Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1951)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, January 2, 1951 Personal Mention ROY ROWLAND, producer, is slated to leave Hollywood today for New York for a vacation. • Al Mendelson, 20th Century-Fox booker for New Jersey, announces the marriage of his daughter, Helene, to Corporal Alvin Nelson of the U. S. Army. The marriage took place at Temple Beth-El, Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, on Saturday. Lee J. Lock wood, son of Arthur H. Lockwood, former president of the Theatre Owners of America, was the recipient of the Hugh Chamberlain prize at Yale University for 1950 and 1951. • Eric A. Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association, is back in MPAA's Washington headquarters after a holiday stay on the West Coast. Herald Poll Gets Big UK Press Break London, Jan. 1. — The annual Motion Picture Herald-Fame poll of Britain's leading "Money-Making Stars" of 1950 rated unprecedented national newspaper and radio coverage over the New Year weekend. Most editors, including the London Times', pointed out that the Herald's box office survey revealed five British films among the country's six biggest grossers at a time when pessimists here have been proclaiming British production to be threatened with creeping paralysis. Anna Neagle, who ranked first in the poll here, and Jack Warner, who placed third among Britain's top 10, appeared on a special British Broadcasting Co. program at the peak listening-hour Saturday. The program was built around their rankings in the poll. Spot Color TV Show Set The first spot-news coverage of a major event for color television "will bring all the glittering pageantry" of the annual New Year's Day Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Cal., in full color, to viewers of CBS' public color demonstrations in New York and Philadelphia starting tomorrow, CBS stated over the weekend. This was made possible by special arrangement between CBS and Carl W. Dudley, president of Dudley Pictures Corp. of Beverly Hills, who will film the event in color and ship the films by air to New York immediately following the pageant. Three-color cameras will be employed in the coverage of the parade from vantage points along the route. "Processing will be effected with the utmost speed to wing the films to New York within a matter of hours after the procession," said CBS. 'IA' Goals (Continued from page 1) Chicago Meet (Continued from page 1) Theatre TV (Continued from page 1) form the pioneering basis for an independent theatre TV network which would supplement regular film fare with special television shows, Folsom said. Folsom, in reporting on the status of television generally, said that within two years television set circulation had increased 12 times. He estimated that 10,000,000 homes have sets and that the TV audience is approximately 40,000,000 Americans. celebration about two weeks ago. "The top men in the industry were at the banquet," Kirsch said, "and they heard my speech, which was also well-covered in the trade press." Kirsch admitted, however, that after the meeting none of the industry leaders present accepted the "challenge to meet in Chicago." He said that perhaps he had been misunderstood and that if industry leaders did not accept his offer, he might send them written invitations this month. "The meeting," Kirsch said, "should be some kind of an over-all forum to discuss ways to improve business in this area." He said that the meeting would not be for the purpose of lowering film rentals. "We are not worried about that," he said. "We're willing to pay fair film rentals as longas grosses at the box-office are high enough to meet them. An improvement in business will benefit everyone—producer, distributor and exhibitor." Phonevision (Continued from page 1) D. of J.-Fox (Continued from page 1) earlier stipulations but which actually are contingent on there being a final decree. Since the company has until March 15 to file its divorcement plan —with the feeling being that a final decree will be agreed to before then —the other deadline was also extended to March 15 day. On the next day this attraction will be on at seven P.M., and on the third day it will be shown at nine. The schedule for the first week of Phonevision is : New Year's Day : "April Showers," four P.M.; "Welcome Stranger," seven P.M. ; "Homecoming," nine P.M.; Tuesday: "Lost Honeymoon," with Franchot Tone, four P. M. ; "April Showers," seven P.M. ; "Welcome Stranger," nine P.M.. Wednesday : "The Unsuspected," with Joan Caufield, four P.M. ; "Lost Honeymoon," seven P.M. ; "April Showers," nine P.M. Thursday : "Silver River," with Errol Flynn, four P.M. ; "The Unsuspected," seven P.M. ; "Lost Honeymoon," nine P.M. Friday: "Dear Ruth" with William Holden, four P.M.; "Silver River," seven P.M. and "The Unsuspected" at nine P.M give "new life" to the stage and screen, and (4) "just stability" in television. This assertion could be interpreted in part as an expression of determination to win cost-of-living pay increases now being sought in negotiations on the Coast and to achieve a widened distribution of union-management pension plans. Additionally, Walsh's statement with respect to attainment of a "new life" for the screen is viewed as a reaffirmation of the "IA's" wholehearted support of the Council of Motion Picture Organizations, while his reference to the drive for "just stability" in television appears to indicate an "IA" determination to play a greater role in the labor end of the video industry. Wage Campaign It is expected that before 1951 is very_ old the "IA's" cost-of-living and pension campaigns will manifest themselves to a considerably greater degree than at present. But there appears to be no sense of time running out with respect to the Hollywood locals' bid for cost-of-living increases, for, contrary to general belief, many industry labor leaders see no film industry wage freeze in the immediate future. Price and wage freezes, it is pointed out, appear slated for defense industries first; hence, although allowance should be made' for day-to-day influences in America's wartime economy, it seems evident to these observers that there will be no sudden industry wage freeze. The last cost-of-living boost for studio workers came in 1947 when an 11.17 per cent hike was granted following general pay increases of between 25 and 50 per cent granted under contracts negotiated in 1946. Believed to be the spearhead of a determined effort by the "IA" to secure union-management pension plans for its locals generally was the agreement reached last year by several circuits in New York City and Projectionists Local No. 306 establishing a new-type pension arrangement which now is before the U. S. Internal Revenue Bureau. With the addition of 10 new locals during 1950, the "IA" has brought to 988 the total number of locals it represents in the U. S., Canada, Alaska and Hawaii. Several of the locals built new quarters for themselves during the year. The union's interest in theatre television last year was emphasized when, between Sept. 11-15, some 30 members of projectionists locals all over the country took an intensive course in the subject at the RCA Service Co. plant in Camden, N. J. High among the union's achievements last year was the $4-per-week, across-the-board pay increase won for some 5,000 exchange employees across the country. Signing of the agreement is expected to take place very soon. The two-year pact will represent a payroll increase of over $1,000,000 a year for eight distributors and National Screen Service Newsreel Parade fT,HE completion of the UN evacu ation and the ending of the Holy Year are current neiusreel highlights. Other items include Gen. Walker being honored and sports. Complete contents follow : No. 2— Sports re MO VIE TONE NEWS, view of 1950. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 2K-UN forces complete evacuation. Gen. Walker honored. Dean Acheson reports. Pope seals Sacred Door as Holy Year ends. Football. PARAMOUNT, No. 38— Ice review. Midair refueling. Pope seals door of St. Peter's. Final days of Korea evacuation. TELE NEWS DIGEST, No. 52-B— Korea: March to Hungnam. Gen. Ridgway new Eighth Army head. Pope ends Holy Year. Berlin sends Stalin "greetings." Football. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 417— Korea: evacuation complete. Gen. Walker honored. Holy Year ends. Sports: ice and football. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 40MRe port from Korea. Gen. Ridgway named Korea Army chief. New aerial gas station. Papal rites mark end of Holy Year. Hawaiian contest winners in gala visit. Sports. 'Miracle' (Continued from page 1) film, "Ways of Love," until the court ruled tomorrow on distributor Joseph Burstyn's motion for a permanent injunction to lift the Commissioner's ban. McCaffrey said he took that attitude because he did not want to be "tyrannical." At the time of the motion filing on Friday by Burstyn's counsel, John Farber, Justice Greenberg declared that McCaffrey "had no right to assume such wide powers" by banning the picture from showings at the Paris. NEW YORK THEATRES RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL ^_ Rockefeller Center ____ RUDYARD "WIUV" KIPLING'S AMIfH Errol FLYNN Dean STOCK WELL Color by TECHNICOLOR A METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURE and THE MUSIC HALL'S GREAT CHRISTMAS STAGE SHOW A Pgramount Picture starring UNO NANCY CROSBY • OLSON! 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