Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1951)

NEWS in Brief Motion Picture Daily Personal Mention Thursday, July 5, 1951 PK. O'SHEA, vice-president of * Paramount Film Distributing Corp., and Jerry Pickman, director of advertising publicity and exploitation, have changed their itinerary and will leave here today for Cleveland instead of Philadelphia, as previously announced. They will return here over the weekend after holding a series of meetings with special field representatives Mike Weiss, Ralph Buring and Art Leazenby in connection with the "Salute to Al Schwalberg" sales drive. • Washington, July 4.— James S. Carbery has resigned as manager of RKO Keith's theatre here, effective July 11, to become city manager of the Rowley United Theaters in Little Rock, Ark., where he will supervise the operations of the eight theatres and two drive-ins run by Rowley. He will leave for Arkansas next week. Carbery came to Washington in Sept., 1948, as assistant to the late Hardie Meaking. Prior to joining RKO he was associated with Skouras Theatres in New York City. • David E. (Skip) Weshner has been appointed general sales representative by Kenneth McEldowney for his forthcoming Technicolor production, "The River," for United Artists release. Weshner will work with William J. Heineman, UA sales vice-president, in developing sales policy on the film, which will be road-shown on a twoa-day, reserved-seat basis. The world premiere is set for the Paris Theatre, New York, on Sept. 10. • London, July 4.— Odeon Theatres has again deferred its preference dividend which is now two years in arrears. J. Arthur Rank says that consideration of the payment has been postponed until the results of the year ending June 23, 1951, are available. The last payment on the company s £946,991 ordinary stock was an interim dividend of 3% per cent for the year ended June 24, 1949. ILTON COHEN, United Artists Western and Southern sales manager, will leave here today for a tour of Southern exchanges. M Phil Reisman, Jr., who recently resigned as editorial supervisor here for RKO Pathe to enter TV, is scripting for the CBS-TV series "Man Against Crime." Ned Seckler, RKO Pictures manager for Brazil, has returned to Rio de Janeiro following several weeks' vacation in New York. • Leonard Spinrad, of Warner's home office publicity staff, has been elected president of the alumni association of Columbia University s School of Journalism. • Wolfe Cohen, Warner foreign manager, will leave, here Saturday aboard the S.S. Queen Elisabeth for London and Paris. T OSEPH McCONVILLE, presiJ dent of Columbia Pictures Corp., Mrs. McConville, Gary Merrill and his wife Bette Davis will arrive here today from Europe aboard the S.S. Queen Elisabeth. Herman Stern, former head of Universal Pictures non-theatrical department, now retired, and Mrs. Stern celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary recently. • Louis Shecter, advertising executive and owner of several neighborhood theatres in Baltimore, is' en route to Europe on the S.S. Libert e. • Andrew J. Grainger, Shea circuit executive, will leave here today for Youngstown, Pa., the first-stop on a two-week tour of Shea theatres. • Norman Panama, M-G-M director, has arrived here from the Coast. Newsreel Parade 4 New Managers In Evergreen Posts Portland, Ore., July 4. — Four additional managerial changes by Evergreen Theatres have been announced by Russell Brown, now Oregon district manager. Oscar Nyberg, former manager of the Orpheum has been promoted to the Paramount Theatre, while Kenneth Hughes, manager of the Oriental, was transferred to the Orpheum. From the position of assistant manager of the Orpheum, Bert Gamble has been promoted to manager of the Oriental. The new assistant manager at the Paramount is Dean "'at; ^■ws, formerly of the Century and Bagdad theatres. Emrys Evans, manager, of the Kiggins Theatre in Vancouver was made assistant manager of the Orpheum. Rank's UK Studios Resume Activity After a period of relative inactivity, the J Arthur Rank Organization has 11 films in preparation, production and near completion at its Pinewood and Ealing Studios in England, Universal, which releases Rank product here, re P0At Pinewood just completed and in the final stages of editing are "Hotel Saharra," starring Yvonne DeCarlo, and "Valley of Eagles," starring Nadia Gray, Jack Warner and John Mc Cullum. _. , In production at Pinewood are "High Treason," "Appointment With Venus," and Somerset Maugham s Encore. In Production In preparation at Pinewood and scheduled for early production are "Hunted" and 'Covent Garden, (Technicolar). Sir Michael Balcon has four in various stages of completion, production and preparation at Ealing : "The Lavender Hill Mob," starring Alec Guinness ■ "The Man in the White Suit, also 'starring Guinness; "No Vultures Fly" (Technicolor), and "His Excellency," starring Eric Portman. Two additional Rank films which are in first-run release in England will shortly be released in America They are "The Browning Version and "White Corridors." Mark Larkin With Publishing Firm Opportunity to advertise long-run stage and screen productions in 1/ Manhattan hotels will be offered for the first time through a New York edition of The Traveler, exclusive guest relations magazine founded by J. Frank Beaman, former assistant to the president of the Curtis Publishing Co., and founder and first editor of Holiday, travel and recreation magazine. Issued first in Philadelphia four years ago, The Traveler has newsstand sale and room distribution in 10 Philadelphia hotels and eight in Washington. The New York Traveler Corp. is jointly owned by Beaman and Mark Larkin, film publicist. rHE impending Korea peace talks and the Red leaders going to jail are current newsreel highlights. Other items include the Colorado air crash, and sports. Complete contents follow: MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 541— Cease-fire move in Korea. Top U. S. Reds go to jail. Forest fire in New Mexico. Birth of new H-bomb plant. Miss Truman visits Rome. Young Republicans' convention. Sports: tennis, baseball. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 288— Hopes for peace in Korea. Miss Truman in Rome. Top U. S. Reds start for prison. Four U. S. destroyers back from Korea. Derby Day in Tokyo. Motor polo in California. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. SI — Top U. S. Reds begin prison sentence. Miss Truman in Rome. Billiards. Cat and rat: experiments prove they can cooperate. Speed work on hydrogen plant. Cease-fire talks. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 27— UN delegates meet Malik. Korea peace talks. Defense Secretary Lovett warns on letdown. Air crashes in Colorado and Fort Dix. Close Frankfurt youth center. India grain crisis. Sheep Show. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 470-World waits tensely for Korea truce. School for survival. Colorado air crash. New Mexico forest fire. "Prince Who Was A Thief" opening in Detroit. Presidential inauguration in Australia. Sports. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 93— Iran oil crisis. New Mexico fire. U. S. Red leaders go to jail. Colorado air crash. Miss Truman visits Rome. Lady Godiva rides again in Coventry. Korea war draws near truce. 20% Dividend from ABPC for the Year London, July 4.— Associated British Pictures Corp. and affiliates have declared a dividend on ordinary shares of 12^4 per cent which with the interim dividend already paid makes a 20 per cent dividend for the year ending March 31, 1951. This equals last year's payments. The ABPC group increased net profits from £543,622 to £663,609. 3 From Rouse and Greene for Popkin Location shooting is a great aid in obtaining the quality of realism demanded by present-day audiences, according to Russell Rouse, who with Clarence Greene is one of Hollywood's newest producing directing writing teams. Their latest film is "The Well, made for Harry Popkin and slated to be relased by United Artists in midSeptember. Rouse and Greene are slated to make three pictures for Popkin in the next 12 months and all three will be released by UA. Rouse said that Greene will produce the next _ three and that on two, at least, he will assume direction, but that the screenplays will be written by the pair. Brondfield Appointed Pathe 's Story Editor Magazine writer and former newspaperman Jerome Brondfield, who has been a member of the RKO Pathe script staff for several years, has been appointed story editor of that production organization, it was announced here by Harry J. 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