Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1945)

6 Motion Picture Daily Friday, November 30, 1945 Studio Labor (Continued from page 1) Review "The Man in Grey { U niversal Gainsbo ro ugh ) ' I *HERE is forceful drama in the conflicting and eventful romantic endeavors * of the four principals — intelligently and compellingly fashioned — in "The Man in Grey," made by Gainsborough in England. It is a costumed (19th century) story in an aristocratic setting — a story whose dramatic potency is undeniable and worthy of special promotional effort. The film provides a name fairly familiar to audiences here in Margaret Lockwood and others who uniformly score with performances of a high calibre, including James Mason as the Marquis of Rohan, Phyllis Calvert as his lovely lady, and Stewart Granger as the amible suitor of Miss Calvert, who defies the latter's husband in the light of his, Mason's, flagrant affair with Miss Lockwood. The film reaches its dramatic height as Miss Lockwood, the false friend of Miss Calvert, suffering with pneumonia, murders the latter in effect by exposing her to the winds and a rain storm ; later, Mason, upon learning this, kills Miss Lockwood. Direction by Leslie Arliss gives the picture movement from start to finish. The screenplay by Arliss and Margaret Kennedy is based on a novel by Lady Eleanor Smith. Edward Black produced. Running time, 90 minutes. Adult audience classification. Release date, not set. Gene Arneel who crossed picket lines during the strike, in defiance of guild orders, and then applied to the National Labor Relations Board for recognition as the bargaining agent, has now reconsidered its stand to the extent of paying up SPG membership dues and indicating willingness to continue as a "dissident" faction pending the expected withdrawal of SPG from affiliation with the Painters International. SPG officials said today that such withdrawal is being favorably considered, with international president L. P. Lindelof agreeable to the move. The plan calls for SPG's eventual affiliation with the AFL Office Employees Union. On a similar basis, the Screen Players Union and Screen Extras Guild, the former unaffiliated but certified by the NLRB, and the latter uncertified but backed by the AFL, moved toward agreement on a formula for merging their memberships, with negotiations proceeding under the auspices of the Los Angeles Central Labor Council, which has demanded that the studios recognize none but AFL unions. SEG withdrew a complaint on file with the NLRB contesting the certification of SPU. SOEG Seeks Status Clarification, Pact Hollywood, Nov. 29. — Herbert Sorrell, head of the Conference of Studio Unions, and Glenn Pratt, business manager of the Screen Office Employes Guild, left for Washington last night by plane to meet today or tomorrow with Eric Johnston, MPPDA president ; William Green, William Hutcheson and other AFL leaders seeking a clarification of the terms of the Cincinnati strike settlement affecting the SOEG. SOEG specifically demands that its contract, cancelled by the producers during the strike, be reinstated, supplanting other contracts made subsequently with the newly-formed Film Office Workers Guild. Christmas Campaign Parade Is Postponed The "Santa Claus" parade, scheduled for yesterday by the industry's Victory Loan committee, was postponed, due to rain, to Dec. 6. However, original plans to set up a Christmas tree at the Statue of Liberty replica on Times Square over the weekend will be carried out. Golding on 'Salute' Dave Golding, former New York trade paper reporter and managing editor of the Mediterranean edition of the Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes, during the war, has joined the editorial staff of the new publication, Salute, being edited here by former Stars and Stripes and Yank staff men. Horror Film Testimony Motion pictures showing the horrors of German concentration camps were presented by the American prosecution for an hour yesterday in the war crimes trial before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, according to press dispatches reaching New York. FP-C {Continued from page 1) developments in theatre operation. Tomorrow the executives and 70 partners will visit B and K's television station WBKB to head William Eddy, head of television operations, discuss the application of television to theatres. Later they will visit the B and K candy warehouse, where Joe Pipher, warehouse manager, will explain the circuit's system of candy operation. FP-C will expand in the candy field as soon as wartime restrictions are lifted, Wolfe stated. Blueprints for new theatres leave sufficient lobby room for television screens, Wolfe said. He foresees the growth of club rooms with dance floors isolated from the auditorium by glass walls to impress the patron that he is welcome to linger on after he has seen the film program. Fitzgibbon to Preside President J. J. Fitzgibbons will preside at the Saturday and Sunday meetings. New ideas in advertising will be discussed by James R. Nairn, FP-C director of public relations, and William Hollander, B and K advertising chief. Frank H. Kershaw, president of FP-C's subsidiary, General Theatre Supply Co., and Arch Trebow, head of the purchasing office, will discuss new theatre supplies and their applications. Morris Stein, FP-C Eastern general division manager, will explain how the circuit plans to extend the sale of theatre admission books outside the theatres ; ushers will be encouraged to sell on a commission basis. Peter D. Brown, vice president of GTS, will talk on the functions of the company. John Balaban, B and K head, will be host to the conference at a dinner Saturday evening at the Ambassador East Hotel. Officials of Paramount, including Barney Balaban, president ; Adolph Zukor, chairman of the board, and Leonard H. Goldenson, vice-president, will arrive here Saturday to address the conference, returning to New York following Sunday evening's party to be given by Fitzgibbons. Rogers Names Gell Hollywood, Nov. 29. — Charles R. Rogers has appointed William J. Gell as his London representative. Nelson (Continued from page 1) stressed that independent producers who are members of SIMPP, will cooperate in any way with the distributors in helping to regain the foreign markets to which it is presently denied access. He explained that the procedure would probably be to permit a distributor handling an independent producers' product in the domestic market, to make the necessary foreign distribution arrangements. Thus, if only a limited number of American films are to be permitted access to a foreign market, the problems of the independent would not become a separate entity. Nelson emphasized the need for industry unity in facing the problems of reentering the foreign markets. Nelson plans to go to Europe shortly after Jan. 1. He branded as unfounded, recent rumors that he will join a Detroit business concern. SIMPP will also cooperate in every way possible with the MPPDA, headed by.Eric Johnston, Nelson said. He predicted a lively theatre building campaign during the next few years and a "terrific" expansion of the exhibition field. Discussing the labor problems of independents in connection with the functions of the SIMPP committee, Nelson said the committee can do a big job where the independent is helpless alone. Better relationships with the unions can be achieved and specific problems of the independents can be dealt with, he said. SIMPP hopes to help its members make better' pictures and also to get wider distribution, Nelson added. Nelson Heading New Food Relief Group Formation of a cooperative for the distribution of relief packages to Europe by 22 agencies in the field of foreign service, with Donald M. Nelson, president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, as its executive director, was announced here yesterday. Represented in the new organization which will be known as the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, will be groups of Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths, and the AFL and CIO war relief agencies, plus area and nationality relief organizations serving Europe. Fabian Meet {Continued from page 1) forming an organization such as the one proposed. Fabian listed the following as having accepted: Albany territory: C. J. Latta, Harry Lamont, Louis Schine, J. Myer Schine and William Smalley ; Atlanta territory : Joseph W. Holman, R. M. Kennedy, Hugh G. Martin, Tony Sudekum, J. H. Thompson and R. B. Wilby; Boston: E. M. Fay, M. J. Mullin and Samuel Pinanski ; Buffalo : Vincent McFaul, George MacKenna, Robert T. Murphy and Max1 Yellen. Charlotte Delegation Also, Charlotte territory: F. H. Beddingfield, H. E. Buchanan, H. F.' Kincey, Roy Rowe and Ben L. Strozier ; Chicago : Jules Rubens ; Cincinnati : Milton Levine, Hardie Meaken and Maurice White; Cleveland: Martin G. Smith and P. J. Wood; Dallas: H. A. Cole, R. J. O'Donnell and Henry Reeve ; Denver : Milas L. Hurley, Frank (Rick) Ricketson and E. J. Schulte ; Des Moines : A. H. Blank ; Detroit: Ray Branch and J. O. Brooks. Also : Indianapolis territory : K. T. Collins; Kansas City: George Baker and Elmer C. Rhoden ; Los Angeles : Harry Nace, R. H. Poole and Charles Skouras ; Memphis : Arthur Lehman, Harry Kohn, M. A. Lightman and Sidney Wharton ; Milwaukee : Harold Fitzgerald ; Minneapolis : M. C. Cooper, John Friedl, Ben Friedman and Ed Kraus; New Haven, L J. Hoffman and Herman Levy ; New Orleans : E. V. Richards and Rodney Toups ; New York territory : James Brennan, Harry Brandt, Max A. Cohen, Gus Eyssell, Leonard Goldenson, Malcolm Kingsberg, Harry Lowenstein, Charles C. Moskowitz, Walter Reade, Sam Rinzler, Sam Rosen, Fred Schwartz, Sol A. Schwartz, George Skouras, William White, Walter Vincent and Joseph R. Vogel. From Oklahoma City Also : Oklahoma City territory : C. B. Akers, J. C. Hunter and E. L. Kidwell ; Omaha : Myron Blank ; Philadelphia : Jay Emanuel, Edward Gallner, Frank McNamee, John Nolan, Lewen Pizor and Ted R. Schlanger ; Pittsburgh: John H. Harris and Moe A. Silver; Portland: Albert Finke, T. R. Gamble, Harold Lake and O. J. Miller; St. Louis: Harry Arthur and Fred Wehrenberg ; Salt Lake City territory: Rex Flint, I. H. Harris, John Rugar and George Smith ; San Francisco: George Mann; Seattle : Frank Newman, Sr. ; Washington : Carter Barron, Frank M. Boucher, W. F. Crockett, A. Joseph De Fiore, Fred F. Kogod, Frank LaFalce, Sidney Lust, John J. Payette and J. L. Schanberger. Others who will attend include: Herman Gluckman, Walter T. Brown, Jerry Zigmond, Joseph Ryan, Charles M. Thall, Paul Levi, Ray Beall and Ralph McGowan. Dwyer Here for Army Atlanta, Nov. 29. — A. J. Dwyer, former district manager of the Southeastern division of the Army Motion Picture Service, has been transferred to New York as chief of the overseas section of the service. Raymond W. Beaudry, assistant division manager, has been appointed district manager of the Southeastern division.