Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1959)

Motion Picture Daily Thursday, March El PERSONAL MENTION EDWARD L. HYMAN, American Broadcasting Paramount Theatres vice-president, will return to New York this weekend from an extended tour of the company's theatre operations and a look at new product in Hollywood. • Hakold Mikisch, president of the Mnisch Co., will arrive in New York from the Coast tomorrow for conferences at United Artists. • Harold Goldman, president of NTA International, will leave here today for Washington. • Irving H. Ludwig, president of Buena Vista; Ned Clarke, foreign sales manager, and Charles Levy, advertising-publicity director, will leave New York today for Hollywood. • Meyer Hutner, Warner Brothers national publicity manager, left New York yesterday for the company's Burbank studios. • Martin Roberts, director of promotion for NTA, will leave here tomorrow for Toronto to attend the convention of the Canadian Broadcasters Association. • Harry Saltzman and Tony Richardson, producer and director, respectively, for Warner Brothers' "Look Back in Anger," will return to Hollywood today from New York. • Henry Hayes, sales representative for United Artists in Atlanta, has returned there from Orlando, Fla. • A. O. LaFlamme, co-partner in the Unadilla, N. Y., Drive-in Theatre, has returned there from Albany, N. Y. • Samuel Bronston, producer of "John Paul Jones," has returned to Hollywood from New York. • Herbert Schwartz, branch manager for Columbia Pictures in Albany, N. Y., has returned there from Gloversville, N. Y. • Sid Laird, business manager of AlDun Amusement Co., West Point, Ga., has returned there from Tupelo, Miss. • Edward R. Susse, M-G-M resident manager in Albany, N. Y., and Jack Mundstuk, head of the company's Buffalo office, are in Gloversville, N. Y., today from their respective cities. 14 Po. Cities Hove Pay-TV Status Repealed Local Tax Fourteen Pennsylvania cities have repealed their local admission taxes, ranging from 5 to 10 per cent, since COMPO started its continuing survey of state and local admission taxes a . little more than two years ago, Charles E. McCarthy, Compo information director, reported yesterday. Seven Acted This Year Seven of these cities— Hazleton, Lancaster, Philadelphia, Shamokin, Sunburv, Williamsport and Wilkesbarre, dropped their taxes at the beginning of this year. The othersBethlehem, Bradford, Butler, Connellsville, McKeesport, Nanticoke and Pittston— had rescinded local admission taxes previously. "This tax relief was obtained," McCarthy said, "through the persistent and concerted efforts of local exhibitors. In some cases, where theatre closures were threatened unless taxrelief was granted, exhibitors were aided in their campaigns by local merchants, who realized the importance of theatres to their communities, not only as an entertainment medium, but as a stimulus to other lines of business. Assistance Pledged "I hope that exhibitors in other cities, who are still plagued with these discriminatory taxes, will be encouraged by the success of Pennsylvania exhibitors in pushing their campaign for repeal. Compo will lend assistance wherever necessary." 4Sound' Bow (Continued from page 1) Martin Ritt and Stuart Whitman, who plays a starring role in the picture. Ritt and Whitman were accompanied to Jackson by actress Patricia Owens. During the festivities, Ritt presented a copy of the script to Governor James Coleman at the State Capitol. The visitors were honored guests at a luncheon sponsored by the Jackson Kiwanis Club and with Mayor Allen C. Thompson participated in a mammoth street parade which included high school marching bands and representatives of all civic and social organizations in the Jack Albany Color Ad ALBANY, N. Y., March 4. In "first" here, the "Times-Union" carried a motion picture advertisement in color— for Alan V. Iselin's reopening of the AutoVision in East Greenbush, with car heaters, and for the bill at his Turnpike Drive-in, Westmere (also in winter operation with heaters). The third-of-a-page insertion was in black, white and red. ( Continued from page 1 ) year, are apparently trying to avoid another bout this year. The Harris bill would bar toll television, except for limited tests, until Congress sets permanent standards. The bill says only "technical" tests would be permitted, and each system could be tried in only one area. The ban would cover both wire and broadcast toll TV. The Joint Committee on Toll-TV, interpreting the "technical" tests to mean strictly tests of the technical performance of pay TV systems, is backing the Harris bill. But the FCC, interpreting the bill to permit program tests for a charge, has said that the bill isn't as far from its own position as might have been expected, either. Harris conceded that the committee is receiving "thousands" of letters and cards on the subject, almost all against pay-TV. Brotherhood Week Set For Monday in Albany Special to THE DAILY ALBANY, N. Y., March 4. Observance of National Brotherhood Week will be held in the Albany exchange district, the week of March 9. This was decided at a meeting in the 20th-Fox studio, at which co-chairmen, Edward R. Susse, for distributors, and Elias Schlenger, for exhibitors, presided. Susse and Schlenger hope to have 100 per cent enrollment in the National Conference of Christians and Jews, by exchange personnel and by circuit employees. Salesmen will urge similar support by independent theatres, when calling on the latter. Compo dues are also being sought, on these visits. There has been a "good" response by smaller houses to the Compo campaign, Susse stated. Circuit reports will be received later. Costello Mass Saturday HOLLYWOOD, March 4.-Rosary will be recited here on Friday for Lou Costello. This service will be followed on Saturday by a requiem mass at St. Francis de Sales Church in Studio City. Entombment will take place at the Mausoleum in Calvary Cemetery. 'Sheriff' Here Mar. 13 Twentieth Century Fox's "The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw" will open at the Paramount Theatre here on March 13, preceding the engagement of Jerry Wald's "The Sound and the Fury," previously announced for that date. . . . NEW ROUNDU To Exhibit Set Model An exhibition of Hollywoi ists' original models of sets, designs, sketches for makeup individual scenes will be held Cooper Union Museum here 15 to May 15. Included are col of designs from "Ben Hur," "t "The Brothers Karamazov," Pacific," "Teahouse of the Moon," "Love Comes to Mr. > and other films through coo{ of MGM, 20th Century-Fc U.P.A. ■ Dietrich Show Planned "An Evening with Marlenl rich" will be presented Apr the Museum of Modern Art rium here as a benefit i museum's film library. Excerj "The Blue Angel," "Morocco Blonde Venus," "Desire," Rides Again," "A Foreign Aff; others will be shown. The ben open the museum's spring filn "Marlene Dietrich: Image a gend." ■ 'Green' Here March 19 MGM's "Green Mansions," Audrey Hepburn and Antho kins, will open at Radio Cit; Hall March 19 with the re Easter stage spectacle. To Honor Rank 'Night The Rank Organization's ". To Remember" will receive aij from the Foreign Press Ass honoring the film as "the h ture of the year from Englai, dinner tonight in the Cocoanu of the Ambassador Hotel in 1 geles. The award to "A N Remember" will be accep British Consul General R. G CMG, OBE and Maureen will make the presentation. ■ 'Cry from Streets' to f| Tudor Pictures' "A Cry fi Streets" has been booked to the Presidio Theatre in Sai cisco. It will play on an e basis following die current at JPJ Inc. Moves John Paul Jones Productioi has completed a move to ne\ quarters at 15 East 48th Stn Donald Wyman is in charge new offices. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-m-Chief and Publisher; Sherw^ Kane Eto J ames D Herbert V. Fecke. Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager, TELEVISION TODAY Charles Canby, Eastern Editors. Hollywood Bureau, Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Herns, Manager; Telephone, Hollywood I vers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner News S. Aaronson, Editorial Director; Pinky Herman. Washington, J. A. Otten, National Press CM