Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1950)

Motion Picture Daily Friday, June 23, 195 NEWS in Brief FAITH DOMERGUE, Howard Hughes discovery, was honor guest at a Stork Club reception here prior to her departure yesterday for the Coast. Miss Domergue, star of RKO Radio's "Where Danger Lives," was in New York for two weeks. • Hollywood, June 22. — Director Norman Foster and actor Robert Keith have announced the formation of an independent production company. The partnership follows their work in Fidelity Pictures' "Woman on the Run." • Sax Francisco, June 22— Plaster falling in the Fox West Coast Sequoia Theatre. Redwood City, last night injured 40 of the 100 patrons seated in the balcony. The only serious injury resulted when a woman, becoming hysterical, jumped from the balcony to the main floor below. • Washington, June 22.— S. K. Pa til, mayor of Bombay and chairman of the Indian government's Film Inquiry Commission, met briefly with MPAA president Eric Johnston today and also was shown several shorts at the Academia Theatre. • White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., June 22. — Two Paramount films, "The Lawless" and "Sunset Boulevard" were shown to delegates at the 42nd Annual Governors Conference here. Personal Mention CHARLES EINFELD, 20th Century-Fox advertising publicity vice-president, will fly from here Wednesday for the Coast. • George A. Smith, Paramount Western sales manager, returned to Los Angeles yesterday from Salt Lake City, where he attended the exhibitor-distributor "Round Up." • Nate J. Blumberg, UniversalInternational president, is due here from Hollywood on Monday. o Perry Lieber, RKO Radio director of studio publicity, left here yesterday for the Coast by plane. • Joe Youngerman, Paramount studio executive, will arrive here Wednesday from the Coast for a vacation. E DWARD M. SAUNDERS, M-G-M assistant general sales manager, is due here Monday from a Coast vacation and a tour of Canadian cities. • Spyros P. Skouras, 20th CenturyFox president, and Maurice Silverstone, 20th-Fox International president, are clue here Sunday from Europe. • Emanuel Silverstone, 20th Century-Fox International vice-president, returned here yesterday from a twomonth tour of Latin America exchanges. • Harry A. Sam wick, American Display Co. president, has returned to his home from Lenox Hill Hospital here to convalesce. Reagan,Rivkir In MPIC Posts U-I Beats Dutch Bond in Film Tiff Scores at Services For Gordon Greene Minneapolis, June 22. — Funeral services were held here yesterday for Gordon Greene, 46, who died Sunday at Glen Lake Sanitorium following a lung operation. A young veteran of the film industry, Greene had been active in both distribution and exhibition in this area since he was 13 years old. Until illness forced his retirement two years ago, he was sales representative here for National Screen. Services _ were attended by hundreds from this industry, from other businesses, and civic, political and labor leaders. Jane Cowl Dead at 65 Santa Monica, June 22.— Jane Cowl, Shakespearean actress, died of cancer today at the age of 65. Born in Boston, Miss Cowl was educated in New York, later the scene of her greatest triumph as Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet." In addition to her acting roles she was author or co-author of many plays as "Lilac Time" and "Smilin' Through." She appears currently in RKO Radio's "The Secret Fury." Miss Cowl was the widow of Adolph Klauber, former drama critic Warner Club Outing { About 1,000 Warner Club members and their guests are expected to turn out for the club's annual boatride to day aboard the S.S. Meseck up the Hudson River to Bear Mountain. Amsterdam. June 18 (By Airmail). Universal-International will stay on n Holland. Because the company had old its product to an independent Dutch distributor after it had become a member of the Bioscoop Bond, the Bond, a state controlled distributors' organization wanted to bar Universal from its membership. For some time, U-I had a skeleton office working here with five pictures to keep its membership. This it must have if it is to remain a member of the Bond. At the big yearly meeting of the Bond, 370 of the organization's 600 members were present. Of the 319 who voted on the issue 200 wanted to keep U-I in and 112 were against it. Paramount, which had its pictures distributed by Filmtrust for one year, now has opened its own distribution office here again. Hal Perlman Starts Own Trailer Business Chicago, June 22. — Hal Perlman, former advertising director for independent trailer companies, has opened a new special trailer organization, Variety Film Trailers, at Milwaukee. Perlman has been active in special trailer production for the past 11 years, and was formerly associated with RKO and Warner Theatres _ in advertising and managerial capacities.1 Clark, James, Davies Head Coast Publicists Hollywood, June 22. — Screen Publicists Guild has elected Kenneth Clark president, Nat James vice-president, Homer Davies treasurer, and Del Valle recording secretary. Three of 410' Face Verdict Thursday Washington, June 22. — Federal Judge Edward M. Curran said he would hand down a verdict next Thursday on whether Ring Lardner, Jr., Lester Cole and Adrian Scott are guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 if they were Communists. If found guilty, sentence will be passed then. The three went on trial before Curran today, the first of the eight remaining Hollywood workers who were cited for contempt by the House. Lardner and Cole appeared in court personally, but Scott was ill in the hospital. The other five of the remaining eight are scheduled to appear tomorrow before two other judges. Hollywood, June 22. — Ronald Re; gan and Allen Rivkin were named the new executive posts of secretai and treasurer, respectively, of tl Motion Picture Industry Council : the organization's meeting last nig! Under the new organizational set u chairman Roy Brewer and co-chai man Paul Groesse becom^ V'side and vice-president. Walter Wanger, a founder of tl MPIC, was named delegate of t' Society of Independent Motion Pi ture Producers to the Council. Tonight, at the Motion Pictu Night ceremonies at the Coliseum Los Angeles, the MPIC, representii all facets of the industry, bestow honors upon Harold Lloyd, retiri Imperial Potentate of the Shriners 315 July Booking* For New 'Irma' Film More than 315 key bookings ha been set in July for "My Friend In Goes West," according to A. Schwalberg, president of Paramoi Film Distributing Corp. They vj follow the world premiere at the Portal Theatre, Las Vegas, on June Las Vegas, June 22. — A recepti for a group of Hollywood person; ties Sunday afternoon at the He Flamingo here will launch activit in connection with the world premi' of Paramount's "My Friend Ir Goes West." Several thousand ; expected to be present to meet stars, Marie Wilson, Diana Ly Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. $2] /2-Million 'Quiz' (Continued from page 1) B & K Dividend Cut Chicago, June 22. — Balaban and Katz at a board of directors meeting held today voted a quarterly dividend of $1.20 a share payable June 29. Previously the company had been paying $2.00 dividends. contest as one possible means of "getting the potential 97,000,000 people interested again in our form of mass entertainment." Here is how the quiz would work : a series of 20 trailers, each to contain three or four questions based on the "Movie Quiz" idea, would be made and every theatre, for 20 weeks, would run a different trailer for a full week. Entry blanks would be available in every theatre and would be presented to each patron with his admission ticket. At the end of the contest, each participant would have to state, within a given number of words, "Why Movies Are Your Best Entertainment." An advance campaign in magazines, newspapers and theatre lobbies as well as over the air would promote the contest as a "Million Dollar Giveaway." To provide the prize money, Hollywood studios would contribute $1,000,000 and each participating theatre would contribute $5 per week as its share. Contest winners would go to Hollywood by special train. The industry in 1938 ran a "$250,000 Movie Quiz Contest" along similar lines as part of its "The Motion Picture's Greatest Year" campaign. 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