Motion Picture Daily (Apr-June 1956)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, April 4, 19 PERSONAL MENTION CHARLES C. MOSKOWITZ, vicepresident and treasurer of Loew's Inc., will leave here on Friday for the coast. • P. T. Dana, Universal Eastern sales manager, will return to New York today from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. • Jerome Pickman, Paramount advertising-publicity vice-president, will return to New York today from Philadelphia. • Chahles Einfeld, 20th CenturyFox vice-president, will leave here for the coast today, returning at the weekend. • Hugh Owen, vice-president of Paramount Film Distributing Corp., will return to New York today from Philadelphia. • Arthur Mayer is featured on the cover of the current "Saturday Review" as author of an article entitled "Myths, Movies and Maturity." • Louis Phillips, vice-president and general counsel of Paramount Pictures, will be in Boston tomorrow from New York. • Manny Reiner, I.F.E. Releasing Corp. general sales manager, has returned to New York from Denver and the Coast. • Francis Flood, of the Stanley Warner Theatres Northeastern zone, New Haven, has been elected Commander, first district, AMVETS. • Morgan Hudgins, M-G-M studio publicist, sails from here today for London. Jack H. Levin, president of Certified Reports, will arrive in Chicago today from here. Cecil Beaton, photographer and film designer, will leave here today for Europe. • Victor Saville will leave New York today for Europe accompanied by his wife. Irving Lesser, head of Producers Representatives, has returned here from the Coast. Robert Rossen leaves New York today with his family for Hollywood. • Richard Denning left here yesterday for London via B.O.A.C. New Independent Unit to Make 4 in '56 Amalgamated Productions, Inc., has been formed by Richard Gordon and Charles F. Vetter, Jr., to produce a series of theatrical pictures here and abroad. First on the schedule is "Requiem for a Redhead," in which Richard Denning and Carole Mathews will star. Maclean Rogers has been signed to direct the picture, which starts shooting on April 9 at the Nettlefold Studios in London. Amalgamated has acquired an original screenplay, "The Crooked Sky," by Lance Hargreaves, for its second production, and negotiations are now underway for two added properties. The company plans to shoot four pictures in 1956. Charles Vetter, head of Motion Picture Stages, Inc., in New York, has just finished co-production of "The Dynamiters" starring Wayne Morris, while Gordon, who represents various foreign producers, including George Minter's Renown Pictures, recently completed the German coproduction of "The Devil's General." No distribution arrangements in the United States have been made. SPG Members Meet For Contract Report Over 100 advertising, publicity and exploitation publicists, members of the Screen Publicists Guild (District 65), gathered at noon yesterday in front of the Warner Brothers home offices here to hear a report on the progress in the Guild's negotiations for a new two-year contract. The SPG members were informed that the Guild negotiators and representatives of Columbia, Warner Brothers, Universal and 20th Century-Fox were still "wide apart" in coming to terms on a new two-year contract. Besides seeking additional vacation and other fringe benefits, the SPG is asking for a 15 per cent general increase. Thus far, the companies' labor negotiators have offered a $5 per week increase in salary. The Guild also has started strike fund collections among its membership here. The SPG contract with Columbia and Warner Brothers has already expired; the pacts at Universal and 20th-Fox are due to expire next week. . The agreement with United Artists has been extended indefinitely and an agreement with M-G-M is yet to be written. ASCAP Annual Event American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers held its annual dinner here last night at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria with several hundred persons in attendance. CBS to Make Film Of Kelly Wedding The Columbia Broadcasting System yesterday announced that its news production staff will produce a 30minute feature film of the weeklong ceremonies and highlights of M-G-M actress Grace Kelly's wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco. The news production will be shown on CBS-TV on April 21, 11 to 11:30 p.m. (EST) and will be sponsored by Maybelline Co. Para. Owns 26.6% Of Du Mont Lab. Twenty-six per cent of the total number of outstanding shares of Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., is owned by Paramount Pictures, according to the Du Mont Laboratories notice to stockholders of the company's annual meeting on May 7 in Clifton, N. J. The stockholder's meeting has been called to elect a board of directors, nine in number, for the ensuing year, and to act upon a proposal to approve the stock option of 25,000 shares at $9.81 per share granted to David T. Schultz, president. The proxy statement reveals that at the close of business on March 9, 1956, Paramount Pictures owned 628,500 shares or 26.6 per cent ol the 2,361,092 shares of Du Mont Laboratories. The nominees up for election as directors are Barney Balaban, Allen B. Du Mont, Armand G. Erpf, Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr., William II . Kelley, Paul Raibourn, David T. Schultz, Percy M. Stewart and Edwin L. Weisl. All of these persons are now directors of the company. Balaban, Raibourn and Weisl are respectively president and director, vice-president and director, and director of Paramount. Latin America Agent Set for Superscope HOLLYWOOD, April 3. Superscope president Joseph Tushinsky has appointed Guaranteed Pictures De La Argentina to represent Superscope 235 in all Latin-American countries. Under terms of the agreement reached in conferences with GP president Jamie Cabouli, the latter is pledged to deliver a minimum of 50 Latin-American productions per year for conversion to Superscope 235. Armour on Global Trip Reginald Armour, executive vicepresident of Republic International, will leave here today for London, the first-leg of his world wide trip which will take him to the Near East and Far East. He is due to return here at the end of May. 16 Story Properties Purchased by MGM Before Publication From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, April 3.-M-G-M policy of purchasing story properti before they appear in print h brought the studio an all-time hif of material with 16 stories or treg ments ready or in preparation, it w announced today by studio head Do, S chary. The latest acquisition is "The B Dream," a novel by Leon Uris, whi> is in the writing stage. The stud signed the property after reading a outline of the story that deals wi modern Israel. Other M-G-M properties inclm! "The House of Numbers," "Raintrj County," "The Sergeant," "Don't ( Near the Water," "Something Value," "Raquel," "The Amazi; Nellie Bly," "The Year of Love "The Power and the Prize," "Desig ing Woman," "Wonderland," "Nun ber Four With Flowers," "The Wre1 of the Mary Deare," "How High Up?" and "Patterns of Malico." Trent Group Leases New Rochelle Housi A long term lease for the Tov Theatre at New Rochelle, N. Y. h Jjeen signed by the Trent Theai Corp. headed by Max A. Cohen a< Mark I. Finkelstein. Morris Goldman and Gilbert sephson head the tenant firm and pi the reopening of the theatre with art policy of domestic and forei films. Berk and Krumgold, theatric real estate specialists, negotiated t transaction. 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