Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1948)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, November 9, 194 Personal Mention BARNEY BALABAN, Paramount president ; Russell Holman Eastern production head, and Edwin L. Weisl, board member, have re turned to New York from the Coast • James R. Grainger, Republic dis tribution vice-president, left here last night for Minneapolis, while Edward L. Walton, assistant general sales manager, and Walter L. Titus, Jr division manager, left on branch tours. • Martin Starr, Station WINS mo tion picture commentator, will re vive his series of "Gangplank Inter views" with film and other passengers on incoming boats. • Howard Dietz, M-G-M advertis ing-publicity vice-president, returned to New York yesterday from the Coast. • Arthur Lockwood, Theatre Owners of America president, arrived here yesterday from Boston. • Arthur Kelly, United Artists vice-president, returned to New York yesterday from Hollywood. • Norman Elson, Trans-Lux The atres vice-president, will leave here today for Providence. • Moe Kerman of Favorite Films has returned to New York from the Coast. Top Court Remaining Outside Lawson Case Washington, Nov. 8.— The U. S Supreme Court today refused to take immediate jurisdiction in the contempt of Congress case of John Howard Lawson, one of the "10 unfriendly witnesses." Lawson, convicted for his refusal to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee whether he was a member of the Communist Party, has an appeal pending in the Court of Appeals here and has about 10 days more to get in final briefs. However, while action was pending in the Court of Appeals,, counsel for the screen writer asked the Supreme Court to take the case immediately on the ground that an important Constitutional question was involved. All today's refusal means is that the Court of Appeals will continue to have the case. The Supreme Court could, if it desired, hear the case if the Court of Appeals should affirm the conviction. J. Parnell Thomas, Coast Prober, Is Indicted as 'Kick-Backer' Washington-, Nov. 8. — Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, was indicted today on charges of padding his Congressional payrolls. Thomas has been active in the committee's probes of Communism in Hollywood. Extras Guild Rejects Producers' Proposals Hollywood, Nov. 8. — The Screen Extras Guild board, in a report to its membership, submitted producers' contract proposals and urged its members to vote against its acceptance. The report says six months of negotiations have failed to persuade producers to eliminate the $9.45 daily rate for work in mob scenes, and declares the effect of this refusal is to deprive players of unemployment insurance rights. Writers Would End Delays on Scripts Hollywood, Nov. 8. — Screen Writ ers_ Guild and the Artists-Managers Guild have jointly announced the adoption of a code affording individ ual writers, whether SWG members or not, protection against undue delays by producers in reporting on submitted scripts, plus extended control over sales representation, and other benefits. SPG, SOPEG (Continued from page 1) changes have taken place meanwhile in the ranks of UOPWA leadership. SOPEG president Sidney Young conducted a membership meeting here last night as a first step toward meeting the Taft-Hartley provision, and SPG president Jeff Livingston has called a meeting of his organization for this evening. Notwithstanding the fact that the memberships of both unions voted against the signing of the affidavits in a recent referendum, the executive boards have the power trj effect Taft-Hartley compliance without further action by the guilds' memberships, it was explained. "We have decided to conform," Young said yesterday, "even though we are still firmly opposed to signing." He said SOPEG will continue to press its court case challenging the constitutionality of the Taft-Hartley Law. "We've got to get on these shop election ballots," he said, referring to National^ Labor Relations Board elections being readied for several film home offices where "IA's" Motion Picture Employes Local No. H-63 claims to have won shops away from SOPEG. United Artists is already in the H-63 fold, and employes at RKO, Paramount, Republic and elsewhere are seeking "IA" representation. NLRB election privileges are denied non-complying unions. Although it issued yesterday a stinging indictment of the UOPWA unions' "desperate switch" and impugned the motives behind it, H-63 said it welcomed the opportunity to battle SOPEG for jurisdictional supremacy "on even terms." 'Mistake' to Run to Public, Says Berger Minneapolis, Nov. 8. — Last year's action by North Central Allied president Ben Berger to take alleged grievances of independent exhibitors to the public was "a mistake," the exhibitor leader said. "We must settle these internal disputes among ourselves around the conciliation table because our trade problems are too complex for outsiders to understand," he declared. He said, however, that it is necessary to work for enactment of legislation and controls where monopoly squeezes the little fellow. Berger cited Ascap and divorcement as examples of the need for continuing to "fight monopoly on a common level." Brown Heads Studio Publicity Group Hollywood, Nov. 8.— Paramount's George Brown today succeeded Universal^ John Joseph as chairman of the Studio Publicity Directors Committee, the latter becoming executive committee chairman, in the customary bi-annual rotation of the committee chairmanship among members. Samuelson Head of Allied Booking Firm Philadelphia, Nov. 8. — Sidney E. Samuelson was elected president and Elmer Hollander vice-president of the Allied Motion Picture Theatre Service, Inc., by the booking and buying outfit's new board of directors. Other officers are: Cecil Felt, treasurer; Albert M. Cohen, secretary, and E. B Gregory, financial secretary. In addition to Samuelson, Hollander, Felt and Gregory, the directors are Martin B. Ellis, Ben Fertel, Percy Friedman, Jack H. Greenberg and Larry Woodin. Ask Myers Testimony In Business Hearing Washington, Nov. 8.— The House Small Business Committee has abandoned its plans to conduct hearings in New Orleans on Dec. 1, in connection with the annual convention of the Allied States. Instead, the committee has decided to invite Abram F. Myers, chairman of the board of Allied to appear as a witness at the committee's final hearings on Nov. 15-16. These sessions will cover a variety of subjects, including the problems of the small exhibitors. Germani, Pulsipher On Mich. A Hied Board Detroit, Nov. 8.— Series of district meetings being held by Allied of Michigan to elect directors in the field are progressing, a meeting in Monroe, Mich., resulting in the election of Rene Germani of the Monroe Theatre in that town, and the naming of A. D. Wolverton of Chelsea as alternate. Another meeting, in Marshall, resulted in the election of Wayne Pulsipher of Bellevue, and Bob Pennell of Bronson as alternate. 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