Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

/OL. 88, NO. 73 MOTION PICTURE DAILY NEW YORK, U.S.A., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1960 TEN CENTS 'Conspiracy's' 2nd Chance in Denver Resolution Approved Cites Case Baseless Film Soars to 350% of Average Business 'Questionable' Films, Ads Hit At ITOO Meet 4d Criticism Hit by Johnston Veils Publishers Producers iccept Responsibilities From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13. Unustified newspaper criticism of moion picture advertising is scored by Eric Johnston, vlotion Picture Vss'n. p r e s ilent, in a talk irepared for lelivery tomor■ o w to the Vorld News>aper Forum if the Califorlia Newspaper ' u b listers \ss'n at the ieverly Hilton rlotel here. He bites as typical of undeserved film ( Continued on page 5 ) Eric Johnston Special to THE DAILY DENVER, Oct. 13.— Business for the re-run of Paramount's "Conspiracy of Hearts" at Fox Intermountain's Ogden Theatre here was 350 per cent of average for the Sunday through Tuesday engagement, Robert W. Selig, Intermountain president, reported today. Selig said the lesson of this picture's e x p erience should prove of value both to the circuit and to Paramount. H e accepted his share of res ponsibility for the film, which tells the story of Jewish refugee children saved from Nazi persecution during the war by Catholic nuns, having been played as the lower half of a double bill, with misleading advertising, in the first instance. The Denver Catholic Register (Continued on page 4) Robert Selig Says Industry Censor Drive 'Frontal Attack' Special to THE DAILY BALTIMORE, Oct. 13.-The motion picture industry has launched a "frontal attack" on all censorship requirements, G. Morton Goldstein, chairman of the Maryland board of censors, states in his annual report to Governor Millard Tawes. Goldstein points out that present efforts "are not as to the content and presentations of anv pictures, but rather as to the constitutionality of any law which requires official ap(Continued on page 4) Cf A Warns Producers Of Dublin TV Sales By WILLIAM PAY ' LONDON, Oct. 13. British proI lucers were put on notice here today iy the Cinematograph Exhibitors Ass'n. that they face a boycott by exI libitors if they sell any feature films o a television station in Dublin. CEA said it had received reports hat some companies were contemp ating such a move. The group de(Continued on page 4) Given 10 Days to Protest NLRB Musicians Ruling From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13. Musilians Guild of America and AFM _,ocal 47, AFL-CIO, were notified by ^JLRB that each had 10 days in which o register protest on NLRB's decision o open 12 of 24 challenged ballots vhich would determine bargaining (Continued on page 4) TELEVISION TODAY— page 4 Viometco Income Rises 51% for 12 Weeks Special to THE DAILY MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 13. Wometco Enterprises, Inc., reported an increase of 51.6 per cent in its net income after taxes for the 12 weeks ended Sept. 10, over the same period in 1959. Net income after taxes for the 12-week period was $210,702 as compared to 8139,019 in 1959. The interim report for the 12 week (Continued on page 2) Industry Receipts Rose 2.9% in '54-58 Period From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. Receipts of the motion picture industry showed a slight increase— 2.9 per cent -from $2.35 billion in 1954 to $2.4 billion in 1958, according to the Census Bureau's 1958 census of business. However, all of the increase was in motion picture production, distribution and allied services — including production and distribution for television. Receipts of motion picture theatres from 1954 to 1958 continued the (Continued on page 5) Quigley in Plea for More Women in Industry Posts Special to THE DAILY COLUMBUS, Oct. 13,-Opposition to "shoddy and questionable pictures" and "lurid phrases and catch lines" in ads was expressed in a resolution approved by Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio in the closing convention session today. At the same session, Martin Quigley, Jr., editor of Motion Picture Herald, voiced a plea for the bringing of women (Continued on page 5) Martin Quigley, Jr. REVIEW: Midnight Lace Ross Hunter-Arwin Prod. — Universal In "Midnight Lace" Doris Day portrays an American heiress living in current-day London who is driven to distraction by a calculated campaign of terror and intimidation. She is harassed by obscene and disturbing threats against her person on the telephone and by an ominous voice that comes out of the fog one night repeating the intent to do her in. It is truly enough to make a poor girl collapse from fright. Guessing who the dastardlv villain is behind this diabolical plot is going to be the enthralling pastime of an extraordinary number of film(Continued on page 5) Powell, Cooper Charge Talent Group Monopoly From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 13.-Expose of monopolistic practices through talent control by the nation's two largest talent agencies, MCA and William Morris, which has been elicited from testimony by Frank Cooper, head of his own agency and (Continued on page 4) IA Proposals for New Pact Handed to AMPP's Boren From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1.3.-GeneraI proposals for the new IATSE contractual demands were handed today to Charles Boren, executive vicepresident of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, as a prelude to negotiations scheduled to commence on Nov. 1. The current contract expires on Jan. 31, 1961.