Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, June 15, 1948 Personal Mention WILLIAM F. RODGERS, M-G-M distribution vice-president, will return to New York tomorrow from Chicago. • C. Y. Tom, president of Chinamerica Film Exchange, will leave here today for Hong Kong. He will stop off at Washington and Hollywood en route. • Jules Weill, Masterpiece Productions president, will tour the company's branches from Hollywood before returning to New York. • Dr. Everett Clinchy, president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, left here yesterday for Europe on the 55" Mauretania. • F. J. A. McCarthy, Universal-International Southern and Canadian sales manager, left New York yesterday for Canada. • Alfred H. Tamarin, United Artists home office publicity director, and Lucille Lortel, will co-present "Red Roses for Me" on Broadway this fall. • Maurice Silverstein, Loew's International regional director of Latin America, will leave here today for Brazil on a tour of his territory. • George R. Ginoux, field representative for Technicolor, Hollywood, is in Boston and will visit Montreal before returning to the Coast. • N. Peter Rathvon, RKO president, left over the weekend for Hollywood. • J. -J. Unger, United Artists sales manager, will leave here today for Philadelphia. • Arthur Jeffrey, Eagle-Lion exploitation manager, left here yesterday for Chicago. • Carol Brandt, M-G-M Eastern story head, will return here from the Coast on July 3. • Walter L. Titus, Republic division manager, is in Dallas from New York. Memphis Variety Installs Memphis, June 14. — Ed Williamson, Warner manager here, was installed today as chief barker of the local Variety Club at a luncheon at which Harry Martin, president of the American Newspaper Guild, spoke of his experiences as a U. S. delegate to the United Nations conference on freedom of information at Geneva. Williamson announced a projected intensification of the club's charitable enterprises. The club's annual picnic will be held July 24. Sullivan Luncheon Today Gael Sullivan, new executive director of Theatre Owners of America, will be formally introduced to the trade press today at a TOA-sponsored luncheon at the Hotel Astor here. Philadelphia Meet On Rogers Memorial Andy W. Smith, Jr., general sales manager of 20th CenturyFox ; Robert Mochrie, distribution vice-president, RKO Radio ; and Joseph J. Unger, general sales manager, United Artists, will hold a meeting today at the Broadmoor Hotel in Philadelphia, with local distribution representatives, companies, exhibitor organizations, and the trade press to organize a local campaign for the Will Rogers Memorial Sanatorium at Saranac. Also in attendance from New York will be Nat Levy, Eastern division manager of RKO, and Sam Shain, director of public relations for 20th Century-Fox. UA Chiefs Get SPG Bid Backing SOPEG United Artists president Gradwell L. Sears, vice-president Harry D. Buckley, and advertising-publicity director Paul Lazarus, Jr., were urged yesterday in letters sent by UA unit members of the Screen Publicists Guild to reconsider action regarding Screen Office and Professional Employes Guild. The company has asserted it will not negotiate with SOPEG because that CIO union has failed to comply with the non-Communist affidavit provisions of the Taft-Hartley Law. SPG and SOPEG are sister Artists Managers, SAG Extend Pact Hollywood, June 14. — In an arrangement believed to be unique in contract negotiation procedure, Screen Actors Guild and Artists Managers Guild have announced agreement to extend to Jan. 1, 1949 their present 10-year-old contract which expires Sept. 18. The agreement stipulates that they will open negotiations if, and when, SAG is .successful in drawing up a new pact with producers. The extension frees SAG to negotiate for a new contract with the producers to replace the one which expires at the end of July. Malco Acquires Four Arkansas Theatres Memphis, June 14. — Malco Theaatres has leased four Fayetteville, Ark., theatres from W. F. Sonneman. Malco will take over July 3. Extensive remodeling of the four theatres is scheduled. M. A. Lightman is president of Malco. Aid TO A Drive: Walsh Richard F. Walsh, IATSE president, has asked 'IA' members to volunteer their services at special screenings of "Report for Action," sponsored by Theatre Owners of America as part of its program to combat juvenile delinquency. The film is available to special groups during nonoperating hours of theatres. Schenck Buys Racetrack Los Angeles, June 14. — Joseph Schenck, 20th Century-Fox production executive, has purchased a controlling interest in Del Mar racetrack. He declined to disclose the price, but it is reported to have been $2,000,000. Video Nets' Pool to Cover Conventions Coverage of the Republic and Democratic national Presidential conventions in Philadelphia by telecasters along the Eastern Seaboard will be on a pooled basis. Eighteen television stations — largest hook-up ever — will transmit the two events. Major tele, vision networks are pooling both man power and facilities. In addition to the day-long telecasts directly from the scenes of both conventions, telecasters will film the proceedings and fly them to television stations in the Midwest and West where no cable or microwave relay facilities are available for direct transmissions. , Four television cameras, each fitted with a turret of four lenses — permitting 16 different angles of coverage — are to be installed in Convention Hall in Philadelphia. The Television pool will share with radio broadcasters the sound pickups of convention activities. Forty-eight microphones have been installed on the convention floor for use by delegates from each of the states, and microphones on the speakers' rostrum will pick up the voices of party leaders as they address the assemblage. Video Station Costs Estimated by Para. Washington, June 14. — Paramount today estimated that it will cost $600,000 to operate its San Francisco television station during the first year — if the Federal Communications Commission lets it have the station at all. The company filed with the FCC today preparatory to final hearings here on Monday. Paramount estimated it would spend $493,150 to get the station built and equipped — the $600,000 would be on top of this. U-I Assigns Two And Promotes Three Maurice (Bucky) Harris, veteran exploiteer, and Matt Cantillon, formerly a member of the Warner publicity department, have joined Universal-International's Eastern exploitation staff. Harris will specialize in new openings. Cantillon will help develop theatre promotion material. Alfred N. Mendelsohn has been promoted to radio promotion, Jerome M. Evans has been assigned to national advertising tie-ups, and Herman Kass will be liaison between circuit advertising and exploitation departments. Lightstone to Preside At Paramount Meet Toronto, June 14. — Annual sales convention of Canadian Paramount will open here tomorrow at the King Edward Hotel, under the direction of Gordon Lightstone, Canadian general manager, with branch managers and staff representatives from the six key centers of the Dominion attending. The meeting will be attended by Oscar Morgan, sales manager of the short subjects and newsreel departments in New York. Latta Leaves Albany W. B. Theatre Post Albany, June 14. — The dinner given by the local Variety Club to C. J. Latta at the Ten Eyck Hotel here Friday turned out to be a farewell party _ with the disclosure that Latta is retiring as Upstate zone manager of Warner Theatres to take a new post to be announced by Harry Warner. Latta reported to the Warner home office today after seven years in his post here. ' ^ Warner home office spokesmen iBff Latta's new assignment has not been officially made yet, nor his successor at Albany named. Defer S chine Order Hearing for Week Buffalo, June 14. — Hearing on the proposed Government order in accordance with the U. S. Supreme Court's mandate in the Schine anti-trust suit, scheduled for today in District Court here, has been postponed until next Monday. The Government is asking for a 45-day deadline for the filing by the defendant of an accounting of all company theatre interests. W.B. Boatride Today Warner home office employes, members of the Warner Club, will embark on their annual boat ride up the Hudson to Bear Mountain today. 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