Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

Motion Picture Daily Friday, July 15, 19( ! PERSONAL MENTION A SCHNEIDER, president of Co• lumbia Pictures, and Leo Jaffe, first vice-president and treasurer, will leave here over the weekend for Hollywood. • Charles Schlaifer, president of the advertising agency bearing his name, has returned to New York from the Coast. • Arthur Greenblatt, Allied Artists general sales manager, was in Atlanta from here. • Stanley Markham, for many years in charge of special service activities in the M-G-M publicity department here, is recuperating at Mt. Sinai Hospital following surgery. • Dimitri Tiomkin, composer-conductor, has returned to Hollywood from England and France. Mrs. Carman B. Bunch, head booker for the U.S. Naval Base, Charleston, S. C, and her assistant, Joan Ann Hanagriff, have returned there from a booking trip. Pittsburgh Meets ( Continued from page 1 ) meeting with branch managers to line up pictures suitable for the campaign. A list of about a dozen attractions scheduled for release in the next few months has been compiled from which it is hoped that at least three will be available to the central committee in time to inaugurate the campaign next month. Six zones were represented at the Pittsburgh meeting. Present were Mike Wellman, Hickory Drive-in, Sharon; Leo Mickey, Penn Theatre, New Castle; B. F. Moore, West Virginia District Manager for Stanley Warner theatres; C. S. Brown, Temple Theatre, Kane; Joe Bugala, Manos Theatre circuit, Greensburg, and Joe Freeman, State Theatre, Johnstown. Within the next few days Moss will visit the four zone chairmen who were unable to attend the Pittsburgh meeting and bring them up to date on developments so that they may arrange exhibitor meetings in their zones. In. addition to the zone managers, the Pittsburgh meeting was attended by Frank Lewis of Blatt Brothers, chairman of the Central Exhibitors' Committee; George Stern, Associated Theatres; Harry Hendel, Allied MPTO of Western Pennsylvania, and Moss. Allied Board Will Meet Aug. 5 Shirley ( Continued him on his retirement that he would definitely leave the organization this summer. The statement by Myrick said that it was hoped that an arrangement could be worked out under which Myers would continue on a consultant basis. However, it is understood that Myers contemplates complete retirement. The name of Seymour F. Simon, Chicago attorney who has been active in the industry has been mentioned as a possible successor to Myers as general counsel for the national exhibitor organization. One officer of Allied, however, expressed himself as opposed to naming any successor on from page 1 ) the ground that "it's the lawyers who are ruining this business." He made it clear that he was not referring to Myers who, as a matter of fact, at times in his career expressed the same sentiment. The same spokesman, speaking of Myers' retirement said, "We ought to give him the biggest dinner this industry ever saw. He saved the independent exhibitor." Neither Independent Exhibitors of New England, nor Allied of Western Pennsylvania, the two units which resigned from the national organization after the Miami convention last year, have indicated there would be any change in their attitude. Big Attendance Seen For 'Idiot' Premiere Motion picture exhibitors will be joined by political and society leaders at the U.S. premiere of the Russian cultural exchange film "The Idiot" at the Normandie Theatre here next Wednesday night. Twentieth CenturyFox is distributing the film in the U.S. From exhibition: Si H. Fabian, president of Stanley-Warner Corp.; George Skouras, president of Magna Theatres; Sol A. Schwartz, president of RKO Theatres and Joseph Sugar, of Magna Theatres. Also accepting for the formal event are Matthew Fox, president of Tollvision; Herman Robbins, president of National Screen Service; Benj. Kalmenson, vice-president of Warner Brothers; Floyd Odium, former head of the Atlas Corp.; Sam Rosen, vicepresident of StanleyWarner Corp.; Wall Streeter Ira Haupt; showman Billy Rose; Glenn Neville, publisher of the New York Daily Mirror; Nick Schenck, Charles L. Gould, of the JournalAmerican; Broadway director Guthrie McClintic; Dimitri Mitropoulos; Lincoln Schuster, president of Simon and Schuster, Inc.; Mr. and Mrs. William S. Paley; Mrs. Ogden Reid; Mrs. Al Lichtman and others. The stars of the Mosfilm production, Yulia Borisova, Yuri Yakovlev and their director, Ivan Pyriev, will attend the opening in person. Twentieth's "All About Eve" will open in a gala USSR premiere next month in Moscow. Jackter Takes to Road (Continued from page 1) Schneer's "The 3 Worlds of Gulliver," in SuperDynamation and color. Armed with a print of the film, Jackter will visit key areas in the Midwest, South and Southwest. First stop on his tentative itinerary is Detroit on July 25. Two years ago, Jackter conducted a similar tour for Schneer's first Dynamation picture, "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad," a film that went on to become Columbia's most successful Christmas release in its history. At that time, Jackter went out on the road without a print of the film to sell a new, unproven process, and succeeded in booking it in every major market in the country at prime Christmas time. "This time," Jackter said, "I will be selling a process which has been proven successful, and I've got the picture with me to back up my claims. Everyone who has viewed 'The 3 Worlds of Gulliver' is confident that it will far surpass 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad'." The Columbia sales chief said that the SuperDynamation process is a vast extension of Dynamation, employing all live actors and live action. The new process is used throughout the film to show Gulliver in his encounters with the Lilliputians (the Little People) and the Brobdingnagians (the Giants). He said that Columbia is backing the film with a blockbuster promotion campaign. 'Ice Palace9 to Alaska Warner Brothers' "Ice Palace" will open simultaneously in Alaska on July 20 at the Empress Theatre, Fairbanks, and the Fourth Avenue Theatre, Anchorage, thus officially launching a five-day "Golden Days Celebration" commemorating the discovery of gold in the Tanana district. Retained for 'Hunter9 HOLLYWOOD, July 14.-ClearyStrauss & Irwin has been retained by General Time Corp. through Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn and P. Lorillard Company through Lennen & Newell as national public relations, publicity and promotion representatives for "The Tab Hunter Show," which debuts in September over NBC-TV. Madeline Narrates New Trailer for Hospital Imparting a charm and informal a) peal not customarily found in aud ence appeal trailers for the raising |j funds, Shirley MacLaine has mat; this year's trailer for the industry! Will Rogers Hospital. Miss MacLahj contributed her appearance and narr tion of the trailer as a service to til industry. A. Montague, president of Will R gers, reports that all hospital sceni pictured in the trailer are actual ym Rogers Hospital shots, and authenti I ally portray the friendly character this "most extraordinary hospital." E1 hibitors showing this trailer in tbh year's audience collection drive wffl be proud to have their patrons s»' that they are taking part in such i wonderful movement, he added. Rogers Hospital Donor Will Receive Statuettes Special to THE DAILY CLEVELAND, July 14.-A propos: that a Will Rogers statuette inscribe! with donors' names for those perso; contributing $200 or more to the Wi Rogers Research Laboratory Fur drive, was approved unanimously a meeting of branch managers ar. radio and TV executives of the Great Cleveland area. The idea was offered by Raymor Schmertz, distributor chairman, wl also proposed that, in addition to tl usual theatre collection policy, a sp! cial gift committee be appointed I solicit contributions from executiv* in all branches of the entertainmei field. The area goal has been set , $100,000. Memorials Suggested It was also suggested that consii eration be given to a plan where! theatres would conduct memori contributions in honor of a decease exhibitor who had contributed active, in his community. Such an exhibit! would have his name inscribed on a honor plaque in the Will Rogers Ho pital at Saranac Lake, N. Y. 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