Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1957)

ay, March 1, 195' Motion Picture Daily rENT TALK Variety Club News bSTON The Variety Club of [f England will present its Great |rt Award to Thomas A. Yawkey, lident of the Boston Red Sox, at ■finer at the Hotel Statler on Suni' April 14. The award is presented d ally "to the individual who has I the greatest amount of good |:he greatest number of people." |l dinner will mark Yawkey's 25th li'ersary as owner and president lie Red Sox Baseball Club. A _,BANY— The fourteenth annual 3r dance of the local Variety Club, recently at tire Sheraton-Ten Hotel, honored Harold Gabrii retiring chief barker. Under his nistration progress was greatest ent 9's history. Gabrilove, a forParamount-Pu'blix manager, is president RTA Distributors. A 2TROIT Tent No. 5 held 'ractured Friday" party recently, f Barker, Ben Rosen, played ; to the membership and guests. Biding were the principals of istage play "The Match Maker," B ding Ruth Gordon, Loring Smith If Patricia Cutts. *>fiffse of Tax Relief Ibarrasses fccfes From THE DAILY Bureau ! DNDON, Feb. 28.-The statement Ipoard of Trade president Sir DaISccles in the House of Commons i rday that the forthcoming budget 1 d provide for entertainment tax IF was regarded in governmental ■};s here today as a marked indis ■ in and which is understood to i earned Sir David considerable Ike. ■;cles was pressed into making a ■ ge of tax relief by the insistent itioning of a Socialist member of i'moiis. When the debate ended ■ last night Eccles said: "I should i to deny that I said I knew the 1 vould be reduced." H ;vertheless, his earlier statement H precise and unequivocal. ■ ?spite his departure from preceI , members of both parties believe ■[Government has decided to acK the industry substantial tax re ■ 1 leading motion picture stocks ■ tered increases on the stock exH ge today. R public Dividend Set I regular dividend of twenty-five ! per share on preferred stock, ble April 1, 1957, to stockholders •cord as of the close of business larch 15 was declared here by the io d of directors of Republic PicCorp. at a meeting held Wednesat the companv's offices. Delft Management Control to Schuyler BUTLER, Wise, Feb. 28. The board of directors of Delft Theatres, Inc., circuit operating in Michigan and Wisconsin, announced today that stock control of the corporation and all of its solely-owned subsidiaries has been purchased by the parent company and that through a recapitalization plan management control passes to John B. Schuyler, Delft president and general manager. The subsidiaries include Iron-Delft, Delft-Ejay, Inc., and DelftWisconsin, Inc. Schuyler celebrated 40 years in the motion picture industry in December of last year, having entered the business in 1916 as an usher at the Strand Theatre in Trinidad, Colo., in which he later acquired an interest. From 1923 to 1944 he was in the theatre equipment and supply business, having been employed by Exhibitors Supply Co., Leo E. Dwyer Theatre Supply Co., and National Theatre Supply Co., in that order. He joined Delft in 1944. Oklahoma Exhibitors Meet March 6 and 7 OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 28-The two-day "second jubilee convention" of United Theatre Owners of Oklahoma will be held here at the Biltmore Hotel on March 6 and 7. The principal speaker the first day will be State Senator James Rinehart, who will discuss "Police Protection and Prosecution of Vandals." Other addresses on the same day will be delivered by Al Sindlinger, of Sindlinger & Co.; J. P. Harrison of Interstate Theatres, Texas, and Charles G. Manley, of Manley, Inc. The association's dinner dance will be held on March 7 in the Persian Room of the Skirvin Tower Hotel. Parsons, Tour Ended, Sees Business Rising HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 28 Back from a 15,000-mile tour of South America, Allied Artists producer Lindsley Parsons said the theatre business is on a steady increase, with construction progressing at a rate comparable to 1920-30 in this country, and with television exerting virtually no counter-attraction to motion pictures so far. He added in part: "Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico carry the greatest television threat potential, but today's television south of the Rio Grande is pretty much like amateur night was in our old third-rate vaudeville houses." Fox Dividend 40? A quarterly dividend of 40 cents per share on the outstanding common stock of 20th Century-Fox was declared payable by the board of directors yesterday on March 30, 1957, to stockholders of record at the close of business on March 15. Schine Offering $500 As Sweepstakes Prize Special to THE DAILY GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Feb. 28.The Schine Circuit is offering $500 in cash as a grand prize in the Academy Award Sweepstakes to the patron who correctly names the top winner in all categories and whose essay is adjudged the best. The grand prize winner will be selected from local entries sent to the home office from all the circuit's theatres. In addition prizes are being given on a local level. Selection of the grand prize winner will be made by a committee of judges appointed by the Schine home office, which will include home office executives as well as civic and educational leaders. Five Rank Films on Can. 'Sweeps' Ballot The Rank Organization's film, "Reach for the Sky," has been nominated by Canadian motion picture editors and reviewers as one of five top British films of 1956 to compete for the public popularity vote in the Academy Award Sweepstakes contest in Canada. Other Rank nominations are "Pursuit of the Graf Spee" (originally re> leased in Canada as "Battle of the River Plate"), "The Ladykillers," "Richard the Third" and "Wee Geordie." The American premiere of "Reach for the Sky" will take place at the Sutton Theatre in April. PEOPLE Arnold Kaufman, for the past eight years with the Yankee Network and Mutual Broadcasting System, has been elected a vice-president of RKO Teleradio Pictures. □ Spyros S. Skouras, head of Skouras Theatres and chairman of the amusement division of the New York Heart Association, conferred this week with Rosalind Russell on finalization of plans for the association's 1957 campaign. James W. Lewis, manager of the RKO Radio exchange in Kansas City, Mo., for more than 25 years, has been named general manager of the W. D. Fulton first-run theatres in Kansas City, Kans. □ Walter Waldman, United Artists publicity feature writer, is the author of the cover story for Sunday's issue of "Today's Living," weekly supplement of the "New York Herald Tribune." □ George Lamberson has been named by "Look Magazine" as its representative in the motion picture field.