Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1959)

Motion Picture Daily Thursday, September 10 PERSDML MEIVTIDIV \ /TAX E. YOUNGSTEIN, United -\rtists vice-president, will leave here for the Coast on Saturday with his family for an extended stay. • Hi 'BBELL Robinson, television producer, is in New York from Holywood. • J. E. \\ 'atson, local advertising representative for 20th Century-Fox in Cincinnati, will be in Louisville today and tomorro\\' for the Kentucky State Fair, where F.\bian, star of "Hound Dog Man," is making a personal appearance. • Harry J. Abbott, president of lATSE, Local 307, the projectionists union in Philadelphia, is recovering from an operation. Col. Executives Start Tour with London Fete A. Montague, executive vice-president of Columbia Pictures, and Bernard E. Zeeman, vice-president and treasurer of Columbia Pictures International, will arrive in London today from New York to attend a dinner given by the Royal Naval Film Corp. in honor of industry executives. Lord Mountbatten, president of the Royal Naval Fibn Corp., will host the event, which will take place tomorrow aboard the H.M.S. Victorious in Portsmouth. M. J. Frankovich, newly-appointed vice-president of Columbia, who headquarters in London, also will attend. Montague, Frankovich and Zeeman will leave on a tour of Columbia offices in England, France and Germany afterward. Keegan Leaving Pathe News ; Opens Own Office Stephen F. Keegan has resigned as vice-president of Pathe News, Inc., in charge of advertising and pubhc relations, effective at once. He will open his own pubhcity office here at 2 West 45th Street. For 40 Years A Tradition Ol Service For over 40 Years Service and Quality has l»en Our Tradition. Showmen all over America knov/ they will gel the best when they order riLMACK SPECIAL 1327 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago 5, III. Shor Reveals ACE Rift ( Continued creasing production he had taken issue with Si H. Fabian, ACE chairman, on several of the committee's actions. Call for ACE Break The tenor of Shor's remarks indicates that he will call for a break by Allied away from ACE, probably at the convention of the West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky Allied units here next week. He is bdieved certain to have the support of some other dissident Allied officials but it is doubted that any conclusive action would be taken by the national organization prior to its next board meeting in the late fall. In his correspondence released yesterday, Shor expressed dissatisfaction with efforts made by the ACE committee to increase production, outlining some of its actions while noting that it had been agreed that committee decisions "would not be publicized." Organizations the Same "But in view of what has happened since this meeting," he says, "I am more than justified in bringing the workings of A.C.E. and T.O.A. into the open. In my opinion the policy of these organizations are the same," Shor says. He also complains that Fabian jrom page 1 ) failed to reply to a letter sent him by Shor last February. In the letter Shor referred to a plan discussed by ACE's committee on increasing production which called for the raising of $5,000,000 annually from exhibitors who were to be given stock in return in a company similar to the Old First National. There would be no preemptive rights in the films made by the company. Investment Opportunity Shor said he asked that small exhibitors be given an opportunity to invest in the company in some manner. He said he opposed any method of dues collections by ACE, which he feared would lead to the destruction of existing exhibitor organizations. Shor said he also opposed retention of Bernard Segal as counsel for the committee because he was a "distributor attorney." AB-PT Production He notes that he was advised by Robert J. O'Donnell, representing Leonard Goldenson at the committee meeting, that Goldenson's American Broadcasting Paramount Theatres company "was willing to produce more pictures." Shor wrote he "can't see why we don't move ahead with production through AB-PT at once." U. S. Opening of Soviet Film Set Back to Nov. From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Simultaneous premieres of the two first films to be shown under the Soviet-American film agreement will be held in Moscow and Washington on Nov. 10, instead of Oct. 20, as previously announced. The first Soviet film to be shown in the U.S., "The Cranes Are Flying," will be shown at the Dupont Theatre here at a benefit premiere sponsored by the wives of the U.S. Foreign Service. U. A. Record ( Continued from -page 1 ) with $1,319,000 for the comparable period of the previous year. 96 Cents Per Share The six-month net represents earnings of 96 cents per share on the 1,664,218 shares outstanding on July 4, 1959. This compares with net earnings of 79 cents per share for the first half of 1958, after adjusting the shares then outstanding to the number outstanding at July 4, 1959. WB Field Force At Studio Conferences From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 9. The first full-force meeting of the Warner Bros, field organization ever held at the company's studio starts tomorrow morning, following the arrival tonight of field men representing ten areas in the United States and Canada. A two-day business and policy session, determined by executive vicepresident Benjamin Kalmenson to assure expert handling of lineup of important films, will be presided over by William Brumberg, manager of field men and cooperative advertising. Herald Sessions {Continued from page 1 ) Crescent Amusement Co., District Theatres, Fabian Theatres, Fox Intermountain, Fox Midwest, Fox West Coast, J. P. Harris Theatres, Independent Theatres, Interboro Theatres, InteAoro Circuit, Interstate Theatres. Loew's Theatres, Neighborhood Theatres, Odeon Theatres of Canada, Paramount Theatre, N. Y., and Paramount, Brooklyn; Perakos Theatre Associates, Pioneer Theatre Corp., RKO Theatres, Randforce Amusement, Schine Circuit, David Snaper Theatres, Joseph Stern Theatres, Trans-Lux, Stanley Warner, Welworth Theatres. Roysier Asks High C To Clarify Bidding From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-T! preme Court was told today i newly-appealed anti-trust suit o an opportunity to "discuss and the practice of competitive bid* The statement came from thi; ster Drive-In Theatres, Inc., opi of the now-closed Peekskill Tiia in Peekskill, N. Y. It is appealing i conit dismissal of its damage aii junction anti-trust suit against ,*| can Broadcasting-Paramount Th. r Inc., and eight major distributci ]; Charges AB-PT Conspiracy j| Royster charged a conspiraij deny fihns to the Peekskill and t<i them instead to AB-PT's Paraii Theatre. A District Court disii the suit, and the Second Circuit ( of Appeals upheld the dismissal Supreme Court will not act on pe; cases before Oct. 12, and action c Royster appeal is unhkely. The District Court found eviij*! of a conspiracy from April 17, to May 15, 1950, but no eviden any conspiracy after that. It said pefitive bidding later allowed b distributors terminated any consj; that might have existed. In its appeal, Royster said that the court found an initial conspire should have required the distrib to bear the burden of proof tha conspiracy did not continue. It argued that competitive bidding I self was not enough to dissipate effects of a conspiracy where one tre is a small independent and other is a member of a large ( "Such an untenable holding is enough to warrant review by court," it asserted. Protestant Commissisi Presses Film Study Despite the disavowal of Dr. B( W. Spike, vice-chairman of the tional Council of Churches' Broad ing and Film Commission, of its ' Coast oflBce committee's recent against sex and violence in fihn> ^ Commission stated it had docketei : subject "for special consideration its next scheduled meeting here, 16-17. A special committee was appoiilit said, and "it was agreed that norf; further could be said officially bethe next regularly scheduled mef!) of the NCC's general board. ■ It added that " 'off the record ? cussions of the West Coast offic4< liaison with the fibn industry andi^ possible direction Protestant ac|i might take" was on the agenda otl* recent two-day meeting of the Bi\ staff, and will be on the agenda fori Commission's film committee meei in mid-September and its execui committee on Oct. 6. ^-lju;-^'\--v[^?^;g£S°S ^ i-'a^^-r ^a.|-a ^-r^ g^^t.. Kie.a. Oenner, News E..r; He..en V. K .,P __. ,d da... e.^pt. Sa.rda.s, Surrda.s arrd ...... 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