Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1955)

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2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, March 25, 1955 Personal Mention EK. O'SHEA, Paramount distri• bution vice-president ; Jerome Pickman, advertising-publicity vicepresident ; Sidney Deneau, home office distribution executive, and Robert K. Shapiro, managing director of the Paramount Theatre, left New Yor yesterday by plane for Omaha. Sandra Feldman, of Riverdale, has announced her engagement to Stanley Fellerman, of United World Films. He is the son of Max Fellerman, executive vice-president of Lopert Films. • Samuel Bischoff and David Diamond, producers, and Phil Karlson, director, are in New York from Hollywood. • Hugh Owen, Paramount home office distribution executive, will leave New York by plane today for Dallas. • Patricia Sheenan, actress, will leave New York today for London via B.O.A.C. Monarch. • John P. Byrne, M-G-M Eastern sales manager, will leave New York today for Chicago. • Morgan Hudgins, M-G-M studio publicist, will leave here today by plane for London. • Robert Bassler, producer, will return to Hollywood tomorrow from New York. Harold Kress, M-G-M film editor, arrived here yesterday from the Coast. Ohio House Group to Whip 3 Censor Bills Into One Snaper, Myers to Texas, Okla. City Wilbur Snaper, president of New Jersey Allied, left here last night for Beaumont, Tex., to attend a testimonial dinner being given by the city of Beaumont to Julius M. Gordon, president of the Jefferson Amusement Co. Snaper will be joined in Texas by Abram F. Myers, Allied general counsel, who is scheduled to leave Washington tonight, it was learned. Both Snaper and Myers will proceed to Oklahoma City, where the Allied of Oklahoma convention will open on Sunday. Also attending the Oklahoma meet will be Allied president Ruben Shor. There was no indication here or in Washington whether Allied's Emergency Defense Committee will meet in conjunction with the Oklahoma convention. But it was considered likely in Washington that the EDC meet, if it does not take place in Oklahoma City, will be held shortly thereafter. Special to THE DAILY COLUMBUS, March 24. — The newly-appointed subcommittee of th Ohio House of Representatives Judiciary Committee will meet March 29 to whip three proposed pro-censorship bills into one measure. Subcommittee members include E. G. James, chair man; John J. Chester, Jr., Robert E. Zeller, Robert F. Groneman, Gilbert Bettman, Thomas O. Matia and Frances McGovern. Judge Clayton Rose, of the Franklin County Domestic Relations Court, and probate judge Hoy Russell, Millersburg, took opposing views on censorship in concluding arguments before the full committee. Rose is leader in the newly-organized Committee for Decent Films in Ohio. Judge Russell is owner of the Russell Theatre, Millersburg, and is serving his second term on the Holmes County judicial bench. Warns of Obscenity Rose said the repeal of censorship would enable the showing of obscene pictures and incite individuals to commission of crime. He said SO1 per cent of pictures submitted for exhibition are produced by non-members of the Motion Picture Association of America. He added that foreign films "can open the door for subtle Communist propaganda." Russell cited the delinquency rate among Amish youths of Holmes County to refute claims that films cause juvenile delinquency. He said there is as much delinquency among people are forbidden to attend movies, he said, and added : "If movies are to be censored, then in the name of common sense and equality, all of our media — press, radio, TV, etc. — should be censored which God forbid." John C. Harlor, Columbus attorney representing MPA, said the task of writing a constitutional censorship law is almost insurmountable. Mrs. W. Andrew Martin, Columbus, chairman of the Committee for Decent Films, presented petitions bearing 50, 000 signatures of "open-minded Ohio citizens who want the licensing and censoring of movies." K. of C. Joins Campaign Thomas Osborne, Cleveland, repre senting the Catholic PTA League of Cleveland and the Cleveland Council Knights of Columbus, said Ohio has the right to censor films. The bill sponsored by Rep. Louis J Schneider, Jr., of Cincinnati, came under attack bv another bill sponsor, Rep. James P. Kilbane, of Cleveland, who maintained that Schneider's pro vision for censoring films only for patrons under 21 would be impossible to enforce. He questioned its constitu tionality because it would leave the the Amish as in other groups. Amish present standards in the law. 'Long John' April 5 "Long John Silver," D.C.A.'s CinemaScope EastmanCol or film with stereophonic sound, will open on April 5 at Brandt's Mayfair here. Complete Panel for Okla. City Workshop Elmer Brennan, city manager for Standard Theatres, Green Bay, Wis., will be a panelist at M-G-M's TicketSelling Workshop at Oklahoma City on W ednesday, it was a n nounced yesterday by Mike Simons, customer relations director. Arrangements for Brennan's appearance on the exhibitor panel was made with James Coston, Standard president, at Chicago. This will be Brennan's first Workshop assignment. The Oklahoma City Workshop will mark the 14th in. the series of 23 scheduled by M-G-M. Andrew M. Sullivan, Jr., city manager for Dixie Drive-in Theatres, Savannah, Ga., will be the second member of the panel which will surround Emery Austin, director of exploitation for M-G-M, at the meeting in the Skirvin Hotel. Paul Anderson, Grand Theatre, Rocky Ford, Colo., representing Gibraltar Enterprises, also has been assigned to the Oklahoma Workshop. Elmer Brennan Paul McNutt, Former U.A. Chairman, Dies Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the board of United Artists in 1950-'51 just prior to its takeover by the present Arthur Krim-Robert Benjamin management, died at his home here yesterday after a lengthy illness. McNutt, a former governor of Indiana, High Commissioner of the Philippines, War Manpower Commissioner and Presidential aspirant, also served the industry in 1947 as special counsel for the Motion Picture Association of America in connection with a Congressional committee hearing of charges of communist infiltration of Hollywood. John W. Davis Dead; Was Loew's Lawyer CHARLESTON, S.C., March 24— John W. Davis, noted constitutional lawyer of New York City who represented Loew's throughout the 15 years of_ the government anti-trust suit against major motion picture companies, died here today following his third attack of pneumonia in recent months. He was 81 years old. Davis, who was Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1924, personally argued Loew's appeal in the U. S. Supreme Court from the Federal statutory court decision in New York finding Loew's, among others, guilty of anti-trust law violations. Sunday Ban Ruling Is Asked in Mass. By Distributor Special to THE DAILY BOSTON, March 24.— Times Film! Corp. has asked the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts to rule that! the Commissioner of Public Safety, Otis Whitney, exceeded constitutionality in banning Sunday showings of the French film "Game of Love" and complained of his censorship on another picture, the Swedish film "One Summer of Happiness." The film company has asked for a petition of certiorari to be brought against the commissioner to determine the validity of the authority of his action and seeking him to be prohibited from activity in the field of censorship of motion pictures. Four Rulings Asked The petition seeks to have the court declare four distinct results : that the existing Sunday licensing law is unconstitutional ; that the words "public entertainment" as used in the statute do not apply to motion pictures ; that the commissioner has no authority to censor motion pictures prior to their showings in theatres, and that the ' commissioner's action is arbitrary. No damages were asked. Times Film^Corp. stated that the "Game of Love" has been banned outright for Sunday showings and that "One Summer of Happiness" has had two scenes and several phrases deleted. Sidney Davis Heads Television Probe WASHINGTON, March 24.— Sid-j ney Davis, a member of the New York City law firm of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim, has been named to_ head the Senate Commerce Committee's coming investigation of tele j vision broadcasting. Committee chairman Magnuson (D.J Wash.), who announced the Davis' appointment today, has said the investigation might go extensively into the subscription television fight. Davis served last year as head of the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation of monopoly in the power industry. Was Crash Victim ROCHESTER, March 24.— Mark W. Purser, 47, an Eastman sales representative, was among the 12 persons killed in a plane crash near Springfield, Mo. Purser boarded the American Airlines twin-engine Convair in Rochester. He was bound for Tulsa. 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