Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1957)

Motion Picture Daily Thursday, August 22, 19 Television Today Loew Case *° Court Toda> Bartlesville (Continued from page 1 ) the Phillips Petroleum Company and the Cities Service Oil Company, and has virtually no unemployment. When natural gas was discovered in the area, National Zinc Smelters and the Dewey-Cement Company opened plants near Bartlesville. Other industries sprang up. Producers of oil field equipment, metal goods, cadmium, zinc products, fertilizer and sulfuric acid came to Bartlesville. The population of the town in 1950 totaled 19,000 and today it has increased to 30,000. The average family income is reported to be above $6,000 a year. Circuit Owns All Theatres Video Independent Theatres, Inc., Southwest motion picture exhibitor chain, owns and will operate the telemovie system. The selection of Bartlesville as a "Telemovie community" was made because the theatre circuit owns all four theatres in the thriving town. Two of Video Independent's houses are conventional four-walls and two are drive-in theatres. The Lyric, one of the conventional houses, has been converted into studio facilities and will also serve as a hospitality center for observers who are expected to flock into Bartlesville. The 38 miles of coaxial cables and the specialized electronic equipment are being installed by the Jerrold Electronics Corporation of Philadelphia, the manufacturing concern which pioneered the concept of cable theatres. Target date for the first Telemovie program is Sept. 3. Telemeter Lists ( Continued from page 1 ) Plaza Hotel, New York, as of yesterday, according to the company. The demonstrations, which began Aug. 13, now are in their second week. Hundreds from the motion picture industry have heard Louis A. Novins, vice-president and managing director of International Telemeter Corporation, and Paul MacNamara, vice-president, discuss the technical, financial and practical aspects of the Telemeter system. Barney Balaban, president of Paramount Pictures Corporation, of which International Telemeter is a subsidiary, and Paul Baibourn, Paramount vice-president, have attended many of the demonstrations in the hotel's Savoy Boom. NBC Pushes Spot Sales NBC spot sales division has created the new position of manager of new business, it was announced yesterday by Jack Beber, director of NBC Spot Sales. Larry Surles, formerly eastern manager, radio spot sales has been promoted to the new position. Urges Study of Ads For Subscription TV "Why can't television in the development of its system of remuneration explore those used by newspapers and magazines instead of copying the system used by radio?" William B. Lewis, president of Kenyon & Eckhardt, asks in an interview published in the Aug. 17 issue of "Editor and Publisher." Lewis said that he has been interested, "as a bystander," in the current subscription TV controversy, by the fact that "neither side has considered the possibility of combining commercially-sponsored TV with pay TV. Why not run advertising with pay TV? That seems logical and certainly worthy of study. "Look at newspapers and magazines. In their case the public has long considered advertising as part of the whole information sought and bought. Surveys show that people, far from resenting TV commercials, also like those that are well done." Television is getting too expensive, he said, adding: "Sponsors may not be able to keep on carrying the full load, if the trend toward increased talent costs continues." TV Advertising in Britain Shows Gain From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, Aug. 19 (By Air Mail). —Total expenditure on television advertising for June 1957 was £2,188,239 ($6,127,069), according to information supplied by Media Becords. This compares to an expenditure of £937,367 ($2,624,627) in June 1956. A breakdown of contractors and stations shows the following: Associated Bediffusion £530,097; Associated Television £586,895; ABC TV£427,291; Granada£643,956. It has been estimated that advertisers will spend £30 million on British commercial TV in 1957 and might possibly reach £50 million in 1958. Middleweight Bout ( Continued from page 1 ) ment that Bobinson had signed the contract, he said, "No such paper exists." A spokesman for TNT said that when the company made a bid guaranteeing at least 250,000 seats, no bid was submitted by the Teleprompter Corporation. He said, "TNT suspects that Bobinson has made a private deal with Teleprompter." The "private deal" which Bobinson is alleged to have made with Teleprompter is said to have been signed on Aug. 20, after the binding TNT contract was signed, according to TNT officials. James Norris, president of IBC, said: "If the fight is not carried by TNT, it will not be carried." ( Continued likely, that Chancellor Seitz will hand down a decision today. Several issues are at stake. These might extend the hearing into Friday and the court might reserve decision. There also is the possibility that the Joseph Tomlinson forces seeking to head off the Sept. 12 stockholders' meeting might take an appeal. Tomlinson's attorneys asked the Delaware court to validate the directors' meeting the day following the "rump" session in New York. They also asked that the "election" of two directors— Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Briskin— in order to achieve a quorum; the vote barring Vogel from taking any action involving expenditure of more than 25,000 and other "votes" be declared legal. Two Points Made by Nizer In his reply in behalf of Loew's, Louis Nizer, special counsel, not only challenged the legality of all the moves made at that meeting, but he also insisted that Briskin's "election" was invalid, because of his connections with another film company. In addition to a series of actions in the New York Supreme Court and the Appellate Court there have been additional moves in Delaware since the original validation plea of Tomlinson's attorneys. On Aug. 14 Clair J. Killoran, Wilmington attorney, acting in behalf from page 1 ) of Balph B. Campbell of Lexingti Ky., where Tomlinson owns a hoi asked for and received an injuncti barring anybody claiming to represi Loew's from interfering with 1 meeting. That same day the Chant lor issued an injunction preventing 1 expenditure of Loew's corporate fur for proxy solicitation. Killoran v permitted to intervene. Intervention Permitted Three groups of stockholders syi pathetic with the present Loew ma agement also sought for and receivi permission to intervene. These wer Incorporated Investors, Boston, repr senting 53 stockholders; Arthur We enberger & Co., New York, inve; ment bankers representing 10,0( shares, and the Loewenstein Found tion of New York. Tomlinson demanded early in tl week that Irving L. Greenfield, seen tary of Loew's, Inc., call a speci, meeting of the board of directors i Delaware for Monday (26) for tl purpose of validating the July 3 "rump" meeting, removing all Loew! counsel and filling vacancies on th board. Chancellor Seitz put an abruj end to this by ruling Tuesday afte( noon that there should be no furtht court moves in Delaware and n meeting of the board of directors ui til the actions pending before him ha been decided TOA Urges Members To Book New Product Theatre Owners of America, in a bulletin issued yesterday, urged its members to book product produced by ABT>T and other divorced theatre circuits. In the past TOA has continuously encouraged the theatre circuits to produce films to alleviate the acute shortage of product. TOA pointed out that its officers, leaders and committees have appealed to the Department of Justice to grant the necessary permission to these companies to enter production. While the organization has never recommended to its members, the bulletin said, that they play any specific picture, it does feel that companies like AB-PT should be and can be greatly encouraged by TOA theatres. Coast Support ( Continued from page 1 ) Inc., and to support the managemen group under the presidency of Josep B. Vogel. The resolution included the votin of all previously-owned stock for th Vogel management also. Guest speak ers at the luncheon included Harr] C. Arthur, Jr., William Forman, Jacl Y. Berman and Arnold Schaak. Recess Goldwyn Trial SAN FBANCISCO, Aug. 21.-The trial of Samuel Goldwyn's anti-trust suit against Fox West Coast Theatres and others will be recessed tomorrow for two weeks while Judge Edward P. Murphy attends a judges' meeting in New York. TOA Names Director ( Continued from page 1 ) atre and increase attendance, the an nouncement said. Barrington is a graduate of Bollin: College and served in World War I as a Navy flier. He has had extensivt experience in advertising and public relations in the trade association field Alabama Likes 'Rock' Twentieth Century-Fox's "Will Success Spoil Bock Hunter?" grossed $9,700 in its first three days at the Alabama Theatre, Birmingham, it is reported by the company. List Buys Into Kayser Gera Corp., a subsidiary of List, Industries Corp. (formerly BKO The-! atres Corp.), has purchased from A.' Philip Goldsmith his holdings in Julius Kayser & Co., manufacturers of women's hosiery, underwear and gloves. The purchase, said to be "slightly less than 100,000 shares," approximating 13 per cent of the Kayser common stock outstanding, was made by Dudley G. Layman, vicepresident and treasurer of List and an officer of Gera. Goldsmith resigned recently as president of Kayser.