Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1949)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, July 19, 1949 Personal Mention MORT BLUMENSTOCK, ner advertising-publicity is in Washington today from York. Warchief, New George Mixter, managing director of Renown Pictures, will arrive here from London today. Due to arrive yesterday, his plane turned back because of engine difficulties. • A x D v \Y . Smith , , J r.. 20th Cen tury-Fox sales vice-president, and Lemoyne Jones and Roger Ferri of the home office, will be in Bosotn today from Xew York. • George A. Mason, manager of the Kenmore Theatre, Buffalo, has resigned to become house manager of the 20th Century Theatre in the same city. • Paxdro Bermax, M-G-M producer, and Mrs. Bermax, are due here from Hollywood this week and will sail for Europe on the He de France. • Martin Moskowitz, 20th CenturyFox Xew York division sales manager, left here yesterday for Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse and Gloversville. • Xeil F. Agxew, Motion Picture Sales Corp. president, expected here yesterday from Europe, has deferred his return for several days. • Oscar Holmes, Chicago manufacturer of sound projection equipment, is in Xew York testing his new television projectors at NBC. • Jack Atlas, M-G-M studio publicist, arrived here yesterday from the Coast and will leave in several days for a vacation at Boston. • F. J. A. McCarthy, Universal-International Southern and Canadian sales manager, left here yesterday for Jacksonville. • Milt Livingston, Universal-International trade press contact, is on a week's vacation on Long Island. • Benjamin Fielding, Loew executive, returned here yesterday from a vacation at Lake Placid. Home Theatres Saic Negotiating for 11 Minneapolis, July 18. — Home Theatres' board of directors are re ported to be meeting to consider a proposal to buy the 11 theatre properties which the group is now leasing from Ed J. Baehr. Baehr is said to have been at odd with various members of the Home group and last year started construction of a theatre project at Chippewa Falls, Wis., stronghold of George Miner, one of the Home directors Afore recently, Baehr invaded Anoka Minn., where another Home director Charles B. Clossen, operated the Green theatre. Outcome of the latter deal terminated in the sale of the Green by Clossen to Baehr two weeks ago. The latter is also reported planning to invade Morris and Benson, Minn., where B. J. Benfield and Jack DeMarce, respectively, operate inde pendent theatres. They are both former stockholders in the Home group. Baehr theatre properties under lease to Home Theatres are : Border and Grand. International Falls ; Ely, Ely ; Breckenridge ; Royal and Park, Park Rapids ; Avalon and Falls, Thief River Falls ; Brainerd, Brainerd, all in Minnesota, and the Valley in Wah peton, N. D. the the Skouras Circuit in Drive for Children During the month of August Skouras Theatres, including Rivoli on Broadway, will stage a campaign for $50,000 on behalf of the New York Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund, a 72 year-old institution whose $350,000 annual budget is spent for the purpose of sending underprivileged children to summer camps, William A. White, general manager of the circuit, announces. As a part of the month long campaign the Skouras community service department has produced a 7-minute film entitled "This Is The American Way" featuring Celeste Holm for showing in all 68 houses of the circuit. NEFC Calls Meeting Here for July 27 _ The executive committee of the National Exhibitors Film Co. will hold its next meeting here on July 27 at the Waldorf-Astoria. The meeting is scheduled to pass upon incorporation papers, by-laws and other organizing details preliminary to the launching of the new production financing company. Mulvey Back in NY James M. Mulvey, president of Samuel Goldwyn Prod., returned to the home office here yesterday after a one-week trip to London on company affairs. UJA Sets 2 Meets For This Week The advisory board of the amusements division of the United Jewish Appeal will meet for lunch tomorrow at the office of Fred J. Schwartz, of Century Theatres, chairman of the division. The next day the exhibitors special committee headed by Joshua Goldberg of Raybond Theatres will meet in the offices of the Independent Theatre Owners Association at the Hotel Astor. Auxiliary Lights for Connecticut Theatres Hartford, July 18.— A new state fire law has gone into effect requiring all places of public assembly, including theatres, to be provided with auxiliary lights in the event of an emergency. Auxiliary lights at all exits and corridors leading to fire safety doors and fire escapes must be provided, and power must be drawn from a separate source, such as storage batteries. Set New Wage Pact For U. K. Theatres London, July 18. — Following months of negotiations the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association and the National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employes have reached agreement on their new wages pact. It remains to be formally ratified. The new agreement is for 18 months. It gives female theatre employes a 44hour instead of 48-hour week and wage increases ranging from two shillings and sixpence weekly for 90,000 employes. It will cost exhibitors an estimated £1,500,000 ($6,000,000) annually. Exhibitors will watch its effects before raising admission prices, it was indicated. Exhibitor's Sentence Upheld by Jury Atlanta, July 18.— Verdict of the Fulton County Court, under which R. E. Gore, former manager of the Hanger Theatre, Hapeville, Ga., was sentenced to serve a year in jail for showing the film, "Valley of the Nude," has been upheld by a Court of Appeals jury here. Sopeg-E-L in New One Year Contract A new one-year contract has been signed by Eagle-Lion and the Screen Office _ and Professional Employes Guild, it was announced here jointly. The contract provides a minimum wage of $30 a week for messengers and office_ boys and $33 for clerks. Salary adjustments are retroactive to Feb. 1, 1949, the date of termination of the previous contract. The company has also agreed to a merit review of salaries every six months. Meet ~to~Fin~alize Publicist Proposals Contract proposals for the new theatre publicists unit of the Screen Publicists Guild will be formalized at a membership meeting here Thursday. At the same time a charter will be issued for the unit. The contract proposals will be presented to first-run theatres shortly thereafter, according to Len Goldsmith, SPG business manager. Cite 7 Companies For Annual Reports Seven motion picture companies have qualified for the "Highest Merit Award" in the survey of annual stockholder reports for 1948 of 4,200 corporations, conducted by Weston Smith of the Financial World. Of all candidates in this classification, one will be selected as "Best of Industry." The seven companies are: Columbia, Walt Disney Productions, Paramount Monogram, Republic, 20th CenturyFox and Universal. H uge Lamp to Light Up Sky for 'Stable' A 50,000-watt incandescent bulb which will be visible throughout the metropolitan area will be placed on a specially constructed platform atop the Rivoli Theatre here as part of the premiere ceremonies for "Come to the Stable," 20th Century-Fox, on July 27. Developed by General Electric, the lamp measures 34 inches high, 64 inches around the middle and has_a diameter of 20 inches. If the premiere night is clear, rays of the huge bulb will be seen in surrounding states, it is said. Filaments inside the globe are thicker than an ordinary lead pencil, as compared to the hair-thin filaments in a 100-watt bulb. It uses power equivalent to that used by 835 60-watt lamps but produces light equivalent to 2,000 60-watt lamps. Stillman Plans Company Hollywood, July 18.— Robert Stillman, who co-produced "The Champion" and "Home of the Brave" with Stanley Kramer at Screen Plays, is forming Robert Stillman Productions and plans a program of three features over an indefinite period. Rocking Chair Loge San Francisco, July 18.— Rocking chair loges are a feature of the new Millbrae Theatre of the Golden State Circuit, which opened here at the weekend. Seating 1,000, it is completely modern in appointments. NEW YORK THEATRES — RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center jejune HAVER Ray BOLGER Gordon MaeRAE ■ "LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING" Color by TECHNICOLOR A W arner Bros. Picture SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION ALAN LADS/ The GREAT1 Gatsby* 1. 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