The Film Daily (1947)

^ Tuesday, October 22, 194 DAILY ED KUYKENDALL Kuykendall Funeral Rites Held In Miss. Columbus. Miss. — With the funeral rites and burial yesterday of Ed Kuykendall, the industry lost one of its most colorful figures. Kuykendall rose from a destitute orphan to one of the most important men in the industry. At the time of his death he was president enieri tusoftheMPTOA. having served as president from 1933 until last June. Services were held from his residence and burial followed at Friendship Cemetery. Kuykendall was born in 1887 at Red Banks, Tenn., where he attended school until he was 12. For nine years before coming to Columbus, he worked in all phases of show business, playing dramatic roles and performing in carnival sideshows. He naarried Ophelia McGee in 1924. He formed the first Southern theater owners Association in 1913 and later headed the Tri-States Theater Owners Association. Prominent in civic and financial circles in Columbus, Kuykendall -erved for many years as a director of the National Bank of Commerce, was a past president of the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce and was active in other civic i^rojects. He was awarded a silver cup by The Commercial Appeal for having rendered the most meritorious service to his community. In addition to his widow, he leaves a son, Ed. Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Ed. Keeton. PCCITO Wir^s~Sympathy West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — All of the officers of the PCCITO yesterday wired Fred Wehrenberg, pres. of the MPTOA, expressing their deepest sympathy for the MPTOA and the loss of its long-time leader, Ed Kuykendall. Leslie, Curliz General Manager IVest Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Michael Curtiz has signed .Jacques Leslie as general manager of Michael Curtiz Prods. Leslie has been legal adviser to the Feldman Agency. SEND BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO: Oct. 22 Constance Bennetr Mitzi Green Joan Fontainp Bela Lugosi John Sutton ALONG Skouras Will Head Greek Relief Board Tuesday's TattUngs • • • THE PERSONAL TOUCH: Gens. Curtis E. LeMay and Emmett "Rosy" O'Donnell are sponsoring a special press screening of the Warner-distributed "The Last Bomb" this olternoon. at the WB home office. ... • William Goldman is reported purchasing WDAS, Philadelphia, for S400,000. ... • Sir Alexander Korda will donate the American Premiere of "Children of Paradise," which opens at the Laurel in Hollywood Nov. 15. to a fund for the rebuilding of Calais. . . . • Nat Wolf, Warner Cleveland zone mnaager, has been selected as the Man of the Week by the Carter Hotel there, and his photo currently graces the lobby. He is the first industry-ite to be so honored. . . . • Nina Foch is quitting Hollywood to make her Broadway debut, in the femme lead of "The Whole World Over," which Walter Fried will produce. ... • The Ricketts family is certainly represented on the Des Moines Film Row The new secretary for PRC is lean Ricketts, wife of Jimmy Ricketts, the Republic booker .... Daddy Jimmy Ricketts, Sr. is a salesman for Universal. ... • Dorothy Malone will cover the British Command Performance for Screen Guide. ... • Ed Fischer, Loew's theater publicity director in Cleveland, is working on the script based on the life of Annette Ksllermon, with Esther Williams in m'nd to play the famed Australian swimmer. ... • Send congrats. to UA's trade contact, Lou Barasch It's a new Pontiac, which arrived yesterday Stuart Aarons Elected Warner Club President Stuart H. Aarons, member of Warners legal staff, was elected president of the Warner Club at the annual meeting of the organization held Saturday at the home office. Other officers elected include Robert A. McGuire, vice-president; Bernard Rosenzweig, vice-president in charge of membership; Ruth Weisberg, vice-president in charge of welfare; Fred Stengl, vice-president in charge of claims; Harry Mayer, vice-president in charge of social activities; Robert iSalomons, treasurer, and Theodore R. Kupferman, secretary. The new executive committee consists of Phil Abrahams, Frank E. Cahill, Jr., W. V. Brooks, R. W. Budd, Zeb Epstin, Syd Goldberg, Joe Goldstein, Bernard R. Goodman, Leo Haas, Sam Kahn, L. J. Kaufman, Frank Kiernan, Charles Kontulis, T. J. Martin, W. Stewart McDonald, Mollie Negri, Elkan Reiner, Harold Rodner, Bernard Rosenzweig, Samuel Schneider, William Schoenfelder, Joseph Spray, Joe Tisman, Ruth Weisberg, Jack Wuhrman and the following past-presidents: Max B. Blackman, Nat D. Fellman, Ed Hinchy, John Holmes and Jules Levey. I. H. Birnbaum is administrative secretai-y of the club. Mandell to Eagle-Lion Chicago — Harry Mandell, who recently resigned from Film Classics, has returned from a plane trip to ""fiami, and takes over the EagleLion here on Nov. 11. Court May Rule Today On "Outlaw" Injunction (Continued from Page 1) ation Counsel Bennett asked for the revocation of the license for "The Outlaw" because of the nature of the advertising on the picture. Specific objection was to an advertisement of the picture in the New York Journal American on June 15. Judge Walter granted License Commissioner Fielding the I'ight to file a brief of amicus curiae. The judge withheld a decision until today to give Fielding an opportunity to prepare and submit the brief. Edward Raftery, president and counsel for UA, said the entire action insofar as the company was concerned was to compel the theaters to proceed with their contract. A petition for a review of the case was submitted hy Fielding to the Board of Regents, the Motion Picture Division of the State Department of Education and the Attorney General of the state. Robert Young Dead Columbus, O. — Robert Young, 83, veteran showman, died after a long illness. Pioneer in the exhibition field. Young opened the Princess Theater in 1906 and at various times operated the Victoria, in the Board of Trade building; the Broadway; the Priscilla, Cleveland; one in Youngstown, and opened the first film house in West Jefferson. He built the latter. Chicago — Spyros P. Skouras hd resigned from the presidency of tli Greek War Relief Association aft^ serving 2: *'hi t\ . thl ' capacity v^^j last six years, was announced the annual meeij ' ing of the organ ' ization at th| Palmer Hous( Skouras, who wil become chairmaj of the board, wil ] be succeeded bj J William Helis New Orleans o^ magnate. A dinner ii honor of Skoural was proposed hi acclamation a\ $1,000 per plate, for the Greek Wal Relief. It is planned to take place ii New York around the first of thi year, simultaneous with the start ol a new $12,000,000 drive by the asso| ciation. SPYROS P. SKOURAS William Formby Killed In Fall in Kansas City (Continued from Page 1) the fifth floor, where it lay until noticed by occupants of a room oi that floor. He had been dead apl proximately an hour when found| the coroner reported. Formby, who recently held an edi-l torial post with Motion Picturd Herald, had been in Los Angeles! He arrived Saturday in Kansas Cityl where he was well-known as a for-f mer long-time employe of Boxofficel He formerly was editor of BoxofRcq in New York. He is survived by his wife, AnneJ and a daughter, Barbara Ann. lATSE Locals Merge Peoria — Local 75, Pekin, HI., is*] about to be merged with Peoria Local 43. WEDDING BELLS Rosenberg-Evans Jerry Evans of Universal's special events department will be married to Ina D. Rosenberg of Brooklyn, on Sunday, at the Ambassador Hotel, in New York. Dr. Joseph Zeitlin of Temple Ansche Chesed will officiate. The couple will spend their honeymoon in Miami Beach and Havana. Borton-Thorman Marion Barton and William Thorman, both members of RKO Theatres' publicity department, were married Saturday at the Trinity Baptist Church. The couple will honeymoon in the Poconos.