Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Jun 1949)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, January 7, 1949 Personal Mention WILLIAM A. SCULLY, Universal-International sales vice-president, will leave New York Sunday for the Coast. Irving Brecher, Universal-International writer-director-producer, will arrive here today from Cincinnati. He will be accompanied by Al Horwits, U-I Eastern publicity manager, and Charles Simonelli, Eastern expoitation manager. • Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of Paramount Theatres Service Corp., and Max Fellerman, Paramount Theatres executive, will leave here over the weekend for Cincinnati, Detroit, Buffalo and Rochester. • Gloria Heller, daughter of Michael V. Heller of the EagleLion home office accounting department, and Mrs. Heller, has become engaged to Charles DePhillips of Paterson. • A. J. Laurie, publicity director for the Odeon circuit, Toronto, is at the Essex House here with a broken foot. He is scheduled to fly back to Toronto today. John J. Maloney, M-G-M Central sales manager, and Saal Gottlieb, Pittsburgh manager, will leave here today for their Pittsburgh headquarters. • Walter Mirisch, Monogram producer, has returned to Hollywood from Milwaukee, St. Louis and other Eastern cities. • Rudy Berger, M-G-M Southern sales manager, will return to Washington from New York over the weekend. • William G. Brenner, head of M-G-M's checking department, was in Kansas City yesterday from New York. • Howard LeSieur, United Artists advertising-publicity director, will leave New York today for the Coast. • Henry Hathaway, 20th CenturyFox director, is here from Hollywood en route to London. • Louis DeRochemont is here from his home in New Hampshire. See Impasse Break In Exchange Talks A break in the national exchangeunion contract negotiations deadlock was indicated yesterday with a report that the distributors labor committee and IATSE international representatives will meet here again on Monday for settlement talks. Meanwhile, the meeting which commissioner L. A. Stone of the Federal Mediation Service was scheduled to hold with' the negotiators at Warner's home office today has been "held in abeyance" pending the outcome of Monday's conference. Included on the distributors' committee are: chairman Clarence Hill, 20th-Fox; Bernard Goodman, Warner; Henry Kaufman, Columbia; C. J. (Pat) Scollard, Paramount; Charles O'Brien, Loew; A. A. Shubart, RKO Radio; Harry Buckley, United Artists; G. J. Malafronte, Universal ; Al Schiller, Republic. 'IA" negotiators, selected by president Richard F. Walsh, are: chairman Thomas J. Shea, assistant international president ; vice-president Louise Wright, and international representative Joseph D. Basson. Winston Named RKO Theatre City Chief Sol A. Schwartz, general manager of RKO Theatres, has promoted Ansel Winston, present manager of the Coliseum, New York, to Chicago city manager under Jerry Shinbach, division manager for that territory. The appointment will become effective on Wednesday. Winston started with RKO as an usher in 1931 and has managed several RKO theatres in Metropolitan New York. W anger Files Against 'U' on Release Deals Producer Walter Wanger filed four suits in U. S. District Court here yesterday against Universal charging violation of terms of releasing deals for four pictures. Accountings of profits are sought. Pictures cited were "Arabian Nights," "Eagle Squadron," "Gung Ho" and "Salome." Wanger alleges that under the releasing deals he was to get SO per cent of gross profits, and contends that he did not receive his full share. He claims also that the company made unauthorized reissue deals for the films. Universal executives here were not available for comment yesterday on Wanger' s court action. U.A. Meetings Revert To Coast on Jan. 17 Election of a board of directors of United Artists will be held at the annual stockholders meeting on the Coast on Jan. 17, as originally scheduled, it was disclosed here yesterday. Earlier it had been indicated that the meeting would shift to New York. On the same date the board will offer proposals for securing new production capital to the company's owners, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin. Management's report to the owners will be given by Gradwell Sears, president ; Arthur W. Kelly, executive vice-president, and George Bagnall, production vicepresident. Unlimited Loop Run Given to 'Hamlet' Three Premieres Are Set for N. Y. Palace Set for the inauguration of a new first-run policy with "The Boy with Green Hair," in Technicolor, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, the RKO Palace here has also scheduled its following two premieres. At the conclusion of "The Boy with Green Hair," "Station West" will open. Then, Walt Disney's new Technicolor film, "So Dear to My Heart," will make its New York debut. Realart Franchise Holders Meet Here Realart franchise holders conferred here this week with home office executives on sales problems and new releases. Budd Rogers, executive vice-president and general sales manager, presided. Others in attendance were Lee Goldberg, Joe Levine, Manny Stutz, Sam Krellberg, Bernie Mills Nelson Wax, Carroll Puciato, general manager, and Bill Schulman, advertising-publicity director. Chicago, Jan. 6. — J. Arthur Ranks "Hamlet," released by UniversalInternational, has won an unlimited extension for its current run here at the downtown Balaban and Katz Apollo Theatre. Under the two-week Loop restriction imposed by the Jackson Park decree, the film was previ ously granted a six-week extension for an eight-week run. In this instance, however, and because of the nature and special handling required for "Hamlet," Judge Michael Igoe of U. S. District Court here had previously told U-I attorney Miles Seeley to submit a report on the success of the film when it neared completion of the run in the event added weeks were believed necessary. The picture, which has proved successful here, has been averaging nearly $18,000 a week. — RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center "WORDS AND MUSIC" JUNE ALLYSON . PERRY COMO JUDY GARLAND . LENA HORNE GENE KELLY . MICKEY ROONEY j ANN SOTHERN ' Color by TECHNICOLOR i A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture 'THE GREAT CHRISTMAS STAGE SHOW / Grant // Every Girl // UkcSnt Should Bef «!.dCAPIT0l B'way A Hit Slr»> c<*rw Technicolor i J» Picture GOODMAN "■nt Him OrchMta 1 BUOOYBHMCO PtfUo BROS Buggy II Samuel Goldwyn presents "ENCHANTMENT Starring DAVID NIVEN TERESA WRIGHT EVELYN KEYES FARLEY GRANGER Released by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. ASTOR THEATER Broadway & 45th Street W.B. Said Dropping 9 Field Exploiteers Warner has dismissed its nine exploitation representatives in the field, according to reports received here from key cities. Dismissals are to be effective on Jan. 22, it is said. Warner home office executives could not be reached for verification yesterday. TO A Meet 'Informal' "Informal discussions" on television and the setting of a preliminary agenda for the Jan. 28-29 Theatre Owners of America executive board meeting in Washington were held at a meeting here yesterday of TOA executive committee and board members Arthur H. Lockwood, TOA president, who presided, returned last night to Boston. Johnston Due in D. C. Washington, Jan. 6. — Eric John ston, Motion Picture Association of America president, is tentatively scheduled to return here next Wednesday, an MPAA official said here today J. 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