Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1954)

Motion Picture Daily Thursday, February 4, 1954 Fibre Glass (Continued from page 1) be shipped by air, another by truck and another by Railway Express. These containers, Brown said, will be given all the "beating" possible during the tests. The manufacturer's own tests have proved that the containers can take all the rough treatment, and more, that the metal containers undergo, Brown said. He asserted that the distributors would find this to be true, but that "it's up to them to decide." Weigh Under Six Pounds The fibre glass three-reel cases weigh slightly less than six pounds compared with more than 16 pounds, the weight of the metal containers. Brown said that the construction of the "hardware" for the production of the cases in quantity is nearing completion. It is planned to make them in a gray metallic color, but Brown said that they could be turned out in any color desired by a distributor. Republic Files Suit Over TV Showings Charging infringement of 12 pictures, Republic yesterday filed a suit in New York Federal Court against Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Sutton Television, Inc., and Ideal Film and Supply Co. It is charged that Ideal made available to the TV outlets 12 features produced by Liberty Films in 1933. The product was acquired by Consolidated Film Laboratories in 1939 and Review "Ride Clear of Diablo" (Universal) Hollywood, Feb. 3 AUDIE MURPHY, Susan Cabot, Dan Duryea, Abbe Lane, Russell Johnson, Paul Birch and William Pullen, to name the top seven among many, play out here with dash, spirit and a rare variety of incidental humor another of those stirring stories utilized so successfully by this prosperous studio in its sustained succession of Technicolor Westerns. Hut this is not to be regarded, by any means, as simply another of the same. For this one has, in addition to the indispensable fighting, shooting, riding, scheming, plotting, and so on a magnificent performance by Dan Duryea or an entirely fresh and immensely interesting Western character — a laughing gun-slinger. Years ago the late Wallace Beery achieved now and then, a iamtiy similar combining of good nature with outlawry, but Duryea'a portrayal breaks totally new ground. If he or somebody hasn't taken a lien on this characterization for future use, he or somebody should do so in the immediate interest of the industry and the public. Duryea's share of "Ride Clear of Diablo" would carry it handsomely, but there's plenty more in it besides. It ought to lift the U-I TechnicolorWestern average above even its present enviable high. Audie Murphy, whose father and brother are murdered in the opening sequence, plays with more conviction than usual the avenging survivor of a frontier family that has been a victim of a crooked lawyer and a felonious sheriff. The identity of the responsible parties is never withheld from the audience, and when Murphy arrests Duryea, a famed gunslinger and casual killer, a state of mutual distrust which springs up between them doesn't worry the onlooker but leaves him free to enjoy the inter-play, oral and physical, between the two men. How that winds up is to be seen, not told. John W. Rogers produced the picture, balancing its drama and its humor, its action and its moments of suspense, skillfully. Direction by Jesse Hibbs, who gives a good line proper time to register, is expertly conditioned to his subject matter. George Zuckerman's screenplay, for which D. D. Beauchamp provided additional dialogue, is a fine blend of melodrama and comedy. Running time, 80 minutes. General audience classification. Release, in March. WILLIAM R. WEAVER then by Republic. The pictures were released to television without Republic's consent, it was stated in the complaint. The plaintiff asks an injunction, damages sustained and an accounting of profits, as well as the impounding" of the prints during the litigation. WARNER BROS'. TRADE SHOWS FEB. 10. DUFFY OF SAN QUENTIN Starring LOUIS HAYWARD • JOANNE DRU andrPAUL KELLY as Warden Duffy Co-Starring MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN Screen Play by Walter Doniger Story by Berman Swarttz and Walter Doniger • Based on the book 'The San Quentin Story" by Clinton T. Duffy and Dean Jennings Produced by Berman Swarttz and Walter Doniger Directed by Walter Doniger • Distributed by WARNER BROS. ALBANY Warner Screening Room 110 N. Pearl SI. ■ 12:30 P.M. ATLANTA 20ih Century-Fox Screening Room 197 Walton Si. N.W. ■ 2 00 P.M. BOSTON RK0 Screening Room 122 Arlington SI. • 2 00 P.M. BUFFALO Motion Picture Operators Sc. Rm. 498 Pearl St • 8 00 P.M. CHARLOTTE 20th Century-Fox Screening Room 308 S Church SI. • 2 00 PM. CHICAGO Warner Screening Room 1307 So. WoboshAve. • 1 30 P.M. CINCINNATI RK0 Palace Ih. Screening Room PoloceTh Bldg.E. 6th • 8 00 P.M. CLEVELAND 20lh Century-Fox Screening Room 2219 Payne Ave. • 2:00 P.M. DALLAS 20th Century-Fox Screening Room 1803 Wood St. • 2 00 P.M. DENVER Paramount Screening Room 2100 Stout St. • 2:00 P.M. DES MOINES Pnromounl Screening Room 1125 High St. • 12:45 P.M. DETROIT Film Exchonge Building 2310 Cass Ave. • 2 00 P.M INDIANAPOLIS 20th Century-Fox Screening Room 326 No Illinois St. • 1 00 P.M JACKSONVILLE Florida Theatre 8ldg.Sc. Rm USE. Forsyth St. • 2 00 P.M KANSAS CITY 20ln Century-Fox Screening Room 1720 Wyandotte St • 1 30 P.M LOS ANGELES Warner Screening Room 2025 S. Vermont Ave. • 2 00 PM MEMPHIS 20th Century-Fox Screening Room 151 Vance Ave. • 12.15 P.M. MILWAUKEE Warner Theatre Screening Room 212 W, Wisconsin Ave. • 2 00 P M. MINNEAPOLIS Warner Screening Room 1000 Currie Ave. • 2 00 P M NEW HAVEN Warner Theatre Projection Room 70 College St • 2 00 PM NEW ORLEANS 20th Century-Fox Screening Room 200 S.Liberty St. 8 00 P.M. NEW YORK Bonded Scr. Rm. Film Center Bldg. • 2:15 P.M. OKLAHOMA 20th Century-Fox Screening Room 10 North lee SI. • 1:30 P.M. OMAHA 20th Century-Fox Screening Room 1502 Davenport St • 1 30 P.M. PHILADELPHIA Warner Screening Room 230 No. 1 3th St. • 2 00 P.M. PITTSBURGH 20th Century-Fox Screening Room 1715 Blvd of Allies • 130 P.M PORTLAND Star St. Rm. 925 N.W 19lhAve • 2 00 P.M SALT LAKE CITY 20th Century-Fox Screening Room 316 East 1st South • 100 P.M. SAN FRANCISCO Republic Screening Room 221 Golden Gate Ave. ■ 1.30 P M SEATTLE Modern Theatre 2400 Third Ave. • 10.30 P.M. ST. LOUIS 5 renco Screening Room 3143 Olive St. • 100PM. WASHINGTON Warner Theatre Building 13th 8 E. Sis. N.W. • 7 30 P.M. CAN BE EXHIBITED ON WIDE SCREENS NTI Meeting Set For Division Heads The National Theatre Institute will hold a conference for division managers of the Eastern, Central, Midwest and Western areas in Chicago tomorrow and Saturday, president Jack H. Levin has announced. The conference will complete work programs set for a 1954 national survey of drive-in theatres and a "Driveto the Movies" campaign to be presented to the nation's automobile manufacturers. NTI also will review a survey of Certified Reports, its parent company, on public acceptance of 3-D in the United States. The group plans to meet in Cincinnati today to attend the closing session of the National Drive-in convention now in progress at the Netherland Plaza Hotel. Legion Rates 6 'A,' One (B' in New List Six films in Class A and one in Class B are named in the latest listing released by the National Legion of Decaicy. Classified as B is "Bait," a Columbia release. In the Class A, Section 2 category are "Always a Bride" and "Charge of the Lancers." The four films in Class A, Section 1, are: "The Boy From Oklahoma," "The Conquest of Everest," "Dragon's Gold" and "Gypsy Colt." Appointments Set for Three Kodak Ad Men ROCHESTER, Feb. 3.— Paul R. Wentworth has been appointed assistant manager of the package design division of the Eastman Kodak Co., it was announced by W. B. Potter, director of advertising. Eastman Kodak also named Wendel M. Phillips editor of the "Kodak Dealer News." John M. Royal is slated to begin a special assignment in the editorial service bureau. WB Profit (Continued from page 1) resort to figures of the old company which was an integrated enterprise consisting of production-distribution and exhibition for a comparison with the same period last year. The corresponding operations of the old Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., after eliminating net profit on domestic theatre operations, for the three months ended Nov. 29, 1952, resulted in a net of $741,000, after provision of $1,055,000 for Federal taxes and $50,000 for contingent liabilities. Expect High Second Quarter Based on the operations for last December and January, Judge Morris said that it was anticipated that the net profit for the second quarter, which ends on Feb. 28, will be higher than the profit of $592,000 from the corresponding operations of the old company during that quarter last year. The stockholders were told that a contract had been entered into for the sale, on or about April 1, of the old Sunset Blvd. property in Hollywood for $1,150,000, which will result in a profit before taxes, of approximately $700,000. Three Directors Elected Three directors were elected for two-year terms by the stockholders at the meeting. They were Stanleigh P. Friedman, Samuel Carlisle and Samuel Schneider. Terms of other directors run to 1955. Edward K. Hessberg, assistant secretary, told the stockholders that in the near future an effort would be made to contact all holders of stock in the old company to ask that they ex 1 change their shares for those in the new corporation. Theatre TV (Continued from page 1) theatre-TV equipped houses joined the network, in addition to the guarantee, the theatres will be required to pay another oO cents for each seat sold. The program will originate in Dallas. The cost structure for the program, according to BOT, is as follows : for theatres up to 1,500 seats, a $250 guarantee; up to 2,000 seats, $350; up to 2,500 seats, $450; up to 3,000 seats, $550; and over 3,000 seats, $650. The guarantee, it was explained, is in addition to the 30 cents per seat sold, which for example, would bring the cost up to $1,550 for a 3,000 seater if] all the seats were sold. The above price schedule, a BOT spokesman explained, was envisioned for a network of from 15 to 20 theatres in order to make the program economically feasible. Complete Travel Talks James A. FitzPatrick, producer of TravelTalks, has delivered the final j four subjects to M-G-M. He will nowl become official cruise lecturer for the Swedish American Line. He will sail from here Saturday on the "Kungsholm," returning April 2. Entirely re-styled, .a newer BEACH OCEAN FRONT . 40th to 4l»t Stt. COMPLETELY AIR-CONDITIONED N. Y. OFFICE i TR 4-3193 Your Hosts, The Family Jacobs m