Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1948)

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2 Motion Picture Daily Thursday, October 21, 1948 Personal Mention JOSEPH H. SEIDELMAN, Universal-International foreign sales vice-president, is due back in New York today from Europe on the 6\S Queen Elizabeth. • E. T. Gomersall, assistant to William A. Scully, Universal-International distribution vice-president, has left New York for St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans. • U. B. Ross, Westrex regional manager for Latin America, and E. W. McClellan, Jr., theatre engineering manager, are in Mexico City from New York. Shirley Frankel, secretary to Warner vice president Samuel Schneider, has entered French Hospital here for a major operation. • F. J. A. McCarthy, UniversalInternational Southern and Canadian sales manager, has returned to New York from a tour of the South. • I. E. Lopert, Lopert Films president, will return to New York today on the -S\S" America from France and Italy. Charles Simonelli, Universal-International Eastern exploitation manager, left here yesterday for Cincinnati. A. J. O'Keefe, Universal-International assistant general sales manager, will leave New York today for Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Chicago. • Walter E. Branson, RKO Western sales manager, is in Hollywood from New York. • Moe Kerman, Favorite Films president, will leave here tomorrow for the Coast. • Robert L. Lippert, Screen Guild president, was in Boston yesterday from New York. • Jacques Kopfstein, Astor Pictures executive vice-president, has returned to New York from Cleveland. • Jay Eisenberg, liaison between MG-M's sales and legal departments, is in Detroit this week from New York. • Sam Marx, M-G-M production executive, has arrived here from Ottawa and the Coast. • Sidney Franklin, M-G-M producer, has returned to Hollywood from a vacation in Rio de Janeiro. • E. Z. Walters, Altec comptroller, has returned to the Coast from New York. Max Weinberg, M-G-M Eastern shorts representative, has left New York for the Coast. • Leon Goldberg, RKO studio manager, is in New York from Hollywood. E-L Slates 18-Week 'Mystery Sales Drive* Eagle-Lion will hold an 18-week "Mystery Sales Drive," starting Dec. 3, William J. Heineman, distribution vice-president, has announced. Title, "Mystery Drive," he said, stems from the company's decision to keep secret for the time being the identity of the person to be honored during the period. Milton E. Cohen, Eastern division manager, has been named drive captain. Prizes will be offered and a special force of advertising, publicity and exploitation personnel will cover exchanges and cooperate with sales department members, Heineman said. Will Ask Divestiture Of 3 in Philon Suit Chicago, Oct. 20. — A motion to divest the Indiana-Illinois Theatre Circuit of its Tivoli, Lido and Uptown theatres in Michigan City, Ind., and also to add them as defendants in the Michigan City equity case will be entered here tomorrow by attorney Seymour Simon in Judge John Barnes' U. S. District Court here. Plaintiff Louis Philon, operator of the Liberty Theatre in Michigan City, alleges that unless complete divestiture of the houses is brought about the alleged conspiracy will not be eradicated. Approves Crescent Construction Plans Nashville, Oct. 20. — Judge Elmer D. Davies, of U. S. District Court here, has granted authority to the Crescent Amusement Co. to build and operate six new theatres for which permission was petitioned by Crescent attorneys on Aug. 16. New houses will be built in Cleveland, Greenville, Union City and Columbia, and new drive-ins near Clarksville, Tenn., and Decatur, Ala. Gregg Elected Head Of Westrex Group Eugene S. Gregg, vice-president and manager of Westrex, has been elected president of Westrex's 12 American subsidiaries operating in foreign countries, to succeed T. K. Stevenson, who has resigned. At the same time F. R. Lack was elected to the board to fill the vacancy created by Stevenson's resignation. MOT to Host Press March of Time will hold a screening of _ its latest issue, "America's New Air Power," Tuesday afternoon in conjunction with a reception for the press at the Time and Life Information Center. Sunday Shows Adopted Florence, Ala., Oct. 20. — Sunday film shows are slated for this community. The townspeople voted for them 1,445 to 1,228. The Stratford Reopening Stratford, Conn., Oct. 20. — The reconstructed Stratford will open tomorrow night. Albert M. Pickus owns and operates. Finkelstein & Ruben Names Linked Again Minneapolis, Oct. 20.— The names of Finkelstein and Ruben have again been joined in theatre operations here after a lapse of 20 years, with the association of Harold Field (who was Finkelstein) and Eddie Ruben in the Austin, Minn, drive-in project of Clem Jaunich. The original Finkelstein and Ruben combination of the theatre gold rush days of 1915-28 were M. L. (Moe) Finkelstein and I. H. (Ike) Ruben, and their respective sons, Harold and Eddie, have since "gone it alone" in building formidable circuits until teaming up in the Austin venture. See Court Decision Affecting CSU Suits Los Angeles, Oct. 20. — Seeking speedy court determination of a possible civil rights violation, Andrew Mackay, member of the carpenters local No. 946 of the Conference of Studio Unions, today filed suit in the Federal Court here asking definition of his rights in his dispute with MG-M. A court decision is, seen as setting a precedent for many thousands of CSU members. It also would affect many pending cases. Mackay, a carpenter with M-G-M from Nov., 1926 to Sept., 1946, claims he did not leave work voluntarily, but was ordered to leave the lot. He charges this is a violation of the union's closed shop contract, an unfair labor practice, and a violation of civil rights. FWC Operators Seek An Arbitration Order Hollywood, Oct. 20. — IATSE Projectionists Local No. ISO today went to court seeking an order compelling Fox West Coast to use American Arbitration Association services in_ settling the "Amber" dispute. Early this year the projectionists threatened a walkout at 25 FWC houses when the film had simultaneous premieres but second-run scales prevailed over first-run for projectionists. George Bowser, FWC general manager, has rejected AAA notification of readiness to hear both sides. Bowser claims the dispute is not covered by the circuit contract with the local which provides for arbitration. Protest Meet Tonight Louis Untermeyer, poet and chairman of the executive board of the New York Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions, will be chairman of a meeting to be held here this evening at the Hotel Woodstock to protest the refusal of film distributors to negotiate new labor contracts with the Screen Publicists and Screen Office and Professional Employes guilds, it is announced by the Council. The companies rejected the guilds for their failure to comply with the non-Communist affidavit provisions of the Taft-Hartley Law. To Ask Longer Loop Run for 'Belinda' Chicago, Oct. 20. — Warner's "Johnny Belinda" will be up for discussion on Friday morning in Judge Michael Igoe's U. S. District Court, when attorney Vincent O'Brien will ask for a two-week Loop extension for the film. It will open at the Balaban and Katz State Lake Oct. 28. In view of Judge Igoe's recent relaxation of the Jackson Park decree in granting extended Loop ru«JJHfcr "Hamlet" and "The Snake Pit,"1^ Jner, it is understood, will present similar arguments for the extension. Jackson Park attorney Thomas McConnell is vacationing on the West Coast and attorney Norma Korfist of the same office will oppose the Warner motion. Feuerlicht Becomes Aide to L. A. Mayor Maurice Feuerlicht, formerly head of the 16mm. department of Paramount International, here, has been appointed executive assistant to Fletcher Bowron, mayor of Los Angeles. Prior to the war Feuerlicht i held legal and administrative positions in the Federal Government in Washington. During the war he was projects director of the motion picture di' vision of the Coordinator of InterAmerican Affairs and later held a similar post with the' U. S. State Department. Shoes' Opens Tonight In Refurbished Bijou Leading military, naval and air force figures as well as society leaders, industry heads and stage and < screen stars have been invited to the } premiere of Eagle-Lion's "The Red Shoes," to be held at the Bijou Theatre here tonight. The Bijou, owned by City Investj ing Co., has been completely refurbished for the occasion, according to | Maurice Maurer, manager of the house. The Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Club will benefit from the opening. Essaness Operation Is Headed by Smith Chicago, Oct. 20. — Ralph G. Smith has been appointed general manager of Essaness circuit operations and Clarence E. Miller has been named treasurer in charge of real estate, labor and public relations. Harry E. Gerry is secretary in charge of accounting and finance. Edwin Silverman and Emil Stern, Essaness heads, will continue as advisers. Annual California ITO Meet on Oct. 26 Los Angeles, Oct. 20. — Annual membership meeting of the Independent Theatre Owners of Southern California and Arizona has been set for the Knickerbocker Cafe here on Oct. 26, according to Robert Poole, executive director. Committee reports, the Paramount trust suit, Ascap, television and 16mm. films are on the agenda. 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 Teleohone Circle 7-3100 Cable address • "Ouiirnubeo New York." Martin Quigley. Resident; Red Kann Vice-President ; Martin Quigley, Jr., Vice-President^ Theo J. SullivanY V^e-Pres?dent and Treasurer; Leo J. Brady , Secretary ; Ja.mes P Pn^wmiTrn R W «J ^ Ch r' ^T^T Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager; David Harris, Circulation Director; Hollywood Bureau, Yucca S^AI^fc^te^W^fc^^^T^i CCM^ 1|° Street, Editorial and Advertising. Urben Farley, Advertising Representative; Jimmy Ascher, Ed; orial Representative Washington, J. A Otten, Nat onal Press Club, Washington, D. C. London Bureau, 4 Golden Sq., London Wl. Hope Burnup, Manager, Peter Burnup H M-CT^Jr ?nTeT^n°naTX>Mn?L pfc Sff* plications: Motion Picture Herald. Better Theatres, published every fourth week as a section of Motion Picture "mi: ?»b£iP?^ copLT.noc'ass matter' Sept23 1938at the post office at New YorkNYunder the act of March