Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1950)

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MOTION PICTURE DAILY Monday, February 20, 1950 Technicolor Trial Postponed Again Hollywood, Feb. 19.— Antimonopoly Technicolor trial, scheduled for Friday afternoon, again was postponed until Tuesday morning on representations by counsel that an agreement on a consent decree is close at hand. Personal Mention O'Connor Names 50 In Industry to Laity Committee Fifty in the film industry here, and in related fields, have been named to the Motion Picture Industry Committee of the Cardinal's Committee of the Laity for the $2,175,000 annual Catholic Charities drive of the Archdiocese of New York by John J. O'Connor, chairman of the film committee, and Bert Sanford, vice-chairman. Frank C. Walker is treasurer of the drive and George J. Schaefer is assistant treasurer. Members of the committee include : Charles A. Alicoate, John W. Alicoate, William E. Barry, Martin F. Bennett, Harry Buckley, Frank E. Cahill, Jr., F. X. Carroll, Patrick Casey, T. J. Connors, James P. Cunningham, Russell V. Downing, Si Fabian, James R. Grainger, William J. Heineman, Al Hovell, James M. Franey, James R. Grainger, William H. Howard, John Kane, Austin Keough, T. J. Martin, Joseph McConville, Charles B. McDonald, Joseph E. McMahon, John Murphy, William P. Murphy, William J. Murray, Douglas Netter. Also, John Nolan, Paul O'Brien, Robert H. O'Brien, Thomas F. O'Connor, Charles L. O'Reilly, E. K. O'Shea, Martin Quigley, Charles Reagan, Phil Reisman, Herman Robbins, W. F. Rodgers, C. J. Scollard, William A. Scully, George P. Skouras, Spyros P. Skouras, A. W. Smith, E. J. Smith, Jr., Gael Sullivan, Nick Tronolone, Richard F. Walsh, William White. WILLIAM F. RODGERS, MG-M distribution vice-president, will leave here early this week for the Coast. • • Mervin Leroy, producer-director ; Herbert Marshall, Michele Morgan, Agnes Moorhead and Graham Greene, author, are among the passengers due to arrive here today from England on the 5. 6". Queen Elizabeth. Leroy will leave here today for the Coast. • Victor Saville, M-G-M director, is due to arrive here today by plane from London and will continue by air to the Coast. • Ezra Stern, Los Angeles film attorney, left here over the weekend for the Coast. Harry M. Popkin, producer, and Mrs. Popkin left here over the weekend for Hollywood. Evelyn Koleman, Republic publicity manager, has left here for a vacation in Cuba and Guatemala. • Hugh Owen, Paramount Eastern and Southern sales manager, is in Charlotte today from New York. • Alfred Guarini, Italian distributor, was a visitor at the Paramount stu dio on the Coast over the weekend. L/ New York from Charleston today and will leave tonight for the Coast. • Jock Lawrence, publicity chief for Goldwyn Prod., will leave here tomorrow for Hollywood. Samuel and Mrs. Goldwyn left here for the Coast on Saturday. • Bernard J. Gates, Monogram International Latin America supervisor, is in Buenos Aires. Far Eastern representative William E. Osborne is in Manila. • Rudy Berger, M-G-M Southern sales manager, and his field assistant, John S. Allen, are due here today from Washington and Dallas, their respective headquarters. • F. J. A. McCarthy, Universal-International Southern and Canadian sales manager, will leave here tomorrow for Toronto. Charles L. Casanave, Motion Picture Sales vice-president, will leave here this week for Hollywood. • Alan F. Cummings, M-G-M exchange operations chief, has arrived on the Coast on a tour of branches. • Sam Siritzky, vice-president of Siritzky International, left here over the weekend by plane for Paris. Newsreel Parade TfRlC JOHNSTON urging thereJ-J peal of excise taxes are a highlight in major newsreels. Completi contents follow. MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 15— David Lili enthal leaves post as chief of U.S. atom board. New submarine escape suit. West minster dog show. Pr ts Institute award for "Three Came H /■ Eric Johnstoii asks admission tax re^ ' Yacht race. Ski[ meet. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 24»-Dayi<! Lilienthal retires as atom board chief.! Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson win Photoplay awards. Eric Johnston asks repeal of admission tax. International ski derby. Bu2z-bike thriller. Dog show. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 52— Carnivals usher in Lenten season. Eric Johnston urges repeal of admission tax. Westminster Kennel Club show at Madison Square Garden. Ski meet. Lipton Cup race off Miami. Citation loses to Ponder in San Antonio Handicap. Heart trailer. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 7-A— Coal crisis. Washington: Are Reds in State Department? Proposal to succeed Townsend| Plan. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky. Italy: hunt for smugglers. Mexico: Money dropped mysteriously. Marshal Tito, eral Franco. Gerhardt Eisler. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 327— Eric Johnston urges admission tax repeal. 17th annual Lipton Cup race. Dog show at Madison! Square Garden. Celebrities turn out for1 premiere of "The Astonished Heart" New York. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 54Washington: David Lilienthal resigns. Eric j Johnston urges repeal of admission tax. Photoplay awards presentation. Knitwear fashions. Animals: pet show, tame lion. Sports: ski meet. New Army training program. Heart trailer. Set Plans for Union For 'Ousted' Units Quickly on the heels of the expulsion of the United Office and Professional Workers of America from the CIO, several delegates of locals met here Friday night to set the groundwork for a new CIO office workers union. The delegates, who met under the chairmanship of Irving Abrahamson, CIO director in New York, mostly represented workers in the insurance and social service field. Abrahamson stated that when the CIO expelled the UOPWA, "it did not expel the membership." He declared they would be invited to join the new union. Both Screen Office and Professional Employes Guild and Screen Publicists Guild are UOPWA members. McCarty, with Loew's 23 Years, Resigns Peter F. McCarty, a member of Loew's advertising-publicity department for 23 years, has resigned, effective March 3. Jim Shanahan, former publicist for Loew's Boston theatres, will take over part of McCarty's duties. Following a month's vacation in Texas, McCarty will become board chairman of the Hamilton Federal Savings and Loan Association of Brooklyn. Capital Liaison for U-I John Horton, former White House aide and special liaison officer in the U. S. Office of Public Information of the Department of Defense, has been appointed by Universal-International as' its public relations representative in Washington. Set 'Golden Gloves' Debut for Chicago World premiere of "The Golden Gloves Story" has been set for Chica go's Oriental Theatre, March 22, by William Heineman, distribution vice president of Eagle-Lion distributor of the Carl Krueger production. Heineman, L. Jack Schlaifer, sales manager ; Milton E. Cohen, Eastern sales manager, and Leon Brandt, advertising-publicity director, will attend the opening, as will James Dunn, Kay Westfall, Kevin O'Morrison, Gregg Sherwood and Dewey Martin all players in the picture. K. R. Edwards Memorial A memorial service for the late Kenneth R. Edwards, adviser on non theatrical films for Eastman Kodak, will be held next Friday afternoon in the chapel of The Riverside Church Ottawa Gets '12 O'Clock' Ottawa, Feb. 19. — Attended by American Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, Defense Minister Brooke Claxton, and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Curtis, the opening of Darryl F. Zanuck's "Twelve O'Clock High," 20th-Fox release, at the Elgin Theatre this evening matched in top-level attendance, the American premiere. 'Brotherhood Week' Starts with Aid Of Most Exhibitors, Distributors "Brotherhood Week" started yesterday with most of the nation's theatres and distributor representatives working to make this year's observance an outstanding success, it was stated here at the weekend by Ted R. Gamble, chairman of the film division of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. "The response to date should encourage further efforts," he added. Gamble commended the wide use of the "Brotherhood Week" press book, prepared under supervision of Max E. Youngstein, chairman of the advertising-publicity committee. "Exhibitors have recruited civic officials and religious, educational, business and labor leaders for special observances along lines suggested by the press book," he said. Gen 20thV3CameHome' Will Open Tonight Broadway's first "brown-out" world premiere of a motion picture — provided the brown-out restriction is not lifted — will take place this evening when society notables, public figures and celebrities from the entertainment world attend the premiere of "Three Came Home" at the Astor Theatre. Trade Press Gives Lunch for Farnol Lynn Farnol was the guest of trade press representatives at a luncheon at Toots Shor's here on Friday on the occasion of his leaving Samuel Goldwyn Prod, after an association of 22 years. Forty attended, including editors, publishers, reporters and Farnol's associates at the Goldwyn office, including James A. Mulvey, president ; Alfred Crown, general sales manager ; Lester Rawson, sales ; Philip Miles and Martin Davis, publicity; and George Archinal, accounting. FCC Color Video Hearings to Resume Washington, Feb. 19. — Federal Communications Commission proceedings on color television will resume today with a demonstration of the system of Color Television, Inc. On Thursday, Color Television, CBS and RCA will put on a comparative demonstration of their color systems. Hearings will resume Feb. 27. MOTION PICTURE DAILY Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; Terry Ramsaye, Consulting Editor. Published daily, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company Inc 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address : "Quigpubco New York Martin Quigley President; Red Kann Vice-President; Martin Quigley, Jr., Vice-President; Theo. J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasurer; Leo J Brady Secretary Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture Herald; Better Theatres and Theatre' Sales, each published 13 "times a year as a section of Motion Picture Herald; International Motion Picture Almanac; Fame Entered as second _ class matter, Sept. 23, 1938, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year, $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign; single copies, 10c. ' K v 15