Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1951)

6 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, October 17, 1951 [nnouncing a new department ... TELEVISION and RADIO in Motion Picture Daily Commencing October 24, 1951 a Television and Radio department will be published in Motion Picture Daily. It will appear every Wednesday. In concise style the department will express its opinion on the entertainment values of TV and Radio programs and talent, based on the observations of our reviewers. The department will also comment briefly on aspects or developments in the TV and Radio fields that are of significant interest. Additional news highlights concerning TV and Radio will continue to appear in the news columns of Motion Picture Daily on the other days of the week. An annual summary, related to the new department, will appear in the TV and Radio sections of FAME — along with the coveted annual popularity awards for which FAME has continued to be the most widely quoted of all annual publications. Review 99 Love Nest {Twentieth Century-Fox) THE ADVENTURES and headaches of a young married couple trying to operate a broken down apartment house has been turned into a pleasing film of general appeal. William Lundigan, the husband, plays an ex-G.I. who arrives home to find that his wife, June Haver, has invested the family bank account in the old house. Others in the cast include Frank Fay, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Paar and the well-remembered Leatrice Joy. There is a quality of confinement to the production, almost as though it were a photographed stageplay. I. A. L. Diamond, the script writer, has cooked up a number of amusing, if obvious, comic inventions. There is the matter of a shapely ex-Wac whom Lundigan knew overseas and who arrives to reside in the house. Played by Miss Monroe, she provokes the expected domestic misunderstanding between Lundigan and Miss Haver. Then there is the matter of the mysterious but charming new tenant, Fay. Fay presently falls in love with another tenant, Miss Joy and in time wedding bells ring for them. Subsequently, however, the past catches up with Fay. It appears that in his day he was quite a Don Juan and had a penchant for wangling savings from love-lorn women. Fay is arrested, and Lundigan' s troubles grow more complicated as events move at a quickened tempo. What counts is that in the finale all things are happily resolved. The dilapidated house, which was on the verge of being sold, is now shiny and remodeled. And Fay, having paid his debt to society, is now the proud father of twins. As for landlords Lundigan and Miss Haver, they just love the house and its tenants. Jules Buck produced and Joseph Newman directed. Running time, 84 minutes. General audience classification. October release. Mandel Herbstman RCA Color TV (Continued from page 1) from Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey, was televised, showing the brightly colored hues of Scottish clansmen on parade. Compatibility Shown As to its compatibility, the same RCA theatre TV equipment was used for black-and-white portions of the program. In addition, an early morning color show was not only seen on the theatre screen, but was broadcast by NBC throughout the Metropolitan area for black-and-white home TV. At the same time, the program was sent to Washington, D. C., over radio relay and coaxial cable. David Sarnoff, chairman of the RCA board of directors, in praising the engineers for their achievement, noted that the brightness and clarity of the large screen color television pictures were achieved within present black-and-white broadcast standards. He pointed out that because of this compatibility it was possible with the RCA color theatre television, equipment to receive and pro-ject transmissions in either color or black-and-white, without changing the apparatus. He also declared that such transmissions can be taken from on-|heair broadcasts of local stations, or over coaxial cable or radio relay. Apparatus shown at the Colonial Theatre consisted primarily of an RCA tri-color receiver-projector, developed under the direction of Dr. David W. Epstein. Although the receiver-projector was mounted in the orchestra section for the current demonstration, subsequent models will be designed for a longer projection throw, permitting installation on theatre balconies. It was further explained that there is no reason why the RCA receiver-projectors cannot be made to project pictures on fullsize theatre screens up to 18-by-24feet. The showing of the theatre system will continue throughout the week at :he Colonial, with three tests daily. Judy Garland Debuts (Continued from page 1) Bygraves, Doodles and Spider and others. Charles Walters, M-G-M director, staged and directed Miss Garland's act. She is accompanied at the piano by Hugh Martin. Among those invited to the "first night" were : Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, Marlon Brando, Jane Froman, Jimmy Durante, Milton Berle, Sophie Tucker, Ned E. Depinet, Harry Herschfield, Howard Dietz, Lou Walters and scores of other celebrities. Mexican Producers Ask Gov't Loan Mexico City, Oct. 16. — Deciding upon a policy of top quality pictures only, the Association of Mexican Motion Picture Producers and Distributors will ask the government for a $3,460,000 loan to assure the making of at least 100 good pictures a year, Hector Fernandez, association manager, has disclosed. Of the 352 feature pictures imported last year, 280 were American, 28 were French, 16 each were Italian and Spanish, five Argentinian, four British and one each from Portuguese, Swedish and Venezuelan. Feature distribution as a whole in 1950 totaled 395, which means that there were 43 Mexican features in distribution. Cut Cellulose Chemical Washington, Oct. 16. — The defense Production Administration today ruled that, starting Nov. 1, firms producing cellulose film can use only 90 per cent as much sulfuric acid as they did in 1950. This is one point in a comprehensive program to conserve sulfur supplies by restricting usage. Shupert Leaves Para. TV George Shupert has resigned as vice-president of Paramount Television Productions, effective Friday. He will depart on Monday for the Coast where he will announce his future plans. No successor has been named as yet.