Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1955)

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2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, December 28, 1 PERSONAL MENTION ROGER H. LEWIS, United Artists national director of advertisingpublicity, will leave New York tonight for Chicago. • Tom Andre, M-G-M unit manager, and Joseph Ruttenberg, cameraman, will arrive here from Hollywood on Jan. 4. • Ethel De Fraitis, Rae Riemer and Carole Manisalco, of the M-G-M branch in New Orleans, have returned there from New York. • Sherry Lewis, Allied Artists secretary in Cleveland, has announced her engagement to Arthur Braun of that city. • O. C. Lam, of Lam Amusement Co., Rome, Ga., has returned there following a fishing trip in Florida. • William Flemion, operator of the Studio and World theatres, Detroit, has left there for Chicago. Charles Simpson, Tennessee exhibitor, has returned to Chattanooga from the Coast. • Donald Gilson, operator of drivein theatres at Canton and Massena, N. Y., was in Albany last week. • Charles King, of Exhibitors Service, Jacksonville, has returned there from Atlanta. Saul Simons, Columbia film salesman, is vacationing in Florida from his Boston office. New Delay in U.S. Film Census Report WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Publication of die results of the 1955 government census of the motion picture industry has been set back again until "sometime after January," according to Census Bureau officials. They explained the delay by saying that pressure has been exerted to get out all the results on retail and wholesale establishments, and that data on service industries like the film industry have been side-tracked. The census, covering all branches of the industry, was taken this year and was based on 1954 business. It will provide the industry with a complete, up-to-date picture of industry operations. The results were originally slated to start being made public in mid-December and then were pushed back to mid-January. Honor Rinzler on 70th Birthday Samuel Rinzler, veteran Brooklyn and Queens circuit operator, was honored at a surprise breakfast yesterday on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The affair was tendered by executives and personnel of Randforce Amusement Co., of which Rinzler is president. Emanuel Frisch, Randforce treasurer, presented Rinzler with an engraved silver and mahogany plaque memorializing the honoree's services to the company and the industry. In paying tribute to the honoree, Frisch observed that 40 of his 70 years had been spent, in the motion picture business, and of the 40, approximately 25 years had been with Randforce. Sons on the Dais Seated on the dais, in addition to Rinzler, were his two sons, Harold J. Rinzler, assistant treasurer of the company, and Dr. Seymour Rinzler. The breakfast also marked the conclusion of the recent Rinzler and Frisch showmanship drive in the circuit, and prizes were awarded to winners in various categories. A seven-day all expense vacation trip for two to Las Vegas, was won by Herman Semel, manager of the Ambassador Theatre; a three-day all expense weekend for two at Grossinger's was won by Jack Scherzer, manager of the Beverly Theatre, and a cash prize of $150 was won by Barney Wiselman, manager of the Lefferts Theatre. Sharf in New Post George Sharf has been elected secretary of Loew's Internationa] Corporation by the board of directors. Associated with Loew's since 1930, Sharf fills a post last held by Joseph Rosthal, who died recently. Goldwyn (Continued from page 1) Meyer Hutner, formerly with 20th Century-Fox here, has been named Eastern advertising and publicity manager for Goldwyn Prods. Under the new setup, Mulvey explained, the publicity operation of the Goldwyn company now working on "Guys and Dolls" in conjunction with M-G-M will also be in charge of the publicity for the pictures produced by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. in his releasing deal with United Artists. Hutner takes over his new assignment shortly after the first of the year. He is a veteran newspaperman, having been with the New York "Journal-American" and the "Post." Present plans call for Golding to leave New York at the end of January for Los Angeles where he will take on his additional duties. Jack Cooper, who has been filling in at the studio, will continue as his assistant. RKO Sets Dates ( Continued from page 1 ) Feb. 8, "Slightly Scarlet"; Feb. 15, "The Brain Machine"; Feb. 22, prerelease of Howard Hughes' "The Conqueror"; March 7, "Rebecca," rerelease of the David O. Selznick production; March 14, "The Bold and the Brave"; March 21, re-release of "One Minute to Zero"; March 28, general release of "The Conqueror." Also: April 4, "Great Day in the Morning"; April 11, "The Way Out"; April 18, re-release of "The Big Sky," and April 25, "While the City Sleeps." H. Bruen, Exhibitor Leader, Dies on Coast LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27.-Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at the First Presbyterian Church, Whittier, California, for Hugh W. Bruen, 66, exhibitor organization leader and owner of theatres in Whittier and in the Pacific Northwest. Bruen suffered a heart attack Christmas Eve, succumbing immediately. He was among the founders of the now defunct Pacific Coast Conference of Independent Theatre Owners. The widow, two sons and a daughter survive. Mrs. Harry Charnas Services Today LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27. Mrs. Harry L. Charnas, 66, died Monday at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital following a long illness. Mrs. Charnas is survived by her husband and a son, Milton. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Ann Robins, Mrs. Louis J. Halper; three brothers Harry M.; Albert and Jack L. Warner and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held tomorrow in the Home of Peace Mausoleum chapel. . . . NEWS ROUNDUP ARC Sets 'Co-Op' Program The pre-release engagements of tl American Releasing Corp. combin; tion, "The Day the World Ended and "Phantom from 10,000 Leagues have encouraged the company 1 earmark between $500,000 and $1 000,000 in cooperative advertisir with theatres during January ar February, it has been disclosed I James Nicholson, president of ARC Judging by the pre-release grosse said Nicholson, the dual bill shoul gross more than $4,000,000 in U.S Houston ITA Appointments' Houston Independent Theatre As sociation president Lowell Bulpitt ha announced appointment of the fol lowing committee chairmen for the coming year: Jack C. Groves of Posi Oak Drive-in Theatre, research; Victor A. Barraco of Bellaire and Roxy Theatres, arbitration and grievance: Mrs. Gladys Horwitz, vice-president of Horwitz Theatres, membership and Willie Radcliff of Emspon Drive In Theatre, entertainment. Provinzano Takes Theatre Angelo Provinzano is taking over the Greendale Theatre in Greendale, Wise, 15 miles from Milwaukee. Greendale, a fast growing community and formerly a government project, was purchased by Milwaukee industrialists and investors. Pouzzner Sells R.I. Tract Morris Pouzzner has sold a tract of downtown land in Westerly, R. I., to David Elfenbein of New London, Conn., for approximately $20,000 and subject to mortgages held on the property. Pouzzner's original plans had called for construction of a new theatre on the tract. n^w^ -i ^/openings for Y5H5*JSssi * Three Channel interlock projection ► 16, 17V2 & 35 mm tape interlock ► 16 mm interlock projection CUTTING & STORAGE ROOMS THEATRE SERVICE, INC. 619 w. 54th St. N Y 19 ■ JUdson 6-0367 MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; Raymond Levy, Executive Publisher; Al Steen, News Editor Herbert V Fecke Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager; Hollywood Bureau, Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Berns, Manager; William R. Weaver, Editor, Telephone HOllywood 7-2145-' Chicago Bureau, 120 South LaSalle Street, Urben Farley, Advertising Representative, Telephone Financial 6-3074; Washington. J. A. Otten, National Press Club, Washington D C ' London Bureau, 4 Golckn Square. Hope Williams Burnup, Manager; Peter Burnup. Editor; William Pay, News Editor. Correspondents in the principal capitals of the world ' Motion Picture Daily is published daily except Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company. Inc., 1270 Sxth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York 20 Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address ''Quigpubco, New Vork". Martin Quigley, President; Martin Quigley, Jr., Vice-President; Theo. J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasurer; Raymond Levy Vice-president; Leo J. Brady, Secretary. Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture Herald Better Theatres and Better Refreshment Merchandising, each published 13 times a year as a section of Motion Picture Herald; Television Today, published once weekly as a part of Motion Picture Daily, Motion Picture Almanac, Television Almanac Fame Entered as second class matter Sept. 21. 1938. at the Post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3. 1879. Subscription rates per year, $6 in the Americas and $12 foreign single copies 10#