Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, October 11, 1960 PERSONAL MENTION "D USSELL V. DOWNING, president and managing director of Radio City Music Hall, has returned to his desk following a five-week trip abroad, accompanied by Mrs. Downing. • James H. Nicholson, president of American International Pictures, has arrived in New York from the Coast. Richard Guardian, AIP's Latin American supervisor, has returned here from Brazil. • Herbert L. Golden, United Artists vice-president, has returned to New York from the Coast. • Maurice Silverstein, vice-president of M-G-M International, returned to New York yesterday from Europe. Henry H. "Hi" Martin, Universal Pictures vice-president and general sales manager, has left New York for Indianapolis and Detroit. • Eugene Picker, president of Loew's Theatres, has become a grandfather with the birth at Doctors Hospital here of a boy, Douglas Marx, to his daughter, Mrs. Paul FlRSTENBERG. • William Reich, American International Pictures vice-president in charge of foreign distribution, will leave here tomorrow for Rome. • Charles A. Smakwitz, Stanley Warner zone manager, has returned to his Newark, N. J., headquarters from Albany, N. Y. • Morris Goodman, of Morris Goodman Film Enterprises, has returned to New York following a three-anda-half month business tour of Latin America. • Evelyn Seeff, secretary to Harold Rand, Paramount publicity manager, is vacationing in Europe. NEW YORK THEATRES I — RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— i Rockefeller Center • Ci 6-4600 THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS ROBERT PRESTON • DOROTHY McGUIRE A WARNER BROS. PICTURE in TECHNICOLOR ON STAGE "THREE CHEERS" & "KOL NIDREI" Candidates Told of Campaign Fund Drive As the newsreel cameras recorded the event, Senator John F. Kennedy praised the efforts of the motion picture industry's nonpartisan campaign for the 1960 elections in Washington at the weekend. Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, described the industry-wide campaign to get out the vote and raise funds for both parties. He told Sen. Kennedy, "We started out as a nation because we objected to taxation without representation. This resulted in quite a social event in your part of the country— the Roston Tea Party. Now, I think we should reverse that policy —by self-taxation for our representation in government across the land." Johnston explained that the motion picture industry's support of both political parties was a nonpartisan effort. The newsreels of this interview and one Johnston held earlier with VicePresident Nixon on the same subject will be released this week. 4 Films Set for Ohio Merchandising Meet Special to THE DAILY COLUMRUS, O., Oct. 10. Projected campaigns on Columbia's "Three Worlds of Gulliver," Paramount's "G.I. Rlues," Universal's "Midnight Lace" and 20th CenturyFox's "North to Alaska" will be covered in the merchandising sessions Thursday at the silver anniversary convention of the Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio at the Neil House here. Martin Quigley, Jr., editor of Motion Picture Herald, will conduct the morning and afternoon sessions. Speakers include Robert Ferguson, Columbia national director of advertising, publicity and exploitation; Phil Gerard, Eastern advertising and publicity director of Universal, and Manny Pearson, 20th Century-Fox field representative. The Paramount representative is to be announced. Cycling Sweethearts Promote Fox's 'North' Donna Oehm and Gerald Sullivan, two cycling sweethearts, left Times Square yesterday to bicycle 4,776 miles across the country and north to Juneau, Alaska, where Governor William Egan of the 49th state will marry them. Though the couple are avid two-wheel fans and were planning marriage, they did not plan on such an arduous pre-nuptial trip, until they were discovered by 20th Century-Fox. So now their hobby and mutual marital interests have become a part of the film company's promotion for "North to Alaska," in which star John Wayne takes his bride, Capucine, north to the gold country. Zukor Cited ( Continued from page 1 ) tribute for his years of service to the industry." AMPA has instituted five annual awards to go to the men or women or company judged to have done the best work, or made the outstanding contribution to the industry in the fields of showmanship, advertising, film company, exhibitor, and service or trade association work. Montgomery said the decision to present a special award to Zukor took into account that he was one of the industry's founders, that he had long made a definite and constructive contribution to the industry, and that as an active showman in his own right, AMPA wished to honor him as one of its own. Slated for Piccadilly Montgomery said that as soon as notifications are completed, the names of the five annual award winners will be announced. The luncheon will be held at the Piccadilly Hotel here. Funeral Services For Al Cohan Held Members of the motion picture industry attended funeral services here yesterday for Al Cohan, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicist killed in the Roston plane crash last week. Cantor David Putterman officiated at the services, held at the Riverside Memorial Chapel. Cohan had been with MGM since 1958 and prior to that, had been associated with Universal Pictures for five years. He had also been a promotion manager for the American Rroadcasting Company. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Hannah Seligman, his father, Adolph Cohan, and a brother, Robert. 'Spartacus' Capacity At 1st 5 Performances Capacity business for all of the five performances on Friday, Saturday and Sunday followed the benefit world premiere Thursday night of "Spartacus" at the DeMille Theatre here, Universal reported. With the higher weekend prices prevailing, the three day five-performance total was boosted to $19,083. Long lines forming at the box office on Friday, Saturday and Sunday brought the over-the-window sale of tickets to a total of $22,000. Col. Preferred Dividend Columbia Pictures board of directors yesterday declared the regular quarterly dividend of $1,063-4 on the $4.25 cumulative preferred stock payable Nov. 15, to stockholders of record Nov. 1. Convention to Honor Carolinas' Pioneers Special to THE DAILY RALEIGH, N. C, Oct. 10.-About| ■300 members of Theatre Owners oil North and South Carolina are expect-! ed to attend the 48th annual conven-9 tion of the organization at the Sirfl Walter Hotel here Oct. 23, according! to Mrs. Lucille E. Price, executive I secretary. A feature of the convention will be J a breakfast in honor of more than 35 j persons in the Carolinas who have been in the industry 40 years or long-l er. George Roscoe, director of theatre relations for Theatre Owners of America, who formerly was Charlotte! branch manager for Columbia Pic-1 tures, will be the master of ceremonies. Three Speakers Scheduled Speakers at the business sessioq later will include Paul Larazus, Jr., Columbia Pictures vice president^ Samuel Rosen, executive vice-presi-i dent of Stanley Warner Corp., and Mrs. Margaret G. Twyman, directoP. of community relations for the Motion Picture Ass'n. Sam L. Irvin, chairman of the board of the Carolinas I organization, will preside. Albert Pickus, TOA president, and Sumner Redstone, executive vicepresident of Northeast Drive-In Theatres of Roston, will be speakers at the luncheon session. W. G. Enloe, Mayor of Raleigh, and member of the association, will preside. The annual organization meeting and election of directors and officers will follow and the convention will close with the an [ nual president's banquet. RKO Palace To Open 'Esther' on Nov. 18 "Esther and the King," 20th-Fox release, will open at the RKO Palace Theatre here on Nov. 18. Policy for the film will be continuous run. "Sunrise at Campobello," current at the house, is on a reserved seat basis. iUot' Press Parties ROSTON, Oct. lO.-Embassy Pictures will host two press parties here this week for radio and television disc jockeys and newspaper columnists and entertainment writers to launch the national release of The Ames brothers' new title song recording of 1 "Where the Hot Wind Rlows." The affairs will be held Tuesday andj Thursday afternoons. 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