Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, April 27, 1948 Coming Events May 3-4 — Motion Picture Theatre Owners and Operators of Georgia convention, Henry Grady Hotel, Atlanta. May 4-5 — Independent T h e a t re Owners of Arkansas convention, Hotel Marion, Little Rock. May 4-5 — Independent Exhibitors of New England convention, Hotel Somerset, Boston. May 10-11 — Allied Independent Theatre Owners of Iowa and Nebraska convention, Des Moines. May 11-12 — Motion Picture Foundation trustees meeting, Hotel Astor, New York. May 12-13 — Allied Independent Theatre Owners of Kansas and Missouri convention, Hotel Muehlebach, Kansas City. May 17-18 — Society of Motion Picture Engineers' semi-annual convention, Ambassador Hotel, Santa Monica, Cal. May 18-19 — Allied Rocky Mountain ITO convention, Denver. May 21 — Motion Picture Associates annual dinner-dance, WaldorfAstoria Hotel, New York. Personal Mention Drop Defendant in Baltimore Action Washington, April 26. — Counsel for Baltimore's Windsor Theatre, which some weeks ago filed a civil anti-trust suit here against major distributors, Walbrook Amusement Co., Hilton Theatre Company, and Thomas D. Goldberg, president of the two latter companies, today agreed to dismiss Goldberg as a party to the suit but asked the Federal District Court to refuse a defense motion to dismiss the suit against the two Baltimore theatre concerns. Attorneys for Goldberg and "the two Baltimore companies had asked that the suit be dismissed against them on the ground that they did not do business in Washington. Rosenthal Appointed Albany TO A Director Albany, N. Y., April 26. — Leonard L. Rosenthal, local film attorney, has been appointed executive director of the Theatre Owners of America's Albany exchange area unit. The selection, urged since the formation of the unit last fall, was made with the approval of the national TOA. Rosenthal, who is also a film-buying adviser for Upstate Theatres, recently attended an organizational meeting in Chicago with Harry Lamont, present temporary chairman. 5% Freight Rate Rise Effective on May 6 Washington, April 26. — Freight rate increases averaging five per cent will go into effect May 6, according to schedules filed by the carriers with the Interstate Commerce Commission late today. SIR ALEXANDER KORDA, Murray Silverstone, 20th Century-Fox International president ; Robert Guillemard, production chief of Pathe Cinema of France ; Harold Boxall, director of London Film Productions, and Mrs. Boxall, and Akim Tamiroff and his wife are among passengers due here today from Europe on the •S".? Queen Elizabeth. • Billy Wilder, director, will arrive in New York tomorrow from Hollywood for a stay of 10 days. He will then go to Europe on a business trip of eight weeks. • F. J. A. McCarthy, Universal-International Southern and Canadian sales manager, will leave New York for St. Louis today. He returned here yesterday from Atlanta. • Gene Hudgens has resigned as manager of the Home Theatre, Oklahoma City, to join Republic in that city. Lester Lloyd succeeds him at the Home. Robert Taplinger, Enterprise vicepresident, and William Blowitz, director of publicity, are here from Hollywood. • Harry F. Shaw, division manager of Loew's Poli Theatres, and Mrs. Shaw are en route to South America from Hartford for a vacation. • George D. Burrows, Allied Artists-Monogram executive vice-president and treasurer, returned to Hollywood yesterday from New York. • Madeleine Carroll will be the guest of the motion picture chapter of the American Veterans Committee tomorrow night at the Taft Hotel here. • Jack Harris, Walter Reade Theatres chief booker, and Mrs. Harris have returned to New York from Miami. Paul R. Wing, Jr., son of the producer-director, has joined the managerial staff of Walter Reade's Paramount in Long Branch, N. J. • Samuel G. Engel, 20th CenturyFox producer, is in town from Hollywood. Herman Levy, Theatre Owners of America counsel, left New York yesterday for New Haven. • William German, president of J. E. Brulatour, Inc., will return here today from Rochester, N. Y. • Paul Whiteman and Murray B. Grabhorn have been elected vicepresidents of American Broadcasting. • Steve Kurpen of Hartford has leased the Astor Theatre, East Hartford. • W. G. McGraff has joined San Francisco Theatres in that city in a managerial capacity. NICHOLAS NAYFACK, M-G-M studio executive, is due here next week from the Coast. • Emma Carbone, secretary to RKO Theatres national advertising-publicity director Harry Mandel, and Elizabeth Laus, secretary to Blanche F. Livingston, were feted last week by their colleagues in the theatre publicity department on the occasion of their 25th anniversaries with the company. • Walter Kirchofer has been shifted to Walter Reade's Kingston Theatre, Kingston, N. Y., replacing Betty Riseley who was switched to the Broadway Theatre, that city. • Jack N. Warner, son of Jack L Warner, and Barbara Richman of New Haven, have announced their en gagement. Charles D. O'Brien of Loew's in dustrial relations department returned to New York yesterday from Holly wood. • Joel Bezahler, assistant to M-G-M sales head William F. Rodgers, has returned to New York from a vacation. • Wolfe Cohen, Warner International vice-president, is due in Hollywood next Sunday from New Zealand. • Ed Hinchy, head of Warners home office playdate department, returned here yesterday from Pittsburgh. • Cliff Poland, Warner Pathe staff cameraman in Miami, and Mrs. Poland have become the parents of a daughter. Earl and Arthur Elkin, brothers who operate the Elkin Theatre, Aberdeen, Miss., are planning an auto trip to the Coast. • Carol Brandt, M-G-M Eastern story head, will leave New York May 6 for Hollywood. • Edwin Knopf, M-G-M studio executive, is due here May 13 from the Coast en route to Europe. • Jules Levey, United Artists independent producer, is due in New York May 5 from Europe. • Nunnally Johnson, UniversalInternational producer, is in town from California. • Robert Nathan, M-G-M writer, and his wife are due here from the Coast May 6. • Margaret O'Brien will return here next week from Europe. Hal B. Wallis is in New York, from Hollywood. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are in town from the Coast. Little Carnegie Case Before State Court Albany, N. Y., April 26.— Decision is expected in two weeks by the Court of Appeals here on an Appellate Division ruling on the possession of the Little Carnegie Theatre, New York. Argument was heard today on an appeal by Jean Goldwurm and George Schwartz, present landlords, from the appellate ruling which held that Max and William Goldberg and William Lesser, operators of the Little Carnegie, could stay on for the ren» ng five years of the lease. _ The present landlords exercised a right of cancellation under the lease when they purchased the building in order to take possession of the theatre. Louis Nizer represented the theatre operators. Bar Title Registration Refusal by the Title Registration Bureau to register the title, "Rose of Cimarron," on the ground that it conflicted with Edna Ferber's "Cimarron," has been upheld by the board of directors of the Motion Picture Association of America. 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