Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1950)

Motion Picture daily Thursday, June 8, ll Compo Plans Unit Discusses Program; Meets Again Today A wide range of program proposals for the Council of Motion Picture Organizations was discussed here yesterday by the committee on program and planning at a meeting in Universalis board room. Another meeting is scheduled this morning. Present were : Nathan Yamins, chairman : Chester Bahn, Maurice Bergman. Julius Sanders (for Max Cohen). Oscar Doob, Charles Einfeld, Earl T. Hudson, Red Kann, Walter Reade", Jr., Allan Rivkin, Robert J. Rubin, Fred J. Schwartz, Leslie Schwartz. Charles Smakwitz, W. C. Allen (for Martin G. Smith), Gael Sullivan, Morton Sunshine, Arthur Schmidt, John Joseph, Stirling Silliphant, Ned E. Depinet, Francis S. Harmon, Leon Bamberger and Ira Wit (for Abel Green). Personal Mention WorldwidePremiere For 20th,s 'Rose' Twentieth Century-Fox's "The Black Rose" will open in every important city of the world during the latter part of September and earlyOctober, the international launching following the 500 theatre day-anddate release in the U. S. on Labor Day. Foreign exchange centers of the company are already setting up plans for promotional campaigns due to the unusual interest in the British, European, African and Asian backgrounds of the film. Many of the foreign stars who appear opposite Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in the production will make special appearances throughout the Continent in connection with the premieres. Buildups for such personalities as Cecile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Herbert Lorn and other European and British actors are already under way. 20th-Fox Will Start Key 'Arrow' Openings August 18 First key openings of "Broken Arrow" will get under way on August 18, it was announced here by Andy W. Smith, Jr., sales vice-president. The picture, which has been announced for national release in August, will open during the latter part of the summer in order to have as many Technicolor prints as possible available for the key premieres. The campaign for "Arrow" will have the backing of numerous Indian agencies and government officials. University Reelects Selig Denver, June 7. — Robert W. Selig, executive assistant to president Frank H. (Rick) Ricketson, Jr., of Fox Intermountain Theatres, has been reelected for a third term as president of the University of Denver. Selig thus continues to hold the title as the youngest college president in the United States. He is 39. JOCK LAWRENCE, Goldwyn Productions vice-president, will leave here today by plane for London to confer with Samuel Goldwyn, at present en route there from Paris. • Irving Helfont, home office assistant to George A. Hickey, M-G-M Western sales manager, is due here today from a tour of the territory. • H. S. Davidson, resident manager of the Capitol and Shelby theatres, Louisville, is recuperating at his home from an operation. • Joseph Dolgin, general manager of the Pike Drive-in at Newington, Conn., has resumed his duties after recuperating from a long illness. • Jack Sogg, M-G-M Cleveland manager, has returned to his Ohio headquarters after a visit here. • Sam Shain, exhibitor relations head for 20th Century-Fox, has returned here from Milwaukee. • Eugen Sharin, president of Ambassador Films and Film Music, has arrived here from Vienna. HERMAN M. LEyY. Theatre Owners of America's general counsel, is due here today from New Haven. • Marvin Rothenberg, Transfilm director, and Mrs. Rothenberg ; Francis L. Sullivan, British actor, and Mrs. Gabriel Pascal, wife of British producer-director, are among passengers sailing from here for Europe today on the 5\.S'. Queen Mary. • J. Lawrence Schanberger, owner of the Keith Theatre, Baltimore, and Mrs. Schanberger are celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary on a vacation at Atlantic City. • Ed Catlin, recently promoted to manager of the Cleveland Warner exchange, will be guest of honor at a Buffalo Variety Club dinner on Monday. • Wliliam Grady, M-G-M casting director, will be in Boston Saturday from the Coast. Collier Young, Filmakers president, is in New York from the Coast. Coast Correspondents To Pick Foreign Film Hollywood, June 7. — The Hollywood Foreign Correspondents' Association, in addition to selecting the best American picture of the month, will also choose the best foreign film of the month. For May, the 60 press representatives named 20th' Century-Fox's "Three Came Home" as the finest to be released in America during the month, while the initial foreign product to win the award for May was "Madness of Love," produced in Madrid by Cifesa Films, which is being distributed here by Azteca Films. Kramer's Motion Denied New York Supreme Court Justice Aaron Steuer has denied Stanley Kramer Productions' motion to vacate a summons served on the producer here, and has ruled that the breachof-contract action brought against Kramer and United Artists by Sigmund Schlager will be tried here. Schlager charges that the defendants failed to fulfill a contract giving him distribution rights to "The Men" in Italy. Schlager is represented by attorney Monroe E. Stein. Fidelity Acquires Story Hollywood, June 7. — Fidelity Pictures announces the acquisition of "Divide and Conquer," an original screen play by Dan Wolfe concerning an American reporter who discovers Hitler alive and active in Berlin affairs. Tenn. Town Votes Tax Murfreesboro, Tenn., June 7. — A local ordinance taxing motion picture admissions two per cent has been passed here. The last state legislation removed a state tax in favor of municipalities. UA Licenses Mexican Firm as Distributor United Artists has licensed Mier and Brooks, Mexico City distribution and production company, to distribute its product in Mexico for the next five years, the company has announced. Previously, UA product had been distributed in Mexico by Credito Cinematografico Mexicano, under a similar licensing arrangement, negotiated in 1948 when UA closed its own Mexican branch. 'Square Dance* to Bow At Five in Utah Salt Lake City, June 7. — Mayor Earl J. Glade has proclaimed June 9 to July 8 "Square Dancing Night," highlighting a campaign being conducted by Al Steen for Monogram's "Square Dance Katy," which opens Friday at the Autorium, Redwood, Hilande and Geneva drive-ins and at one in Provo on Sunday. Stahl a Lippert Manager Richard Stahl has been named branch manager of Lippert Pictures' Minneapolis exchange by sales manager Arthur Greenblatt. Stahl, who recently resigned from Film Classics, replaces Reno Wilk who has resigned. Theo. Fleisher's Father Boston, June 7. — Funeral services were held here today for Simon Fleisher, father of Theodore Fleisher, head film buyer for Interstate Theatres of New England. Green Dies from Fall Knoxville, June 7. — William Farley Green, manager of the State Theatre here, died at his parent's home in Birmingham, Ala. Death resulted from a fall in a bathtub. 31 Stars to Appe* For Palsy Campaig Over NBC-TV n! With Milton Berle as master ceremonies, 31 star acts have aire volunteered to participate in the C« bral Palsy benefit show to be t vised over NBC-TV network, Sa day evening, from 9 :30 to r&dnii The performance will fe^£ re greatest aggregation of H^Knt assembled for a telecast, according Leonard H. Goldenson, presidem the United Cerebral Palsy Assc tions, Inc., now conducting its nationwide appeal. Bob Hope and Kate Smith are tional co-chairmen of the camp for $5,000,000. Under the local chairmanship of Peter Grimm Robert M. Weitman, Jinx Fall burg McCrary heads the New Yj City women's division, with V Martin in charge of special gifts Among those to be introduced Berle Saturday night are : Ro Alda, Ames Brothers, Desi A Lucille Ball, Betty Bruce, Cab C way, Jack Carson, Mindy Carson DeMarco Sisters, Faye Erne Stan Fischer, Jerry Lester, Malina, Martin Brothers, Ro Maxwell, Robert Merrill, Pat Morison, Jan Murray, Janis Park and Clifford, John Payne, Pickens, Martha Raye, Verna I mond, Buddy Rogers, Sid Stone, Sullivan, the Szones, Georgie T; Henny Youngman, Tex and Jinx Crary, and others. I Royalty Attends B\ Of Wilcox's 'Odette London, June 7. — The King Queen attended the premiere of bert Wilcox's "Odette," starring Neagle, at the Paramount Plaza tonight. Proceeds of the openin highlight of London's social se; will go to King George's per fund for actors, which will re( an estimated 11,000 pounds. Allen at AT OI Banqm Indianapolis, June 7. — Rex A Republic Western star, has been a to the roster of guests for the ciated Theatre Owners of Indi; convention at French Lick June 14. He and Gloria Swanson ai appear at the annual banquet Jun George Jessel is expected at the ness meeting on the night of Jum Northcoast Circuit M San Francisco, June 7. — Sh< Corwin, president ; Norman New film buyer, and Harold Citron, eral manager of Northcoast Thea1 will be in San Francisco from Angeles today for a three-day i ing with Graham Kislingbury, di; manager. Flexer Adds 2 to Cire Memphis, June 7. — David Fl Memphis circuit owner, has let tracts for two new drive-in thes one to be located in West Me Ark., and the other at Clark; Miss., each to accommodate 500 MOTION PICTURE DAILY. 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