Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1952)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, January 22, 1952 Personal Mention NEWS in Brief • • Dick Pitts, executive assistant to Gael Sullivan, executive director of the Theatre Owners of America, will leave here tomorrow for Atlanta where he will attend TOA's second regional trade practice grievance meeting on Thursdav. \Mth Mitchell" Wolfson, TO A president. Sullivan and other national TOA leaders scheduled to be in Los Angeles this week to prepare for the forthcoming organization board meeting there, Pitts will be the sole representative of TOA headquarters at the Atlanta meeting. E. D. Martin, Atlanta regional chairman, will report grievances to the TOA executives at the board meeting next Week. • Pittsburgh, Jan. 21. — Vice-President Alben W. Barkley and Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark were the principal speakers at the annual banquet of Variety Clubs International Tent Xo. 1 in the William Penn Hotel here last night. John Harris also spoke. Rosey Rowswell presented Leon Falk with the club's third annual "Humanitarian Award." • LoxDox, Jan. 21. — RKO Radio will handle American and Canadian distribution of "Whispering Smith Hits London," first under a joint production deal between Exclusive Films and Julian Lesser. RKO Radio will release it as "Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard." RKO Radio also will distribute the David Rose-Coronado production, "Saturday Island," starring Linda Darnell, made here. • Detroit, Jan. 21. — A meeting of the board of directors of Allied Theatres of Michigan has been set for Feb. 13. Allen Johnson, the organization's delegate to the national Allied board meeting in Washington, Feb. 4-6, will make a report to the local directors. • PoRTL.xND, Ore., Jan. 21. — Charging that major distributors are handling bidding in "an unfair, evasive and discriminatory manner," the trustees of Western Theatre Owners (formerly PCCITO) have passed a resolution calling for sealed bids to be opened on a given date and time in the presence of the interested parties. • Hollywood, Jan. 21.— A KTTV telecast covering the opening of Re[mblic's "Wild Blue Yonder" at the Kitz Theatre here Thursday evening will be picked up on big screen TV at the Orpheum, where the pictures opens simultaneously. It is believed to be the first instance of this. Can. Communion B'fast Toronto, Jan. 21. — The first Communion breakfast for Roman Catholics of the Toronto film industry brought an attendance of 250 persons at the Royal York Hotel here following the Mass at St. Michael's Cathedral, the celebrant of which was Rev. G. J. Cherrier, chaplain of the Toronto Variety Tent Xo. 28. WILLIAM A. WHITE, Skouras Theatres vice-president, and Mrs. W hite, have left here for Palm Beach. • B. G. Kranze, executive assistant to United Artists vice-president William J. Heineman, returned here yesterday from Florida. • James E. Perkins, Paramount's managing director for the British Isles, returns to England tomorrow after a month's visit here. House 'Red' Probe In Tame Opening Washington, Jan. 21. — The House Un-American Activities Committee today made it plain that there's not much steam left in its Communism-inHollywood investigation. At a committee hearing today, George Glass, director of advertising-publicity for Stanley Kramer, admitted attending meetings of the Communist Political Association at which the 1945 studio strike was discussed, but said he never intended to and did not join the association. Glass, who appeared at his own request, said he refused when asked to join. Max Silver, a party organizer in Los Angeles, told of the refusal of the Hollywood unit to tie up with the Los Angeles unit. Charles Daggett, a screen publicist, outlined his brief attendance at party meetings in the mid-thirties and his active membership in the Party during the 1945 strike. He declared he had never affiliated with the Party since. Few Cuts for 'Vadis' For Britisfi Sliowings A small amount of footage termed "violent" by British film censors will be cut from "Quo Vadis" before the film is shown in England, and so will footage depicting the personification of Christ in the picture, according to Loew's International here. Press dispatches reaching New York from London indicate that the British censors were prepared to ban the film to all children unless the cuts were made. Davis At 'U' Meet John Davis, managing director of the J. Arthur Rank Organization, will attend tomorrow's meeting of Universal Pictures' board here at which the possibility of the company consolidating with Decca Records will be discussed. Davis, who arrived here Saturday from London, returned to New York from Toronto last night. Copelan to Cuba Hartford, Jan. 21. — Herb Copelan has resigned as film booker and buyer at the Warner Theatres' New Haven zone office. It is understood he will enter exhibition in Cuba. Goldwyn Article Samuel Goldwyn is the author of an article, "What America Means to Me," to be published in the American Weekly next .Sunday, Jan. 27. THOMAS L. WALKER, Bank of America special representative on motion picture distribution, has returned here from the Coast. • Nat Nathanson, United Artists Eastern-Canadian sales manager, left New York yesterday to visit the Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit exchanges. • Joseph A. Walsh, head of Paramount branch operations, is in Dallas this week from San Francisco. DuMont Independent Of Para., FCC Told Washington, Jan. 21. — Further testimony denying Paramount Pictures' control of Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc., was put into the record today as the Federal Communications Commission started its second week of hearings on the United Paramount Theatres, Inc. -American Broadcasting Co. merger. Tomorrow's witness, Paul Raibourn, is expected to wind up the first phase of the hearings dealing with the question of Paramount's control of the DuMont company. Raibourn is a vicepresident of Paramount Pictures, and treasurer of DuMont. Kenimer, General Mgr. of Fla. States Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 21. — Guy Kenimer has been named general manager of Florida State Theatres by Leon D. Netter, president. He succeeds the late Jesse L. Clark. Kenimer has been engaged in theatre operation in the South since 1919, serving with the old S. A. Lynch Enterprises and with the E. J. Sparks organization. He was city manager in Tampa for Florida States when it was organized. Later, he was successively Jacksonville city manager for Florida States, northern district manager, assistant general manager and, since 1946 had been manager of the circuit's maintenance and construction department. Milton Pickman to Wald and Krasna Hollywood, Jan. 21. — Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna have appointed Milton Pickman vice-president of Wald-Krasna Productions, Inc., thereby completing the operating structure under their new RKO Radio pact. Pickman has been an artist's repreresentative and manager for the past 10 years, both here and in New York. Bursty n Appeals Banning Washington, Jan. 21. — Joseph Burstyn, Inc., today asked the U. S. Supreme Court to declare un-Constitutional New York State's ban on "The Miracle." The company asked the high court to overturn the New York State Appeals Court decision which held that the State Regents were within their rights in cancelling the film's exhibition license. lATSE Convention Will Begin Aug. 4 The lATSE will hold its 41st international convention Aug. 4-8 at the Municipal Auditorium in Minneapolis, it was indicated here yesterday. Richard F. Walsh, "lA" international president, will preside. Convention headquarters will be at the Hotel Nicollet in that city, where the midsummer meeting of the union's general executive board will begin on July 28. District conventions will be held at the hotel on Aug. 2-3. H. J. Martin, 51 Harrison J. Martin, 51, Universal manager in Philadelphia, died of a heart attack in Queens General Hospital Saturday while on a vacation in New York. He was a veteran of more than 31 years with Universal. William Wescott, 68 Boston, Jan. 21. — William Burton Wescott, 68, an associate of Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus in the development of the Technicolor process, died in a Philadelphia Hospital according to a report reaching here yesterday. He leaves the widow, the former Dorothy M. Stevens of Wellesley Hills, Mass. 50-Theatre Premiere London, Jan. 21.— Herbert Wilcox's "The Lady With a Lamp" will have simultaneous premieres in 50 theatres in the U. S. on May 12, Florence Nightingale's birthday, the producer said on his return here from New York. NEW YORK THEATRES RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center CECIL B. DeMILLE'S "THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH" Color by TECHNICOLOR plus SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENTATION GOLDWYN'S I WANT YOU" V_ Now! CRITERION Broadway at 45th St. MOTION PICTURE DAILY. Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; Terry Ramsaye, Consulting Editor. 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