Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1952)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, July 2, 1952 Personal Mention CHARLES SKOURAS, president of National Theatres, and Edwin Zabel are scheduled to leave here for the Coast today. e John Tomlinson, booker for Florida State Theatre in Jacksonville, has resigned to replace Jack Kirby as salesman for Warner Brothers in Florida. Kirby went to the Warner Charlotte branch. • Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of United Paramount Theatres, will be in Des Moines today and Thursday, from Detroit, conferring with A. H. Blank. • Miss Clara Friedman, secretary to Robert Sherman of RKO Theatres, will sail from here today aboard the •S'.i'. Independence for a short stay in Italy. • T. A. MacDouglas, formerly with Martin Theatres in Columbus, Ga., has become city manager of the circuit in Eufaula, Ala. ■ Samuel Pinanski, governing committeeman of the Council of Motion Picture Organizations, is here from Boston. • Arthur Ehrlich, Warner Brothers booker in Cleveland, is resting in Mt. Sinai Hospital there from a slight heart attack. • Gerald Hardy, president of Westland Theatres, and Mrs. Hardy are on vacation in Canada from San Francisco. Mrs. Fred R. Greenway, wife of the manager of Loew's Poli Palace in Hartford, has returned home from a long hospitalization. • Robert L. Howell, manager of the Warner Regal Theatre at Hartford, and Mrs. Howell are parents of a boy, Robert L. • Knox Haddow, head of Paramount's branch service department, left here yesterday for Omaha. Business Better in Corn Belt; Exhibitor Tears, Once Walnut-Sized, Now Pea Size Des Moines, July 1. — When business improves nowadays, the signs are to be found in smaller-sized tears on exhibitors' cheeks, says Charles Jones, secretary of Allied of Iowa-Nebraska and Mid-Central, in his current bulletin to members. Here is his report on an improvement in the state of the theatre business in this territory: "Things have picked up quite some considerable over the April lows. Have talked to a few up this way and their tears seem to be a little more the size of peas than the walnut-sized April lachrymations. "Actually, the weather has turned out good, the corn looks good and the attitude of the patron is much better than it was in the spring. We have a sneaking suspicion that economic trends have much more to do with this business than we credit them with." D. of J.'s Crescent Appeal Docketed Washington, July 1. — The Justice Department's appeal in the Crescent case has been formally docketed at the Supreme Court. The Department is appealing the action of the Nashville District Court, dismissing the Department's civil contempt charges against Crescent. A companion case, involving criminal contempt charges, has been appealed to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Justice argues that Crescent has failed to live up to the terms of its consent decree. The high court will not indicate whether or not it will hear the appeal before the start of its new term in October. W. Pa. Allied to Name A New President Pittsburgh, July 1. — A special meeting of the executive board of Allied Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Western Pennsylvania has been called for next Tuesday to name a successor president to Fred Beedle of Canonsburg, who has ..resigned that position because of pressure of business. Norman Mervis is vice-president, but it is understood that he has declined the position of president. N. E. Drive-ins to Aid 'Jimmy Fund' Boston, July 1. — A committee consisting of Ray Canavan, George Roberts and Ray Feeley met with cochairmen Michael Redstone and James Mahoney, general chairman Arthur H. . Lockwood, and Variety Club's William S. Koster, to plan for drive-in theatres' cooperation in the forthcoming "Jimmy" Fund campaign. Redstone and Mahoney, who were re-appointed co-chairmen by Lockwood, have formulated a plan for taking up collections at the drive-ins. The committee expects to visit each drive-in in New England and explain the method to be used in showing a "Jimmy" Fund trailer and taking up collections. Sam Rosen, of Rosen Film Delivery, New Haven ; George Schwartz of the Lake Drive-in at Waterville, and George Landers of Loew's, in Hartford, will serve on the committee for Connecticut. Newsreel Parade 96 City Billboard Drive Set for 'Glory* In a national advertising campaign utilizing billboard advertising, 20th Century-Fox is sponsoring a 96-city drive for "What Price Glory" beginning in late July, it was announced here. The display on the Technicolor production, part of a month-long out-ofdoors pre-selling effort, is designed to capture maximum public attention during the peak summer driving season. Going into effect to give exhibitors a minimum of 26 advance and 5 post-opening days of billboard play in all situations, the "What Price Glory" sheets will provide space for incorporating local playdate credits. Openings of the picture, wherever possible, will be made to synchronize with the 31day posting plan. 100 NY Houses Will Play 'King Kong9 Some 100 theatres in New York will play "King Kong" when the picture is brought here on August 12, Robert Mochrie, RKO Radio sales vice-president, reports. The area opening will be preceded by an all-out television campaign of a minimum of 150 spots. Silver Is Leaving Souvaine Post Milton Silver, director of advertising-publicity for Souvaine Selective Pictures for the past year, completes his 10-picture special assignment and will leave the company on July 11. During his stay with Souvaine, Silver organized the advertising publicity set-un for the firm, including accessories, trailers and screening schedules. r\ BAN ACHES ON in Berlin and A4iss Universe are current newsreel highlights. Other items include the forthcoming political conventions, and sports. Complete contents follow: MOVIETONE NEWS, No. £4 — Reds train German youths. Korea POW's rescreened. Colorado governor greets film stars. Miss Universe. Aclieson in London, Berlin. Weight lifting, track, racing. NEWS OF THE DAY, No. 288— U. S. political pot keeps boiling. Koje prisoners choose sides. Rioting in Tokyo. Miss Finland named world beauty queen. Tax chief takes office. Track, water skiing. PARAMOUNT NEWS, No. 31— Jet war plane with a brain. Vice-president's stepdaughter weds. Red riots in Tokyo. Dean Acheson in Berlin. Sports: Track. TELENEWS DIGEST, No. 27A — Raw materials crisis in the U. S. Attempted Rhee assassination. Houston battles polio. Miss Universe. Unusual Dodgers rooter. Track. UNIVERSAL NEWS, No. 574 — Miss Universe. Tax commissioner sworn in. New Lockheed plane. Sports: Weight lifters. Olympic track and field finals. WARNER PATHE NEWS, No. 93 Firemen fight Brooklyn fire. Battle for Texas delegates. French veterans in pilgrimage. Acheson in Berlin. Will Rogers highway. Jet car. Soap box derby. Olympic trials. Senate Group Okays Crowe Judgeship Washington, July 1. — The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the nomination of Guthrie F. Crowe, president of the Kentucky Association of Theatre Owners, to be U. S. District Judge for the Canal Zone. Senate confirmation is expected later in the week. GOP Convention May Get Special 'Reels Full crews of cameramen and technicians of the five major newsreels are already in Chicago setting up arrangements for complete coverage of the Republican convention there next week. Whether or not there will be any special issues depends on the nature of the material, according to newsreel officials here. The reels will be sent by air to accounts all over the country. If! warranted there will be daily editions. Blatner Champion Albany, N. Y. — July 1. — Henry L. Blatner. theatre architect, won the local Variety Club golf championship at the 10th annual tournament at the Shaker Ridge course yesterday. Other winners were Irwin Ullman, manager of the Mohawk Drive-in, and William Rennie of the Rennie Nut Co. Paper Raises Ad Rates Columbus, O., July 1. — The Columbus Dispatch has announced an increase in amusement ad rates effective October 1. New rates will be 33 cents per line daily and 36 cents per line Sunday. Present rates are 32 cents daily and 34 cents Sunday. Two-cent increase in ad rates in the Columbus Citizen went into effect today. The new rate is 2Sl/> cents per line daily and Sunday. Walsh Executive Art Director of Columbia Everett Walsh has been appointed to the post of executive art director of Columbia Pictures here, a position last held by Jack Meyer, who died early in 1951, the company reports. Walsh assumes his new duties immediately. Walsh goes to Columbia from the Buchanan Ad Agency, where he has been art director for a number of years. Prior to that he held the same post with Warner Brothers, and for some time was associated with McFadden Publications in an executive capacity. SAG Sets Support Of '52 'Movietime' Hollywood, July 1. — The Screen Actors Guild today voted unanimously to support the Council of Motion Picture Organizations' 1952 "Movietime. U.S.A." tours, and appointed Ronald Reagan, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, George Murphy and Kenneth Thomson to a committee which will meet immediately with Bob O'Donnell, national director, and Marvin Schenck, Hollywood chairman. Brady, Secretary; James P. Cunningham, News Editor; Herbert V. 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