Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1946)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, October 23, 1946 Personal Mention JOHN BALABAN, head of Bala♦J ban and Katz, Chicago, has been appointed co-chairman of the Southside division of the Jewish Welfare drive in that city. • J. Wardimon, TelAviv, Palestine, exhibitor, is expected in New York on his first trip according to word received at the RKO Radio home office from Gregory E. Georgoussy, RKO manager in the Near East. • Richard Griffith, executive director of the National Board of Review, has returned to New York from Springfield, Mass., where he addressed the Springfield Motion Picture Council on film censorship. • Sherli Evens, daughter of Harold Evens, advertising-publicity director for United Artists in Chicago, and Edward Planert of that city, were married this week. « Leon Bamberger, RKO Radio sales promotion manager, will attend the Independent Allied Theatre Owners of Iowa and Nebraska annual meeting, Oct. 28-29, in Des Moines. • Richard Carlton, assistant to Melvin L. Gold, National Screen Service director of advertising and publicity, and Mrs. Carlton are the parents of a baby girl, Joyce. • Marti Kaliski, head of the print department of Screen Guild Productions, and Mrs. Kalisky are the parents of a girl, Rachelle, born in Hollywood. • John J. Payne, Warner Circuit zone manager in Washington, has received a scroll from the Board of Trade there for his services. • Fred Meyers, Universal-International Eastern sales manager, will be in Philadelphia and Washington this week, from New York. • William C. Gehring, Central Sales manager of 20th Century-Fox, is touring exchanges in his territory. • Jimmy Hodgson, March of Time cameraman in London, is visiting here and will return Nov. 14. e G. F. Malafronte was a recent visitor in Atlanta from the UniversalInternational home office. • T heron Edwards, Georgia theatre owner, is recovering from injuries sustained in a train wreck. Photographers' Exhibit Milton Berle, Henry Youngman and Harvey Stone will be judges at the Press Photographers 11th annual exhibit, today, to select a photograph depicting the best laugh-producing picture of the show. Awards to the cameraman whose photograph wins will be made Sunday morning, at the Radio City Museum of Science and Industry, where the show is now on. Paramount Expands In Exhibition Abroad P a r a m ount International Theatres Corp., wholly-owned subsidiary of Paramount International Films, Inc., is being organized and will soon be registered with the Secretary of State at Albany, N. Y., its purpose being to acquire future theatre investments in foreign countries. Aarons Named Head Of Warner Club Stuart H. Aarons, members of Warners' home office legal staff, has been elected president of the national Warner Club. 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, vicepresident in charge of social activities ; Robert Salomons, treasurer ; Theodore R. Kupferman, secretary. The new executive committee consists of Phil Abrahams, Frank E. Cahill, Jr., W. V. Broks, 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 secretary. Comerford Resumes Stage Shows in Five Stage shows have been resumed at five theatres of the Comerford circuit, including the New Binghamton at Binghamton, N. Y., and the Feeley, Hazelton ; Hippodrome, Pottsville ; Capital, Scranton and the Penn at Wilkes-Barre, all in Pennsylvania. New PRC Exploiteer Ira Gross, formerly with Warner's exploitation department, has been named exploiteer for PRC in Pittsburgh, under exploitation manager Lige Brien. Gross will accompany Arnold Stoltz, PRC's national director of advertising, publicity and exploitation, and Brien to Chicago Tuesday where he will attend a meeting for PRC exploitation men. Allen to Skirball Arianne Allen has been appointed story editor of Jack H. SkirballBruce Manning Productions. She will make her headquarters in New York and is already seeking material for future pictures of this company, which releases through Universal-International. KFWB Cited for Aid Toward Peace Chicago, Oct. 22.— Urging radio to go "all out" in preaching the message of world-wide peace to the world, Benjamin Cohen of the United Nations staff today cited the Warner's station KFWB in Hollywood, as an example of a station performing outstanding service to its listeners. Cohen praised the Warner station in addressing the 24th annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, at the Palmer House. In another address, William S. Paley, chairman of the board of Columbia Broadcasting, said that radio today is replete with advertising excesses, and "too high a percentage of commercial copy or material which is irritating, offensive, or in bad taste when projected into the homes of America." Paley said that the blame could not be put on the advertisers but on the networks and radio stations themselves. _ Paley urged the National Association of Broadcasters to "formulate a new and detailed code of program standards — a code which will prohibit practices which detract from the good name of radio as a whole. And we should be determined to enforce this code by the spotlight of publicity," he concluded. Byron Price Talks At NAB Meet Chicago, Oct. 22. — Byron Price, Price, Hollywood vice-president of the Motion Picture Association, will be a member of the discussion panel which will discuss "Do We Have Freedom of Speech in the United States?," at the Palmer House tomorrow evening, under the auspices of the National Association of Broadcasters. Edgar Kobak, president of Mutual Broadcasting, will serve as moderator while other members of the discussion panel, in addition to Price, will be John S. Knight, publisher of the Chicago Daily News and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and A. D. Willard Jr., NAB executive vice-president. The discussion will be one of the highlights of the NAB convention, being held at the Palmer House and Stevens Hotel Oct. 21-24. Bolton to Goldwyn Hollywood, Oct. 22. — Whitney Bolton, former Columbia, Warner and Selznick publicist, has joined Goldwyn to handle special promotion of "The Best Years of Our Lives." McCraw to Visit Tents Varsity Clubs of America's executive director, William McCraw, will visit four more Tents. His schedule : Nov. 11, Charlotte, in connection with a sixth anniversary dinner party ; Nov. 15, Buffalo; Nov. 18, Albany; Nov. 22, Boston. McCraw will be guest of honor and principal speaker. McCraw has been visiting Tents throughout the country on a plan that will bring him to every Tent city during his first year in office. Newsreel Parade THE arrival here of the S.S. Queen Elizabeth on its maiden peacetime voyage, and the Army-Columbia football game, are in all current newsreels. The Navy's revealing two topivar secrets is also featured, and so are Gen. Eisenhower in Scotland, Molotov in New York, a whale aground in Long Island, and football in the c/./C complete synopses follow. MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 16— U. S. Navy discloses two war secret weapons in observing Navy Day. The Queen Elizabeth makes first trip here as a luxury liner. News flashes from abroad: Gen. Eisenhower plays golf in Scotland; Greek demonstration protests decision of peace conference in Paris. Football highlights: Army wallops Columbia, 48 to 14. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 214— Molotov here aboard the Queen Elizabetth, backs peace. Top secrets, the "sono-buoy" and the "bat," revealed as U. S. hails Navy Day. Personalities in the news: Gen. "Ike," Scottish golfer; spotlight on Franco on his 10th anniversary of rise to power in Spain. 65-foot, 50-ton whale flounders on Long Island beach. Army gridders defeat Columbia. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 17 — Army wins 23rd straight football game, defeating Columbia. Michigan and Northwestern in 14-14 football tie. Queen Elizabeth, world's greatest liner, arrives. Navy war secrets shown for Navy Day. RKO PATHE NEWS, No. 1»-Czech mine named for President Truman. The Elizabeth arrives, with Molotov aboard. Nazi families of guilty war criminals pay last visit. Little San Marino claims war damages. Football: Army crushes Columbia, UCLA beats California, 13-7. UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL, No. 54* Navy Day and secret weapons. Queen Elizabeth welcomed in New York. Low tide strands whale at Huntington, L. I. Army football smashes Columbia. Callahan Appointed S. Hode's Successor Joseph Callahan has been appointed assistant to D. John Phillips, short subjects and Paramount News publicity head, succeeding Stanley Hode, by Oscar A. Morgan, sales chief of the Paramount short subjects and Paramount News sales department. Hode resigned to join the Myer P. Beck Organization where he will handle special events. Callahan was formerly in Paramount's exploitation. and publicity department. Sinow to Taunton Strand Hartford, Oct .22. — Abe Sinow, former manager of the Art Theatre, Quincy, Mass., is now manager of the Strand at Taunton, Mass., succeeding Dan Cudone, who has resigned to become district manager in New Jersey for the Fred Faulkner Circuit. Herman Prado, assistant manager of the Art, at Quincy, has been moved up to manage the Art, replacing Sinow, now in Taunton. Radio City UN Tribute More than 100 Radio City Music Hall artists, here, will take part in a new pageant to be presented, beginning tomorrow, on its stage in tribute to the United Nations' first General Assembly on United States soil, opening this week in New York. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane; Editor; Martin Quigley, Jr., Associate Editor. 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