Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1949)

2 Motion Picture Daily Thursday, July 7, 1949 Personal Mention HENRY A. (.HANK) LINET, Universal-International Eastern advertising manager, left New York yesterday tor Detroit and Chicago. • Bvdd Rogers. Realart sales vicepresident and member of the newlyformed Rogers and Unger Associates, and Mrs. Rogers, have left here for a vacation at Banff Springs and Lake Louise. Canada. Their itinerary includes visits to exchanges in key cities in the U. S. • Abram F. Myers, Allied States Association general counsel, will leave ■Washington Sunday to attend the meeting of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Mississippi at Biloxi, Miss. • Milton E. Cohen, Eagle-Lion Eastern division sales manager, and James King, representative of Robert Young, are in Boston from New York. • Bill Browx, of Loew's Poli-Bijou at New Haven, and Mrs. Brown, will leave that city on Monday for a vactaion at Narragansett Pier, R. I. • Herman Ripps, M-G-M Eastern division assistant sales manager, will be in Boston from New York for the remainder of this week. • Richard Condon. Paramount national advance campaign coordinator, has returned to New York from the Coast. • Don Siegel. RKO Radio director, is in New York from the Coast and will leave here shortly for a vacation in Europe. • Fred Meyers, Universal-International Eastern sales manager, is in Philadelphia from New York and will return here Friday. • Danny Kaye will arrive here today from London by plane, returning from an English tour. • Jack Sher, writer, will leave here today for the Coast on a Paramount assignment. • Robert Lippert of Screen Guild is in town from Hollywood. Loew House Open July 13 Eddie Dowden of Loew's home office publicity department left here yesterday for Norwich, Conn., where he will supervise the exploitation, advertising and publicity campaign on the opening of the new Loew's Poli Theatre, which will have its official opening with a bond premiere on Wednesday, July 13. Benefit for 3 Charities Stars of entertainment and sports will stage a benefit at Yankee Stadium on the night of July 11 for the Babe Ruth Memorial and the Lou Gehrig and New York Heart Funds. The event will be held the night before the All-Star baseball game. Granada in England Drops Newsreels Granada Theatres, operating 55 houses in England, have discontinued showing newsreels, according to press dispatches arriving here from London. Sidney Bernstein, head of Granada, is said to have given as one of the reasons for the decision was the opinion of groups of exhibitors that newsreels were of poor quality and lacked a sense of journalistic selectivity and showmanship. "We find they invariably bore our audiences and are inferior to newsreels shown in America," he is said to have added. A spokesman for the Newsreel Association reportedly said : "What can we do when the big story concerns world economies? You can't film a dollar crisis." Eight Ken Runs Set For 'Lost Boundaries' With its "kickoff engagement on Broadway now rolling at the Astor, Film Classics has set additional firstrun dates on "Lost Boundaries" beginning with the Paramount, Asbury Park, today. On Sunday, the film will open at the Strand, Lakewood, N. J. ; Kingston, Kingston, N. Y., and the Community at Tom's River, N. J., followed by the Astor, Boston, 'on July 15. Other early dates include the Esquire, Cleveland ; Community, Saratoga Springs, and the Golden Gate, San Francisco, where the opening is set for July 27. Four TO A Officials At Tri-States Meet Memphis, July 6. — Theatre Owners of America president Arthur Lockwood, general counsel Herman Levy, board chairman Ted Gamble, and executive director Gael Sullivan have accepted invitations to address the Tri-States Theatre Owners convention on October 25-27, at a hotel to be determined on July 21 when the Tri-States directors will meet here. ^William F. Rodgers, M-G-M distribution vice-president, will also be a speaker. McCleary Buys Into Eauipment Company Pittsburgh, July 6. — Thomas F. McCleary, formerly RCA district sales manager in Cleveland, has joined Alexander Theatre Supply, RCA theatre equipment dealer in the Pittsburgh territory, having purchased Jim Alexander's interest in the company. He will be joint owner with Sam Fineberg, who continues as president. Alexander will continue as office manager. Pat Weaver Elected Video Head at NBC Sylvester L. (Pat) Weaver, Jr., has been elected vice-president in charge of television for National Broadcasting, it was announced here by Niles Trammell, president. Weaver had been vice-president and director of radio-television and member of the executive committee and plans board of Young and Rubicam. Canadian Exhibitors To Seek Tax Cut Toronto, July 6. — A general meeting of the National Committee of Motion Picture Exhibitor Associations of Canada is being arranged for Labor Day week in Ottawa under the chairmanship of J. J. Fitzgibbons, president of Famous Players Canadian Corp. The main objective is expected to be a country-wide move to secure a deep reduction in amusement taxation which is keeping theatre admission prices at a high level. Legion Reviews 13, Rates Two Class 'B' Thirteen additional productions have been reviewed by the National Legion of Decency' with two receiving a "B" rating. In that category are Warner Brothers' "The Girl from Jones Beach" and Film Classics' "Not Wanted." In Class A-I are "Alaska Patrol" and "Lost Boundaries," both Film Classics ; Columbia's "Rim of the Canyon," and 20th Century-Fox's "You're My Everything." In Class A-II are "The Great Sinner" and "Scene of the Crime" both M-G-M; 20th;jCentury-Fox's "House of Strangers" ; Columbia's "Kazan" ; Warner Brothers' "One Last Fling"; Universal-International's "Woman Hater," and Lux Film's "Woman Trouble." Korda, Wilcox Films To E-L in Canada Toronto, July 6. — The J. Arthur Rank Organization of Canada reports that Sir Alexander Korda and Herbert Wilcox British product will be released in the Dominion by EagleLion Films, Ltd., Toronto, under a recently-signed direct arrangement effective in September. Included in the agreement are 20 features, some of which have already been shown in other countries but not in Canada. The product is being sold away from U. S. distributors here for the first time. Honor 'Boundaries' Hero Dr. Albert Johnston, his wife and three children, whose experiences as a Negro family passing as white serve as the factual basis of the Louis de Rpchemont_ film, "Lost Boundaries," Film Classics release, will be honored today by the New York Press Club with a luncheon at the Hotel Theresa. 'Curley' Appeal Delayed Nashville, July 6. — Because attorneys were not ready for the hearing,_ the appeal of United Artists against the Memphis censorship board, in the banning of "Curley," has been transferred to Knoxville, to be heard on October 3. New Potsdam Theatre Potsdam, N. Y., July 6. — Ground has been broken for the construction of a new theatre, being built by James Papayanakos, to replace the Star which was destroyed by fire some time ago. Papayanakos also operates the Rialto here. TV Theatre Within A Film Theatre Cleveland, July 6. — A television theatre within a film theatre, described as the first of its kind in the U. S., has been opened by Merrill Cowan of the Alhambra as a free service to Alhambra patrons who wish to watch TV programs while waiting for the regular feature to begin or after it is over. The screen is seven by nine square feet and the theatre has 250 seats, housed in a specially-built auditorium. Fabian Anniversary (Continued from page 1) Paterson, N. J., in 1914, and with the late Jacob Fabian, founder of the company, pointed up as an example of American enterprise. Special lobby art will be supplied to all houses in the circuit, and streamers will decorate marquees. The full-day meeting yesterday was addressed by S. H. Fabian, president; Sam Rosen, vice-president "and treasurer ; Bernard Brooks, Edgar Goth, E. Fabian and Monroe Greenthal. Fabian's advertising here is placed th rough Greenthal's agency. A total of $3,275 in cash will be awarded to the more enterprising field men. Coast Meet Tuesday (Continued from page 1) dent, is also expected, but his attendance has not been confirmed. Presumably Harmon will present the MPAA public relations program to Far Western exhibitors. Amongthose who will be present are: Harold Chesler, Bingham, Utah ; William Graeper, Portland, Ore. ; Judge Leroy A. Pawley, Indio, Calif.; Harvey and Ben Levin of San Francisco. A representative from Seattle is expected. Asks for Probe of N.Y. Ticket Prices New York City Councilman Eugene Connolly yesterday introduced a resolution _ in the Council calling upon Commissioner of Investigations John J. Murtagh to investigate what he claimed to be over-charges for film theatre tickets. U. S. Firms Join Board Caracas, Venezuela, July 3 (ByAirmail). — A film board has been established here. All United States companies and some of the independents have joined it. Its purpose is to reduce irregularities and to verify box office reports. In addition, it will handle overdue collections. Walter R. 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