Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1959)

Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, April 22, PERSONAL MENTION HARRY MANDEL, RKO Theatres vice-president for operations, will leave here next Tuesday with Mrs. Mandel for a business and vacation trip to Europe. Harold Goldman, president of NTA International, will leave here Friday aboard the "United States" for Europe. He will attend the Cannes Film Festival. • A. W. Schwalberg and George Frazer left here for the coast last night. • David E. Diener, vice-president of Monroe Greenthal Co., will leave New York today for Durango, Mexico. • Kay Norton, vice-president of United Artists Records in charge of distribution, will leave here on Friday for a business trip to the key cities of Britain and the Continent. C. J. Latta, managing director of Associated British Pictures Corp., returned to London from New York yesterday via B.O.A.C. Morris Safier, independent distributor of Los Angeles, has arrived in New York from the Coast. U.A. Sets Review Conditions North Central Allied Meet to Start July 7 Special to THE DAILY MINNEAPOLIS, April 21.-Late openings of drive-in theatres in the upper Midwest have forced the postponement of the North Central Allied convention from early June until early July, Frank Mantzke said here today. The convention will be held at the Nicollet Hotel here starting July 7. U Years of skilled Craftsmanship in < "v Feat u re Tra i I er 1 Production... i— I available for your JlrJ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FILMS Custom Produced hy the hand of experience/ NATIONAL SCREEN SERVICE TOPS «V TFttKIUaRB ( Continued warranted, and providing they had paid to the company whatever was due it under the terms of the contract in question, it noted that U.A. would have to obtain the producer's approval first. The statement in full follows. 1. United Artists intends to sell pictures at realistic terms, based on the merits of individual pictures, and treat TOA exhibitors fairly and equitably as to terms. 2. Heineman would grant relief to from page 1) exhibitors who have paid contract terms, within a reasonable time after receipt of payment, if the exhibitor can prove to United Artists' satisfaction that the results did not warrant the contracted terms, but Heineman made it clear United Artists must obtain the producer's approval, which he would then seek. 3. Heineman pledged that any TOA exhibitor who is unreasonably hurt by contract terms would be given a thorough review of his complaint. Cleveland Teen-Age Forum Plan Begins Special to THE DAILY CLEVELAND, April 21. Ten selected students from five area high schools participated here in the program sponsored by the Motion Picture Council of Greater Cleveland aimed to create a coming generation of movie goers and to give to the motion picture producers information as to the type of entertainment that appeals to intelligent young people. The plan is for the group to view a new movie and then hold a discussion on it which is tape recorded and sent to the studio that produced the movie under discussion. The first move in the experiment was "Warlock," produced by 20th Century-Fox. Comments were mostly constructive. All of the participants will write reviews of the picture and circulate them in their schools. The reviews will be entered in a contest with a prize by the film producers for the winner. Mrs. William G. Sullivan, Motion Picture Council chairman, is in charge of the project, which is being staged in cooperation with 20thFox publicity representative Adrian A wan. Cody Will Honor Wayne And 'The Young Land' Special to THE DAILY CODY, WYO., April 21. -Pat Wayne, son of John Wayne, will return to Los Angeles from here an honorary Wyoming sheriff. Wayne will attend the premiere of his picture, "The Young Land," in Cody and will take part in the two-day round of activities celebrating the opening in Cody of the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Gallery of Western Art. A nation-wide press representation will pour into Cody for the premiere and the gallery-opening festivities April 25 and 26. "The Young Land" was made by C. V. Whitney for Columbia Pictures release. Henry Reeve, Veteran Texas Showman, Dead Special to THE DAILY MENARD, Tex., April 21.-Henry Reeve, veteran local exhibitor and a former member of the board of Theatre Owners of America, died suddenly following a recent heart attack. A local exhibitor for 36 years, he \vas a former president of Taxas Theatre Owners Ass'n. and active in many industry and civic fields. He was national co-chairman of the Sixth War Loan Campaign in 1944; was a member of Texas Compo's Showmen's Speakers Bureau. Local schools and businesses closed for his funeral. His Mission Theatre here is continuing in operation under his son-in-law, John Winslow. New State Law Extends Employment Insurance Special to THE DAILY ALBANY, N. Y., April 21.-A bill extending eligibility for unemployment insurance to workers for firms employing one or more persons, instead of the present coverage for two or more employees, has been signed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. The change, effective Jau. 1, 1960, will add 150,000 workers to unemployment insurance. The unemployment insurance measure does not cover domestics, who are eligible only if their employer has four or more such workers. 'Maja9 in 210 Keys United Artists' "The Naked Maja" has been booked into 210 key situation across the country during the next two weeks. The film will be backed by intensive local level, allmedia promotion campaigns. Para. Dividend 50 Cents The board of directors of Paramount Pictures Corporation yesterday voted a quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share on the common stock, payable June 12, 1959, to holders of record May 25, 1959. Standard's A. D. ffv Honored on Retiren Special to THE DAILY MILWAUKEE, April 21. ■ dinner at the Schroeder Hotel ; some 250 local industry member: tribute to Alfred D. Kvool on Y tirement as general manager of i ard Theatres. Oscar Olsen, business mana^ the Projectionists Union, pre.' Kvool with a life-time gold me ship card in the union. Prominent for 30 Years Kvool has been a prominer ecutive in the theatre business since 1927. He started in Minne working for the Finkelstein and circuit. In 1927 when he came with his wife, Lola, and dam Kathie, Kvool joined Saxe The When Saxe reorganized as the Midwest circuit he was retain an executive, and later joined W Brothers Theatres as assistant manager. Mich. Allied Sets Am Convention Sept. 2^ Special to THE DAILY DETROIT, April 21.-Mii Allied's 40th annual conventio be held here Sept. 23 and 24 Sheraton Cadillac Hotel. Conv chairman William M. Wetsni now making preparations for ness sessions, luncheons and pr activities. The exhibitor group also ha a letter of appreciation to N; Screen Service branch managei Clavet for reducing shipping co including advertising and with regular film shipments. Is to cooperate by prompt retu used material and care in its pre tion has been issued to all me of the organization. Begin Promotion 01 'Five Pennies' Reco Paramount Pictures, Dot R and Danny Kaye have joined in a full-scale promotion of th tion picture and soundtrack ; "The Five Pennies." Beginnii Monday in Los Angeles, Kay start on a tour of 15 major playing host to exhibitors, the disc jockeys, radio and TV officials and record dealers. Each of these stops will f an evening screening of the T color comedy-drama, along wit low-up luncheons and confoj Cities to be covered include ' York, Boston, Philadelphia, Wa j ton, Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis (i cago, Toronto, Detroit, Pitts] I Cleveland, Cincinnati and San Iri CISCO. MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Herbert V. Fecke, Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Manager, TELEVISION TODAY, Charles S. Aaronson, Editorial Director; Pinky Herman. Canby, Eastern Editors. Hollywood Bureau, Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Berns, Manager; Telephone HOllywood 7-2145; Washington, J. A. Otten, National Press Club, ington, D. C; London Bureau, 4, Bear St. Leicester Square, W. 2. Hope Williams Burnup, Manager; Peter Burnup, Editor; William Pay, News Editor Correspondents principal capitals of the world. 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