Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1959)

Motion Picture Daily Friday, April 2 PERSONAL MENTION MAX E. YOUNGSTEIN, United Artists vice-president, is scheduled to return to New York from Europe by plane today. • Edward L. Hyman, vice-president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, and his assistant, Bernard Levy, have returned to New York following visits to Des Moines and Minneapolis. • Arnold M. Picker, United Artists vice-president in charge of foreign distribution, will leave New York for London today via B.O.A.C. • Charles Simpson, vice-president of Capital Releasing Corp. Atlanta, has returned there from Nashville. Lana Turner will leave Hollywood tomorrow for Denver, where the same night she will be guest of honor at the Colorado Centennial Ball. • Herman Biersdorf, newly-appointed Southern district manager for American International Pictures, was in Atlanta from Dallas. Nathan Golden to Cannes As U.S. Representative From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, April 23. The United States Government has accepted the invitation of the French Government to participate officially in the Twelfth International Film Festival at Cannes, May 1 to 15, it was announced today. Nathan D. Golden, director of the Scientific, Motion Picture and Photographic Products Division of the Department of Commerce has been accredited as U.S. delegate to the event. Alternate delegate is John L. Hedges, U.S. Information Agency Branch Pubhe Affairs Officer at Marseille. Bell & Howell Quarter Net Up, Sales Decline Special to THE DAILY CHICAGO, April 23.-Bell & Howell Company had a 67 per cent increase in net earnings with somewhat lower total sales in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, Charles H. Percy, president, told shareholders attending the company's annual meeting here today. Sales for the first quarter were $10,086,180 compared with $11,113,006 in 1958. Net earnings were $398,834 or 51 cents per share, as compared with $239,080 or 29 cents per share in the first quarter of 1958. Ask High Court (Continued from page 1) Kingsley International Pictures Corp., whose "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was banned by the New York State Board of Regents. The board's case was argued today by Charles A. Brind. Brind maintained that the case is "an educational matter," because the licensing of motion pictures in New York State is under the jurisdiction of the state's education department. "The legislature has now decreed that motion pictures are an educational thing," Brind said, "and has set up standards for showing pictures just as it sets up standards for all the schools in New York State which it licenses." License Refused Twice Kingsley brought the case to the high court after the New York State Court of Appeals upheld the Regents's refusal to license the picture. "If this court would make clear its position on whether or not licensing laws are constitutional," London said, "the lower courts would be guided by that." He told the court diat its decisions in other film censorship cases "have created confusion in the lower courts." In suppressing the motion picture, London declared, the Regents were "suppressing ideas." This is a violation of the Constitution, he continued, because the Constitution guarantees freedom of speech. "The Constitution protects any possible legal objection to the film," he said. Queried by Justices There was active questioning from the bench when Brind argued the case for the Regents. Justice Brennan said he didn't see the "relevance" of Brind's argument that film censorship was "an educational matter." Justice Harlan pointed out that under the Regents' ban, the picture couldn't be shown to anyone, and was not merely being withheld from New York State students. Justice Brennan wanted to know about censorship of comic books. Justice Douglas asked whether the book, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was permitted publication in New York. Brind replied that the legislature had discussed censorship of comic books but had taken no action. Giving the Regents jurisdiction over books and television "has not been dealt with by the legislature," he said. State's Power Questioned "Isn't it beyond the state's power to require that pictures be licensed," Justice Frankfurter inquired, "the same as it is beyond the state's power to require that books be licensed?" Brind told him that the New York courts have passed "again and again on the constitutionality of the necessity of submitting any motion picture for license." NCCJ Honors Steve Broidy With Brotherhood Award From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, April 23. Steve Broidy, president of Allied Artists, is one of the three community leaders who will receive this year's Brotherhood Award at the 11th annual Brotherhood Testimonial Dinner of the National Conference of Christians and Jews on May 20, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Others are Theodore von der Ahe and Brig. Gen. James Cairns. Court Bids AFM ( Continued from page 1 ) zens National Savings and Trust Bank of Los Angeles to act as receiver and determine payments for each musician. Increases, negotiated from recording companies in 1954, were accepted by AFM representatives but were diverted from wage increases into the union's welfare fund. Members were not notified of their representatives' actions until after the fund had received the money, Kincaid pointed out, sustaining plaintiff's attorney Harold Fendler's contention that AFM agents had not bargained in good faith for them. Federation attorney Henry Kiser said the case will be appealed if necessary to the U.S. Supreme Court. Minimum Wage Hearing Scheduled for May 5 From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, April 23. The Senate Labor Committee has set May 5 as the opening day for hearings on the Kennedy minimum wage bill. Although the committee did not anannounce the names of any witnesses, it is expected that several exhibitors will testify in opposition to the bill. The bill would bring under the minimum wage law any theatre or circuit of theatres whose annual gross sales are more than $500,000 annually. It would also increase to $1.25 an hour the current minimum wage. Although theatres are not specifically covered under the bill, exhibitor organizations have been concerned about it. 'John P. Jor Schwartz Vice-President Of New Glen Alden Sol A. Schwartz, president of RKO Theatres, Inc., yesterday was elected a vice-president of Glen Alden Corp., along with the operating heads of other divisions of List Industries which has been merged with Glen Alden. Albert A. List was elected chairman of the board and president of the widely diversified Glen Alden, ( Continued from page ] "proves how many people ha in motion pictures." In this other features he has in the financing was obtained from n turers in the fields of auto photographic equipment, call machines, chemicals and pha ticals, synthethic rubber, plas steel. Dealt with Spanish Govern His next two pictures, "Son and "Lord Nelson," will be p as the result of a $10,000,00C license the producer negotiat the Spanish government, it ported. Bronston explained hi; this way: Spain needs certai which American manufactui reluctant to supply her becai are unable to take their mone the country. Through his with the American companie ston guarantees Spain the gc needs and uses the frozen func production of his pictures. Th ican manufacturers are then p; out of the earnings of the in their world-wide release. Bronston mentioned the n some of his "sponsors." Amoi are Laurence Rockefeller, Dana, Jr., James Watriss, R. ant Pierrepont, jr., Pierre dul Ernest Gross and C. D. Jack Expects Interest Abroa Questioned whether "Jol Jones" which will have to g 500,000 to break even, wou' popular with general audienc< ston answered in the affirmativ ing out that "no one has mad spectacle about the sea foj years." The producer felt t picture would also arouse 1 dous interest abroad," since not only with American hist also has many foreign back and characters, including Bet as Catherine the Great. 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