Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1951)

2 Motion Picture Daily Monday, July 16, 1951 Coming Events ConferTheatre Del Del July 16-19 — Pacific Coast ence of Independent Owners annual convention, Mar Turf and Surf Club, Mar, Cal. July 17 — Wisconsin Allied sponsored all-industry meeting for exhibitors, Milwaukee. July 17-18 — Republic regional sales meeting, New York. July 23-26 — Council of Motion Picture Organizations-sponsored seminar for exhibitors and producers, Hollywood. Aug. 8 — Cinema Stamp Collectors meeting, Hotel Astor, N. Y. Personal Mention Dozen Theatres in Kansas Flooded Kansas City, Mo. July 15.— Three motion picture theatres in the Argentine and Armourdale sections of Kansas City, Kan., are in the flooded area of Greater Kansas City and are partly under water. The Boulevard Drive-in is in that area and closed Thursday night on warning of possible overflowing of the Kansas River. The Riverside Drive-in is flooded. Flooding of one pumping station put a heavy load on other stations of the Kansas City-Missouri water system and officials urged that all business except essential ones be closed as one of several means urged to conserve water for domestic purposes and fire protection. Fox Midwest managers have char tered planes to carry prints to area points where managers may pick them up for some circuit theatres. Exhibi tors' film, delivery trucks took out prints Friday in directions where highways were still open. Exchanges are running short of some prints because of delay and disruption of normal out and in flow. Telephone and wire communication is broken between Kansas City and a few of the worst flooded points. So far, a dozen theatres in the area are flooded. A few others are unable to operate because of stoppage of power at flooded utility stations. EDMUND GRAINGER, RKO Pictures producer, has returned to the Coast from New York. • Gloria Germaine, daughter of Henry Germaine, Paramount New Haven branch manager, was married to Richard Platcow, a lieutenant in the U. S. Army, recently. • George Roth, general sales manager for Fine Arts Films, will leave here tomorrow for St. Louis, Detroit and Chicago. • J. Lawrence Schanberger, owner of Keiths' Theatre, Baltimore, and his family are spending a month's vacation at Atlantic City. Rube Lewis, business agent of Local No. 84, IATSE, and stage manager of Loew's Poli Palace, has resumed his duties, following an illness. • Fred Abronzino of E. M. Loew's Theatres, Hartford, will return to the U. S. in mid-August from a year's vacation in Italy. William E. Kollmer, manager of Western Electric of India, is in New York from abroad. M. B. Horwitz, general manager of the Washington Circuit and Mrs. Horwitz are in Mt. Clemens, Mich. BERNARD J. GATES, Monogram's Latin-American supervisor, has arrived here for conferences from abroad. • Phil Williams, March of Time executive, returned to his desk at the weekend after visiting 12 key cities from here to the Coast, in 12 days, by plane. • Howard Schussler, former head booker of Lam Amusement Co., Rome, Ga., has been appointed special sales representative for the Kay Exchange, Atlanta. • J. Lawrence Schanberger, owner of Keith's Theatre, Baltimore, and his family, are spending a month at Atlantic City. • Milton Hale, Paramount exploiteer in Detroit, has left there to join Paramount in a similar capacity on the Coast. • Sol Karp, assistant manager, of the State Theatre, Hartford, has been recalled to active duty by the Navy Reserve. • Holt Gewinner, publicity chief of Georgia Theatres, Atlanta, is visiting in St. Simons, Ga. • Anthony Bray, student assistant manager, Loew's Poli Palace, Hartford, has enlisted in the Air Force. News reel Parade fT,HE Korean talks mark a highlight in all current newsreels. Other items include the Shriners convention and the All-Star ball game. Complete contents foltow: MOVIETONE NEWSi No. 57— First pictures of Korean parley. Shriners in New York City. Story of a chimp. All-Star game. Interview with Randy Turpin. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 291— First pictures of Korean parley. Shriners take New York, United States welcomes 250,000th "DP". A chimp's day. All-Star game. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No.. 94— New middleweight champion, Randy Turpin. Korea parley. Tony the Chimp at Palisades Park. Welcome 250,000th displaced person. All-Star game. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 28-B— Korean talks. Last Japs surrender. Presidential citations awarded. Big "Mo" in Norway. Nehru visits Nepal. New timekeepers. Shriners in New York. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 473 — Korean parley. Shriners convention in New York City. Sports flashes: All-Star game in Detroit. Water fight. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 95— Korean talks. Shriners parade in New York. Chimp entertains youngsters on outing. United States welcomes 250,000th "DP." AllStar game. ACLU Ready to Go To Court on 'Son' Chicago, Inly 15.— The American Civil Liberties Union has announced that it is ready to go to court to fight the censorship ban in Chicago on Classic Pictures' "Native Son," if negotiations now under way for lifting the ban are unsuccessful. The announcement was made by Edward H. Meyerding, executive director of the ACLU's Chicago division. Eli Fink is attorney for the ACLU in the negotiations. McCullough Joins In Canadian Vault Tests John B. McCullough, director of the Motion Picture Association of America's film conservation department, left here at the weekend for Ottawa where, on invitation of the National Film Board of Canada, he will participate in fire tests of the newlydesigned film vaults which will_ be incorporated in the film archives planned by the Canadian government. Mrs. Truman Sponsor Of 'TikV Opening Washington, July 15. — Under the patronage of Mrs. Harry S. Truman and sponsored by the Ambassadors of Norway, France, Sweden, Peru and Ecuador and the Washington Academy of Sciences and its affiliated societies, "Kon-Tiki" will have its Washington premiere at the Dupont Theatre Tuesday evening as a special benefit. Proceeds of the premiere will go toward financing the 1952 Science Fairs for junior and senior high school students in the nation's capital. Record for 'Caruso* Detroit, July 15. — The Adams Theatre here is holding M-G-M's "The Great Caruso" for at least eight weeks, setting a record for an M-G-M release at the Adams. More New Films Set For Broadway Houses Several additional new films have been dated for the new week at Broadway showcases. Irving Allen's "New Mexico," in Anscolor, had its area premiere at the Victoria Theatre Friday; United Artists is releasing. The Roxy Theatre's new triple program, starting Wednesday, will feature 20th Century-Fox's Technicolor film, "Take Care of My Little Girl," in conjunction with "On the Boardwalk," ice and variety revue, plus a revue starring Carol Lynn and Arnold Shoda. 'Peking Express' Also starting Wednesday will be "Peking Express," a Paramount production co-starring Joseph Cotten, Corinne Calvet and Edmund Gwenn, which will take over at the Paramount Theatre. Duke Ellington with his orchestra and Toni Harper will be on stage. On Thursday, the Palace Theatre will have the New York premiere of Columbia's "Never Trust a Gambler." Sunday Films Approved Nashville, July 15. — The town of Dickson and Dickson County have been authorized to have Sunday films. Buffalo Variety Party Buffalo, July 15. — The annual picnic of Variety Tent No. 7 of Buffalo will be held tomorrow at the auto club in Clarence, N. Y. A softball game between exhibitors and distributors will be one of the highlights. 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Bigger Theatre TV Boxing Bids Seen The reported inability of motion picture theatres to outbid a group of television set manufacturers for the video rights to Wednesday's heavyweight championship fight between Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Wal ( cott in Pittsburgh was viewed as transitory by one official of the International Boxing Club here. Eleven theatres paid $10,000 for the rights to the exclusive televising of last Thursday's bout between Rex Layne and Rocky Marciano at Madison Square Garden here. This compares with $150,000 reportedly paid by nine video set manufacturers for the rights to the forthcoming championship match. Some $100,000 of the set manufacturers' payment was said to be for the TV coverage, while the balance covered the radio rights, which DuMont, not having its own radio network, plans to resell to another chain. In the video sponsorship are the following: Admiral, Crosley, DuMont, General Electric, Motorola, Philco, RCA, Sylvania and Westinghouse. The theatre TV interests, which include houses operated by Loew's, United Paramount, RKO and Fabian, were said to have made an offer of roughly $65,000 for the Charles-Walcott fight telecast rights. Dill in New Kodak Post Rochester, N. Y., July 15.— Monroe V. Dill has been named assistant director of industrial relations for Eastman Kodak by Craig P. Cochrane, Kodak's director of industrial relations. Dill has been active in industrial relations work at Kodak since 1937, when he was appointed to the staff of that department.