Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1957)

uesday, March 12, 1957 Motion Picture Daily PEOPLE i Eric Johnston, president of Motion fccture Association of America, will piver an address on March 26 at a pedal dinner under the auspices of fie Seattle World Affairs Council. □ ! Thomas Malloy has retired as real itate manager of Loew's Poli-New i tigland Theatres, with property ipervision now assigned to resident Managers in the Poli New England [ties. □ , Jack Hynes, formerly film director | id director of photography at AsI dated Screen News, Ltd., MontSal, has been named administrative ;sistant to Murray Briskin, executive IjSistant to the president. □ William L. Lewis, a veteran of 28 ars in the exhibition field of the pthwest, has been named general pnager of the Adelman Theatre ircuit, operating houses in Dallas, l)uston, Fort Worth and Tulsa. □ IjNorman Hull, general sales manler of Associated Screen News, Ltd., laronto, has announced his resigna|in from that organization, effective iiday. \W Circuit Cancels 4 jookings of 'Baby Doll' if PHILADELPHIA, March 11. -The itnley Warner circuit has cancelled [wings of "Baby Doll" at its subur|i Ardmore, 69th Street and WaverI Theatres and the Benn Theatre in I local neighborhood, following a i[)d of protests from Catholics. The jture had been scheduled to open Is Wednesday at the four houses. I At Ash Wednesday masses neigh|hood parishioners were urged to Iiress themselves against the book|;s and formal complaints were made Ih Norman Zinn, circuit official, and Inard Brooks, assistant zone mannr here. After conferences with Hatre executives, Brooks announced t film would be withdrawn. pril 8 Earliest MPA in Meet on Arbitration pie Motion Picture Association of erica has informed Theatre Owners America that the earliest date on ch it can convene its arbitration ring committee is April 8, accordto an MPAA official. "OA at the weekend, while acceptthe MPAA invitation for arbitrai discussions on April 8, had asked MPAA to look into the staging of li a meeting at an earlier date. The ier meeting was asked for on the unds that TOA and Allied States 3ciation would like to launch the itration talks at the "earliest poss time." 'Corf Leeder to Rank As Sochin Assistant Irving Sochin, general sales manager of Rank Film Distributors of America, Inc. announced yesterday that he has engaged Calvin "Cal" Leeder to assist him in setting up branch operations for the new organization. Prior to his new association Leeder had been with the sales department of Warner Brothers for the past 15 years. The appointment of Otto Ebert as district manager supervising sales operations of the Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis areas for R.F.D.A. also was announced yesterday by Sochin. Ebert, who has been associated with RKO as its Boston branch manager, will headquarter in Detroit for Rank. Decca Stockholders' Meeting Set April 9 Stockholders of Decca Records, Inc., will hold their annual meeting here on April 9 to consider and take action on the election of five directors and the reappointment of company auditors. Up for reelection as directors are Milton R. Rackmil, president of Decca and Universal Pictures; Leonard W. Schneider, executive vicepresident, Albert A. Garthwaite, Harold I. Thorp and Samuel H. Vallance, according to the company's annual meeting notice. It was reported in the notice that Rackmil, who owns 11,713 shares of Decca stock, received an aggregate remuneration of $42,500.12 from Decca and $110,289 from Universal. Colombian Status on MPEA Agenda Today A status report on remittances from Colombia and the extension of the Belgian license agreement will highlight the agenda of today's meeting of the board of directors of the Motion Picture Export Association. The Colombian report will be sent in to the MPEA directors by vicepresident Robert Corkery, who is curently investigating the South American market first-hand. Other matters on the agenda are MPEA hosting a reception during the Asian Film Festival in Tokyo, May 24; five-picture limitation on East European sales; servicing of Italian and Canadian transportation with films; membership in the Italian film board; star photos for German theatres, and the shipment of new films into Denmark. E. A. Harvey Dies HARTFORD, March 11. Edward A. ( Jack ) Harvey, 64, manager of the StanleyWarner Palace Theatre, Danbury, Conn., since 1934, was found dead at the theatre Thursday, apparently of a heart attack. 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