Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1958)

2 Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, October 22, 1951] PERSONAL MENTION A MONTAGUE, executive vice• president of Columbia Pictures, and Rube Tackter, general sales manager, left here yesterday to attend the TO A convention in Miami Beach. • Thomas E. Rodgers, Trans-Lux vice-president, will return to New York tomorrow from a Mediterranean cruise. • Morris Lefko, Michael Todd Co. vice-president in charge of sales, has left New York for Jacksonville, Fla. • Joseph Friedman, Paramount' s national exploitation director, is in Detroit from New York. He will visit Chicago before returning here at the weekend. • Jerry Wald, 20th Century-Fox producer, will arrive in New York today from the Coast. • Jerome Pick man, Paramount vicepresident, will leave here today for Miami. • J. Myer Schine, president of the Schine Circuit, has returned to Gloversville, N. Y., from here. • Kenneth Laird, Buena Vista Southeastern manager, has returned to Atlanta from Hollywood. • Benny Harris, head of the American Film Exchange, Philadelphia, is confined to Hahnemann Hospital there following a heart attack. • Jerry Blackwell, associated with the Capitol Theatre here, was married yesterday at Christ Church Methodist to Jean Ellen McKee. • Samuel I. Safenovitz, attorney and owner of the Yale Theatre, Norwich, Conn., has returned there from New York. • James Shulman, associated with his father, Jack Shulman, in Cleveland and Painesville, O., theatres, will be married on Thanksgiving Day to Shirley Ellis of Cleveland. • Birk Binnard, district manager of Stanley Warner Theatres in Philadelphia, has been discharged from Jefferson Hospital there following surgery. • Harry Kaplowitz and Joe De Louise, of Stanley Warner Theatres, New Haven, have returned there from Albany, N. Y. RKO Theatres Division Johnston Due Managers to Meet Here A two-day meeting of RKO Theatres division managers will be held at the home office next Monday and Tuesday, Harry Mandel, vice-president in charge of theatre operations, announced yesterday. Sol A. Schwartz, RKO Theatres president, will welcome and address the group. Mandel will preside over the meeting which will discuss bookings, merchandising, theatre operation, maintenance and other phases of business. Matthew Polbn, chief film buyer, will discuss future attractions. Tom O'Connor, vice-president in charge of real estate, and Charles Horstman, maintenance chief, will discuss their department's activities, as will other home office executives and department heads. Drawn from All Sections Among the division managers who will attend are Jay Golden, Rochester; Harry Weiss, Minneapolis; Edward Sniderman, Trenton; Millroy A. Anderson, Los Angeles; Joseph Alexander, Cincinnati; Edward McGlone, Columbus; Ansel Winston, Dayton, and from Metropolitan New York, Michael Edelstein, Sigurd Wexo, Charles Oelreich and Tom Crehan, assistant to Mandel. Warner Sales Meeting On Coast Saturday Warner Bros, will hold a west coast sales meeting Saturday at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, with Charles Boasberg, general sales manager, as the principal speaker. Fred Greenberg, western division sales manager, will preside over the meeting. Participants at the session will be branch managers Donald Urquhart of Denver, Joe Sarfaty of Los Angeles, Al Oxtoby of Portland, Keith K. Pack of Salt Lake City, Al Shmitken of San Francisco and Carl Miller of Seattle. Bercutt to Attend Max Bercutt, western field exploitation representative, who is on speoial assignment as sales and promotion liaison for "The Old Man and the Sea," also will participate. The San Francisco gathering follows four regional sales meetings in Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago and New Orleans during the past week. The last of the four, the New Orleans session, was concluded yesterday. Criterion Books 'Nightf The J. Arthur Rank Organization's "A Night to Remember" will be the next attraction at the Criterion Theatre here, where it will play on a reserved seat policy. No date for the opening has been set yet. ( Continued from page 1 ) at which additional details of the film agreement they concluded with Russia are expected to be announced. The deal, calling for the sale of 10 American films to the Soviet, and the purchase of seven of their films for exhibition here, was made as part of the State Department's cultural exchange agreement with the Soviet. The Johnston party will leave here immediately for Washington. He is scheduled to leave for Mexico City for an appearance at the film festival there at the end of the week. Subcommittee Named (Continued from page 1) yesterday at the second meeting of the Motion Picture Association Advertising Advisory Council on the situation in a week. The committee consists of Charles Einfeld, Paul Lazarus, Roger Lewis, Jerome Pickman, Si Seadler and Charles Simoneili, chairman. After studying the problems involved, the subcommittee is to bring in recommendations to the full committee. Also named to work with the subcommittee were Ernest Emerling of Loew's Theatres, Harry Goldberg of Stanley Warner Theatres and Harry Mandel of RKO Theatres. Al. A. Taylor Canadian Pioneer of the Year Special to THE DAILY TORONTO, Oct. 21. The major honor of the Canadian motion picture industry, the Pioneer of the Year, will be presented to N. A. Taylor of Toronto, president of 20th Century Theatres and currently in his second term as Chief Barker of the Variety Club of Toronto, at the annual award banquet of the Canadian Picture Pioneers, to be held in the King Edward Hotel Nov. 18, it was announced by R. W. Bolstad, president. Now 52, Taylor sold advertising to theatres after school hours when he was 12 and retained his connection with the industry during his student years, including those which took him through the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School. Today he has wide interests in the Canadian film and TV fields. One Award Posthumous The committee of judges, headed by A. R. Hanson, gave ancillary honors to five pioneers, one of which is posthumous. J. Howard Boothe of Vancouver, Odeon's chief officer in British Columbia until his retirement in 1951, will get an ancillary award, as will Walter Wilson of Edmonton, who retired in 1954 while manager of the Paramount Theatre, Edmonton, after 45 'Decree Fatal Blow' O'Donnell Declares Special to THE DAILY MIAMI BEACH, Oct. 22. Thf consent decrees in the Governmer suit were "almost a fatal blow to th exhibition of motion pictures in the& tres," R. J. O'Donnell declared in hii keynote speech today at the opening of the TOA convention. "In recer. months," he said, "we have hean about the possibility of having thiij decree altered so that former aff| Hated circuits may enter productioij It is my hope and prayer that all cj us will use whatever influence w may exert to cause the production an' release of more good pictures und< any plan." Golden Cites Importance Of Census of Business Special to THE DAILY MIAMI BEACH, Oct. 22. Th! importance of the Census of Businetj conducted every four years wa explained bj Nathan E Golden of th1 U.S. Depart ment of Coir merce in an ac dress during th opening sessiol of the Thcati A Owners ci America coifl vention today, w Golden en« phasized th'm numerous usej to which the data gathered in fh 1 census are put and urged every esj hibitor to fill out the forms for th I forthcoming census in detail and re turn them promptly to the Bureau c| Census. The results of the 1954 Cer I sus, he said, were published in eigh | volumes containing approximate! j 6,000 pages of statistical tabulation and hundreds of pages of explanator i material. Calls It Vital to Progress The material, he said, is of trt j mendous use to anyone interested i|l the progress of the industry. Golden explained in detail the pre cesses used by the Bureau in corrii piling the data and emphasized th ' pains taken to prevent disclosure e any facts concerning a particular bus'; ness or operation. years in the industry. A. J. Lauritl promotion director of United ArtisM in Toronto, and William Singleton c. Montreal, president of W. J. Singleto| & Co., film counsellors, also earnejl the ancillary awards. Charles Krup; of Winnipeg was named posthurn ously. Nathan Golden MOTION PICTURE DAILY. Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; i loyd E. Stone Photo Editor Herbert V. Fecke, Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager, TELEVISION TODAY, Charles S. Aaronson, Editorial Director; Pinky Herman, Vmcer Canbv Eastern Editors. Hollywood Bureau, Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Berns, Manager; Telephone HOllywood 7-2145; Washington, J. A. 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