto Settele, Larry Beltz, Fred Minor, Ranee Mason and F. J. McWilliams. Five resolutions were passed at the convention. One condemned Warner Brothers for sales policies restricting adjustments; two, a call for the American Congress of Exhibitors to meet with company presidents immediately on aiding small theatres in distress; third, support of Motion Picture Investors should be continued; four, condemnation of the roadshowing of 70mm picturers; five, continued support of Compo. British Pay-TV ft ( Continued from page 1 ) equipment for the general press. The demonstration was by land cable on a set equipped to receive three channels in addition to the regular BBC and Independent Television Authority signals. The coin box was operable on a range from zero to 20 shillings. Reporting on the progress of the system so far, Novins quoted from a Motion Picture Herald article on j Telemeter in Toronto by Martin Quigley, Jr., and said that demonstrations ! here had generated tremendous trade interest. He said his company was j laying the groundwork for a British i] company which would license various j interests here to operate Telemeter in | specified geographical areas within j the United Kingdom. He said that in j its early stages at least operation here i would be by a wired system. Long-Term Pact Disclosed Immediately following the Novins demonstration yesterday, the Rank Organisation and Rediffusion, Ltd., today announced a long term agreement "for the development and promotion of pay television when permitted in the / United Kingdom and overseas." The announcement recalled the joint statement by the two companies in October, 1959, when Rank acquired the right to use the Rediffusion system of wired television in relay operations. Rediffusion is the leading company here in the wired radio and television field. It has existing networks covering over 250,000 subscribers. Both companies have substantial interests in the electronics field and their research, previously developed separately, will now be pooled under common direction with both partners contributing their patents on subscription television by wire and radio. Fowler Mass Today HOLLYWOOD, July 5. Requiem Mass will be said tomorrow at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, Brentwood, for Gene Fowler, 70, who died on Saturday of a heart attack. He is survived by his wife, Agnes; a daughter, Jane, and two sons, Gene, Jr., a director and writer, and Will, in the exploitation field. Fowler, in addition to his writing of legitimate plays, screenplays and novels, produced some of the best known biographies of show people. Government Sanction Doubted The new partnership will operate under the name "Choiceview" and will be capitalized at £ 100,000. The plan is to offer programs and technical services to other intending operators. Official observers doubt whether in view of the Government's pending review of the whole British television and sound broadcasting policies there will be any Government sanction of pay TV systems for several years, j However, the race is on. 'Bellboy9 Here July 20 Jerry Lewis' "The Bellboy," farce comedy which the comedian filmed entirely in Miami Beach, will have its first New York showing starting July 20, at more than 90 theatres in i the" greater metropolitan area. Among the theatres participating in the first city-wide showing of "The Bellboy" \ are those of the Loew's, Century, RKO, Brandt, Skouras, Randforce and Prudential circuits. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher ■; Sherwin Kane, .Editor; James D. lyers Maying Editor; ^^^^^'^^7 Ad*^& M^r; 7&s~K Wu^^ia^^W^rTELEVISIOlJ' TODAY, Charles S.>aron_spn,' Editorial Director; Pinky Herman, Eastern Editor. HoH/wo^ Bureau, HOUywood 7-2145; Washmgto: :r; Peter Burnup, Editor; Will lolidays, by Quigley Publishing _ , Cable address: "Quigpubco. New York" Martin . Quigley, President; Martin_ Quigley, Jr.. Vice-President; Theo^J^ bulliy^n,^ Vrce Yucca-Vine Building,' Samuel' D.~~B'e™, Manager; Telephone HOUywood 7-2145; Washington, E. H. 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