Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1951)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, October 26, 1951 Personal Mention PT. DANA, Universal Eastern . sales manager, will leave here tonight for Detroit. • Dorothy A. Kirstein, secretary to Martin Quigijey, Jr., editor of Motion Picture Herald, will be married on Sunday to Charles D. Greenwald at the Hotel Pierre here. They will spend their wedding trip in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. • Hugh Owen, Paramount's Eastern and Southern division manager, will leave here over the weekend for Jacksonville. • Jerry Fairbanks of Fairbanks Productions has arrived in Chicago from Hollywood. • Eric Johnston will be interviewed on the NBC-TV Kate Smith Hour on Wednesday at 4 :00 P. M. Allied Board Agenda (Continued from page 1) File Supplemental Statement with SSB Washington, Oct. 25. — Representatives of Hollywood producers and Guilds will probably file a supplemental statement with the Salary Stabilization Board talent committee to clear up "a few minor points" raised at the meetings in New York earlier this week, an industry spokesman said. stand on competitive bidding and arbitration : that Abram Myers, Allied chairman and general counsel, has gotten nowhere with the distributors in trying to persuade them to consider changes in competitive bidding along with arbitration, and that Allied is at least willing to consider the proposition of the Theatre Owners of America for a joint exhibitor committee to discuss arbitration with distributors. Agenda Discusses Negotiations On these subjects the agenda reads: "Should the general counsel reopen negotiations with the film companies on arbitration notwithstanding their stand on competitive bidding? If the subject is to be pursued, should negotiations be limited to film companies ? Or should Allied adopt the proposal of another exhibitor association for appointment of a joint committee?" The agenda indicates the board may take a stand on these questions and ask the convention to back it up, or may pass the buck to the membership cit lcirgc On COMPO, the board is expected to decide to renew Allied's membership, but possibly to set some terms and conditions. It must also decide for what length of time membership is to be renewed — one year, less, or more. The board will also discuss "Movietime" and other COMPO projects, Pathe Suit (Continued from page 1) practices continued to virtually exclude independently-produced pictures from the New York market." ELC was dropped as a plaintiff when Pathe sold that subsidiary this year to United Artists. MacMillen said here yesterday that Pathe's attorneys this week received from the plaintiffs details regarding the pictures played by the circuits here in the past three years and the grosses on all such pictures. The court, he explained, had ordered the defendants to supply these details. and possibly make recommendations in this field. Directors will report on film price practices in their territories, and there will be discussion of whether to adopt as official Allied policy the "incentive selling" plan. "Is the print shortage being used to force bidding?" another agenda topic reads. On television, president Trueman Rembusch will bring the board up to date on all aspects, including preparations for February's Federal Communications Commission hearings, and the board will discuss whether a group can be formed within Allied "to insure reduction of cost and a guarantee of programs after installations have been made." John Wolfberg, Denver exhibitor, will outline his experiences with large-screen TV, and push his suggestion for a special Allied meeting on this subject. Other items on the agenda include: possible decision on when and where to hold the 1952 convention; discussion of newspaper advertising rates which discriminate against theatres ; discussion of progress in using safety film ; a decision on the time and place for the board's annual meeting and formulation of a detailed program for the convention sessions. NEWS in Briei . . . Judges Are Named For RKO's 'Fabiola' Chet Bahn of Film Daily, Sherwin Kane of Motion Picture Daily, and Mel Koencoff of The Exhibitor, have joined Chester Friedman of BoxoMce, Walter Brooks of Motion Picture Herald, Ralph Cokain of Showmen's Trade Review and Allen Ames of The Independent Film Journal as judges of the "Fabulous Fabiola Trips to Rome" contest, to be conducted by United Artists, producer Jules Levey and the Home Lines for "Fabiola," it was announced here by Max E. Youngstein, UA vice-president and director of advertising-publicity. 7 Want You' Premiere The world premiere of Samuel Goldwyn's "I Want You" has been set for New York's Criterion Theatre, it was announced here yesterday by James A. Mulvey, president of Samuel Goldwyn Productions. Charles B. Moss, managing director of the Criterion, who negotiated the deal with distribution officials of RKO Pictures, said that the production will be the theatre's Christmas attraction. Jacocks in New Post Hartford, Oct. 25. — Burt Jacocks, who resigned recently as chief film buyer for Warner Theatres' New England zone, has been named head of the newly-opened Daytz Theatre Enterprises office in New Haven. The booking and buying service is operated by Al and Mickey Daytz, both formerly with Warner. D. of J.'s Pollak Joins Pathescope Mervin C. Pollak, special Assistant to United States Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, resigned yesterday from the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice, where he has served since May, 1941. Pollak will become vice-president of The Pathescope Company of America, Inc., New York City, on Nov. 5. To Honor Skouras (Continued from page 1) Bonds, for which industry-wide committees are presently being organized Barney Balaban, Harry Brandt, Jack Cohn, Si Fabian, Herman Gelber and Sol Schwartz are serving on the executive committee. Shopping for Films Abroad Says Litvak Here from Germany where he coproduced and directed 20th CenturyFox's "Decision Before Dawn," Anatole Litvak declared yesterday that audiences in Europe are shopping for film entertainment just as discriminately as American audiences. Asserting that Europe again is a great market for American pictures, he advised that careful heed be paid to it. He pointed out that restrictions are breaking down and that "we are now getting more money out of Europe." He said "Decision Before Dawn" cost $1,800,000 and that it would have cost four times as much to make in Hollywood. Albany, Oct. 25.— The Perlmutter Theatre Booking Service Inc. has registered a certificate to conduct business in Albany. The authorized capital stock is $20,000, $10 par value. Julius Perlmutter of Albany, who operates five theatres in Lake George and Watervliet, is head of the service. Offices are maintained at 1046 Broadway, on film row. The corporation is also buying and booking for 12 houses in the Conery and English circuits. • By a vote of 13 to 8, Universal-International's home office publicists have chosen District No. 65 of the Distributive, Processing and Office Workers of America for their collective bargaining agent. The ballots, which were mailed to the National Labor Relations Board office here, were counted yesterday. The eight votes were for "no Washington, Oct. 25. — Justice Department anti-trust Chief H. Graham Morrison said he had notified the SCTOA that he expected to be on the West Coast next month, probably late in the month, and that he expected to meet with the exhibitor leaders and study their complaints about trade practices in the Los Angeles area and other West Coast points. • An application for appointment of an appraiser to evaluate the stock of five minority stockholders of United Paramount Theatres was granted here yesterday by New York Supreme Court Justice James M. McNally. The minority stockholders, owning about 850 UPT shares and opposing the projected merger of UPT with American Broadcasting, claimed their stock was worth more than the $16 or $17 per share carried on the company's books as of March 31, 1951. • Jack H. Levin was host yesterday to the trade press at luncheon at the Hotel Astor here on the occasion of the recent formation of his own research-survey-checking organization, Jack H. Levin Associates. TOA's 1st Hearing (Continued from page 1) filiate, which customarily draws large numbers of exhibitors from the entire Southeast, would provide a convenient locale and occasion for the first session. Moreover, its first meeting is due next month and no exhibitor gatherings are scheduled for Atlanta in November TOA's First Attempt Skouras is not expected back from a European trip in time for the meeting but the panel may be augmented by some other TOA officer or by regional officials from this area. 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