Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1950)

7 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, April 19, 1 in Brief . . . IATSE representatives and Warner home office officials will meet here again tomorrow for what is expected to be the last time for the drafting of a settlement which will result in raises for 525 company home office "white collar" workers under a new contract. A strike was threatened before an agreement was reached on April 10. • Hollywood. April 18. — Screen Publicists Guild membership met here tonight to vote approval of a new contract negotiated with the major producers since the recent NLRB certification of SPG as bargaining agent following a hotly contested election. The pact, which will go into effect immediately if approved, replaced a contract which expired last April. • Indianapolis, April 18. — Sam Oshry, sales manager of UniversalInternational's Atlanta office, has been appointed branch manager here, succeeding Ted Mendelssohn, who has resigned to devote all of his time to his drive-in interests. Oshry has worked here before with U-I. • Atlanta, April 18. — Hugh Owen, Eastern and Southern division manager of Paramount, and A. M. Kane, assistant division head, have arrived here for a two-day meeting of Southern branch managers. • Toronto, April 18. — Doug V. Rosen has resigned as United Artists manager here to become general manager of International Film Distributors under a reorganization initiated by president N. A. Taylor. Rosen succeeds Dave Griesdorf, who left IFD last August to become general manager of the Canadian Odeon circuit. • Band leader Horace Heidt announced this week before he departed with his orchestra from Washington for Germany that he will show the Hollywood film, "The Big Lift" as the highlight of his three-week tour to entertain American troops abroad. • Washington, April 18. — Under a new agreement with the Danish government, film earnings that cannot be remitted abroad will be blocked in Denmark to the accounts of the foreign producers, rather than being subjected to very high taxation, according to the U. S. Commerce Department. • Walter Dunn has been appointed head of Century Theatres purchasing and maintenance department, replacing Leonard Satz, resigned. • San Francisco, April 18.— The second in a series of showmanship meetings was held here at Blumenfeld _ Theatres offices with Graham Kislingbury, chairman, voicing enthusiasm over the interest shown by exhibitors. He announced he would call a mass meeting of all exhibitors in the near future. Personal Mention SPYROS P. SKOURAS, 20th Century-Fox president, returned here yesterday from Mexico City. • Leon J. Bamberger, RKO Radio sales promotion manager, will address the annual convention of North Central Allied to be held in Minneapolis, May 3-4. • Morris Davis, M-G-M managingdirector in South Africa, and Mrs. Davis are vacationing in New York. • Robert J. Rubin. Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers counsel, has arrived here from Hollywood and Detroit. "tp RANK CAPRA, producer-director, has left here on a tour of Detroit, Chicago and Dallas. Louis B. Mayer and Mrs. Mayer will leave here today by plane for Miami. • Sol Lesser, producer, will sail from here for London on Saturday aboard the S.^". Queen Mary. • Jules Lapidus, Warner Eastern and Canadian sales manager, is in Boston from New York. o Leon Goldberg, Universal-International vice-president, has returned from the Coast. Newsreel Parade SAG, Equity Unity Urged by Reagan Speaking before a special meeting of the council of Actors Equity Association here, Hollywood Screen Actors Guild president Ronald Reagan yesterday made a strong plea for "cooperation" between SAG and Actors Equity Association to avert the jurisdictional war which has threatened to break out between SAG and the Television Authority set up by the Associated Actors and Artistes of America. Both unions are members of the "Four A's" but have been on opposite sides on the question of whether the Authority shall have jurisdiction over talent in television films. The Equity Council is expected to state its position with reference to Reagan's plea when the "Four A's" board meets here today for what is expected to be a "showdown" session in the long-standing dispute. SAG has repeatedly forecast a jurisdictional war if Television Authority "encroaches" on the Actors Guild's union supervision of performers in film, whether it be for motion picture theatre screens or for telecasts. Here from the Coast to join Reagan at today's "Four A's" board meeting are William Holden, Edward Arnold and Buck Harris. Two Raise Fund for Rogers Hospital Joseph Sinclair and Joseph McCarthy, members of Local No. 1, IATSE, raised a fund of $1,098 through joint, voluntary efforts on their own initiative to provide essential, extra items for patients at the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital at Saranac, N. Y. Sinclair and McCarthy called on Max Cohen, New York Variety Club barker, yesterday to make a presentation of the fund, which will be administered at the hospital. Poll Picks Crosby, Hope Bing Crosby has been selected number one actor of the screen, and Bob Hope number one comedian, in the annual poll of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, it was announced here by Paramount. The poll was conducted among the 600,000 readers of the paper. Gamble Heads Film Bond Drive Unit Appointment of Ted Gamble as chai rman of an honorary committee of industry leaders to serve on motion picture participation in the forthcoming Independence Bond Drive, was announced here yesterday by Samuel Pinanski, industry national chairman for the drive. Gamble, president of Gamble Enterprises and chairman of the board of Theatre Owners of America, was coordinator between the Treasury Department and the industry on the various drives conducted during the last war. Serving on the committee, embracing all phases of the industry, will be : Charles Skouras, R. J. O'Donnell, Ned Depinet, Gradwell Sears, William Rodgers, Eric A. Johnston, William Scully, S. H. Fabian, Richard F. Walsh, Harry Brandt, Robert Coyne, Gus S. Eyssell, Frank C. Walker, Francis Harmon and Herman Gluck NY Para. Books Five From Col., U-I, RKO Five films from Columbia, Universal-International and RKO Radio have been booked by the Paramount Theatre here, marking the biggest block of non-Paramount product to play there since the house opened in 1926. Only nine "outside" films have played there in 24 years. The films, all scheduled for early presentation, are : "In a Lonely Place" and "Rogues of Sherwood Forest," Columbia ; "Sleeping City" and 'Winchester 73," Universal-International ; "The Secret Fury," RKO Radio. NTFC Fetes Roach William S. Roach, New York film attorney, associated with the law offices of Irwin Margulies, was honored here this week at a surprise farewell luncheon given by the National Television Film Council, of which he is vice-president. The luncheon was occasioned by Roach's forthcoming departure for Paris as a result of his appointment as special counsel in the international copyright division of UNESCO. J OUIS B. MAYER being? h orcd by war veterans, and An. icon troops on the alert in Berlin current newsreel highlights. O'tii items include sports and jash'u Complete contents follow: MOVIETONE NEWS, No.^Ameri troops prepare foe-Red '•' ' ' ' rlin. tion's capital eelcbra. birth Largest family has an anniversary. Gr fashions. Billiards. Boxing. AAU sv meet. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 266-Berlir the alert. War veterans honor Louis Mayer. New York hails President Vid Lady Democrats hold style show. Neva polo sport. Billiard championship. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 69— Riot d trol _ in Berlin. Australian fair. Ga' Davis wedding-. Windsors visit Canad ranch. Olivia de Havilland in Washing| U. S. arms en route to Cherbourg. Sv] meet. TELENEWS DIGEST. No. 16-A-Ber rehearsal for a riot. France: Reds fail arms sabotage. Elephant from India. Sl> :st plane. Television from a blimp. Fif year-old auto on trip. Baseball. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 3*t-Arms rive in France. Louis B. Mayer recei award from war veterans. British a show. Large family. Rummage s| Baseball: will last year's winners repe Diving. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 71— Ar in Berlin. British auto show. Pri Rainier crowned. Freedom pageant Washington, D1. C. Baby elephant. Spor horse racing, swim meet. Great Am' cans: Thomas Edison. Wm. Orr of Loew Dies Here at 67 William Anderson Orr, 67, Loew's public relations departme died yesterday at Harkness Pavill after an illness of several weeks. I _ Orr had been with the compa1 since 1923. Earlier he did newspai work and was city editor of the N\ York Tribune in 1913-14. He was s retary to the governor of New Yc in 1915-18 and was superintendent New York State Prisons in 1918He is survived by the widow, Ha Earhart Orr ; three sons, James ^ William E., and Robert, and a daug ter, Mrs. William Spencer Doig. ] 'Tomahawk' Opens i Four Denver House. Denver, April 18. — World premie of 20th Century-Fox's "A Ticket Tomahawk" was held here tonight four theatres, with the film's star, D Dailey winding up two days of perse al appearances. He left tonight San Francisco, where the film vJ open on Thursday. Tonight's premiere, held at the T>& ver, Webber, Esquire and Tabor tl| atres, will be followed by simultanec openings in more than ISO area the tres. A total of 825 saturation boc ings in the West and Midwest ; scheduled during the next three wee 'Prof Simonelli to Tall Charles Simonelli, Universal-Int< national head of exploitation, will 31 dress the School of Journalism clas? of Professor Bernard Bergman ? Pennsylvania University, in Philad phia, tomorrow. 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