Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1952)

2 Motion picture Daily Monday, February 11, 1952 Personal Mention AMP A Ad School to Be Assayed Thurs. A general membership luncheon-meeting of the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers will be held here on Thursday at Trader Tom's Steak House, to discuss the proposed AMPA ad-publicity school and to elect a nominating committee which will set up an official slate of candidates for election at a subsequent meeting. Harry K. McWilliams, AMPA president, will preside on Thursday. TV Talent Pay Meet Here on Wednesday Washington, Feb. 10. — Joseph Cooper, executive secretary of the Salary StabiHzation Board, will meet with television broadcasting authorities in New York on Wednesday to discuss further salary control problems in the TV field. The meeting is part of the further study which the Board is making of salary problems in the entertainment field, prior to final action on regulations for control of talent salaries. A special panel submitted its recommendations on this some weeks ago, but the Board has been getting further information. The meeting will be at the offices of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Freed Director of Academy Program Hollywood, Feb. 10. — Arthur Freed, producer, has been selected by the Academy Awards program committee to serve as general director of the 24th annual Awards program which will be held on March 20 at the RKO Pantages Theatre here, Charles Brackett, Academy president, announced. Freed has been active in Academy affairs for many years. Griffis Sees Truman Washington, Feb. 10. — Stanton Griffis, retiring U. S. ambassador to Spain and chairman of the executive committee of Paramount Pictures, was a White House visitor Friday. He discussed the Spanish situation with President Truman. Ian MacNeill Appointed Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 10. — Ian MacNeill, assistant to Canadian Film Commissioner and formerly of Toronto has been appointed secretary of the National Film Board of Canada here. No Paper Tomorrow Motion Picture Daily will not be published tomorrow, Lincoln's Birthday, a legal holiday. AL LICHTMAN, 20th CenturyFox distribution head, is due back here from Florida on Wednesday. • Louis B. Mayer and Charles P. Skouras have been elected to the board of directors of the A. P. Giannini Scholarship Foundation on the Coast. Joseph Schenck is also a member of the board. • Leon J. Bamberger, head of RKO Radio sales promotion, will address the national convention of Drive-in Theatres and the Allied Independent Theatre Owners of Kansas and Missouri in Kansas City March 4-6. • David Supowitz, Philadelphia theatre architect, has been named vicechairman of the 1952 Allied Jewish Appeal's trade council in Philadelphia. • John J. O'Connor and Adolph ScHiMEL, Universal vice-presidents, were confined to their homes with colds at the weekend. • Tom Rogers, M-G-M's radio contact, left over the weekend for Jamaica, B. W. I., for a belated honeymoon. His wife was Ceil Chapman. • Terry Turner, RKO Radio director of exploitation, will leave here for Boston today. • Joseph A. Walsh, Paramount branch operations chief, will return to New York today from Dallas. Choices of Women's Clubs on Radio "Movies of the Month," representing the top choices of the General Federation of Women's Clubs from current previews in New York, will be announced exclusively on the Martha Deane Program, WOR, beginning Friday at 10:15 A.M. Mrs. Dean Gray Edwards, chairman of the motion picture division of the Federation, will announce the selections monthly. The reports represent the concensus of preview members attending the screenings scheduled throughout the month by the Motion Picture Association of America. AAA Elects Braden Executive Vice-Pres, J. Noble Braden has been elected executive vice-president of the American Arbitration Association. Braden formerly was executive director of the AAA's Motion Picture Arbitration Tribunal which handled industry cases under the 1940 decree in the industry anti-trust suit. Fairbanks Office Here Jerry Fairbanks, of Hollywood, this week will set up new sales and service offices here. Ralph Cattell, vicepresident and general sales manager, is now in New York from the Coast comijleting the new staff. WA. SCULLY is in New York •from Florida. • Oscar Neu, president of Neumade Products Corp., and Mrs. Neu, left here Friday for the Coast. They will spend several weeks in Palm Springs and Neu will visit Coast dealers prior to returning here late next month. • Jules Lapidus, Warner Brothers Eastern and Canadian division sales manager, left over the weekend on a trip to the company's Central district offices. He will return here next weekend. • William B. Zoellner, head of M-G-M's shorts and newsreel sales, is back in New York from a two-week visit to Mid-Eastern exchanges. • Harold Rodner of Warner's service department, is recovering from surgery performed at Baptist Hospital in Boston. • Phil Wilcox, of Parents Magazine, will return here from the Coast today. • Arthur Canton of M-G-M's promotion department, returns to Canada today from New York. • Jerome Pickman, Paramount advertising-publicity vice-president, will return here today from the Coast. • Joseph M. Schenck is scheduled to leave here in a few days for Florida. Grainger on Tour With Prints of 2 James R. Grainger, Republic sales and distribution vice-president, left here at the weekend for Washington, first stop on a trip which will take him to Atlanta, Jacksonville, Tampa, and Dallas prior to his return to New York in about two and a half weeks. Took Prints He took with him prints of "Hoodlum Empire," starring Brian Donlevy and Claire Trevor and the John Ford-Merian C. Cooper production of "Quiet Man," co-starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald, both films to be screened in the five cities. District manager James V. O'Gara accompanied Grainger to Washington, and will return directly to New York. Special 'Photoplay' Award to DeMille Cecil B. DeMille will be honored with a special award for "The Greatest Show on Earth" and "the magnificent contributions which this Master Showman has made to the screen," by Photoplay magazine at the annual Gold Medal Awards dinner tonight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los .Angeles, Newsreel Parade rPIE passing of King George VI is highlighted in all newsreels itrith three of them devoting their .entire footage to the King's life and death. Other items a/re: Presidential patter, Korean fighting, and sports. Complete contents follow: MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 13— The passing of George VI. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 247— Death of King George VI. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 50— GOP warm-up. Baby gorillas. Save Korean orphanage. George VI mourned. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. ®-B— George VI passes. Korea fighting. Industrial Fair. Tunisia crisis. Korean orphanage saved. Horse race. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 533 — The King's death. WARNER PATHE. NEWS, No. 52-Tlie King is dead. GOP maps campaigii. Truman isn't saying yes or no. Atlantic speed record. Confirm Withdrawal Of SDG from MPIC Hollywood, Feb. 10. — Motion Picture Industry Council has formally confirmed circulated reports that the Screen Directors Guild is severing its connection with the organization. The MPIC statement said the council will give consideration at its Feb. 20 meeting to the SDG withdrawal letter, signed by the SDG board, with which was enclosed a check in payment of MPIC dues to June 30, although the withdrawal date was given as Jan. 30. Although neither organization vouchsafed fonnal explanation of the SDG withdrawal, published reports have intimated the SDG board has been dissatisfied with MPIC's endeavors in the public relations field. Philip G. Epstein Services Held Hollywood, Feb. 10. — Funeral services were held Friday for Philip G. Epstein, producer-writer, who died Thursday at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital after an illness of several weeks. Co-writing with his twin brother, Julius since 1935, the deceased won an Academy Award for the "Casablanca" screenplay in 1943. His last completed work is the script "Rosalind," which Paramount will produce shortly. The script "Babylon Revisited," for the same studio, was under way when illness interrupted. The widow, Lillian, sons Leslie and Ricky, brothers Julius and Milton, survive. Train Kills Dobby, Jr. Boston, Feb. 10. — Richard Dobby, Jr., film salesman of RKO Radio's branch here, was instantly killed last Thursday when the car that he was driving was struck by a train at Highgate Center, Vt. He covered Vermont and New Hampshire. Surviving are the widow and five children. Dobbin was the son of Richard D. Dobbin, comptroller of Maine and New Hampshire Theatres. 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