Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1952)

2 MOTION PICTURE DAILY Wednesday, January 2, 1952 Personal Mention GEORGE D. BURROWS, Monogram and Allied Artists executive vice-president and treasurer, is here from the Coast. • C. J. Feldman, Universal Pictures domestic sales manager, and F. J. A. A'IcCarthv, Southern and Canadian sales manager, will leave here today for Jacksonville, Miami and Nashville. • Ben Berger, head of Berger Amusement Co., will leave Minneapolis this week for an extended vacation in California and Honolulu. • Floyd E. Stone of Motion Picture Herald's editorial department, was married last Saturday at Camden, N. J., to Muriel Oberson. • William Lavery is the new city manager for Walter Reade Theatres in Perth Amboy, N. J. • S. P. Eagle, producer, is here from the Coast.. NETTC Seeks Part In FCC Hearings Washington, Jan. 1. — The National Exhibitors Theatre Television Committee has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to take part in the coming theatre television hearings. The original deadHne for filing appearances for the hearings was in Feb. 1950, before NETTC was formed. NETTC now asks the Commission to grant its request to appear, even though filed late, because it represented many firms and organizations already listed as parties and would help bring more efficient and speedy hearings. NETTC members include exhibitors affiliated both with the Theatre Owners of America and Allied States^ Association, according to the petition. NETTC has hired special engineering advisors, and will be in a position to "develop, correlate, and coordinate for and present to the commission with its single organized presentation the position and evidence of a substantial nurnber of exhibitors and exhibitor organi zations already parties to the proceed ings." The petition, f^led by NETTC counsel Alarcus Cohn, said the exhibitors had already signified their intention of relying on the NETTC presentation to present their case, and thus NETTC's appearance would make : more orderly and speedier hearing. Koteen Setting Up Own Law Office to Handle TV Cases Washington, Jan. 1. — Bernard Ko teen is leaving the Washington law firm of Cohn and Marks, television counsel for the Theatre Owners of America and the National Exhibitors Theatre Television Committee, to set up law practice for himself. He will continue to specialize in radio-tclevi sion cases. Herald Poll Widely Quoted in Britain London, Jan. 1. — British Broadcasting Co. and all national and overseas news bulletins and newspapers throughout the country carried the story of the Motion Picture Herald-Fame exhibitors' poll of the top moneymaking stars at the boxoffice. Several papers, including the sober Manchester Guardian, remarked on the ordinary film fan's remarkable disdain, as evidenced by the poll, for the film critics' assessments of pictures. "On the whole," said the Guardian, "it seems likely, as usual, that critics and cinema-goers look for different, even contradictory qualities in their favorite films." Ban on TV of 'Oscars' Hit As Montague Names Rogers Committees Abe Montague, newly-elected president of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital has announced the appointment of five key committees for 1952, as follows : Executive Committee : Chick Lewis, chairman; Harry Brandt, Max A. Cohen, Tom Connors, Maurice Goldstein, John H. Harris, William Heineman, J. Robert Hoff, Al Lichtman, Murray Weiss, Marc Wolf, Herbert Yates, Sr. Finance Committees Fred J. Schwartz, chairman ; Gus Eyssell, Charles Feldman, Leonard Goldenson, Harry Kalmine, Robert Mochrie, Samuel Rinzler, Herman Robbins, Samuel Rosen, Arthur Schwartz, Sam Switow, Morton Thalhimer, Joseph Vogel and Richard Walsh. Public Relations Committees Maurice Bergman and Paul Lazarus, Jr., co-chairmen ; George Dembow, William F. Rodgers and William White. Sales Managers Committee : Charles Reagan, chairman; Charles Feldman, Maurice Goldstein, James Grainger, Heineman, Ben Kalmenson, Uchtman, Robert Mochrie, Montague, Rodgers and Alfred Schwalberg. Fund Raising Advisory Committee : Montague, chairman ; William German, Lewis, Robert Mochrie and Samuel Rosen. Special Committee Named A special committee to refine the rules of eligibility for admission to the hospital was appointed at the annual directors meeting. Richard Walsh is chairman and members include : Rob bins, Arthur Schwartz and Joseph Vogel. Officers not named to specific com mittees will serve as ex-officio on all committees. The new president of the Hospital is setting up a schedule of weekly meetings with the different committees so that the work of all groups can be coordinated and the maximum team work achieved. Franklin, Ind., Jan. 1. — Taking vigorous exception to the rejection of Theatre Network Television's request to make the Academy Award ceremonies in Hollywood available for theatre television next March, Trueman T. Rembusch, president of Allied States Association, has addressed a protest to Charles Brackett, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "The theatres that are pioneering theatre television are opening up a whole new field for every segment of the industry," Rembusch asserts in his letter. "Theatre television may well become the training ground for new faces and give substantial employment to the older Hollywood faces and technicians. "The Academy, by depriving these theatres of the opportunity of carrying the Awards, is doing a diservice to the entire industry. I can tell you that the several thousand exhibitor members of Allied States Association will seriously resent the Academy's decision in this matter unless there are sound reasons behind that decision." Rembusch requests Brackett to restate the Academy's reasons for refusing to clear the Awards ceremonies for theatre television, asserting that an earlier statement on the subject by Margaret Herrick, executitve director of the Academy, was "arbitrary and conducive of generating much ill-will within the industry." Newsreel Ha It Parade ■^'^^ $4,300,000 Loan to Pathe for Financing Pathe Industries has arranged for a $4,300,000 loan, due Jan. 31, 1955, with four banks for the purpose of refinancing its outstanding debt, William C. MacMillen, Jr., president, reports. The loan was made by the First National Bank of Boston, Fidelity "Trust Co. of Newark, Bank of the Manhattan Co., and the Marine Midland Trust Co. Eastman Sales to W, J, German, Inc, The firm of W. J. German, Inc., has been appointed sales representative for all Eastman commercial motion picture film, it is announced. William German, head of W. J. German, Inc., formerly was president of J. E. Brulatour, Inc., which previously distributed Eastman's motion picture film. O PORTS reviews of the year are highlighted in three of the current newsreels. Other items include Korea reports, people in the news, and fashions. Complete contents follow. MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 105-Sports review of 1951. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 234-Bin Stern's sports review of '51. PARAMOUNT, No. 39— Beauty and the blades. People in the news: Harold Stassen, George F. Kennan, Cardinal Spellman. Fashions. Boxing-. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 52-B— Korea report. 5"5" New Jersey says farewell. Illinois mine disaster. Red P.O'.W.'s. Libya report. "Ike" supporters. Cardinal Spellman in Tokyo. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 521— War in Korea. Mine disaster in Illinois. Midwest blizzard. Ship afire off Oregon. Churchill in Paris. Skiing. Football. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 41— Year in sports. Samuel D. Palmer, 69 Hartford, Jan. 1. — Samuel Dimock Palmer, 69, ex-director of advertising and publicity for the old Paramount studios and at one time in a similar position for Universal studios died at Danbury Hospital last week. Breen Condition Fine Hollywood, Jan. \. — Joseph I. Rreen, director of the Production Code Administration, who underwent major surgery here Friday, is now pronounced in excdlent condition. Rep. Closes New Phila. TV Deal Philadelphia, Jan. L — A new contract between WPTZ and Republic Pictures, under which the station will get exclusive TV rights here to 101 Westerns and 26 feautres, has been consummated here. 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