Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1957)

4> Motion Picture Daily Thursday, January 10, 1957 Proxy Fight TOA Sets Arbitration Plan Disney Profit (Continued from page 1) Killion, Frank Pace, Jr., George Brownell, William Parker, and J. L. Sullivan, all of whom currently are board members; Joseph Tomlinson, described as the largest individual holder of Loew's stock and leader of a dissident faction; Stanley Meyer, Ray Lawson and Fred Florence, nominees of Tomlinson's; Howard Cullman, honorary chairman of the Port of New York Authority and former receiver for the Roxy Theatre here; James Bruce, chairman of National Dairy Products Corp., and K. T. Keller, former head of Chrysler Corp. The last three reportedly were agreed upon by both sides tentatively yesterday. Management Formerly Had 6 This arrangement would leave Vogel as the sole management member of the board which heretofore has had six such members. They were, in addition to Vogel, C. C. Moskowitz, treasurer; Charles M. Reagan, distribution vice-president; Arthur M. Loew, International president; Howard Dietz, advertising-publicity vicepresident, and Benjamin Melniker, attorney. Tomorrow is the deadline for owners of stock who will be qualified to vote at the Feb. 28 meeting. Holders of stock acquired after tomorrow will not be eligible to vote. ( Continued confer with the TOA committees charged with obtaining the services of an executive director and putting into operation the TOA business building program which the Council of Motion Picture Organizations has been asked to conduct. He said that in his talks here, "I hope to further plans for getting an industry arbitration system into actual operation. I do not know whether or not Allied States Association has developed a platform on arbitration thus far. They are welcome to come in and meet with us on this at any time." Berger Statement Recalled Stellings had said early last month, that TOA would launch talks on arbitration in mid-January with or without the participation of Allied, which has indicated that it would cooperate. Allied leader Benjamin Berger recently stated that new efforts to launch an arbitration program were to be explored in meetings between officials of both groups early this month so that a report by the Allied arbitration committee could be made at the Allied board meeting next month. The Allied arbitration committee is composed of president Rube Shor, general counsel Abram F. Myers and Abe Berenson. Theatre Owners of America has not appointed its committee on arbitration thus far, Stellings 5© THE SEVENTH ANNUAL COMMMON BREAKFAST for Catholic people of the motion picture industry in the New York area will be held Sunday, February 3. Mass at nine o'clock at St. Patrick's Cathedral, with breakfast immediately following in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria. For information and tickets, communicate with the member of the Sponsoring Committee in your office, or Miss Marguerite Bourdette, Room 1107, 1501 Broadway. Tel.: BRyant 9-8700. (Tickets $3.75 each) from page 1 ) said, but he has indicated in the past that among its membership would be general counsel Herman M. Levy and Mitchell Wolfson. Stellings is also anxious to get the TOA business building program, "or the programs advanced by the Motion Picture Association of America" underway. He said that he hopes to sit down while in New York to discuss with officials involved ways and means of getting the plans into operation on their own or merging into one industry program. Commenting on the TOA search for an executive director, Stellings said that to the best of his knowledge, no one person has been selected for the post even though the TOA committee, Levy and Walter Reade, Jr., have had conferences with a number of executives seeking the position. Pope Cites Importance ( Continued from page 1 ) sible to show films to certain categories of spectators under trie pretext that they are studies, while the same films have been judged bad or harmful for them. It is likewise inadmissible to show films to children which have been intended strictly for adults." The chief aim of the IFCO meetings has been to find effective means of encouraging the interest of exhibitors and the public in productions of high moral and artistic calibre. Msgr. Dell' Acqua encouraged the IFCO to found groups in schools and in adult circles which would concern themselves with a proper evaluation of the moral tone of motion pictures. First on U.S. Soil Opened Jan. 5, this is the first World Congress ever held on American soil. Among representatives from the U.S. at the meetings were John A. Vizzard, assistant administrator of the Motion Picture Production Code Administration, and Robert Corkery, vice-president of the Latin American division of the Motion Picture Export Association of America. Father Andre Deskur, assistant secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Mo\ies, Television and Radio is representing the Vatican at the Concress. The Latin American Union for the Production and Distribution of Films has been meeting here simultaneously with the IFCO. This organization will put decision of the World Congress into effect in the American countries. 'Three Brave Men' ( Continued from page 1 ) ings of the Herbert B. Swope, Jr. production, which is being previewed to similar groups across the country through next Tuesday. Prior to the screenings, 20th Century-Fox representatives invited the opinionmakers to rally their organizations behind local engagements of the drama. Reactions to the film were enthusiastic in every situation, it was said. ( Continued from page 1 ) resenting $2 per common share on the 1,305,680 shares outstanding as of September 29 last, compared with a 1955 net profit of $1,352,576 which was equal to $1.04 per share after giving effect to the two for one stock split effective August 20, 1956. Gross income for the year amounted to $27,565,394 as compared with $24,638,652 in 1955. Film rentals were $15,054,742, down $2,615,341 from last year's all time high of $17,670,083. However, income from television and other activities more than offset the decline in film rentals. Television income rose to $6,996,890, up $4,444,378 from 1955, primarily as a result of launching the daily Mickey Mouse Club Show in October 1955, Disney said. Publications, character merchandising, music and all other ancillary activities combined to gross $5,513,762, up $1,097,705 over the preceding year. Disneyland Separate Disneyland Park, in Anaheim, Cal., opened to the public on July 18, 1955. Accumulated retained earnings of Disneyland, Inc. to September 30, 1956 were $617,929 after deducting $887,692 pre-opening ex-' penses, $2,304,029 depreciation and $649,400 provision for income taxes. Walt Disney Productions owns 34.48 per cent of Disneyland, Inc., owner and operator of Disneyland Park. Walt Disney Productions does not consolidate the accounts of Disneyland, Inc. with its own. Lower-Censor-Fee Bill ( Continued from page 1 ) Education Department's motion picture division from three to four dollars for each thousand feet of original film, and to reduce the charge for prints from two dollars a thousand feet to four dollars for "each additional entire copy," was vetoed by Governor Harriman last April. Passed by both houses, with Sen. Joseph Zaretzki, of Manhattan (new leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate), as co-sponsor, it drew a veto from the Governor because it would result in the loss to the state of $285,000 per year in fees, Harriman stating "this loss of revenue is not taken care of in the budget enacted by the legislature." AFL Film Council Unit Withdrawn from MPIC ~ HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 9-The AFL Film Council last night voted to withdraw its unit membership in the Motion Picture Industry Council in order to concentrate more intensely on labor matters. Several constituent organizations are expected to follow the example set by the Screen Actors Guild and Screen Story Analysts, which belong to MPIC individually as well as to the Council.