Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1947)

2 Motion Picture daily Tuesday, March 4, 1947 CSU Head Shot at And Beaten in Calif. Hollywood, March 3. — Police today were investigating the abduction and shooting of Herbert K. Sorrell, president of the striking Conference, of Studio Unions, who was found bound at a roadside near Freeman's Junction, 135 miles from Los Angeles, late last night. He was taken to Ridgecrest Hospital where he is being treated for head injuries. Sorrell, whose life was threatened in Oct., 1945, when four shots were fired at him as he sat in his car near his Glendale home, said that three men, one wearing a police uniform, seized him as he was returning from taking his wife to church. The labor leader, who will remain in the hospital for several days, added that his assailants fired three shots at him after dragging him into the desert and departed, believing him dead. Carl Head, taking charge of the CSU in Sorrell's absence, said, "The violence of last night is a thing to be laid directly at the door of the conspiracy between the producers and racketeer labor leaders in Hollywood." Hollywood Labor Up For Investigation Washington, March 3. — Rep. Richard Nixon (Cal.) will make an investigation of labor discord in Hollywood and also will conduct a study for the House Un-American Activities Committee on alleged Communist activities there. A member of the labor committee, he will investigate the current studio jurisdictional strike and attempt to find its causes. He will conduct the un-American probe with the assistance of a committee investigator. Hobbs Will Manage Republic Branch Atlanta, March 3. — James Hobbs, formerly with Universal in Charlotte and Oklahoma City, has been appointed local branch manager of Republic Pictures by Merritt Davis, Southern district manager. He replaces Sid Reams who has resigned. UK Power Grants Exclude Theatres London, March 3. — Despite the Government's restoration of electric power to all industries today, theatre and office building restrictions will continue, and domestic consumers still must conserve electricity five hours a day. The new order authorizes full production for all industries, including the film industry, except theatres. However, the shut-down of laboratories during the coal crisis resulted in a severe raw-stock shortage here, and producers will have to move cautiously if yearlv requirements of all are to be met. Personal Mention IOSEPH M. SCHENCK, execu«J tive head of production for 20th Century-Fox, arrived here yesterday from the Coast accompanied by Fred Metzler, studio treasurer. Schenck will leave here soon for a Florida vacation. • Bernard Lewis will leave for Hollywood today to begin his new job as executive assistant to Hal Horne, vice-president in charge of production for Story Productions, Inc. • Jack Simons has replaced Arnold Leapard as manager of the Center Theatre, Hartford. The latter has been transferred by the Continental Circuit to Durham, N. C. • Wade M. Carr, Manley, Inc., district manager, Cleveland, suffered a broken leg and his wife was killed in a recent automobile accident near Cincinnati. • Phil Reisman, RKO Radio vicepresident in charge of foreign distribution, has returned to New York from a South American tour. Sid Kramer, assistant to Harry Michaelson, RKO Radio short subjects sales manager, has arrived in Hollywood from New York. • Bucky Harris has succeeded Jack Quirk as RKO Radio's New Haven field exploiteer. The latter has been transferred to New Orleans. • Arthur W. Kelly, president of General Motion Picture Corp., is due here from England tomorrow on the Queen Elisabeth. • William K. Saxton, Baltimore city manager for Loew Theatres, will be host to Tom Drake, M-G-M star, at a reception here today. • Ernest Emerling, Loew's publicity-advertising manager, has been visiting Atlanta from New York. • William N. Skirball, of the Skirball circuit, is in Cleveland from the Coast. • Henderson M. Richey, M-G-M director of exhibitor relations, returned here from Florida yesterday. • Edward C. Raftery, president of United Artists, has returned here from Pittsburgh. • Arthur Jeffrey, Eagle-Lion exploitation head, will leave here today for Philadelphia. • Harry Paul, Wil-Kin Theatre Supply Co., has returned to Atlanta ^rom Tampa. Nate B. Spingold, Columbia executive, has left New York for a Florida vacation. • David O. Selznick is en route here from Hollywood by train. NATE BLUMBERG, Universal president, has arrived in New York from the Coast, accompanied by Mrs. Blumberg and their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Stan Meyer. • Maurice A. Bergman, UniversalInaternational Eastern advertisingpublicity director, returned to his desk here yesterday following recuperation from a chipped hip bone sustained several weeks ago while riding horseback in San Francisco. • Robert Weitman, managing director of the New York Paramount Theatre, who is en route to Phoenix by train, will be met there by Leonard H. Goldenson, Paramount circuit general manager, who will leave here by plane tomorrow. Rudy Berger, M-G-M Southern sales manager ; Burtus Bishop, Jr., district manager, and Leonard J. Hirsch, home office sales assistant, are in Kansas City from where they will depart for Oklahoma City on Friday. • Bernard Mack, secretary of the Filmack Trailer Corp., and son of president Irving Mack, was married in Chicago on March 1 to Dorothea Fein of New York. The couple will honeymoon in Florida. • George J. Schaefer, Enterprise distribution vice-president, has been delayed by bad weather while flying here from the Coast. He is expected to arrive today. • R. J. O'Donnell, head of Interstate Circuit, Dallas, was host to Frank Capra and James Stewart at a reception in the Hotel Adolphus there yesterday. • Maurice Grad. Columbia's short subject sales manager, left New York yesterday for a 10-day tour of Atlanta, Charlotte, New Orleans and Washington. • A. A. Ward, Altec Lansing vicenresident, and John K. Hilliard. chief engineer, have arrived in New York from the Coast for a week's stay. • William F. Rodgers, M-G-M vicepresident in charge of distribution, is due to return to New York from the Coast on March 15. • F. J. A. McCarthy, Universal-Innational Southern and Canadian sales manager, will leave New York today for Jacksonville, Fla. Charles E. Kessnich, Southern M-G-M district manager, returned to Atlanta vesterdav from Charlotte. • Nicholas Schenck, president of Loew's, Inc., will leave Hollywood today for New York. • Morton Lane of the Paramount home office legal denartment, is in Chicago from New York. 'High Tide' to Monogram Hollywood, March 3. — Jack Wrathers' second production, "High Tide," will be released by Monogram. NEW YORK THEATRES —RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— Rockefeller Center 'Spencer TRACY Katharine HEPBURN i Robert WALKER Melvyn DOUGLAS' i"THE SEA OF GRASf A MetroGoldwynMayer Picture ■SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION" PALACE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, Jr. MAUREEN 0 HARA WALTER SLEZAK Sinbadthe Sailor m W SOKOeOC/S T£O///V/C0£0K V §3 DENNIS O'KEEFE IN PERSON MAX BAER AND SLAPSY MAX1E RQSENBLQQM (/;„„,.«,, Pauiette GotWanJ I " Fred MacMurray ^Suddenly "THE BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR" —N. Y. FILM CRITICS "The BEST Years of Our Lives" Continuous A CTf\D Performoneef /Yk3 J. V-/IV «'WAY and A45th ST. 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