Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1957)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, August 21, Hi PERSONAL MENTION ALBERT E. BOLLENGIER, vicepresident and treasurer of Magna Theatres Corp., will leave California by plane today for Honolulu. From there he will go to Kauai, shooting locale of "South Pacific." Larry Schneider, assistant head of United Artists foreign publicity department, has returned to New York from Europe. • Sidney Kaufman, president of Grand Prize Films, left here yesterday for Montreal. Saul Cooper, of the Lynn Farnol organization, left New York yesterday en route to the South Seas to work with Carl Dudley's "Cinerama South Seas" company. • Tochishige Ishikawa, RKO Radio general manager for Japan, who has been in New York for the past week, will leave here today for Tokyo. • Robert Allen, composer of the current song hit, "It's Not for Me to Say," will leave New York today for the Coast. • Ray Helsel, of the motion picture department of "This Week" magazine, left here yesterday for the Coast. • James Larkin, theatrical sales representative for B.O.A.C., will leave here today for Los Angeles. • Dan Finn, partner in the Astor Theatre, Boston, has returned there from New York. Pick Six Features For Golden Laurel Six features from five countries have been awarded Golden Laurel Medals and nominated for the eighth annual David O. Selznick Golden Laurel Award, which will be presented Sept. 8 at the Eleventh International Edinburgh Film Festival in Scotland. Richard Griffith, curator of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library, is chairman of the nominating committee. The films nominated are: Italy— "The Gold of Naples" and "La Strada"; Japan— " Harp of Burma"; France— "If All the Guys in the World"; India— "Pather Penchali"; Germany— "The Devil's General." Eliot Hyman Heads A.A.P. Film Counci ( Continued Martial and Company after a scheduled luncheon in the Canadian Club at the Waldorf at which Mr. Hyman and, it was indicated, Mr. Chesler and others from Canada would meet news writers, was postponed. Mr. Hyman Monday complained of stomach pains and this illness cancelled the luncheon. The figure for earnings is actually $1,237,628. This, on 1,637,236 shares, is 76 cents. Gross revenue was $26,660,000. Television station contracts represented $25,840,000. The debt AAP reduced comprised a $9,000,000 loan and a deferred payment to Warners of $5,000,000 all due in three years. Manufacturers Trust April 26 assumed the Warner debt and consolidated all into one loan. The company accelerated payments, but also was allowed to retain 35 from page 1 ) instead of 17.5 per cent of collections, for operation. AAP Inc. is the 1947 creation of Mr. Hyman, for 12 years president of York Microstat, which developed microfilming for engineering. Associated Artists Productions Corp. acquired ownership March, 1956. AAP in its present form, parent and wholly owned distributing subsidiary, took shape officially June, 1956, and is on the American Stock Exchange. Mr. Hyman at the luncheon was scheduled to declare the potential of the Warner library in perpetuity— on television, in theatres and non-theatres, for remake and stock, and radio adaptations and rights, and foreign kinescope— is "virtually untapped." And that so far, AAP has secured Warner and Paramount Popeye film contracts worth $26,750,000. Criticism (Continued from page 1) Theatres flatly stated "there is no financial future in pay television." What he meant to say, Rhoden pointed out, was that first run films cannot be shown profitably on television sets and then expect to make any money later by playing in theatres. "Toll TV most likely will do a great business in sports events and public service programs," Rhoden said "but it will be too expensive a venture to offer first run motion pictures." Rhoden would not comment on the recent deal Fox West Coast Theatres, an affiliate of N.T. made with Paramount's Telemeter system in Los Angeles, explaining he had not received sufficient details concerning the arrangements. As previously reported in these columns John B. Bertero, president of FWC, frankly admitted "we want to get in on the ground floor" if and when toll TV will become an actuality. Disputed by Shapp Milton J. Shapp, president of Jerrold Electronic Corp. of Philadelphia, who yesterday filed an application for a closed television circuit franchise in San Francisco was quick to challenge Rhoden. "The movies haven't come up with enough block busters to drag people away from their TV sets," Shapp told Rhoden and his reporter, and added: "Why fight the 21-inch screen instead of joining it? The people are getting out of the habit of going to theatres. Perhaps the marginal theatres will close when pay TV comes in, but you can't stop the march of progress." New Appointments for WB International Warner Bros, has increased its top management personnel in Japan as a result of the expansion of the company's business in that country, it was announced by Wolfe Cohen, president of Warner Bros. International. William Schwartz has been appointed manager in Japan under the supervision of Jack Dagal. Schwartz, who left New York yesterday for Tokyo to assume his new duties, was formerly manager in Japan for RKO, and, prior to that, sales manager in that country for the MPEA. In the Latin American area, Jorge Sanchez, formerly associated with Westrex, has joined Warner Bros, as assistant manager in Mexico, under the supervision of Armando Trucios, the company's supervisor of the South American Pacific Division, Cohen also announced. Wahab Sutan Suleiman has been named Warner manager for Indonesia, succeeding E. V. D'Souza, who has returned to India on sick leave. Artur Behr, formerly assistant general manager for Warners in Colombia, has been promoted to general manager for the company in that country, succeeding Ira Beck, resigned. List Industries ( Continued from page 1 ) ernment securities amounted to almost $23,000,000 and long-term mortgage receivables amounted to about $7,100,000. Provisions for depreciation and similar non-cash charges made against earnings were approximately $1,710,000 during the first six months of 1957 and $1,160,000 during the first six months of 1956. ( Continued from page 1 ) solution adopted a year ago bind the organization to "publicize nati ally the titles of all American-interi pictures which are manned by Car munist workers" and to "bring t[) problem to the attention of the Am ican Legion and other patric groups." Somerset told the council that 2(1 Century-Fox is using workers hiij through anti-Communist unions Italy, but its hiring agent in Frar is favoring Communist workers. named the recently completi "Young Lions" as a Fox picture ma with craftsmen hired through Co munist unions. France a Problem Somerset said M-G-M is cooper ing with anti-communist unions Italy, but is employing work< through Communist unions in Frant The speaker charged Sacha H mena, M-G-M production represent tive in France, is a militant Comm nist and a leader of the Commun union in the film industry. He nam "Gigi" as an M-G-M picture now production which has employed Co munist workers. Somerset asserted Edward Legg wie, Fox production executive France, continually cooperates wi Communist unions and refuses to ta to representatives of free trade unio, which are anti-Communist. Irving Brown, European represe tative AFL-CIO also addressed tl council session. invites Exhibitors To Bartlesville Tests Milton J. Shapp, president of Je rold Electronics Corp. of Philade phia, has extended an invitation t & exhibitors to observe the operation < ' the Telemovie System in Bartlesvill Okla., scheduled to start Sept. 3. 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