The Film Daily (1948)

iThursday, July 29, 1948 Would Move Caravan Quarters to Indiana (Continued from Page 1) Indiana, it was revealed at the ATOI convention here. Change is suc==^ted as an aid to the distribution,, Q information from a physical and geographical standpoint, and would mean no change in policy or in makeup of the Caravan committee. Indianapolis unit points out that this service has been handled by the Eastern Pennsylvania group but, because of Allied expansion, and particularly the formation of a number of new units in the West and Central South, it was felt that a Midwestern unit would be most practical. Caravan committee comprises Sidney Samuelson, head of the Philadelphia unit, chairman; Col. H. A. Cole, Irving Bollinger and Trueman T. Rembusch. Latter is president of ATOI. In another development, convention voted to take time for study of the Minneapolis conciliation plan outlined by Andy W. Smith, Jr., general sales manager of 20th-Fox, and Benjamin Berger, of the Minneapolis Allied unit. Resolution called for consideration of the plan at the next ATOI board of directors meeting. Smith made himself available to answer general complaints on any phase of 20th-Fox policy in Indiana, resulting in some vigorous discussion. Exhibitor spokesmen latter observed that this frank discussion between exhibs. and a distxibutor leader was a healthy thing and would result in improving distributorexhibitor relationship. In a report on legislative matters, William A. Carroll, ATOI executive secretary, said the most important industry problem likely in the forthcoming session of the Indiana legislature would be an effort to vote legislation that would permit the passage of local admission tax measures. Rembusch revealed conclusion of negotiations between the ATOI board and Indiana Film Transit for a 25 per cent reduction in film hauling rates effective yesterday. New rates will also be applicable to Louisville, Ky., which is served out of Indianapolis. Guests at the convention included William Ainsworth, National Allied president; Smith and Sam Shain, of 20th-Fox; David Palfreyman, MPAA; Henderson Richey, MPAA; Berger, Irving Mandel, Irving Mack, W. Hardy Hendren and Carl Shalit. SICK LIST p. A. POWERS, industry veteran, is recuperating at Doctors Hospital after an attack of ptomaine poison. He is expected to re" main in the hospital several weeks for a complete checkup. : lyV DAILY Arthur B. Krim: A Profile • • • TURNING THE SPOTLIGHT ON AN "UNKNOWN," let's look at a quiet, unassuming gent whom those in the know credit with much of the sensational success of the newest of the major companies He's Arthur B. Krim, president of Eagle Lion Films, and the man about whom less publicity, less fanfare, less whoop-la has been printed than about any other figure in the industry Krim is a quiet man He has steadfastly refused to have a publicity man assigned to cover his comings and goings He has operated on. the single-minded basis that he was elected president of the company in order to get it properly organized and see that it continues running in ship-shape condition This he most certainly has done. ▼ ▼ ▼ • • • HIS BACKGROUND HAS HELPED Krim in his task As a lawyer — the industry has known him as one of the most brilliant although most retiring members of the firm of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim — he has handled his clients' affairs from the point of view of keeping himself in the background, doing the job in hand ond letting all the glory and publicity go to the people whose interests he was promoting at the time He's carried the some feeling into his operation of Eagle Lion Both in New York and in Hollywood, he's gone about his job of getting the right peple for the right jobs Getting the top story material available And signing the leading figures in the industry under the Eagle Lion banner All without plugging his own personal glories. T T ▼ • • • DURING HIS YEARS as a member ^i the Bar, Krim assisted A. A. Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, in charter revision for the state of New York Krim doesn't make loud patriotic speeches or talk about any "sacrifices" he made during the w^ar But when, we got into it, he quietly and unostentatiously signed up for service Commissioned a first lieutenant, his abilities soon were recognized by his commanding officers, and he was given progressively more important assignments and rcmk, coming out of service a lieutenant<olonel who had never made the headlines, but whose work had received the warmest thanks of the top-drawer military people to whom he had been assigned. ▼ TV • • • KRIM HAS BEEN AIDED in his intelligently-conceived and masterfully-executed campaign to put Eagle Lion in the top ranks of film companies by his seconds-in-command Under his guidance, studio operations have proceeded without a hitch, and with a clean-cut goal in mind Nothing has been permitted to change this goal or to modify the intensity with which the studio has progressed toward it In sales, under the able leadership of Bill Heineman, the company has made giant strides In publicity, advertising and exploitation. Max E. Youngstein cmd his crew have demonstrated the wonderful achievements which can be obtained wrhen the chief shows confidence and permits a department to function under its own stecmi Sure, Krim has received help from his divisional heads but fundamentally it all comes right back to him His is the final judgment His has been the brcrin which chose these men, and which established the broad, general pattern within which they have operated successfully. T ▼ ▼ • • • FOR ALL THIS Arthur Krim deserves credit And the industry now is giving him credit in lavish quantities But most of all, Krim rates applause for the quiet, gentle manner in which he has accomplished his objectives thus far a simple, unassiuning manner which could well be adopted by the industry as an example of genuinely great leadership and an efficiency which accomplishes by inspiration rather than by loudness. Mass. Police Censors Reverses on 'Hamlet' (Continued from Page 1) dies censorship for the division, had demanded deletions in the pic for its Sunday showings. (According to the New York Times, McLaughlin had professed himself repelled by such expressions as "the rank sweat of an adulterous bed" and by the recriminations Hamlet heaped upon his mother, including his "to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets." McLaughlin disapproved, too, the Times reported, a scene in which Hamlet addresses Ophelia in pungent Elizabethan English while he lies with his head in her lap.) The Boston City Censor had approved the pic for week-day exhibition. The fact that the National Legion of Decency had classified the pic as A-II, asking for no cuts, was also undoubtedly a factor in the about-face by the State Police censor. Resume Shooting Here Numbers Racket" on New York "on location" shooting of "The Numbers Racket: The Story of Tucker's People" for Enterprise, which Meti-o will distribute, resumes Saturday at the Treasury in Wall St. Other footage will be made at Trinity Church, on Riverside Drive, and at George Washington Bridge. The Zoomar lens, which heretofore has been used exclusively by newsreel cameramen, will be utilized for closeups of shots made at longrange. Key scenes between John Garfield and Beatrice Pearson, who plays opposite him, will be taken. Also present in New York for the shootmg are Producer Bob Roberts, Writer-Director Abe Polonsky, and George Yohalem, production manager. Griffis to Push American Films in the Near East Washington Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Washington — Stanton Griffis, chairman of Paramount's executive committee and recently appointed Ambassador to Egypt, had a brief farewell visit with President Truman at the White House yesterday. He will sail for Cairo from New York today. Griffis said films were not discussed in his interview with the President, but that he would do everything he could to push American films in the Near East. DEATHS ARTHUR S. PHOENIX, 78, veteran theater orchestra leader, in Syracuse.