Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1958)

jiday, March 21, 1958 Motion Picture Daily Sindlinger Workshop Speakers Are listed Speakers at the first Sindlinger & ►mpany ticket-selling workshops to ■ held in Baltimore and Richmond, i., April 1 and 3 respectively, were i uinced yesterday by Mike Simons, 110 will conduct the business-building jssions. Theatre architect Drew Eberson will eak on "The All-Weather Drive-In "'joncept— The Theatre of Tomorrow," hile drive-in operator James R. Partw will lead the discussion of ticketHing ideas for outdoor exhibitors, ihode Island exhibitor Joseph Jarvis 111 handle the problems of the small>wn and subsequent-run operators, id Harold H. Brown, president of i ited Detroit Theatres will also appear. Al Sindlinger will be on hand at oth meetings to present his organ ution's findings from an advance surev of forthcoming product and disu^s strong points of each picture as sealed by continuous surveys. Brazil Branch Wins UA International Drive United Artists' branch in the Brazilian city of Curitiba has won ihe grand cash prize in the company's 957 International Drive, it was anlounced yesterday by home office ■aptain, Louis Lober. The Curitiba iffice, managed by Angelo Ivo Buslardo, topped the 94 UA overseas tranches in Europe, Asia, Africa, Ausralia and Latin America that competed in the sales contest. Lober also announced that the top :ash prize in the exploitation phase if the 12-month campaign has gone to Brazil, whose general manager is Enrique Baez. The Australian office, headed by managing director Ron Michaels, has won first place for the \ear in the administration competition. The Goal is the Need of Others . . . B'B Groups M.P. DAILY picture THE LISTENERS here include: Barney Balaban, Arthur Mayer, Abe Montague, Arthur Krim, Herman Robbins, Louis Phillips, Adolph Schimel, Irving Greenfield and Leon Goldberg. THOSE WHO HEAR WILL GIVE, and the gentlemen photographed here listening to Edward Warburg— will do the telling. The scene is Paramount's seventh floor law library which yesterday was a dining room and where, to United Jewish Appeal campaigners at N.Y.C. Flahertv Award |Goes to 'Hunters' New York City College's Robert J. Flaherty Award for 1957 "for outstanding creative achievement in the .documentary film" has been given to ' "The Hunters," it was announced here yesterday by Yael Woll, director of the City College Institute of Film Techniques which sponsors the annual competition. Presentation of the award will be made tomorrow night at 8:30 P.M. at a screening held in cooperation with Cinema 16 at the Fashion Institute here. Arthur Knight, film critic for the "Saturday Review" and a member of , the panel of judges, will make the presentation. Cole to Make Tour Nat "King" Cole, who portrays W. C. Handy in Paramount's "St. Louis Blues," will make a nation-wide tour during April to exploit the film. He first will attend the world premiere at St. Louis on April 10. their first luncheon, Barney Balaban was host, mentor, and (as it developed) a man whom they so respect for long service and general wisdom, they intend later to honor. At their climactic luncheon May 22, he'll be their special guest, for the first time "officially." The speakers he introduced and who each appealed in a manner special and significant were Warburg, national chairman; Leon Goldberg, retiring after two years as amusement industry chairman; and Irving Greenfield, who now takes over. Points to Displaced Persons Speak loudly enough and the case is clear, it will sell itself— Israel even this year probably has to absorb 80,000 or so displaced persons, and the Hungarian emergency alone showed clearly even in this country how expensive this kind of aid can heMr. Warburg stressed, and suggested marking poignantly the 10th anniver sary of Israel, a country where, he said, probably uniquely, people have conviction about the future. He added his listeners should visit Israel not as tourists to spend money but "for the thrill." Mr. Goldberg said last year's effort raised $680,000, slightly more than the year before, and commented, considering the state of the industry, "it is a record I am and I am certain you are proud of." Welcomes a 'Tough' Job Mr. Greenfield, whom he introduced as a man respected, admired, and liked, and a worker, acknowledged his job would be "tough." He added he expected the cooperation others elicited, and that currently he isn't defeatist. He commented he'd been coming to meetings for years under other chairmen and now he's one. "Now that it's glad." happened, I'm -F. S. Describes New Russian Wide-Screen Process A proposal that Cinerama features be shown in Moscow in return for exhibitions in London and Paris of the new Russian 'Panoramic' process was made here yesterday by Nicolas Reisini, president of Robin International Cinerama Corp., which operates Cinerama theatres abroad. Reisini said that the first film in the Russian wide-screen process, "Wide Is My Country" is a travelogue of the Soviet Union, including scenes of Moscow, the Black Sea, Leningrad, Carpathia and the Caucasus Mountains. The process was first shown at the Mir Theatre in Moscow this month, according to Reisini, and critics reported "the best sequences were scenes in a Ural steel-making plant and a hectic ride down a churning rapids-filled river aboard a log raft." 'Run Silent' to Open In Chicago March 27 Hecht-Hill Lancaster's "Run Silent, Run Deep" will have its midwestern premiere in Chicago at the United Artists Theatre on March 27, the same day that it opens here at the Victoria Theatre, it was announced yesterday. A nine-foot cross section model of the Nautilus, the United States' first atomic submarine, will be displayed in the Victoria lobby today to promote the United Artists release. Award to Spiegel Producer Sam Spiegel has been named winner of the One World Award for 1957 for "The Bridge on the River Kwai," by the One World Council, Inc. Presentation of the award will be made May 24, at which time Spiegel will accept personally. (Continued from page 1) COMPO office, it was explained that the three committees in charge of the campaign will be a board of sponsors, an executive committee and an operating committee of company and theatre advertising experts. Each committee will have on it representatives from the five organizations supporting the campaign. These are the MPAA, TOA, Allied States Association, MMPTA and ITOA. Those who have accepted appointment to the board of sponsors are Horace Adams, Abe Blumenfeld, Harry Brandt, Max A. Cohen, Si Fabian, Leopold Friedman, Leonard H. Goldenson, Julius Gordon, Alex Harrison, Eric A. Johnston, George G. Kerasotes, Sidney M. Markley, Abe Montague, Elmer C. Rhoden, Sam Rosen, Sol A. Schwartz, Spyros P. Skouras, Wilbur Snaper, Ernest G. Stellings, Solomon M. Strausberg, and Mitchell Wolfson. Five on Executive Committee The executive committee will consist of Montague, Stellings, Adams, Brandt and Strausberg. Each of the five organizations represented on the committee will choose an associate authorized to represent the organization at meetings which the organization's designated member may be unable to attend. Ralph Hetzel, vice-president of the MPAA, will represent that organization in the absence of Montague. Associate representatives named by other organizations are the following: Jack Kirsch to represent Allied in the absence of Horace Adams; Max A. Cohen, to represent ITOA in the ab-J sence of Harry Brandt and Leslie R. Schwartz, to represent MMPTA in the absence of Solomon M. Strausberg. Ernest Stellings will name his alternate to represent TOA later. Operating Unit Named Those named to the operating committee, which will prepare and place all advertising and be the creative group of the campaign, are Paul N Lazarus, Jr., chairman; Maurice A Bergman, Ernest Emerling, Charle; Einfeld, Al Floersheimer, Harry Goldberg, Martin Levine, Harry Mandel Charles E. McCarthy, Jerome Pick man, Si Seadler, Wilbur Snaper. Magnetic Recording on 83rd SMPTE Agenda Magnetic video tape recording wil be the subject of one of the session at the 83rd semi-annual Society o Motion Picture and Television Engi neers' Convention to be held April 21 26 at the Ambassador Hotel in Lo Angeles. The subject will be discussed b engineers of the Ampex Corp. and th Radio Corp. of America. Other se< sions at SMPTE session will be d« voted to closed circuit TV, sound re cording, motion picture studio pra< tices, industrial and instrumentatio photography, and plastics for the m< tion picture and TV industries.