Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1957)

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imsday, March 21, 1957 Motion Picture Daily ...SEWS ROUNDUP Harling, Brylawski at SBA Iden Forms Producing Firm Roger Eden, producer, has formed 1 the Coast his own independent nnpany to be known as Roger Eden nterprises, which will become active allowing the expiration in October : his current contract with M-G-M. is plans for his new company call it operation in TV, motion pictures ad the legitimate theatre, with of;es in Hollywood and New. York. ■ Jullfighting Film to Columbia Columbia Pictures has announced fat for the first time it will release major Mexican film, "Torero," prouced in English by Producciones arbachano Ponce. n Refreshment Trailer Out Filmack Trailer Co. has announced lat a new full-color refreshment .ailer is now available to all drivei theatres. The new trailer has a tinning time of 84 seconds, and features a group of live talent promoting lany of the items featured at most rive-ins. a Miracle' Cleared in Chicago The Appellate Court in Chicago eversed a Circuit Court this week 'nd ruled that "The Miracle," an fcalian film, is not obscene. The film 'tever has been shown in Chicago, .'he police censor board banned it n 1952. The American Civil Liberies Union had sued against the ban I Circuit Court, questioning the contitutionality of Chicago's censor orlinance. Judge Harry M. Fisher uled it unconstitutional. (.Continued America. The TOA plan's central feature is that SBA revise its loan policy to permit mortgage loans to theatre owners. SBA general counsel Philip McCallum said he had met with the TOA spokesmen, received their plan, and wanted to study it further before commenting. Tomorrow, the TOA officials will meet with representatives of the Senate Small Business Committee to make a plea for legislation giving SBA or some other Federal agency power to guarantee mortgage loans made by private lenders. Harling, in a statement to Motion Picture Daily following the session, said that the meeting was pleasant from page 1 ) and lasted about 45 minutes. He and Brylawski, he said, pointed out that the present time is a period of "tight money" making it essential that the SBA "loosen up." Harling said that the SBA was urged either to make mortgage loans directly or to guarantee loans by private lenders. The SBA was asked to decide whether or not it has the authority to do this, and if it has not the authority, to go to Congress and ask for it. The SBA was also requested, said Harling, to drop the requirement which states that before a theatre can get an SBA loan it must previously have been turned down in its quest for money by a bank. Test N J. Censor Rule Aldrich Sues Columbia In U.S. Supreme Court Charging Pact-Breach Renew Schneer Contract Columbia Pictures has renewed its Contract with Charles Schneer's MornJngside Productions, providing for |:hree more pictures to be made during 1957 and 1958. The original contract called for three pictures, two of [which have been completed. Film License Bill Faces Opposition in Albany ALBANY, N. Y., March 20. (Despite overwhelming approval by Ithe Senate and Assembly today of the 1 DuffyWaters film license fees bill, there were indications that it faces [opposition before Gov. Averell HarriIman. The budget division, which filed Iwith Harriman a memorandum | against it last year, has not changed I position. Reported intimations to the contrary are described as inaccurate. The Education Department, whose From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, March 19 The Supreme Court has been asked to review the validity of a Newark, N. J. censorship statute charged with being so vague as to violate the Fourteenth Amendment. No actual "incident" of arrest under the ordinance is involved; the Adams Newark Theatre Co. and Hirst Enterprises-not identified as to type of entertainment they provideare challenging the validity of the law per se. The New Jersey Superior Court agreed with them, but the State Supreme Court reversed the lower court's judgment. The ordinance itself would seem to be aimed primarily at curbing nudity in burlesque and other live shows, but the appellants said the high court should concern itself with the question of "whether or not theatres and motion pictures come within die barriers of protected expression. Whatever may have been true 36 years ago when the matter of Mutual Film Corp., vs. Hoges was decided, there is no reason today for casting the motion picture beyond the barriers of protected expression." Set 'St. Louis' Tour James Stewart will make a 16city air tour in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Air Force and the 30th anniversary of Charles A. Lindbergh's historic trans-Atlantic flight in the "Spirit of St. Louis" monoplane. The tour will commence in Chicago March 25. From THE DAILY Burem HOLLYWOOD, March 20 Producer-director Robert Aldrich, incorporated as Associates and Robert Aidrich, has filed a Superior Court suit against Columbia Pictures demanding $302,000 on grounds that the studio breached a contract made in January, 1956, to finance and distribute "Storm is the Sun." The plaintiff 9ays Columbia, in repudiating the contract on March 14, damaged him in the indicated amount. PEOPLE Edward L. Kingsley, head of Kingsley International Pictures, in Boston yesterday addressed a press, radio and TV gathering at the Beacon Hill Theatre on "Films and Censorship." The Kingsley film, "Lady Cbatterley's Lover," will open there tomorrow. □ Edwin W. Hale, Jr. has been appointed Buena Vista contact for New York newspapers, syndicates and columns. He has been with the Disney releasing subsidiary for three years as field exploitation representative. □ William Mogle, vice-president of Publicity Corporation of America, has resigned from the firm. He has not announced future plans. □ Martha Clarke, former booker wifli RKO Radio in Philadelphia, has joined Screen Guild there. Ely Epstein, former sales manager for RKO, has left the industry for a sales post in the electric lights and fixtures field. □ Ed Stillman, assistant manager of Proctor's Theatre, Troy, N. Y., for six years, has been named manager of Fabian's Cohoes Theatre, Cohoes, N. Y. He succeeds George Seed, manager since the house opened in 1940 who requested retirement because of ill health. i motion picture division licenses films, is also expected to send a memorandum to the governor. Last year, the department pointed to the loss of an estimated annual revenue of $285,000, but did not take a stand otherwise. Harriman, in vetoing the Noonan Bill, cited that figure, adding "this loss of revenue is not taken care of in the budget enacted by the legislature."