Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1946)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, November 15, 194<n Personal Mention NtCHOLAS M. SCHENCK, Charles C. Moskowitz and Howard Dietz of M-G-M, left here yesterday for the Coast. • Henry Ginsberg, Paramount production head, and Russell Holman, Eastern production liaison, are due in New York from Hollywood this weekend. Darryl F. Zanuck and Mrs. Zanuck will be flown from the Coast to New York by Tyrone Power for the premiere of "The Razor's Edge." • Ben Kalmenson, Warner vicepresident and general sales manager, and Jules Lapidus, Eastern and Canadian division sales manager, hav returned to New York from Boston. Sam Lefkowitz will return here from Boston today. • Leon J. Bamberger, RKO sales promotion manager, will address the North Central Allied convention in Minneapolis on Monday and then proceed to Indianapolis for the meeting of the ATOI. Albert S. Howson, scenario editor and director of censorship for Warner Bros., will deliver an address on "The Motion Picture as the Eighth Art," on Monday at the Museum of Modern Art. • L. C. Griffith, who has been in St. Vincent's Hospital, Oklahoma City, for the past two months following a stroke, is reported by his doctors to be slightly improved. • John S. Allen, M-G-M district manager headquartering in Washington, returned to the Capital yesterday from New York. • Red Skelton and Edna Borzage arrived in Chicago from the Coast on Wednsday for an Army transportation show. • Francis S. Harmon, vice-president of the Motion Picture Association, is expected back in New York from the Coast on Monday. • Tess Michaels, UA magazine contact, returned to her desk yesterday following a three-week Hollywood visit. • Leland Hayward, MCA vicepresident, was a Chicago visitor this week, from Hollywood. • Edward M. Schnitzer, UA Eastern sales manager, will arrive in Cleveland today from New York. • Michael Powell, British producer and director, left here by plane yesterday for Mexico City. • Arthur Lubin will arrive here from Hollywood on Monday. Johnston Ready to Protest New Quota Eric Johnston, Motion Picture Association president, now in London from New York, is prepared to contest further British quota law penalties against U. S. films, which penalties are scheduled to be recommended to the new Parliament, the New York Times reported here yesterday in a dispatch from Britain. The Times also stated that Johnston plans to return to England in April, when discussions of the new law will be on "in earnest." Disney To Produce Films on Irish Lore Walt Disney and Perce Pearce, associate producer of "Song of the South," are bound for Ireland today where they will do research and gather background material for a feature production, due in 1947, on Irish folklore. Disney, accompanied -also by Mrs. Disney, left here yesterday on the Queen Elizabeth. Entitled "The Little People," the projected film will employ the new technique used by Disney in "Song of the South," in synchronizing cartoon and "live-action" processes. A skeleton crew is now in Ireland accumulating material on tales of banshees, leprechauns, and folk legends. Disney is expected back in New York Dec. 14. Others who departed on the liner are: Joseph H. Moscowitz of 20th Century-Fox ; Mrs. Natalie Kalmus, Technicolor ; Jack Hylton and Lee Ephraim, British theatrical managers ; Sir Ernest Fisk, managing director of Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., and Leslie Boosey, British music publisher. File Jackson Park Appeal Tomorrow Chicago, Nov. 14. — Notice of appeal in the Jackson Park decree case will be filed by the distributor defendants in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, here, on Saturday, and at the same time an appeal bond of at least $100,000 will also be filed. Thereafter, the defendants have 90 days in which to file briefs for submission to Federal Appeals Court in Chicago. Laverty Is Reelected Writers9 Guild Head Hollywood, Nov. 14. — The Screen Writers Guild last night re-elected Emmet Lavery president by a two-toone majority over Talbot Jennings. Mary McCall, Jr., was elected first vice-president ; Howard Estabrook, second, and Hugo Butler, third ; F. H. Herbert, secretary, and Harold Buchman, treasurer. Germany Finishes Its 1st Post -War Film By Hubertus Zu Lowenstein Berlin, Nov. 8 (By Airmail) — Germany's first post-war picture, "Murderers Among Us,", has just been released. A production of Deutsche Film A. G, at Babelsberg, near Berlin, in the Russian zone, it has a screenplay written by Wolfgang Staudte, who also directed. Herbert Uhlich was. in charge of production. "In spite of all difficulties," Uhlich told the press, "we have been able to complete our work without much delay. We cannot take up matters where we left off. Nor is this our intention. We have to make an entirely new start." And of difficulties there were plenty. There were no telephones, no automobiles, no sound-proof equipment, few nails and little glass or wood. And all this was aside from the problem of getting hold of cameras, lights and other mechanical equipment from the other three zones of occupation. Despite these difficulties, Deutsche Film now has another picture in preparation— a German-Swiss production — and will soon open studios in Berlin-Johannistal. "Murderers Among Us" has a strong anti-Nazi and post-war theme. It tells the story of the efforts of small craftsmen to rebuild their businesses in bombed-out Berlin. One man succeeds in establishing a small factory. Then one of his employes recognizes him as a man who, under the Nazi Regime, was a mass murderer. The employee first wants to take personal revenge, but then realizes that he has no right to judge and execute, that crimes against the community are the community's business. The new German-Swiss film in preparation is a biography of the Swiss educator and philanthropist, Pestalozzi. Wallis to Coast; Para. Deal Not Yet Settled Although renewal of his distribution contract with Paramount has not yet been finalized, Hal Wallis plans to leave New York for the Coast tomorrow, Joseph Hazen, president of Hal -Wallis Productions, stated here yesterday. Wallis and Hazen held a number of conferences with Paramount executives this week. The pending renewal of the contract is said to provide for the release of 12 additional pictures over a period of probably three years. JEANNE CRAIN as MARGIE" A 20 th CenturyFox Picture in Technicolor Plus on Stage — Frances Langford ■ Jon Hall Carl Ravazza Harmonica Rascals Extra! 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