Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1951)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, October 17, 1951 Personal Mention Newsreel Parade CURRENT newsreels arc packed with highlights, among than: Korean warfare, Iran's Premier addresses the UN, Elizabeth and Philip in Canada, football classics, Legionnaires' meeting in Miami, Kiner and Chaffee wed, to mention a few. Complete contents follozv: MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 84 — Iranian Premier brings oil issue to UN. Korea peace talks at new location. Czech runaway train returned. Canadian crowds cheer Elizabeth.. American Legion meets in Florida. Baseball and tennis champs marry. SMU vs. Notre Dame. Princeton vs. Penn. Texas vs. Oklahoma. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 214— Allies press on as Korea truce talks bog down. Princess Elizabeth thrilled by Niagara Falls. Iranian Premier rejects UN rule. India's great festival. Sports stars wed. SMU upsets Irish. PARAMOUNT, No. 17— Korea film diary. Million pilgrims at shrine of Fatima in Portugal. Focus on unrest in Near East involving England, Egypt and Iran. Top grid classics of the week: Princeton vs. Penn. SMU vs. Notre Dame. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 42-A— Queen Juliana of the Netherlands speaks on the refugee problem. Belgium: Korean vets come home. Royal tour of Canada. Rebel flag craze sweeps the country. Austria: high-wire hijinks . Basketball training begins. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 500 — Mossadegh states Iran's case at the UN. Royal couple at Niagara Falls. Twenty dead in Austrian train wreck. Legionnaires parade in Miami Beach. Ralph Kiner-Nancy Chaffee wedding. Princeton vs. Penn. SMU vs. Notre Dame. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 19MJN hears Iran's ailing premier. Seek new peace site as Korean fighting flares. Elizabeth and Philip at Niagara Falls. Legionnaires hit Miami for 33rd convention. "Home run" Kiner wins tennis star Nancy Chaffee. Italian farmers draw for land in new reform. Princeton vs, Penn, SMU vs. Notre Dame. Top Grosses for 'The Desert Fox' Twentieth Century-Fox's "The Desert Fox" opened at the Odeon, Leiscester Square, London, to grosses almost doubling those of past hits, hitting $10,800 in the first four days, it was learned here yesterday. In Toronto's Odeon, the picture grossed $7,800 in its first two days, against an average gross of $4,800 for 20th-Fox productions in that theatre. NED DEPINET, RKO president, will leave here for the Coast today. • John and Roy Boulting, the English producers, will arrive here from London Mondav and after a week will head for the Coast where they will produce a picture for M-G-M. • F. J. A. McCarthy, Universal's Southern and Canadian sales manager, will leave New York today for Cincinnati. • Henry Horton, head of RKO Radio's tax department, will arrive in Columbus tomorrow from New York. • R. K. Hawkinson, RKO Radio assistant foreign manager, will be in Washington today from New York. • David Butler, director, has left London for a vacation in France before returning to New York. • Eric A. Johnston has returned to Washington from a tour of Europe. Pa. Church Groups Fight Sunday Films Philadelphia, Oct. 16. — Certain church forces in Pennsylvania have launched a campaign to outlaw Sunday films in the state. Pennsylvania's "Blue Laws" ban Sabbath showings unless overruled by public referendum in each municipality. Some 54 communities are scheduled to ballot on Nov. 6 on the Sunday film issue. Spearhead of the church forces is the Lord's Day Alliance, which has focused special attention on drive-in theatres. According to Rev. Melvin M. Forney, general secretary of the Alliance, the large number of communities which will vote on the question is due largely to the "popularity of the drive-in theatre." 20th Publicists Vote Oct. 26 for Agent The National Labor Relations Board will conduct an election among 20th Centurv-Fox's home office publicists on Oct. 26 to determine the collective bargaining agent which will represent them, it was reported yesterday by a spokesman for the employes. As in the case of the election which will be held on Oct. 22 among Columbia's home office publicists, District No. 65 of the Distributive, Processing and Office Workers of America will be unopposed on the 20th-Fox election ballot. The Paramount publicists have ioined the IATSE, and RKO Radio's belong to the AFL Sign Painters, Pictorial and Display Artists Local No. 230. Services for Errol Hollywood, Oct. 16. — Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the Church of the Recessional at Forest Lawn for Leon Errol, who died last Friday from a heart attack. TLYA LOPERT, president of Lo1 pert Film Distributing Corp., left here by plane yesterday for conferences in London with Alexander Korda. • Walter L. Titus, Jr., Republic district manager, will leave Memphis today for New York, with stop-overs in New Orleans, Jacksonville and Charlotte. • Gilbert Kanour, film critic for the Baltimore Evening Sun, is recuperating at his home in Severna Park, Md., following hospitalization. • Arthur Lee-White, manager of RKO Radio's St. John, New Brunswick exchange, is in New York for a home office conference. • Lou J. Kaufman, Warner Theatres home office executive, has returned here from Albany. • George Cave, sales vice-president for the Technicolor is in New York with his wife from Hollywood. East, West Get 1st Compo Air Program "Movietime U. S. A.," the first allindustry radio program put on the air for a continuing run, was heard by radio audiences in the East from 10 to 10 :30 EST yesterday morning, over 432 stations of the Liberty Broadcasting System. The first program in the Western part of the country was broadcast Monday. The programs are sponsored by the Council of Motion Picture Organizations. The half-hour program consists of Hollywood news and interviews "of a constructive nature" and also deals with "interesting and unusual incidents and people in the film production center." The programs, heard daily from Monday through Fridayeach week for 13 weeks, has been arranged so that exhibitors may sponsor them locally. Ann Blyth, star of Universal-International's "The Golden Horde," and Howard Christie, producer of the picture, appeared on the first program. 20th Fox Opening Tied to 'Movietime' Boston, Oct. 16. — Sparked by the personal appearances of Macdonald Carey, Joyce MacKenzie and Robe'rt Wagner, 20th Century-Fox's "Let's Make It Legal" will open at the RKO Memorial tomorrow before being launched in a 175-theatre saturation engagement throughout New England area. From this city, the star junket will tour eight more cities in the area on a "grass roots" trip supplementing the "Movietime U. S. A." tour. Charles R. Seeling Charles R. Seeling, 65, cameraman, director and producer in the early days of the industry, died last Saturday in Pasadena, Cal., according to reports reaching here from the Coast. G.O.P., Democrats Reject House Tax Increase Report Washington, Oct. 16. — A surprising combination of conservative Republicans and "CIO Democrats" today rejected in the House the conference report on the $5,732,000,000 tax increase bill. The bill would make changes in the photographic and admission excise taxes, corporate and excess profits rates and various other provisions of present tax laws. I May Be No Tax Bill TIvs Year The House vote raised the possibility of no tax bill this year. However, those Congressional leaders who would hazard a guess predicted the conferees would meet again, work out another bill, and that this would pass. The admission and photographic excise provisions are certain to remain in any new conference report as they were in the previous conference bill. One result of the House action may be to postpone the date when the excise changes would go into effectassuming a bill is finally approved. The President would have to sign a bill by Oct. 21 for the excises to go into effect on Nov. 1, so today's action may put this date off until Dec. 1. U. K. Officials Will Visit MPAA Offices London, Oct. 16. — Sir Henry French, director-general of the British Film Producers Association, and Reginald Baker of the Kinematograph Renters Society will visit New York and Washington during the latter part of November to confer with Motion Picture Association of America officials on the latters' new services for aiding in the marketing of British films in America. The MPAA's new services were described to producers here recently by B. Bernard Kreisler, who heads the new foreign films division, following which John G. McCarthy, MPAA vice-president, urged British industry officials to visit America to discuss the service more fully. O'Donnell in Film Deal with RKO RKO' Radio has signed for the world-wide distribution of a jungle picture, Howard Hill's "Tembo," an African wild animal film in Ansco Color. R. J. O'Donnell of the Interstate Circuit in Texas first took the picture, created his own posters, ads, trailers, etc., and launched "Tembo" in his first-run Texas theatres. Following other Interstate situations O'Donnell became the representative of Hill Production in negoitiating with RKO. Services for Philbrick Hollywood, Oct. 16. — Private funeral services were conducted over the weekend for Howard R. Philbrick, vice-president and general manager of the Central Casting Bureau, who died from leukemia. The widow and two sons, survive. FCC OK's Skiatron Test Demonstration Permission to conduct a test of the Skiatron subscription home television system was granted yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission, according to word received here by Arthur Levy, Skiatron president. 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