Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

MOTION PICTURE DAILY NEW YORK, U.S.A., TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1960 Government Committee Will Explore Pay TV for Britain; See 2Year Delay By WILLIAM PAY LONDON, July 16 (By Air Mail) The question of whether or not Britain should have pay television will be explored here by a Government committee named to conduct a wide-ranging inquiry into the future of sound and television broadcasting. Both Telemeter and the Rank Organisation recently announced tentative plans for pay television networks. Announcing the decision to set up the committee of inquiry, the Postmaster General said "In view of the nature of the problem the committee would have an accent on youth." Chairman of the committee — the only appointment to-date — is Sir Harry Pilkington of the glass manufacturers, Pilkington Brothers. He is also a director of the Bank of England and chair(Continued on page 7) Tisch Named Member Of UJA Committee Lawrence A. Tisch, chairman of the executive committee of Loew's Theatres, has been named to the Key Committee of the United Jewish Appeal. Designation was made by Wil1 i a m Rosenwald, noted p h i 1 a n t hropist, who is over all chairman of the Key Committee recently set up to co-ordinate and stimulate the UJA campaigns in all trade, industry, profession and community divisions in the metropolitan effort. Irving H. Greenfield, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., chairman of the Motion Picture and Amusement Division of UJA, expressed pleasure at the designation and welcomed Tisch into the UJA committee's top working force. The division's annual luncheon ( Continued on page 2 ) Lawrence Tisch Set Hearings on N.Y. State Wage Measure Special to THE DAILY ALBANY, July 18.-A public hearing will be held at the State Office Building here Friday as one of a series throughout the state to obtain public reaction bearing on rules and regulations scheduled for promulgation with respect to a law, taking effect Oct. 1, which establishes a minimum wage of $1 an hour for workers in most industries. The afternoon session, one in the morning is to be for non-profit organizations — will be "omnibus" in char( Continued on page 1) OL. 88, NO. 12 )eals Pend Closing For ^ox Studio ^and Nearer eckendorf May Abandon lotel Project, Sell Lease Revisions of William Zeckendorf's ojected construction program now ider way are expected to ease fure commitments of his Webb & lapp real estate firm, and to prode new cash, to extents which will sure the closing of his deal to actire the 20th Century-Fox studio operty for $43,000,000, it was rented in financial circles yesterday. Zeckendorf is said to have decided abandon the projected construction the 2,000 room, 48-story hotel in >ckefeller Center for which excaval»n work was completed some time o. It is estimated that this will ( Continued on page 6 ) lergymen Here Attack mid' Film Come-Ons Pleading that New York become ither "a center of primness" nor fie headquarters of prurience," Dr. jiHiam F. Rosenblum, rabbi of Temp Israel here and co-chairman of the dmmittee of Religious Leaders of Jiw York, has asked film producers Id exhibitors to carefully examine pduct before putting it on the !; 'een. "We do insist that they (producers (Continued on page 6) .tudio Activity Shows iicrease; 33 in Work From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, July 18.-With the rt of four new pictures last week, Induction activity is on the uprise, pal number of pictures before the meras is 33. Only one was corniced. Producer-director George Sidy wrapped up the final shots on 'ispe," which was filmed in Cinemabpe and color as a Sidney InternaInal-Posa Films Internacional proi ction for Columbia Pictures release, ' th Cantinflas, Dan Dailey and Shir(Continued on page 6) Izaok Walton Welcome If He Has a Car Special to THE DAILY HARTFORD, July 18.-Atty. George LeWitt, president of the Lakeside Realty Company, and his son, Brooks, owners of the Berlin (Conn.) Drive-In, have put still another innovation into effect, advertising free fishing in the theatre's now-well-stocked lake. Previously announced — and still very much in effect — are free boat rides for younsters on a nightly basis, and a Sunday "Swap-and-Sell" Plan whereby a carfull of patrons (for only 50 cents admission) can enter the grounds from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., and participate in either swapping or buying household goods from other patrons. Paramount Names 12 To Achievement Club Twelve members of Paramount's domestic organization will be inducted into the company's "100 Per Cent Club," highest honor for year-long achievement that can be bestowed on employees of the Paramount field forces, it was announced yesterday by George Weltner, vice-president in charge of world sales. The organization was established 35 years ago to spotlight accomplishment. Named were: Lillian M. Ahearn, booker, Cincinnati; Joseph L. Benedick, sales, St. Louis; James R. Broiles, head booker, Dallas; Harlan E. Brunt, head booker, Los Angeles; Matthew F. Donohue, salesman, Milwaukee; Max Factor, sales manager, Los Angeles; Robert L. Hames, sales( Continued on page 7) TEN CENTS Hits Big Budgets Increase In Production Is Goldstein Plan 20th-Fox Studio Head Says All Stages Should Be in Use From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, July 18. Robert Goldstein, newly named 20th CenturyFox executive producer, expressed himself at a weekend press interview in favor of substantially increased production at the company's studio. "Major studios here do not have to be uneconomic operations," Goldstein said. "The more pictures that are made on a lot, the lower the studio overhead. My function, as I see it, is to keep the 20th-Fox studio real busy. "We don't need these stages if they are going to be empty. If they want empty stages they don't need me. I intend to follow a policy of using the sound stages here. I consider it foolish ( Continued on page 2 ) Too Many Festivals, British Executive Warns From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, July 16 (By Air Mail). —"Decisions of festival juries over the past few years have not been as widely accepted as they should be," commented Arthur Watkins, president of the British Film Producers Association, on his return here from the Berlin Festival. It is important, he pointed out, for festivals to maintain the confidence and respect of those taking part. "There are," considered Mr. Wat( Continued on page 6) Coast Funeral Services For Mrs. DeMille Today From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, July 18. Funeral services for Constance Adams DeMille, 87, widow of producer-director Cecil B. DeMille, who died Sunday of pneumonia, will be held tomorrow at 11 A.M. at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Interment will be beside her husband in Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery.