Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1951)

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2 Motion Picture daily Monday, January 29, 1951 Personal Mention SAMUEL GOLDWYN, James A. Mulvey and Harry Archinall, of Samuel Goldwyn Productions, left here at the weekend for the Coast. • Herman M. Levy, general counsel of Theatre Owners of America, will speak at the Lions Club luncheon to be held at the Casey Hotel, Scranton, tomorrow. • Irving Wormser, Columbia circuit sales executive, will leave here today for the South and Southwest, to visit company exchanges. • Arnold M. Grant, industry attorney, has been elected national president of the Syracuse University's Law College Alumni Association. • Hugh Owen, Paramount's Eastern and Southern division manager, has arrived in Atlanta from New York. • William, F. Broidy, Monogram producer, has returned to Hollywood after three weeks in New York. • E. Z. Walters, comptroller of Altec Service Corp., is in New York from the Coast. Abe Schneider of Columbia Pictures is vacationing at Boca Ration, Fla. Johnston Sponsors Preview of 'Affair' Washington, Jan. 28. — Eric Johnston will be host tomorrow evening to government, military and naval officials at a dinner and private screening of Hal Wallis' "September Affair" at the Academia Theatre here. Guest of honor will be the Italian Ambassador, Alberto Tarchiani, accompanied by Mrs. Tarchiani. The picture, being released by Paramount, stars Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten, who will fly from Hollywood to attend the affair. The event is to be a tribute to the Italian government for its support of American film-makers who have produced pictures in Italy. NEWS in Brief . . Newsreel Parade Ticket Tax Income Dips, U.S. Reports Brandt in Top Post For JDA Campaign Harry Brandt, head of Brandt Theatres and president of the Independent Theatre Owners Association, New York, will serve as chairman of the Joint Defense Appeal campaign cabinet— the overall planning group for the JDA drive in the Metropolitan New York area. The Joint Defense Appeal is the fund-raising branch of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The national goal of the campaign is $6,000,000, with half of that sum to be raised in this city. In accepting the post Brandt said: "The programs of the AJC and ADL, developed down the years to fight anti-Semitism and all forms of prejudice and discrimination, are of paramount importance to all men concerned with the future of democracy." Washington, Jan. 28. — General admission tax collections during 1950 — reflecting box-office business from Dec, 1949, through Nov., 1950, amounted to $356,723,866, a drop of just over five per cent from 1949 total collections of $375,768,499, according to an unofficial tally of figures released here by the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue today. The 1950 collection total was slightly less than nine per cent below the 1947 total of $389,867,479, the highest total for any year since the Bureau has made available separate figures on general admissions. The December collection figure, reflecting box-office business in November, totaled only $26,622,501, sharply below the Dec, 1949 figure of $33,513,950 and the second lowest total of any month in 1950. Only in February were collections lower. In 1949, December was the sixth best month and in the three preceding years December was the top month for the year. Theatre owner groups have Ion argued that business is actually worse than the admission tax figures show. They point out that these figures do not take into account rising costs, the increasing number of theatres, and the fact that a pick-up in other entertainments, such as sports, might hide for an even greater drop in film-view inar. Scroll to U. S. Steel The sponsor and producer of the Theatre Guild-on-the-Air program, chosen by newspaper radio critics and editors in the Motion Picture DailyFame 15th annual radio poll, were presented with the winner's scroll by Martin Quigley, Jr., last evening. Irving S. Olds, chairman of the board of U. S. Steel, sponsor of the show, accepted the scroll on behalf of the company and the producers. The presentation was made during the time generally reserved for the commercials. Tri-States TOA {Continued from page 1) New products and services to be offered to exhibitors in 1951 will be_ the keynote of the first of a series of district sales meetings of the National Theatre Supply representatives to be held at the Hotel Hollenden, Cleveland, on Feb. 8-9. • The New York Film Critics here last night awarded its citations for 1950's motion picture "Bests," at the Rainbow Room in Radio City. The awards, which this year were completely swept by 20th CenturyFox as far as American production was concerned, were presented by Critics' chairman Howard Barnes of the New York Herald Tribune at a reception given by the critics for the winners and members of the press. • Margaret J. Clancy, who for the last 18 years had been executive secretary to Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, was stricken with a heart attack at her desk at the home office on Friday and died on the same day at Polyclinic Hospital here. • Cleveland, Jan. 28. — The annual meeting of the Cleveland Motion Pic ture Exhibitors Association to elect officers and a board of directors, sched uled to be held here on Tuesday, has been postponed to Thursday. • Chicago, Jan. 28. — Despite a morning snowstorm, Universal-International's Technicolor "Tomahawk," had an excellent world premiere Friday at the Chicago Theatre, hitting close to the $10,000 mark. The only better opening at the theatre was "Louisa" last August. • Memphis, Jan. 28. — All employes of Malco Theatres, Inc., who have been with the chain as long as two years as of Jan. 1, will share in the new profit-sharing incentive plan announced at the Malco managers meeting here. • David A. Lipton, Universal Pictures vice-president in charge of advertising and publicity, left New York over the weekend for California following two weeks of conferences with home office executives to set advertising and promotion campaigns. J2EPORTS from Korea and Eric Johnston in his new government post are current newsreel highlights. Other items include sports and fashions. Complete contents follow: MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 9— Reports from Korea. Gem smuggler nabbed. Overland canal in Mexico. Carnival time in Italy. Beauty contest. News from the sports world: International ski meet. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 24J— Diamond smuggler nabbed. UN forces advance in Korea. Eric Johnston sworn in as Economic Stabilization chief. Women to answer defense call. Skiing. PARAMOUNT NEWS., No. 46— Tragedy in the Alps. Gen. Clark gives military report. Hat parade. Nation gets plan for wage-price curbs. Women return to defense jobs. Pre-Lenten carnivals. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 4-B— Top military leaders at Korean front. Gen. Eisenhower on tour. 'B36V in England. IndoChina report. Ski thrills. Horse racing. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 48— Korea report. Landslide levels Swedish villages. U. S. eyes new British jet. Eric Johnston sworn in as Economic Stabilization Administrator. Women back on defense jobs. 'Best-tressed' girl. Sports. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 425— Korea report: Lull marks fighting. Diamond smuggler nabbed by U. S. India's Minister Nehru in Paris. Women back in defense jobs. Carnival time in Italy. Sports. Allied of Texas (Continued from page 1) also, Ray G. Colvin of St. Louis, and Sam Shain, exhibitor relations director of 20th Century-Fox. Tomorrow's activities will include registration, visits to equipment and other theatre booths in the convention hall at the Gayoso, and a screening of "Bedtime for Bonzo." Business session's will be held Tuesday and Wednesday with speeches from national leaders and open forums for exhibitors in-between. Election of officers and resolutions are scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. Delegates and their wives will attend the Skating Vanities at Ellis Auditorium Tuesday night. A banquet will be held Wednesday. Mexico City. Jan. 28. — Leopoldo Ortega Casas, president, and all other officers of the National Exhibitors Association of Mexico, were reelected for 1951 at the annual three-day con vention of the NEA, held here, and attended by representatives of 1,800 theatres in this country. • Sarasota, Fla., Jan. 28. — Jerry Pick man, executive assistant to Max Youngstein, Paramount advertisingpublicity vice-president, arrived here today from New York to join the Cecil B. DeMille "Greatest Show on Earth" company, which arrived from Hollywood earlier for preparatory work on the picture at Ringling Bros winter headquarters here. COMPO idea and its value to every exhibitor in the individual operation of his theatre," according to a Texas Allied organization bulletin, which predicted that, "this convention keynote will be a box-office boost." The bulletin stated further that, "We expect to hold a Film Clinic to bring the idea of the Allied Caravan to all of you and to try and demonstrate its value if rightly used. These are days when film companies are pressing for the last dollar from the exhibitor's box-office. Up to a certain point we cannot criticize them for this, but in our belief it has gone beyond that point in many cases." Wage Freeze (Continued from page 1) say so flatly, but this is their best opinion for the present. One official said that further study might bring a contrary interpretation, but he doubted it. The confusion on industry wages stems from the fact that the Defense Production Act specifically exempts film industry prices, but says nothing about exempting wages. Some officials, including Price Stabilizer Di Salle, feel that the spirit of the law requires exempting both prices and wages in such industries. Both the wage freeze order made no exception and officials said they believed that under the letter of the law, film industry wages must be considered frozen. Under the order, wages above the Jan. 25 levels can be paid only under the approval of the Wage Stabiliza1 tion Board. MOTION PICTURE DAILY. Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; Terry Ramsaye, Consulting Editor. Published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address: Quigpubco, New York." Martin Quigley, President; Red Kann. Vice-President; Martin Quigley, Jr., Vice-President; Theo. J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasurer; Leo J Brady, becretary; Tames P Cunningham, News Editor; Herbert V. Fecke, Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager. Hollywood Bureau, Yucca-Vine Building William R. Weaver, Editor. Chicago Bureau, 120 South LaSalle Street, Urben Farley, Advertising Representative, Fl 6-3074. Washington, J. A. Otten, National Press Club, Washington, D. C. London Bureau, 4 Golden Sq., London Wl; Hope Burnup, Manager; Peter Burnup, Editor; cable address, "Quigpubco, London." Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture Herald; Better Theatres and Theatre Sales, each published 13 times a year as a section of Motion Picture Herald; International Motion Picture Almanac ; Fame. Entered as second class matter, Sept. 23, 1938, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year, $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign; single copies, 10c,