Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1951)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, October 23, 1951 Personal Mention HERBERT YATES, president of Republic Pictures, arrived here from the Coast over the weekend and will be here about 10 days. • Steve Broidy, Monogram-Allied Artists president, is scheduled to leave London today en route to New York. Norton Ritchey, foreign manager, .leaves London for Hamburg. • William Barnett, president of Barnett International Forwarders, Inc., returned here from Europe on the SS lie de France yesterday. • Sir Arthur Jarratt, managing director of British Lion, has arrived in New York from London on a brief business trip. • Mrs. Hazel Parker, president of J. J. Parker Theatres which operate in Oregon, is in New York on a month's visit. • James R. Grainger, Republic Pictures executive vice-president in charge of sales, will leave here today for Gloversville, N. Y. Charles Feldman, Universal-International domestic sales manager, left here yesterday for Chicago, and will return Thursday. • F. J. A. McCarthy, Universal Pictures Southern and Canadian sales manager, will leave New York today for St. Louis. • Morgan Hudgins of the M-G-M studio publicity department will be in Pittsburgh today and will visit Des Moines and St. Louis later. • Charles Lemaire, executive director of the 2'0th Century-Fox wardrobe department, will arrive here from Hollywood today. • Samuel Fuller, 20th Century-Fox writer-producer-director, has arrived here from the Coast. • Richard Day, art director for Samuel Goldwyn Productions, will arrive here from Hollywood tomorrow. Picker Expected to Hold Stock in U.A. Select 'Decision* for Academy Forum Hollywood, Oct. 22. — Twentieth Century Fox's "Decision Before Dawn" has been selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and. Sciences for its open forum showing and discussion at the Academy Theatre here on Oct. 28. The picture will be previewed for Academy members at that time with a panel discussion to follow. On the panel will be producers Anatole Litvak and Frank McCarthy, as well as the script writers and members of Litvak's technical staff who assisted in filming the picture in Germany. Darryl F. Zanuck, production vicepresident for 20th Century-Fox, is also expected to serve on the panel. Arnold M. Picker, who yesterday joined United Artists as vice-president in charge of foreign distribution following his resignation last week as vice-president of Columbia International, will receive a stock interest in UA as is the case with other officers, including Arthur B. Krim, president; William J. Heineman, distribution vice-president ; Max E. Youngstein, vice president and ad-publicity director, and trustees Robert Benjamin and Matthew Fox, it is understood. Columbia released Picker from a contract that had about a year to run. The UA foreign department had been under the supervision of Benjamin on an interim basis. With the appointment of Picker, Benjamin severed all connection with the department, whose previous official head was Arthur W. Kelly. Al Lowe meanwhile has resigned as UA foreign sales head. It will be up to Picker to select his administrative assistants. Louis Lober, foreign department executive, is regarded as a likely selection for the post of assistant UA foreign department head. Krim is scheduled to return to New York today from Mexico City. Services Held for William McHale Funeral services were held here yesterday at the Riverside Memorial Chapel for William J. McHale, advertising copy chief for Columbia Pictures. McHale, who died last Saturday at 58, first joined Columbia as a copy writer in 1937. He left in 1943 for agency work and returned in 194S as chief of the copy department. He is survived by his widow, the former Phyllis Beveridge; a stepson, William Beveridge ; four half-sisters, Mrs. Edgar L. Newhouse, 3d, Mrs. Frances Munox, Mrs. Henry Brill and Mrs. William Bruff, and a half-brother, John McHale. F ink el to Head Pittsburgh Tent Pittsburgh, Oct. 22. — William ( Bill ) Finkel has been elected chief barker of the Variety Clubs' Tent No. 1. Carl Doser is vice-assistant and Norman Mervis is second assistant. Sam Speranza is doughboy and Al Weiblinger was retained as secretary-treasurer. On the board are Bob Kimmelman, Harold Lund, Elmer Ecker, Mannie Trautenberg, Dave Silverman and Joe Hiller. The Club's annual banquet has been set back from Dec. 12 to Jan. 20. Dublin Tent Delayed Dublin, Oct. 22. — Date of the induction of Dublin's Variety Tent has been altered at the request of International Chief Barker Marc Wolf who is bringing a party over from New York and who could not make the original date. The new date has now been set for Nov. 23. The Dublin ceremony will be attended by British Chief Barker C. J. Latta and a London contingent. Col. Workers Pick IA' and DPOWA' "White collar" workers at the Columbia Pictures and Columbia International home offices voted at a National Labor Relations Board-sponsored election yesterday to make IATSE Motion Picture Home Office Employes Local No. H-63 their collective bargaining agent. The vote was 172 for "IA" to 18 for "no union." At the same time, the publicists of those home offices elected as their bargaining agent District No. 65 of the Distributive, Processing and Office Workers of America. The .vote was 26 for DPOWA to seven for "no union." Neither union was opposed by a jurisdictional rival, DPOWA having withdrawn from the "white collar" ballot and "IA" deciding not to contest the publicists election. Screen Publicists Guild once was in control of the Columbia publicists and Screen Office and Professional Employes Guild at one time was the representative of the "white collar" workers. Both of those unions were absorbed by DPOWA, District No. 65. 3 More Elections Are Set for N. Y. 'White Collar' Workers The National Labor Relations Board office here yesterday set three more dates for elections at which film home office and exchange "white collar" employes will decide on collective bargaining representation. Oct. 29 was set for RKO Service Corp. home office, Oct. 30 for RKO Pictures home office, and Nov. 1 for United Artists' New York exchange. In each of these elections the choice will be between IATSE Motion Picture Home Office Employes Local No. H-63 and "No union," is was indicated yesterday by Russell M. Moss, executive vice-president of the "LA" local. He reported that District No. 65 of the Distributive, Processing and Office Workers of America, would appear on the ballots because its representatives did not appear at the NLRB hearing held here yesterday. Mexican Franchise Deals Reset by Krim Arthur B. Krim, United Artists president, has renewed the company's distribution franchise agreements in Mexico. He is scheduled to return here today from Mexico City. Cleveland Advanced Scale Cleveland, Oct. 22. — "Street Car Named Desire," opening Oct. 31 in Warner's Allen Theatre at $1.19 under a continuous policy, will be the sixth picture shown here at advanced prices since the beginning of September. The others are : "Tales of Hoffman," reserved seat policy, $2.40 top ; "The River," reserved seat policy, $2.40 top ; "An American in Paris," continuous at $1.00 top; "David and Bathsheba," continuous at $1.19 top, and "Bright Victory," continuous at $1.00 top. "Street Car" opens also in Youngstown, Canton and Akron at advanced scale. NEWS in Brief . Toronto, Oct. 22. — F. C. Dillon has resigned as executive secretary of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association, effective Nov. 5. Named as his successor is Clare J. Appel, exploitation manager of Marcus Loew's Theatres, Toronto, and previously division manager with Odeon Theatres. Appel, a former president of Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario, was with Famous Players Canadian Corp. for years. His appointment will mean his resignation as a director of the MPTA of Ontario, the annual meeting of which is scheduled for Nov. 6 at the King Edward Hotel. • Arrowhead Productions, which has placed its first picture, "Chicago Calling," with United Artists for release, will make approximately two films a year, Kurt Hirsch, a vice-president of the company, revealed here yesterday, on the eve of his departure for Vienna, where Arrowhead will make its next film. • E. C. Grainger will head a group of Shea Circuit home office executives on a two-week visit to various exchange centers for regional meetings. The tour will cover Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Also in the contingent will be Gerald J. Shea, M. A. Shea, Jr., A. J. Grainger, C. J. Lawler and R. E. Smith. • Anna M. Rosenberg Assistant U. S. Secretary for Defense, arrived in Tokyo yesterday from Washington with a print of Samuel Goldwyn's new "I Want You," to give a special screening for General Matthew Ridgeway and his staff. Later she will give special screenings to United Nations troops in Korea. • Hollywood, Oct. 22. — Nat Liebeskind, long prominent in foreign distribution as general manager for various American companies in the Far East and South America and latterly in American exhibition, is now a talent agent with headquarters in Beverly Hills. NEW YORK THEATRES RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center "AN AMERICAN IN PARIS" To the Music of GEORGE GERSHWIN starring and introducing GENE KELLY • LESLIE CARON Color by TECHNICOLOR An M-G-M Picture plus SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION C*NM PICTURES mesa* TEE BRODERICK CRAWFORD MOTION PICTURE DAILY. 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