Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1959)

Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, September 16, jf PEHSDML MEIVTIDIV RUBE JACKTER, Columbia Pictures vice-president and general sales manager, leaves New York today for Cinciimati, where he will be guest speaker tonight at the Allied Ohio Valley Convention. Burton E. Bobbins, National Screen Service vice-president in charge of sales, left New York yesterday for Chicago, where he will meet with exhibitors and visit the local NSS exchange. He will return to New York at the weekend. • Ghahles Simonelli, Universal Pictures Eastern advertising and publicity department manager, departed from New York yesterday for Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago. He will return here over the weekend. • Joseph Fbiedman, Paramount Pictures exploitation manager, is in St. Louis today from New York. • James Nicholson, president of American-International Pictures, flew to Cincinnati from Hollywood yesterday, to participate in the Allied Ohio Valley Convention. J. H. Harrison, Wilbey-Kincey general manager, has returned to Atlanta from Winter Park, Fla. • Tom Jones, Storey Theatres executive in Atlanta, is back at his desk following a two-week vacation. • Mrs. Ernest Ingram, wife of the Ashland and Lineville, Ala., theatre ovraer, recently gave birth to a son. • Linda Burnett, United Artists booker in Atlanta, has returned to her desk following recovery from an automobile accident. Warner Executives at Selztlick Dcol 20-foX Mercboni/isui Session Held in Pift i Att; ALL THEATRES g ...it's SCREEn 5 TiniEi § NATIONAL SCREEN'S 8 BIG NEW PROMOTIONAL 5 BUSINESS BUILDER g ^0«VI copy available at your Q NATIONAL SCREEN EXCHANGE Q Royal Navy Dinner From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, Sept. 15.-A dinner for United States and British film industry leaders was given aboard the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Victoria last night by the governors, president and members of the Royal Naval Film Corporation, with Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma as host. Jack L. Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures; Benj. Kalmenson, the company's executive vice-president, and Arthur Abeles, Continental manager and managing director in the United Kingdom, attended. British industry leaders included "Sir Philip Warter, chairman of the board of Associated British Pictures Corp.; C. J. Latta, managing director of ABPC, and Jack Goodlatte, ABPC director. Mountbatten, who is president of the Royal Naval Film Corporation, told the motion picture leaders that "the Royal Navy is deeply conscious of the consistent consideration with which the film industry has treated us," and he thanked the industry for its aid. Ten UA Films ( Continued from page 1 ) year with income hkely to top $90,000,000, as compared with $84,000,000 in 1958. The bright oudook for UA, the Journal said, is partly based on the fact that it has three top-grossing films now in release on which only half the total anticipated rentals from the domestic market have been realized to date. The three are "A Hole in the Head," expected to do over $5,000,000 domestically; "The Horse Soldiers," which will gross between $4,000,000 and $4,500,000; and "Pork Chop Hill," expected to reach $2,000,000. Top film for UA for the year, the article notes, is "Some Like It Hot," which is expected to wind up with about $7,000,000 in the domestic market. The bulk of this gross has already been realized. Benjamin also told the Journal that UA has not released any post1948 films to television this year, compared with 72 features licensed to TV last year. He said further that "The Defiant Ones," which cost only $800,000, is expected to do over $5,000,000 in the world market. 'Hole' Gross $384,837 United Artists' "A Hole in the Head" has rolled up a $384,837 gross for its first nine weeks at Loew's State Theatere here, it was annoimced by Wilham J. Heineman, UA vicepresident. (Continued from page 1) that Selznick's production of "Gone with the Wind" was included in the deal, M-G-M issued a statement pointing out that ownership and control of this picture belongs to it, and M-G-M has no intention of making it available to television. The deal is regarded in the trade here as probably the first important test of the effectiveness of the Film Industry Defense Organization, which previously was reported to have warned the producer that the consequences of a deal with B.B.C. would be a boycott of all of his pictures by every theatre in Great Britain. Heretofore, FIDO's strength has been sufficient to discourage major British and American companies here from selling any of their films to television. FIDO's board of directors is scheduled to meet Oct. 1 to discuss the Selznick-B.B.C. deal. 10 Showings a Week For 'Ben-Hur' at State M-G-M's "Ben-Hur" will have ten performances a week when it premieres at Loew's State Theatre here in November. Evening performances will be scheduled every night with matinees Wednesday, Saturday, Simday and holidays. The price scale for the film will be $2.00 to $3.00 Monday through Thursday evenings; $2.50 to $3.50 Friday, Saturday, Sunday and hohday evenings. Wednesday matinees will be scaled from $1.50 to $2.50 with all other matinees from $1.50 to $2.75. With a running time of just under four hours evening performances will start at 8:00 P.M., Sundays at 7:30 P.M. Matinees will start at 2:00 P.M. There will be one intermission. Celebration to Mark Birthday of Gershwin A nationwide celebration under the auspices of the George Gershwin Memorial Foundation, which is sponsored by Cinema-Victory Lodge B'nai B'rith, is underway for the week of Sept. 26, the birthday of the late George Gershwin, born that day in 1898. Radio stations, television programs, schools and musical organizations will honor the composer. In Washington, the Library of Congress will open a special exhibit of Gershwin memoriabilia to coincide with the premiere of "Porgy and Bess" in the national capital and in Cincinnati, the mayor will proclaim the week of Sept. 26 to be George Gershwin Week. Other cities are expected to follow suit. Special to THE DAILY \ PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15.-0ne;: series of area showmanship meel.t scheduled all over the United Sis was held today at the 20th Cen!;^ Fox exchange here. More than id top western Pennsylvania exhil )) attended as Nat C. Rosen, 20th l i tury-Fox branch manager, presidij Plans for merchandising forth Ji ing 20th Century-Fox product, c as "The Oregon Trail," "Five Gat t Hell," "Dog of Flanders," "H. a Dog Man," "Beloved Infidel," h Man Who Understood Women," ' h Last Rookie," "Journey to the Ci x of the Earth," "The Best of E> ;) thing" and "The Blue Angel" i discussed. Among those attending were N / Silver, Stanley Warner zone mani ji Bert Steam, Co-Operative Th.j Service; J. T. McGreevy, Hfi Amusement Co.; C. C. Kellenl-j Kel's Theatre Service and Iii Stem, Associated Drive-In Thea* Para. Names Adler ( Continued from page 1 ) video-taped properties to netwic agencies and their clients. PTP, which aheady has one njc tape pilot designed for network ii contemplates the production < number of other pilots in the « future. Announcement of this pis of the operation will be made sii Adler, who has an extensive Li ground in all facets of broadcast comes to PTP from Official Fm: where he was in charge of sales o both the syndication and networt i visions. Prior to that , he was s( o account executive handling neb r sales for Screen Gems. He fom 1 was in charge of the Chicago oc of the radio and television dejil ment of the William Morris Age.-) handling network sales and prog ji development. New Blumenstock Pok (Continued from page 1 ) f tury-Fox and Paramount Pictures, is prior to his coming with Emb s; he was pubhcity coordinator for i< 1959 Academy Award telecasts. Schlaifer said that Blumensto:'; appointment will round out his cn pany's complete creative services <v ering all phases of advertising for io tion pictures and alUed Relds 250 'Disciple' Dates Hecht-Hill-Lancaster and Br)flprod S.A. Productions' "The De^'s Disciple," a United Artists rele;3, will open in 250 major situati(M across the country during the urt four weeks. i Gertner, News Editor; Herbert V. Fele, Vincent Canby, Eastern Editors. Hii^Washington, D. C. ; London Bureaujf, principal capitals of the world. Moljn er Center, New York 20, Circle 7-3 iS.