Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1948)

2 Motion Picture Daily Thursday, October 14, 1948 Personal Mention ARTHUR B. KRIM, Eagle-Lion president, will leave the Coast for New York at the weekend. • Bert Sanford, Altec home office executive here, and Mrs. Sanford, became grandparents for the second time on Columbus Day when a son was born to radio actor Andy Donnelly and Patricia Sanford Donnelly. They may call the boy Christofo Columbo Donnelly. • William Ward, assistant general manager of RKO Theatres, arrived in Cincinnati yesterday on a tour of the circuit's houses in Ohio. • Andy W. Smith, Jr., 20th-Fox general sales manager, and Sam Shain, exhibitor relations director, left here last night for Milwaukee. • Gael Sullivan, executive director of the Theatre Owners of America, returned to New York yesterday from Washington. • George Weltner, Paramount International president, will leave New York at the weekend for a tour of Britain and the Continent. • G. S. Eyssell, president of Radio City Music Hall in New York, arrived in Kansas City yesterday. • Arthur Hornblow, Jr., left Hollywood yesterday for London and Rome. • Sam Marx, M-G-M executive, was in Ottawa yesterday from the Coast. SCTOA Names Unit (Continued from page 1) J. Leavitt, Gus Metzger, Russell Roger and Harry Vinnicof as a committee to hear grievances from anyone. Williams is ex-officio. A complainant must write in a grievance, which will be screened. If found valid, the committee will act. Committeemen will not buy or negotiate contracts. SCTOA has about 350 member theatres. New Ascap Plea May Be Valid: Williams Los Angeles, Oct. 13. — Paul Williams, general counsel of the Southern California Theatre Owners Association, expressed the belief here that Ascap's argument urging the New York Federal Court to limit the action against it to relief only for the plaintiff, may be valid and may upset prior notions. Williams said he believes the court does not have the right to bring individuals under any decree. Meanwhile the SCTOA has. voted to discontinue payments to Ascap. FCC Will Rule on Para.-DuMont Issue Washington, Oct. 13. — The Federal Communications Commission has reversed a previous decision and promised Paramount an early ruling on whether it believes Paramount controls Allen B. DuMont Laboratories. The ruling will affect applications by DuMont and Paramount for six new television stations. DuMont is applying for stations in Cincinnati and Cleveland, while Paramount is seeking video outlets in San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, and Tampa. If the FCC finds Paramount does control DuMont, all of these applications will be automatically thrown out, since the two companies already have a total of five stations, and FCC rules bar any one interest from controlling more than five television stations. DuMont already has licenses for stations in New York, Washington, and Pittsburgh ; Paramount has stations in Chicago and Los Angeles. Paramount officials have indicated that they might take the FCCs five-station limit rule to the courts if they can get it applied in a specific case. The commission has also granted Balaban and Katz a license for a new experimental television relay broadcast station in Chicago, and DuMont Laboratories a license for a similar station in the "area between New Haven and Princeton, N. J." FCC Gets 20th-Fox Bid for 12 On-Location Video Beams Washington, Oct. 13. — Twentieth Century-Fox today asked the Federal Communications Commission to earmark 12 radio channels for the use of motion picture studios in onlocation work. The request is similar to the one made by the Motion Picture Research Council, of which 20thFox is a member, though the specific frequencies requested differ. Company's position was presented during FCC hearings by attorney Harold E. Mott. First Meeting of New Video Officers First meeting of the newly-elected officers and board members of the National Film Council, will take place here this evening, to be presided over by Melvin L. Gold, president. On the agenda are : election of chairman of the board, new schedule of dues and finance arrangements for 1949, and general policies of the organization. Video Films Pay (Continued from page 1) the SAG reference appeared to cover Actors Equity, American Federation of Radio Artists and other talent unions as well. Mark Woods, president of the ABC, said he was "delighted" to hear of SAG's interest, but cautioned that television today needs the help of all, actors especially, and "there aren't enough dollars yet to go around." AFM Ban on Records Is On Indefinitely American Federation of Musicians' ban on members playing for new records will continue in effect indefinitely as a result of the total collapse of negotiations to lift the ban, between AFM president James C. Petrillo and representatives of the record industry. "American Federation of Musicians and industry representatives regret that current discussions failed to produce an agreement and no further negotiations are scheduled," it was said in a joint statement. Two Presidential Reels from Warner Two special features on the coming Presidential elections will be presented "as a public service" by Warner Pathe News as part of its regular issues during the next week, it was announced here by Walton C. Ament, vice-president of Warner News. "The Dewey Story" is to be released Monday, while "The Truman Story" will be released next Tuesday. Each subject will run 10 minutes. The Dewey story will be in today's issues of the four other newsreels, and the Truman story will appear in Monday's. Producers Frown on Detroit Suit Trip Detroit, Oct. 13. — Because they are actively engaged in Hollywood production, independent producers Walt Disney, Samuel Goldwyn and the other producer plaintiffs in the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers' suit against United Detroit Theatres and Cooperative Theatres of Detroit declared they cannot comply with the defendants' request that they appear here for pre-trial examination on Oct. 18. The court has yet to rule on the defendants' motion for the producers' appearance, however. Hearings On in CSU Suit for $43,000,000 Hollywood, Oct. 13. — Federal Judge William Mathes has begun preliminary hearings in U. S. District Court here on the Conference of Studio Unions' $43,000,000 suit against the IATSE and major producers. Action charges the "IA" and studios with a conspiracy to expel CSU members from employment during the 1945 studio jurisdictional dispute. Jackson Pk. Hearings Extended to Nov. 9 Chicago, Oct. 13. — Hearings in connection with the Jackson Park Theatre's $100,000 supplementary damage suit on the Loop decree which was issued in its favor here have been extended until Nov. 9 in Judge Michael Igoe's U. S. District Court. Eight Pledge $4,000 In Tri-States Drive Hollywood, Oct. 13.— Eight distributors have joined with Tri-States Theatre Corp. to establish prizes in the circuit's "Managers' Showmanship" drive, having contributed $4,000 to spark the contest which started Oct. 1 and will run 13 weeks. Ralph Branton of Tri-States will arrange the awards with the help of advertising managers of Paramount, 20th-''" M-G-M, Warners, Universal-Int\^pl tional, Eagle-Lion, Republic and Monogram. Winners will be determined on the basis of gross profits compared with the same period of 1947. Theatres covered by the contest are in Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois. Kusell To Preside At Southern Meet New Orleans, Oct. 13. — Milton S. Kusell, distribution vice-president of the Selznick Releasing Organization, is due here from New York to preside at a Southern divisional sales meeting in the Jung Hotel tomorrow and Friday. Henry G. Krumm, Southern division manager, Alfred Delcambre, Southwest district manager, and all SRO Southern sales representatives will attend. New Chicago Suit (Continued from page 1) tern. The other companies, all of which will be named defendants, and which continue to sell under the old system of release in this area (some are non-defendants in the Jackson Park Decree), gave competing outdoor houses a two weeks' clearance priority, it was said. ITO of Wis.-Mich. (Continued from page 1) will be national Allied president William Ainsworth, who is scheduled to address the delegates on Friday. Second day will also feature election of officers. The organization's annual banquet will climax the convention. Convention chairman is Arnold Brumm, assisted by entertainment committee chairman Charles Trampe. Republic Meeting (Continued from page 1) Edward L. Walton, assistant general sales manager, and Walter L. Titus, Jr., division manager, who are cocaptains of the current J. R. "Jimmy Grainger 10th Anniversary Drive." Herbert J. Yates, Republic president, will address the meeting tomorrow. Truman Honors Ryder Hollywood, Oct. 13. — Loren L. Ryder, head of the Paramount studio sound department, has been presented a Presidential citation "for outstanding contribution to the war effort." A Government technical consultant during World War II, Ryder, who is president of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, received the award from Brig. General Leroy H. Watson. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; Martin Quigley, Jr., Associate Editor. 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