Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, November 21, PERSONAL MENTION TV-ENNETH HARGREAVES, president of Rank Film Distributors of America, returned to New York yesterday from Hollywood and will leave here today via R.O.A.C. for London. • Milton R. Rackmil, president of Universal Pictures, will return to New York today from the Coast. Mrs. George Skouras on Saturday will attend the Bovs Town of Italv Holiday Ball at the Statler Hotel, Hartford. Ernest Pelson, regional auditor for Buena Vista in Philadelphia, will be married in Montclair, N. J., tomorrow to Blanche Stewart. • Oscar F. Neu, president of Neumade Products, Inc., who is convalescing from surgery at New York Hospital, will return at the weekend to his home in Crestwood, N. Y. • Gabe Sumner, for six years a publicist at Paramount here, has resigned to enter business for himself as press liaison for entertainment and industrial accounts. To Stress 4Fim' at 18th Annual Pioneer Dinner A policy of stressing entertainment ( "less speeches— more fun" ) has been adopted for the 18th annual dinner of the Motion Picture Pioneers this year, according to Sol A. Schwartz, general chairman of the dinner. The affair, which is in honor of R. J. O'Donnell, named "Pioneer of the Year," will be held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Fridav evening, Nov. 30. 10' Teen-Agers to See More than 1,600 of New York City's underprivileged teen-agers will attend the first unscheduled performance of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" at the Criterion Theatre here on Friday. A morning showing of the film was arranged under a program formulated by The National Council of Disc jockeys for Public Service. No Paper Tomorrow The MOTION PICTURE DAILY will not be published tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, a legal holiday. Kodak Votes 1 (Continued from page 1) cash dividend of 60 cents per s and an extra dividend of 25 cent: share on common stock and the i lar one and one-half per cent dend on preferred stock. These dends are payable Jan. 2, 195' share owners of record Dec. 5, Total cash dividends declared on mon stock in 1956 amount to ! per share, which compares with ! a share in 1955. Kodak directors also declare common stock dividend of 5 per or one share for each 20 shares The stock dividend is payable Jai 1957, to share owners of record cember 5, 1956. THE WINNER of the Motion Picture Herald Grand Award for "small situation" Showmanship, John McKim of the Odeon circuit, receives his silver plaque from Martin Quigley, Jr., right. Presentation was made at the convention of the Motion Picture Theatres Association of Ontario held Monday in Toronto. CEA Meeting (Continued from page 1) West Coast Booking Association. "There is no direction for us to go now, other than up." The exhibitors expressed their delight that distributors are beginning to realize the uphill fight faced by exhibitors. Provincial governments across the country will be approached by all the exhibitor associations on the question of the amusement tax. The Academy Awards Contest conducted last spring at the invitation of Charles Chaplin, general manager of United Artists Corp., was unanimously approved by the exhibitors as a success. F. G. Spencer was elected eastern vice-president, while Duane Macken UA Fieldmen's Meet Set Here Nov. 29 A United Artists fieldmen's convention, bringing together exploitation representatives from every territory in the United States and Canada, will be launched here on Nov. 29, Roger H. Lewis, national director of advertising, publicity and exploitation, announced yesterday. The threeday session at the Park Sheraton Hotel will unveil plans for new promotional procedures and set a detailed exploitation program to back UA's roster of approximately 48 releases for the coming year. The conference, the first of its kind held by UA, will implement the company's campaign to revise and stimulate promotion at the local level. zie was named western vice-president. Secretary treasurer is Dick Main. Arch Jolley continues as executive secretary of the organization. Fox Overseas Drive ( Continued from page 1 ) Emanuel D. Silverstone, vice ident and general sales manage was announced yesterday. The dedication week to the pany executive was part of the organization's 1956 Sales I known as the Overseas Olyi Drive. Rodgers and Hammerstein's magnificent motion picture presentation of "OKLAHOMA!", at popular prices, is being presold to millions of women and their families in McCall's. Great stars like Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Shirley Jones and Gene Nelson — unforgettable songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II— plus glorious Technicolor and Cinemascope— will prove an irresistible magnet to this active, movie-going audience! And McCall's more than 4,750,000 families will bu/7d big box-office for "OKLAHOMA!" McCalls The maqazme of Togetherness reaching Them 9 more than 4,750,000 fam.hes MOTIOX PICTURE DAILY. Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; Floyd E. Photo Editor; Herbert V. Fecke, Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager; Hollywood Bureau, Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Berns, Manager; William R. V Editor. Telephone HOllywood 7-2145; Washington. J. A. Otten, National Press Club, Washington, D. C; London Bureau, 4, Bear St., Leicester Square, W. 2, Hope William |Bui nup, Manager; Peter Burnup, Editor; William Pay, News Editor. Correspondents in the principal capitals of the world. Motion Picture Daily is published daily except Saturdays iuii days and holidays, by Quigley Publishing Company, Inc., 1270 Sixth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address: "Quigpubco, New York." xtii Quigley, President; Martin Quigley, Jr., Vice-President; Theo. J. Sullivan, Vice-President and Treasurer; Leo J. Brady, Secretary. Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture lisH Better Theatres and Better Refreshment Merchandising, each published 13 times a year as a section of Motion Picture Herald; Television Today, published daily as a r."' Motion Picture Daily. Motion Picture Almanac, Television Almanac, Fame. Entered as second class matter Sept. 21, 1938, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year, ?6 in the Americas and $12 foreign; single copies, 10c.