Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

>nday, December 19, 1960 Motion Picture Daily adio D-J's Plan Can-Can' Welcome I Eleven hours of uninterrupted radio I'verage will herald the debut of 1 'Can-Can" at popular prices in the I (CO Palace and Albee Theatres day lid date on Wednesday, as WINS l:,id its three top disc jockeys broad§'.st for an entire day from the lobby # the Broadway showcase. Brad Piilips from noon to 3, Jack Lacey #'otn 3 to 7 P.M., and Murray Kauffan from 7 till 11 P.M., will salute j ie 20th Century-Fox production with JUntinuous playings of the soundTack of the Cole Porter score and inIll xviews with top personalities dropping by for the event. I i The disc jockeys will be seated in II glass office in the lobby of the PalI ;e with technicians and thousands ill dollars worth of equipment strung J irough the theatre and in mobile iirucks on the sidewalk. Visitors and lli'ieatre patrons will also be intersfiewed by the d-j's in the course of Moiie 11 -hour broadcast. Hammer Productions To Make Minimum of 1 0 Films During 1 96 1 -Most for World Release by Columbia From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON Dec. 18.-Between now and the end of 1961, Hammer Productions will make a minimum of ten films, most of them for world release by Columbia. "The final total," says executive producer Michael Carreras, will probably be twelve." , , "The programme will represent an investment of at least one-and-a-nalt million pounds and will be a dual policy one," adds Carreras. One leg involves the production of films of a more serious but popular type and the other embraces highly "exploitable" subjects. , "There is still a big international demand for the highly professional kind of macabre films we make-a demand particularly strong in America and the Far East. And we would be pretty poor businessmen if we were to ignore it. We shall make one, or, at the most, two horror films a year," concludes Carreras. Flick 's Plea [Skouras for Festival ( Continued from page 1 ) igned to be the cultural capital of he U. S. I The happy coincidence that the 6iew Lincoln Arts Center is scheduled or completion and opening simulaneously with the 1964-'65 World's ?air here would insure the internaional film festival the proper global Representation and attention, it is 10 Minted out by proponents. The idea was first broached by ikouras to Arts Center officials almost me year ago and has been discussed •At intervals subsequently, partioular™Jo.y with Robert Dowling of City Investing Co. Dowling Interested The current reaction of Dowling ,and other Center sponsors is described •as one of interest, circumscribed to some degree by the absence of provision for facilities within the Center for such a festival, at the present stage of planning, and the apparent lack of motion picture industry stimulus to initiate a fund-raising effort to make the project possible. However, in connection with the latter, film industry interest in the festival idea appears to be increasing, bit was stated on Friday that the pro. i posal still is very much alive and is Bbeing worked on continuously. BFPA to Support ( Continued from page 1 ) tion, said the spokesman, is subject to their Festival rules being endorsed by the International Federation of Film Producers Association. This follows complaints this year of irregularities at Venice when double the number of Italian films permitted i under the rules were entered. "We will look for evidence that not only are the rules adhered to i next year but are interpreted in the proper manner," said the spokesman. (Continued from page 1 ) lie Bishops Committee for Motion Pictures, Radio and Television, and in an earlier resolution by the Lutheran Laymen's League, the industry was given "great credit in the power to influence for good. Educators do, too," he added. "If the motion picture industry is one of conscience, one of true responsibility of freedom of thought and expression," he added, "it must be ready to accept the responsibility that goes with this level of freedom." The true test of such a sense of responsibility is deeds, not words. High sounding statements are meaningless, if they are not ^backed by concrete evidence that "responsibility is and will be assumed." Dr. Flick warned that "free speech has limitations." "If it is to be a matter of cutthroat competition," observed Dr. Flick, "then arbitrary censorship will be the inevitable accompaniment"just as there are tight controls over the purveyors of "impure foods or shoddy cloth," he said. Cites 'Competitive' Industry An historian as well as an educator, Dr. Flick underlined that "Rugged individualism has long been one of the things which Americans come to admire. The motion picture industry is highly competitive; has had its share of 'rugged individualists.' "It is more difficult for competitors in the motion picture industry to work together than is the case in some other industries," he surmises. However, the "profit motive" can not consistently prevail over the public good if the industry is "to avoid catastrophe and disaster," he observed. "Clean, family-type motion pictures should continue to be produced, even though some financial losses be sustained," and he is not sure they would be, he said. He is of the opinion that a film classification bill-much like the Younglove-Duffy act of 1960, which passed the Assembly, but was held in the Senate Rules Committee— will be introduced. It will have "powerful support," he believes. Two-Day Meeting for Loew's Hotels Staff A meeting of the sales staff of the newly formed Loew's Hotels, Inc., called by Preston Robert Tisch, president, will be held today and tomorrow at the Hotel Astor here. In addition to discussions of convention sales and other group bookings for both the Summit and Americana Hotels, by James R. Heimbaugh, vice-president in charge of sales, Ernest Emerling, ad director for both the hotel and theatre companies, and Jim Shanahan, recently appointed public relations director for Loew's Hotels, will outline plans for promoting the new hotels, and the integration of theatre-hotel selling efforts. 'Glory' Preview Tonight Stars and performers of the Broadway stage will attend a special actor's midnight showing of Lopert's "Tunes of Glory" tonight, at the Little Carnegie Theatre here. Among those paying tribute to Alec Guinness and John Mills, the co-stars of the film, will be Henry Fonda, Sir Laurence Olivier, Angela Lansbury, Joan Plowright, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Richard Burton, Anne Bancroft, Lee Tracy, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Martin, Tammy Grimes, Sandra Church, Anthony Quinn, Dick Van Dyke, Elizabeth Seal, Julie Harris, Ethel Merman, Mildred Natwick, Pamela Charles, and Gig Young. Steinbeck Story Bought HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18. John Steinbeck's forthcoming novel, "The Winter of Our Discontent," has been purchased from galley proofs after the most highly competitive bidding for a major story property in recent years, it was announced by MGM studio head Sol C. Siegel. Scheduled for publication by Viking in June, 1961, the novel has been selected by McCall's Magazine for serialization. Monroe Corp. Registers ALBANY Dec. 18-Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc., a New York corporation, has registered a change of address with the Secretary of State here. Weissberver & Frosch, 120 E. 56th St., were the attorneys filing the certificate. PEOPLE Geoffrey H. Botton, manager of machine accounting for General Film Laboratories in Hollywood, has been named a winner in a national contest sponsored by the Allen Hollander Co., label printing firm of New York. Botton was honored for his development of an idea that eliminates the manual writing of identification and sealing strips for developed 16mm. films. A booklet describing the system has been prepared by Hollander for processing managers and programmers. □ Sidney M. Robards, associated for 24 years with RCA and its subsidiary, NBC, most recently as director of RCA press relations, has been named director of public affairs for RCA. In his new post he will have overall responsibility for corporate press relations, editorial and publication services, product news and field relations, and presentations and exhibits. □ Alan V. Iselin, president of TriCity Drive-in Theatres, Albany, N. Y., has been named an honorary "Admiral of the Flagship Fleet" by American Airlines. Rosenberg, Balla ( Continued from page 1 ) Pictures and Warner Brothers in Latin America and will leave for his new post on Jan. 4. Reich further stated that Luis Balla has been appointed special home office representative for AIP in Argentina, and will make his headquarters in the Buenos Aires office of Imperial Films, AIP franchise in Argentina. Balla was formerly with several of the major film companies in Argentina and Uruguay. He will leave to assume his new post on Dec. 25. Richard I. Guardian, AIP supervisor for Latin America, expects to leave for Argentina and Brazil the first part of the year to assist in setting up a close liaison operation with the New York home office and the new Latin American representatives. 'Exodus' in Baltimore ( Continued from page 1 ) by the "Exodus" Committee for the State of Maryland-chaired by Governor J. Millard Tawes— was attended by international dignitaries and prominent federal, state and local officials. Among the guests were: Preminger, producer-director of "Exodus"; Peter Lawford, who stars in the film; Governor Tawes; His Excellency W. M. Q. Halm, ambassador of Ghana; Dr. Wilson H. Elkins, president of the University of Maryland; Dr. Otto F. Kraushaar, president of Goucher College; J. Harold Grady, mayor of Baltimore, and His Excellency Mordechai Gazit, minister plenipotentiary of Israel. I