Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1950)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, September 29, 1950 Extend Release of 20th' s 'No Way Out' As 20th Century-Fox's "No Way Out" now makes its bow in the South, reports of censors passing the production in Ohio and Pennsylvania give it further entree throughout the country, following the recent extension of distribution in the Chicago territory after a police censor's ban was overridden. The start of release in the South will cover the eight states serviced by the Dallas, New Orleans and Oklahoma City exchanges, backed by extensive promotion. New Lighting Unit For Technicolor Cuts Costs: Kalmus Hollywood, Sept. 28. — Technicolor is about to introduce a new photographic system to eliminate the need for arc-light illumination in shootinginterior scenes and bringing Technicolor lighting requirements "within the range that is now used for blackand-white photography," it was disclosed here today by Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus, president of the company. Kalmus told the press that the new system, which will be offered to the trade for use in from four to six months, will greatly reduce costs for producers using Technicolor by doing away with numerous and cumbersome arc-lights heretofore required and enabling them to substitute unflltered incandescent lighting such as is nowused for black-and-white. The saving in time, resulting in faster shootingschedules, and in lighting-equipment costs and production-crew manpower, will accrue to producers when the new system comes into use, Kalmus pointed out. There will be no increase in Technicolor costs to users, he said. Kalmus reported that the new system, on which research has been proceeding for some time, calls for essential changes in camera, in negative, and throughout the whole laboratory process, but declined to divulge the technical nature of these changes for the present due to patent considerations. Conversion to the new system will entail extensive modification of laboratory procedure and the erection of a new building on the company's Hollywood site. The new system will require about two-thirds as many incandescent lighting units as arc-lights used under the present methods. Kalmus also pointed out that the new system will be particularly beneficial to producers filming abroad, where there is a great lack of lighting equipment. $20,000 for 'Menagerie' Warner Brothers' "The Glass Menagerie" opened at the New York Music Hall yesterday to an estimated gross of a strong $20,000, it is understood. Personal Mention "JOHN P. BYRNE, M-G-M's East«J ern sales manager, will return here Monday from a vacation. e Richard Harper, M-G-M home office sales executive, returned here yesterday from White Sulphur Springs, Va., where he spent his honeymoon. • Ed Thorgerson, Movietone News commentator, has signed for a 26-week television news program over WPIX, starting Oct. 2'. • Leon J. Bamberger, RKO Radio promotion manager, has returned here from the Kansas-Missouri Theatre Association convention in Kansas City. • Dan Wagner has joined the Denver office of Realart as booker and salesman. • Carlos Niebla, manager of M-GM of Mexico, is here on business, accompanied by Mrs. Niebla. • Octavio Lieman, who is licensee for RKO Radio in Spain, has arrived here. HM. RICHEY, head of M-G-M's • exhibitor relations, and actor George Murphy will leave Kansas City today for Pittsburgh and the national Allied convention. o Joseph L. Stein, of Sargoy and Stein, film attorneys here, has recovered from a protracted illness and is back at his desk. • Nat Levy, RKO Radio Eastern division sales manager, has left here on a business trip to Philadelphia and Detroit. • Ray Nazarro, Columbia director, will leave Boston Sunday for New York. • Smiley Burnett, Columbia western actor, will leave Boston for Hollywood on Monday. • Moe Kerman, president of Favorite Films, has returned here from Chicago. • Charles Levy, Walt Disney's Eastern publicity representative, has returned here from Hollywood. Sullivan to Stump The Field for TO A Gael Sullivan, executive director of the Theatre Owners of America, will leave here early next month on an extensive speaking tour which will keep him away from New York until after the four-day TOA Mid-Century conveniton in Houston, starting on Oct. 30. Sullivan will address the annual convention of TESMA at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago on Oct. 9, on the subject "TOA and TESMA." From Chicago, he will go to Hastings, Neb., to attend a district meeting of TOA exhibitors at the Clark Hotel where he will speak on "Competitive Bidding and Industry Arbitration." MPIC Okays Plan To Aid U. S. Hollywood, Sept. 28. — Plans to set up a production advisory panel in Hollywood to aid the government in making informational and armed service films were approved by members of the Motion Picture Industry Council at their regular meeting last night. Although formal submission of the MPIC plan to the government is beingheld up pending completion of related plans by exhibition and distribution, as agreed to at the recent COMPO meeting in Washington, MPIC met and discussed the topic thoroughly. Charles Ferguson, 75 Charles Ferguson, 75, veteran Loew's theatre manager, died in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Tuesday, it was learned here yesterday. Ferguson, who retired in 1947, had served 41 years with the company, 17 of them as manager of Loew's Lincoln Square Theatre here. In later years he acted as relief manager on the Loew's New York Circuit. Sears Breached Pact, UA Answer Asserts United Artists asserted yesterday in answers filed in U. S. District Court here to Gradwell Sears' suit for $14,000 allegedly ,due him in back salary, that the former company president, who has meanwhile become general sales manager, breached the terms of his employment contract by being absent from duty for five weeks in July and August. That was the reason why the company did not pay Sears, then president, his weekly salary of $2,500 for those weeks, the UA document stated. The single-page answer also contained a statement of general denial of all allegations made in Sears' complaint, and asked for dismissal of the action. Sears' complaint claimed the $14,000 is owed him for the period because his absence was due to illness. Not to Distribute Louis Fight Film Decision not to distribute the Joe Louis-Ezzard Charles fight pictures taken Wednesday night was reached by RKO yesterday because of their lack of "dramatic excitement," an RKO official said. A crew from RKO Pathe photographed the bout at Yankee Stadium for RKO and Madison Square Garden Corp. Goldstein in Atlanta For Final Mono. Meet Morey Goldstein, Monogram-Allied Artists national sales manager, is in Atlanta from New York to preside over the third and final regional meeting of salesmen and bookers. Attending will be the personnel of Atlanta, New Orleans, Charlotte and Memphis branches. James Prichard, Dallas branch manager, will also attend. The meeting will be held tomorrow. Mono. Home Office Votes for 'No Union' Monogram's home office "white collar" workers voted in a National Labor Relations Board election here yesterday to do without a collective bargaining agency. 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