Motion Picture Daily (Apr-June 1956)

Motion Picture daily Thursday, April 19, 1 PERSONAL MENTION ARTHUR B. KRIM, president of United Artists, will return to New York today from Hollywood. • Jack Cohn, Columbia Pictures executive vice-president; Lacy Kastner, Columbia International president, and Sigwart Kusiel, Columbia International vice-president, will leave here today for Havana. • Paul N. Lazarus, Jr., vice-president in charge of advertising, publicity and exploitation for Columbia Pictures, is vacationing in Mexico City. • Harold Rand, 20th Century-Fox trade press contact, will leave here tomorrow for a one-week vacation in Bermuda. • Charles Boasrerg, supervisor of Paramount sales on "War and Peace," will return to New York today by plane from Toronto and Detroit. • Jerome Pickman, Paramount advertising-publicity vice-president, will leave New York today by plane for Hollywood. • Henry Ginsberg, producer, will leave the Coast by plane tomorrow for New York. • Joseph Maternati, head of the French Film Center here, has departed via Air France for Paris. • James R. Velde, general sales manager of United Artists, will leave here today for Toronto. • Roy Brewer, Allied Artists exchange operations supervisor, is in Cincinnati from New York. • Kim Hunter has returned to New York from Bermuda via B.O.A.C. • Sam Spiegel has arrived in London from New York via B.O.A.C. M-G-M Gets Kelly Wedding Subject American distribution rights to a 30minute CinemaScope Technicolor short subject film of the Grace KellyPrince Rainier wedding have been acquired by MGM which yesterday reported the film will be ready for release in mid-May. The film, which later will be released internationally, is being produced by a French agency at the request of Prince Rainier. An MGM spokesman yesterday emphasized that the entire production is being made by the French firm in Monaco. Kelly Wedding Sol Siegel Coast at the is due here week-end. from the Extras Guild Ballots Mailed to Members HOLLYWOOD, April 18 -The ballots mailed to Screen Extras Guild members today, returnable by April 30th, bear the names of 13 candidates nominated by petition, running against the Guild slate, for 20 available positions as Guild officers or directors. The two petitioned-named candidates are opposing incumbent Richard H. Gordon for the presidency. ever panies (Continued from page 1) several domestic newsreel cornsaid French crews working under agreement for them supplemented the actual civil wedding ceremony with scenes of the wedding couple prior to the service. To New York via Nice Charles Van Bergen, newsreel editor at Warner-Pathe News, said films are to be flown to Nice and then to the New York studios for processing and make-up. Tom Mead of Universal-International News said a Paris agency will process the film for his company in France before its air delivery to New York sometime this morning. None of the domestic agencies were able to predict the amount of footage taken of the ceremony nor how much would be edited for theatre viewing. Films of the church ceremony to be performed today in Monaco are scheduled to arrive here Monday morning and will be distributed to theatres the following day. 'Pool System' Necessary Newsreel spokesmen said the "pool system" was a necessity because of the inadequate facilities for taking pictures of the ceremonies. They declared French crews working under agreement with them will provide the additional coverage before and after the ceremonies. Columbia Sets First Deal with Cooper for Producing-Handling Harry Cohn, president of Columbia Pictures, announced yesterday that he had signed an agreement with Frank Cooper under which Cooper will produce a top-budgeted feature for Columbia release based upon the highrated television series, "The Lineup." Columbia added that the film will be the first picture to be made under a producer distribution relationship which the company has entered into with Cooper. Top-Rated Show "The Lineup," which is based on the files of the San Francisco police department, has been one of the top ten rated shows on the Trendex listings for some time. It is shown on the CBS national network on Friday nights. Jaime del Valle, producer of the video program, will be Cooper's coproducer on the motion picture, which will go before the cameras on location in San Francisco in the Fall. The story of the motion picture will be a new one. The deal was negotiated in behalf of Cooper by his representative, Irving B. J. Levine. Seek Distribution Of 7 from Italy Mrs. Rose Knepple and Carolyne Wells, of this city, announced that they are acting as producers representatives for seven Italian pictures of Aurigo Films of Italy. Mrs. Knepple, who recently returned here from Italy, said she is currently sounding out possible distribution outlets for the films, two of which were said to star Sophia Loren, two with Vittoria de Sica and one with Rosanna Neri. Hyman and Markley To Aid UCP Drive Edward L. Hyman and Sidney M. Markley, both vice presidents of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres Inc., have been appointed co-chairmen of the theatre collections committee in the United Cerebral Palsy campaign, it was announced by Leonard H. Goldenson, chairman of the board of United Cerebral Palsy. Chairman of the distribution committee is Herman Robbins, chairman of the board of directors of National Screen Service. Remodel Md. Theatre BALTIMORE, April 18.-The Parkway Theatre here, having recently been purchased by Milton Schwaber who operates the Cinema and Playhouse, is being remodeled and reseated as well as redecorated and will open around the second week in May with "The Lady Killers." The seating capacity, originally about 900, is being reduced to 500 with installation of "rocking chair" seats, spaced four feet from back to back. 'Rosanna' to Jacon "Rosanna," starring Rossana Podesta, is the next film release to be launched by Jacon Film Distributors, it was announced by Bernard Jacon, head of the recently formed distribution company. The film shot on location in Mexico. . . . NEWS ROUNDUP RCA Equipment Installed Installation of new RCA-Dynprojection equipment at the 76 W Dodge Drive-In Theatre, Omaha, been completed. Manager S Dudgeon said the theatre is the i in the Middle West to be equipped. ■ D.A.R. Honors Walt Disnt The Daughters of the Ameri Revolution has announced that it present its annual award for the j ducer of the Best Children's Fibr 1955 to Walt Disney for his "L and the Tramp." The presenta will be made at the 65th Contine Congress of the D.A.R., to be helc Constitution Hall in Washing today. ■ Gets Drive-in Okay The Supreme Court of Em Hartford, has unanimously given Leitao of East Hartford, Conn., go-ahead sign for his constructor a drive-in theatre at Glastonb Conn. The high court said that C mon Pleas Court Judge Fitzge was correct when he dismissed an( peal by a group of Glastonbury p; erty owners, who protested a zoi board action granting Leitao per sion to locate an outdoor theatn an industrial zone. ■ Filmack Receives Honors Filmack Trailer Co., Chicago, new honors in the field of commefilm production for television. Filn Studios was voted first in the na1 for "speed in the production of film commercials," and second "economy." This was Filmack's appearance in the nationwide poj advertisers, producers, agencies TV stations. ■ Drive-In Center Planned A $1,330,000 drive-in theatre ;| ect, to include a motel, bowling and restaurant, is being planned Sam Levin, Chicago. On an 85-1 tract in Stickney Township, it have two screens, one visible to lj cars and the other to 1,500. 121 'Mamie9 Dates "The Revolt of Mamie StoverJI CinemaScope, one of 20th Cent! Fox's spring attractions, has beerw to open in 121 first domestic I Canadian playdates by the enm May, it was disclosed yesterdayB will be the next attraction at ■ York's Capitol Theatre. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; Raymond Levy, Executive Publisher; Al Steen News Editor; Herbert V. |fl Advertising Manager Gus H. Fausel, Production. Manager; Hollywood Bureau, Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Berns, Manager; William R. Weaver. Editor, Telephone Hollywood A**3 Chicago Bureau, 120 South LaSalle Street, Urben Farley, Advertising Representative, Telephone Financial 6-3074; Washington, J A. Otten, National Press Club, Washington, DM London Bureau, 4 Golden Square, Hope Williams Burnup, Manager; Peter Burnup, Editor; William Pay, News Editor. 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