Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1959)

priday, July 10, 1959 Motion Picture Daily 7 PEOPLE , j( Donald M. Lewis, Jr., and Robert LiiiV. Brown have been named assistant iidvertising managers of Eastman Codak Co. Lewis, manager of adverising promotions, will supervise adertising trade relations with Kodak I lealers and wholesalers. Brown, manIt ger of the editorial service bureau, yill be responsible for special adI ertising projects. i ' ° Murray Silverstone, president of j 0th Century-Fox International, has I'een named chairman of the film 'fhnimittee for the Eightli World I ingress of the International Society )i die Welfare of Cripples. The niigress will meet in New York ug; 29-Sept. 3. □ Albert T. Knudsen, radio-television loducer, has been named manager I the TV-radio and motion picture ivision of the Greater New York iind. He succeeds Harvey Marlowe, ho now is active in Hollywood. □ Robert Lester, formerly booker at ox-Wisconsin Theatres, Milwaukee, now manager of the Paradise Thea.e there. He also is doing booking ir Nick Frank. Name Bergman jl2 Pictures Shooting '^'his Week in Hollywood From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, July 9-With only jTO pictures started tliis week, and [lur completed, the total number of ctures shooting dropped to 22. 0 Started were : "Condemned Patrol" 1 Associated Pictures, Inc., producon for 20th Century-Fox release, tid "The Private Lives of Adam jid Eve" a Zugsmith-Doff Produciin for Universal-International. Completed were: "Once More, e'ith Feeling" (Stanley Donen Proijction for Columbia); "The Time j^achine" ( Galaxy Production-Metro fbldwyn Mayer release); "A Visit D a Small Planet" (Hal Wallis xramount), and, "Cash McCall" A^amer Bros.) Cordura' in 'Pictorial' 'They Came to Cordura," a Wil,im Goetz Production for Columbia jlease, receives the national front^ige treatment again with a full-page ver by noted cartoonist Kapralik on e "Pictorial Review," appearing is Sunday across the country. The msual aspect of this latest break , that the film is not slated for reUse until the fall; \lrs. C. H. Strickland ATLANTA, Ga., July 9-Mrs. larlotta H. Strickland died in a ivate hospital here. She was the ' dow of Robert Strickland, owner the Strickland Fihn Co. here, who 3d five years ago. Funeral services 11 be held in Birmingham, Ala. ( Continued from page 1 ) UA national director of advertising, publicity and exploitation, and with Kramer's representatives in New York and Hollywood. Purpose of the synchronized campaign in the major cities of the world, UA has announced, is to emphasize the importance of the picture at this juncture of world history. Kramer both produced and directed. "On the Beach" stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins and Donna Anderson. It was filmed entirely in Australia, setting of the Nevil Shute novel. Decision Shortly ( Continued' from page 1 ) sible hearings on Allied States Association's "wliite paper" charges against the distributors. Subcommittee members have indicated they doubted the hearing would be ordered this year. But Senator Langer (R., N. D. ), ranking G. O. P. member, this week called for early hearings. Kefauver said he was "sympathetic with the phght" of the exhibitors, and that the subcommittee has been gathering a lot of information on the subject. "The trouble is," he continued, "the Senate Small Business Committee has already gone over that ground twice, and we ourselves have several other matters on which we've already committed ourselves to hearings." However, Kefauver said, he was reviewing the whole matter and hoped to put it before the subcommittee for a decision in the next week or two. Hoffman Joins Attack ( Continued from page 1 ) York State censorship law. Five Democratic senators have sponsored a Constitutional amendment to strengthen the states' rights to film censorship laws. Hoffman said the Supreme Court decision "leaves the motion picture industry free to publicize the desirability of adultery." Six separate opinions were required by the justices to explain all their reasoning on the case, Hoffman noted. Skouras to Russia ( Continued from page 1 ) of broadening cooperation between motion picture producers of east and west and of the possibility of an exchange of acting and technical talent. Skouras is scheduled to visit Moscow, Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Prague, Belgrade and Vienna. In addition, the film executive will journey to Athens and London. Johnny Green ^Emcee^ HOLLYWOOD, July 9-Johnny Green will "emcee" the premiere of Samuel Goldwyn's "Porgy and Bess" next Wednesday at the Carthay Circle theatre here. Hemingway Stories for Special Series Named The four Ernest Hemingway dramas, 90-minute specials which will be presented on the CBS Television Network by the Buick Motor Division of General Motors during the 195960 season, will be selected from a list of ten Hemingway works suggested by the Nobel Prize-winning author, it was announced. These writings include two novels, six short stories, a play and a recently completed, unpublished short story. The Hemingway properties are: short stories, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "The Killers," "My Old Man," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "Nobody Ever Dies" and "The Undefeated"; novels, "A Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises"; the play, "The Fifth Column," and an original, as yet untitled, short story which the author has just completed. Gordon Duff to Produce Gordon Duff will produce all four Hemingway specials, and A. E. Hotchner, who wrote the television dramatization of last season's two-part "Playhouse 90" drama, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," will write the television scripts and serve as executive producer. 'Blue and Gray' Set as NBC Show for 1960-61 A drama series sparked by "The. Blue and the Gray," a two-volume source book of true narratives of the American Civil War compiled by noted historian Henry Steele Gommager, will be produced under the same title by the NBC-TV Network during the 1960-61 season as a weekly full-hour program. David Levy, vice-president, NBC Television Network Programs and Talent, announced the new project. Commager has been signed as consultant for the series, Levy said. Jqday Move for Merger Of MPPC, RTRA From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, July 9-The first step toward a merger between the Motion Picture Permanent Charities and Radio-Television-RecordingAdvertising Charities was taken today when the MPPC board agreed in principle to a proposal aimed at combining the two entertairmient industry fund-raising organizations. The RTRA board had previously taken similar action. Action by the boards was taken after discussions between MPPC president Hal Roach, Jr., Ben Alexander, RTRA president, and special committees headed by Steve Broidy, representing MPPC, and John K. West, representing RTRA. According to representatives of both organizations, the approval in principle is a preliminary action which makes it possible to turn the proposal over to lawyers for the two groups in order to formulate a formal proposal of merger. When the proposal has been defined by counsel for both groups it will be presented to the boards and memberships of the organizations for further study and action. Andy Williams Starts Weekly Show on CBS Andy Williams who was voted one of the Most Promising Male Stars in Fame's 1958 critics poll started his CBS-TV network show Tuesday. The show goes on each Tuesday 10 to 11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time. Coincidentally Cadence Records has published Williams' first record album. Two Time Winners. Included in the album is the song hit So Rare. Films and TV ( Continued from page 1 ) Speed Congress, which the Society sponsored in Washington, D. C, in 1952. The program for the 86th Convention will include a week of sessions devoted to: a symposium on film steadiness; cinematography; space technology and image sensing; photography—laboratory practices; photography—sound recording and reproduction; photography— instrumentation and high-speed; international television; television— equipment and practices; television — scientific and military uses; television— recording, including video tape. Authorities in the field will deliver technical papers at each of the sessions. Five annual SMPTE awards and 15 Fellow memberships in the Society will be presented to outstanding individuals in the motion picture and television industries during ceremonies on the second night of the convention week. 48 Booths to Be in Use A special feature of the convention will be an exhibit of the latest motion picture and television equipment. Forty-seven booths will be used by leading companies to show their finest equipment, many pieces of which will be used in man's effort to probe the reaches of outer space. Results of the elections of four officers and 15 governors of the Society will be announced during the course of the convention week. Dr. J. Paul Weiss, DuPont Photo Products Dept., Parhn, N. J., is program chairman for the convention.