Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1955)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, October 18, 1955 PERSONAL MENTION JOHN EVANS, chairman of the executive committee of the Greater Union Theatres, Australia, winds up a two-week visit here today and lea\ es by plane tor Buffalo, San Francisco and Los Angeles, en route to Sydney. George D. Burrows, Allied Artists executive vice-president and treasurer, arrived in New York yesterday from the Coast. • Dr. Benzo Rufini, director of the I.F.E. Releasing Corp. Rome office, will arrive in New York today from Italy. • 11. W. Bessey, Altec Service Corp. executive vice-president, has returned to New York following a trip through the company's Southern territory. • Arthur Link, Western Electric vice-president, and Mrs. Link returned to New York from Europe yesterday aboard the "He de France." • Irwin Ullman, supervisor of Fabian drive-in theatres in the Albany area, is the father of a daughter born there to Mrs. Ullman. • Marie Brogna, bookkeeper in the Boston office of 20th Century-Fox, was married there to Andrew Madalini, of Everett, Mass. • George Ornstein, United Artists representative in Spain, has arrived in New York from Barcelona. • John C. Flinn, Allied Artists director of advertising-publicity, has arrived here by plane from Hollywood. • Marty Wolf, Altec Service Corp. sales manager, has returned to New York from California. Dore Schary, M-G-M vice-president in charge of production, left Hollywood yesterday for Chicago. • Alfred Hitchcock will leave New York aboard the "Queen Mary" tomorrow for England. Norman Jackter, Columbia pictures manager in Albany, has returned there from New York. Paul Vogel, M-G-M cameraman, is in New York from the Coast. Helen Rose, M-G-M fashion designer, has left here for Europe. Charles Walters, director, is here from the Coast. Mexican Industry Paging a 'Solomon' Special to THE DAILY MEXICO CITY, Oct. 17.-A strike is threatened by the National Cinematographic Industry Workers Union (STIC) against the Cine Mexico, first run theatre here. STIC demands that the theatre's owners pay a death indemnification to the kin of Alfredo Hernandez, a doorman, who, it claims, died from injuries suffered in an accident while on duty at the theatre. The management contends that Hernandez committed suicide in the offices of STIC's Section One (theatre attaches). The Labor Ministry is trying to do a "Solomon" in the case. Loew's to Distribute 'Persuasion' Abroad Arthur M. Loew, president of Loew's International Corp., and Steve Broidy, president of Allied Artists Pictures Corp., yesterday jointly announced conclusion of negotiations for the overseas distribution ol Allied Artists' first William Wyler production, "The Friendly Persuasion." Under terms of the agreement, MGM, which has a substantial financial interest in the picture, will distribute it in most parts of the overseas market. Allied Artists will distribute the picture in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Panama, Argentina and the Caribbean area. "The Friendly Persuasion" stars Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire, and is Wyler's first production in color. 6,000 Attend Preview Of 'Velvet Swing' Some 6,000 theatre goers, among them representatives of the press and entertainment industry, attended a preview showing of 20th CenturyFox's CinemaScope production of "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" held at the Roxy Theatre here last night. The advance showing of the film was covered by Movietonews photographers. Interviews with attending stars were presented on the Mutual Broadcasting System's radio network, the Armed Forces Radio Service and the Voice of America. Among the personalities present were Spyros P. Skouras, Gregory Peck, Margaret Truman, Thelma Ritter, Peggy Lee, Nunnally Johnson, Gale Storm, Noel Coward, Dana Wynter, Janet Blair, Maria Rivo, Miriam Hopkins, Sloan Simpson, Shirley Yamaguchi, Rita Gam, Nina Foch, Phil Silvers, Charles Coburn and June Havoc. Cinema Lodge Plans Luncheon Meeting's New York's Cinema Lodge of B'nai B'rith will introduce an innovation in its membership meetings when it holds its first general membership meeting of the Fall season at a luncheon at Toots Shor's next Tuesday, it was announced yesterday by Max E. Youngstein, president. The decision to hold such an informal luncheon meeting is in response to the request of a large number of members who ordinarily do not have the opportunity to attend evening meetings, according to Youngstein, and depending upon the response of the membership, other such meetings will be held during the coming months. Expect Goal to Be Reached The luncheon will mark the climax of Cinema's principal fund-raising activity of the year, the sale of $25 contribution share certificates with one of the purchasers being awarded a four-door Cadillac sedan. Indications are that the goal of 500 certificates will be reached by the time the luncheon takes place, Robert K. Shapiro, executive vice-president and chairman of this fund-raising event, disclosed. Twenty More Join 'Pioneers' Roster Twenty additional 25-year-men of the industry have been approved for membership in the Motion Picture Pioneers as the membership drive of the organization shifts into high gear, it has been disclosed by Jack Cohn, president of the organization. Among the newest group approved for induction are Irving C. Ackerman, George Barnett, Paul Behrke, Joel Bezahler, Bernard Birnbaum, Louis L. Brown, Melvin L. Gold, Louis E. Hanna, Louis L. Hess, Leo Jaffe, George M. Josephs, John Kane, Milton Klein, Edward Levene, Arthur Levy, John F. Murphy, C. O. Slenker, Sol Spiller and George R. Taylor. The Motion Picture Pioneers 17th Annual Showmanship Dinner, which will honor Herman Robbins as "Pioneer of the Year," will be held Nov. 4 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here. Ned E. Depinet, who will be chairman, soon will announce the names of a large group of stage, screen and television stars who will headline the entertainment. Speeches, it is said will be brief. 'Knife' on 'Toast' Robert Aldrich's "The Big Knife" will be featured on Ed Sullivan's CBS-TV network show next Sunday with Jack Palance, Wendell Corey, Rod Steiger and Everett Sloane appearing in the "contract signing" scene from the United Artists release. Covers 80 Acres New Studio Readied for South Africa From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, Oct. 17. Dispatches from Pretoria, South Africa, disclose the formation there of a new and fully-financed film production company—Film Production Facilities (Africa) Ltd. Out of resources placed at its disposal the company, it is stated, is proceeding with the erection and equipment of a studio and laboratory plant at the township of Irene in the vicinity of Pretoria. The plant covers 80 acres. It will, is is claimed, be able to provide facilities for productions of any size. Sound recording and dubbing equipment covering optical and magnetic tracks is already installed. Managing director of the new enterprise is W. H. Norris, who earned a high technical reputation here as manager of Nettlefold Studios. Norris's company has finished shooting on its own first production, in both British and Afrikaans dialogue, a life of South Africa's legendary hero Paul Kruger. Distribution in South Africa will be handled by a subsidiary company wholly financed by the Facilities concern and known as Independent Film Distributors (Africa) Ltd. The facilities of this new company, it is stated, are available to any British or American producer seeking a South African outlet for his product. 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