Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1950)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, August 4, 1950 Coming Events Aug. 7 — IATSE executive board meeting, Hotel Statler, Detroit. Aug. 7 — Cinema Productions, Inc., board of directors meeting, New York. Aug. 7-9 — Republic sales meeting, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago. Aug. 9 — Cinema Stamp Collectors meeting, Hotel Astor, New York. Aug. 10-13— IATSE district representatives meeting, Hotel Statler, Detroit. Aug. 11-18 — "Fifty Years of Progress in Motion Picture Advertising" exhibit, Associated American Artists Galleries, New York. Aug. 14-16 — Republic sales meeting, home office, New York. Aug. 14-18— IATSE 40th biennial convention, Masonic Temple, Detroit. Aug. 30-31 — West Virginia Theatre Managers Association annual convention, Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, Va. Sept. 15-17 — Pacific Coast Conference of Independent Theatre Owners annual convention, CalNeva Lodge, Lake Tahoe, Calif, (tentative dates). Sept. 19 — "All Presidents' Dinner," amusement division of United Jewish Appeal, Hotel Astor, New York. Sept. 19-21 — Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio annual convention, Netherland Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati. Sept. 25-26 — Allied Theatres of Michigan annual convention, Hotel Book-Cadillac, Detroit. Sept. 26-27 — Kansas-Missouri Theatre Association convention, Hotel President, Kansas City. Sept. 30-Oct. 1— Allied States Association board meeting, Pittsburgh. Personal Mention Anson Bond to Italy Anson Bond, independent producer, has arrived at the Hotel Pierre here from the Coast and will leave shortly for San Remo, Italy, for the first meeting of the One World Award Committee, to be held on Aug. 22. Bond's film, "The Vicious Years," has been selected by the committee as one contributing highly to the idea of the world community and will be presented, with several others, to the group at San Remo. Twin Bow for 'Hawk* Universal International's Technicolor "Desert Hawk," starring Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Greene, Lois Andrews and Anne Pearce, will have its world premiere at the Palace Theatre in Akron, O., and the Rivoli Theatre, Toledo, O., on Aug. 24. Exhibitor's Mother Dies Omaha, Aug. 3. — Mrs. Mary Lahnes, of Cedar Rapids, Neb., died here at the age of 74. She is the mother of Oliver Schneider, Osceola, Neb., exhibitor, and had been ill in a hospital here. EK. O'SHEA, Paramount Dis. tributing vice-president, and Joseph Walsh, branch operations manager, are in Chicago from New York and will go from there to the Coast. • Robert M. Weitman, United Paramount Theatres vice-president, and Mrs. Weitman left here yesterday for a vacation at Grossinger's in the Catskills. Suzanne White of United Artists television department will leave here over the weekend for a two-week vacation. • Clark Ramsay, Monroe Greenthal Co. Coast vice-president, will arrive here today from Chicago. • H. R. Emde, RKO Theatres division manager for Ohio, visited Cleveland this week from Cincinnati. • Will Price, director, is in Washington from the Coast. CIDNEY KRAMER, RKO Radio ^ short subjects sales manager, has returned to his desk here from a vacation. • Michel Grilikhes, Laurel Films assistant comptroller, and Mrs. Grilikhes are the parents of their first child, Linda Susan, born Monday at the Lenox Hill Hospital here. • Wareen Hall, owner of the Rodeo Theatre, Burwell, Neb., will again serve as arena director of the Burwell Rodeo next week. • Robert T. Murphy, managing director of the Century Theatre, Buffalo, is in a hospital there following surgery. • Morey Goldstein, Monogram general sales manager, left Boston yesterday for New Haven and New York. • Rutgers Neilson, RKO Radio publicity manager, has returned here from Atlantic City, where he vacationed. MGM Starting Third In Europe in Sept. With two films now being made in foreign countries, M-G-M will have a third starting early in September when the unit on "An American in Paris" arrives in Paris. Currently being filmed abroad are "Quo Vadis" in Rome, Italy, and "Calling Bulldog Drummond," at the M-G-M British studios at Herts, England. Headed by producer Arthur Freed, the "An American in Paris" unit will arrive here from the coast Aug. 30 and after a day will head for France. Mass. Cars, Drivers Up; See Drive-in Aid Boston, Aug. 3. — Increased registration of both motor vehicles and licensed drivers in Massachusetts are seen as added incentive to the growth of drive-ins in this area. Between 80 and 100 drive-ins are already in operation in the New England states, exclusive of Connecticut. Registered motor vehicles in the state increased from 1,110,950 in the first six months of 1949 to 1,203,031 in the same period this year, with licensed operators now at 1,687,496 as compared with 1,570,559 at the same time last year, according to the Commonwealth's Registry of Motor Vehicles. Trotta Starts New Film Ad Art Firm Vincent Trotta, motion picture art director, and Anthony Gablik, creator of advertising styles, have joined forces to specialize in consultant art work in motion picture advertising, particularly in effecting savings through advanced production methods, they announce. , Para. Sets 15 Key Dates for 'Sunset' Fifteen key city engagements have been set for "Sunset Boulevard," following its world premiere run at Radio City Music Hall, according to A. W. Schwalberg, president of Paramount Film Distributing Corp. The picture will open on Aug. 10 at the Hall. The cities include : Buffalo, Jacksonville, New Haven, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Des Moines, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Memphis and San Francisco. Other key city bookings are to be announced shortly. . W. New York MPTO To Hold Election Buffalo, Aug. 3. — Postponed for the second time because of the illness of two directors, the annual election of new members of the MPTO of New York, Western Zone, board will be held on Monday, says George H. Gammel, president. Menno Dykstra of the Glen, Williamsville, has undergone a serious major operation and M. M. Konczakowski of the circuit bearing his name also is in the hospital. Meanwhile a few other directors who have been on vacation have returned to the city, making possible the setting of Monday's meeting. Ferguson Moves Up, To Assist Schmidt Robert S. Ferguson, Columbia pressbook editor, has been named assistant to Arthur A. Schmidt, director of advertising, publicity and exploitation, the company announces. Seymour Roman has been appointed to succeed Ferguson as pressbook editor. Arnall to Atlanta Today for a Week A date for a Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers board meeting at which SIMPP president Ellis Arnall would report on the new Anglo-American film agreement has not been set, and such a meeting will not take place for at least a week, it was indicated yesA"rday. Arnall, who part[uiroited in the negotiations in obhalf of SIMPP, will leave here today for his home in Atlanta where he will spend a week before returning to New York. Sullivan Holds Talks With U. S. Officials Washington, Aug. 3. — Gael Sullivan, Theatre Owners of America ex^ ecutive director, was here today fow conferences with government officials, but he would not reveal what the conversations were about. 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