Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1953)

Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, August 18, 1953 Personal Mention DAN S. TERRELL, M-G-M publicity manager, has returned here from Hollywood. • Robert M. Weitman, vice-president in charge of talent and programming for American BroadcastingParamount Theatres, is celebrating his birthday today. Alex Evelove has been named publicity director for the 1954 campaign of the Radio Television Recording Advertising charities. Sal Adorno, Jr., assistant general manager of M & D Theatres, Middletown, Conn., has returned there from Westbrook, Conn. Ted Galanter, Western sales representative for M-G-M, has arrived in Portland, Ore., from Hollywood, en route to Seattle. Sid Mesibov, Paramount Pictures exploitation manager, has returned to New York from a vacation in Pennsylvania. Harry Fein stein, Stanley Warner New Haven zone manager, has returned from a vacation in Canada. • Jules Lapidus, Warners Eastern and Canadian division sales manager, has left New York for Pittsburgh. • S. A. Shirley, in charge of Honolulu and Alaska sales for M-G-M, is in San Francisco from Hollywood. • John G. Moore, Paramount Pictures Boston branch manager, will leave there today for New York. • Rickie Labowitch, secretary of the Cleveland Motion Picture Exhibitors Assn., is vacationing in Canada. • James Grover has been named assistant manager for the B & Q Bijou Theatre is Springfield, Mass. • George Nichols, of the M-G-M studio publicity department, is in New York from Hollywood. • Adolph Deutsch, musical director at the M-G-M studios, is in San Francisco from Hollywood. Services for M. Gore, Film Pioneer, Today HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 17.— Funeral services will be held at noon tomorrow at the Home of Peace Cemetery here for Michael Gore, film industry pioneer, who died in his sleep at his home here Sunday at the age of 77. Gore and his brother, the late A. L. Gore, came to Los Angeles from San Francisco in 1906 and established a chain of nickelodeon theatres which eventually became the present Fox West Coast circuit. Gore was a partner of Sol Lesser in several enterprises and at one time was co-owner of First National Studios. He was the owner of much property along Film Row. He retired from active business about four years ago. E. J. Schulte, 76, Veteran Exhibitor DENVER, Aug. 17.— E. J. Schulte, 76, widely known theatre operator, died in Chicago on Aug. 11 following an operation. Schulte started in the theatre business in 1921 when he bought the Rialto at Casper, Wyo., which theatre he still owned at his death. He was president of the Rialto Theatre Corp., with 18 houses in Wyoming and Colorado, a vice-president and director of Gibraltar Enterprises, a theatre company with headquarters in Denver ; a director of the Casper National Bank; chairman of the board of the First National Bank of Riverton, Wyo., and president of two Casper real estate firms. He is survived by his widow, Margaret; a daughter, Mrs. Louise Nichols of Key West, Fla. ; a son, Russell W. Schulte of Casper ; a sister and two brothers. Hearing on Oct. 5 in Castleman-RKO Suit HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 17.— Federal Judge Ben Harrison set Oct. 5th as the date for a hearing on a motion filed today by attorney Bernard Reich asking the jurist to vacate an order he signed June 26 dismissing the derivative damage suit against Howard Hughes and RKO by^ Eli and Marion Castleman and Louis Feuerman. Ground for the motion was the contention that the plaintiffs were not notified of the dismissal for a month or longer. McVickers in Strong Start as 1st Run CHICAGO, Aug. 17. — Chicago's newest entry into the ranks of straight first run theatres, the McVickers, turned in a fancy gross of $29,600 the first week of "Let's Do It Again" and "The Farmer Takes a Wife" and appears headed for a very good second week. Elsewhere here "This Is Cinerama" continues to do virtually capacity at the Palace, grossing close to $47,000 for the week ; "The Moon Is Blue" is still strong in its eighth week at the Woods, heading for $22,000; "Dream Wife" racked up $15,000 in its opening week at the RKO Grand; "South Sea Woman" and "Glory Brigade" is expected to hit over $26,000 at the B. & K. Roosevelt in its initial session, and "Thunder Bay" is heading for an excellent $53,000 in its second and final week at the Chicago. "Return to Paradise" got off to $24,000 in its fourth week at the State Lake and will make way for "Stalag 17" after a six-week run although the court gave B & K permission to run it six weeks. "Main Street to Broadway," turning in a disappointing $4,500 at the Monroe, and will be followed by "All I Desire," which opens there Wednesday. S.W. Cinerama on File in NY State ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 17. — Stanley Warner Cinerama Corp., of 100 W. 10th St., Wilmington, Del., registered a certificate with the Secretary of State that its office for the conduct of a motion picture and theatrical business in New York State is 321 W. 44th St., New York City. Authorized capital stock is $100,000, $100 par value. W. Stewart McDonald, as vice-president, executed the certificate, which Michael J. Lichtenstein, 321 W. 44th St., recorded. Record Rental for 'Queen Is Crowned' "A Queen Is Crowned," the J. Arthur Rank Organization's full-length color in Technicolor film of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, which completed a 10th week at the 450-seat Guild Theatre in New York Saturday night, is said to , have rolled up the biggest gross of any film to play an art house in the United States for a similar period and to have already yielded the greatest film rental to Universal-International, the American distributor, from any single engagement in an art house in the United States. The film rental accruing to U-I from the 'Guild alone is understood to be $95,000. With a gross in excess of $150,000 for The first 10 weeks at the Guild, the film rental yielded by the theatre already tops that of the 20-odd week runs of "The Man in the White Suit" at the Sutton Theatre and "The Promoter" at the Fine Arts Theatre, the previous top U-I grossers at art houses. Legion Condemns 'Seven Deadly Sins9 "The Seven Deadly Sins," FrenchItalian film produced by Franco London Productions and distributed in the U. S. by Arlan Pictures, Inc., has been placed in Class C (condemned) in the current listing of the National Legion of Decency. Six. pictures have been placed in Class A. Of these, two— "The Caddy" and "Sky Commando" — are in Class A, Section 1. The four films in Class A, Section 2, are "The Beggar's Opera," "The Maze," "No Escape" and "Sailor of the King." Mack Is Reelected Filmack President CHICAGO, Aug. 17.— At the annual stockholders' meeting of the Filmack Trailer Co., Irving Mack was reelected president. The other officers elected to the board of directors were : Joseph Mack, vice-president; Bernard Mack, secretary, and Donald Mack, treasurer. Tohn Wenner, of Daniel F. Rice & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange, was also elected a member of the board. Milwaukee, Memphis Impose Ban on 'Moon Is Blue' MILWAUKEE, Aug. 17. — The Milwaukee motion picture commission, at a second screening of "The Moon Is Blue," voted seven to one that the film should be banned here unless deletions were made in dialogue. The deletions are to be outlined by the commission Wednesday at the Varsity Theatre screening room. Approval Seen Unlikely J. H. Imhoff, branch manager for United Artists here, said the producer would have to approve all deletions and such approval seemed "dubious." Imhoff also added that deletion of conversation would ruin the film. Estelle Steinbach, manager of the Fox-Downer here, and a member of the commission, said any number of expressions could be deleted from the picture. The possibility of it being shown "for adults only" was ruled out because the group has made it a policy not to allow such showings. Memphis Censors Ban 'Moon' And Cut 'Paradise' Feature MEMPHIS, Aug. 17.— "The Moon Is Blue" will not show in Memphis and another film, "Return to Paradise," will be minus its dance sequence when it opens Saturday at Loew's State. The Memphis Board of Censors eliminated the film version of "Moon" as "not in the public interest or welfare," according to board chairman Lloyd T. Binford. In slashing the dance sequence from "Return to Paradise," Binford called the dance vulgar and "suggestive." Mickey Gross Will Manage Rex Allen HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 17.— Mickey Gross has resigned the Republic studio publicity directorship to devote full time to personal management of Rex Allen, with whom he was associated as tour manager prior to joining Republic in 1949. NEW YORK THEATRES RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Hpntpr "THE MM WAGON" FRED ASTAIRE © CYD CHARISSE OSCAR LEVANT . NANETTE FABRAY JACK BUCHANAN color by TECHNICOLOR . 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