Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1957)

2 Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, August 20, 19 PERSONAL MENTION ERIC JOHNSTON, president of Motion Picture Association of America, is in Spokane from Washington. He will return to the Capital at the end of the month. • Mori Krushen, United Artists exploitation manager, will leave here tomorrow for Philadelphia. From there he will go to Boston. • Sidney Luft, producer, returned to New York on Sunday from London via B.O.A.C. • Sam Galanty, Mid East division manager for Columbia Pictures, will leave Washington today for Cincinnati. • Oscar Hammerstein, II, composer of the music for "South Pacific," has left New York for the Coast. • Mrs. Paul Baise gave birth to a boy late last week at Monmouth Memorial Hospital, Long Branch, N. J. Father is assistant advertising and publicity director of Walter Reade Theatres. • Allen M. Wioem, of the "Hartford Times," has left there for a trip to Stratford, Ont. • Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall, his wife, returned to New York on Sunday from Jamaica, B.W.I. , via B.O.A.C. Pope, Vatican Officials Will View 'Seven Hills' Special to THE DAILY ROME, Aug. 19. Director Roy Rowland and producer Lester Welch, on completion of the M-G-M-Titanus production, "Seven Hills of Rome," plan an initial preview for Pope Pius XII and the Vatican officials who cooperated with the producing company when scenes were filmed in Vatican City. Loew's Stock by Two Regal Productions in Canada For 20th-Fox Aid Industry There Special to THE DAILY TORONTO, Aug. 19— Two feature films are being made in this country by Regal Films for release by Twentieth Century-Fox. Piloting both features whose working titles are "A Boy and His Dog" and "The Flaming Frontier," is Sam Newfield who directed "The Last of the Mohicans" in and around Toronto. Sig Neufield, who is also producing the TV series "Tugboat Annie" for Television Programs of America, is executive producer on the two Regal productions. The interiors for the two films will be shot in the studios of Canadian Film Industries which will also provide technical and lab facilities. A number of other production plans are in a state of flux. Two Bush Pilot series are promised. One is supposed to come from The Robert Lawrence Company, while the other is from Bernard Van Marken. A third series on the same subject is being promised by Jack Bordley, backed by Ottawa exhibitor Morris Berlin. Tyrone Guthrie has promised a feature about fur-trapping, with Emile Harvard as executive producer and Leonid Kipnis as producer. Honor Rosei ( Continued from page 1 ) of the special meeting called Vogel. These actions include Tomlinson's plea to have the "rump" directors' meeting of July 30 validated and to have the court rule that there was a majority of directors present after five directors had "elected" two more to get the majority of seven required by the bylaws. This ruling, if obtained, would also legalize the election of Louis B. Mayer and Sam Briskin as directors. Next in order of priority will be an answer and cross-complaint filed for Loew's by Louis Nizer through a Wilmington law firm, in which Nizer questions not only the legality of the meeting, but also charges that Briskin was not eligible to become a Loew director because of his connection with another film company. This answer was filed August 9. Wilmington-New York Conflict On August 14, the Wilmington court issued a restraining order to prevent the spending of company funds for proxies. This conflicts with a New York Supreme Court injunction barring all interference with the stockholders' meeting. Each is applicable only in the state where the court sits. Another action to be heard the same day is an applicable from a Louisville stockholder asking the Delaware chancellor to issue an injunction against anybody claiming to represent Loew's in the case. This apparently is aimed at the company management in case the first plea for validation of the "rump" meeting is approved by the court. Several groups representing large blocks of stock have been permitted by the court to come in as intervenors. These include Incorporated Investors, Boston; Arthur Weiseniberger & Co., New York investment bankers, and the Loewenstein Foundation of New York. Report 'Faces' Strong Business Week on Loew's Universal-International reports an approximate $40,000 gross for the first week of its "Man of a Thousand Faces" at the Palace Theatre here. UT also reports heavy takes for the picture in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Boston and Washington. Under a three column heading— "Management — Explosion on the Movie Lot"— "Business Week" devotes an entire page, with a picture of Joseph R. Vogel, and five columns of type on other pages to the Joseph Tomlinson— Joseph R. Vogel contest for control of Loew's, Inc. Skouras Family Charters New Tanker Corporation Spyros S. Skouras. president of Skouras Theatres, is also president of Skouras Lines, Inc., a shipping concern. Last week he signed a contract as head of the shipping firm for the construction of two tankers to be built by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. at Pascagoula, Miss. These will be big ships 32,000 deadweight tons— with a speed of 17 knots and will cost approximately $12,000,000 each. The contracts were signed at the Marine Midland Trust Co. The shipping company was formed by Spyros S. Skouras; his father, Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox; his uncle, George P. Skouras, president of United Artists Theatre Corp., and his brother, Plato A. Skouras. The government is insuring loans and mortgages through the Maritime Administration under Title XI of the Merchant Marine Act. The vessels will be operated on a five-year consecutive voyage charter with the Military Sea Transportation Service. Sims, Circuit Head, Dies ORANGEBURG, S. C, Aug. 19 James I. Sims, 67, president of Orangeburg Theaters, Inc., and head of the Sims Publishing Company, which publishes the Orangeburg Times and Democrat, died August 13 of a heart ailment. (Continued from page 1 ) pay tribute to Rosen who has beenl! leader in almost every phase philanthrophy, humane endeavor om industry causes during his 30 ye; in the industry. A special arrangements comnilj tee being assembled by preside! Shapiro and top industry executh will join B'nai B'rith officials on t dais. Detroit Strike ( Continued from page 1 ) around the Detroit "News." The I ternational Typographical Unio which is feuding with the Mailers a jurisdictional fight, attempted cross the lines. 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