Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1950)

Motion Picture Daily Monday, April 24, 1950 Personal Mention SAMUEL GOLDWYN and Mrs. Goldwyn. Sol Lesser, producer, and Mrs. Lesser, Joseph McConville. Columbia International president, and Mrs. McConyille, J. A. De Seve, France Films executive, Richard Todd, British actor, and Mrs. Todd are among passengers who sailed Saturday from here for Europe on the 5".J>. Quern Mary. A. Schneider, Columbia treasurer who originally planned to leave late this week, also sailed Saturday. • Oscar Neu, president of Neumade Products, is in Chicago from New York to attend the SMPTE convention. He will also attend the spring board meeting of TESMA there tomorrow and will proceed to New Orleans for the Variety convention. • Isabelle Austin. Roxy Theatre publicity director, will return to her office today from a vacation at Miami Beach. • Joseph H. Seidelman, Universal vice-president, was due here over the weekend bv plane from London. • Lou Astor, Columbia executive, will leave here today for Denver. • Benjamin Thau, M-G-M vicepresident, is here from the Coast. McWilliams Named To AMP A Presidency The nominating committee of the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers has selected Harry McWilliams of Columbia to succeed Max E. Youngstein as AM PA president. Nomination by the committee is_ tantamount to election. Youngstein has been president during the past two years and McWilliams has been vicepresident. AMPA's annual luncheon-meeting for election of officers, directors and trustees will be held on Thursday at Trader Tom's Restaurant here. Also on the slate with McWilliams are Blanche Livingston for vice-president, Lige Brien, treasurer, and Marjorie Harker, secretary. Tradewise By SHERWIN KANE Le Baron Plans Remake Hollywood, April 23.— A remake of Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland." first produced in 1934 by Hal Roach for M-G-M release, has been set by William Le Baron, independent producer. Production will be under the aegis of Wellington Productions, a new company of which Le Baron is president and Nell Gurney is vicepresident. Another Film for UA United Artists has acquired distribution rights to Sam Spiegel's forthcoming production, "Cost of Living," which will co-star Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes, it was announced by Gradwell L. Sears, UA president. It is now in production in Hollywood, under the direction of Joseph Losey THE industry for long has been justifiably proud of the contributions it has made, and continues to make, to patriotic and humanitarian causes. Occasionally, even in time of war, there have been organizations and individuals among us who declined to contribute thenefforts to the assistance of meritorious causes in whose service the industry had volunteered. Wearied, perhaps, by appeal after appeal and drive following upon drive, some among us skipped one now and then, while others, more self-centered, resolved to ignore them all. Yet the work of those who defaulted never was left undone. Tasks which were spurned by some, simply were shouldered by others with broader backs, and bigger hearts. It is indeed well for all of us that the willing and the compassionate in this industry, as in most other walks of life, have far outnumbered the unwilling and the indifferent among us. Out of the industry's good works there has developed a record of generosity and selfsacrifice perhaps unmatched by any other business. We are known, even to those who are not our friends, as "The Industry with a Heart." Even those who attack us pause to refer to our good works in times of peace as in times of war. Well aware are they how many lonely or wounded service men have been comforted and entertained by our product and our people; how many bankers and other financial men know how many government bonds we have sold and helped to sell; how many civic leaders and subtantial citizens everywhere know how much we have raised and helped to raise for the Red Cross ; how many public-spirited men and women know how much and with what willingness we have helped community chests and funds, the Infantile Paralysis Foundation, the American Cancer Society, The National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts, hospitals, research work in heart disease prevention and treatment, the unceasing humanitarian work of our Variety Clubs International throughout the country. All those and more have been served by our best men month after month, year after year. They have given nights, weekends, vacation periods, when needed, to the work involved. Many of them traveled long distances to attend planned meetings and to perform their duties, frequently incurring considerable personal expense. The friends they have made for us are in every village and hamlet of America, and where they are there is a warm feeling for their nearby theatre, which to them is the industry. They do not feel the same about the local butcher, haberdasher, automobile agency, tobacconist, or what you will. Yet those others and their industries contribute to charity, too. Sure, they do. Most of them have a fund — a single appropriation — out of which they give to many causes. It is a nice, convenient, effortless (we almost said heartless) way of taking care of a bothersome duty. It doesn't make many friends, but it doesn't make many demands upon you, either. And it eases your conscience. • All of which brings us to the industry's May campaign on behalf of the United Cerebral Palsy Associations. Never before has anyone undertaken to obtain public aid for treatment and facilities for the 546,000 Americans, most of them children, affected through accident at birth by a condition that robs them of normal speech and action. There are existing facilities for treatment of only 2,500 at most. Surely, the need is there, and we are the first to offer to be of help. Is it too much to ask of us? Is it too much to ask an exhibitor to run the two and one-half minute trailer, made by Paramount and featuring Alan Ladd and William Demarest, which will come with the May 7 issues of the five newsreels ? Is it too much to ask of him to keep the campaign appeal accessories and contribution receptacles in prominent, convenient locations on his premises? That is the minimum asked. The willing can do as much more, of course, as they wish. Is it too much to do to help a half million handicapped young Americans to become normal, useful citizens? To give a palsied child its first hope of playing and living as other children do? It is not your trade organization, it is you, who should decide. Let your showman's heart answer for you. Newsreel Parade JDUDENZ testifying at the Senate probe and President Truman starting the baseball season mark current newsreel highlights. Other items include the new jet airliner, and", sports. Complete content'^^^vw : MOVIETONE NEW^i /\ I! '.idemtestifies at Senate Red pi^ ,f 1 liner flies from Canada to U. S. in one hour. New Greek Cabinet. New Year is marked by the Hindus. Sports: baseball, Golden Gloves. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 267 — United States protests Baltic plane tragedy. President Truman asks fight on "Red lies." Japanese hold baby contest. Jet liner in. record flight. President Truman opens baseball season. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 70 — Jet liner flies from Toronto to N. Y. in one hour. Hindus bathe in holy river. Report from Moscow on China pact. Budenz testi 1 fies at Senate hearings. Sports: baseball season opens. TEEENEWS DIGEST, No. 16-B — Czechoslovakia: American deserter, George Wheeler. Germany: Chancellor Adenauer in Berlin. United States sailors in Korea. Search for lost U. S. fliers. Toscanini on tour. Anzio commemorated. Jet airliner. President Truman says "play ball." News stories of the past UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 345— Worldwide news: Fire in Japan. President Tru-| man talks to American editors. Jet airliner | flies from Toronto to N. Y. Man-made j avalanche. Sports: Golden Gloves, roller skating. WARNER PAT HE NEWS, No. 72— Chancellor Adenauer visits Berlin. Signing of Russian Chinese treaty in Moscow; Search for lost American fliers. Canadian jet airliner. Budenz testimony in Washington. Monkeys on the loose. Pearson Pitch in Trailer s, Trade Ads Drew Pearson, syndicate columnist and radio commentator, will introduce the trailer for "The Lawless," Para-, mount picture about a fearless newspaper editor. Pictures of Pearson and quotes from his trailer copy endorsing the William Pine and William Thomas film, will be used in the advertising-publicity campaigns, according to Max E. Youngstein, director of advertising-' publicity. Special consumer and trade ads, also featuring Pearson and his quotes, are now being prepared. Legion Reviews 8; All Are Rated 'A' Eight additional films have been reviewed by the National Legion of De-j cency, with all receiving "A" ratings Class A-I are: Republic's "Code of the Silver Sage," Universal-Interna tional's "Curtain Call at Cactu! Creek," Eagle-Lion's "Golden Sala mander," . Warner's "Return of th<, Frontiersman," and 20th CenturyFox's "Ticket to Tomahawk." In Class A-II: 20th Century-Fox'. "The Big Lift," Warner's "Caged,' and Columbia's "Faust and the Devil.' W. C. Wilson, Jr., 29 Minneapolis, April 23. — VVilfon C. Wilson, Jr., 29, operator of tin Hays Theatre, St. Cloud, and the only] son of Wilford Wilson, an executiv of Minnesota Amusement Co., wa: killed last week in an automobile ac cident. The widow and three childrei also survive. Editor. Published daily, except Saturdays one Circle 7-3100. Cable address: "Quigpubcc dent and Treasurer; Leo J. Brady. Secretary MOTION Sundays an f^J^LnSLYm^dltoT^^t V.TeWerAdvertiTing Manager" GuTh.' Fkusel," Production Manager. Hollywood Bureau,, Yucca-Vine Building, William R. Weaver E<i"t Cii* J. A. Otten Other Quigley Motion Picture -. year, $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign; single copies. 10c.