Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

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2 Motion Picture Daily Monday, October 17, 196C PERSONAL MENTION Jersey Allied (Continued from page 1) of William Infald in as many weeks in association with the Jersey Allied board of directors. "Our members want to get going and do something about a situation that is becoming progressively worse, that has forced some of our members out of business for lack of playable product and which threatens to do the same to others." Stern said Jersey Allied members were briefly encouraged by recent 20th Century-Fox announcements that a five-man sales cabinet had been formed to assist C. Glenn Norris, general sales manager, in handling field problems, and also that "Can-Can" would be made available in 35mm to every town simultaneously with its Todd-AO engagements. "We thought this was a turningpoint," Stern said. "But when we got in touch with the 20th-Fox sales cabinet member having jurisdiction over our territory to inquire about the availability of 'Can-Can' to our members in 35mm, he didn't know what we were talking about. We were told he could do nothing for us." Also Seeking 'Campobello' Stern said Jersey Allied's EDC then wired Norris describing their experience and asked if he could give them any information on 35mm "Can-Can availability in the Jersey territory. He said the same inquiry is being made of Warner Bros, concerning "Sunrise at Campobello," which will conclude its hard-ticket policy in New York City next month. He added that a Jersey Allied member also will file suit this week attacking the release system which results in the delayed availabilities. "We have no other alternative," he said, "and we must do something about the hard-ticket situation. We also feel we have been let down by ACE (the American Congress of Exhibitors). It has promised us summit conferences on our difficulties for many months, during which our EDC and national Allied's 'white paper' campaign were sidetracked. We have had no relief and none is in sight." r> URTON E. ROBBINS, president ■D of National Screen Service, has returned to New York from London. • Morton A. Spring, president of M-G-M International, has returned to New York from Munich, where he attended the premiere of "Ben-Hur." Ed Meck, publicity director for Disneyland Park, has arrived in New York from the Coast. • Sam Hart, of the Allied Artists home office publicity and exploitation staff, has become a grandfather with the birth of a son at Booth Memorial Hospital, Queens, to his daughter-inlaw, Mrs. Donald J. Hart. • Burt Hirschfield, of the M-G-M home office advertising-publicity department, has arrived in Cincinnati from New York. • James Vaughn, assistant to Foster Hotard, official of Georgia Theatres, Atlanta, is recuperating at his home there following surgery. • Walter Bergman, supervising film editor for Bill Sturm Studios here, was married yesterday to Joy Cohen, buyer for Gertz Department Stores. • James V. Frew, Southern district manager for Continental Distributing, Inc., has left Atlanta for Dallas. Princess Margaret To Attend 'Spartacus' Princess Margaret will head the list of guests attending the first overseas roadshow opening, a charity premiere, of "Spartacus" at the Metropole Theatre in London, on Wednesday, Dec. 7. The performance is to be sponsored by the St. John Ambulance Brigade, one of England's leading charitable organizations. Among others who will be present at premieer will be star Kirk Douglas; Milton R. Rackmil, president of Universal, which is distributing the film throughout the world, and Americo Aboaf, foreign general manager and vice-president of Universal International Films. 'Storm' Opens Oct. 28 "September Storm," in StereoVision, will be the next attraction at the Paramount Theatre here, opening on Oct. 28. Film is a 20th-Fox release. WALT DISNEY is in his home town of Marceline, Mo., where yesterday he participated in ceremonies dedicating the Walt Disney Elementary School, named in his honor. • Dom Capano, vice president of Cinema Supply Corp., and Mrs. Capano have returned to New York from Europe. • Gertrude Brooks, fan magazine contact at 20th Century Fox, will leave here today aboard the "Niew Amsterdam" for a Caribbean cruise. • Frank P. Rosenherg, producer of Marlon Brando's "One-Eyed Jacks" for Paramount, has arrived in New York from Hollywood. • William Pearlberg and George Seaton, producer-director team, will return to New York today from London. • Don Velde, head of Don L. Velde Enterprises, and Mrs. Velde returned to New York on Saturday from Europe. • Lloyd C. Young, head of the producing organization bearing his name, will leave New York today for London. • Joe Pasternak, producer of "Where the Boys Are" for M-G-M, will arrive in New York today from Hollywood. ASCAP East Coast Meet Set Here on Oct. 27 The bi-annual East Coast meeting of the general membership of the general membership of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers will take place on Thursday, Oct. 27, at the Hotel WaldorfAstoria here, Stanley Adams, ASCAP president, announced. The meeting will be held in the Sert Room and will begin at 2:30 P. M. Reports will be given by the president, treasurer and chairman of the executive committee. WB Engages Weismann Sam Q. Weismann, advertising design specialist formerly associated with the Monroe Greenthal agency and 20th Century-Fox, has been engaged by Warner Brothers as creative advetrising art director. He will make his headquarters at his own New York studio. 20-Fox 'Holders Meet On Land Deal Today Stockholders of 20th Century-Fo' are expected to give approval at £ special meeting here today of the dea for Webb & Knapp to acquire studirj property in Beverly Hills, Calif. ; The all-cash agreement with th< ,' William Zeckendorf company calls foil payment of $43,000,000, with $5,000,000 as a down payment ahead} I received by 20th-Fox. The new dea' supersedes a pact of May, 1959, under which Webb & Knapp contractec to buy the studio property for $56,j 000. 000 payable over a 10-year pejj riod. Balance to Be Paid on Closing With stockholder approval given ! closing of the new deal is to be noil later than six months from last Aug! 1. Zeckendorf will pay 20th Century j Fox the $38,000,000 cash balance or closing. Under the agreement Webb &|| Knapp will lease back to 20th-Fo^;, approximately 75 acres of studio land at a net rental of $1,500,000 a year Lease back of the studio portion oil the property is for 50 years with renewal options for 49 more years and the right to sublet the property. \ Compo Ad Says Code Achieves Its Purpose The Production Code achieves it purpose of satisfying reasonable peo-'; pie, it is asserted in Compo's lates! advertisement in "Editor ir Publish er." The advertisement, No. 121, ir the Compo series, is headed: "Fo;. Reasonable People," and says, in part "Nobody can please everybody. "What we have done is to adopt ;j set of ethical and moral standard:; . . . the Motion Picture Productioi Code that has been operating for 3( years. "Movies approved under the Cod< should be reasonably acceptable t< reasonable people. "It enables the producer to mak<| pictures so that millions of person! the world over may see them wit! enjoyment . . . and without offense' "We think the Code achieves thi\ purpose . . . and that it does what i| sets out to do." Multiple 'Reef Bow "Secrets of the Purple Reef," 20th j Fox release, will bow in a saturation engagement in the Los Angeles are; on Oct. 26. FOR SALE For sale 2,500 Theatre chairs. Call Twining 8-7380 or write to Circuits Construction Corp., 82 24 Northern Boulevard, Jackson Heights, Long Island. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; Herbert V. Fecke Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager, TELEVISION TODAY, Charles S. Aaronson, Editorial Director; Pinky Herman, Eastern Editor. Hollywood Bureau 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, 4 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. Motioi Picture Daily is published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, Circle 7-3101 Cable address: "Quigpubco. New York" Martin Quigley, President; Martin Quigley, Jr., Vice-President; Theo J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasurer; Raymond Gallaghei Vice-President; Leo J. Brady, Secretary. Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture Herald, Better Theatres and Better Refreshment Merchandising, each published 13 times a yea as a section of Motion Picture Herald; Television Today, published daily as part of Motion Picture Daily; Motion Picture Almanac, Television Almanac, Fame. 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