Motion Picture Daily (Apr-June 1956)

6 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, April 18, 19 Jurisdiction of SAG Over Electronicam System Is Upheld An arbitration panel has upheld the jurisdiction of the Screen Actors Guild over the Du Mont Electronicam Film System in a decision which denied the claim of jurisdiction by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The decision declared "null and void and of no force or effect" a letter making the AFTRA claim which was circulated last fall among motion picture producers and advertising agencies. The panel ruled in effect that the Electronicam is an improved means of motion picture production. The decision upheld the position of Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., and the Screen Actors Guild in regard to the equipment which combines the advantages of electronic control with standard motion picture cameras. Bill Finkel Retires, 41 Years in Pitts. PITTSBURGH, April 17.-BU1 Finkel, veteran theatre owner locally and an official of Allied Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Western Pennsylvania, has announced his retirement after 41 vears in local show business. 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 journalism — this concise report and analysis of the significant news and events keeps you posted quickly and easily. T^?01^}! Today Published every Monday in con junction with Motion Picture Daily Television — Radio —with Pinky Herman Hal March PRESIDENT EISENHOWER will deliver a talk on foreign policy in a live CBSimulcast next Saturday, 10:00-10:30 P.M., EST, when he addresses the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington. . . . C. R. Fine and E. O. Wilschke, prexy and veep, respectively, of Fine Sound, Inc., will launch their new baby, Opti-Mag, at the SMPTE conclave here starting April 30. . . . Kenny (Senator Claghorn) Delmar will star in next Wednesday's "Kraft Television Theatre's presentation of O. Henry's comedy, "The Gentle Grafter," a story just made to order for the fast-talking, incorrigible loudmouth which Kenny made famous on the late Fred Allen's radio shows. . . . The SMPTE's 79th semi-annual convention, April 30-May 4, at the Hotel Statler in New York will be attended by over 1,000 members. A special showing of the Todd-AO production, "Oklahoma," will be held at the Rivoli Theatre Tuesday, May 1, at 9:00 ayem with Dr. Walter Zigmund, ass't director of research for the American Optical Co., describing the Todd-AO process. _ ft ft ft Latest TrenSex shows a clean CBSweep with "The $64,000 Question" in the top spot, followed by "I Love Lucy," "Ed Sullivan Show" and "Person to Person," in that order. Incidentally. Sonny Fox's style, delivery and mannerisms on the "$64,000 Challenge" is so very much like Hal March (is that bad?). . . . "Audipage," a new receiving set device, weighing one ounce and about the size of a cigaret lighter, developed by the Philco Corp., will be introduced jointly by the Philco Corp. and ABC at the NARTB conclave in Chicago this week. . . . Producer Robert Montgomery and associate producer Joseph W. Bailey may each take a welldeserved bow for a simple yet beautifully-unfolded story of a genius, "Portrait of a Man," dealing with the life of the late Professor Albert Einstein, presented Monday TVia NBC. The teleplay was penned by William Kendall Clarke and the charm, dignity and scholarly bearing of the great scientist was high-lighted, by the almostmeasured cadence of the narrator's (R. Montgomery) sympathetic understanding of his subject. ft ft ft Back in 1930, as an ace cameraman at Paramount's Astoria Studios, Frank Zucker dreamed of forming his own firm and in 1937 started the Camera Equipment Co. housed in a tiny cubicle on 7th Ave. Early this month, the company, now one of the finest equipped sales, service and repair firms in the camera field, moved into its new quarters at 315 W. 43rd St. in N.Y.C., and with a staff of 81 men and women, is the fulfilment of Frank's dream. This counterpart of a Horatio Alger hero is deservedly one of the most popular figures in the M.P.-TV Industry. . . . Henry Schmerzler, president of Publicity Corporation of America, has just announced the appointment of William Mogle as veep in charge of client relations. We've known Bill Mogle ever since he arrived in Gotham about 12 years ago from Chicago where he headed his own radio and film production firm. He also wrote scripts and continuity for numerous radio programs, including the Paul Whiteman Show, and these lines are merely our way of offering congrats to both. . . . The MCA research department has estimated that about 100 automobile dealers, during the past two years, have used MCA-TV films to advertise their products, which include virtually every major make of car. ... A new ABCountry series, "The Eddy Arnold Show," will bow into the TV orbit, starting next Thursday, when the Victor recording star starts a weekly musical show, live from KYTV in Springfield, Mo. ft ft ft Steve Allen's initial appearance as a columnist (at the age of 34, he's a TV, radio and motion picture star, has cleffed over 100 songs, is the author of a book of poems to be published in the fall by Henry Holt; is the author of two books, "Bop Fables" and "Fourteen for Tonight" and has already recorded seven albums in addition to fourteen 'single' platters) takes place in the May issue of "Cosmopolitan" magazine. . . . Comes the time of year when birds and ball players come north, so your reporter goes south for a fortnight's vacation. We're happy that two friends, Perry Como and Garry Moore, will write guest columns which will appear in this space April 25 and May 2, respectively. National Pre-Selling U' I ''HIS spring while ringside racl -*■ teers are being exposed by i vestigations from New York to Ca fornia, another wallop at boxing delivered in a gripping Columbia fil 'The Harder They Fall'," repo "Life's" reviewer in the April 16 sue. "Based on Budd Schulberg's nc el and directed by Mark Robson, i movie sticks close to the fa> of Primo Camera's phony build through a series of fixed fights ii: a heavyweight champion 23 yes ago." "Life" devotes the larger p of four pages to the review. • "Meet Me in Las Vegas" has be selected by "Redbook" as the Sih Cup Award Winner for May. Louis Berg, "This Week" movie e itor, said in the April 15 issue: stood by the banks of a rushing ri\ in East Africa and watched wh hunters blast crocodiles out of the v* ter with their highpowered rifles— that Janet Leigh, star of 'Safai could swim in it with a fair degr of safety. They killed four while was watching. And I thought to m self that I wouldn't do what Jar was doing for a living, not for all 1 money." A candid camera shot Janet Leigh was used on the co\ cover of the issue. • "Touch and Go" has been select as the picture of the month for Ml by Ed Miller of "Seventeen." • The first of a two-part story Grace Kelly, star of "The Swan" a "High Society," written by Mauri Zolotow, appeared in the April issue of "American Weekly." The title of the article which pears on the front cover with a col photo of Grace is "Grace Kelly's B; gest Game." There is also a phd taken on a production set of "Hi Society" showing Bing Crosby a Grace in a tense scene which he! illustrate the article. • "The Cockleshell Heroes," "Pi terns" and "Lovers and Lollipop are the "GO SEE"-Picture of i Month— selections by Susan Lee the New York Subways Advertisi! Co. for April. • Doris Day, star of Paramour} "The Man Who Knew Too Much" the cover girl on the full-color cov of the April issue of "Cosmopolitan A personality story of this musit comedy star who has developed irj a dramatic actress appears in t same issue. • Deborah Kerr, star of "The Ki and I," will be the cover girl on April 29 issue of "Parade." For the same issue, Lloyd Sheai has written a "Parade Personalit article on the home and studio acti ties of this British star. WALTER HA