Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1957)

2 Motion Picture Daily Friday, August 23, 19 j PERSONAL MENTION SPYROS P. SKOURAS, president of 20th Century-Fox, will leave here Sunday for London and will go to South Africa from there. • Max Youngstein, United Artists vice-president, is scheduled to return to New York from Europe over the weekend. • Milton R. Rackmil, president of Universal Pictures, will leave New York tomorrow for Europe. • Irving Ludwig, Buena Vista domestic sales manager; Lou Gaudreau, business manager, and Charles Levy, director of advertising-publicity, left New York yesterday for the Coast. Calvin Leeder, supervisor of branch operations for Rank Film Distributors of America, will return to New York at the weekend from Washington. • David O. Selznick and Jennifer Jones will return to New York on Tuesday from Italy. • Ed Polk, of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, has returned to New York from Canada and New England. • Delmar Daves, director of Columbia's "3:10 to Yuma," will arrive in New York today from Hollywood. • Dr. A. J. McMullan, chief research officer of the J. Arthur Rank Organization, will arrive in New York from London tomorrow via B.O.A.C. Personal Managers Unit Plans 'Code of Ethics' From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22.-A "code of ethics" will be drawn up for the guidance of members of the Conference of Personal Managers, it was announced here today by William Loeb, president of the organization. A committee named by Loeb to draw up the code consists of George Grolf, Manny Frank and Eddie Rio. The draft will be submitted to the membership at a general meeting scheduled for next month. "A code of ethics," said Loeb, "will help u<; to standardize managers' actions with clients, agencies and guilds, and will clarify our position in the industry." Rome Drive-in to Get First Dual Dialog Film Film patrons at Rome, Italy, will soon be able to hear the first duallanguage sound track — English and Italian. All they will have to do will be to switch a knob on the in-car speakers at Rome's first drive-in which is nearing completion for Loew's International. In Rome there are large numbers of tourists who speak English, a large U. S. military personnel and many persons in the native population who either speak English or are anxious to learn. One sound track will have the original version made at the studios and the other a dubbed version in Italian. The picture will be Allied Artists' "Friendly Persuasion," for which Loew's International has the foreign distribution rights. The drive-in will have an 800-car capacity and a 150-foot screen. It will operate on a first-run basis. The opening is scheduled for September, but the date has not been set. See Early Settlement Of Detroit Strike Special to THE DAILY DETROIT, Aug. 22.-The mailersnewspaper strike may be settled out of court before the week is over, it was reported here today. Thus far theatre revenue has not been much affected by the four day hiatus in publication. The Fox Theatre is holding its bill an additional week, partly on the theory that without advertising a new picture of which the public knew nothing would not draw any better than the current attraction. If the strike endures, it does intend to take to the air heavily. Roadshows, "Ten Commandments," "Around the World in Eighty Days," and Cinerama, which the public expects to find, report undiminished business. One interesting aspect indicating increasing interest in movies is that since the strike has been in effect all theatre switchboards have been heavily taxed by those seeking information as to what is being played and when. USIA Accredits Perlberg to Venice The United States Government is participating officially in the 1957 International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art, Venice, Italy, Aug. 25 to Sept. 8, at the invitation of the Italian Government, it was announced by the U. S. Information Agency. Motion picture producer William Perlberg has been accredited as United States Delegate to the exhibition. USIA officers in Rome have been accredited as advisers. Small Town Interest in Film News High : Compo "The interest of newspaper readers in news and comment about motion pictures and film personalities is just as prevalent in small towns as in big cities." With this opening sentence as a theme, the Council of Motion Picture Organizations, in the 80th of the series of Compo ads in "Editor & Publisher," on the news stands tomorrow, urges newspaper publishers in the smaller communities to give greater attention to film news in their columns. Georgia Case Cited The advertisement cites the case of the Clayton ( Ga. ) "Tribune," whose publisher, Eddie Barker, instituted a series of articles on films. The series, started as a page one feature, later was moved inside. "Readers started calling up," says Barker, "asking for more front page columns" on the subject. 4Harem' Cuties Make Press 'Omar'-Conscious Trade press sanctums in New York yesterday were enlivened by visits from harem girls, properly costumed, bearing gifts of a jug of wine, a loaf of bread and a copy of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam." Inquiry revealed they were commissioned by Loew's Theatres' Ernest Emerling and Paula Gould and appear in the Y. Frank Freeman, Jr., production, "Omar Khayyam," which by chance is about to open in Loew's theatres. Milton Gottlieb Dies Milton M. Gottlieb of C. & G. Film Effects died in Memorial Hospital yesterday. He is survived by his wife, Pearl; daughter, Joyce; sister, Dorothy and brothers, Martin and Sidney. The services will be held at the Riverside Memorial Chapel, 76th St. and Amsterdam Ave., Sunday at 1 P.M. Fire in Malco Theatre MEMPHIS, Aug. 22.-A flash fire, whipping through stage curtains at the Malco Theatre here, was fought for 10 minutes before being brought under control by firemen. Damage to the stage was estimated at $12,000. The theatre was closed after the fire and expects to open tomorrow. Rites for Mrs. Feldman OMAHA, Aug. 22.— Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Mrs. John Feldman, mother of Charles J. Feldman, Universal Pictures vicepresident and general sales manager, who died here yesterday following a long illness. ..JEWS ROUNDUP Schnee Unit at Columbia Harry Cohn, president of Colu bia Pictures has announced t' Charles Schnee will set up an ini pendent production unit at the Coin bia coast studio on Nov. 1, followi completion of his production, "Pa Girl," at M-G-M, where he has be under contract for the past six ye£ The announcement said Schnee v write as well as produce some of 1 properties on his Columbia schedi ■ Pakistan Festival Pakistan will participate in ij Asian Film Festival in Peking towa the end of August, it was reliat learned here. Other countries invit to take part include Japan, Bhar Indonesia, Singapore, Malaya, Lei non, Syria, Burma, Ceylon, Kor<; Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand and t Philippines. The festival is schedul to last for one week. ■ Pakula Plans Two More Producer Alan Pakula announc plans to produce an all-star theatri< feature, and also a filmed televisi series, based on Elliot Arnold's fori coming novel, "That Others M Live," which concerns exploits of t Air Rescue Service. ■ Shepherd Prods. Acquires Tv John Shepherd Productions, pa nership of Martin Jurow and Richa Shepherd, have acquired "Lomoko Papers," by Herman Woulk, a "Hanging Tree," by Dorothy Joli son, as the first of two major prodi tions on their multi-picture schedu George Lait Hospitalize HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 22.-Geor Lait, assistant publicity director ' the Universal studio, is resting sat factorily at St. Joseph's Hospital, Bi bank, following lung surgery. 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