Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1951)

Monday, October 22, 1951 Motion Picture Daily 5 'IA' Raise (Continued from page 1) president Richard Walsh, International "IA" representative Roy Brewer and officials of the IATSE locals here, provides an increase of 24 cents per hour or 10 per cent, whichever is greater, up to a maximum of $18.50 per week. The living-cost escalator clause provides for a one cent per hour increase for every eight-tenths point advance in the index, but goes into effect only if the index rises five points, and can operate in reverse, on a downward trend in the index, providing the reduction does not go below the present level. Additionally, studios will pay five cents hourly on all straight time into a jointly-administered health and welfare fund, and will pay daily workers for six holidays observed annually by the studios. A pension and retirement fund asked for by the IATSE was not granted. The IATSE agreement is the first in a series confronting the majors, and doubtless will set the pattern for agreements to be reached with major and minor independents. Screen Actors Guild negotiations for increases and other benefits, which were held in abeyance pending completion of "IA" meetings, are next on the majors' agenda. 'Command* Openings Get Navy GoAhead Twenty-one day-and-date key situation openings, as well as the world premiere of Paramount's "Submarine Command" will be held with the full cooperation of the Navy, it was revealed today by A. W. Schwalberg, president of Paramount Film Distributing Corp. After the big premiere at the Norfolk Naval Base on Oct. 23, for the benefit of the Naval Relief Fund, there will be twenty-one day-anddate kick-off at the following cities : Washington, D. C, Baltimore, Richmond, Va., New London, Conn., San Diego, Calif., Portsmouth, N. H., Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, Calif., Corpus Christi, Texas, Boston, Portland, Me., Providence, R. I., Newport, R. I., Pensacola, Fla., Jacksonville, Fla., Key West, Fla., Charleston, S. C, New York, Memphis, and New Orleans. Dressier to Chromatic The appointment of Robert Dressier as director of research and development for Chromatic Television Laboratories, Inc., has been announced by Richard Hodgson, president. Dressier for the past five years has been in charge of various aspects of television research for Paramount Pictures Corp. Kraska Opens Office Boston, Oct. 21. — George Kraska, former managing director of the Beacon Hill Theatre here, will open a public relations office here this month. [ma SPECIAL TRAILER HURRY Chicago, Illinois FILMACK 630 Ninth Ave. New York, N.Y. Review "Jungle Manhunt" (Columbia) A GENEROUS AMOUNT of action and suspense is contained in this latest Jungle Jim film, starring Johnny Weissmuller. The youngsters especially should find it quite enjoyable with the plot easy to follow and everything proceeding along standard lines. The picture, filmed in sepia tone, has Sheila Ryan as a free lance photographer hired to find a former ail-American football player who has been missing since a World War II bomber mission. She meets Weissmuller and he agrees to help in the search. Soon enough, however, there are complications in the form of a tribe of savage natives attacking and burning villages. The natives are led by Lyle Talbot, a white scientist who plans to exploit the natives for his synthetic diamond scheme. It isn't long before Bob Waterfield, the ex-football player, is discovered, living happily with a friendly tribe whom he has started to educate in civilized living. At the end, after the evil-doers are brought to justice, the football player refuses to go back to America and the girl stays with him. Others in the cast include Rick Vallin, Lyle Talbot and William P. Wilkerson. Sam Katzman produced and Lew Landers directed, from a screenplay by Samuel Newman, Running time, 66 minutes. General audience classification. October release. UA-Carriers Pact (Continued from page 1) when queried about a report from Cleveland that NFSC made a deal with UA whereby the distributor "is guaranteed to receive $35,000 between now and Jan. 1, 1952." The sum, it was reported, would accrue from discounts on UA's weekly film service bills of five per cent and 20 per cent. Figure Can't Be Verified Bollengier said the $35,000 was a figure that "cannot be verified." The Cleveland dispatch said film service organizations in the field object to the deal and plan to challenge the authority of the NFSC directors who are said, according to the report, to have made the deal without consulting its member organizations. The UA treasurer explained that since ELC, which was purchased by UA from Pathe Industries, no longer operates "we have merely verified a deal with NFSC under which we bring the product of both companies under one contract." The terms of the UA contract, as it stood before the arrangement, were more favorable from a distributor's standpoint than were those of the old ELC contract, Bollengier said. Snader Names Three To Sales Force Herbert Bregstein has been named Western sales manager of Snader Productions and Robert L. Kronenberg sales representative for the Los Angeles district. Harold Wiesenthal, formerly with Universal and Eagle Lion Classics, has become Midwest and Inter-mountain sales manager, it was disclosed here at the weekend by Oliver A. Unger, Snader's national sales manager. Snader is the U. S. distributor for some British films, including the Sir Alexander Korda program. Set Busy Speaking Schedule for Wolf ^ Maurice N. Wolf, special M-G-M field exhibitor relations representative, has a speaking engagement on Oct. 29 before the Rotary Club at Winthrop, Mass. On Oct. 30 he will do a similar stint at the Rotary Club at Newburyport, N. H. In November, he has scheduled five dates already set. Dezel Acquires 10 Pine-Thomas Films Albert Dezel has acquired 10 PineThomas pictures formerly released by Paramount in a transaction made with Jules Weill, representing Specialty Pictures Corp. Dezel will distribute the pictures in the Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis and Milwaukee territories. The program consists of: "Wildcat," "Wrecking Crew," "Tornado," "Take It Big," "Shaggy," "Dangerous Passage," "Follow That Woman," "Swamp Fire," "Fear in the Night," "Caged Fury. " Hollywood (Continued from page 1) tion" from the Wage Stabilization Board, which had the effect of permitting the continuation of traditional salary policies for actors, directors, writers and other talent. Officials of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, the Screen Actors Guild, Screen Writers Guild and the Screen Directors Guild are expected to make a joint presentation before the government committee on Tuesday, and their stand will probably boil down to a request for the continuation of the Wage Board "interpretation." The special "talent workers" panel of the Salary Stabilization Board is supposed to make recommendations to the main board. Panel Meets Tomorrow Tomorrow, the panel will meet with officials of the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters, CBS, ABC, the Radio and Television Directors Guild, Associated Actors and Artists of America, American Guild of Musical Artists, and the Authors League of America. Sir Sidney Clift (Continued from page 1) national chairman of the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association in 194445, and was chairman and president of the Birmingham and Midland Trade Benevolent Fund. He practiced law before entering the motion picture business. Sir Sidney was Knighted in the King's June Birth Honors List in 1947. THIS IS A TEASER! s/7 YVONNE DE CARLO stars in "Hotel Sahara And she's got the figure for those top B.0. figures thru UA