Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1948)

2 MOTION PICTURE DAILY Tuesday, August 17, 1948 Rank Studios Shut Down for 2 Weeks London, Aug. 16. — More than half of Britain's film production came to a standstill today when the J. Arthur Rank studios closed for two weeks vacation. The studios concerned are at Denham, Pinewood, Shepherd's Bush, Islington and Ealing and involve nearly 4,000 employes. U.K. Films Council Members Completed London, Aug. 16. — President of the Board of Trade Harold Wilson has completed his Cinematograph Films Council with the appointment_ of two members representative of "independent persons." They are Prof. K. C. Wheare of All Souls College, Oxford, and John Brannigan, a Scottish tradesunion executive. For the first time, no Americans were appointed to the Films Council. Second MP A A Ascap Meeting Here Today Second of a series of meetings to consider the Federal Court's decision holding Ascap in violation of the antitrust laws will be held here this afternoon by the copyright committee of the Motion Picture Association of America. Chairman of the conference will be Edwin P. Kilroe of 20th-Fox. Howard Heads New Firm Television has added a new corporate member to its fold with the incorporation of Special Purpose Films, producer of commercial films for screen and television. Hampton W. Howard is president of the new corporation, and John Fox, former account executive with LaRoche and Ellis and more recently with CBS, is head of the sales service department. Hammerstein Services Hollywood, Aug. 16. — Private funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Mrs. James Walter Kays, former Elaine Hammerstein, silent film star, and her husband, who were among five motorists killed in a crash Saturday near Tiajuana. Her father, Arthur Hammerstein, flew here from Chicago. Herbert Kneller, 50 Lancaster, O., Aug. 16. — Herbert C. Kneller, 50, theatre manager here for the past 34 years, died unexpectedly following a heart attack at his home. He was manager of the Broad at the time of his death. Previously he had managed the Palace and Lyric. Sunday Ban Upheld Zion, 111., Aug. 16. — Zion's law banning Sunday shows has been upheld in Circuit Court at Waukegan in a test case involving the Zion Theatre Corp. Attorneys for the circuit said they will take the case to the Illinois Supreme Court and were given '45 days to file a bill of exceptions. Personal Mention WILLIAM A. SCULLY, Universal International distribution vice-president, and Maurice Bergman, Eastern advertising-publicity director, have returned to New York from the Coast. Vice-president Charles Prutzman is expected to remain in Hollywood for a few more weeks, while J. Cheever Cowdin, board chairman, and Joseph H. Seidelman, foreign sales chief, are due back in New York this week. • Huldy McGinn, California Theatres Association public relations director, is representing the industry at Stanford University's Workshop Conference on Leadership and Youth Problems, which opens tomorrow at the university. • Richard Lesnick, former Film Classics booker in Cleveland and son of Mike Lesnick, accountant for Associated Theatre Circuit in that city, will be married to Bernice Cassell of East Orange, N. J., at the Hampshire House here on Aug. 28. • Leslie E. Thompson, RKO labor relations head, has been named chairman of the motion picture division in the 1948 fund drive for the Travelers Aid Society of New York. • Daniel Schuman, son of Leon Schuman of Hartford Theatres Circuit, has become engaged to Bella Katz of Colchester, Conn. • Irving Sherman, Columbia assistant manager of branch operations, was in Cleveland last week from New York. • Frank Phelps, Warner labor relations head, is in Cleveland from New York attending the IATSE convention. • James Van Horne, 20th CenturyFox salesman in New Haven, has resigned. • Ted Galanter, M-G-M exploitedin San Francisco, was married last week to Mildred Black. • Peter Thorne has been named RKO Radio salesman in San Fran Louis B. Mayer w.as at Stanford Hospital in San Francisco last week for a checkup. HARRY M. KALMINE, Warner circuit president and general manager, and Harry Goldberg, advertising-publicity director, left here last night for Washington and are due back at the end of the week. • Earl J. Hudson, president of United Detroit Theatres, and Leo Fitzpatrick, television director for the circuit, have returned to Detroit from New York. • Wallace Dale MacDonald, son of Warner International vice-president Karl MacDonald, will be married to Phyllis Ann Pearson in Salt Lake City on Thursday. • Rufus Shepherd, manager of the Broadway Capitol Theatre, Detroit, recently underwent an appendectomy at the Women's Hospital in that city. • F. J. A. McCarthy, Universal-International Southern and Canadian sales manager, left here yesterday for Charlotte. • C. J. Feldman, Universal-International Western division sales manager, is back at his desk here from a vacation. • I. E. Lopert, president of Lopert Films, and Mrs. Lopert will sail for Italy and France next Tuesday on the America. • Henry Hammond, Memphis representative for Monogram Southern Exchanges, has entered the hospital in that city for a check-up. • Jack Barrett, Monogram sales representative in Florida, is in the hospital at Fort Myers, Fla., following a heart attack. • John W. Mangham, president of Screen Guild of Georgia, will leave Atlanta this week for a sales meeting in Memphis. • Andy W. Smith, Jr., 20th CenturyFox distribution chief, is on a Nantucket vacation. • Thelma Huglund has been appointed head booker for UniversalInternational in Atlanta. • George Cappers has sold his State Theatre in Hurley, S. D., to Vincent Van Eren. Story of Green Bay Packers in Films Hollywood, Aug. 16. — Steve Broidy, president of Allied Artists, has closed a producing-releasing deal with Tony Owen that will bring the story of "The Green Bay Packers," national professional football team, to the screen. Picture will be handled in a documentary manner, according to Owen, who was a former co-owner of the Detroit Lions football team. All footage filmed by the Packers of their football games will be made available. Production is slated to start in late fall at Green Bay, Wis. 19 in TOA Group (Continued from page 1) mon, 20th Century-Fox; Lucia Perrigo and Al Weinberg, Warner; Bob Hickey, Wally Heim and Lou Mayer, RKO ; Leon Brandt, Eagle-Lion ; E. G. Fitzgibbons, Paramount ; Ben Katz, Universal-International ; Norman Kassell, Essaness Theatres ; Jim Ascher, Motion Picture Daily and Motion Picture Herald; Jerry Baxter and Leo Zablin, Variety; Jonas Perl berg, Boxoffice; Joe Essler, Film Daily; Harris Silverberg, National Screen Service ; Irving Mack, Filmack Trailer Co., and Jack Garber, Balaban and Katz. S chary and Deutsch Start at MGM Studio Hollywood, Aug. 16. — Remarking, "I am anxious to put on a uniform and start playing with the team," Dore Schary started his new M-G-M studio executive duties today. Producer Armand Deutsch, who left RKO Radh following Schary's resigiJ^' tion at that studio, al*-'. started as M-G-M producer. Fabian Acquires WB Strand in Brooklyn Sale of the Strand, Brooklyn firstrun, by Warners to Fabian Theatres was finalized here yesterday, it was announced jointly by Warners and S. H. Fabian. Fabian will take over actual operation of the house on Sept. 1. The latter's circuit also operates the Fox, another Brooklyn first-run. Correction Milton Kramer was inadvertently mentioned here yesterday as being general sales manager of Selznick Releasing Organization. He is chairman of the board. Milton Kussell is SRO sales manager. NEW YORK THEATRES p — RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL — r Rockefeller Center "A DATE WITH JUDY" Wallace BEERY . Jane POWELL Elizabeth TAYLOR . 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