Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1955)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, March 29, 1955 Personal Mention SAMUEL PINANSKI, president of American Theatres Corp., has returned to Boston from Miami Beach. • Sidney Johnson, of Mole-Richardson, Ltd., British equipment organization, will return to London from New York tomorrow via B.O.A.C. Monarch. • James M. Totman, assistant New England zone manager for Stanley Warner Theatres, has left Hartford with his family for Daytona Beach. • Harry F. Shaw, division manager of Loew's Poli-New England Theatres, and Mrs. Shaw are marking their 31st wedding anniversary. • Bernard Menschell, president of Community Amusement Corp., Hartford, is the father of a boy born there last week to Mrs. Menschell. Louis W. Kellman and Paul Wendkos, independent producers, are scheduled to leave here by plane for Hollywood on Friday. • Andre Previn, M-G-M composerconductor, will be guest soloist on April 18 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. • Dick Howard, advertising manager for Consolidated Amusement Co. in Honolulu, has arrived in San Francisco from there. Harry Feinstein, New England zone manager for Stanley Warner Theatres, has returned to New Haven from Florida. • Linda Einfeld, daughter of Charles Einfeld, Warner Brothers vice-president, is in Coral Gables, Fla., from New York. Jerome Pickman, Paramount advertising-publicity vice-president, has returned to New York from Hollywood. William Daugherty, of the Webb Playhouse, Wethersfield, Conn., has returned to Hartford from Puerto Rico. Bernard Jacon, I.F.E. Releasing Corp. vice-president in charge of sales, will leave New York today for Dallas. • Howard Strickling, M-G-M studio publicity head, will return to the Coast today by plane from New York. 'Dinosaur' to Lippert HOLLYWOOD, March 28.— "King Dinosaur," science-fiction feature produced by Al Zimbalist, has been acquired by Lippert Pictures for distribution, it was disclosed here today. 'Plain' in Coast Bow United Artists' "The Purple Plain," will have its West Coast premiere today at the Fox Wilshire Theatre in Los Angeles. Ask FCC to Make TV-Radio Study From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, March 28.— The House Appropriations Committee ordered the Federal Communications Commission to make a comprehensive study of radio and television broadcasting. The committee voted $6,870,000 for the agency for the fiscal year starting July 1, an increase of $240,000 over this year and $170,000 over the budget request. It said that $80,000 of the extra money should be used to make a factual study of broadcasting, since FCC members had expressed concern over the lack of information in this field. The committee said that the other $90,000 over the budget request should be used to reduce the backlog of work in television and industrial services applications. The House committee action must still be approved by the House itself and by the Senate. Carreras Here on Co-Production Deals James Carreras, head of Exclusive Films of London, and chief barker of that city's Variety Clubs International Tent, has arrived in New York to discuss co-production deals and will remain in the U. S. to attend the Variety Clubs International annual convention, which will open in Los Angeles on May 4. Carreras, who is accompanied by Mrs. Carreras, is teamed with Robert L. Lippert in the making of five coproductions in color, which he will make in Britain in the next year. He will also seek a distributor while here for the CinemaScope stereophonic featurettes made by his company in England. Carreras . plans to be in America about seven weeks in all. ScottishA mericans To Be 'Peter' Guests Leaders of the Scottish-American community, including directors of the Highland Fund of North America and the Caledonian Hospital will join film star Richard Todd and Mrs. Catherine Marshall at the Thursday premiere of 20th Century-Fox's "A Man Called Peter," proceeds from which will benefit the two organizations. . Joining celebrities from many walks of life at the kleig-lit Broadway opening, to be launched with a 16-piece bagpipe band and a 70-man kilt-andtartan-clad color guard, will be 30 of their prettiest nurses on hand dressed in the colorful Royal Stewart Tartan. They will act as escorts and official greeters of the celebrities scheduled to attend the gala opening. Members of the board of directors of the Highland Fund attending will be : Duncan M. Spencer, president of the Highland Fund; Charles B. McCabe, David Van Polt, John M. Fisher, Malcolm S. Forbes, John L. Handy, William H. Howard, John G. McCarthy, C. Frank Reavis, Gerald Lamont Smith, Eric M. Warburg, J. L. Weller, James J. Whyte. 'Blackboard Jungle' Banned in Memphis Special to THE DAILY MEMPHIS, March 28. — "Blackboard Jungle," MGM film, was banned from Memphis screens today, Lloyd T. Binford, censor board chairman, announced. Binford said the three women censors, Mrs. B. F. Edwards, Mrs. Walter Gray and Mrs. St. Elmo Newton, Sr., voted unanimously to ban it. "I agree with them," he added. It's believed this is the first MGM picture the board has ever banned. The film is one dealing with juvenile delinquency in a high school. "The teen-agers in the picture start off bad," Binford said. "I thought they would reform, and we would have to pass it, but they are just as bad at the end." "There are Negro students in the school with white students in the film," Binford said, "but that had nothing to do with the banning." Kodak Report Lists Highlights of 1954 ROCHESTER, March 28. — Details of Eastman Kodak Co.'s 1954 operations, including information on new products, production, progress in research and development, finances, and other aspects of the business are contained in the 36-page, four-color annual report now being mailed to over 86,000 Kodak share owners. Last year's edition of the report won the gold "Oscar of Industry" award from Financial World Magazine as the best of over 5,000 company reports in an international survey. In the report, the combination of modern films and reproduction techniques are illustrated in nine photographs which portray in color the grandeur of the Far West. Another highlight is the color diagram indicating the products made by each of Kodak's U. S. manufacturing divisions and showing the area in which each product serves ■ — photography, industry, or defense. The annual report also contains a listing of some important milestones in the progress of the Kodak company, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Heart Ailment Fatal To Elias Youngstein Funeral services were held here yesterday morning at Gutterman's for Elias Youngstein, 71, father of Max E. Youngstein, vice president of United Artists, who passed away on Saturday at Beth David Hospital of a heart ailment. Youngstein, father of Bernard Pearl Lieberson, Max, Morris, Miriam Hugel, also is survived by 11 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Producing Company Formed by McEvoy HOLLYWOOD, March 27.— Papers of incorporation have been filed in Sacramento for the formation of Earl McEvoy Productions. McEvoy was formerly associated with Columbia Pictures as a director. The new organization plans to produce theatre and television films. News Roundup Set SW 'Festival' Plans for the 13-week observance of the Stanley Warner "spring festival," April through June, were outlined in Hartford by Harry Feinstein, zone manager, in meetings with 38 managers representing the zone's theatres in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. Mexican Survey Mexico has 2,100 theatres in operation with a combined theatre capacity of 1,500,000 in 1,164 cities and towns, according to a survey made by Samuel Goldschlag, Mexico City architect. Goldschlag also revealed that Mexico has 1,700 theatres that exhibit 16mm. pictures exclusively. 'Capri' Premiere "Murder in Villa Capri," which was produced in New York by Paul Burton-Mercur, will have its world premiere at Warners' Embassy Theatre in Orange, N. J., on April 5. The picture will play the house for the one evening only prior to its national release by Gibraltar Motion Picture Distributors of Hollywood. To Hear Christenberry Major General Charles W. Christenberry, president of the AmericanKorean Foundation, will be the honored . guest at a luncheon meeting of exhibitors in the Denver exchange area on Thursday. It is expected that 300 theatre owners of the territory will attend the affair at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Asks TV Suspension Walter Reade, Jr., president of the Atlantic Video Corp., has requested permission from the Federal Communications Commission to suspend .telecasting as of April 1 at station WRTV, Eaton ville, N. J. Reade, in seeking the suspension of service, said that "to continue a service in ultra high frequency which could not come up to a maximum potential for our area pending a favorable decision from the FCC on Channel 8, would not be to the best interests of our listeners or advertisers." NEW YORK THEATRES RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Rockefeller Center ; "THE CLASS SLIPPER" • in radiant COLOR starring ! 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