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Personalities In The News
At a 20th-Fox two-day national sales conference called by distribution director A1 Lichtman, plans for the national launching of CinemaScope 55 and "Carousel,” and the merchandising and promo¬ tion of an amplified production and release program of 34 major C-S attractions were evolved. L to r: Lichtman; Buddy Adler, producer and aide to Darryl F. Zanuck; president Spyros P. Skouras; Murray Silverstone, president of 20th-Fox's International Corp.; and W. C. Gehring, exec.
asst. gen. sales mgr.
Walt Disney and old associates host veteran animated motion picture producer Max Fleischer, creator of "Betty Boop" and "Popeye," at a luncheon in the Disney studio commissary. Now 72, Fleischer is still active as a producer of training films for the Armed Forces. Reading clockwise: Gerry Geronimi, Disney, Ben Sharpsteen, Ted Sears, Max Fleischer, Dick Huemer, George Stallings, director Richard Fleischer (Max's son), Andy Engman and Wilfred Jackson.
Leading industryites join Shirley Jones, star of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" in song as they celebrate the Mid-West premiere of the Todd-AO presentation at the McVickers Theatre. L to r: James Coston; John J. Jones, of Jones, Linick and Schaefer; Jack Kirsch, president. Allied Theatres of Illinois; Shirley Jones; John Balaban; George P. Skouras; and Arthur Wirtz, headman
of the Chicago Stadium.
Michael Todd (seated). United Artists president Arthur B. Krim (right), and board chairman Robert S. Benjamin sign an agreement setting worldwide distribution by UA of the multi-million dollar ToddAO 65mm production, Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days."
Plans for Variety Clubs International Convention, to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria May 9-12, get underway at a meeting held at New York's Tent 35. Seated, 1 to r: Ira Meinhardt, chmn. of opera¬ tions; Martin Levine, general convention chmn.; and Harold Klein, chief barker of Tent 35; Rear, 1 to r: Edward Emanuel, international convention coordinator and Jerry Sager, publicity chmn.
The boards of directors of Theatre Equipment and Supply Manufacturers Assn, and TOA lunched together to discuss projected plans for the Interna¬ tional Trade Show, Fair and Exposition to take place next September at the New York Coliseum. Among those present, (seated 1 to r): Larry Davee, M. H. Stevens, TESMA; Herman Levy, TOA general counsel; Walter Reade, Jr., former TOA president; Wm. A. Gedris, TESMA; Lee Jones, TESMA pres¬
ident; Myron Blank, TOA president; Merlin Lewis, TESMA executive secre¬ tary; Horace Denning, TOA vice-pres.; Robert Livingston, TOA sec'y.; Joe Alterman, TOA; (standing, 1 to r:) Carl Anderson; Albert Pickus, Pat McGee, and Julian Brylawski, TOA vice-presidents; George Gaughan, TOA field representative; Ernest Stellings and George Kerasotes, assistants to the TOA pres.; Tom La Vezzi, TESMA vice-pres.; V. J. Nolan and Joe Fetherston, TESMA.
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THE INDEPENDENT FILM JOURNAL— January 21. 1956