Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1950)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, November 22, 1950 Personal Mention AW. SCHWALBERG, president • of Paramount Film Distributing Corp., and Hugh Owen, Eastern and Southern division manager, are due here today from Charlotte. • Leon J. Bamberger, head of exhibitor relations for RKO, and Mrs. Bamberger, announce the engagement of their daughter, Lois Jean, to Leonard Martin Bloksberg of Brooklyn. Miss Terry Cox has been engaged as publicist for Loew's Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, succeeding Mary Hennessy, resigned. • Robert Vogel, of Loew's International is due here Saturday from the Coast. Richard Thorpe, M-G-M director, left here yesterday by plane for London. 'Shoes' Scroll to Bowling A scroll commemorating the twoyear run of "The Red Shoes" at the Bijou Theatre here was given last night to Robert W. Dowling, president of City Investment Corp., owners of the Bijou and Victoria, by Flair Magazine. The presentation took place at the Victoria, where the film opened for a popular-price engagement. Dowling, accompanied by Maurice Maurer, managing director of City Entertainment Corp., is scheduled to leave here by air today on a three-week business trip in Europe. Retnbusch Appoints Indianapolis, Nov. 21.— Trueman Rembusch, national Allied States president, has appointed the following to serve on Allied's committee" on cooperative buying: Benjamin Berger and Stanley Kane, of North Central Allied, Minneapolis ; and Abe Berenson, of Gulf States Allied, New Orleans. Says 20th Will Aid (Continued from page 1) showmen throughout the country to attract patronage to the theatre, pointed out as a specific example the "bold .plan" of the five-circuit cooperative campaign on "All About Eve" which is currently underway in New York. Declared Rosenfield : "With the same spirit that motivated our calling 'Showmanship' conferences this Spring we now stand prepared to back you with all of our energy and experience." No Paper Tomorrow Motion Picture Daily will not be published tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, a legal holiday. Para. Meet Plans 'Missouri Raid' Bow St. Louis, Nov. 21. — The planned saturation bookings and world premiere of Paramount's "The Great Missouri Raid," head the agenda as South-Central manager Duke Clark meets here with the personnel of his St. Louis and Memphis branches. The sessions will end Monday. Clark announced a pre-selling campaign covering every town of 2,000 population and over in Missouri, Kansas, Southern Illinois, Northern Arkansas and Northern Oklahoma, for the Jan. 16 opening of the Nat Holt production. More than 250 Technicolor prints are to be used in these situations. Nationwide Showings For 'M-G-M Story' M-G-M will exhibit "The M-G-M Story" in various parts of the country starting Monday, when the first of two prints is shown to exhibitors, all M-G-M employes, the press and radio in the San Francisco area. First Eastern showing for the second print will be in New York c\i Tuesday. Start Rogers Drive (Continued from page 1) Allen of Tulsa and a personal friend of Rogers, will be hung in the hospital, for which the entertainment industry plans to raise a $5,000,000 fund in the next five years. Among the many industry figures attending the ceremonies were Nick J. Matsoukas, national campaign director ; Harry Brandt, Max Cohen, Leon J. Bamberger and William White; also Robert Christenberry. New TV Syndicate (Continued from page 1) lanta; WGN-TV, Chicago; WDSUTV, New Orleans; WPIX, New York; WKRC-TV, Cincinnati ; WBNS-TV, Columbus; WHIO-TV, Dayton; WKY-TV, Oklahoma City; KRLD-TV, Dallas, and KING-TV, Seattle. Attorneys and a three-man committee were appointed to make arrangements for incorporating. A workingcapital of $250,000 to be supplied by member stations was voted and it was agreed that new members would be taken in by invitation. The group hopes to have some 45 stations representing major TV-advertising areas as members in the near future. Five basic kinds of films, comedies, dramas, mysteries, Westerns and science-fiction, will be produced, probably in Hollywood, with top star names, many of them "actors who haven't worked for a year." Joseph Nadel, 57 Hollywood, Nov. 21. — Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Hollywood Cemetery Chapel for Joseph Nadel, 57, production executive, who succumbed yesterday following a heart attack last Saturday. Guild Cites Wilder For His 'Sunset' Job Hollywood, Nov. 21.— The Screen Directors Guild has named Billy Wilder the winner of its second quarterly award for directorial achievement, for his direction of "Sunset Boulevard," Paramount production. 20th-Fox Winds Up Sales Meet Series Twentieth Century-Fox sales executives and Mid-East division branch managers yesterday met at the home office here for the final session of a series of regional sales conferences on company distribution plans for the final quarter of this year and the first three months of 1951. ' Discussions yesterday were participated in by 20th-Fox vice-presidents Al Lichtman and Andy W. Smith, Jr., and assistant general sales manager W. C. Gehring, as well as other distribution division chiefs. Branch managers present included Glenn Norris, Washington ; Al Levy, Pittsburgh, and Sieg Horowitz, Philadelphia, among others. 'Harvey' Premiere to Aid 'Heart Drive* The new Louise Baer Memorial Fund of the New York Heart Association will be launched with the world premiere of Universal-International's "Harvey," at the Astor Theatre here on Wednesday evening, Dec. 20. The entire proceeds, which are expected to exceed $100,000, will be turned over to the Memorial Fund, established by the Heart Association as a tribute to the late Mrs. Arthur (Bugs) Baer. Unemployment Up (Continued from page 1) being retained pending reopening of the studio. Six major studios are working with nine pictures before cameras, including 20th Century-Fox's "No Highway" at Denham. Eight studios are closed,, including , M-G-M's Elstree plant and London Films studio at Shepperton. The latter, however, will reopen in the next few weeks with the return of Carol Reed from location in Ceylon with the Conrad story, "Outcast of the Islands," and of Zoltan Korda from South Africa with his "Cry the Beloved Country" company. Two productions are in work at Michael Balcon's Ealing studios, and eight others are scheduled to keep the plant running throughout 1951. Blumberg, Davis Confer Nate Blumberg, Universal-International president, is back from the Coast for conferences with John Davis, top executive in the J. Arthur Rank organization who leaves here for London tomorrow. Newsreel Parade TflGHTING IN KOREA and the ■*■ Alps plane crash are current newsreel highlights. Other items include football highlights, a "talking" elephant and UN action on Arab refugees. Complete contents follow : i MOVIETONE NEWS, No. £4— Korean i war. Greek battalion sails for K ""a. Alpine plane crash. Prince Chart,. " T second birthday. Woman marries V ^ /'boot" camp. Mid-winter fair. Sports": football. NEWS OF THE I>AY, No. 224—0.1/1 face bitter winter in Korea. Texas hon 1 ors heroic ex-G. 1. UN aids Arab refugees. "Talking-" elephant. News from the sports world: football highlights. PARAMOUNT NEWS. No. 27— Korea makes world headlines. Elephant says a trunkful. Recover bodies of French Alps crash victims. News from the sports world: football highlights. TELENEWS DIGEST: No. 47-A^Ko rea: battle in the sky. People in the news: Maurice Thorez, Lewis Douglas, Otto Diehls and Kurt Alder. Arms for the West. France: air crash. Philippines: Reds arrested. Israel: elections. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 4»S-Winter weather slows UN forces in Korea. Plane crash claims 58 pilgrims. UN adds 750,000 Arab refugees. News from the sports world: football highlights. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 29 -UN troops near China border. Norwegian Crown Prince visits U. S. Warner Brothers cited for "Breakthrough." UN aids 750,000 refugees. Nellie, the "talking" elephant. News from the sports world: football. D of J Wants (Continued from page 1) preme Court first affirmed the New York court order or close to two months later, when the high court's mandate finally was filed in the New York court. Justice takes the stand that the de-, termining date is June 6, the date of the Supreme Court action. Some defendants have been reported as feeling they have the extra two months. One course being considered by i Justice, it is reported, is to wait until Dec. 6 has passed and then, if the companies have not filed their plans, ask the New York court to find them in default and order them to submit' plans immediately. Another alternative is for the government to let the film companies know its views in advance of the deadline and, if the date is disputed, seek a court ruling. Several other alternatives also are being studied. The question of which date controls will have importance later, too, since the New York court order also has deadlines for submitting a divestiture plan and for actually carrying out divorcement. Salesmen's Pay (Continued from page 1) salesmen accused of "forced selling" by exhibitor organizations. 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