Hollywood Studio Magazine (October 1967)

AND LANKERSHIM $ PRESCRIPTIONS $ PERFUMES $ FINE COSMETICS $ FREE DELIVERY to the Studio 3799 Cahuenga Blvd. • No. Hollywood, Calif. Phones: 877-4841 — 761-3319 UNIVERSAL)" ?tf9jta/uruux^ I wanted • Pictures | with Cap tion s,s to rie s, I STUDIO Magazine \ Mailing address: Drawer M, Sherman Oaks, _ r In the Valley. Call Bill Wheeler Tires for Less 4 PLY NYLON WHITE 77 o? 14 1475 775x15 Plus F.E.T. All Others Comparably Priced. WECO GILLETTE TIRES CALL 781-5244 Mon. Thru Saturday STUDIO TALK by John Ringo Graham Eileen Wesson, Universal actress, was elected mayor of Universal City. The new mayor made her first official appearance when she welcomed 150 representatives of Air Canada to the studio Tour Center. * * * Paul W. FassnacHt, president and chief executive officer of Technicolor Inc., an¬ nounced the election of A. P. Lofquist, Jr., and R. M. Blanco as corporate v-p's. Lofquist will be a special assistant to the president for world-wide professional motion picture customer services. Blanco, head of television division sales, takes on additional duties in charge of sales for the company's Vidtronics and Magna- Crafts divisions. R. W. Bachmayer succeeds Lofquist as general manager of the Motion Picture Division (USA). GEORGE SEATON has been named to the Board of Trustees of California Institute of the Arts. * * * George Seaton, three-time Academy Award winning motion picture writer, director and producer, is one of four trustees recently elected to the Board of California Institute of the Arts. Other new members are Louis B. Lund- borg, chairman of the board of Bank of America; Millard Sheets, noted artist, de¬ signer and muralist; and Herbert F. Sturdy, Los Angeles attorney and civic leader. Cal Arts, presently located in Los Angeles, will move in 1969 to a new 60-acre campus in Valencia, Calif. The school was founded on the late Walt Disney's dream for "an en¬ tirely new educational concept in the arts," and offers the creative and performing artist professional training not only in his specific field but in all the arts. Studio Magazine Cary Grant has been voted to receive the Producers Guild of America's coveted "Mile¬ stone Award," the organization's annual top honor for "historic contributions to the motion picture industry," it was announced recently by David Dortort, president of the Producers Guild of America. The unanimous choice of the board of directors, the "Milestone Award" presenta¬ tion to Grant will be the highlight of the 15th annual awards dinner, Jan. 13, 1968, in the new International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Past winners include: Alfred Hitchcock, Arthur Freed, Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Adolph Zukor, Jack L. Warner, Samuel Goldwyn, Spyros P. Skouras, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, Darryl F. Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer, Jesse L. Lasky and Brigadier General David Sarnoff. * * * More than 10,000 people took the guided tour of NBC's West Coast facilities during the tour's first summer season, it was announced by John Scuoppo, v-p, promotion, NBC. NBC, which began a guided tour of its New York studios in 1937, began a guided tour of its West Coast studios in Burbank, June 26, 1967. "This first season attracted double the number of visitors we had originally ex¬ pected," Scuoppo said. "August was the busiest month, averaging 1,200 visitors per week; and several days in August attracted over 300 visitors." Jerry Lewis has agreed to do a cameo ap¬ pearance in Ralph Andrews Productions' silent film feature, "The Silent Treatment." John L. Greenleaf has become an associ¬ ate in Universal's literary division in New York, it was announced by Richard Connell, executive head of the department. Greenleaf, formerly with Kermit Bloom- garden Productions and Ashley Famous Agency, will be responsible for the acquisi¬ tion and development of properties for mo¬ tion picture production. * * * Valley resident Earl Bellamy has been signed by executive producer Sheldon Leon¬ ard and producer David Friedkin to direct his eighth "I Spy" segment for the upcoming season of the NBC series starring Bob Culp and Bill Cosby. Episode is entitled "Apollo" and was written by Ernest Frankel. MGM's purchase of 2000 acres in Ventura County has already triggered new activity in Conejo Valley, where Julian Myers' KKOG television station will open a branch adver¬ tising and programming office. Site of the Channel 16 branch will be in the new Thou¬ sand Oaks shopping center and will be se¬ lected with. aid of Kenneth V. M. Murphy, Ventura advertising executive who is mem¬ ber of the station's advisory board. CONTRIBUTORS: JACK FOLEY FRANK TAYLOR BOOTS LE BARON CHUCK GRIZZLE MARJORIE SELLS MABEL DECINCES! BILL ERWIN AL RACKIN ALLAN BODE JOHN RINGO GRAHAM 4