Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1948)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, August 10, 1948 Personal Mention ROBERT MOCHRIE, RKO Radio distribution vice-president, has returned to New York from the Coast. • Dore Schary, M-G-M production vice-president, who arrived in New York at the weekend, was guest at a home office executive luncheon yesterday. He is scheduled to meet the trade press today and will leave for the Coast tomorrow. • Jose A. Cordero, son of Trans-Continental Films president J. A. Cordero, and his bride, the former Ruth Reiman of Vienna and New York, are honeymooning in England and France. Sidney Franklin, M-G-M producer, and his wife are due here tomorrow from the Coast. They will sail for South America on Friday. • Jayne Meadows, Samuel Goldwyn actress, has flown to Rome from New York where she will be married to screenwriter Milton Krims. • J. Myer Schine, his wife and their son, David, and Donald Schine and his son, Louis, will arrive here tomorrow from Europe. • Eric Johnston, Motion Picture Association of America president, is due back in Washington Thursday from the Coast. • Max E. Youngstein, Eagle-Lion advertising publicity vice president, will leave here today for New Orleans. • Richard Powers, head of the MG-M studio music department, is here from the Coast. • Norman Elson, Trans-Lux vicepresident, left here yesterday for Chicago. Charles Bryant, 67 Mount Kisco, N. Y., August 9. — Charles Bryant, 67, retired film and stage actor, died here Saturday at Northern Westchester Hospital. Born in England, he came to this country in 1912 and appeared on the stage, following which he acted in films. He produced and appeared in "Dagmar" in 1923 and produced "The Right to Kill" in 1927. Survivors include the widow, a son and a daughter. Bob Murphy Is Dead Hollywood, August 9. — Bob Murphy, 59, former vaudeville and screen performer, who operated the filmland restaurant known as the House of Murphy, is dead here of pneumonia. Second Capitol Jackpot Second jackpot of $7,500 in the "Stop the Music" quiz show at the Capitol theatre here was won by Robert M. Singer of New York. This makes two jackpot winners amounting to $12,500 at the Capitol in one week. Phila. Syndicate to See Warner on Offer Philadelphia, August 9. — The recently formed local syndicate headed by William Ehrenberg has oversubscribed the $5,000,000 initial deposit which it plans to offer Warner Brothers for its theatres in this area, it was disclosed here. A decision is expected by the end of the month. Meanwhile, the committee of seven which has scheduled a trip to California to confer with Harry M. Warner, Warner president, has been held up awaiting the return of several of its attorneys who are presently in Europe for the Olympics. Among members of the syndicate of 14 are James R. Cromwell, David Demany, president of a large fur chain, and Mrs. Robert Irwin Brown, prominent society matron, according to Ehrenberg. If the deal goes through no largescale changes are expected to be made in the local organization. Steinberg Winner Of Reisman Drive Winners of the Phil Reisman sales drive of RKO Radio follow : First prize, Peru, Erich Steinberg, manager ; second : Egypt, Gregory Georgoussy ; third : Siam, William Palmer. Special "Top Men" prizes went to T. S. Ananth, India; John M. Eddy, Venezuela ; Jose M. Henridques, Brazil; Austin Levy, Australia; C. E. McGuinness, Belfast ; Armand Palivoda, Switzerland; Michael Drachoussoff, Belgium ; Goesta Friberg, Stockholm ; L. R. File, London ; Don Jellie, Brisbane ; C. P. Lee, Hong Kong ; Ricardo Madrigal, Cuba. In the 16mm. class, Ned Seckler, Brazil, and William Palmer, Siam, shared honors. The competition, which covered 31 foreign branches, was for the period starting April 4 and ending July 3, 1948. Robert Hawkinson served as chairman and Marc Spiegel as drive chairman. Texas Independent Sues 11 Companies Dallas, August 9. — Twelve circuits and distributors are up against another Federal Court suit involving their methods of distributing to Dallas theatres, damages of $41,000 being asked by the H. and B. Theatres, Inc. of Temple, Texas. Listed as defendants are Interstate Circuit, Loew's, Paramount, RKO Radio, 20th CenturyFox; 20th Century of Texas, Warner Brothers Pictures and Warner Brothers Distributing Corp., Columbia, Universal Corp., United Artists and Robb and Rowley. Dinner for Niland Cincinnati, August 9. — Peter Niland, who is resigning as Columbia city salesman because of impaired health, was guest of honor tonight at a testimonial dinner given by the Cincinnati Variety Club, Tent No. 3. Niland, who is president of the Cinema Club of Cincinnati, which he was instrumental in organizing, entered the industry 33 years ago. Attempted Film Ban Disturbs British London, August 9. — Producers here are disturbed at the reported attempt of the antiBritish U. S. Sons of Liberty to prevent British screenings in New York. Producer Herbert Wilcox has declared that "this open warfare will inevitably lead to serious situations unless stopped." Wilcox added that "if the sabotaging continues, a resentful reaction to American films is almost certain in England." 5 to Advise US on Foreign Program Washington, August 9. — President Truman today named the members of the five-man advisory commission set up under the Smith-Mundt Act to advise the State Department on its foreign information program, including motion pictures, newsreels, radio and publications. Chairman will be Mark Etheridge, publisher of the LouisznUe Journal. Members include National Association of Broadcasters president Justin Miller, General Electric chairman Philip D. Reed, Christian Science Monitor editor Erwin D. Canham, and Mark A. May, director of the Yale Institute of Human Relations. U. K. Finance Plan {Continued from page 1) port that a Board of Trade committee is investigating the desirability of the government's requisition of film studios or the construction of them. The committee's report is anticipated next month. The corporation which the government intends to create will have $20,000,000 available to distributors who in turn would finance production in part. It is understood that J. H. Lawrie, head of the corporation's organizing committee, has been directed to exact full security from the distributors. Receiving Licenses Are Up in Britain London, August 9. — Number of publicly-held broadcast receiving licenses in force in Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the end of June was 11,260,350, according to the Postmaster General. This number includes 54,850 television licenses, an increase of 2,350 over the previous month. Rank Aide Coming Here London, August 9. — Sydney Wynne, personal assistant to J. Arthur Rank, will leave here on the Queen Mary, August 25, on his first visit to America. The trip will be mainly a vacation. Jock Lawrence, vice-president of the J. Arthur Rank Organization in the U. S., will accompany Wynne to New York. E-L Answers SPG Contract Notice Eagle-Lion has notified the Screen Publicists Guild of its readiness to ne gotiate a new contract, becoming the first company to respond to the notices sent out by SPG a week ago. The SPG contracts with the companies will expire on September 26. Meanwhile the SPG will hold a meeting here Thursday evening to formulate new contract demands, all companies. a IA Restrained {Continued front page 1) NLRB on the grounds that since July 15 the union had sought to have employes of the Palace and of the New York Telephone Co. deny their services for the occasion. The IA assertedly demanded that half of the technical help used in connection with the telecast be from that union's ranks. Films Aid Canada Ottawa, August 9. — The Canadian National Film Board is understood to be co-operating closely with government departments and industries to sell Canadian trade outside this country through the use of films. These films are now being shown to an annual audience estimated at 70,000,000 in 60 different countries. ' NEW YORK THEATRES — RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— a Rockefeller Center "A DATE WITH JUDY" Wallace BEERY . Jane POWELL ■ Elizabeth TAYLOR . Carmen MIRANDA Xavier CU GAT . Robert STACK A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION A Of cof Lov* Story Thai Comai Sfuning Through t ALAN DONNA LADDREED/fp£sfc> ROY DEL RUTH'S THE BABE RUTH STORY — BENDIX-TREVOR Con* Performances* Pop Pricos ">&"' Paramount Presents I RAY I MILLAND 4 ANN | TODD % GERALDINE 1 FITZGERALD MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Sherwin Kane, Editor; Martin Quigley, Jr., Associate Editor. Published daily, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address: "Quigpubco, New York." Martin Quigley, President; Red Kann, Vice-President; Martin Quigley, Jr., Vice-President; Theo J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasurer; Leo J. Brady, Secretary; James P. Cunningham, News Editor; Herbert V. Fecke, Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager; David Harris, Circulation Director; Hollywood Bureau, YuccaVine Building, William R. Weaver, Editor; Chicago Bureau, 120 South La Salle Street, Editorial and Advertising. Urben Farley, Advertising Representative; Jimmy Ascher, Editorial Representative. Washington, J. A. Otten, National Press Club, Washington, D. C. London Bureau, 4 Golden Sq., London Wl. Hope Burnup, Manager, Peter Burnup, Editor; cable address, "Quigpubco, London." Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture Herald, Better Theatres, published every fourth week as a section of Motion Picture Herald; Theatre Sales; International Motion Picture Almanac, Fame. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 23, 1938, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year, $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign; single copies, 10c.