Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1955)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, November 25, 195: PERSONAL MENTION HOWARD DIETZ, M-G-M vicepresident and director of advertising-publicity, returned to New York vesterday from the Coast. • Jerry Levine, of the Paramount home office advertising department, is the father of a daughter born to Mrs. Levine at Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, N. J. • Lawrence Lipskin, public relations assistant to the president of Columbia International, has returned to New York following a trip to Manila and Tokyo. • William B. Zoellner, head of M-G-M short subject sales, will return to New York today from Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. • Joseph Bronsteen, general manager of Bronstein Drive-in Enterprises, Hartford, will return there with Mrs. Bronstein on Dec. 15 from Arizona. • Phil Isaacs, Paramount Rocky Mountain division manager, returned to Denver yesterday from New York. • Miles A. Goldbrick, manager of Westrex Company, Orient, has returned to Tokyo from New York. • Herb Steinberg, Paramount national exploitation manager, will leave New York at the weekend for Detroit. • . Stanley Kramer, producer, will return to Hollywood on Monday from Madrid. • Jack H. Levine, president of Certified Reports, will return to New York today from Boston. • George Murphy, M-G-M studio public relations head, has returned to Hollywood from Philadelphia. • George Seaton, producer-director, will leave Hollywood on Monday for New York. Schary Answers ( Continued from page 1 ) perfect right to criticize and to organize a crusade against what they feel to be morally objectionable in films. But, he added, "we hope they will respect our right to make motion pictures as we see fit." Schary emphasized the fact that criticism is both welcome and helpful, but warned against the possibility of its reaching the point where it might be equivalent to censorship. Other industry officials were not immediately available for comment. Paramount, Macy's Launch Kaye Film Paramount's promotion campaign on "The Court Jester" got off to a start yesterday before a nationwide television and radio audience as Danny Kaye, the picture's star, made his appearance as a top personality of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade here. Some 2,000,000 holiday-minded persons lined the parade route. Kaye, attired in the multicolored Jester's costume he wears in the comedy, capered continuously in Kaye style. Dena Kaye, the comedian's young daughter, occupied the same float as "Queen of the Parade." Meanwhile Kaye on Monday will leave Detroit for Seattle and the first of a series of special sneak previews of the picture across the country. Exhibitors and representatives of press, radio and television have been invited to the special previews of "The Court Jester." The theatres where the previews will be held are: the Paramount, Seattle, on Nov. 28; Denham, Denver, Nov. 29; Paramount, Des Moines, Nov. 30; Majestic, Dallas, Dec. 1; Carolina, Charlotte, Dec. 5; Fox, Atlanta, Dec. 6, and the Sanger, New Orleans, Dec. 7. Kaye will make a stage appearance at each preview performance. 'Dolls9 in 'Gala' Bow At Coast Benefit HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24. Filmdom's most glamorous stars joined with state, civic and society leaders when Samuel Goldwyn's "Guys and Dolls" debuted at the Paramount for the benefit of Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, for which $150,000 was raised on the sale of the $100 tickets. The show was a sellout. Gov. Goodwin Knight of California headed the state officials attending. Mayor Norris Poulson also was on hand, as well as Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blaine, of the cast, in addition to the Goldwyn Girls, Lana Turner, Jack Benny, Dore Schary, Stewart Granger, Bob Hope, Cecil B. DeMille, Claudette Colbert, Leslie Colbert, Leslie Caron, Louis B. Mayer, Ann Miller, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Walter Pidgeon, Jack Warner, William Holden, John Wayne, George Murphy, Gordon MacRae, Don Hartman, Joan Caulfield, Jeanne Cram, Ann Francis, Dana Andrews, Shirley Jones, Virginia Mayo, Zsa Zsa Gabor and others. Book 'Champion's" Medallion Pictures' "Champion's Reward," has been booked into the Fox Theatre in Detroit for a twoweek engagement during the Christmas holiday season. Switch: Publicity Men Guests of Press Assn. From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 24.-In a reversal of tradition, 20 independent publicity agents will be the guests of the Foreign Press Association at a luncheon here on Tuesday, it has been announced by Henry Gris, president of the FPA. The affair will be held at the Knickerbocker Hotel. General Tire Buys Out Macy's Interest From THE DAILY Burcait WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-General Tire and Rubber Co. has purchased from R. H. Macy and Co. for $2,250,000 the outstanding 10 per cent stock interest in General Teleradio, Inc., the Federal Communications Commission was told. This means that General Tire, which already owned 90 per cent of the General Teleradio stock, will be complete owner of RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc., the firm that will result from the planned merger of RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., and General Teleradio, Inc. General Teleradio recently bought out RKO Radio Pictures. Will Transfer 16 Stations The purchase of the Macy stock was disclosed when General Teleradio asked the FCC yesterday for permission to transfer 16 radio and television stations to RKO Radio Pictures. FCC approval of this transfer is a necessary preliminary to the proposed merger, disclosed in Hollywood on Monday. The 16 stations involved are located in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hartford, West Palm Beach, Boston, New York City and Memphis. Jaacohs to Holland On 'Rosenblatt Story' Ned Jaacobs, film and stage producer, will leave here by plane today for Amsterdam, Holland, where he will establish studio headquarters for the making of "The Cantor Rosenblatt Story." Charles Oxton is being considered to write the screen play from the biography of Cantor Rosenblatt recently published by Farrar, Straus & Young. Annalisa McCarthy, formerly with Cinetone Studios in Amsterdam, and recently on the staff of the Netherlands Industries Institute in The Hague, will be the European representative for the Jaacobs American corporation. Temporary headquarters for Jaakobs' production company will be with Jaakobs affiliate Triofilm, in Amsterdam. Shooting will begin early in 1956. 20th-Fox's Net for 39 Weeks in Slight Drop; $4,446,851 Twentieth Century-Fox and wholly owned subsidiaries reported consoli dated earnings of $4,446,851 for the 39 weeks ended Sept. 24. This amounted to $1.68 per share on th 2,644,486 shares of common stock outstanding as compared with earn ings for 39 weeks of 1954 of $5,732,063 or $2.17 per share on thej same number of shares. The earnings for the third quarter ended Sept. 24 amounted to $1,656,051, equal to 62 cents per share, as compared with $2,635,518 for the third quarter of 1954, equal to $1 per share. The earnings for the second quarter of 1955 were $1,366,989, or 52 cents per share. Skouras Reports Oil Operations Spyros P. Skouras, president, re^ ported that Universal Consolidated Oil Co. had placed on production the seven wells heretofore completed by that company on its 20th Century-Fox 280-acre lease. Pipe line connections for both oil and gas have been installed and the first oil was delivered from the lease on Nov. 2. All of the wells are being produced on restrictive chokes and all wells are flowing clean oil, he said. At the present time, the seven wells are producing 3,000 barrels daily, accompanied by 6,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas. The average gravity oi the oil is 27 degrees and the posted price is $2.63 per barrel, and the price of gas is 18 cents per thousand cubic feet. Well No. 8 is now being drilled. $100,000 Ad Budget For AAfs 'Crime' A national magazine advertising campaign budgeted at $100,000 has been scheduled for Allied Artists' "Crime In The Streets," John C. Flinn, director of advertising and publicity, announced. The film is based on the television drama by Reginald Rose and is scheduled for release next March. In addition to the magazine campaign, "Crime In The Streets" will be promoted via newspapers, motion picture trade publications, television, radio and billboards. 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