Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1951)

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6 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, March 20, 1951 20th-Fox {Continued from page 1) color production, starring George Montgomery and Paula Corday and directed by Maurice Geraghty ; "Lucky Nick Cain," a Kaydor production starring George Raft and Coleen Gray and directed by Joe Newman, and "Of Men and Music," concert film produced by Rudolph Polk and Bernard Luber, directed by Irving Reis, and featuring Jascha Heifetz, Artur Rubinstein, Jan Peerce, Nadine Conner, Dimitri Mitropoulos and the New York Philharmonic. Slated to go to theatres in April are : "You're in the Navy Now," starring Gary Cooper and Jane Greer, directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Fred Kohlmar ; "I Can Get It for You Wholesale," starring Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey and George Sanders, and directed by Michael Gordon for producer Sol C. Siegel, and "Follow the Sun," starring Glenn Ford and Anne Baxter, directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by Samuel G. Engel. May releases are: "Fourteen Hours," directed by Henry Hathaway for producer Sol C. Siegel, with Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart and Barbara Bel Geddes ; "Rawhide," starring Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward, directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Samuel G. Engel, and "On the Riviera," Technicolor musical starring Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney and Corinne Calvet, and directed by Walter Lang for producer Sol C Siegel. June Releases June releases include : "Half Angel," in Technicolor, co-starring Joseph Cotten and Loretta Young, directed by Richard Sale and produced by Julian Blaustein ; "House on Telegraph Hill," which stars Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortesa and Wil liam Lundigan, was directed by Robert Wise for producer Robert Bass ler, and "Just One More Chance,' starring Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell and Joan Bennett, directed by Joe Newman and produced by Julian Blaustein. For release in July are : "Will You Love Me in December?", produced by Lamar Trotti and directed by Harmon Jones, with Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, David Wayne and Jean Peters ; "No Highway," starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich, directed by Henry Koster for producer Louis D. Lighten, and "The Frogmen," starring Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews and Gary Merrill, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by Samuel G. Engel. In August will be "The Secret of Convict Lake," which stars Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Zachary Scott and Ethel Barrymore, directed by Michael Gordon for producer Frank Rosenberg; "Take Care of My Little Girl," Technicolor film directed by Jean Negulesco, produced by Julian Blaustein and starring Jeanne Crain, and "Decision Before Dawn," directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Litvak and Frank McCarthy, with Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner and Hildegarde Neff starred. Myers on Arbitration {Continued from page 1) would be advisable to hold an allndustry conference at which it could be determined whether or not a system of arbitration might work. After conferring they decided it was desirable to continue taking steps toward the establishment of such a system. The distribution heads could not envisage a successful effort, however, without Allied's participation. That meeting selected William F. Rodgers, M-G-M distribution vicepresident, to act as a go-between in an endeavor to bring Allied into a conference on arbitration. It is expected that Myers will determine from the discussions which he will hold in New York whether it would be advisable for Allied to sit in on any such conference. It is regarded as doubtful that a conference on arbitration would be called if Allied should indicate it would not participate in a meeting of that sort. Hence, whether or not an all-industry conference will be called hinges directly on the result of the forthcoming meetings between Myers and the attorneys for the companies. Some company attorneys are said to see advantages in an all-industry system of arbitration. Others are known to be opposed to the establishment of such a system. Myers has been an outspoken disparager of systems of arbitration as such. Ever since their meeting with distribution executives, TOA officials have sought to take the TOA label off the proposal in behalf of an arbitration system. They have indicated they believe the proposal should rightfully be identified as coming from "exhibition" and not from any single exhibitor organization. Other exhibitor organizations have campaigned in behalf of arbitration, among them the Pacific Coast Conference of Independent Theatre Owners and the New York Independent Theatre Owners Association. Myers will report on his New York meetings to the Allied board at a meeting scheduled for May 13-14 in Kansas City. Theatres Picketed for 'High' Admissions Cincinnati, March 19. — Protesting high admission prices charged by theatres in Morgantown, W. Va., students of West Virginia University have inaugurated a "Don't Go to the Theatre Week." Supported by student boycott of theatres, it is charged that admissions are higher than in other communities of comparable size, and are "beyond the normal means of the average student." Students have been picketing the theatres. WEWS in Brief . William Wilson Elected Ottawa, March 19. — William H Wilson has been elected president of the Edmonton Theatres Association in Alberta. Arbitration System High On TOA Board Meeting Agenda Washington, March 19.— "Everything possible to work up some sort of industry arbitration system" will head the agenda for the April 4 board meeting of Theatre Owners of America, Gael Sullivan, TOA executive director, reported here today. He is expected to return to his New York headquarters by Thursday. Other agenda items, Sullivan said, will include formal ratification of the new Council of Motion Picture Organizations set-up; acceptance by TOA of COMPO's exhibitor seminars in Hollywood ; discussion of plans for the TOA convention in New York in the fall ; the proposal for a motion picture industry exposition in Grand Central Palace, New York, and the ruling of the Bureau of Internal Revenue on drive-in admissions. To Meet on Rentals Columbus, O., March 19. — Ohio exhibitors have been urged to attend a protest luncheon-meeting at which "high rentals" for films will be No. 1 on the agenda. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 29, at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel. PHONEVISION and its possible application to Canadian television is the subject of conferences now being held in Chicago between E. F. McDonald, Jr., president of Zenith Radio Corp., R. H. Cairns, broadcast engineer from the telecommunications division of the Canadian Department of Transport, and Andre Ouimet, Canadian Broadcasting's assistant director of television for Montreal. • Albany, N. Y., March 19.— Harry Goldberg, director of advertising and exploitation for Warner Theatres, will address a meeting of Warner Upstate managers in Syra cuse on Wednesday. Zone manager Charles A. Smakwitz will preside. • New Orleans, March 19. — An order temporarily halting the opening of a motion picture theatre on 2201 Hibernia Street due to a dispute over a building permit has been issued by Judge Walter B. Hamlin. • Hollywood, March 19. — Eddie Bracken, who stars in RKO Pictures "Two Tickets to Broadway," will start immediate construction of a televi sion studio with two sound stages to house his expanding Bracken Productions, television . program producers it was announced. • Minneapolis, March 19. — Th> board of directors of North Central Allied, will meet here tomorrow to discuss plans for the association's an nual spring convention. The date was set to enable out-of-town board mem bers to engage in a double bill pro gram, the board meeting and dedica tion ceremonies of the local Variety Heart Hospital. • Atlanta, March 19. — Producers were urged to film more pictures Georgia in a resolution adopted by the Theatre Owners and Operators of Georgia at their annual meeting here last week. • Philadelphia, March 19. — A spe cial edition of the "Queen for a Day' radio show will be part of the enter tainment planned for the convention of International Variety Clubs, May 8-12, Victor H. Blanc, general chair man, announces. Coming Events March 20-21 — Columbia sales meetings, Hotel Warwick, New York. March 20-27 — Eagle Lion Classics divisional sales meetings at the home office, New York. March 21 — Atlantic Coast section of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers meeting, Wilkie Memorial Building, New York. March 21 — Metropolitan Motion Picture Theatres Association meeting, St. Moritz Hotel, New York. March 22 — Ascap announcement of annual board of directors election results. March 25-27 — Theatre Owners of Oklahoma annual convention, Biltmore Hotel, Oklahoma City. March 26 — Motion Picture Association of America, annual meeting. March 27 — Ascap annual meeting, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. March 28 — United Jewish Appeal executive committee of the amusement division meeting, Hotel Astor, New York. March 28 — Associated Motion Picture Advertisers trade press testimonial luncheon, Hotel Piccadilly, New York. March 28 — Cinema Stamp Collectors meeting, Hotel Astor, New York. March 29 — Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 23rd annual presentation of awards, RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood. April 4-6 — Theatre Owners of America board of directors meeting, Hotel Mayflower, Washington. April 5-6 — National Board of Review of Motion Pictures annual conference, Hotel McAlpin, New York. April 10-11 — Allied-Independent Theatre Owners of Iowa-Nebraska annual convention, Savery Hotel, Des Moines. Gophers Oppose TV Sports Legislation St. Paul, March 19.— University of Minnesota officials have asked the senate university committee to reject a resolution asking that university athletic events be televised. Asserting that attendance at athletic events in areas where they are televised has dropped 50 per cent, university officials urged the legislators to "leave us alone, and we will work out this problem ourselves." SCTOA & COMPO {Continued from page 1) the California action will keep them from ratifying now," Sullivan said. "Not one single person in the California unit was for COMPO and I had to plead with them to get them to defer action instead of voting it down." On April 3, in accordance with arrangements made here by Sullivan,_ a committee of SCTOA will meet with Assistant Attorney General Graham Morison to discuss a proposed new zoning and clearance schedule for the Los Angeles area along with the establishment of an arbitration system there.