Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)

2 Motion Picture daily Wednesday, April 7, 1948 Personal Mention CHARLES M. REAGAN, Paramount vice-president in charge of distribution, returned to New York yesterday from Coast. • Harry Lamont, temporary chairman of the Albany unit, Theatre Owners of America, and Leonard Rosenthal, counsel, will be in New York today for TOA conferences. • William F. Rodgers, M-G-M general sales manager, will be host to trade press representatives at a Hotel Astor luncheon here next Tuesday. • Robert Mochrie, RKO Radio vicepresident in charge of distribution, has returned to New York from a brief vacation at Pinehurst, N. C. • Max E. Youngstein, Eagle-Lion vice-president in charge of advertising-publicity, has returned to New York from the Coast. e Edward M. Schnitzer, U. A. Eastern and Canadian sales manager, and Abe Dickstein, assistant, are on an up-state business trip. • Walter Titus, Jr., of Republic Pictures' home office met with Cy Dillon, branch manager at Charlotte this week. • Rudy Berger, M-G-M southern sales manager, is due back in Washington Monday after a Miami vacation. • Herman Beiersdorf, Eagle-Lion Western sales manager, is completing a Western and Southern business trip. • Vincent Trotta, National Screen Service art director here, will address the N. Y. Art Directors Club today. • Jock Lawrence of the J. Arthur Rank Organization is due back from the Coast on Thursday. Herbert J. Yates, Republic president, will leave New York for the Coast on April 18. • J. Cheever Cowdin, Universal board chairman, has returned to New York from the Coast. E. C. Grainger of the Shea Circuit, will return to New York today from a Florida vacation. • Louis K. Ansell, producer and theatre operator, is in New York from Hollywood. • Jack Berkson of Screencraft Pictures has returned to New York from Buffalo. • Ingrid Bergman has arrived in New York from Hollywood. • Ken Englund, scenarist, is in New York from Hollywood. • William Rowland is in New York from the Coast. Authors Press for Film Rights Leasing American writers have voted a selfassessment of one per cent of their annual income over $3,000 to implement a widely-expanded program to obtain, among other things, the leasing rather than sale of film rights to their writings, it was announced here yesterday by Paul Gallico, president of the Authors Guild of the Authors League of America. Assessments will replace annual dues, with Guild members reporting voluntarily on writing incomes. New program also includes investigation into restrictive activities of the Committee on Un-American Activities, a survey of book publishing, amendment to the Federal copyright law and a study of conditions in publishing which result in authors without large book sales being, squeezed out of the market. "We are preparing to fight for leasing contracts for the stronger motion picture properties where a seller's market is involved," and "on less strong properties, we intend to push for fairer standard clauses," said a Guild Council statement. Council also will initiate a study of publishing conditions to eliminate any necessity of publisher participation in motion picture rights in any book. NLRB Favors 'I A' In Amateur Ruling Robert N. Denham, National Labor Relations Board general counsel, has ruled in favor of union stagehands in their battle to keep from losing employment to amateurs as a result of the Taft-Hartley Act, IATSE headquarters here said yesterday. The issue grew out of an attempt to substitute boys for members of "IA" Washington Local No. 22, when the Claire Tree Major players shifted their shows in the Capital from the National Theatre to Washington University. Earlier, the Ingrid Bergman "Joan of Lorraine" show had made a similar shift for its premiere, according to the "IA". Un-American Probe Will Be Resumed Washington, April 6. — The House Un-American Activities Committee still plans to go ahead with its investigation of Communist influences in Hollywood, Chairman Thomas announced here today after the committee's first full meeting since his recent illness. He did not set any specific date, but said the committee "is all ready to go and the results will be just as illuminating as the first time." Hearings may resume in late summer or early fall. Rank Back in New York J. Arthur Rank will return to New York today from Philadelphia where he was guest of honor and principal speaker at the Philadelphia Forum. Except for a three-day visit to White Sulphur Springs in the middle of the month, he will remain in New York until he sails for home on April 22. Johnston Associate In Top ERP Post Washington, April 6 — Paul G. Hoffman, Studebaker Corp. president and administrator of the European Recovery Program, is a long-time friend and associate of MPAA president Eric Johnston and is now president of the Committee for Economic Development on whose board Johnston serves. MPAAToppersTalk Canadian Filming Ottawa, April 6 — Francis Harmon, Taylor Mills and Blake Owensmith of the Motion Picture Association of America are here with J. J. Fitzgibbons, president of Famous Players, Toronto, for talks with Trade Minister C. D. Howe on film production in Canada by American companies under the Emergency Foreign Exchange. Control Act. 19 More for Odeon This Year Is Plan Toronto, April 6. — Odeon Theatres will have 19 new houses operating in key Canadian cities by the year-end, reports J. Earl Lawson, head of Odeon and all other Rank interests in the Dominion. The expansion started last year. All officers and directors of Odeon have been reelected. End Ticket Tax in U. K. Rural Areas London, April 6 — Entertainment tax for "live-talent" shows has been reduced, but no cut has been made in the tax for film shows, 'except in rural areas where the duty has been abolished for halls seating up to 200, Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer desiring to increase entertainment in those places. Canada to Study Bid To Probe Film Bd. Ottawa, April 6. — Premier King today told Parliament that the demand for appointment of a special committee to examine operations of the National Film Board will be considered by the Canadian government. Lourie To Speak At UJA Luncheon A luncheon for film and other amusement division leaders will be held at the Hotel Astor, here, tomorrow, in behalf of the division's United Jewish Appeal drive. Featured speaker will be Norman Lourie, president of Palestine Films, who also is an associate of 20th Century-Fox in South Africa and United Artists Palestinian representative. S. H. Fabian, chairman of the division, has named A. P. Waxman campaign publicity director. Newsreel Parade THE tense situation in Berlin, and the signing of the Foreign aid bill by President Truman are current newsreel highlights. Sports, fashions and human interest items round out the reels. Complete contents follow : MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 28— U. S.-Britain force Reds to back down on Berlin blockade. President Truman signs' Marshall Plan. Mountbatten returns to Burn. J ^en. Spaatz retires. Drew Pearson loses* • ™md eats a hat. Speaker of House talks1 tax reduction. Mrs. Roosevelt in England. Princess Ann prepares for wedding. Gen. Eisenhower meets new grandson. Women's National AAU swim meet. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 262— U. S. I Army calls Red "bluff" in Berlin. Foreign aid bill signed by President Truman. Navy honors William Randolph Hearst. War vets rally for free Palestine. Trousseau for Princess Ann. Gen. Eisenhower becomes grandpa. Olympic preview. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 65— Foreign aid rushed under new law. Ex-dishwasher buys a town. Canada-U. S. amity hailed at Williamsburg. Mrs. Roosevelt in England. Now it's Grandpop "Ike." Trousseau for a princess. Mountbatten visits Burma. UN appeal for children. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 132— President Truman signs recovery bill. Honorary degrees conferred on Canadian officials. Finish ministers weigh Russian pact. Mountbatten revisits Burma. Gen. Eisenhower greets grandson at West Point. Hurricane winds smash Spanish coast. One-legged skier competes in Austrian meet. French gymnast displays strength and muscular control. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 67— Italy's army warns Reds. Women's national swim meet. Paris shows spring fashions. President Truman signs foreign aid bill. U. S. flies supplies to Berlin. "Aussies" in timber-chopping contest. S. A. Glixon Heads N. Y. Cinema Lodge S. Arthur Glixon, attorney-producer of the films "This Is B'nai B'rith," and "There Is So Much To Do," has been elected president of New York's B'nai B'rith Cinema Lodge, succeeding Robert M. Weitman. Installation will take place at a dinner at the Hotel Astor next Wednesday. Leo Jaffe, Columbia Pictures, has been elected vice-president and treasurer. Vice-presidents reelected are: Maurice Bergman, Universal ; S. M. Chartock, producer ; Julius M. Collins, Ascap ; Bernard Goodman, Warners ; Marvin Kirsch, Radio Daily; Martin Levine, Brandt Theatres ; Milton Livingston, Universal ; Louis Novins, Paramount; Robert K Shapiro, Paramount Theatre. Dr. Hyman Chartock, former "This Is The Army," company medico, has been elected secretary; Edward R. Black of the JournalAmerican, sergeant-at-arms, and Rabbis Bernard Birstein and Ralph Silverstein, chaplains. Television To Carry Savings Bonds Show Entire stage show preceding the premiere of Universal-International's "Are You With It," to help launch the Treasury's "Security Loan Drive"' in New York, will be televised from the Winter Garden Theatre April 14, Philip M. Light, state director of the' savings bonds division, announces. The telecast will be over WABD, key outlet of the DuMont network. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; Martin Quigley, Jr., Associate Editor. Published daily, except Saturdays,. Sundays and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address: "Quigpubco, New York." Martin Quigley, President; Red Kann, Vice-President; Martin Quigley, Jr., Vice-President; Theo J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasurer; Leo J. Brady, Secretary; James P. Cunningham, News Editor; Herbert V. 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