Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1960)

Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, August 3, IS PERSONAL MENTION LEO JAFFE, Columbia Pictures first vice-president and treasurer, will leave New York aboard the "Queen Mary" today for London, Paris and Rome. • Leonard Goldenson, American Broadcasting Paramount Theatres president, is scheduled to leave here next Tuesday on an extended Latin American tour. • Walter Wanger, interim head of European production for 20th Century-Fox, left here yesterday for London via B.O.A.C. • Richard Carlton, Trans-Lux Television Corp. vice-president, has left New York for a trip to the key cities of the West Coast and Texas. • Sam Breitenstein, Mecca Film Laboratories vice-president, will leave here tomorrow with Mrs. Breitenstein for Hollywood and San Francisco. Harry Goldstone, Atlantic Television general sales manager, has left here on a business trip to New England. • Herbert L. Gaines, Warner Brothers branch manager in Albany, N. Y., has returned there from Oneida, N. Y. • Larry Woolner, of Woolner Productions, New Orleans, has returned there from Atlanta. Hyman Reports on Product ABPT Coiltinues in VA Dividend at 40$ The board of directors of United Artists yesterday declared a regular quarterly dividend of 40 cents per common share payable Sept. 30, to stockholders of record Sept. 16. gems of showmanship!... ( Continued from page 1 ) by national screen service' room. It will bring the companies' total of new releases for 1960 to 227, he said. The occasion for the meeting was the issuance of Hyman's new release schedule for September through December, and the outlook for early 1961, compiled in the interest of Hyman's continuing campaign for orderly distribution of quality product. Company Officials Tell Plans The new compilation of releases is of expanded content and more elaborate binding. In addition to the Labor Day to New Year's release schedules of 10 national distributors, it contains messages from company or studio heads or heads of distribution on the new product itself and with emphasis on what some of the companies are doing or plan to do in the way of presenting and developing new faces. Also featured in the brochure, which will be distributed by Hyman to exhibitors around the country who have participated in the campaign for orderly distribution, is a message by the AB-PT vice-president, underlining the importance of developing and exploiting new faces. Studios are asked to make as many of the new faces as possible available for promotion campaigns in the field to help boost September to year-end business. Distributors are requested to lend their influence to obtaining the budding talent for this purpose, and exhibitors are encouraged to plan the mose effective local newspaper, radio, television and other promotional efforts on behalf of the new faces made available. Considers Local Drive Best Local promotion campaigns of the kind suggested, Hyman observes, "are far more valuable than campaigns directed and carried out by any individual from Hollywood or New York." "It would also be extremely important," he notes in his message to the studios, "to route your new faces through the hinterlands, in addition to the big cities. Our experience convinces us that the smaller towns will be most enthusiastic about visits of this kind and, combined with the local campaigns we contemplate, we are certain that a want-to-see desire will be created in these local publics all over the country." Exhibitors, for their part, are urged by Hyman to "use every trick of showmanship, every contest and every medium available to you in publicizing" the new faces that are made available. Hyman concludes his introduction to the brochure with a call for cooperation among exhibition, distribution and production to achieve new industry goals and a new prosperity. Company executives who contribute new faces or product reports to the brochure are: Jack L. Warner, Spyros P. Skouras, Sol C. Siegel, Arthur Krim, George Weltner, Rube Jackter, H. H. Martin, Irving Ludwig, Steve Broidy and James H. Nicholson. Hyman recalled that last March he predicted the 10 national distributors would release 227 pictures in 1960, exclusive of specials, reissues and imported films. With the latter, he said the 1960 total would be close to 300. He noted yesterday that this prediction now appeared accurate in view of his latest compilation showing 120 new pictures released, plus nine specials, for the last four months of the year ( exclusive of reissues and foreign pictures ) . Albert Howson Dies; Was with WB 32 Years Albert Sydney Howson, who was associated with Warner Brothers for 32 years until his retirement as manager of the scenario and censorship department in 1958, died yesterday at his home in Forest Hills. He was 79 years old. Howson joined Warners in 1925 after 27 years as an actor, during which he appeared in Shakespearean repertory. Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 A.M. at Mary Queen of Martyrs Church in Forest Hills. Burial will be at St. John's Cemetery, Elmhurst. Mrs. Roth Heads UA Coast Story Dept. From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 2. United Artists has established a formal story department here for the first time since the new management took over the company nine years ago, it was announced today by Robert F. Blumofe, vice-president in charge of west coast operations. Mrs. Miriam Roth has been named coordinator of the new unit and all literary properties submitted will be channeled through her office. She will deal directly with agents and publishers and will coordinate her activities with Mrs. Doris Vidor in her new executive capacity. Trotta Repeating Chore Vincent Trotta, industry art director, will leave here today for Long Beach, Gal., where again this year he will head the judges of the International Beauty Contest, which will open there tomorrow. He and Mrs. Trotta will go west by plane with the national winners from Europe and the Near East. Opposition to Pay-TV American Broadcasting Paramo Theatres continues strongly oppo to pay-TV, Edward L. Hyman, vi president, told trade press represer! tives yesterday. "We are glad that exhibitors rallying against it," he said, referr) I to the work of the exhibitor comm tees opposed to pay-TV. He said' believed good financial support i being given the exhibitors' anti-pj TV campaign. Attendanc ( Continued from -page 1 ) Easter occurred three weeks la In addition, the Hollywood stri postponed some releases scheduled' that quarter, and some others 1 were released failed to five up to vance box office expectations of th Both product and business is be in the current quarter, he noted, ing at least a dozen strong release: the market. These and others to cc may make possible a favorable o: parison with the strong business d in the summer of 1959, he said, the postponed spring releases will coming out from now to the enc the year, making continued busij improvement possible. Some of the ground lost in J will be regained from midthrough Labor Day, Hyman belie and with some strong releases in s; thereafter, no post-Labor Day letd< is likely. Hyman reported that AB-1 northern drive-ins do better busii than some in the south. More light + slower burn lower costs Ml ATIONA ^^^^^^^ TRADE WAHK PROJECTOR CARBONS . MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quiglev, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwm Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor ; Herbert V. Fil* Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager, TELEVISION TODAY, Charles S. Aaronson, Editorial Director; Pinky Herman, Eastern Editor. Hollywood iJuig. Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Berns, Manager; Telephone HOllywood 7-2145; Washington, E. H. Kama, 996 National Press Bldg., Washington, 4, D. U; London cureai,^ Bear St Leicester Square, W. 2. Hope Williams Burnup, Manager; Peter Burnup, Editor; William Pay, News Editor. Correspondents in the principal capitals ot the world. 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