Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1950)

IOST FILE COPY TUITION PICTURE I£WS DAILY o,'. NO. 92 NEW YORK, U.S.A., FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1950 TEN CENTS itish Trade rs Views on w U.S. Pact Wilson More Joint iuction Is Wanted By PETER BURNUP tdon, May 11. — Harold Wilpresident of the Board of , today received from an all!ry delegation their views in tion with the review of the -American film remittance aent. Wilson is scheduled to discussions on the agreement American industry representahere on Monday, main points raised by the Britdustry representatives for con (Continued on page 3) Paramount Sets Its First National Meet in 10 Years Para. Quarter Net $1,441,000 Paramount Pictures Corp. and its consolidated domestic and Canadian subsidiaries for the first quarter ended April 1, 1950 earned an estimated $1,441,000 after provision for income taxes, the company reported yesterday. These earnings do not include $597,000 representing Paramount's net interest in the combined undistributed earnings for the quarter of partially (Continued on page 3) 7 File Percentage Suits vs. 7 Houses Paramount's sales force will gather in Los Angeles June 12-14 for the company's first national sales convention since 1940, A. W. Schwalberg, president of Paramount Film Distributing Corp., disclosed here yesterday. Participating will be home office executives, division managers and assistants, branch and sales managers, salesmen, booking and office managers and field exploiteers. The convention theme will be "Paramount's Blueprint for the Future." Schwalberg stated that the decision to hold the convention at the studio (Continued on page 3) >hnston to ndonToday :ion Picture Association of ica president Eric A. Johnston fly from New York to London for the Anglo-American film relce talks, scheduled to get under pn Monday. is expected that Johnston will j later with French government (Continued on page 3) . R. Strike Won't ralt Film Shipments The relay operation plan rmulated by the National lm Carriers Association for e during railroad, Railway <press or air freight strike nergencies is ready to be t in motion to assure theres and exchanges of unterrupted delivery of prod:t during the current railed strike. The plan is a J operative system whereby j e trucks of various carrier >mpanies relay prints from change to exchange. -Baltimore, May 11. — Percentage suits have been filed in U. S. District Court here by Universal, Loew's, United Artists, 20th Century-Fox, Columbia, RKO Radio and Warner Brothers against the executors of the estate of Lee W. Insley, deceased, as well as the Diamond Globe Corp. theatre operator. Theatres involved in each action are the Globe in Berlin, Md. ; and the Diamond, Selbeyville, Auditorium, Lewes, Blue Hen, Rehoboth Beach and the Avenue in Delmar, (Continued on page 2) Colosseum Hits UA Profit-Sharing In formal charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board here, the Colosseum of Motion Picture Salesmen alleged United Artists' profit-sharing plan as "designed and intended to interfere with, restrain and coerce the company's employes and to frustrate bona-fide collective bargaining in violation of the National Labor Relations Act," David Beznor, salesmen's union counsel, announced here yesterday. It is charged also that the company (Continued on page 3) Arbitration Talks Favored By Companies Respond to TO A Plan; Early Conference Likely The distributor presidents have made "overwhelmingly favorable response" to Theatre Owners of America's suggestion for an all-industry conference to consider the feasibility of setting up an equitable arbitration plan in which all elements of the industry may participate. Revealing this yesterday in conjunction with an outline of the completed agenda of the TOA executive committee meeting on Monday and Tuesday at the Hotel Astor here, TOA executive director Gael Sullivan said (Continued on page 3) Crescent Faces Fine and Revoked Building Permits Cities Aim For US Tax The repeal of the 20 per cent Federal admission tax to permit municipalities to apply at least part of the tax to their finances was cited as one of the legislative objectives of the United States Conference of Mayors here yesterday by Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., chairman of (Continued on page 3) Washington, May 11. — The Department of Justice in its suit filed yesterday in Nashville Federal Court charging the Crescent Amusement Co. and affiliates with criminal and civil contempt for violating the 1943 court judgment in the D. of J.'s anti-trust suit, asks that the defendants if found guilty of criminal contempt be fined. No amount is specified. As relief for the civil contempt charged, the government asks that the court set aside any permission granted for theatre construction where there (Continued on page 3) Name Kate Smith to Palsy Campaign Post Kate Smith has accepted the national co-chairmanship of the United Cerebral Palsy Association's 1950 campaign, it has been announced by Leonard S. Goldenson, president of United Paramount Theatres, who is president of UCPA. Bob Hope is co-chairman of the palsy drive. Miss Smith, in pledging all-out cooperation with the campaign, stated (Continued on page 2) SAG Asks TV Nets Here to Negotiate Screen Actors Guild yesterday requested New York television networks and stations to initiate negotiations here on May 16 for a collective labor agreement between them and the Guild, covering talent used in the production of films. 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