Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, April 14, 1948 Personal Mention ERIC JOHNSTON, MPAA president, who was in Chicago yesterday for a United Airlines board meeting, is due back in Washington today after a stay on the Coast. Also returning to Washington today from the Coast are Ken Clark, Dave Palfreyman and Jerry Cahill. Edward T. Cheyfitz returned to the Capital yesterday. • Jules Weill, Masterpiece Productions head, returned here yesterday from the Coast. He will leave for Charlotte today to attend franchise holders' meetings. • Edward L. Hyman, Paramount Theatres Service vice-president, and Joseph J. Deitch, Paramount Theatres executive, will leave New York today on a Western business trip. • George Weltner, Paramount International president, and A. L. Pratchett, Latin America division manager, are due back in New York today from South America. • Nicholas M. Schenck, Loew president, and Joseph M. Schenck, 20th Century-Fox executive producer, are due back in New York Friday from Miami Beach. • Arthur Jeffrey, Eagle-Lion exploitation chief, is in Chicago from New York conferring with William Hollander, Balaban and Katz advertising head. • Ed Hinchy, Warner home office playdate department head, is due back in New York tomorrow from Buffalo, N. Y. • Robert D. Turnbull, National Theatre Supply salesman in Charlotte, will be married there Saturday to Dorothy Elizabeth Berry. • Manny Reiner, SRO Latin American managing director, will leave here today for Havana. • Irving Drutman, foreign-films publicist here, will fly to France tomorrow. • Mrs. Samuel Goldwyn will fly to London on Friday to visit Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., a producer there. • Boris Morros, head of Federal Films, will leave here today for England. • Harold Bock, Western television manager for NBC, will leave Hollywood on Friday for New York. • Fredric and Mrs. March will be passengers today aboard the Queen Elizabeth, bound for England. • Dore Schary, RKO production vice-president, was in Chicago yesterday en route to Washington. • Si Fabian will fly to Miami today from New York. Temporary End to 'Frisco's Blackout San Francisco, April 13. — Power curb which kept all San Francisco theatre upright signs and marquees black, with only dim lobby lights allowed, was formally ended last night insofar as electrical power is concerned. However, suspension of the curtailment is only temporary and restrictions may again be imposed on June 1. N. Y. C. Council Gets Censorship Measure Councilman Edward A. Cunningham yesterday introduced in the City Council his bill under which New York License Commissioner Benjamin Fielding's restrictive powers over films, plays and all advertising pertaining to them would be extended. The measure was referred to the Committee on General Welfare. Among those on record against the bill are Fielding, the Independent Theatre Owners Association of New York and the advertising advisory committee of the Motion Picture Association. Rank and Newsreels Confer on Olympics Representatives of the five American newsreels will hold another meeting with J. Arthur Rank today in an attempt to ascertain the exact conditions laid down by the British film leader for the coverage of the Olympic Games in England this summer. The newsreels have protested a deal between Rank and the British Olympics Committee purportedly giving him exclusive rights to film the games, with the American reels being required to buy desired footage from him. Rank has indicated willingness to make concessions if circumstances warrant. Paramount Acquires 25,400 More Shares Paramount acquired 25,400 additional shares of its own common stock on the open market last month to bring its holdings to 501,633 shares. Company began its stock-buying program in November, 1946 but used most of the initial acquisitions for purchase of Liberty Films. 4 of 6 WB Films in Color Hollywood, April 13. — Rising emphasis on color in films is shown by plans under way throughout the industry, Warners reporting four of its six productions rolling in Technicolor: "Adventures of Don Juan," "One Sunday Afternoon," "Silver Lining," and "My Dream Is Yours." Delay DST Hearings Washington, April 13. — Hearings on a bill to establish nationwide daylight saving time, originally slated for today, have been postponed to April 20. Theatre Owners of America is slated to testify in opposition. First FTC Hearings On Screen Ads Ends Chicago, April 13.— First of a series of hearings scheduled by the Federal Trade Commission on its "unfair competition" complaint against four advertising film companies concluded here today. Witnesses called in behalf of FTC Monday and Tuesday were: Frank Turner of Turner Advertising Co., and Frank Gibbs, General Screen Advertising. The complaint is based on grounds that theatre owners are not privileged to grant exclusive rights to one company for theatre screen advertising. Companies involved are: Ray-Bell Films, Alexander Film Co., United Film Ad Service and Motion Picture Advertising Service. Next hearings will be held in Minneapolis, April 15; Des Moines, April 19; Omaha, April 21 ; Tulsa, April 23 ; Houston, April 26; New Orleans, April 28. Tom Connors (Continued from page 1) tional on a basis which will strengthen the club treasury from the local level up the line. Louis De Rochemont is understood to have produced "New Tobacco Land" on order from Liggett and Myers, manufacturers of Chesterfields. The film carries his name as producer and at no point mentions L. and M. Connors' first large-scale deal is with Fox West Coast Theatres. Connors recently incorporated in New York as Tom Connors Associates. It is reported he will open offices in the Hotel Astor here pending availability of a permanent site. Levy Will Address Carolina Meeting Charlotte, April 13. — The summer meeting of the Theatre Owners of North and South Carolina will be held at Myrtle Beach on June 20-22, Mrs. Pauline Griffith, secretary of the association, has announced. All sessions will be held in the Ocean Forest Hotel. The program, not yet completed, will include Herman Levy, general counsel for the Theatre Owners of America, as speaker. Realart Board Meeting Realart board members are in town today for a series of meetings, among them : Paul Broder, Broder Circuit, Detroit; his brother Jack, circuit owner from California; Irving Kipnis, from Miami, and Joseph Harris, chairman, Budd Rogers and Norman Eisenstein. Drive-in to Wehrenberg St. Louis, April 13. — Purchase of the Flexer Drive-in's 66 Park-In Theatre by Fred Wehrenberg was announced here. Wehrenberg and the Wehrenberg-Kaimann interests have three drive-ins operating or building in suburban St. Louis. MPEA Branch Closing London, April 13. — Motion Picture Export Association will dissolve its branch in Holland in September, according to reports received here from Amsterdam. Newsreel Parade THE end of the coal strike at home and U. S. troops marching in Trieste are among neivsreel highlights. Varied other events at home and abroad are reviewed. Complete contents follow. MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 30— New York Army Day parade. Trieste: 5,000 American "G.I.'s" on parade. ./"Milan: Communists stage anti-governme^L.-'-opaganda parade. Child musical .^digy. Fashions: eye-filling bathing suits and novel eye glasses. Georgia golf tournament. Florida: AllAmerican girl baseball league. Washington: Outboard motor racing. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. Z64-Lewis ends coal strike. U. S. Army marches in Trieste. Musical genius. Baseball. Navy kids slug it out. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 67— Hockey champions. Lewis ends coal strike. Fouryear-old musical child wonder. Italy's hour of decision. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 134-Dramatic end to coal strike. U. S. troops march in Trieste. New York Italians parade in Red protest. Navy balloon rises 20 miles in stratosphere test. Golf tournament. Navy juniors in boxing bout. Outboard in world's "crookedest" race. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 69— Coal strike settled. U. S. shows might in Trieste. Girl baseball stars in training. Young set studies magic. AAU boxing championship. To Honor Weitman, Glixon, Balaban Entertainment leaders and New York and B'nai B'rith officials will occupy the dais when Cinema Lodge pays tribute to retiring president Robert M. Weitman and welcomes incoming president S. Arthur Glixon at a dinner at the Hotel Astor here this evening. 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