Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

< ursday, December 15, 1960 10 Performances for partacus' at DeMille I Spartacus," now playing at the Mille Theatre here, will reach its )th performance tonight. Now in J 11th week, the film opened at the | Mille on Oct. 6. It has played to i ar-capacity audiences since then. ' The Universal picture continues at \ » DeMille indefinitely on its ref ved seat basis. Motion Picture Daily TglSj?M£" Tof""-< ~ ~ _ .._ Financing Set for around th yy CIRCUIT Television Festival ftzer Honored ( Continued from page 1 ) itement to the dinner, asserted that lie fight for better health protects d enriches our nation. A sick child nnot understand democracy, much ss stand up and defend it." Governor Abraham Ribicoff of jnnecticut pointed to die Children's ;thma Institute for Research as an ilample of what can be done on a obal basis. i "Man has now reached a stage in s development," he said, "where ii has at his command resources hich can end illness, illiteracy, and ;jverty not only in the United States it throughout the world." Max E. Youngstein, a founder of >ie Institute, vice-president of United irtists, and honorary chairman of the inner, pointed out that the motion |lcture industry has long been aware f the fact that "when people laugh )gether, or cry together, they have ;id the foundation of living together i peace." Institute Is Unique The Children's Asthma Institute >r Research and Hospital at Denver ; the only wholly philanthropic ledical center in the United States evoted solely to research in asthma md allied allergic diseases. It also lenders multi-discipline clinical treataent to the nation's worst cases of sthmatic children. Three million children suffer from Isthma in the United States, in adlition to 4,000,000 adults. Arthur B. Lorber, president of the institute, presented the Institute's •oey Award to Nizer and pointed wit that "the fact that children are accepted by the Institute without re,j|c;ard to race, creed, or color laid the J, groundwork for the development of j the healdi for peace concept." \ "Our children," Lorber added, 'learn how to live together by getting veil together." In response to a testimonial adIress by commentator and author iQuentin Reynolds, Nizer stressed the lecessity for closing the gap between icientific achievement and concern Vor the individual. He added, "help l 1 •j HUGO A-CASOIAR0 MARTIN GOTTLIEB W/w effects, inc. 1600 BROADWAY, N.Y. 19 J PLA2A 7-2098 w/th PINKY HERMAN PREXY Robert E. Kintner has announced that McCann-Ericksor, l will be the agency handling all NBC advertising effective March 15, 1960. Emerson Foote, President of McC-E, will be in charge of the account. Theodore ("Sound of Music") Bikel will appear in five Directions -61" telecasts next month over ABC. Program explains different religious faiths and will be seen Sundays at 1 P.M. . . . Music director Don Nelson of station WQUA, Moline, 111., doing quite a job bringing quint City listeners music variations with which none can WQUArrel . . Vision Associates, Inc. tossing a cocktailer Friday to celebrate its first anniversary. (And according to Lee Bobker, one of the Vision anes, a very successful year.) ... Ace Newcaster Jonathon Kirby, has resigned from KSON (San Diego) and will head back East. As Bill Sharpe, the smoothvoiced, talented news reporter made an enviable rep as broadcasting headliner at WJR, Providence, R.I. . . • Cinemactress Gloria Grahame an "Oscar" winner, will make her tv debut when she co-stars with Dick Shawn in a comedy presentation, "Don't Let It Throw You, CBSunday, Tan 1 (9:00-9:30 P.M.) on the "G.E. Theatre." . . The preem tomorrow light of Otto Preminger's "Exodus " at the Stanley-Warner Theatre on Broadway will benefit by a full-scale coverage by WNTA and WNTATV femceed by Jinx Falkenburg and featuring interviews of the him s stars by Mike Wallace (recorded during filming in Israel.) . . . Keith Larseni advised by his medico to temporarily shelve play-acting will be succeeded bv Ron Ely, as "Mike Madison" in the Ziv-UA production, "Luanauts," CBSeen Wednesnites (7:30-8:30 PM.) -.The Irving Faskows (he's the well-liked and popular CBS record librarian), became narents of their second son, Keith, earlier this week. # ^ ^ „ A new TVariety series, "The Irving Caesar Show, starring the double AASCAP lyricist as host and featuring interviews with guests fleeted from all walks of life, will make its debut Sat., Dec 25 (1-1:30 P.M.) over WNTA (Channel 13-N.Y.). Caesar will also delight moppets with his "Songs of Safety" which was a popular feature on the "Rudy Vallee" radio series years ago. ... Bud Collyer, a 25-year showbiz vet, (rounding out his 19th year on "Beat The Clock") will emcee a new Goodson-Todman quizzer, "Number, Please" which ABCommences Mon., Jan 30. . . . Author Robert (Anatomy of a Murder) Travers' second book, "Small Town D.A." will be adapted for tv by Ziv-UA with ABC optioning the series for the 1960-61 season. Nation-wide search for the man to play the "D.A." will start soon. . . . Elisa Loti, Ecuadorian actress who speaks five languages fluently, and whose artistry last season in the off-Broadway play, "Come Share My House" earned her 3 citations, has , been signed as a regular on the dramatic "From These Roots,' seen daily (3:30-4:00 P.M.) TVia NBC. . Ralph Runche, Sammy Davis, Jr., Ned E. Depinet, Simon H. Fabian, Henry Ginsberg, Monroe W. Greenthai, Earle W. Hammons, William J. Heineman, Bob Hope, Fannie Hurst, Sen. Jacob K. Javits, Eric Johnston, Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, Sen. Estes Kefauver, George Killion, Arthur B. Krim, Herbert H. Lehman, Leon Leonidoff, Roger H. Lewis, Louis R. Lurie, Arthur L. Mayer, Seymour M. Peyser, Arnold M. Picker, Eugene Picker, Jerome Pickman, Seymour Poe. ' Also Martin Quigley, Herman Robbins, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Howard Rusk, Adolph Schimel, M. Lincoln Schuster, A. W. Schwalberg, Silas F. Seadler, Mendel Silberberg, Frank Sinatra, Edward Small, George E Sokolsky, Adlai Stevenson, Joseph R. Vogel, Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jerry Wald, David E. Weshner, William Wyler, and Adolph Zukor. Irving Caesar ing one child to breathe by supporting the Children's Asthma Institute is a real contribution to humanity." Other speakers included Commissioner of Correction Anna M. Kross, who presented a citation to Nizer from Mayor Robert F. Wagner on behalf of the City of New York; Dr. Samuel C. Bukantz, A.I.R.'s Direetor of Medicine and Research, who reviewed the Institute's research and treatment program. Former presidential advisor Maxwell M. Rabb was chairman of the dinner committee. The theme of "Health for Peace" was the subject of a dramatization written by Milton Robertson, narrated by Mike Wallace, and performed by Walter Abel, Arnold Moss, Eli Wallach, and Will Holt, balladeer. Among the sponsors of the dinner were Walter Beck, Robert S. Benjamin, Jack Benny, Harry Brandt, Dr. Initial financing for the first International Television Festival, to be sponsored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, has been acquired from the tv networks and a festival executive director appointed, it is announced by Tex McCrary, chairman of the festival committee. Planned as an annual event, the first festival will be held in New York City and Washington in the fall of 1961 and will salute "Greater World Understanding Through International Television." The second festival will be held in Los Angeles in 1962, the location of the third is not yet set, and it will return to New York in 1964 to coincide with the World's Fair Financed by Networks Initial financing for the event has been contributed by the three television networks. The American Broadcasting Company, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the National Broadcasting Company have each given $25,000. Henry S. White, treasurer of the festival, stated "Following the contributions from the three networks, all other organizations associated with the television industry will be offered an opportunity to participate in the launching of this most significant and important project." John Walsh has been appointed executive director of the festival. Walsh has been coordinator of special programs for the CBS Television Network for several years. Prior to this post in the CBS programming department, he was manager of special projects in the network's press information department. Walsh's function will be to coordinate the plans for the week-long festival which is to include international program competitions, seminars, technological displays and demonstrations of broadcast techniques. Society Cites Stanton Frank Stanton, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, was named a Fellow of Sigma Delta Chi, the highest tribute bestowed by the professional journalism society, during the 51st National Convention of Sigma Delta Chi held in New York City. Dr. Stanton is the first broadcasting executive to be so honored since the inception of the Fellows in 1948. The award is made only to those who, in the judgment of Sigma Delta Chi, have made outstanding contributions in the field of journalism. musifex co 45 w. 45 st. n.y.c. sound effects musical effects ci-6-4061 ' • OPTICAL EFFECTS • STAND PHOTOGRAPHY • ANIMATION •TITLES • ART WORK • B 6W and COLOR A Complete Service {or Filrn Producers