Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

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2 Motion Picture Daily Thursday, juiy 2s |969 , . — -u PERSONAL MENTION ARNOLD M. PICKER, United Artists vice-president in charge of foreign distribution, will return to New York today from Europe. • James Velde, United Artists vicepresident in charge of domestic sales; Al Fitter, Western division manager, and Arthur Reiman, Western contract manager, have returned to New York from Omaha. Henry Ginsherg leaves New York today for several weeks stay in Europe. • Lynn Farnol, of Lynn Farnol Associates, will leave here for the Coast tomorrow and will go to Mexico from there for a week before returning to New York. • Ruth Polloge, Eastern advertising-publicity manager for American International Pictures, left here yesterday for Washington and Baltimore. • Mrs. Herbert T. Schottenfeld gave birth yesterday to a boy, Howard Lawrence, at North Shore Hospital, Manhasset, L. I. Father is vicepresident and counsel of United Artists Associated. • Ben Cohen, circuit owner of Nashville, has returned there from Atlanta. • Norm Levinson, general manager and advertising director of TransTexas Theatres, Dallas, has returned there with Mrs. Levinson from Hartford. Para. Names Rackin Supervisory Head From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, July 27. Martin Rackin was named today by Paramount studio head Jack Karp as supervisory chief of all theatrical film production for the studio. Rackin will assume the new post on Aug. 15 and will start preparing the slate of features already scheduled for production by Paramount as well as preparing its future product. Rackin, who recently left NBC after dissolving Mahin-Rackin Productions, is a former New York newspaper man and 20-year Hollywood veteran writer. In 1957, he left Warner Brothers, where he functioned as writer-producer. As a partner of Mahin-Rackin Productions he wrote and produced "The Horse Soldiers." Loew 'sCircuit ( Continued from page 1 ) Loew's Lexington Theatre, Lexington Ave. and 51st St. Tisch declined to divulge particulars of the negotiations now under way but Webb & Knapp, the William Zeckendorf real estate firm, said it has sold for $5,000,000 cash the Seventh Ave. blockfront from 51st to 52nd Streets, now used as a parking lot, but would not disclose the purchaser. Should Loew's Theatres acquire the site for its hotel, it would adjoin Zeckendorf's Taft Hotel on Seventh Ave., now being enlarged to include the space formerly occupied by the Roxy Theatre. Second Deal This Week Earlier this week, Webb & Knapp announced closing of deals for $5,000,000 each for a Sixth Ave. site to Uris Buildings Corp. and an adjoining site to Columbia Broadcasting System. These and other current Webb & Knapp deals are reported to be designed to facilitate closing in the near future for the $43 millions deal for the 20th Century-Fox studio realty, where Zeckendorf plans to develop Century City. Rites Held for Canning, 'Dean' of New England Special to THE DAILY FALL RIVER, Mass., July 27Funeral services for William S. Canning, 74, widely known as the "dean" of New England show business, were held here today. Interment followed at Manchester, N. H. Canning had represented the Nathan Yamins Theatrical Enterprises for the past 30 years. Earlier, he managed theatres throughout New England and in Zanesville, Ohio. The Fall River Herald News paid uncommon tribute to him this week in a lead editorial. Canning was long active in community projects and served for a time here as park commissioner. Nixon Gets 'Spartacus* "Spartacus," the $12 million Bryna production, has been booked into the Nixon Theatre for an exclusive Pittsburgh and Tri-States area engagement, beginning its reserved seat, 10performances-weekly run just before Christmas, it was announced yesterday by Gabe Rubin, operator of the Nixon, and F. J. A. McCarthy and Jeff Livingston, of Universal Pictures, distributor of the film. S-W Dividend The board of directors of Stanley Warner Corp. has declared a dividend of 30c per share on the common stockpayable Aug. 25 to stockholders of record Aug. 10. 3-D with Glosses A Hit in San Diego Special to THE DAILY SAN DIEGO, Cal., July 27.-ThreeD with glasses is back. "September Storm," an Edward Alperson production for 20th-Fox, opened here at the California theatre to a gross of $7,394 for the first five days, far ahead of any Fox picture to play the house in recent years. According to the management, "A whole new audience, never before exposed to the 3-D process with Polaroid glasses is responding very favorably." 20th-Fox plans to test the attraction in a number of key cities before general release. Jersey Allied ( Continued from page 1 ) closing business session today, which lasted all afternoon and was followed by the banquet which brought the convention to a close. Text of the resolution supporting ACE, as well as other resolutions adopted at the convention will be made public tomorrow. Among the resolutions proposed yesterday was one urging ACE to urge production distribution presidents to meet again with the executive committee of ACE on current and continuing problems affecting the three branches of the industry. Other resolutions dealt with the eligibility of foreign and domestic pictures, the sponsorship of the Academy Awards telecast and the sale of post-1948 pictures to television. Olivier Film Opens LONDON, July 27. -The gala premiere of Sir Laurence Olivier's latest film, "The Entertainer," took place today at the Odeon Theatre in Marble Arch. Leading performers of the stage, screen and TV, also leaders in the social and civic life of the city attended. 'Gross' Filming Here William Inge's "Splendor in the Grass," which will be distributed this Christmas by Warner Brothers, is now being filmed at the new Filmways studio in upper Manhattan. Producerdirector Elia Kazan expects to complete shooting in about three weeks. Floyd Acquires Drive-in JACKSONVILLE, July 27.-Floyd Theatres has acquired from Theodore Pawela the Blossom Trail Drive-in Theatre here, and has changed the name to the South Trail Drive-in. The Floyd circuit now comprises 37 operations. Bowling Threat (Continued from page 1)1 its operation, Al Daff, formei i'nj. versal executive, reported here M in an interview in his Beverl) M shire Hotel suite, following > !ar. rival from "down under." Television has also made gre 'in. roads on Aussie theatre grosses H 15 stations now operating, lcffl stations under construction in th 1 1 vinces and a total of 35 statio 'expected to cover the continent) 1 said. Reporting also on his findin'jJ Africa three months ago, Daf I the market there will detei I while political instability prtfH Families in Africa are afraid to |ve their homes at night to go to the )»■ tre, he pointed out. Discusses Amritsar' | Joined by his associate i HI Young, during the interview, .jjjl1 spoke of "Amritsar," the first of •» projects he will make with Yjti The film employs factual episoe of Mahatma Gandhi's life. Righ!:tn Gandhi's material and the u 1 recording of Gandhi's voice wei I tained through the Navajivian of India, trustees of Gandhi's wrj Negotiations are currently ufl way with a major company folf release of "Amritsar," Daff said i Flick Backs Lutherai ' Move for Better Filn Special to THE DAILY ALBANY, N. Y., July 27.-1 menting on -a statement by he Lutheran Laymen's League, at iff cent 43rd annual international nvention in Minneapolis, that, isf feet, "Congress should convene a 1 ference to deal with the proble al immorality, violence and bad ta; I the mass communications media, ii! that such a conference "should bi tended by Federal, state and alj officials, together with represent; 1 of other interested groups, incllfi churches," Dr. Hugh M. Flick, | ciate commissioner for cultural ec ation, State Education Departi t, said today: "I am confident all thoughtful | sons interested in the contiid strength and welfare of the nsfi as well as others who are distu u by a seeming drift to gross laxil" the moral fibre of the country, 8 applaud the stand of the Lv.t'n Laymen's League," said Dr. Flick. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; Herbert V. Fi. Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager, TELEVISION TODAY, Charles S. Aaronson, Editorial Director; Pinky Herman, Eastern Editor. Hollywood Bui Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Berns, Manager; Telephone HOllywood 7-2145; Washington, E. H. Kahn, 996 National Press Bldg., Washington, 4, D. C. ; London Bureau Bear St. Leicester Square, W. 2. Hope Williams Burnup, Manager; Peter Burnup, Editor; William Pay, News Editor. Correspondents in the principal capitals of the world. M< Picture Daily is published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, Circle 7-J, Cable address: "Quigpubco. New York" Martin Quigley, President; Martin Quigley, Jr., Vice-President; Theo J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasurer; Raymond Gallaf; Vice-President; Leo J. Brady, Secretary. Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture Herald, Better Theatres and Better Refreshment Merchandising each published 13 times a j as a section of Motion Picture Herald; Television Today, published daily as part of Motion Picture Daily; Motion Picture Almanac, Television Almanac, Fame. Entered as se, class matter Sept. 21, 1938, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year, $6 in the Americas and $i2 foreign. S-ingle copies,