Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1947)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, April 25, 1947 Personal Mention CHARLAS SCHWARTZ, United Artists director and member of the law firm of Schwartz and Frohlich, is in Hollywood from New York. • * Alexander Weinstock, owner of the Midway, Greenpoint, L. I., and Mrs. Weinstcck, became parents of a baby daughter on April 20, born at Physicians Hospital, Jackson Heights. The baby's grandfather is Ben Weinstock of Raybond Theatres. • Maurice Bergman, Universal-International Eastern advertising-publicity director, returned to New York yesterday from the Coast. Hank Linet, who accompanied him Westward, will return later. • Spyros P. Skouras, 20th-Fox president, and Murray Silverstone, 20th-Fox International president, will arrive in New York from Havana tonight. • Jerome Adams, recently named M-G-M's Washington, D. C, branch manager, was married yesterday to Mrs. Oroline McKeever Oyster there. • Claire Mannheimer, secretary to C. K. Stern, Loew's assistant treasurer, will leave New York today for a vacation at Miami and Havana. • Gradwell Sears, United Artists vice-president in charge of distribution, has postponed his planned trip to London indefinitely. • Leonard Spigelgass, Paramount writer, will leave Hollywood on Monday for New York en route to England. • Richard P. Morgan, of Paramount's home office legal staff, left New York yesterday for Los Angeles. • Jules Levey left here yesterday for New Orleans and will return on Monday. SMPE's 62nd Meet To Be Held in N.Y. Chicago, April 24. — The 62nd semiannual convention of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers will be held in New York at the Hotel Pennsylvania, starting Oct. 24, with theatre engineering _ the keynote. The SMPE plans to inaugurate exhibits of theatre equipment at the next convention. Meanwhile, the Theatre Equipment Supply and Manufacturers' Association, headed by Oscar F. Neu, feeling that SMPE's plan to have theatre exhibits might infringe on its own exhibits, a policy inaugurated some years ago, held a board meeting he"re today in the hope of discouraging SMPE's plans. TESMA's contention is that SMPE should confine its sessions to discussions of technical matters. Johnston to Testify On Trade Agreement Washington, April 24. — Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association, will testify on Thursday, May 1, before the House Ways and Means Committee in defense of the reciprocal trade agreement program. The House group has been conducting hearings on the program for several weeks. Withdraw 'Outlaw' Motion to Reargue Howard Hughes' extended legal ourney with New York City license :ommissioner Benjamin Fielding and iolice commissioner Arthur W. Wal 'ander over their threat to revoke licenses of exhibitors who show hi 'The Outlaw" appeared yesterday to ie in its final stage with the withIrawal by counsel for Hughes of notion for reargument of an earlier •notion for dismissal of defense argu nents. Only a successful appeal of New York Supreme Court Justice Bernard Shientag's ruling, upholding the right of city officials to revoke a icense and prosecute an exhibitor for showing an indecent picture, could lead to an upset in the city's action and a lifting of the ban on the picture While indicating that the action in Supreme Court yesterday clears the way for an appeal, a spokesman for Hughes said that a decision in that -onnection has not yet been made. He :ndicated that action may be taken "within a few days." Shientag's ruling, handed down on April 3, was made specifically on the plaintiff's motion for a declaratory 'udgment to restrain Fielding and Wallander from continuing the ban imposed several months ago here. Producers, Analysts Agree on Contract Hollywood, April 24. — Major producers today reached a contract agreement with the Screen Story Analysts Guild and a bargaining agreement with Building Service Employes Local No. 278. Meanwhile, two meetings between a joint committee representing the Association of Motion Picture Producers, the * Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers and the Independent Motion Picture Producers Association, on the one hand, and the Screen Actors Guild on the other, will be held here tomorrow to continue contract negotiations. Republic Board Is Formulating Policy Company policy is being "amicably formulated" by the recently elected board of directors of Republic, it was announced yesterday following a regular meeting of the board here by Herbert J. Yates, president and chairman of the board. John Paine Services To Be Held Here Funeral services for John G. Paine, 57, general manager of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, who died in Detroit suddenly late Wednesday evening, will be held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, here, at noon tomorrow. Apparently in good health, Paine died of a cerebral hemorrhage after delivering an address to the National Federation of Music Clubs in Detroit. At the time of his death he was engaged in a projected plan to revise upward the music licensing rate structure for theatres. He had planned to meet with theatremen on this within a few days, and only recently met with Herman Levy, MPTOA general counsel, on the matter. Survivors are his wife, and a son, Robert G. Paine. Honorary pallbearers at the services will include: Stanley Adams, Fred E. Ahlert, Louis Bernstein, Saul Bernstein, Gene Buck, Irving Caesar, Frank H. Connor, Paul Cunningham, Max Dreyfus, Donald Grav, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto A. Harbach, Ray Henderson, John Tasker Howard, A. Walter Kramer, Edgar Leslie, George W. Meyer, Jack Mills, John O'Connor, Abe Olman, Lester Santley, Gustave Schirmer, Herman Starr, Deems Taylor, Herman Greenberg, Richard F. Murray, George A. Hoffman, Fred Erdman, Julius Collins, Herman Finkelstein, Daniel I. McNamara, Dr. Rudolf Nissim, Louis D. Frohlich and Charles Schwartz. Paine's background included associations with various film and allied companies, dating back to 1913, when he joined the Victor Talking Machine Co. He left Victor in 1927 to join Warners, where he remained until 1930. At that time he went to the Music Publishers Protective Association, and in 1937 switched to ASCAP in the general manager's post. A specialist in copyright law, Paine is said to have appeared in more than half of the states of the country in behalf of ASCAP. He was decorated by the French government in 1939, and in 1943 he was cited for "outstanding service to American music," by the National Association of American Composers and Conductors. Milner Adds City Salt Lake City, April 24.— Sam Milner, Producers Releasing Corp. Coast district manager, has added the branch here to his district. Pickford, Cowan Set 7 Films at 15 Millions. Hollywood, April 24— Producer Lester Cowan disclosed today that Artists Alliance Productions, in which he is associated with Mary Pickford, will make seven pictures, costing $15,000,000, in the next two years. United Artists is expected to distribute. NEW YORK THEATRES —RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— Rockefeller Center Claudette Fred COLBERT MacMURRAY A Universal-International Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATIO "THE EGG AND I" PALACE MIL STREET Anne JEFFREYS • George "Gabby" HAYES ON SCREEN SPENCER KATHARINE TRACY • HEPBURN M-G-M's 'THE SEA OF GRASS' IN PERSON GEORGE GIVOT BENAY VENUTA Plus OTHERS The Academy Award Picture! mer of Nine Academy Awards! 1, THE BEST YEARS OF # OUR LIVES' 4S»> Si. 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