Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

2 Motion Picture Daily Monday, November 7, 1! PERSONAL MENTION T} OBERT O'BRIEN, vice-president anc| treasurer of MGM, and John B. Burns, newly appointed general sales manager of MGM-TV, have returned to New York from the Coast. • Ed Morey, vice-president of Allied Artists, will leave New York today for Hollywood to attend the board of directors meeting on Wednesday and to confer with Steve Brotdy, president of the company. • Jack H. Levin, president of Certified Reports, has left New York for Chicago and other key cities of the Midwest. • Arthur Kramer, executive assistant to Samuel J. Briskin, Columbia Pictures vice-president in charge of West Coast activities, has arrived in New York from Hollywood. • Mel Stuart, head of East Coast production for Wolper-Sterling, has arrived in Hollywood from New York. • Marcia Ann Jaffe, daughter of Leo Jaffe, first vice-president and treasurer of Columbia Pictures, was married in Temple Israel here yesterday to Eugene Mahgoluis of Mamaroneck, N. Y. Pick Santa Monica for Loew's Circuit Academy Awards Show 'Hot' on Radio, TV A $75,000 newspaper-radio-television campaign gets underway this week in the metropolitan New York area heralding Friday's 110-theatre saturation opening of "Where The Hot Wind Blows." Holiday Notice MOTION PICTURE DAILY will not be published tomorrow, Nov. 8, Election Day. check national screen service for the best in SPECIAL TRAILERS From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6. Selection of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium as the site of the 33rd annual Academy Awards presentation on April 17 has been approved by the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it was announced on Friday by Steve Broidy, chairman of awards program committee. This marks the end of 11 consecutive years of the awards presentation at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The first three were on radio, the rest were simulcast on television and radio. The Santa Monica operation has a seating capacity for 2,558, and parking space for 1,500 cars. Warner, on Toll-TV ( Continued from page 1 ) with "changes in emphasis on product." "Some theatre men who have pushed the panic button do not accept the fact that motion picture theatres and the tv small screen are not comparable. The entire movie-attending situation of foregathering with other people in a comfortable theatre to watch a presentation of a motion picture on a large screen, with superior sound as it was intended to be shown, is far different than viewing a film diminished many times, under home lighting conditions, subject to set failure. Commercial tv will continue to produce series, variety shows, panel discussions, public service programs, news, and specials," he said. Drive-In Application Is Denied in Britain From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, Nov. 4 (By Air Mail)Associated British Cinemas has been refused permission by the local council to build Britain's first drive-in cinema at Sandown Park. The council said that the proposed cinema "would adversely affect the amenities of the neighbouring residents." The council's surveyor, in considering the application, had suggested that if the project were allowed and permanent structures, such as a large screen, were erected, die result would be an unsightly "white elephant" should the project fail. Replying to this, Bill Cartlidge, assistant managing director of ABC, stated that a condition of consent could be made whereby the screen would have to be removed immediately if die cinema was ever discontinued. Anodier objection put forward by the council was that every performance would mean that about 1,000 cars would be using the narrow roads surrounding the racecourse. ( Continued from page 1 ) called the Eastern, Central and Southern Divisions. William Elder will be the Eastern division manager, with headquarters in Boston and supervising the following cities: Boston, Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, Norfolk, Providence, Reading, Richmond, Springfield Waterbury Wilmington and Worcester. Frank Murphy will supervise the Central Division offices in Cleveland. Cities under Murphy's control are: Akron, Buffalo, Canton, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton Indianapolis, Niagara Falls, Rochester, South Bend, Syracuse and Toledo. Martin Burnett will supervise the Southern Division with offices in Atlanta. Cities under his jurisdiction are: Atlanta, Evansville, Houston, Jacksonville, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans North Miami and South Miami. Assigned as city manager in Washington is Orville Crouch. Russell Bovim will be city manager in St. Louis. Jack H. Clarke continues in Toronto as supervisor of Loew's Canadian Theatres. Solomon Named ( Continued from page 1 ) see the administrative operation of the company encompassing the areas of production, sales, and merchandising. The new executive vice-president joined Embassy one year ago as advertising director. Prior to Embassy, he was associated with 20th Century-Fox in the post of exploitation manager. Canadian Censors Hit Excesses in Films Special to THE DAILY SAINT JOHN, N.B., Nov. 3 (By Air Mail)-The Motion Picture Association of America has been urged by Canadian film censors to "implement its Code of Ethics and remove obvious excesses and offenses." The statement was issued at the final session of a national censor conference here. The censors also criticized the large number of gangster and hoodlum films and those depicting immoral and abnormal sex behavior. Zoellner Resigns as MGM Atlanta Manager Special to THE DAILY ATLANTA, Nov. 6. William "Bill" Zoellner, for the past five years branch manager for Metro-GoldwynMayer in this city, has resigned. He will be succeeded by Woody Sherrill, who comes to Atlanta from the Chicago branch of the company. Telemeter Adopts 'Psycho' Policy Special to THE DAILY TORONTO, Nov. 7. Follow the same pattern set in theatrical • gagements of the suspense drama, 1 fred Hitchcock's "Psycho" will be pi sented on Telemeter's "theatre in i; home" system of pay television bad by the "no one can see it after start of the picture" policy. Demonstrating the flexibility of Telemeter system of transmissi> Trans Canada Telemeter, operat of the wider tv system in the sub ban community of Etobicoke, v literally "close the door" on custdl ers who deposit their coins to j "Psycho" after a performance j started. Money deposited after a pi formance begins is automtaica' credited toward a later showing "Psycho," which may be selected the customer's convenience. Subscribers of Telemeter are bei informed via the system's built"program information service," well as through the mail, that "f\ cho" will be shown at 3:00, 5:C 7:00 and 9:00 P.M. on Telemet Channel 5B from Wednesday, Nc 9, through Monday, Nov. 14. Adm sion is $1.00 per household. The "Psycho" time scheduled h been so arranged that customers mi tune in during a period starting minutes before any given perfon ance or up to the moment the featu begins. 'Ballad' Stars, Director! Honored at Party Here] A celebration honoring the staj and direotor of "Ballad of a Soldier! Russian film which won the two tc awards at the San Francisco Festival was given Friday at the Four Seasoij restaurant here. The film is bein presented in this country by M.J.l Enterprises and distributed throug? Kingsley International Pictures. j The 19-year-old stars of the pic! ture, Vladimir Ivashov and Shann; Prokhorenko, and the director, Grl gori Chukhrai, who were on hanl for the San Francisco Festival, whicj gave the film the "best picture" an| "best direction" Golden Gate award:] were at the party to meet the press. I NEW YORK THEATRES i— RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL — i Rockefeller Center • Ci 6-4600 DORIS DAY • REX HARRISON IN A ROSS HUNTER-ARWIN PRODUCTION "MIDNIGHT LACE" A Universal-International Release In EASTMAN Color ON STAGE "BRAZIL"— EXCITING, EXOTIC SPECTACLE. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwm 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 j. Manager; Telephone HOllywood 7-2145; Washington, E. H. 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