Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1956)

Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, September 4, 1 PERSONAL MENTION TJ ERBERT J. YATES, president of JlA Republic Pictures, and his executive assistant, William Saal, returned to Hollywood from New York over the weekend. • Clifton Webb leaves New York for Europe today on the SS "Cristoforo Colombo." • Raoul Walsh has arrived in New York from Hollywood. • Nick Perry, vice-president and managing director for Europe and the Near East for Columbia Pictures International, arrived in New York over the weekend from Paris. • William Dozier, vice-president in charge of production for RKO Radio, will leave Hollywood tonight for New York. • Himan Brown, producer, left over the weekend for Hollywood for conferences with RKO Radio executives. Admission Prices Rise In Quarter Ending June From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 Admissions prices over the country rose slightly during the quarter ending last June 30, continuing a trend started with the December 1955 quarter, the Department of Labor has announced. A small increase was noted in the prices for adults and for children, as well as in the combined price index for the June quarter. The index for adult prices rose to 127.8 in the June quarter, from a March quarter figure of 126.3. The figure for children rose from 109.3 to 110.6 and the combined adult-child figure rose from 123.6 to 125.1. The department relates these figures to a base period covering the years 1947 to 1949, giving admissions, prices then a theoretical base of 100. Paradise Wins Damages From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 3-Alex and Max Schreiber, operators of the Paradise Theatre, have been awarded treble damages equalling $60,000, by a Federal Court jury in an anti-trust suit against Fox West Coast circuit, 20th-Fox, and Loew's, Inc. The suit had charged the defendants with conspiring to prevent Paradise from obtaining seven-day pictures in the period from September, 1950, to September, 1951. The trial, conducted by attorneys Jack Corinblit and Fred Weller, consumed seven weeks. Warner TV Commercial Unit Starts Operation From. THE DAILY Bureau BURBANK, Calif. Sept. 3 Warner Bros.' television commercial and industrial film department has begun operations with shooting on film commercials for the Eastman Kodak Co., first in a series to be made at the Burbank lot for national advertisers. First to start are commercials for Lever Bros. These productions will be the first to utilize the studio's facilities. Television Set Shipments In June Total 388,914 From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 Television set shipments to dealers in June increased substantially over the May level, but dropped from the amount shipped in June 1955, the RadioElectronics-Television Manufacturers Association has announced. 388,914 sets were shipped this June, compared to 326,979 shipped in May 1956 and 407,087 in June of last year. In the first half of this year, dealers received 2,775,022 sets, a drop from the 3,084,717 sets shipped in the first six months of last year. Sets Distribution Deals From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 3 Herbert Kaufman, president of the newly formed Associated Producers, Inc., returned from a field trip during which distribution deals were completed with exchanges in six additional cities: Cincinnati, Boston, Indianapolis, Detroit, Memphis, Chicago. Deals had been set up in Pittsburgh and Washington, D. G, previously. Kaufman's eight-to-twelve picture production program was recently announced. NEW YORK THEATRES , — RADIO CITT MUSIC HALL — i Rockefeller Center BING GRACE FRANK CROSBY • KELLY • SINATRA m "HIGH SOCIETY" m VtstsVltion and Color An M-G-M Picture one* srccmuui STAGE PBESENTATION TV FILM SERVICE CENTER AVAILABLE * EDITING rooms * STORAGE rooms ★OFFICES ★SHIPPING rooms PROJECTION ROOM f ACUITIES movielab THEATRE SERVICE, inc 619 W 54th St. • New York 19 • JUdson 6-0367 Gremlins Au Contraire, Silverstone Not Einfeld Those printers' gremlins which emerge from seclusion every now and then, presumably returned to town late last week after a summer in the Catskills. How else explain the appearance of 20th Century-Fox vicepresident Charles Einfeld's picture in Friday's MOTION PICTURE DAILY where that of Emanuel Silverstone, vice-president of 20th-Fox International, should have been? Only thing that takes the sting out of this particular caprice is the happy circumstance that both victims, being men of handsome mien as well as distinction, suffered neither loss of admirers nor prestige in consequence of the inadvertent mis-labeling. Nevertheless, our sincere apologies are extended to both for having permitted the gremlins to outwit us. Republic Dividend A regular dividend of twenty-five cents per share on preferred stock, payable Oct. 1 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 10 has been declared by the board of directors of Republic Pictures Corp. at a meeting held at the company's offices here. . . . NEWS ROUNDUH Neilan Joins Kazan Cast ' Marshall Neilan, well-known si ' screen director but inactive for m years, has been engaged for an portant role in "A Face in the Crov , Elia Kazan's production now uni t way at the new Gold Medal Stui 1)1 in the Bronx. This studio (formi known as Biograph) was the sit4 which Neilan turned out some his early screen epics 35 and 40 y ago with Mary Pickford, Col! Moore and other silent screen star File Against Desilu The Writers Guild of Amei West, filed a certificate of repre: tation against Desilu Productions \ the National Labor Relations Bo and mailed ballots to Desilu wri it is announced by WGA execu director Frances Inglis. The annoui ment says Desilu Productions is last remaining unorganized grou[ Hollywood. lie Ittt iff> ic wh MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; Floyd E. St Photo Editor; Herbert V. tecke, Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager; Hollywood Bureau, Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Berns, Manager; William R. Wea Editor Telephone Hollywood 7-2145; Washington, J. A. Otten, National Press Club, Washington, D. 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