Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1954)

Motion Picture Dai Friday, October 1, 1954 Personal Mention ITITEL MONACO, president of ^ ANICA, and Dr. trancO' PeNOTTI, member of the board, will leave here for Italy toniorrdw aboard the "Andrea Doria." • Oscar A. Morgan, Paramount short subjects, newsreels and special features sales manager, will return to New York today from St. Louis and Kansas City. • P. T. Dana, Universal Pictures Eastern sales manager, left here last night to visit company branches in Ohio and upstate New York. • Harold G. Minsky, Paramount Mid-East division manager, was here yesterday from Philadelphia. • William C. Gehring, 20th Century-Fox executive assistant general sales manager, will leave New York by plane today for the Coast. • Gloria Nord, British actress, will arrive here tomorrow from London via B.O.A.C. Royal Scot. • Al Margolies, Paramount unit representative, left New York yesterday for Montpelier, Vt. DiMiTRi TiOMKiN, composer, leave here today for Italy. wil Martha Scott will leave here tomorrow for Hollywood. Earl Bellamy, director, has arrived in New York from Hollywood. Italy Grants Award To Goldwurm Here Jean Goldwurm, owner of Little Carnegie and World Theatres here, was honored by the Italian government yesterday with the Order of Merit in recognition of his "distintinguished pioneering role" in the presentation of Italian films. He also heads Times Films, Inc. Presentation of the award was made by Dr. Eitel Monaco, president of ANICA, Italian exhibition-distribution organization, and head of Italian Films Export. RKO Theatres Shifts Dec. 1 to New Offices RKO Theatres has leased the entire 17th floor of the Mutual Life Insurance Building, 1740 Broadway, and will operate its home office at this address starting Dec. 1. The 10-year lease covers 17,000 of floor space, air conditioned, and will replace the present offices in The Americas Building and the Palace Theatre Building. Philadelphia Gets *Beau BrummelV; It Was a Good Publicity Gimmick Anyway Following nation-wide newspaper publicity about an intercity "feud" in which a dozen Chambers of Commerce hurled claims and counter-claims, Philadelphia has won the world-premiere of M-G-M's "Beau Brummell." The picture will open at the Midtown Theatre, in Philadelphia, on Oct. 5. The "haberdashery har;?icap" — as Milwaukee papers referred to it — started when the Bf ston Chamber of Commerce asked Howard Dietz, M-G-M vice-pi-^'sident, for the premiere of "Beau Brummell" because "Boston n,i s more welldressed men and more chivalrous men than any other city." That set off the front page fireworks. Houston threw its Stetson into the Homburg derby. New Haven chimed in with claims that Yale has the best dressed campus in America. Washing on cited the White House Beau Brummells. Milwaukee said it had shamed Boston in baseball and could do the same with its Beau BrumTiells. Rochester pointed to its clothing factories. Louisville turned up its nose — in four columns — and claimed the worst dressed men. Sullivan Show to Feature *Star' The Ed Sullivan Sunday night television show on the eve of the Oct. 11 New York premiere of "A Star Is Born" at the Paramount will kick off the premiere festivities for the Warner Brothers release. The Sullivan telecast will feature a four to five-minute film clip of the picture, it was learned. In addition, talks are underway to have Judy Garland present at the show to take a bow. Meanwhile openings for the picture have been slated in many situations including RKO Paramount, Seattle, Oct. 8 ; Senator, Sacramento, Oct. 8 ; San Francis, San Francisco, Friday ; Majestic, San Antonio; Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, Friday; RKO Orpheuni, St. Paul. It opened in the Magestic, Dallas, and Majestic, Houston, yesterday following its world premiere Wednesday night at RKO Pantages, Los Angles. 'Dear Children' Bought HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 30.— The Ingo-Preminger Agency has sold to Jerry Wald, Columbia Pictures executive producer, the film rights to the stage play, "My Dear Children," in which John Barrymore starred. Trial Period For Glowmeter Future BUFFALO, _ Sept. 30.— An eightweek trial period, during which production methods and quality controls are to be studied, will determine future of Glowmeter Corp. of North Tonawanda. The testing program was outlined today at meeting of Glowmeter creditors before Federal Judge John Knight. The corporation, which manufactures motion picture screens, two weeks ago filed a petition for reorganization under Chapter 2 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act stating that it has debts of $973,558 and assets of $408,329. Owen B. Augspurger, Jr., attorney for the corporation, asked Judge Knight to adjourn the meeting of creditors until Nov. 22. At that time a determination will be made based on the results of the pilot program. There were no objections. Paramount to Begin ^Christmas' Drive Dr. Goldsmith Cited By TV Film Council At Testimonial Here Rosenberg to WB HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 30.— Jack L. Warner, executive producer, has announced the signing of Frank P. Rosenberg to a producer's contract at Warner Brothers studios. Rosenberg's first assignment will be "Miracle in the Rain," by Ben Hecht. The promotional campaign which Paramount has set up for Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," first of the VistaVision productions, will begin next week with Berlin himself holding a series of conferences, luncheons and cocktail receptions for motion picture editors, critics and exhibitors in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. Berlin, America's most famous composer of popular songs, and "White Christmas," will be honored with an hour-long tribute on Monday night via a special broadcast over the full NBC radio network. Due to arrive in Boston on Sunday evening from New York, Berlin will begin his field pronioticoal activity on Monday with a luncheon at the Ritz Hotel for the newspapermen and exhibitors of the area. Arrangements for this affair are under the supervision of John G. Moore, Paramount assistant eastern division manager, and Arnold Van Leer, special field representative. Reception Scheduled Later in the day, Berlin, who will be accompanied on the tour by his representative, Helme Kressa, will hold interviews at the Ritz, with a cocktail reception to follow at the Sheraton Hotel. The composer will depart late Monday evening for Philadelphia where arrangements have been made by Paramount mid-east division manager Howard Minsky and field representative Mike Weiss for a round of activities similar to those slated for Boston. The Warwick Hotel will be Berlin's Philadelphia headquarters. Berlin's arrival in Chicago will be on Thursday. He will remain through Friday, meeting with newspapermen and exhibitors under arrangements being made by Paramount central division manager B. D. Stoner and field representative E. G. Fitzgibbons. Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith was responsible for naking television a reality at least a decade earlier than its eventual arrival, it was stated here yesterday at a testimonial luncheon to the so-called "father of television," sponsored by the National Television Film Council at the Warwick Hotel. Approximately 200 guests were on hand to see Doctor Goldsmith receive a scroll and brief case from NTFC. Mel Gold presided at the affair. Doctor Goldsmith's career was traced by Arthur Loughren, director of research of the Hazeltine Electronics Corp., who pointed out that the guest of honor was responsible for the single dial radio receiver, the radio-phonograph combination, 16mm. sound-on-film, the continuous film projector, basic TV color process, the color tube and large screen home television. Cliff Norton substituted for Milton Berle who was scheduled to appear on the program. Berle was taken ill Wednesday night. In a brief response. Doctor Goldsmith traced the development of television from 31 lines to the present 525 lines. Branson, Tushinsky Leave for Europe Walter Branson, RKO's world-wide general sales manager, sailed yesterday aboard the S.S. "L^nited States" for his first foreign sales trip since becoming global distribution chief for RKO. Joseph Tushinsky, co-inventor of the Superscope lens, for which RKO has foreign distribution rights, accompanied Branson. They will attend exhibitor demonstrations of Superscope in London, Paris, Rome and Germany. Branson will hold sales conferences in London, Paris and Rome. Award to 'Hansel' The October Parents' Magazine medal "Movie-of-the-Month" has been awarded to Michael Myerberg's "Hansel and Gretel," a full length feature musical fantasy, it was announced by Phil Willcox, director of motion picture relations of Parents' Magazine. "Hansel and Gretel" will begin its world premiere engagement at the Broadway Theatre here on Oct. 10. MOTION PICTURE DAILY Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane Edii Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rocltefeller Center, New York 20 N Y TelenhonT^ r President; Martin Qui^ey Jr. Vice-President; Theo. J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasur Editor; Herbert V. Fecke, Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel. Production Manager Quigley to N.D. Meet Martin Quigley left here yesterday for South Bend, Ind., to attend a meeting of the advisory council of the College of Liberal Arts of Notre Dame LTniversity, to which he recently was appointed. NEW YORK THEATRES -RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL. 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