Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1957)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, January 8, l! PERSONAL MENTION MILTON SCHNEIDERMAN, United Artists manager in Japan, has arrived in New York from Tokyo. • Edwin J. Smith, vice-president and supervisor of European operations for Allied Artists International, has returned to London from New York. • Milton E. Cohen, United Artists Eastern and Southern sales manager, is in Buffalo from New York. • Harold J. Mirisch, Allied Artists vice-president, and Mrs. Mirisch have announced the engagement of their daughter, Maxine, to Jerome M. Siegel of Philadelphia. • Earl Keats, United Artists publicity representative for the Pacific Northwest, has returned to his Portland headquarters from New York. • Helenjane Katz, daughter of David T. Katz, former manager of the Roxy Theatre here, has become engaged to Charles S. Gross of Jersey City. Mrs. Jay Solomon, wife of the general manager of Independent Theatres, Chattanooga, gave birth to a girl there last week. Martin, Lewis Team Signed by Hal Wallis HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 7 Hal Wallis today announced completion of negotiations with Paramount, York Productions, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, for Lewis to star in "Sad Sack" and Martin to appear in another picture that will be announced later. The announcement said this will retain Martin and Lewis as a team for future Hal Wallis productions. Anti-Toll TV Bill (Continued from page 1) ity, and to extend coverage of the Federal minimum wage law to certain retail and service employees. Senate Banking Committee chairman Fulbright (D., Ark.) introduced again his bill to cut the corporate income tax rate on the first $25,000 of income and to boost it on the rest. At present, the first $25,000 is taxed at a 30 per cent rate and the rest at 52 per cent. Fulbright's bill would lower the tax on the first $25,000 to 22 per cent and boost the rate on the rest to 53 per cent. Para, and Dot (Continued from page 1) and full authority to accelerate the expansion of the world-wide operation of the company which last year attained the status of a major label. There will be no structural or personnel change in the company, and Wood will also be elected a vice-president of Paramount Pictures Corp., it was stated. Balaban said the acquisition of the record company is in line with Paramount's policy of further diversifying its activities. Dot Records, organized in 1950, led the recording industry in the sale of single records in 1956, with such artists as Pat Boone, Gale Storm, Tab Hunter, Fontane Sisters, the Hilltoppers, Billy Vaughn, Johnny Maddox, Snooky Lanson, Nervous Norvus and Jim Lowe. Yorke Services Today; Former Fox Executive LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at Callanan Mortuary, Hollywood, for Gabriel S. Yorke, who headed the publicity department of the old Fox Film Corp., and was an executive at Twentieth Century-Fox and other industry firms for many years. Yorke died here Saturday at St. Vincent's Hospital after a long illness. He was 67 years old. Yorke joined the Fox Film Corp. in 1926 and headed its publicity department until 1935. During the same period he was head of publicity for its subsidiary organizations, Fox Theatres and Fox West Coast Theatres. In 1935 Yorke joined Paramount in a similar capacity and later headed the Motion Picture Advisory Council of the Motion Picture Producers Association. He was an executive at Fox until his retirement in June, 1954. He leaves his wife, Helen; a son, Maj. Harvey F. Yorke, U.S.A., of Arlington, Va.; a daughter, Mrs. Robert S. King; a sister, Mrs. J. J. Jacoby of Hartsdale, N. Y., and five grandchildren. Vivian Moses Dead ; Was With RKO, Fox Films SUMTER, S. C, Jan. 7.-Vivian M. Moses, writer and former advertisingpublicity executive with RKO Radio Pictures and the old Fox Film Co., died at his home here last night after a lengthy illness. Moses was with Makes Documentary And Feature at Same Time During the production of Columbia's "Bridge on the River Kwai" in Ceylon, director David Lean has been shooting a documentary picture showing the production activity and its effects on the Ceylonese. The film will be used for promotional material for the feature. After the production is completed, Lean plans to edit the documentary into two versions, one a 30-minute program for TV and the other a 15minute featurette for theatrical use. Loew's Talks (Continued from page 1) and had no statement to make regarding the meeting. The Loew's-Tomlinson conferences were begun in late November and were interrupted in mid-December when Vogel left for the Coast. Little credence was given to published reports that Tomlinson would be given six or seven of the 13 directors on the Loew's board. Informed observers said that would necessitate Lehman Bros, and Lazard Freres, holding five times as much stock as Tomlinson, stepping aside for the latter to take conrol. All regarded such a probability as highly unlikely. Directors reportedly agreed upon by both sides up to last night are Vogel, Arthur Loew, George Brownell, George L. Killion, Frank Pace, Jr., and William Parker, as management representatives, all of whom are board members now, and Tomlinson, Stanley Meyer, Hollywood producer; Ray Lawson, director of the Royal Bank of Canada, and Fred Florence, of the Republic Bank of Dallas. Additional directors remain to be determined should the foregoing be formally accepted by both sides. Presumably, four management members of the board would be replaced under such an agreement. They would be C. C. Moskowitz, Charles M. Reagan, Howard Dietz and Benjamin Melniker. It was also reported that Tomlinson has abandoned his previous intention to insist on the designation of Louis B. Mayer as a temporary production head at the M-G-M studio. Tomlinson has filed 14-B forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a preliminary to a solici RKO Radio as head of the press book $»;• „ ! gun any solicitation. book ! *:at:'on °^ Proxies> but has not yet be department in New York from 1936 to'i] 1953, when he retired. Prior to thatfe^ Promoted he was with the Fox company tor%^ many years. He is survived by hi wife, Miriam Brandon Moses, wh also was a writer and was employe by RKO Radio. Harold Zeltner, salesman at M-M's New York branch, has been romoted to assistant manager, effecve yesterday. MPEA Meets (Continued from page 1) on foreign market problems in the £ of a series of executive level me ings for 1957. The first meeting was devoted outlining various difficulties encon tered in the development of forei, business and to creating an ovem picture of the outlook for comii years. The conference adjourned wil out setting a date for the next mei ing; which is expected to be hei "within six or eight weeks," it w reported. Flynn Sees Decline (Continued from page 1) producers that there is little actual a vantage. The actor has just completed "T] Big Boodle" for release through Uni ed Artists. Lewis Blumberg, who pr duced, and Flynn, who is returning production in the U.S. after man years of film making in other couv tries, are scheduled to discuss stm properties for a picture to be made New York for UA release. "Associates of mine and other pi ture producers have been sudden noticing the many facilities for pictur making in New York," Flynn saiii commenting on a possible shift of pn duction activity to this city. Flynn will leave for England short] to complete a 26-film TV series, "Tm Errol Flynn Theatre." The series on British TV and negotiations aiij currently underway to bring the harbour program into the U.S. Flynn a| pears in six of the films and hosts i all of them. The series was pre duced by Inter-TV of Canada. NEW YORK THEATRES — RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL — ; Rockefeller Center MARLON BRANDO ■ GLENN FORD MACHO KYO itarriDE in Cinemascope and METR0C0L0K In "THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON" AN M-G-M PICTURE nil THE MUSIC HALL'S GREAT HOLIDAY SHOW FILM SERVICE CENTER • EDITING ROOMS • STORAGE ROOMS • SHIPPING ROOMS • OFFICES PROJECTION ROOM FACILITIES MOVIE LAB BUILDING 619 W. 54th St., New York 19 JUdson 6-0367 MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; Floyd E. Stone; Photo Editor; Herbert V. Fecke, Advertising Manager; Gus H. 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