Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

NEW YORK, U.S.A., TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1960 TEN CENTS l ans Skyscraper CBS to Build t ext Door to 1 a d i o City hadquarters to Be on Ave. (f Americas; Site Bought 5lans to erect a new CBS headqirters building and purchase of a n'ltown New York site were anD meed yesterday by the Columbia Eiadcasting System, irhe new building will be located Bithe east side of the Avenue of the liericas between 52nd and 53rd ieets, and is scheduled for occupan6; in the spring of 1964. CBS has retained Eero Saarinen & Aiociates to design the building. The | S building will be the first skySi aper designed by Saarinen, who is r' owned for such projects as his Cheral Motors Technical Center, the |';sge Auditorium at Massachusetts tj'Technology, and the U.S. Embassy i'Oslo. Among the architect's current fc'>jects which have attracted cons erable attention in and outside of s'hitectural circles are the new TWA ( Continued on page 5 ) fTRA Moves to Play h\or Role in Pay-TV From THE DAILY Bureau 'WASHINGTON, July 25.-AFTRA lide it clear in its recent convenl!n here that it expects to play a maI role in pay television when this Icomes a factor in the American <i tertainment scene. AFTRA has !|;ned a letter of agreement with In( Continued on page 5 ) icket Tax Cut Vetoed |y Cleveland's Mayor Special to THE DAILY I CLEVELAND, July 25. Mayor . ithony Celebrezze today rejected a lea for the repeal of the three per Int amusement admission tax on ption picture theatre tickets on the [ound that the city needs all possible (Continued on page 5) SLEVISION TODAY— page 5 EKC Sales and Net Set 6-Month Mark Sales and earnings of the Eastman Kodak Company for the first half of 1960 were moderately higher than a year ago and were the best the company has had for any first half, it was reported yesterday by Thomas J. Hargrave, chairman, and William S. Vaughn, president. Consolidated sales of the company's United States establishments (Continued on page 5) Rosenfield Cites Col. Promotion Plans Abroad From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, July 23 (By Air Mail). "Block-busting promotion for blockbusting pictures" was the theme ot Jonas Rosenfield, executive in charge of world-wide advertising, publicity and exploitation of Columbia Pictures Corporation, addressing exhibitor and trade press representatives here on the company's marketing plans. Rosenfield introduced a screen ( Continued on page 5 ) Wometco, Diversifying, Boosts 6 Months Profit Wometco Enterprises, Inc., of Florida had a net income, after estimated taxes, of $490,235 or 51 cents a share for the 24 weeks ended June 18, 1960 compared with $371,287 or 41 cents a share for the similar period of 1959. The circuit's net income for the 12 weeks ended June 18, 1960 was $289,914, an increase ( Continued on page 6 ) Court Bars I.A. Pickets At Todd-AO Theatre Special to THE DAILY ATLANTA, July 25. A temporary order restraining Local 225, IATSE, from obstructing or interfering with the installation of Todd-AO equipment at the Rhodes Theatre here was issued by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jesse Wood. Frederick G. Storey, president of Storey Theatres, which operates the Rhodes, told the court the union struck his theatre in violation of their contract, threatening a delay in reopening the house next week for the Dixie premiere of "Can-Can," because employes of the firm which installs Todd-AO refused to cross the picket lines at the theatre. T0A Drive-In Clinic To Learn First-Hand For probably the first time in exhibition history, a national exhibitor's session on drive-in theatre operation will be held in a drive-in theatre. Theatre Owners of America announced yesterday that the drive-in conference scheduled for its 13th annual convention and industry trade (Continued on page 2) Marion Jordan Resigns U-I European Post Special to THE DAILY PARIS, July 25.-Marion Jordan, continental supervisor for Universal International since February, 1958, has resigned his post, it was announced today by Americo Aboaf, vice-president and general foreign ( Continued on page 6 ) 2-Hour TV Special on Hollywood Planned by Wolper-Sterling, Inc. A two-hour television special described as an entertaining and authoritative documentary about the motion picture industry will be the first project of the new Wolper-Sterling Productions, Inc., it was announced yesterday. Expected to cost $400,000, "Holly wood and die Movies" will be produced by David L. Wolper in association with Saul J. Turell. Sidney Skolsky has been assigned the screenplay and Jack Haley, Jr. has been set as associate producer. No production date was announced. The documentary will show Hollywood as a "vitally important projec tion" of American life and culture. "The underlying theme will be to show that Hollywood, despite the onslaught of conditions that would have proven disastrous to most other professions, has survived its many crises," Wolper said. In spanning Hollywood's eras the ( Continued on page 5 ) Was Pioneer Hold Funeral Services Today For Blumberg Universal Chairman Dies At 66 After Long Illness From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, July 25.-Funeral services for Nate J. Blumberg, chairman of the board of Universal Pictures Co. and industry pioneer, will be held Tuesday at the Valley Jewish Community Center in North Hollywood. B 1 u mberg, former head of RKO Theatres, died at his home in Van Nuys on Sunday following a lengthy illness. He was 66 years old. Burial will take place at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park. Universal's home office in New York will close at 1 P.M. tomorrow (Continued on page 4) Einfeld to Brief Field Men on Filming Abroad Charles Einfeld, 20th Century-Fox vice-president, will fly to Chicago this week to institute the first multiregional United States meetings on the company's expanded European production schedule. The briefing sessions will be attended by the com(Continued on page 6) Julius Plaine, 94, Dies In Glens Falls Hospital Julius Plaine, the father of Mrs. Herman Robbins and Mrs. M. L. Kaufman, died Sunday night in the Glens Falls, N. Y., Hospital at the age of 94. The "Governor," as he was affectionately known to the industry (Continued on page 2)