Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1955)

6 Motion Picture Daily Thursday, January 13, 1955 Lewis (Continued from page 1) cently resigned because of ill health. Lewis, until his election by TESMA, was vice-president of "The Film Daily" and had been with "Showmen's Trade Review" in both business office and editorial capacities. He previously served in theater operations with Loew's, Warner Brothers, Publix, Fox, Metropolitan and Skouras Theatres in management, publicity and advertising capacities. Lewis also had been with production and distribution segments of film company activities, having been with Famous Player sLasky Corp., Paramount Pictures, MetroG o 1 d w y n Mayer, United Artists and more recently with Columbia Pictures. Headquarters of TESMA will be opened in New York City, where Lewis will start activities on Feb. 1. Merlin Lewis 'Racers' to Roxy "The Racers," Twentieth CenturyFox drama filmed in CinemaScope, will open at the Roxy Theatre here on Jan. 28, following the engagement there of Irving Berlin's "There's No Business Like Show Business." Monty Salmon Hurt In London Accident Montague Salmon, managing director of the Rivoli here, on vacation in England, was hit by a car while crossing a street, and is in St. Mary Abbott's Hospital, Marloew's Road, London, W.8, with a broken leg and other injuries. He will be hospitalized for several more weeks. Einfeld (Continued from page 1) and Charles Einfeld, vice-president in charge of advertising-publicity. Einfeld will leave here for the Coast tomorrow and will return to New York early next week. Tne campaigns, which will rank among the most comprehensive in the company's history, will center around international promotion for "Th Racers," a February release starring Kirk Douglas; "Untamed," starring Tyrone Power, for March, and "A Man Called Peter," with Richard Todd and Jean Peters, for the Easter holidays. Col. Preferred Dividend Columbia Pictures' board of directors this week declared a quarterly dividend of $1.06;4 per share on the $4.25 cumulative preferred stock of the company, payable on Feb. 15 to stockholders of record on Feb. 1. Schine Held Hayman Control, Gov't Claims Special to THE DAILY BUFFALO, Jan. 12.— Schine Chain Theatres, Inc., made a $64,750 part payment to the estate of A. C. Hayman, of Niagara Falls, for acquisition by Flildemart, Inc., of stock in three houses of Hayman Theatre Corp., operator of four Virginia and Kentucky film theatres. This was disclosed by entries in the office cash book of Schine, offered in evidence by the government before Federal Judge John Knight in Schine contempt of court trial. Government evidence was in support of its claim that Flildemart, the Schine fanr'yowned organization, has been used by Schine Chain Theatres as an instrumentality to enable it to continue control over theatres of which it had been ordered by the court to divest itself. Sold to Hayman in 1944 The so-called Hayman theatres had been owned by the Schine circuit, which sold them to Hayman in 1944 after Judge Knight's first divestitureorder in 1942. After Hayman's death in 1945, the government contends, they were re-acquired by Schine through Hildemart. The government also presented evidence to show that Schine Chain Theatres bought and booked pictures for Hayman theatres (two in Appalachia, Va., and one each in Corbin and Pikeville, Ky.) during Hayman's ownership in 1944 and 1945 and during Hildemart's ownership in 1946 and 1947. Breakfast (Continued from page 1) McClarferty, dean of the School of Social Service at Catholic University, will be the principal speaker at the breakfast. Monsignor McClafferty for 10 years was executive secretary of the National Legion of Decency. Other speakers will include motion picture, television and radio stars. A similar Communion breakfast will be held in Los Angeles Feb. 13. Sponsors in New York, where the idea originated five years ago, are : Frank J. Alford, John W. Alicoate, William E. Barry, Marguerite Bourdette, Frank Bryan, Frank E. Cahill, Jr., Francis X. Carroll, Patrick Casey, John Confort, Jr., Robert W. Coyne, Thomas Crehan, John Dervin, Edward C. Dowden, -Albert A. Duryea, Joseph Eagan, James M. Franey, Joseph M. Geoghan, Edmund C. Grainger, James R. Grainger, Agnes Mengel Grew, William J. Heineman, Walter F. J. Higgins, John Hughes, James D. I vers, James J. Jordan, John Kane, Frank J. Kiernan, Austin C. Keough. Also : Mrs. James Looram, Fred L. Lynch, Thomas J. Martin, Joseph A. McConville, Joseph McMahon, William J. McShea, William Moclair, Paul C. Mooney, Sr., Peter J. Mooney, James A. Mulvey, John F. Murphv, Thomas Murtha, L. Douglas Netter, Jr., Paul D. O'Brien, Robert H. O'Brien, John J. O'Connor, Thomas F. O'Connor, Edward K. O'Shea, Martin Quigley, Edward C. Raftery, Charles M. Reagan, George J. Schaefer, E. J. Smith, Nick Tronolone, Frank Walker, Eugene Walsh, Richard Walsh, William A. White. seventeen C'MON ALONG, C'MON ALONG-TO THE BEST SHOW IN THE LAND! 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