Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1951)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, July 11, 1951 Personal Mention ELLIS G. ARNALL, president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, is due here from Atlanta next Wednesday. • Robert Benjamin, president of the J Arthur Rank Organization here and member of the United Artists management syndicate, returned to New York from a European trip on Monday. • Edwin W. Aaron, Western sales manager for 20th Century-Fox, will leave here today for Los Angeles to meet with Herman Wobber, Western division manager. • Richard A. Harper, M-G-M circuit sales executive, will leave here Monday for Albany and Gloversville for conferences with branch and Schme circuit executives. • Richard Secord, assistant manager of Loew's Broad at Columbus, O., has resigned to attend the U. S. Military Academy. • Robert J. Rubin, assistant to Barney Balaban, Paramount president, and Mrs. Rubin, have adopted a baby boy. Lou J. Kaufman, Warner Theatre executive, left here yesterday for Ohio and will return to New York early next week. • Joseph A. Walsh, head of _ branchoperations for Paramount, is in Chicago today from Milwaukee. a Ben Melnicker, M-G-M attorney, has returned here from Washington. $30,000,000 Slash Made In Program for Overseas Washington, July 10.— The House Appropriations Committee today voted to give the State Department's overseas information program, including films, only $85,000,000 of the $115,000,000 it had asked for operations during the next 12 months. This $30,000,000 cut would reduce the program's funds below the $106,000,000 it had during the past fiscal year. Much of that amount, however, was for capital outlays, so the division should still be able to operate on a stepped-up basis during the current year. In the 1949-50 fiscal year its budget was only $36,900,000. The Committee did not specify how much of the cut should be borne by the international motion picture division. That division had asked for $13,074,035 this year compared with $11,803,000 in the 1950-51 fiscal year and $2,485,409 in the previous 12 months. The action of the Committee still must be approved by the House. Then the bill will go to the Senate, where changes can be expected. In another action, the House group cut the funds for the Justice Department's anti-trust division. It voted only $3,200,000 for this agency, $550,000 less than last year's appropriations and $500,000 below the amount requested. Marines Cite Grainger Washington, July 10. — General C. B. Cates, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps, today cited producer Edmund Grainger for his "Flying Leathernecks," which was screened for the general and his staff at the Pen tagon. Grainger flew in from Holly wood to attend the screening. Accom panying Grainger was Don Prince, RKO Radio Eastern publicity direc tor. whose company is releasing the film next month. O'Hara Flying to London Today Washington, July 10— Motion Picture Association of America vice-president Joyce O'Hara is slated to leave here tomorrow for New York and then for London to take part in the coming Anglo-American talks on a new film agreement. O'Hara will leave here tomorrow morning, spend a few hours in New York, and then take the plane for London late tomorrow. Preliminary talks are to start there on Friday. Mexicans May Ban 'Great Caruso9 Mexico City, July 10. — Metro's The Great Caruso" will be banned from exhibition in Mexico, France, Spain and several Central and South American countries if the Mexican Society of Authors, Composers and Pubshers of Music enforces the boycott it voted on the ground that a song in the film, "The Most Beautiful Night of the Year," credited to Irving Aronson, is said to have the exact music of "Over the Waves," waltz by the late Juventino Rosas, Mexican composer. However, the Society will cancel the boycott if Metro gives Rosas credit for the song's music. The Society expects to enforce the boycott abroad through affiliations it has with composer, publisher and musicians unions. Report Philippines Limiting Imports Washington, July 10. — The Motion Picture Association of America has asked the U. S. State Department to investigate a reported Philippine government action to limit the importation of films, it was disclosed here today. Large Field Staff To Spur 'Cyrano' A large staff of special field men is being used in connection with the general release of Stanley Kramer's "Cyrano de Bergerac," it was announced here yesterday by Max E. Youngstein, UA vice-president. Lloyd Leipzig, who handled the July 4 popular premiere at the RKO1 Albee, Brooklyn, with Murray Roman, is working on the campaign with the RKO circuit throughout the Metropolitan New York area and Newark. Other field men and their territory follow: Arthur Jeffrey, Herbert Lyon, Norman P'ader, Chicago; Joe Mansfield, Josh Levin, Boston; Charles A. Moses, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Dayton, assisted by John Thompson, Ben Kaufman, and Milton Harris. Charles Baron and Jules Schwerin, Detroit; Max Miller, Philadelphia; Hal Marshall, Washington; John Markle, Kansas City and other Midwestern cities; Howard Pearl, Minneapolis and St. Paul; Arthur Canton, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo; Peter Bayes and Len Simpson, Denver. Meanwhile, Harold J. Salemson, field supervisor for the "Cyrano" general release, is on a 10-day tour through Midwest and Southern cities to coordinate the work of UA field representatives. He will work out of Chicago, Detroit and Dallas. Lazarus Ad Head of M-G-M Affiliate Ted Lazarus has been appointed advertising and sales promotion manager of station WMGM by Bertram Lebhar, Jr., director of the station and of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Radio Attractions. Before joining the 50,000-watt M-GM station in New York, Lazarus was an account executive at Donahue and Coe and later advertising manager of Eagle Lion Classics. Set Festivities for 'Warpath9 Premiere The world premiere of Paramount's "Warpath" will be held in Billings. Montana, on Friday at the Fox and Babcock theatres, it was announced here by Jerry Pickman, director of advertising and publicity. Festivities in conjunction with the opening will continue through July 14, with the stars of the Nat Holt picture and other visiting luminaries participating in the two-day celebration Mayor Tom T. Rowe has issued s proclamation officially designating July 13 and 14 as "Warpath Days," and ha requested all citizens to "go Western1 for the occasion. Columbia Dividend Columbia Pictures' board of directors yesterday declared a quarterly dividend of $1.06J4 Per share on the $4.25 cumulative preferred stock of the company, payable on Aug. 15, to stockholders of record on Aug. 1. 'One World Award' To Lazar Wechsler The "One World Award for Motion Pictures", for 1951 will go to Lazar Wechsler, Swiss producer of the cur rent "Four in a Jeep," it was learned here yesterday from the One World Award Committee. The award in pre vious years has gone to Darryl F Zanuck (1945), Fredric March. (1947) Dore Schary (1948), John Huston (1949), and William Wyler and Stanley Kramer (1950). Newsreel Parade rT~,HE spectacular gas explosion ini -* Nezvark, Malik's departure for Russia, Dewey's torn of the Far East, and Korean truce moves are current j newsreel highlights. Other items in1 elude tennis and baseball. Complete -.ontents follow1: MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 5G— New Jersey gas explosions. Malik sails for home. U. S. pilot freed by Czechs. Gala premiere of "The Frogmen." India's Nehru. Navy plane is world's fastest. Sports: Savitt wins Wimbledon crown. Near tragedy mars carnival. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. ZSft-Newark I as explosions. Truman presents Congressional medals. Malik's departure. Dewey arrives in Tokyo. Navy's Sky-rocket. U. S.i ennis star wins at Wimbledon. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 93— Big blast m Newark. Paris is 2,000 years young. People in the global spotlight : Jacob Malik. Thomas E. Dtwey. Lieutenant Luther Roland. Supersonic rocketship makes history. Beating the heat. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 28A — Oil tanks explode in Newark. Douglas Skyrocket sets record. Malik goes home. Reds gain in Finland's elections and tension mounts. Czechs free U. S. jet pilot. Korea truce train readied. N. Y. Yankees fall to third place. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 472-Explosion damage reaches $5,000,000 in New Jersey gas blast. Freeman Medal. Sugar crop in Puerto Rico. Rocket plane. Sports: Savitt wins Wimbledon contest. Timber carnival in Oregon. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 95— Gas tank blasts rock Newark. Russia's Malik goes home. Iranian premiere meets the press. Dewey reaches Tokyo on Far East tour. Wild West square-dance. World's fastest plane. Appoint Atchley to UPT Research Post The appointment of Dana W. Atchley, Jr., as coordinator of technical research for United Paramount Theatres, was announced here yesterday by Leonard H. Goldenson, UPT president. He will be responsible for UPT'S operations in the fields of theatre television, motion picture exhibition and radio and TV broadcasting. A graduate of Harvard and a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Atchley has held prominent positions in the field of nuclear electronics as a former executive with Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. S ac h so n Affiliates With Cite of France A partnership for distribution of French films has been set up in New York between Arthur Sachson Enterprises and Cite Films of Paris. Cite is headed by Jacques Bar, producer. The first of Bar's films for which ' Sachson Enterprises is handling distribution arrangements is "Mr. Peek-ABoo." The U. S. version is in English, having been shot simultaneously in French and English. 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