Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1952)

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Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, May 21, 1952 Personal Mention Impossible to 'Red' Slant Films, Says Rep. Walter t^DWARD SMALL, producer; ' Herbert Wilcox, British producer, and his wife, actress Anna Xeagle, and Gregory Peck, with his wife and children, will be aboard the i". S. Queen Elizabeth leaving here for Europe today. • John Carson Foster, serving in Korea for the National Film Board of Canada, was accidentally shot by a sentry and is recovering from his wounds in a U. S. hospital there. • George Fairley, identified with Famous Players Canadian Corp. for 19 years, has resigned as manager of the Palace Theatre, Guelph, Ontario, to open his own business. • Edmund Grainger, RKO Radio producer, will address a convention of Robb and Rowley circuit managers in Dallas on June 12. • John R. Markey, vice-president in charge of film syndication for Ted Baldwin, Inc., is in Hollywood from New York. • James F. McCarthy, manager of the Warner Strand at Hartford, has returned from a Miami Beach vacation. • Jim Ulmer, head booker of the Paramount Atlanta exchange, and his wife announce the birth of a girl. • F. J. A. McCarthy, Universal Southern and Canadian sales manager, will leave here today for Atlanta. • Harold H. Maloney, manager of Loew's Poli, Worcester, Mass., is hospitalized. o John Farrow, M-G-M director, left here for the Coast yesterday. Reagan Speaker at Hartford Film Meet Hartford, May 20. — Screen Actors Guild president Ronald Reagan has been added to the speakers' program for the second Hartford Times motion picture industry symposium, scheduled for June 4 at Times Tower, with guests representing Connecticut and Massachusettes newspapers and New York and Hollywood film executives slated to attend the day-long session. The main objective is a discussion of common ailments of the film industry, as related to the newspaper field. Keynote speaker, as previously announced, will be Eric A. Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. George Denton, Pioneer Kxoxville, May 20. — George L. Denton, aged 71, who opened the Booth Theatre back here in 1929 and later operated the Gay, Joy, Bijou, State, and Broadway theatres, retiring four years ago, died recently at a local hospital. He also operated two theatres in Lenoir City and managed a theatre in Florida. Washington, May 20. — Rep. Walter of Pennsylvania, ranking Democrat on the House Un-American Activities Committee, today indicated that he feels Hollywood producers check films so thoroughly for propaganda that writers cannot possibly slant pictures. Playwright and one-time screen writer Clifford Odets promptly agreed. Walter made his statement while Odets was testifying before the UnAmerican Activities Committee. Odets was asked about an old Daily Worker story which quoted him as saying he had gotten some party-line propaganda in the film "The General Died at Dawn" but had not been able to get much propaganda in other pictures he wrote and directed. Declaring that this interview was "nonsense," Odets said he went to Hollywood "only to make_ an honest living by writing entertaining scripts. I never had any intention of making a propaganda picture." Anyhow, he added, it was impossible to get propaganda into pictures even if the writer wanted to because all scripts "are gone over with a fine tooth comb." Walter then asked if it wasn't true that "the screening is so thorough that it is impossible to slant a picture." Odets agreed that "there is nothing less possible to do." "Hasn't it always been that way," Walter asked. "They have always been very very careful about that," Odets answered. "Nothing ever gets by. It is something that just can't happen." Following Odets' testimony, two screen writers appeared voluntarily before the committee to admit past party membership. They were Isabel Lennart — Mrs. John Harding — a writer of musicals and comedies for MGM, and Stanley Roberts, who said he had written for many companies and was now employed by Columbia. Miss Lennart said she had been a Communist Party member from 1938 to 1939 and again from 1941 to 1946. Roberts said he had been in the party from 1945 to 1948. Both said they were no longer party members and, in fact, actively opposed the party and felt it should be outlawed. The committee continues open hearings on Hollywood tomorrow. Report First Quarter E-K Earnings Down Rochester, N. Y., May 20. — Eastman Kodak Co. announced first quarter (12 weeks ended March 23, 1952) earnings of $8,697,477, down from $10597,099 in the first quarter of 1951. The earnings are equal to 52 cents a share on 16,527,083 common shares outstanding. This compares with 69 cents a share in the first quarter of 1951 on 15,033,852 shares then outstanding. About five cents of the drop is due to the increased number of shares resulting from the stock dividend distributed earlier this year. Consolidated sales (reported earlier on a preliminary basis) were $120,345,690 for the quarter. This compared with sales of $120,520,866 for the corresponding period in 1951. 'U' Fieldmen Coming Here for 'Arms' Meet Universal Pictures will bring its field exploitation representatives to New York on Friday and Saturday for a series of meetings with home office advertising, publicity and exploitation staff members to outline promotional plans on "The World in His Arms" and other top pictures to be released during the summer, Charles Simonelli, Eastern advertising-publicity manager, reports. Simonelli, who will preside, said that this will be the first such series of conferences since the company held national promotional confabs on "Harvey." Also figuring in the promotional planning will be "Francis Goes to West Point," "Ivory Hunter" and "Has Anybody Seen My Gal," the latter two having color by Technicolor. Home office advertising, publicity and promotional executives who will attend include Philip Gerard, Jeff Livingston and Henry A. Linet. Among those attending from the field will be Ben Katz, Chicago ; Julian Bowes, Dallas ; Duke Hickey, Cleveland ; Ben Hill, Atlanta; David Polland, Washington ; John McGrail, Boston, and special field exploitation representatives William Gandall and Maurice (Bucky) Harris. They will be joined by some 20 home office advertising, publicity and exploitation staffers. IFCA Observes Its 30th Anniversary A luncheon was held at the Hotel Pierre here yesterday to observe the 30th anniversary of the motion picture department of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae, and also as a tribute to Monsignor Patrick J. Masterson, executive secretary of the National Legion of Decency, who was recently named Monsignor. Those from the film industry on the dais included J. Robert Rubin, MG-M ; Robert Mochrie, RKO Radio ; Nate Spingold, Columbia ; Albert Howson, Warner Brothers, and actress Greer Garson. The Very Reverend Monsignor John J. McClafferty, former head of the Legion ; Rev. Thomas F. Little, S.T.L., assistant executive secretary of the Legion, and Mrs. James F. Looram, chairman of the IFCA motion picture department, also attended. $430,000 Earn e d In Egyptian Mart Washington, May 20. — U. S. distributors in Egypt had profits of about $430,000 in 1951, the Commerce Department estimates. It said they were allowed about $150,000 in dollar exchange for remittances, and to convert another 35 per cent into pounds sterling. HELP THE CEREBRAL PALSY CAMPAIGN Newsreel Parade PRESIDENT TRUMAN predicting a Democratic victory and action in Korea are current newsreel highlights. Other items include the repair of the U.S.S. Wasp and sports. Complete contents follow: MOVIETONE NEWS, No. 42 — Truman predicts Democratic victory. Repaired Wasp floats again. Brink robbery suspect. Freight cars in wreck. Union-industry show in Boston. Home on skates. Golf. The Preakness. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 276-Presi dent. Truman takes political spotlight. Armed Forces Day. Alaskan fliers hop over pole. Union-industry show in Boston. Monkey circus. Overseas thrills. The Preakness. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 79 — Air Force plots Arctic wastes. President Truman sees Democratic victory. Circus time in Germany. Longden rides a winner. The Preakness. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 21-A— Red prisoners defy UN. President Truman's address. Jet ace in action in Korea. Biddle Duke becomes Ambassador. Armed Forces Day in Germany. Wasp repaired. Dog fashions. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 562— Armed Forces parade in Washington. North Pole flights. President Truman's address. Warner Brothers studio fire. Relay races. The P'reakness. Monkey-shines. WARNER PATH Ei NEWS, No. 81 Armed Forces on parade. North Pole flight. Oil goes up in blaze. Warner Brothers studio fire. Chimp capers. Sports flashes: Track champs. The Preakness. Start Writing Today On Arbitration Plan Actual drafting of the Industry Arbitration Conference's legal record of arbitration principles agreed upon will be started here today by the Conference's Committee on Rules, the group having failed to meet yesterday as scheduled. The committee decided not to meet yesterday because its chairman, Herman M. Levy, was called to New Haven on business and therefore was unable to preside at the session. Levy was due to return here this morning. A sub-committee, which will be responsible for "putting on paper" the principles arrived at during the first Industry Arbitration Conference here last month, will be set up at today's meeting, it was indicated yesterday by a committee spokesman. The group's timetable calls for submission of its draft to all delegates on June 10 so they will have several days in which to appraise it before the second Arbitration Conference on June 16. Martin and Lewis Sign Wallis Pact Hollywood, May 20. — Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis have signed a new contract with Hal B. Wallis Productions, effective next January 1, calling for the team to make one picture annually for Wallis during the next seven years. The contract also allows them to make an undisclosed number of outside pictures. The comedians today began rehearsals and pre-recording for Wallis ' "Scared Stiff," which will begin shooting next week. 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: Tneo 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, YuccaVine 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 office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year, $6 fn the Americas and $12 foreign; single copies, 10c.