Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1952)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1952
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000120
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
December 02, 2023
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2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, January 23, 1952 Personal Mention NEWS in Brief . \Vashington, Jan. 22. — All U. S. district attorneys will be instructed to receive and give "special attention" to 'local complaints of anti-trust law violations. The announcement was made jointly by Assistant Attorney General H. Graham IMorison, in charge of antitrust enforcement, and House Small Business Committee Chairman Patman (D., Tex.). They said the idea behind the move was to give small businessmen a means of filing antitrust complaints without an expensive trip to Washington. • David Diener, copy chief of the Alonroe Greenthal Co., advertisingfirm handling industry and other accounts, on Feb. 8 will succeed Roger H. Lewis as vice-president and creative director, the company reported here yesterday. Lewis, who has resigned effective Feb. 8, will engage in free-lance work. He joined the agency in 1947 and previouslj' was in charge of New York campaigns at 20th Century-Fox. • The luncheon-meeting of industry committeemen for the National Conference of Christians and Jews' 1952 observance of "Brotherhood Week," orig-inally scheduled for today, has been postponed until tomorrow at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel here. • Portland, Ore., Jan. 22. — Universal's "Bend of the River" will have its world premiere at the Broadway Theatre here tomorrow, launching more than 150 pre-release dates in the territory. • A long range promotional campaign for Samuel Goldwyn's "Hans Christtian Andersen" was reported here yesterday by James A. Mulvey, president of Samuel Goldwyn Productions. First step will be the temporary transfer to the studio of David Golding, Eastern ad-publicity director, to work with Al Vaughan, studio publicity chief, on the picture. Golding will leave for the Coast over the weekend. In his absence Martin Davis will supervise publicity operations here. • Columbus, O., Jan. 22. — The annual convention of the Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio will be held on May 19-21 at the Hotel Hollenden in Cleveland. Schine Divestiture (Continued from page \) ment that Schine cannot refuse a "reasonable offer" for any of the 25 theatres and, in determining what is "reasonable," it must add to the bids received the jjrofits of the theatres earned since last June 24. The Schint circuit, defendant in a 1949 anti-trust judgment, originally had been directed to divest 39 theatres in three years, at the rate of one-third annually to next June. Only 14 theatres have been sold. One-third of the remaining theatres must be divested by next June 24 ; two-thirds by Dec. 24 and the entire 25 by June 24, 1953. WILLIAM WYLER, producerdirector, arrived in New York yesterday from Hollywood. • Spyros Skouras, 20th CenturyFox president, was in Washington yesterday from New York. • Anatole Litvak, producer-director, arrived here yesterday from Europe. • S. Sydney Stoneman has been elected secretary of the Midwest Drive-in Theatres Corp. $13,000 for 2-Day Gross on ^Poison' "Another Man's Poison," The Bette Davis-Gary Merrill-Emlyn Williams film, racked up what Warner executives describe as sensational business over its opening week-end at Warner's Mastbaum Theatre in Philadelphia, it was announced here by William J. Heineman, United Artists sales vicepresident. It is understood the production grossed $13,000 in the two days. The film is said to be headed for the biggest full-week gross at the Mastbaum in close to a year. ARTHUR FREED, M-G-M producer, left here yesterday for the Coast. • William Murphy, New York branch manager for Republic, was confined to his home yesterday by illness. • Jules Lapidus, Warner Brothers Eastern and Canadian division sales manager, is in Pittsburgh. • Ben Hecht has arrived here from Hollywood. Goldstein to Handle UA's 'African Queen' Jack Goldstein has been named special national exploitation representative for "The African Queen" by Max E. Youngstein, vice-president of United Artists. Goldstein will work under the supervision of UA exploitation director Mori Krushen and Horizon Pictures' press chief Mort Nathanson. He will start on a two-month swing of U.A. exchanges on a campaign in advance of the regular field force, which is now being organized. Newsreel Parade LOODS in California and burial services for Gen. Jean de Laltre are current newsreel highlights. Other items include people in the news, and sports. Complete contents follow: MOVIETONE NEWSt No. 8— African volcano erupts. Los Angeles digs out of mud. Snowbound train freed. B-25 crashes. Big plane lifts 100,000 pounds. Communion breakfast attracts film notables. Olympic skiiers in tryout. Girl bullfighter. Ice boats. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 242— Floods and blizzard sweep California. Violence in Suez. France mourns general. Volcano in Congo. .Sport flashes. Hialeah opener. Texas girl turns bullfighter, Olympic skiiers. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 45— Winter Olympics preview— Illinois and Switzerland. Capt. Carlsen welcomed. Arkansas quadruplets. State funeral for Gen. de Lattre. Floods in California. Wild West moves indoors. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 44 — Wild weather in California. French interviews on possible replacement for Eisenhower. President inaugurated in Liberia. Princess Margaret goes hunting. Lady matador in Mexico. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 528— British round up Suez terrorists. Weather cm. West Coast. Plane crash in Sacramento, Cal. African volcano. Floating corn storage. Ice boating. Sport flashes. VVARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 47 — California digs out of snow. Suez terrorists rounded up. Churchill, State funeral for Gen. de Lattre. Volcano. Sport flashes. Ski meet in Illinois. Hialeah opens. Paramount Meetings {Continued from page 1) tel Plaza, will be attended by managers of Hugh Owen's Eastern and Southern and Howard Minsky's MidEastern divisions, along with special field representatives and home office executives. All remaining members of the field force will take part in the Chicago meet. Those who will be present at the Hotel Plaza tomorrow include, in addition to Schwalberg and the division managers, E. K. O'Shea, Jerry Pickman, Oscar A. Morgan, Monroe R. Goodman and Robert J. Rubin. Also department heads Fred Leroy, Arthur Dunne, Martin Friedman, Harold Beecroft and Joseph A. Walsh and Al Fitter, Robert Weber and Henry Randel, plus the following branch managers : Ulrik F. Smith, Philadelphia; William A. Meier, Cincinnati; Harry S. Buxbaum, Cleveland; Mike Simon, Detroit; David Kimelman. Pittsburgh; Phil Isaacs. Washington; Myron Sattler, New York; Daniel R. PIouHhan, Albany; W. Gordon Bradley. Atlanta; John G. Moore. Boston; Edmund C. DeBerry, Bufifalo; A. H. Duren, Charlotte; E. G, Qiumley, Jacksonville; Henry Germaine, New Haven; William Holhday, New Orleans. Special field representatives who will attend are Leonard Allen, Atlanta; Ralph Buring, Cincinnati; Arthur Leazenby, Detroit; Everett Olsen, Charlotte; Arnold Van Leer, Boston; Edward Wall, Albany; Mike Weiss, Philadelphia. Gene Murphy Resigns Hollywood, Jan. 22. — Gene Murpliy today resigned the Hollywood office managership of the Howard G. Mayer-Dale O'Brien public relations organization to accept the advertisingpublicity directorship of the Desert Inn, Las Vegas. MARION BRAMDO Produced by Directed by f!''r/tlen hv DfflyLF.ZANUCKEUAM-JOHyiElira There's No Business Like ^Business! rpNTUBY-Foy MOTION PICTURE DAILY. Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; Terry Ramsaye, Consulting Editor. Published daily, except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue. Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address: "Quigpubco, New York." Martin Quigley, President; Red Kann. Vice-President; Martin Quigley, Jr., Vice-President; Theo J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasurer; Raymond Levy, Vice-President; Leo J. Brady, Secretary; James P. Cunningham, News Editor; Herbert V. Fecke, Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager. Hollywood Bureau, Yucca-Vine Building, William R. Weaver, Editor. Chicago Bureau, 120 .South LaSalle Street, Urben Farley, Advertising Representative, FI 6-3074; Bruce Trinz, Editorial Representative, 11 North Clark Street, FR-2-2843. Washington, J. A. Otten, National Press Club, Washington, D. C. London Bureau, 4 Golden Sq., London Wl; Hope Burnup, Manager; Peter Burnup, Editor; cable address, "Quigpubco, London." Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture Herald; Better Theatres and Theatre Sales, each published 13 times a year as a section of Motion Picture Herald; International Motion Picture Almanac; Fame. Entered as second-class matter, Sept. 21, 1938, at the post ofiice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year, $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign; single copies, 10c.