Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1948)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, July 14, 1948 Personal Mention JACK COHN, A. Montague and Joseph McConville have returned to New York from Columbia executive meetings on the Coast. Nate B. Spingold will return here tomorrow and A. Schneider on Monday. Leo Jaffee will remain on the Coast for an extended visit. Jean Hersholt, Raymond Massey, Janis Carte-r, Valentina Cortesi, Italian film actress ; Max Millar, publicist, and Christopher Isherwood, screenwriter, are among passengers due here today on the .S^ Queen Elizabeth from Europe. • Frank Albertson, screen actor, and Mrs. Albertson have become parents of their third daughter, Mundy, born Sunday in Los Angeles. • Irving Schwartz, secretary-treasurer of LaskerSchwartz, will return to New York today from a New Hampshire vacation. • Walter Jancke, city manager of Dent Theatres in Lincoln, Neb., has been hospitalized following an attack of polio. Mrs. Henry Ginsberg, wife of the Paramount studio executive, will leave New York tomorrow for the Coast. • Endre Bohem, Paramount producer, will fly back to the Coast tomorrow from New York. • Carroll Puciato and James Harris, Realart executives, are in Boston today from New York. • Morey Goldstein, Monogram general sales manager, is in Boston today from New York. Charlie Moore of Wilson and Moore Enterprises, Atlanta, is in Florida on business. Paul Broder, Realart president, is due here today from Detroit. Backer Deal wit hSRO Bogs Down in Dispute Hollywood, July 13. — Deal under which William Bacher was to produce "If This Be My Harvest" independently for Selznick Releasing Organization, with stars Valli, Louis Jourdan and Robert Mitchum borrowed from Vanguard, broke down yesterday, the date scheduled for shooting, when Vanguard instructed the players to disregard the call from Bacher to report for work. Selznick's office explained that it was withholding the stars due to Bacher's failure to rewrite the script to conform with criticisms by David O. Selznick. Bacher, asserting that "we have met every condition and fulfilled every requirement of our agreement with Vanguard and SRO," said the matter has been placed in the hands of his attorneys. 2 Cases on Studio Strike to NLRB Washington, July 13. — Argument on two complaints arising from the 1945-1946 jurisdictional disputes in Hollywood were aired today before the National Labor Relations Board. There was no indication when a decision will be handed down. In one of the cases, the International Association of Machinists charged major studios, independents and the Association of Motion Picture Producers with unfair labor practices. While holding that the producers had lawfully bargained with the union, an NLRB trial examiner found that the companies had discriminated against 10 IAM members and ordered them reinstated. The IAM today asked the board to reverse its finding on bargaining, while Robert Gilbert, arguing for IATSE, asked the board not to make any finding which would preclude an election now among studio machinists, claiming that the situation has changed completely since the IAM was certified in 1945. In the other case, the board was asked to decide whether the studios had the right to refuse to employ 25 IATSE members who refused to cross picket lines of the Conference of Studio Unions. Attorneys for the producers declared the 25 unionists were aiding an illegal strike and were joined by IATSE attorneys Matthew Levy and Michael Luddy, who said they were disloyal union members and, as such, had no rights to studio jobs. George Landis Quits 20th-Fox Branch Post Indianapolis, July 13. — George Landis, 20th Century-Fox branch manager here for 20 years, has resigned, effective next Saturday, to devote his full time to management of Amusement Enterprises, local neighborhood group, in which he is a stockholder. Thomas McCleaster, former office and sales manager of the Indianapolis branch, is his successor. Landis started as a salesman for World Films in Chicago in 1915, coming to Indianapolis in 1921 as a salesman for Fox. He was Fox branch manager in Washington, D. C, from 1924 to 1926. Capital Owners Will Meet y Eat and Bathe Washington, July 13. — Members of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Metropolitan Washington have found the ideal way to hold business meetings and still not mind the Washington heat. They will meet this Sunday at the Patuxenent River farm of president A. Julian Brylawski, and the regular business meeting will be followed by a beach party. Conn. MPTO Golf Meet New Haven, July 13. — Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Connecticut will hold its annual golf tournament on August 24 at the Racebrook Country Club in Orange, Conn., George H. Wilkinson, Jr., chairman of the arrangements committee, has announced. Rites Tomorrow for King Baggott, 69 Los Angeles, July 13. — Funeral services will be held at Pierce Brothers Mortuary on Thursday for King Baggott, 69, silent film star and subsequently a director, who died Sunday in a sanitarium. He was active in motion pictures from 1909, when he left a stock company to enter films, until illness led to his retirement a year ago. Baggott was born in St. Louis. He attended the Christian Brothers College where he became a star soccer and baseball player. He was the first president of the Screen Club, which he helped to organize. A son, Robert King Baggott, survives. Charles G. Deckman, Cleveland Owner Cleveland, July 13. — Charles G. Deckman, 58, with extensive business interests, including theatres and recreation centers in Cleveland, Florida and Canada, died suddenly over the weekend of a heart attack while vacationing at his Ontario fishing lodge, it was learned here today. Surviving are the widow, Ethel; a daughter, Edith Jones, and a son, Charles G., Jr. Services will be held in Cleveland tomorrow. B. B. Segal To Handle Israel News Review Bernard B. Segal has been placed in charge of 16mm. distribution of the forthcoming monthly news review, "Israel Today," by Norman Lourie, president of Palestine Films, producers of the series. Segal will handle distribution in cooperation with the National Jewish Welfare Board and similar organizations. Under a deal concluded with Spyros P. Skouras, 20th Century-Fox will handle worldwide distribution of "Israel Reborn," first issue of the review, Lourie also announced. 'Tap Roots' in World Bow in Phila. Today Philadelphia, July 13. — "Tap Roots," Walter Wanger production for Universal-International, will be given its world premiere tomorrow morning at the Goldman Theatre here. A special screening of the film was held at the theatre at midnight for members of the press and radio as well as delegates to the Democratic convention. Open Three in Monterrey Monterrey, Mexico, July 13. — Opening of three new theatres here brings Monterrey's total to 21. The new houses are the Cines Monterrey, seating 5,200; the Reforma, 5,000, and the Araceli, 2,500. The three are operated by the Gabriel Alarcon circuit. Babe Zaharias in Shorts Columbia Pictures has signed Babe Didrikson Zaharias, woman athlete, for a series of three golf shorts, to be part of Columbia's "World of Sports" series with Bill Stern as narrator, for release in the fall. Producer-director is Harry Foster. Newsreel Parade OMINANT in all current newsJL/ reels is the Democratic convention in Philadelphia. In the sports department Olympic track try-outs are featured. Complete contents follow. MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 46 — Democratic convention in Philadelphia. Last of British forces leave Haifa. Gen. MacArthur saluted at Imperial Palace in Tokyo. U Olympic teams prepare for track and try-outs. Swimming and diving chamijfp^, NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 290—1948 Democratic convention. Israel defies foes as truce ends. Thrills in final Olympic trials. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 93— Democratic convention in Philadelphia. U. S. teams ready for Olympic final track tryouts. Olympic swimming and diving teams picked. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 160 — Democratic convention opens to choose 1948 ticket. Final trials for Olympics. WARNER PAT HE NEWS, No. 95— Democratic convention. United Nations discusses Palestine. French seashore fashions. Olympic try-outs. 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