Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1958)

Motion Picture Daily Tuesday, October 28, 193 ! Television Todau Who's Where US. TV Rein Robert D. B. Carlisle and Isabel Redman have been added to the executive staff of Telestudios, Inc., George Gould, Telestudios president, announced. Carlisle has been named to the newly-created post of production supervisor and Miss Redman will assume the duties of staff producer. □ Appointment of John W. Kiermaier as assistant to the president was announced by Walter Kingsley, president of Independent Television Corporation. Kiermaier joined ITC at the itme it was organized this summer by the Jack Wrather Organization of Beverly Hills, Calif, and Associated Television, Ltd., of London. Prior to his promotion, Kiermaier was business manager of ITC. □ Charles Norwood has resigned as news director of WHCT, the CBS-TV owned-and-operated Hartford outlet, to join the public relations staff of Congressman Edwin H. May, Jr. Latter is running for re-election in the Nov. 4 campaign. □ Frank Wooding has resigned as public relations-promotion director of WNBC, the NBC-TV owned-and-operated West Hartford outlet. He did not disclose future plans. He served as political editor of the "Bridgeport (Continued from page 1) told the association's fall conference that this sentiment was "the greatest peril to our industry and for that matter to the public interest." Fellows mentioned legislative possibilities aimed at network regulation, restrictions on ownership, controlling advertising, music licensing, pay television, and community antennas. He urged broadcasters to unite against efforts to hamstring the industry through, legislation. Bob Mathias Signed For 'Troubleshooters' Olympic star Bob Mathias has been signed for the second major role in "The Troubleshooters," an action series of 39 half-hour programs toplining Keenan Wynn, a Northstar Pictures, Ltd., production which United Artists Television, Inc., is financing and distributing. Production begins in three weeks in Hollywood. Herald" prior to joining WNBC several years ago. □ Paul W. Morency, president of the Travelers Broadcasting Service Corporation, operating WTIC-AM-FMTV, Hartford, has been named to a three-year term as director of the Hartford Chapter, American Red Cross. MGM to Make 'Mo•lth, Gets o™*™ At Mexican Festival Special to THE DAILY MEXICO CITY, Oct. 27. Alec Guinness, star and screenwriter of "The Horse's Mouth," Britain's entry in the film festival underway here, received a tumultuous ovation from a standee audience when he appeared on stage following the film's first showing. The festival audience, which has generally been antagonistic to British and American-made motion pictures, gave "The Horse's Mouth" and its star an unqualified roar of approval. Guinness was mobbed by well-wishers as he returned to his hotel following the showing. "The Horse's Mouth" is a Knightsbridge Production for United Artists release. ( Continued from page 1 ) heels of a statement by the new Shenandoah Company that it was preparing a script for "Huckleberry Finn" for filming early next year as a "roadshow" attraction. James Poe, writer, and Paul Stuart Millar, producer, who formed the Shenandoah organization, said they would make the picture in a widescreen process in color and with over 50 top Hollywood personalities portraying characters from the Twain novel. Without mentioning the Shenandoah announcement directly, the M-G-M statement yesterday said that, although the Mark Twain property is in public domain in the U.S., M-G-M has the world copyright in every other foreign country in conformity with the Bern copyright law, giving M-G-M sole international rights. The deal for the motion picture rights was made by M-G-M in 1952 with the Mark Twain estate and renewed in 1956, it was stated. Siegel said that Arthur Freed will produce the film from a script by Alan J. Lerner and a score by Barton Lane and Lerner. SMPTE Cites Kalmus Dr Herbert T. Kalmus, president and general manager of the Technicolor companies, was awarded honorary membership in the Society of Radio and Television Engineers at the society's convention held last week in Detroit. Dr. Kalmus thus becomes the ninth to be so honored. RCA Quarter Sales At $292,199,000 Sales of products and services of the Radio Corporation of America and its subsidiaries in the third quarter of 1958 amounted to $292,199,000, compared with $288,677,000 for the third quarter of 1957, David Sarnoff, chairman of the board, and John L. Burns, president, announced. RCA earnings, after Federal income taxes, amounted to $6,254,000 for the July-September quarter this year, compared with $8,009,000 for the same period last year. After payment of dividends on the preferred stock, this net profit represents earnings on the common stock of 40 cents per share, compared with 52 cents per share earned in the third quarter of 1957. Sales during the first nine months of 1958 totaled $834,753,000, compared with $853,667,000 for the 1957 period. Common share earnings amounted to $1.26 this year as against $1.87 in the same period last year. 'Hurrah' Big Grosses Columbia's "The Last Hurrah" rang up top grosses in its first weekend at the New York Roxy and Boston Orpheum despite bad weather conditions, the company reported yesterday. In the world premiere engagement in Boston the figure for four days plus one show is a huge $22,850, with a "sensational" $7,800 Saturday. In rain-drenched New York, the Roxy recorded $52,000 for the first four days. '£/' Combo Popular Universale new "horror" combination of "Blood of the Vampire" and "Monster on the Campus" rolled up top business at the Gopher Theatre in Minneapolis and the Strand in St. Paul last week, the company reported yesterday. The first five days at the Gopher totalled $8,047; and the first four at the Strand $5,214. Mann to Movie Stamps Robert L. Mann, formerly with 20th Century-Fox as a salesman and more recently with Columbia Pictures in its now-closed Houston branch, has been named Texas franchise representative for Movie Stamps, Inc., trading-stamp plan established for the exclusive use of film theatres. AA Has 20 in L. A. Area Allied Artists "Queen of Outer Space," with Zsa Zsa Gabor in the title role, and "Frankenstein— 1970," starring Boris Karloff, have been selected to open in 20 Los Angeles area theatres on Nov. 12. Eight of the situations are drive-ins. Brynner to IS. O. Bow NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 27. Yul Brynner, who stars in Paramount's "The Buccaneer" as Jean LaFitte, the pirate-patriot of the War of 1812, will join Cecil B. DeMille at the festive world premiere of the picture here on Dec. 11. National Pre -Selling j <<qpHE Defiant Ones," opines Ed A win Miller in the October issul of "Seventeen," is a story of twj convicts, one white, one Negro, whi; attempt an escape from a souther chain gang. Chained together whetht j they like it or not, they begin i mutual hatred, end in deep affection; Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier pla the part of the two antagonists. la Gina Lollobrigida, after takinj time out to become a mother, is bac I in the Europe studios making film! I She takes her one-year-old son to th j studios in Paris and Madrid where hejl new films are being made. "Life's ■jl photographers have followed Gina tl| the studios and got many human in terest mother and son shots. Froii I these photos "Life" produced a pio: torial story for the Oct. 20 issue. • The New York "Herald Tribune's ) ^ article, "The New Hollywood, j a. rp written by Joe Hyams, their Hollyt (w wood correspondent, appeared ill :Ms four installments. The article threvf a( t a bright spotlight on the rapidl; ; IM changing Hollywood scene. The firsj §\t installment was illustrated by a phot<; of Al Jolson, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr; M j Mary Pickford, Eddie Cantor, Ronah ||kmt Colman and Samuel Goldwyn in ilfi publicity photo. Subsequent install] S| ments were equally and uniformlj intriguing. bin fell "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" has beer selected by Florence Somers of "Redbook" as picture of the month foi October. In her opinion this MGM film is "a blockbuster of emotions."jjfcr • The November issue of "Argosy" has an exclusive pictorial story on Walt Disney's "White Wilderness." The photos in full color are from this latest Disney release. The villain of the new film is the wolverine and he is featured in many of the photos which appear on two double-page spreads. st "Torpedo Run," an MGM Christmas release, is advertised on the table I of contents page of "McCalfs" Oc-i tober issue. »»(< Sandy Heath gives her impressio: of a party hosted by Alfred Hitchcock in the Journal About Town Section of "Ladies Home Journal's" October is | sue. The rattlesnake pate was snubbed by Sandy but she enjoyed meeting ! Jimmy Stewart, the star of "Vertigo," Hitchcock's most recent release. Edwin Miller in the October "Seventeen" says "Teenagers are listening to Pat Boone. Because if the boy next door could sing, he would probably like to sound like Pat Boone, easy and engaging." Dot has a dozen of his hits gathered under the title "Star Dust." Pat's 20th-Fox film "Mardi Gras" will be released at Thanksgiving time. WALTER HAAS 1