Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, October 9, M PERSONAL MENTION TAMES R. YELDE, United Artists general sales manager, and Al Fitter, Western division manager, will leave Los Angeles tomorrow for Seattle. • Serge Semenenko, member of the Warner Bros, board of directors, is scheduled to arrive in New York todav from a European trip. • Murray Silverstone, president of 20th Century-Fox International, will leave here on Thursday for England and the Continent. • Benjamin Thau, Loew's, Inc., vicepresident, has returned to the Coast following a trip to Europe. • Harold J. Mirisch, Allied Artists vice-president, has returned to the Coast from New York. • Sperie Perakos, general manager of Perakos Theatres Associates, New Britain, Conn., has been named to the Alumni Board's film committee of Yale University. • John L. Dales, national executive secretary of the Screen Actors Guild, has left New York for Detroit, en route to Hollywood. • Arthur A. Hornblow, Jr., returned to New York yesterday from Europe aboard the "Liberte." • Walter Lang, director, and Mrs. Lang will arrive in New York today from the Coast. • Cecil B. DeMille returned to New York last night from Philadelphia. • .Arthur L. Mayer, promotion consultant to Paramount on "War and Peace," returned to New York yesterday from Dallas, • William A. Scully has returned to his home in Florida following two weeks in New York. • Fayette W. Allport, manager in England for the Motion Picture Association of America, returned to London yesterday from New York via B.O.A.C • Jonas Rosenfield, Columbia Pictures advertising-publicity executive, will leave New York today for London. • C. J. Latta, a director of Associated British Cinemas, Ltd., has arrived in New York from London via B.O.A.C. /Mexican Company Sets 'Biggest Budget Yet' Trans America Productions will produce "Cortez and Montezuma" in CinemaScope and color with the "biggest budget ever attempted within the Mexican industry," it was announced yesterday by Frank Z. Clemente, producer, who arrived in NewYork from Mexico City and Hollywood. Clemente said his Mexican production company has budgeted the picture at $1,500,000 with shooting to commence late this year or early in 1957. The Mexican film producer said he is in New York to meet representatives of the major distribution companies in regard to formulating a domestic releasing agreement. He said he is also planning to confer with the William Morris Agency concerning casting of his film. San Antonio Outlet 18th To Buy Loew's Library WOAI-TV, San Antonio, has leased the entire library of pre-1949 M-G-M feature pictures for a seven year period at a price of $800,000, Charles C. ( Bud ) Barry, vice-president in charge of Loew's tv division, has announced. The transaction represents the 18th Loew's sale in less than two months of operation, he said. Leasing arrangements were negotiated by MGM-TV's west coast sales manager, Maurie Gresham, working with James M. Gaines, vice-president and general manager of WOAI-TV. The station plans to get underway with programming of the features about the first of the year. To Choose IV. Y. Queen The New York Queen of the 1957 Miss Exquisite Form Contest, held in connection with the forthcoming United Artists release of Clark Gable's new starring film, "The King and Four Queens," will be chosen at the Manger Vanderbilt Hotel here next Monday in the Park Avenue Room. The selection of the queen will be one of a score of regional "coronations" to spotlight the national release of the Russ-Field CinemaScope Western drama. To Fete iGiant' Newsmen The more than 60 out-of-town newsmen who are coming to New York to attend the world premiere of "Giant" at the Roxy Theatre Wednesday will meet producer-director George Stevens and the "Giant" stars, headed by Rock Hudson, at a postpremiere buffet to be given in the visiting journalists' honor at Ed Wynne's Harwyn Club. The newsmen represent 58 newspapers from 27 cities as far west as St. Louis. Home Offices Will Close On Columbus Day The home offices of the major producer-distributors and the Motion Picture Association of America will be closed on Friday, in observance of Columbus Day. Bert Friedlob Dies at 49 ; Services Slated Today BEVERLY HILLS, Oct. 8.-Bert E. Friedlob, 49, well-known Hollywood producer, died at his home here yesterday of cancer of the pancreas. He had undergone two surgical operations recently. Married three times, he was divorced two years ago from actress Eleanor Parker, mother of his three children. His pictures include: "Fireball," "Millionaire for Christy," "The Steel Trap," "The Star," which starred Bette Davis in 1952, "Untamed" and "While the City Sleeps" and "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt," both released this year by RKO. Friedlob is also survived by his mother and a brother. Services will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Wilshire Temple. IFE Talks Releasing Deals in Some Exchange Talks are underway between the IFE Releasing Corp. and a number of major distributors who have approached IFE concerning franchise and distribution agreements in certain domestic exchange territories, Seymour Poe, executive vice-president of IFE Releasing Corp., declared here yesterday. Poe, who returned to New York over the weekend following a week in Hollywood, also reiterated his previous statement that IFE Releasing "will not go out of business." Poe said that talks on distribution agreements have been going on for some time, but no conclusions have been reached as yet. 'Tew' Tickets on Sale The Criterion Theatre has announced that mail orders now are being accepted for tickets to the New York engagement of Cecil B. DeMille's production of "Ten Commandments," which will be shown on a twice-daily basis. Studio Earnings HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 8 Motion picture studio workers averaged $126.81 weekly earnings during August, according to the monthly report of the State Division of Industrial Relations, which compares with $126.12 in August 1955. . . of Drive-in $l-a-Car Nights Grow A second Connecticut outdoor th tie— the Lake Drive-In, Waterbur has adopted a $l-a-Car Night poL for more than one evening a we! Bob Schwartz is admitting cars $1, regardless of number of pass< gers, on Friday, Saturday and Sund nights. A similar policy— on a sev< night basis— recently went into eff at the Lockwood & Gordon Ent prises' East Hartford Family Drr In, South Windsor. Many drive facilities in Connecticut heretofi have charged $l-a-car, but only on i casional evenings. ® N. M. Theatre to Be Dual Allen Theatres, Farmington, N. I has purchased 12 acres of prope just east of the Apache Drive Theatre there, and will install a s ond screen and sound facilities. A in the planning stage is a new o door theatre at Kirtland, with total of about $140,000 to be pended. ® Golf Shots at Conn. Drive-in Chet Philbrook, of the Meade Drive-in Theatre, Hartford, has cc pleted a "Salute to Golfing," in wh Dick Hopkins, local professioi demonstrates shots— using a cork . 1 —from atop the concession buildin ® Michigan Unit to R. B. Tuttl Robert B. 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