Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

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Tcleufs/on Today Motion Picture Daily Thursday, December 1 ! StatUS of CA-TY 1961 TV Programs Loaded with New , v i ii F>lms; WOR Has 200 Scheduled In Canada Up Special to THE DAILY TORONTO, Nov. 30. Are community antenna tv stations subject to the same regulations that have been applied to tv stations by the Board of Broadcast Governors? The Canadian Association of Radio and TV Broadcasters say they should and will submit a brief on the question to a Parliamentary House Committee on Broadcasting. The National Community Antenna Television Association of Canada claims that a CA-TV setup is not a broadcasting station, but a receiver. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is expected to back up the broadcasters. The Board of Broadcast Governors has already indicated its position. It commented at one time that Parliament has the right to legislate for this type of telecasting. Tent No. 1 Names Stern Its 'Man of the Year' Special to THE DAILY PITTSBURGH, Nov. 30. Ernie Stern, head of Associated Theatres, Pittsburgh, who recently announced his intention of building the first drive-in theatre in Tel Aviv, Israel, was named "Showman of the Year" at the banquet of Tent Number One, Variety Club, in the Penn-Sheraton Hotel here. Stern, who took over the four Pittsburgh houses owned by the Harris Amusement Co. several months ago, now controls 13 drive-ins and eight hardtop houses in the Tri-State area. His proposed partner in Tel Aviv, where he was a recent visitor, is Danny Angel, a Tel Aviv businessman. Rackmil, Aboaf ( Continued from page 1 ) throughout the world since its founding 48 years ago. Rackmil with vice-president and foreign general manager Americo Aboaf, is conducting a series of sales conferences in Europe. From here, die two went to Frankfurt to preside at a sales conference there before departing for London and the first overseas premiere of "Spartacus" at the Metropole Theatre Dec. 7, at which Princess Margaret will be present. McLean Named ( Continued from page 1 ) other assistant to the commissioner. His title will be senior assistant and executive diretcor. The position of director of planning will be filled by Michael Spencer of Ottawa. He has been chief of the Board's liaison division and head of NFB's Ottawa office. The changes were occasioned by the death last August of Donald Mulholland, director of planning and operations. A new emphasis on the Hollywood feature film fare, including many top budget color attractions, available to the television viewer this winter has been sparked by the announcement Tuesday that Screen Gems has leased a package including 200 Columbia post-'48s to the five owned and operated Columbia Broadcasting stations. Yesterday Robert Smith, vicepresident in charge of programming for WOR-TV, pointed out that more than 200 films, a great proportion of them in color and most of them produced between 1950 and 1956 will be shown first-run and in color on Channel 9's Million Dollar Movie program this winter. The program includes pictures from five distributors — Paramount, Warner Bros., United Artists, MGM and RKO but the post-'48 titles are confined to those originally released by United Artists, RKO and Paramount. The latter group are PineThomas pictures made between 1949 and 1955. Operas Included The package also includes a number of opera classics filmed in Italy and France during the 1950's. Predominantly in color, these star some of the great opera personalities of Europe and America. Titles of the Hollywood group include: "Barefoot Contessa," "Saint Joan," "King and Four Queens," "Attack," United Artists; "The Far Horizons," "Jamaica Run," "Run for Cover" and "El Paso," Paramount Pine-Thomas; "Susan Slept Here" and "Unholy Wife," RKO; and "Moulin Rouge," "Return to Paradise," "Beachhead," "Suddenly," "Tom Brown's School Days," "They Who pare," "A Christmas Carol" and "The Front Page Story," United Artists. Preminger Plans Tour With Stars of 'Exodus' Otto Preminger, producer of "Exodus," has arranged a series of personal-appearance tours covering cities where the picture has been scheduled to open. Participating in the tours, in addition to Preminger, will be the stars of the film: Eva Marie Saint, Peter Lawford, Sal Mineo and Jill Haworth. The group will travel in four separate units, meeting in New York on Dec. 15 for the world premiere of "Exodus" at the Warner Theatre and for the Los Angeles premiere on Dec. 21 at the Fox Wilshire Theatre. Other premiere cities to be visited will include: Chicago, Dec. 16; Baltimore, Dec. 18, and Kansas City, Dec. 19. The unit headed by Lawford will visit also Dallas and Boston. Mineo and his group will be guests at Miami Beach, Dallas, Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Baltimore and New York. Miss Saint will arrive here on Dec. 11 for five davs of publicity activitv incidental to the world premiere of the United Artists release. Libel Actions ( Continued from page 1 ) County's Supreme Court by Miss Taylor's lawyer, Louis Nizer, of the Philips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon law firm. In a joint communique from Paris, Miss Taylor and Fisher stated that they started the action only after appeals to the magazines had gone unheeded and when the articles "began effecting the children's lives as well as our own." Defendants Listed The subpoenas issued yesterday went to Dell Publishing Co., Inc. (Modem Screen); Official Magazines Corp. (Screen Stars); Interstate Publishing Corp. (Movie World); Countrywide Publications, Inc. (Movie T.V. Secrets); Sterling Group, Inc. (Movie Stars-T.V. Close-Ups); and Fawcett Publications, Inc. A sevendi complaint, for an additional $500,000, was filed against Besscal Publications, Inc. (T.V. Film Stars), but was not served yesterday because the company has declared itself bankrupt. Nizer said, however, that this complaint will be pursued. The attorney further declared that the film couple was seeking "punitive damages" as a result of articles that appeared in the above mentioned magazines with "libelous headlines containing inuendos that were pure sensationalism." He added that the rontent of the stories, in most cases, were not objected to because thev failed to carrv out the "lewd promises" of the headlines. 'Crass Commercial Purpose' The complaint states that the "defendants acted maliciously, irresponsibly and wickedly, for the crass commercial purpose of stimulating the circulation of the motion picture 'fan' magazines, in flagrant disregard of the truth and of the resulting injury and distress inflicted on the plaintiffs and their infant children." Nizer concluded that the case should reach the courtroom within six months to one year. $250,000 Remodeling ( Continued from page 1 ) world premiere of Cantinflas as "Pepe." John J. McNamara, theatre architect, has completed plans for the extensive alterations to the lobby, front and foyer. These will include installation of new entrance doors, a specially designed lobby ceiling, mirrored and marble walls, marble and mosaic floor in the entrance lobbies, new lighting equipment and fixtures, two new boxoffices, one to handle the sale of reserved seat tickets exclusively, Wald Seeking l| Stories, Write By SAMUEL D. BERNS HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 30. studio is behind me in going top properties and writing ta_; Jerry Wald stated in a press view today during which he nounced 20th Century-Fox's pur/ for him of a group of Ernest Hei way's famed "Nick Adams" si to be drafted into one motion1 ture under the title "Adventures Young Man." The project will , progress of an adventurous boy manhood, through maturity, and! bring him back home to Am' after World War I. Hotchner to Do Script Ed Hotchner has been signei! write the screenplay for the sbj which were bought at an undiscj price. "Buying a literary masterpiec. Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, liam Faulkner or James Joyce, is, buying a Van Gogh or Rembrai Wald said in highlighting the portance of the writer. 'Good Pictures Make Stars'' "The public' has become aware of writers, while we in H wood are guilty of having pk them down. We have to forget a] big screens and get back to stories. I'm not going to worry al big stars to make my picture) they're not available. Good pict1 make stars," Wald added, referrin "Peyton Place" and "The Long Summer" to illustrate his point. Selig, Thedford ( Continued from page 1 ) Theatres and Television, Inc. was! nounced today by M. Spencer L president of the division. Selig continue as president of Fox hi mountain Theatres. Thedford will continue to head Pacific coast division of Fox V Coast Theatres. N. T. Plea for Drive-ins To Be Heard Dec. 8-9 From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. H ings on acquisition of two driv theatres by National Theatres scheduled early in December. Ju Palmieri on Dec. 8 will hear the ] posed acquisition of a drive-in Phoenix, Ariz., and on Dec. 9 a dr in in Littleton, Colo., a suburb Denver, will be discussed. new refreshment area, new carpet and a 15-ton air-conditioning sysi to service the lobby area only. Luxurious foam rubber seats be installed in the auditorium, seats will be staggered to permit unobstructed view of the screen new and larger screen will also installed.