Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

i Motion Picture Daily Friday, November 16 ..JEWS ROUNDUP UA's December Releases United Artists yesterday announced it will release four pictures in December, headed by Russ-Field's "The King and Four Queens," which is in CinemaScope and Deluxe Color and stars Clark Gable and Eleanor Parker. The other three films are "The Wild Party," "Dance with Me Henry" and "The Brass Legend." 'Teahouse' in Japan M-G-M has booked "The Teahouse of the August Moon" to open simultaneously in all 12 key cities in Japan on Jan. 4, 1956, to run during the entire Japanese holiday period that month. ■ Gold Prods. Acquire Studio Mel Gold Productions, Inc., has acquired the studio and all equipment and facilities of Telson Studios in Long Island City. The studio will be operated under the name of Mel Gold Studios, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mel Gold Productions. Three Join Boards of Rank, Odeon, and GCFC LONDON, Nov. 14 (By Air Mail). The Rank Organisation has announced that W. M. Codrington, William E. Jenkins and Colonel Sir Leonard Ropner have joined the boards of the Rank Organisation, Odeon Associated Theatres, Odeon Properties and General Cinema Finance Corp. Codrington is chairman of Primitive Holdings, Seager Evans and Co. and several other companies. He is also on the boards of a number of companies, including Powell Duffryn and the Philip Hill Investment Trust. Sir Leonard Ropner is a managing director of Ropner Holdings and is on the boards of several other companies. Arthur B. Krim, president of United Artists, resigned as a director of the Rank Organisation and its subsidiary companies when UA disposed of its holdings in Odeon to the Schlesinger organisation of South Africa in July, 1953. Benefit Bow for 4 7' The Japanese film, "The Magnificent Seven," will have a preview for the benefit of the International Rescue Committee on Sunday at the Guild Theatre here. The picture is being presented by Columbia Pictures in association with Joshua Logan. 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