Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, July 27, PERSONAL MENTION MARTIN DAVIS, Paramount national advertising, publicity and exploitation manager, left here for London by plane yesterday. • Morton Nathanson, United Artists director of international advertising and publicity, has returned to New York following eight weeks in Europe. • Louis Novins, president of Telemeter International, has arrived in London from New York for 10 days of conferences. • Charles Karr, booker for Martin Theatres, Atlanta, has returned there from a Florida vacation. • Matt Marcus, branch manager for Warner Brothers in Buffalo, has returned there from Oneida. • Branscome James, owner of the Royce Theatre, Rayston, Ga., is hospitalized at Anderson, S. C. • Lillian Wishnia, secretary to Rodney Bush, 20th Century-Fox exploitation manager, has announced her engagement to Harold Rand, Paramount Pictures publicity man J. M. Lakeman, exhibitor of Haleyvil'le, Ala., has left there with Mrs. Lakeman for a vacation in Montana. Adler Left $4,000,000 HOLLYWOOD, July 26. The late Buddy Adler's will filed for probate yesterday at Santa Monica Superior Court names his widow, Anita Louise Adler, and two children, Melanie, 12, and Anthony, 10, beneficiaries of an estate totaling approximately $4,000,000. The document listed $1,900,000. In real and personal property, plus life insurance and deferred payments from 20th Century-Fox studios, where he was executive producer. gems of showmanship!... by national screen service" Exhibitors Plan Tax Fight paff i„ Hollywood , ( Continued from page 1 ' are covered by any measures which may be proposed. "It would be the height of discrimination," the theatre executive stated, "to restrict municipal or federal tax relief to legitimate theatres and exclude the motion picture theatres of the city. It would be indefensible, politically, economically and every other way, to extend relief to places of entertainment which charge $4 to $10 admission and rule out other places of entertainment which charge $1.50 to $2.00 and which include many persons of limited means in their patronage, as contrasted with the legitimate theatre's wealthy and expense-account patronage." "When we last obtained admission tax relief from the city, we assumed and, in fact, were told that it was the maximum obtainable under existing conditions. We acceded to suggestions that we defer petitions for total elimination of the tax until a later day. Surely, then, tax until if the city in the future is prepared to eliminate the legitimate theatre ticket tax, the time will have arrived for it to extend the same treatment to the motion picture theatres of the city. "We believe the same reasoning applies to the remaining federal tax on admissions," he concluded. A study of the possibilities of eliminating the city's five per cent ticket tax was promised legitimate theatre organizations by Mayor Wagner during peace talks in which he participated on the Actors Equity strike. Subsequently, Senator Jacob Javits and Rep. John V. Lindsey of Manhattan said they would introduce bills in Congress next January to eliminate the remaining 10 per cent federal tax on admissions over $1. Neither made it clear whether they intended to include motion picture theatres specifically in their bills, since both identified them as relief measures designed primarily to help the legitimate theatre solve its current economic problems. Jersey Allied ( Continued from page 1 ) vention here. Another meeting has been scheduled for Aug. 8, at which specific action is expected. In the meantime, Jersey Allied officials said that they are not in a position to disclose details of the distributors' proposals, but added that if such proposals materialize "they will give us one-quarter, or one-third, of what we want." They said they consider this a good start and are confident major problems of long standing are on the way to a solution. The convention persuaded Sidney Stern to continue as president of Jersey Allied for another year, against his wishes. John Harwin was elected vicepresident for Southern New Jersey, succeeding Herbert Lubin. Other officers were reelected. They are, in addition to Stern: Richard Turtletaub, secretary; Howard Herman, vice-president for Northern New Jersey; Louis Martin, treasurer, and Irving Dollinger, chairman of the board and national delegate. A resolution strongly favoring the American Congress of Exhibitors and its program, in particular backing ACE's film production project, was approved by the meeting. A resolution also called upon ACE to urge production distribution presidents to meet again with the ACE executive committee on current and continuing problems affecting the three branches of the industry. No meeting of company presidents has been held with ACE this year. Resolutions on the eligibility of for U.S. Films Made Up Half Of Finland's '59 Supply From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, July 26.-Chief supplier of feature films to Finland during 1959 was the United States. Of the 531 reviewed by the National Film Censor, 225 came from the U.S., according to Nathan D. Golden, motion picture chief of the Department of Commerce. In 1958, 494 features were reviewed by the Finnish censor agency with 220 of them of U.S. origin. Imports of Western European films and the number of Finnish productions increased last year, but there were fewer films imported from the USSR. In 1959, 46 feature films came from the United Kingdom; 65 from France; 41 -from Sweden; 25 from Finland; 20 from the USSR; 48 from West Germany; 13 from Italy; 12 from Austria; and 36 from other countries. eign and domestic pictures, and on the sponsorship of the Academy Awards telecast— recently relinquished by the Motion Picture Association of America— and condemning the sale of post-1948 film libraries to television were authorized and are in the process of being drafted. Jersey Allied's stand on the increasing instances of pictures opened on a hard-ticket policy, and other trade practice problems of concern to all of exhibition, are being referred by this convention to either Allied's national convention this fall or to the national board meeting to be held in Chicago next month. ft Launch New Product! From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, July 26.-Wir up a six month's tour of the worlu Daff, former executive vice-pres: of Universal-International, is hei take over production reins for I Young and Associates on the f| coming picture, "Amritsar," baset the life of the late Mahatma Ga During his tour, Daff visited ernment officials in India and ferred on plans for the feature, will spend a week here before re ing to New York, meeting with YB and artists representatives to difl casting and production schedule* Filming of "Amritsar" is slate | start early next winter, with loci shooting in India and interiors tj shot in London. Fox Names Ascarelli ( Continued from page 1 ) g Great Britain, will coordinate! phases of the pre-production andl duction publicity eminating j there. He rejoins Fox, having stj as the company's director of ail tising and publicity for contirJ Europe from 1946 until May, J when he assumed the same po;J for United Artists. Ascarelli will fly to Rome vJ the next two weeks to begin hisl job. Postpone Drive-in HARTFORD, July 26. s| Perakos, president of Conneil Drive-in Theatres Assn., today 1 poned a scheduled luncheon mel to Wednesday at the Colonial Hi Hamden. The approaching camj| against the Hartford Zenith-I General pay-TV plan on WHCF is among the topics to be discvi JET TO BRITAIN aboard BOAC's daily MONARCH ROLLS ROYCE INTERCONTINENTJ 707 (fastest of all big jets) with 'Golden Service reservations through your Travel Agi > BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPOR Jet and/or jet-prop flights from e York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Hon<iu San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto, i MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; Herbert V. M Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager, TELEVISION TODAY, Charles S. Aaronson, Editorial Director; Pmky Herman, Eastern Editor. 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