The Exhibitor (1954)

EXHIBITOR 15 Miscellaneous In All Five: New York City: Holy Cross tops Duquesne for basketball title. In Addition to the Above: Movietone News (Vol. 37, No. 24) Washington: President Eisenhower gives views on taxes. Germany: Aliens in army naturalized at Frankfurt. Australia: Eng¬ lish Royal couple attend children’s fete at Melbourne. Omaha: “Night People” bows for charity. Augusta, Ga.: Louise Suggs wins golf tournament. Germany: Women’s downhill ski race at Garmisch. News of the Day (Vol. XXV, No. 258) Washington: President Eisenhower gives views on taxes. Georgia: Tornado. British Columbia: Herring haul. Germany: Travel agent rescues family from Red zone. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Film stars see car¬ nival. Germany: Oxen race in Bavarian farm animal handicap. Paramount News (No. 61) Washington: President Eisenhower gives views on taxes. Germany: Travel agent rescues family from Red zone. Australia: English Royal couple attend children’s fete at Melbourne France: Mask fashions from Paris. Universal-International Newsreel (Vol. 27, No. 552) Germany: Travel agent rescues family from Red zone. Germany: Aliens in army naturalized at Frankfurt. Australia: English Royal couple attend children’s fete at Melbourne. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Film stars see carnival. Holland: Plane supplies keeper of iso¬ lated Rottum Island in North Sea. Brit¬ ish Cqjumbia: Herring haul. San Fran¬ cisco: Farm equipment sent to Philippines. Warner Pathe News (Vol. 25, No. 63) Australia: English Royal couple attend children’s fete at Melbourne. Germany: Travel agent rescues family from Red zone. Georgia: Tornado. Fort Story, Va.: Army launches giant 60-ton tank carrier. Washington: White House news photog¬ raphers show prize pictures. Rio de Jan¬ eiro, Brazil: Film stars see carnival. Eng¬ land: Birds menace farms at Lanivet. France: Strange New Paris fashion is bom. Hollywood: Jack Webb receives his portrait. In All Five: French Morocco: Second attempt to slay Sultan. Washington: President Eisen¬ hower on racial equality. In Addition to the Above: Movietone News (Vol. 37, No. 23) Chi¬ cago: Jail riot. Germany: East German refugees crash Iron Curtain. Hollywood: Photoplay magazine’s awards. Korea: Marines hold pooch show. Sweden: Downhill ski championships. News of the Day (Vol. XXV, No. 257) Indo-China: War rages. Chicago: Jail riot. Greenland and Ellesmere Island: Relief for Arctic bases. Holland: Oil fire in Rot¬ terdam. Norway: Reindeer enroute from Sweden to game preserves. Italy: Verona Horse Fair. Paramount News (No. 60) Washington: Mrs. Eisenhower receives Girl Scouts; President is visited by 4-H Club winners. Sullivan, Ind.: Will Hays dies. Hollywood: Photoplay magazine’s awards. Sweden: Downhill ski championships. Universal-International Newsreel (Vol. 27, No. 551) Seattle: Wheat stored in ( Continued from page 8) “ ’Totem Tom-Tom’ dance of heap wiggly squaw, Joan Taylor, in ‘Rose Marie’ makeum even wooden Indian catchem fast freight nearest Loew lodge (smoking permitted?). Noble redman — first in war, first in peace, first in the hands of the Mounted Police — likeum see first color musical in CinemaScope with Girl-Who-Sings-Like-Bird, Ann Blyth, and big paleface with big voice, Howard Keel. Also like dig-um crazy mountie Bert Lahr and Woman-With-Gravel-Voice, Marjorie Main. Not forgettum French trapper, Fernando Lamas, either. Me recommend without reservations (reser¬ vations ruined — too many crazy paleface digum up for uranium). Chief Er-nie Em-er-Iing Local 28 Manhattan Tribe.” “UGH,” say we. THE METROPOLITAN SCENE: Ernest Pelson joined Moulin Productions as ex¬ ecutive assistant to Alfred Crown, presi¬ dent, and will work out of newly located offices at 655 Madison Avenue. . . . “Prince Valiant” has been selected by Parents magazine to receive its medal award as the best family audience movie for May. . . . The pressbook on “New Faces” is loaded with 20 pages of selling material. . . . The Columbia home office projec¬ tion room is equipped with a new wide¬ screen (1.85 to 1) using the Luxuria seamless screen, and the films show up fine. MATTERS OF VARIETY: Jack Beresin. International Chief Barker, met with editors of the trade press at a luncheon at the local tent, the focal point of which was a judging of entries by the various clubs in a story contest and a human interest photo contest. Beresin took the opportunity to thank the trade press for cooperation over his two-year term as chief barker and to announce that he won’t run for the office again this year, preferring to see other officers move up, as well as the entry of fresh blood with new ideas. He recommended promotion from within the ranks. The retiring head, who continually strove to strengthen the organization’s setup as well as to expand the movement by helping open tents abroad, released a letter from Theodore C. Streibert, direc¬ tor, United States Information Agency, State Department, in which VCI, its aims, its expansion abroad, the value to this country, and Beresin’s personal efforts were stressed and praised and an offer of future cooperation was also made by the agency head. mothball fleet. Washington: President Eisenhower visited by 4-H Club winners. Greenland and Ellesmere Island: Relief for Arctic bases. Korea: Marines hold pooch show. New York: International hair styles. New York: Tots at Toy Fair. Sweden: Downhill ski championships. Warner Pathe News (Vol. 25, No. 62) Indo-China: War rages. Chicago: Jail riot. Sullivan, Ind.: Will Hays dies. Hollywood: Photoplay magazine’s awards. San Fran¬ cisco: Billy Martin now a G.I. Sweden: Downhill ski championships. A deal whereby United Artists will distribute six Russ-Field productions was recently concluded in Hollywood as Jane Russell, who will star in three of the forthcoming films, inked the contract. Also participating in final negotiations were, right to left, Robert F. Blumofe, UA vice-presi¬ dent in charge of west coast operations; Robert Waterfield, president, Russ-Field Corporation; and Lew Wasserman, president, MCA, and agent. The convention at Dallas this week was expected to be one of the largest. Beresin expects that charters will be approved for two more tents, 43 in Bombay, India, and 44 in Jacksonville, Fla. At the convention, Beresin was ex¬ pected to recommend streamlining of the organization as well as the establishment of a permanent headquarters, located either in Washington or New York, with a full-time staff, as well as a public re¬ lations staff and expansion of the position of international representative. His report also was to show that the VCI Will Rogers Memorial Hospital is improving its position annually and the sound footing stage may not be too far away. Trade paper editors present voted the human interest shots submitted by Variety Tent 1, Pittsburgh, as the best in its class, and Morris Berman, photog¬ rapher, The Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, receives $300. In the best published story category of a club activity, the judges picked Robert Adelman’s illustrated yam, “No Time For Intolerance,” as run in Color magazine, as the best entry. This was submitted by Tent 13, Philadelphia. Adelman won an all-expense paid trip to the convention. 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