Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1950)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, May 2, l ! Reports 9 0 Cities Censor Pictures In 90 U. S. cities officials today legally pass on matters of taste, morals and politics and tell grown-up Americans as well as children what they can see in motion pictures. In the current issue of Collier's, associate editor Lester Velie relates the preparations for the "battle of the censors" — and a battle to be fought to a decision in the United States Supreme Court. "The fight will decide whether 85,000,000 Americans who see films once a week will have to put up with more censorship to sample our screen fare and tell us what we can sit down to; or whether we'll be rid of the whole tribe of censors altogether, city and state," Velie reports. French Delegation to Arrive Tomorrow At the invitation of the Motion Picture Association of America's Advisory Unit for Foreign Films, delegates of the French industry, headed by Georges Lourau, will arrive in New York on the ■S'.-S". He de France tomorrow from Paris. In addition to Lourau, the committee will consist of J. P. Frogerais and Robert Cravenne. The ship, due here today, was delayed at sea by rough weather. The delegates were elected to represent their industry at a meeting with the Advisory Unit, the primary purpose of which is to improve the exploitation of French films in the U.S. While here, the committee will visit Washington and possibly Los Angeles and Montreal. Personal Mention Howard Minsky Will Leave 20th This Week Howard Minsky, Mid-East division sales manager for 20th Century-Fox, has resigned from the company effective at the end of this week, it was announced here yesterday by Andy W. Smith, Jr., sales vice-president. He will not be replaced for the present. Minsky will announce his future plans later. Howard La Noce's Wife Marjorie Rita La Noce, wife of Howard La Noce, stage manager of the Capitol Theatre, New York, died at Flushing Hospital Sunday night after a lengthy illness. Mrs. La Noce's stage name was Rita Norton. A Requiem Mass will be sung at St. Malachy's Church here. Survivors also include her mother and father and three sisters. AT OI Convention Set Indianapolis, May 1. — Annual convention of the Associated Theatre Owners of Indiana will be held June 13 and 14 at French Lick, Ind. A directors meeting will be held June 12. HENRY GINSBERG, Paramount studio vice-president, will arrive here Thursday from the Coast. • Oscar Morgan, Paramount short subject sales manager, his assistant, Monroe Goodman, and Joe Walsh, branch operations manager, returned here yesterday from Washington and Philadelphia. • Hiller Innes, assistant to Russell Holman, Paramount Eastern production chief, will address the Abbey Theatre School's class on theatre history here tomorrow. • Leon J. Bamberger, RKO Radio sales promotion manager, will leave here today for Minneapolis to address the North Central Allied meeting tomorrow. He will go from there to Chicago. • James R. Grainger, Republic executive vice-president in charge of sales and distribution, returned to New York over the weekend from Chicago and Rock Island, 111. • Eugene Zukor, Paramount executive, and Mrs. Zukor, have left here for a Mexico vacation and will observe their 30th wedding anniversary on Saturday. • Robert J. Rubin, Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers general counsel, is in Detroit from New York. • Louis Elliman, Irish exhibitor, and Mrs. Elliman are due here today on the •S'.S'. Caronia. ]SJ"ORTON V. RITCHEY, Mono-L^ gram International president, left here yesterday by plane for London and the Continent. • Harry Mears, vice-president of the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association of Great Britain, left Hollywood yesterday for San Francisco. He plans to sail from New York for London on May 9. • Leonard Goldenson, United Paramount Theatres president, has returned here after a weekend inspection of theatres in Buffalo and Rochester. • Phil Reisman, RKO Radio foreign distribution vice-president, left here yesterday by plane for Paris where he will attend a company Continental convention. • William Goetz, Universal-International production chief, Mrs. Goetz, his brother, Harry, and Claudette Colbert arrived here from Hollywood last night. • M. L. Simons, assistant to H. M. Richey, M-G-M exhibitor relations chief, left here last night for Little Rock, Ark. • Spyros P. Skouras, 20th CenturyFox president, was in Boston yesterday from New York. Clarence Brown, M-G-M producer-director, yesterday celebrated 35th year in the industry. • Robert Newman, Republic studio executive, is here from the Coast. 'Big Lift' Regional Bow Set for Mass. A regional premiere of 20th Century-Fox's "The Big Lift" will be held on May 9 at the Rivoli Theatre, Chicopee, Mass., home of Westover Field, jumping-off point for all aircraft participating in the Berlin airlift. An extensive exploitation campaign will be climaxed by the opening, which will be attended by Gov. Dever, Senators Lodge and Saltonsall, Congressmen Martin, McCormick, Furcolo and Heselton, and Col. Charles Short. Wildish New Head Of Monarch Booking Frank Wildish has succeeded Leroy J. Furman, resigned, as executive in charge of buying and booking for the Monarch division of Gamble Enterprises. Wildish has been connected with the Plaza in London, Odeon in England and Humayan Properties in Calcutta. SEG Charter Fete Charter presentation ceremonies of the Screen Employes Guild will be held here tonight at the Hotel Capitol. The SEG is the new name of the recently-merged Screen Publicists Guild and the Screen Office and Professional Employes Guild. 1st Anniversary of Vaudeville's Return On Thursday, May 18, the RKO Palace on New York's Broadway will begin a celebration of the first anniversary of the return of vaudeville to its stage. Belle Baker, Smith and Dale, Ukelele Ike (Cliff Edwards), will be among the stars booked for the week, with guest stars making personal appearances, augmented by a first-run film. Eyssell Heads Film Group for N. Y. Fund Gus Eyssell, president of Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall, has accepted appointment as chairman of the Greater New York Fund motion picture committee, it was announced here yesterday by Joseph R. Vogel, chairman of the fund's amusement division. George Wiggin, 38 Boston, May 1. — Services were held at the Maplewood Baptist Church, Maiden, Mass., today for George Wiggin, 38, managing director of the Strand Theatre, Maiden. He died on Friday night after an emergency operation at Cushing General Hospital. The widow, his parents, two brothers and two sisters survive. Theatre TV 'Great Impetus': Skouras Boston, May 1. — Addressing , the Boston Security Analysts Society today, Spyros PJ| Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, reiterated his company's plans for testing large-screen television i-es^O Los Angeles theatres (ley, fry , next year. He described 'ime arrival of large-screen television as "the greatest impetus motion picture theatres have ever felt," extending "the horizons of the screen beyond the limits of imagination." "Instead of running from this new giant, filled with fear and trembling, we intend to employ it in the service of our industry and our people," he stated. 'Heart Award9 Give To Toronto Variety New Orleans, May 1. — On recc mendation of the judges that the V;| ety Club of Toronto get spe<! recognition for its work in establi ing "Variety Village," for the habilitation of children, Variety Ch International for the first time | made two "Heart Awards" for lci Variety Club of Miami is the othei Crown to Paris Meet Alfred Crown, international sa head of Samuel Goldwyn Productic left here by plane yesterday for P;j to join Goldwyn at the RKO Cor nental European sales convention that city. Following this Crown vj go to London. NEW YORK THEATRE RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center "NO SAD SONGS " FOR ME" starring MARGARET WENDELL VIVECA SULLAVAN COREY LINDF0RS A Columbia Picture Plus Spectacular Stage Presentation BARBARA JOHN STANWYCK LUND/ , NO MAN OF HER OWN with JANE C0WI a MITCHELL LEISEN production P£»S0N W WES BROS. Aldnighl feolun Nightly V ooc ~kt. "^i." ■ir"C~" '«' Vj"."'","""6,*";",""6" *■'«*£?<?• "yu""*" Manager. 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