Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1949)

6 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, October 5, 1949 Comerford (Continued from page 1) lieved that the Comerford situation was unique in that FCC approval was required to set up a special temporary micro-wave relay link between the Scranton Times station and the theatre. It was surmised that the FCC may have misunderstood the intent of the application and reversed itself upon receiving a fuller delineation yesterday of the uniqueness of the Comerford petition. The Comerford theatre will offer the World Series telecast to patrons at regular admission prices and, in addition, will donate the box-office receipts to some local charity, such as the Community Chest. The theatre will use RCA large screen equipment, which already had been installed. Comerford's principal interest in staging the telecast is in its experimental value. TV Series for N. Y. Variety A special DuMont television receiver has been installed in the Hotel Astor headquarters of New York Variety Club and will be operative today for the first time with a pickup of the World Series opening game. 3-Day Para. Meeting (Continued from page 1) product which has been set for release up until the end of the year, including "My Friend Irma," "Song of Surrender," "Chicago Deadline," "Red, Hot and Blue," and "The Great Lover." In addition to Schwalberg, the following home office executives will at Review Abandoned ( Universal-International ) THE standard framework of the detective melodrama has been effectively employed by producer Jerry Bresler in constructing this cinematic "expose" of the black market in babies. Promotion-conscious exhibitors will recognize immediately the potent exploitation possibilities in the theme. Racketeering in adoptions has been making headlines, so it can be expected with reasonable certainty that "Abandoned" will rack up substantial grosses in every situation where intelligent showmanship is put to work. Dennis O'Keefe and Gale Storm are co-starred in roles that suit well their talents and personalities. He plays a city hall newspaper reporter bent on exposing and breaking the racket that takes advantage of the predicament of unwed motherhood; she is cast as a smalltown girl who comes to the big city in search of her missing sister. The two join forces, and it is soon learned that the missing girl had been exploited and murdered by operators of a babies black market. %t the head of the syndicate is Marjorie Rambeau whose cold calculation spares neither those whom she exploits nor the shady characters in her employ. The latter include a crooked private detective (Raymond Burr) whose apprehensions about O'Keefe's probings mark him, Burr, for death at the strangling hands of henchman Mike Mazurki. Will Kuluva plays Miss Rambeau's sinister underworld partner who ultimately winds up on the losing" end of a gun battle with O'Keefe and district attorney Jeff Chandler. Production values are slick, Joe Newman's direction is well paced and the photography is good. Cast also includes Meg Randall, Jeanette Nolan, David Clarke and others. Running time, 79 minutes. Adult audience classification. For October release. Charles L. Franke tend : Barnev Balaban, Adolph Zukor, E. K. (Ted) O'Shea, Oscar Morgan, Joseph Walsh, Monroe Goodman, Fred Leroy, Max E. Youngstein, Jerry Pickman, Mort Nathanson, Sid Blumenstock and Sid Mesibov. Y. Frank Freeman, production vice president in Hollywood, will also attend. Division managers participating" will include Hugh Owen, H. H. Goldstein, J. J. Donahue, M. R. Clark, G. A. Smith, Gordon Lightstone and A. M. Kane. Branch managers attending will include Henry Randel, Myron Sattler, Edward Maloney, Clyde Goodson, John Moore, Maurice Simon, A. H. Duren, William Holliday, Henry Germaine, Gordon Bradley, Saul Frifield, J. J. Grady, H. E. Stuckey, Ul Arbitration System (Continued from page 1) upon with favor by legal and distribution spokesmen but the general feeling was that a system less expensive than the present one would be highly desirable. Whether the new method being thought about would still be within the framework of the AAA, but of less elaborate structure, was not disclosed. At present, it was said, the benefits derived from the AAA procedures are far exceeded by the costs. Tri-States (Continued from page 1) 17-20 at the Hotel Gayoso in Memphis. Around 500 exhibitors are expected. Governors Browning of Tennessee, McMath of Arkansas and Wright of Mississippi have been invited, also U. S. Senators K. D. McKellar and Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and William Fulbright of Arkansas and Congressmen Clifford Davis and Jere Cooper of Tennessee. Sam Pinanski, Boston, TOA president ; Arthur Lockwood, Boston, TOA board chairman, and Ted Gamble are among the speakers. rik F. Smith, D. Kimelman, Albert C. Benson, J. H. Stevens, Donald R. Hicks, G. R. Frank, J. T. McBride, Ben Blotcky, Marion Anderson, Heywood Simmons, Harry Hamburg, L. W. McClintock, C. H. Weaver, Harry Haas, Alfred R. Taylor, Ward Pennington, Wayne Thiriot, F. H. Smith, H. Neal East and H. Haustein. WARNER BROS. ARE GEARED TO GO WITH THE NEW INGRID BERGMAN PICTURE THEY'RE WAITING FOR/ INGRID BERGMAN • JOSEPH COTTEN • MICHAEL WILDING alfred hitchcocks"(JNDER CAPRICORN"® Directedby ALFRED HITCHCOCK Screen Play by JAMES BRIDIE Adaptation by Hume Cronyn Based on the play by John Colton and Margaret Linden from the novel by Helen Simpson A TRANSATLANTIC PICTURE