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Motion Picture Daily
Monday, June 21, 1948
Review
"The Gay Intruders
(Sc1tzer-2Qth Century Fox)
PSYCHIATRY is used as a springboard for mirth in "The Gay Intruders," a Frank Seltzer production. Sharing the leads in this comedy of marital errors are such notables of the legitimate stage as John Emery and Tamara Geva. Net result is pleasing entertainment, although at times the script's development is routine.
Story focuses on an acting couple who offer ideal harmony on the stage, but are the essence of marital discord off stage. Both consider themselves perfectly normal, and so each seeks out a psychiatrist to help the other. Psychiatrists Leif Erickson and Virginia Gregg have a time of it curing their respective patients, and in the process, get caught up in some boisterous doings, including a fine case of mistaken identity. The finale sees not only husband and wife readjusted to each other, but also the psychiatrists about to become husband and wife. Emery and Miss Geva perform well in a screenplay by Francis Swann, from an original by himself and Ray McCarey. Also in the cast is Roy Roberts, as a theatrical agent. McCarey directed, Hugh King was associate producer.
Running time, 68 minutes. Adult audience classification. Release date, not set. Mandel Herbstman
Video Film Recorder Set for GOP Meet
The kinescope recording system will be used by National Broadcasting Television for the first time during the Republican national convention in Philadelphia this week. The programs will be recorded on film as they are presented on the NBC video network and then sent to New York for processing. The prints will be ready for shipment by air within 12 hours after the conclusion of each program.
These recordings will, in effect, provide a coast-to-coast television service for those stations not interconnected to the NBC network by coaxial cables or micro-wave relays.
Video Contract
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Singles, Doubles
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per cent play combination single and double features, and the remainder, 12.8, run singles only. New Haven is a close second with 75.5 per cent,
17.2 per cent are on the combination policy, and the balance of 8.3 show singles. Los Angeles is third with 64.7 per cent, 28 per cent show either single or double, and the rest, 8.3, are single runs. Detroit is fourth with 58.1 per cent, 29.8 per cent on the combination policy, and 12.1 use singles.
Theatres South of the Mason-Dixon line predominate with the single feature policy. The Charlotte area heads the list, at 77 per cent. Oklahoma City is second with 75.2 per cent, New Orleans third with 70.6 per cent, Dallas fourth, 69.5 per cent, Minneapolis,
67.3 per cent, and Memphis sixth with 63.1 per cent.
OF COURSE
TEXAS,
BROOKLYN
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HEAVEN
designed to "protect the station's clearing rights, provide for the physical condition and handling of films, establish the responsibility of film distributors, standardize programming methods, expedite the return of film and the physical protection of prints and to otherwise standardize film practices."
Permanent officers of NTFC will be elected at a meeting in September. Meanwhile Melvin L. Gold, director of advertising-publicity for National Screen Service, has been re-elected temporary chairman, and Robert Wormhoudt, executive vice-president of Telecast Films, Inc., is secretarytreasurer.
A proposed central information bureau of NTFC would provide registering of television rights of film and music, and that registry would provide seals of approval guaranteeing to television stations the legal right of exhibition of such films. The bureau would also provide a catalogue of available films approved for television.
Vogel on Booking
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light of industry litigations which had been pending and threatening at that time. But the advice represented no "iron-bound" rule, he said under cross-questioning.
Under questioning by defense attorney Edward Raftery, Vogel said that if Loew owned the National Theatre in Louisville, Fifth and Walnut house which the plaintiff alleges has been denied first-run product illegally, it would be operated as a theatre for Negro patrons. He reminded, however, that Loew's theatre operating policy does not include Negro houses.
sent from UA
Roadshow Negro Film
Astor Pictures will roadshow "The Betrayal," Negro feature written, produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux, starting here Thursday at the Mansfield Theatre, it has been announced by Robert M. Savini, Astor president. The film will be roadshown nationally.
FCC Defers Hearing
Washington, June 20. — Federal Communications Commission has postponed until September 28 further hearings on the inter-city television relay rates charged by A. T. and T. and Western Union.