Motion Picture Daily (Apr-June 1956)

4 Motion Picture daily Wednesday, April 11, 1< Rhoden ( Continued from page 1 ) matters, was asked about NT business prior to the Easter holiday. He said that although pre-Easter business has shown some improvement, especially compared to the last quarter of the year, which was low, it has not been quite as good as last year. De Rochemont Has Two The NT president said that he will confer with de Rochemont while here. He indicated that de Rochemont, who has acquired two properties, Richard Halliburton's "The Flying Carpet" and "Seven League Boots," plans to combine both into one Cinemiracle production. Asked whether the combined property will be the first Cinemiracle production, Rhoden replied in the negative, saying that such a production would take too much time. He said that de Rochemont, who has been signed by NT as a producer for Cinemiracle, will announce the first property to be utilized for the process. Rhoden, who plans to return to the Coast on Friday, said he will attend the premiere of "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" at the Roxy tomorrow night. He also attended last night's premiere of "Seven Wonders of the World" at the Warner. s -j~y *y^ry -~y-y-y -yyy \ y-y^y^y^y^j -y^y^j *y~yy yy~y -y*y~j <ws* vaa. Concise and I to the Point The significant developments in television and their meaning . . , Edited for Executives Television Today Right at the start of the week — through an interpretive new style of /ourno/isiw — this concise report and analysis of the significant news and events keeps you posted quickly and easily. Television Today Published every Monday in conjunction with Daily Television-Radio with Pinky Herman ELY LANDAU and Harold Goldman, prexy and national sales manager, respectively, for National Telefilm Associates, may take a well deserved bow for energetic promotion of their product and their impressive means of advising us and our contemporaries of their program at the NARTB conclave at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago next week. Visitors to their suite (504-505-506) -free adwill not only see some of the David O. Selznick, Alfred Hitchcock and Dore Schary pix but they'll also be eligible for a prize— a 16mm. Bell & Howell movie camera. . . . Cosmopolitan magazine tossed a wing-ding yesterday at the Savoy-Plaza in Gotham, honoring Steve Allen who becomes a contributing editor with next month's issue. John J. O'Connell, ye editor of Cosmo, proved a genial host. ft ft ft Joe Franklin, the ABClever host-narrator-emcee-deejay-announcer of the daily-at 12:30 P.M. TV series, will interview Eddie Fisher on his program tomorrow continuing his fast-stepping pace of presenting topnotchers on his show. Incidentally the handsome young vocalist on the program, Alan Gerard, is a writer-member of ASCAP and will sing his own ballad, "All Around the Town," on the show next Tuesday. Lyrics by a fellow named Pinky Herman (who he?). . . . Sesac, Inc. celebrating its 25th anniversary in the music performance rights field, will move this summer, to its new, spacious quarters in the new Coliseum Tower at Columbus Circle. . . . Bill (Sonny) Fox, emcee of the "$64,000 Challenge" TV CBSeries, which made an interesting debut Sunday, was a member of the production staff on Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" program six years Joe Franklin ago and later became the smooth-talking guide on a weekly travel and exploration program, "Let's Take a Trip." ft ft ft Jackie Gleason, "for his versatility and infectious enthusiasm" in "The Honeymooners," Doug Edwards "for his mature approach to the news," "Lassie," Dr. Frank C. Baxter ("Now and Then") and "Omnibus," will be cited with George Foster Peabody Awards for 1955 today at the Radio & TV Executives Society at their luncheon at the Hotel Roosevelt. "Lassie" is produced by Robert Maxwell for TPA. ... A baseball yarn, "The Rookie of the Year," which is next Wednesday's Screen Directors Playhouse TVehicle (timed with the opening of the baseball season) will star John Wayne and will feature John's son, Pat, as "the Rookie.". . . Hold the phone, you excited inhabitants of tune pan alley. John Nesbitt's story, "The Man with the Beard," which will be CBSeen next Sunday on the Bell System's new series, is NOT a story about Mitch Miller— but rather is based on the fife of Joe Palmer who lived in a small Massachusetts town over a century ago. Jackie Gleason SUCCESS STORY: Six years ago a five-foot-two 33-year-old gentleman, with five cents in his pocket but with eyes glowing brightly in the knowledge that his dreams of freedom had at last been realized and that his struggle for survival in a German concentration camp was not in vain, arrived in this country. A native of Lithuania, he graduated with honors from the University there and authored four books on camera and sound technique which became so widely acclaimed that many of his ideas were adopted here in America. He established a small laboratory and factory in 1952 in a basement on W. 48th St. and three years ago moved to his present quarters at 500 W. 52nd St. in New York City. His tripods, sound booms and other studio equipment business has become so widely used in the motion picture and TV fields, that he has just acquired a six-story building on 10th Ave. which will afford him more than ten times the space he now occupies and which he'll move into late next month. The firm is Cinekad Engineering Co. and the brave and gifted founder and president of the company is George Kadisch. Decca ii! ( Continued from page 1 ) Pictures, was $3,794,585, or per common share, Rackmil reporte Rackmil reported that 85 per ce of the outstanding stock of the coil pany was present at the meetir John J. Gilbert, a stockholder, adv cated resolutions to provide for cum lative voting for directors and to gi stockholders a post-meeting report resume form. During the course of his questio ing of Rackmil on a number of poir pertaining to the Decca annual r port, Gilbert called stockholder Rog Mahan of Roger Mahan Theatre Waterbury, Conn., "a stooge of ma agement." Mahan had interrupt Gilbert and told the group that "tM was being wasted with this raai objections." Gilbert asked why earnings of Ui versal Pictures were below those other film companies. Rackmil sa|a that about 75 per cent of Universa, earnings are included in those Decca, and "that no divisions Decca are running in the red." i was stated that Decca, which owj 74 per cent of Universal, has ": plans to merge with Universal." Rackmil Is Caustic Gilbert attempted to use his boc "Cumulative Voting," in support his proposal. Rackmil forbade the 1 traduction of the book and refeSr | to Gilbert in a disparaging ve: However, at the close of the meetir he apologized to Gilbert and to i meeting. During the course of t exchange between Gilbert and Rat mil, with interpolations by Main two other stockholders walked out the meeting. Reelected as directors of Dee Records were Rackmil, Leonard \ Schneider, Robert W. Lea, Harold i Thorp and Samuel H. Vallance. G | bert's proposal on cumulative votr was defeated 1,045,000 to 71,3? His resolution on the post-meeti report also was rejected, 1,031,6 against, and 79,819 for. Officers reelected were Rackn president; Schneider, executive vie president; Louis A. Buchner, vie president and treasurer; Samv Yamins, secretary; Isabelle Marl assistant secretary, and Irving Wiener, assistant treasurer. Senate Group to Hear Toll-TV on Apr. 26 The issue of subscription televisii will be argued before the Sena Committee on Interstate and Foreif Commerce in Washington on April 5 by representatives of the Commiti Against Pay-to-See TV, it was i'i ported here yesterday. The Senate committee, which is i vestigating the television industr will hear arguments against toll-T by representatives of American J gion, Marcus Cohn, special couns< and Philip Harling, treasurer, of I Committee Against Pay-to-See T respectively.