Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1950)

5 Motion Picture Daily Monday, May 15, Personal Mention DORE SCHARY, here from the Coast to attend the M-G-M sales meeting at the Astor Hotel, has cancelled all appointments on the advice of doctors and will return to Hollywood tomorrow. He is accompanied by his assistant, Walter Reilly, and Mrs. Schary. • Andy \Y. Smith, 20th Century-Fox sales-vice president, will leave here today to attend the Allied of IowaNebraska meeting in Omaha. He will be accompanied by his executive assistant, Lem Jones, and Roger Ferri, editor of Dynamo. • Herbert A. Bergson, assistant U. S. attorney-general in charge of the antitrust division, was the guest of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers executive committee on Friday at a luncheon at Perino's Restaurant, Hollywood. • William Brown, manager of LoewPoli Bijou, New Haven, tomorrow will celebrate his 28th anniversary in show business and, with Mrs. Brown, will celebrate their 32nd wedding anniversary. • Ben Goetz, M-G-M production head in Great Britain, left here by plane for the Coast over the weekend. Edward Lachman, president of Carbons, Inc., will leave here tomorrow for the Coast. • George Pal, producer, is here from Hollywood. • Paul MacNamara, Coast publicist, is here from Hollywood. Tradewise By SHERWIN KANE Newsreel Parade Fordham Prof. Avers '10' Are Communists All 10 of the "Hollywood 10" were members, of the Communist party, Louis Budenz, former Communist editor, testified last week at the Paul Draper-Larry Adler libel trial at Hartford, according to press reports of the proceedings. Budenz, former managing editor of the Daily Worker and now a professor at Fordham University, said he knew "personally" that John Howard Lawson, Dalton Trumbo, Albert Maltz, Alvah Bessie and Ring Lardner, jr., were Communists, and the other five he identified as party members "only by official reports." Mayer and Kingsley Form Import Firm Albany, N. Y., May 14. — Arthur Mayer and Edward Kingsley, Inc. has been registered here to conduct industry business in New York City. The new firm is still in the formative stages, according to Kingsley, in New York, but plans call for the importation of foreign films. Release will be through Oxford Films, of which Kingsley is a vice-president. HP HE spirit that prevailed at the Chicago meeting of the Conference Committee of the Motion Picture Industry last week makes possible the first industry trial of cooperative endeavor in its own behalf in more than a decade. It needed a cooperative spirit to bring it into being. Fortunately, that was not lacking at the Chicago meeting. It overcame the misgivings of some and sharp differences of opinion among others. Individual impressions, and some convictions, were set aside at the meeting in the face of the basic desire of all to give industry unity the chance of exploring the high promise held out by the Council of Motion Picture Organizations. If that same spirit prevails throughout COMPO's year of trial, it is safe to predict it will prove itself and earn the right not only to continue but to expand. Those in the industry who, before the Chicago meeting, were uncertain of COMPO's chances of coming into being, have since been the most enthusiastic over what was accomplished there. Their cynicism has given way to sincere praise, and most of it is directed to those who went to the meeting with reservations or misgivings and there laid them aside in order that COMPO's start might not be further delayed nor surrounded with new restrictions. There were those who were not — and still are not — convinced that the sponsorship of some form of conciliation machinery for settlement of internal industry disputes should not be a COMPO function. In the face of contrary opinion, they wisely refrained from making an issue of their conviction. There were those who were not — and still are not — convinced that continuation of the campaign by COMPO's taxation and legislative committee for full repeal of the Federal admission tax is the best course to pursue under existing conditions. They, too, bowed to the majority and endorsed the tax committee's policy. There were others who were not satisfied with the proposed method of financing COMPO ; .still others with misgivings about the choice of officers and methods of selecting an executive vice-president. Rather than jeopardize COMPO's chance at life, these refrained from standing on their reservations and, instead, sought to insure efficiency and fairness by approving COMPO and directingtheir recommendations to the revision of by-laws or suggesting new procedures, many of which were adopted. It was in that spirit that COMPO was made possible. It will be only through the continuation of that spirit that COMPO can be made to work. Sidelights of the meeting relayed by delegates reveal some interesting happenings For one, it appears that the "conditions" set forth by Theatre Owners of America in advance of the Chicago meeting actually were not "conditions" at all. After they had been discussed in the Drake Hotel meeting room for about 30 minutes, Gael Sullivan, TOA delegate, realized the mistaken notion other delegates had of TOA's 10 or 11 points and made it clear that they were to be regarded as recommendations or suggestions, not an ultimatum. Acting within the leeway accorded him in advance by TOA, Sullivan refrained from pushing the program beyond the temper of the meeting. In consequence, many of the points raised by TOA were cared for in subsequent amendments to COMPO by-laws or by procedural memoes subsequently adopted. There is also the story that the first day's presentation of a slate of officers did not start out to be a "temporary" slate. It seems after the nominations it was observed that some organizations were not represented among the officialdom and , in some instances, those that were had been given representatives other than their top men. Hence the decision on Tuesday to make the first slate temporary, to serve until COMPO's charter of incorporation is issued in a few weeks, at most, and to name a new, "corrected" slate to serve for the first year after formal organization. Be that as it may, the industry rejoices that COMPO, at long last, has learned to crawl. It looks forward hopefully to the day when it will stand and take its first steps — forward and not too falteringly, let it be added. URESIDENT TRUMAN on ■* and the wedding of Princes: tinea are current neivsreel high] Other items include the Bro\ cave-in tragedy, air maneuvers,, sports. Complete contents follou MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 39-Prt Truman hailed on 16-state whistle-stof WAC officers graduate. Cave-in^kill digger. AFL stages union sh^^n delphia. Iran's Princess Fatirr M> meet. Acrobatic dogs. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 273— Ch with President Truman. Some 2,000 ju parachute thriller. Tragedy in a Princess Fatima marries Yank. AFL industry show. Sports: boxing show.. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 7©-Jet drops in from Canada. Cave-in tr; News of events and people: President 1 man talks ; AFL show in Philack 1 Princess Fatima weds. Meet the sphere daredevil. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 1S-B I lyn: Cave-in victim. Railroad strike, dent Truman travels. Albert Einstein Jewish goals. Germany: Six Poles consulate. Emperor Hirohito hails ( tution. Fire in Canada. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 351— Air maneuvers at Fort Bra%g. News in President Truman at Lincoln, Neb.; show in Philadelphia; Man in a we', breaking in Wisconsin. Remote contr dio-lawnmower. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 7&~j ident Truman on tour. Cave-in victir maneuvers at Fort Bragg. Princess f weds. AFL, show in Philadelphia. Di championship in France. Tony G fights bear. Stern Heads Chici] Jewish Appeal Dri Chicago, May 14. — The amuse, division of Chicago's 1950 com!! Jewish Appeal will hold its 3 raising dinner meeting on Ma} Chairman is Meyer Stern of ti} Stern Circuit. The division expefl surpass the $281,448 raised last ! Co-chairmen are John Balaban, Kirsch, Louis Lindenthal, A Schoenstadt, Emanuel Smerling, ing Mack and Jack Rose. Headini distributors are Sam Gorelick, | Lourie, Harold Loeb and Louis f man. Heading other sections are Goodman, Robert Harrison, Klugman, Clarence Jalos and W Wallace. Public Responding Palsy Collections Audience collections at the York and Brooklyn Paramount tres produced $7,500 in the first of the industry drive for the U Cerebral Palsy Associations, R M. Weitman, New York cam;' chairman, reports. Collections elsewhere in the here are reported at a compa, rate. Lobby collections have beeaugurated in 35 theatres of the Ml politan Motion Picture Theatres? sociation and audience collections be started this week in member tres of the Independent Theatre (■' ers Association of New York. AMPP to Honor Liaq Hollywood, May 14. — Paki; Prime Minister Liaquat AH Khai be the guest of the Associatic Motion Picture Producers Thur MOTION PICTURE DAILY. Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; Terry Ramsaye, Consulting Editor. Published daily, except Satu Sundays and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y. Telephone Circle 7-3100. 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