Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1957)

jay, February 15, 1957 Motion Picture Daily pedpie iichard C. Settoon, formerly of the ., mphis office, has been named b ach manager in Atlanta for UniIfeal Pictures, succeeding William D Kelly, who has resigned to enter j usiness venture of his own. Robe! Lee Carpenter will succeed Set|n in Memphis. □ . W. "Bill" Cosby has been named niager of arc carbon sales for NaKal Carbon Co., a division of Union Cibide and Carbon Corp., succeed1 E. R. Geib, who has been apphted carbon sales consultant to the k ipany. □ .oseph M. Franklin of Saint John, MB., regional chairman for the Marins Provinces for the State of Israel Bid Drive in Canada, has been apphted chairman of the Canadian Clnmittee for the State of Israel iBjid Conference in Miami, and for |j) festivities leading up to the 65th b;hday party for Eddie Cantor. Einklin is a founder of the Canadian ition Picture Pioneers Society. □ klberta Pike, formerly operator of I Vogue Theatre, Denver, and adStising director for Fox Intermounii Theatres, is reopening the Plaza l:atre, Oklahoma City, the lease ol which she has purchased. She is apciated in the venture with Sidney Cjien, owner of the Art Theatre, I: Lake City. An art-film policy W. be established. □ l id Fay of Providence will repreIt the motion picture industry in I 1957 Jimmy Fund Drive for the ■efit of the Children's Cancer ReIrch Foundation. Joe Cronin of the K ton Red Sox will be co-chairman, ■ler the general chairmanship of II Williams. □ I id Schneider, former NBC execute':, has been named general manager ■ Shamrock Pictures Corp., Winter fjk, Fla., which operates the first B'e-scale studio installation in that Inn. Buyers, Bookers select All Officers Special to THE DAILY IpINCINNATI, Feb. 14. Herman I Hunt was re-elected president of |l> Theatre Owners Corp., buyingI king organization servicing 50 \ si itres in Ohio, Kentucky and West ginia, at the annual meeting of :kholders in the Metropole Hotel lunt and the other re-elected ofrs have served the firm 11 years, :e its inception. The others inie Willis Vance, first vice-presiit; Maurice Chase, second vicesident; F. W. Huss, Jr., secretary; rdon Pape, treasurer; and James W. Donald, general manager and asant secretary-treasurer. 'St. Louis' Replica Carries Film Print Special to THE DAILY SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 14 A replica of Charles A. Lindbergh's original aircraft, "The Spirit of St. Louis" took off from here at dawn today for New York City. It is carrying the first print of the Warner Bros.' picture "The Spirit of St. Louis' for the world premiere next Thursday at the Radio City Music Hall. Piloting the plane is Stan Reaver, chief pilot for Paul Mantz whose flying service built the monoplane. Depending on weather conditions, Mantz says that the plane should make New York City within five days. Nine Speakers Slated For Milestone Dinner From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 14. Screen Producers Guild president Samuel G. Engel today announced the complete list of speakers who will take part in the Guild's annual Milestone Award Dinner on Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, which this year honors Walt Disney. With Lowell Thomas as master, of ceremonies, speakers will include Perle Mesta,' Gen. Omar Bradley, Dr. Frank Baxter, Beverly Hills Mayor David Tannenbaum, Ed Wynn, Yul Brynner, Gene Kelly, Eddie Fisher and Joe Rosenberg. Former winners of the Milestone Award are: Jesse L. Lasky, Louis B. Mayer, Darryl F. Zanuck and Cecil B. DeMille. Fund to Participate The Mary MacArthur Memorial Fund will participate in the proceeds of the special March of Dimes benefit performance of Warner Bros.' "The Spirit of St. Louis" at Radio City Music Hall the evening of the picture's opening day, Thursday, Feb. 21. The March of Dimes has taken over the entire first mezzanine of the Music Hall that night for the special benefit performance, which will be followed by a champagne supper-dance at the Rainbow Room. Slate New Tax BEADING, Pa., Feb. 14. The Muhlenberg Township board of supervisors just outside the city has served notice of its intention to levy a five per cent tax on amusement admissions this year. The suburban township board claims half of the amusement tax, which was formerly collected in its entirety by the Muhlenberg school board previously. Sindlinger To Speak Albert E. Sindlinger, president of Sindlinger & Company, Inc., will address a luncheon meeting of the Market Research Council at the Yale Club here today. Ask Pa. Commission Probe Censor Law Special to THE DAILY HARRISBRUG, Pa., Feb. 14.-A resolution seeking to have the Joint State Government Commission, research arm of the legislature, study, investigate and obtain legal opinions concerning the possibility of enacting a law prohibiting obscene motion pictures in Pennsylvania was introduced in the House this week. The resolution would direct the commission to report its findings and recommendations with drafts of necessary legislation to the 1959 session of the General Assembly. Three bills have been introduced in the legislation so far during the current session to revive Pennsylvania's State Board of Censors, the new resolution having been introduced by Reps. Marion L. Munley, D-Lackawanna; James Musto, D-Luzerne, and Joseph Wargo, D-Lackawanna. The state's 1915 censorship law was declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court in March, 1956. Since then the State Board of Censors has been inactive. Hearing on W. Richfield Drive-In Theatre Set Special to THE DAILY CLEVELAND, Feb. 14.-A hearing will be held Friday in the West Richfield, O., Town Hall on the rezoning application of James J. Barton involving a 48-acre tract of land at Broadview Rd. and Boute 21 for construction of a drive-in theatre and an extensive playground and picnic development. The proposed project, which is to include a swimming pool, baseball diamonds, picnic grounds and a special children's playground area, has been estimated to cost in excess of $250,000. Barton, a former Ohio state representative, was one of the associate builders of the Pearl Road Drive-in Theatre, Cleveland, which is built on property he owns. "Construction will start as soon as we are granted zoning," Barton said. File Anti-Trust Suit Harold F. Eldredge, assignee of Dover Playhouses, Inc., operators of the Playhouse Theatre in Dover, N. J., filed an anti-trust suit in Federal Court here yesterday against the eight majors, Skouras Theatres, the Stanley Warner Corp., and others. The suit charged that the theatre was "forced out of business" as a result of the refusal of the majors to supply it with "top pictures." The suit asks for "damages sustained." Record 'Strange9 Score Composer Kenyon Hopkin's jazz musical score for Sam Spiegel's "The Strange One" will be published by a new music publishing company, Horizon Music Corp., recently organized by Spiegel's Horizon Pictures and coast publisher Fred Raphael, in association with Columbia Pictures. ..JEWS ROUNDUP Champion, Bartlett Form Go. John Champion and Hall Bartlett will merge their independent production companies to form a new company with four films scheduled for production within 15 months. Champion recently completed a contract at MGM. Bartlett's most recent production is "Drango" for United Artists. The two men will write, produce and direct their own films. They have not yet entered into negotiations with any distributing company, though they will do so shortly. ■ Clothing for Hungarians The first 1,000 people who come to the Boxy Theatre here on Monday bearing a donation of outer-clothing for newly arrived emigres from Hungary, will be given free admission to the theatre as guests of managing director Robert C. Rothafel. Ends Tour for 'Wings' Maureen O'Hara, star of M-G-M's "The Wings of Eagles," yesterday concluded a four Naval base junket on behalf of the picture, at Norfolk. She first visited Long Beach, then Chicago and Pensacola. In each of the cities M-G-M flew in newspaper writers and critics for special screenings of the film at the base theatres. Before the screenings, a tour of the base took place, followed by luncheons, cocktail parties and dinner at the Officers' Clubs. Canadian Imports Up Film imports into Canada in the first 10 months of 1956 increased to $10,285,000 from $9,110,000 in the corresponding period of 1955, according to governmental reports in. Ottawa. NOW BOOKINGS Together on one GIANT Action-Packed Program in WIDE VISION COLOR NAKED PARADISE Temptation and Terror In A Savage Land of Wild Desire! Starring RICHARD DENNING and BEVERLY GARLAND FLESH AND THE SPUR Raw Violence . . . Naked Fury! , . . Her Fate Staked On The Ant-Hid ... His Future In A Killer's Gun! Starring JOHN AGAR • MARLA ENGLISH TOUCH CONNORS (American International Pictures) For NEW YORK & BUFFALO-ALBANY EXCHANGES GEORGE J. WALDMAN