Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1959)

Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, April 2! , PERSONAL MENTION AMERICO ABOAF, Universal Pictures foreign general manager, will return to New York today following a tour of Central and South America. • Jesse Chinich, Buena Vista western division sales manager, has left New York for Chicago. • Jack Mills, president of Mills Music, Inc., and Mrs. Mills, will leave here today for Europe aboard the "Queen Elizabeth." • David Golding, publicity director for Otto Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder," will return today to Ishpeming, Mich., where the picture is being filmed, following several days in New York. • Tonia Bern, British actress, returned to London from New York yesterday via B.O.A.C. • Mrs. John Wilhelm, wife of the 20th Century-Fox salesman in Albany, N. Y., is recovering from pneumonia. • Jack Small, president of Select Theatre Corp., will leave here with Mrs, Small today for Europe aboard the "Queen Elizabeth." • Laraine Day will return to New York from London tomorrow via B.O.A.C. Peck on 6 Hill9 Tour Gregory Peck, star of United Artists' "Pork Chop Hill," will make a two-week 11-city personal appearance tour beginning May 19, to spark local level campaigns in advance of key regional openings set for the end of May. Peck's itinerary includes San Francisco, Chicago, Nashville, Washington, D.C., Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Ft. Worth and New York. Custom Product hy tke hcmd qfevpe Paramount Summer Festival ( Continued grossing warm weather trio ever offered by Paramount." They are: Hal Wallis' "Don't Give Up the Ship," starring Jerry Lewis and Dina Merrill; Wallis' "Last Train from Gun Hill," in Technicolor, starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones and Earl Holliman, and Shavelson-Rose's "The Five Pennies," in Technicolor, starring Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong and Harry Guardino. Philadelphia on May 6 will be the second city where Weltner will conduct "Paramount's Summer Boxoffice Festival." The sales executive then will take the "Festival" to Atlanta, May 10; Dallas, May 12, and Chicago, May 17. Jerry Pickman, vice-president in charge of advertising, publicity and exploitation, will accompany Weltner to the five cities. They will be joined in Boston, Philadelphia and Atlanta by Hugh Owen, and in Dallas and Chicago by Sidney Deneau. Owen and Deneau are vice-presidents of from page 1 ) Paramount Film Distributing Corp. In each city the home office executive trio will participate widi Danny Kaye himself in the unveiling of "The Five Pennies." Weltner's "Festival" itinerary has been set up to coincide with the visits Kaye will make to those places in the course of his own previously announced 15-city tour on behalf of the picture and the soundtrack album of the same title that Dot Records will issue. Paramount division and branch managers will conduct "Paramount's Summer Boxoffice Festival" in other cities, namely Washington, St. Louis, Toronto, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati and San Francisco, coincident with Kaye visits. Also scheduled for "Paramount's Summer Boxoffice Festival" are Buffalo, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Memphis, New Orleans, Indianapolis, Des Moines, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle', Calgary, Montreal, St. John, Vancouver and Winnipeg. Fox Names ( Continued from page 1 ) 20th's regular regional advertising and publicity managers, who now have been augmented by the recently retained Hale and Bayes: Hal Marshall, Philadelphia; Sol Gordon, Chicago; Phil Engel, Boston-New Haven; Jimmy Gillespie, Dallas; Adrian Awan, Cleveland-Detroit; Chick Evens, Kansas City-St. Louis; Eddie Yarbrough, Los Angeles; Dan Yarbrough, San Francisco; Sam Glasier, Toronto. These men, as well as all additional regional managers, will continue to operate under the supervision of exploitation director Rodney Bush and exploitation manager Eddie Solomon. Bush and Solomon are currently completing plans for expanded national coverage and service. Film Industry Credit Group Names Officers The Motion Picture Industry Credit Group of the National Association of Credit Management has elected officers to govern group operations for the year beginning May 1. Named as chairman is Kern Moyse, Peerless Film Processing Corp.; vice-chairman, Walter Lynch, Mecca Film Laboratories; and as committee-men, Jack Fellers, Du-Art Film Labs; Everett Miller, RCA Film Recording Studios; Murray Kahn, Color Service. The organization consists of 30 leading film processors, equippers, suppliers, and service and financial firms in the metropolitan New York, Washington, and Chicago areas. Notables Will Attend Premiere of 'Warlock' Motion picture and stage notables, headed by star Henry Fonda, will converge on the Paramount Theatre tomorrow night to attend the gala benefit New York premiere of "Warlock." Proceeds from the charity opening will be turned over to the New York City Mission Society's Camp Green Acres. Fonda, who is topcast in the 20th Century-Fox presentation, will greet each of the arriving entertainment world celebrities in the lobby of the theatre. A partial list of the invited show business personalities include Mitzi Gaynor, Maurice Evans, David Niven, Arlene Dahl, Joanne Woodward, Dina Merrill, Van Cliburn, Margaret Leighton, Laurence Harvey Dana Wynter, Anna Marie Alberghetti and Corinne Calvet. S-W Increases Dividend The board of directors of Stanley Warner Corp. yesterday increased the annual dividend on the common stock by declaring a quarterly dividend of 30 cents per share, payable May 25 to stockholders of record on May 8. The previous dividend rate was $1 per year. The new dividend represents a 20 cent increase in the annual rate. 100 Dates for 'Man' United Artists' "The Man In The Net," starring Alan Ladd, has been set to open in more than 100 cities throughout the nation, starting May 20 at the Metropolitan and Ambassador Theatres, Washington, D.C. TENT TU Variety Club Ne BOSTON Members of the Club of New England and the will be the guests of Superir John Gavin at the Walpole Stat on Saturday. A special perforrr "The Solid Gold Cadillac" ' staged for the benefit of the'! Fund. William S. Koster, e: director of the club, has prep; invitation list. A NEW ORLEANS— "Family! has now been established as cial feature of the social acti' Tent No. 45. The first one is uled for Sunday. Barkers arj entire families will assemble headquarters. A feature of till ing will be a screening of onl latest feature films. A CHICAGO The second! Dinner" of Variety Club ofl was held recently in the Lincol of the Pick Congress Hotel. Tlf Advisory Board furnished tl gratis, a different vintage fl course, supplied by the Paul] Wineries of Saratoga, Cal. Samuels Named ( Continued from page ecutive post, effective imm< was made prior to Davis' d for Europe to survey the curi production scene and meet w ducers regarding the acquis several pictures. In his absenc uels will supervise the functi the company and set sales j "Orders to Kill," the first of of seven European films to leased domestically by the fin Samuels, a veteran of 34 the industry, was with the organization for 20 years in a; of major executive and sale including foreign sales mana world-wide sales supervisi played a key role in the org; of Buena Vista and was el< president and general sales in 1954. Lee Beecher Dies DALLAS, April 28-Lee Dallas regional manager for t and Air Force Motion Picture died here suddenly Sunday at of 52. 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