Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1957)

2 Motion Picture Daily Monday, August 19, Allied -Compo Talks Expected ( Continued which held conferences with Allied is still in existence. It includes Emanuel Frisch, chairman; A. Montague and Sam Pinanski. No meetings have been held for some time, although Frisch has had talks with Abram F. Myers, Allied board chairman and general counsel. Julius Gordon, Allied president, came to New York from the Pittsburgh meeting, along with Wilbur Snaper, Irving Dollinger and Sidney Stern, president of Allied of New Jersey, but no meetings were held with the Frisch committee before Gordon departed for Beaumont, Tex., early Friday afternoon. from page 1 ) ment, if one is reached, will go before the COMPO executive committee for approval. The Allied directors at the Pittsburgh meeting also named a committee consisting of Stern, Irving Dollinger and Wilbur Snaper, who are members of Jersey Allied, and Marshall Fine of Cleveland to study a public relations program for the industry. Preliminary studies had been made prior to the meeting. The suggestions were all approved. A program will be worked out for discussion at the national convention to be held at The Concord, Lake Kiamesha, N.Y., in October. PERSONAL MENTION WILLIAM W. HOWARD, vicepresident of RKO Theatres, will leave New York today for a tour of circuit houses in New England. • Si Seadler, M-G-M advertising manager, has returned to New York from Hollywood and San Francisco. • Milton R. Rackmil, president of Universal Pictures, returned to New York on Friday from Hollywood. • Morgan Hudgins, of the M-G-M studio publicity staff, returned to Hollywood at the weekend from New York. • Anatole Litvak, director, returned to New York on Friday from Europe. Edward Carfango, art director for M-G-M's "Ben Hur," left Hollywood at the weekend for Italy. Noah Dietrich ( Continued from page 1 ) the board; Noah Dietrich, another puppet of Mayer's, president, and Stanley Meyer, vice-president in charge of television or adviser to the studio. As I continued to express my opposition to these preposterous proposals, which were completely inimical to the interests of our stockholders, the Stanley Meyer name was listed for lesser offices and the various titles were shifted about, but always it was Mayer-Tomlinson-Meyer and some other controlled representative who might for a moment give the aura of a more independent choice. "The latest in this line, after Noah Dietrich, was Samuel Briskin for president, Mayer as chairman of the board, Tomlinson as chairman of the executive committee, and Stanley Meyer as some kind of a vice-president in charge of studio television. This was the conspiratorial drive. The petition herein in effect seeks this Court of Chancery's sanction and approval of these evil schemes." Muhl Secretary Dies HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18.-Edythe Rubens, 60, executive secretary to Edward Muhl, vice-president of Universal-International in charge of production, died suddenly Thursday while visiting a sister at a West Coast Sanitarium. She had been Muhl's secretary for the past 14 years. Another sister, Bessie Rubens, survives. Would Change Dues Collecting Allied leaders want the dues for COMPO collected through the regional units rather than by salesmen of the distributing companies, as is done now for Theatre Owners of America members. They also want a representative on the triumvirate and have suggested Ben Marcus of Milwaukee as their candidate. At the present time the triumvirate is made up of Montague for the distributors and the Motion Picture Association, Samuel Pinanski for the TOA, and Robert Coyne, general counsel for COMPO. Abram F. Myers is a member of the Allied negotiating committee. It is expected that after the Allied group confers with the existing COMPO committee that the agree ( Continued from page 1) release treatment for the company's choicer pictures. Concurrent with the premiere at the 20th-Fox-owned Haymarket Carlton Theatre, selected product of the company will be shown at 16 situations in outer London. Prices will be increased, although not to the West End scale. Each of the chosen theatres will have treatment from 20th-Fox publicists, with stars ( as they are available ) attending. It is planned that the chosen pictures shall play at the chosen houses for a minimum of two weeks. The plan has been approved by the circuits concerned, including Associated British Cinemas, the Bernsteincontrolled Granada, Shiprnan & King, Essoldo, and Alfred Davis at Croydon. The customary release pattern will be resumed eight weeks after the opening day of these shows. Pattinson promises that the new scheme will be restricted only to "bigger" pictures in the 20th-Fox output. Marcus Moves Approved Prior to this convention it is expected that an Allied committee will confer with sales executives on the adoption of new distribution and exhibition methods for the purpose of ending what was described as the "chaos" over availabilities The board approved the moves made by Ben Marcus and a group of exhibitors in the Milwaukee exchange area to maintain an orderly schedule of releases for subsequent runs. Conciliation measures already worked out by the industry committee in New York were approved. This group is now working on a conciliation plan. A spring meeting of the national Allied board will be held in Baltimore next May. (Continued from page 1) turned to radio and TV time as the best solution during the crisis, the Greater Boston suburban theatres have been harder hit as many of them cannot absorb the high cost of radio spot announcements. Some of these are using the small suburban papers, the "Dorchester Citizen," the "Milton Record," "Quincy Patriot," "Back Bay Ledger," etc. Pictures currently in long run engagements are suffering the least, but new films are forced to open without the routine newspaper campaigns and results are not good. Theatre managers are placing extra girls on the phones to handle the calls coming in asking the programs and the playing time. 'Yuma* Opens Aug, 28 Columbia's "3:10 to Yuma," starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin and Felicia Farr, premieres at the Astor Thetre on August 28. The outdoor suspense drama features Leora Dana, Henry Jones and Richard Jaeckel. British Circuit Heads See 'Very Bright Future' From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, Aug. 15 (By Air ! —"With good films, good mam and good exploitation, there neei no fears for the industry. Far gloom, we can look forward I very bright future," declared Rf Clark, director of production for sociated British Picture Corpora and chairman of Caledonian / ciated Cinemas, at a meeting of cuit managers in Inverness, Scot i Provost Robert Wotherspoon, i f aging director, and Sir Alexande V King also spoke with great optim Court Order ( Continued from page 1 ) another action instituted by Mrs. dekum on March 2, seeking to 1: J( the trusteeship for 2,000 other sh |, restored by the bank to her 1 t daughters, the bank has asked for, I court's approval for such restorat I Although the court's action on I 2,514 shares would call for the ]( moval of three bank representati m from the board of directors L Crescent, Webb Hays, vice-presid' | stated that no meeting of the boan $ presently planned before Nov. With an additional 1,000 shares li K by two of Mrs. Sudekum's daught I the stock involved represents a ( t'olling interest of more than half L| the 10,000 shares outstanding. ,( NT Stockholders See Cinemiracle Camera From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18.-M than 250 stockholders in National T atres, Inc., attended a private inv! tional showing of the Cinemim camera Friday morning in the lol of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, wli Stanley Smith, member of the Smi Dietrich Company, and who is inventor of the camera setup, [ plained the Cinemiracle system in its particulars. Stockholders also lj National Theatres officials and th tre managers in an informal getquainted meeting at which no cm porate business was conducted. The Cinemiracle camera shown X Smith is the third camera completl. Two built previously are in use Kr production of "Cinemiracle AdvA ture." 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