Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1951)

2 Motion Picture Daily Monday, March 19, 1951 Personal Mention JOHN JOSEPH, M-G-M publicity «J head in the East, is due back from the Coast today. • E. K. O'Shea, Jr.; a Marine lieutenant, is now in Korea, while James H. O'Shea, a former Air Force captain and fighter pilot, has been recalled to active duty. Both are sons of E. K. O'Shea, vice-president of Paramount Film Distributing Corp. • James M. Connolly, Boston branch manager for 20th Century-Fox, addressed students of Wellesley College on the subject, "Do Motion Pictures Inform as Well as Entertain?" • Ben Goetz, in charge of M-G-M production in England, and his wife are due to arrive here from the Coast Friday to sail on March 27 on the S.S. America for London. Allan Stearns, promotion director of Dell Publications, will address a class in the New School here tonight on magazine publicity and promotion. Oscar Morgan, general sales manager of Paramount short subjects and; newsreel, is scheduled to leave here today for New Orleans. Robert Weitman, vice-president of United Paramount Theatres, is set to return to his desk here today following a siege of the flu. Richard Brooks, M-G-M director, is due to arrive here from the Coast to leave tomorrow on the «S"..S\ Queen Elisabeth for Europe. Jack Broder, chairman and president of Realart Pictures, Inc., is slated to arrive here today from Los Angeles. • Ted R. Gamble,' head of Gamble Enterprises, is slated to be in Washington today from New York. Ed Barison, president of Cinema Distributors, is due to leave here today for the Coast. * • Bill Kaplan, M-G-M unit manager, is due to arrive fiere today from the Coast en route to Rome. • Gael Sullivan, Theatre Owners of America executive director, is in Washington today from New York: • | Harry M. Popkin, independent pro*ducer, has returned to Hollywood from New York. i Sondergaard to Cite Fifth Amendment Hollywood, March 18.— Actress Gale Sondergaard, one of those subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, has issued a statement here saying that she will invoke the Fifth Amendment at the Committee hearings scheduled to start Wednesday in Washington. She further stated that she would ask the Screen Actors Guild for protection against blacklisting. Averts Mexican Strike ' Mexico City, March 18— A strike has been averted in 27 theatres in the towns of Chihuahua State on the U.S; border, Chihuahua City, the capital, Ciudad Juarez, opposite El Paso. Texas, and Hidalgo del Parral, a min4 ing center. Exhibitors allowed theiij staffs a 10-to-20 per cent pay hike. in Brief . Waycross, Georgia, has won the "Queen City for A Day" world premiere celebration for the new Robert Stillman film, "Queen for a Day," on April 14, it was announced by Max E. Youngstein, United Artists advertising and publicity vice-president. • The Canadian premiere of Paramount's Technicolor production of "Quebec" will be held in that city on March 30 at the Capitol Theatre it was announced at the weekend. : Chicago, March 18. — While returning home at the weekend from a meeting at which he was reelected president of Allied Theatres of Illinois, Jack Kirsch was held up, beaten by three gunmen, and robbed. Kirsch said the. bandits entered his car when he stopped for a traffic signal at Wabash and Roosevelt, a block away from Allied's headquarters. One of the gunmen took the wheel and drove north on Wabash Ave. When Kirsch attempted to escape at Monroe Street, the bandits pistol-whippedhim. • Baltimore, March 18. — The Hippodrome Theatre here, operated by Isador. M. Rappaport, has booked "The Outlaw for its first Baltimore showings, opening on March 24. Kramer Deal (Continued from page 1) Several Promoted By Loew's in N. Y. Loew's Theatres has made the following managerial ^promotions in its; Metropolitan New York divisions : Joseph McCoy, former assistant manager at the Victoria, becomes acting manager of Loew's 116th Street ; Robert Camman has been promoted from assistant at the Paradise to acting manager of Lowe's Kameo, succeeding Mrs. Dorothy' Solomon, who has been transferred txvLoew's 46th Street as manager. Edward Schwartz has beefi transferred from the 1 16th Street to Loew's Broadway as manager, succeeding Helen Lupo who will go to the Sheriadn. Morris Tanney, manager of Loew's 46th Street, is transferred to the Alpine. Douglas Helgeson, manager of the Sheridan, has resigned. enabled Kramer to turn out "Champion," "Home of The Brave," and "Cyrano de Bergerac," will continue under the new set-up, a spokesman explained. With Columbia assuming complete responsibility for financing and sharing in profits, pictures will be produced at the rate of six annually, it was announced. Kramer Statement Kramer said, "Our operation will be the same as in the past," basing its striking power on new ideas plus thorough preparation and rehearsal. Nowhere in the industry have we encountered executives so alert to the box-office challenge of today as we find in Columbia." Kramer's organization is headed by Sam Katz, board chairman ; George Glass, vice-president and exploitation chief ; and Carl Foreman, writer. Kramer production department heads will continue in their present capacity. Kramer's production slate is beaded by three Broadway successes, "Death of a Salesman," "Happy Time," and "Member of the Wedding." 16 Col. Films (Continued from page 1) starring Eleanor Parker and Anthony Dexter. Also, "The Brave Bulls," Robert Rossen's adaptation of the Tom Lee novel; Sidney Buchman's production, "Saturday's Hero," starring John Derek and Donna Reed; the Santana Humphrey Bogart "starrer, "Sirocco," costaring Marta Toren and Lee J. Cobb; "The Whistle at Eaton Falls," starring Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Gish, produced by Louis deRochemont and directed by Robert Siodmak; "Her First Romance," starring Margaret O'Brien; "Santa Fe," in Technicolor, starring Randolph Scott; "Two of a Kind," starring Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth Scott and Terry Moore; "Never Trust a Gambler," starring Dane Clark, Cathy O'Donnell and Tom Drake; "Pickup," starring Beverly Michaels, Hugo Haas, Allan Nixon and Howland Chamberlin; "Lorna Doone," Edward Small Technicolor version of the Blackmore classic, starring Barbara Hale and Richard Greene; "Sunny Side of the Street." Supercinecolor musical; "Remember That Face," starring Broderick Crawford; "The Texas Rangers," Supercinecolor Edward Small production starring George Montgomery and Gale Storm; "Hurricane Island" and "When the Redskins Rode," two Supercinecolor productions starring John Hall. Present at the meetings from the home office, in addition to Montague, will be: Rube Jackter. Louis Astor, Louis Weinberg, Irving Wormser, George Josephs, Maurice Grad, H. C. Kaufman, Joseph Freiberg, Seth Raisler, Harry Kosiner, Irving Sherman, Sydney Singerman, William Brennan and Irving Moross. Those attending from the field include: Nat Cohn, Sam Galanty, Carl Shalit, H. E. Weiner, I. H. Rogovin, B. C. Marcus, R. J. Ingram, Jack Underwood, L. E* Tillman, Wayne Ball, Ben Lourie and Harvey Harnick. Pine-Thomas Set Two In Color for Payne Hollywood, March 18. — Producers Bill Pine and Bill Thomas have set two forthcoming productions for John Payne. The first, which will start on July 6, will be "The Lumberjack and the Lady," in Technicolor. The second will be "Carib Gold," to be directed by Edward Ludwig. It also will be in Technicolor, and has a Sept. 3 starting date. Both will be released by Paramount. Newsreel Parade A LARGE, amount of current ■SI newsreel footage is devoted to the Kefauver Senate hearings in Nezv York. Other items include flashes from Korea, the first Eskimo Nun, and sports. Complete contents follow. MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 23— Senate crime probe in New York. United States takes part in British air maneuvers. First Eskimo takes veil in Northern Canada. Canadian ice show. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 257— Senate crime probe in New York. Frank Costello and Virginia Hill Hauser testify. British U. S. in joint air maneuvers. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 60^-Trieste's future is spotlighted. New method for treating coronary thrombosis. Frostbite casualties in Korea. First Eskimo nun takes vow. Kefauver crime hearings. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 11-B— Senate crime probe. Student riots in Japan. Korea: crossing the Han. Sports world: celebrities play golf. UNIVERSAL NEWSi No. 439 Senate crime probe hearings in New York. At the front in Korea. Sport news: flashes, basketball for kiddies. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 62— Kefauver crime probe in New York. Korea: UN troops in drive. Korea war dead started home. Eskimo Nun takes vows. Baseball: "Happy" Chandler out. Must Bid in Field; Gamble Declares "Pictures are bid for and bought in the field now and that's where the exhibitor has to be these days," Ted R. Gamble, head of Gamble Enterprises, said on his return here from the Coast Friday, preparatory to closing his New York offices. Gamble recently sold his half interest in four of Indianapolis' five firstrun theatres and transferred his headquarters from New York to Milwaukee, where his most important operations now are. "When we first moved to New York from the Pacific Northwest," Gamble said, "our intention was to expand in the Eastern territory. Accordingly, we established headquarters here. That was before competitive bidding. It is no longer practicable to buy for widely separated theatres from New York. Exhibitors need to be on the scene now that pictures are bought and sold locally." Legion Official Denies Attack on 'Fox* Chicago, March 18. — The American Legion's Chipilly Post Commander, James W. Hilton, flatly, denies that his post had authorized published reports implying boycott action against "The Desert Fox," 20th Century-Fox's forthcoming production concerning the late German Field Marshal Irwin Rommel. The denial was carried in a public letter to Harry G. Green, of Chicago, who issued the recent public blast against the film. The post commander cautioned against pre-judging the film, and stated that Green's attitude did not reflect the views of the post. 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. 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